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How Can Parish Magazines Help with Family and Local History Research?

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Recently, we have been working on adding our many uncatalogued parish magazines to our online catalogue. Though we still have a long way to go, we thought now would be a great time to highlight what a useful, and often neglected, resource parish magazines are for both family and local history research. What are Parish… Read more How Can Parish Magazines Help with Family and Local History Research?

Overseers of the Poor Account Books

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The Milton Abbas Local History Group have transcribed 60,000 records of all the existing  Overseers of the Poor Account books for Milton Abbas from 1771 to 1836, and are finding that the records are a fantastic resource for researching local and family history. The account book in the Dorset History Centre covers the years 1818… Read more Overseers of the Poor Account Books