British Library Archives - Megan Smolenyak https://megansmolenyak.com/tag/british-library/ genealogical adventurer & storyteller Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:29:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Genealogy Roundup, December 20 https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-december-20-2/ https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-december-20-2/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:29:58 +0000 https://megansmolenyak.com/?p=163254 In this week's Roundup: The plan to destroy historical wills, unusual obituaries, a tool for locality-based research or studying particular clusters of people, and more.

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]]> Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts – In case you haven’t heard about the intent to destroy English & Welsh, this is seriously insane – even more so when you consider what’s going on with the British Library. It’s as if they’re actively trying to destroy their history.

A Cow’s Moo Killed a Child and Other Strange Victorian Deaths – So many strange ways to go.

Hierarchical Index of Verbs and Objects in Historic Coroners’ Inquests – In case you were wondering how people died in London in the late 1700s. Also, a useful index approach for those doing locality-based research or studying particular clusters of people in general.

ACPL’s Curt Witcher honored with National I Love My Librarian Award – So well deserved! 👏👏👏 He’s earned it a thousand times over. And it’s just like Curt Witcher to donate his prize to Allen County Public Library’s Genealogy Center’s gift fund.

Fun day over on Threads seeing our European genie friends joining! Used AI to make this to welcome them:

Top Photo Credit: Alan Cleaver under Creative Commons license

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