British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

Meet us at WDYTYA? Live! This weekend we are looking forward to meeting blog readers and users of the Deceased Online database at our stand 924 at Who Do You Think You Are? Live . There will be plenty of opportunities to try our database and chat to our team. I shall be there to give advice about finding your ancestors' burial places and how to take your family history search further once a burial record has been found. You can read more about the event here . Thanks to everyone who entered our competition to win one of three signed copies of Nick Barratt's super new book, Greater London. The competition is now closed and the winners will be announced imminently. The answers to the questions are as follows: Name the famous 19th/20th century novelist who helped clear and relocate burials from the old St Pancras Church graveyard to the new St Pancras and Islington Cemetery (records available on www.deceasedonline.com )?  A famous tree still stands in ...

This week we have three copies of Nick Barratt's new book Greater London to give away. To celebrate the release of the latest collections of London records on the Deceased Online database , we have teamed up with the publisher Random House for an exciting new competition. This week we will be uploading over 100,000 burial records for Manor Park Cemetery, dating from 1930 to the present day. We'll be adding the final stages throughout February. In the Spring, we'll add the records of Brompton Cemetery, West London - one of the "Magnificent Seven" Victorian cemeteries that were built just outside the centre.  Nick Barratt's book, Greater London: The Story of the Suburbs , looks further into the Magnificent Seven and at the growth of London that led to them being built. For Nick, though, London's most significant cemetery is Abney Park in Stoke Newington. He said, " Despite the architecture displayed in the mausoleums of Kensal G...