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Past & future, present & correct

Seven decades of change on the Olympic Way • The completion of new Olympic Steps at the SSE Arena, Wembley, has inspired the release of archive photos showing the area at the time of the 1948 Olympic Games

RIDE THIS WAY FOR CYCLING NEWS • British Newspaper Archive has this month added Cycling magazine to its archive, with 80,954 pages to explore, covering the years 1891 to 1914

TWO NEW WELSH COLLECTIONS AT ANCESTRY • Ancestry has announced the release of two new collections, which between them span the years 1845 to 1920

Try coastal time-tripping • A new and unique way to travel across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, when it is safe to do so, has just been launched, allowing travellers to plan modern-day adventures whilst exploring what life was like for communities of the past

Revealed: names at risk of becoming extinct • New research has revealed the names at risk of extinction in the UK and those that are growing fastest in popularity, analysing over 1.5million names across a period of ten years

FindMyPast share 1921 project update • FindMyPast has shared an update on the progress of their project to digitise and publish the 1921 census of England & Wales

4M new images for Australia added to FamilySearch • Four million new digital images from Australia, Victoria Wills, Probate and Administration Files 1841-1926, have been added to the FamilySearch genealogy website

British Library and FindMyPast announce renewal of long-term partnership • FindMyPast and the British Library have announced an extension of their long term partnership; the British Newspaper Archive, along with news that millions more newspaper pages will be digitised over the coming years

1.5M RAF Operations Record Books for the Dambusters squadron go online at TheGenealogist • TheGenealogist has released a large tranche of searchable RAF Operations Record Books (ORBs) including those ORBs for the famous No 617 Squadron, giving an insight into their wartime work

The Victorian & Edwardian Seaside • This summer, many of us will be heading to the coast for holidays nearer home – just like the Victorians and Edwardians. Anna Maria Barry takes a trip back in time and explores the seaside excursions of the 1800s

LIFE IN LIMERICK • This month, Gill Shaw tracks down her 3x great-grandfather to Limerick, where she finds him and his young wife starting a family, with several baptisms about to be recorded at an Italian-looking church…

How were the camps in Britain organised?

Escapes from World War I prisoner of war Camps in Britain 1914-1920 • Colin R Chapman takes a look at successful escapes from World War I POW camps, dispelling the myth that only one such escape was successful

Double escape

GO DIGITAL THIS SUMMER

North Liverpool Academy Family History Club • Despite being in existence for less than a year, the North Liverpool Academy family history club has seen its members make discoveries that many long-standing family historians would wish were on their family trees The club was established as a summer school in 2020 by genealogist and member of staff at the Academy, Ian Mooney. Overcoming the challenges of Covid lockdowns, a considerable number of students...