Newbiggin by the Sea Genealogy Project

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When visiting Newbiggin, I spotted a poster in the Maritime Centre about this project and I thought members may be interested. —– Newbiggin by the Sea Genealogy Project may be the first attempt by any community anywhere in the world to map its entire family history; to create a complete, online, freely accessible record of… Read more »

The Northumberland Name Book Project

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The Tynedale branch received a talk by Diana Whaley who led a project which ran from 2016 to 2020 and which had transcribed and analysed the contents of the 103 surviving Ordnance Survey Name Books compiled between 1857 and 1864. Each book relates to a place (usually a parish) and contains detailed information about the… Read more »