Deceased Online
looks forward to an exciting 2013
Happy New Year to all
readers of this blog! 2012 saw a huge
increase in burial records on the Deceased Online database and this
year we are looking forward to even more.
London
is very well-represented on the site. Last year we added data from
the boroughs of Newham, Harrow, and Greenwich to join the collections
of cemetery and crematoria records of Brent, Merton, Havering,
Islington and Camden. Famous names from among these collections
include Horatia Nelson in Harrow, Bertie Mee in Islington, and
Richmal Crompton in Greenwich.
Scottish
records now include full burial records and headstone collections
from Angus, Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh, the Highlands,
Inverness, Banffshire, Dundee City, Ayshire, Stirling, Morayshire,
Borders, Argyll, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Perthshire, Lothian,
Lanarkshire, and the Isle of Islay. By the end of 2013, we
hope to have up to 2 million Scottish burial records online.
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| Screenshot showing the latest releases from Scotland - Headstone Collections in Fife |
Having
grown up in North West England, I was pleased to see data from the
councils of Cheshire West and Chester, and Bolton added in 2012.
Among the many notable names in these records are members of the
Warburton family, famous for their bread-making.
Other
highlights from last year were the additions of the records of
Cotswold District Council’s cemeteries in Gloucestershire, Eltham Crematorium which includes data from the
London boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich, and
those of Dartford Borough Council in Kent.
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| The Register of Burials for Chesterton Cemetery in Gloucestershire |
In
2013, we are looking to double the existing database with the
addition of burial and cremation records from across the UK.
The
release of all 150,00 records from Overdale Crematorium in Bolton
should be completed this month. After this, one of the next
collections to go online will be from Trafford (Altrincham) in
Greater Manchester. Hopefully, these will be joined by two more major
North West authorities by early autumn.
We
are all looking forward to meeting readers and database users at Who Do You Think You Are? Live in February, but before then we'll be
adding a number of memorial inscriptions and photos from the Bolton
section of the Lancashire & Manchester Family History Society
(LMFHS). We're planning to work with many more FHSs and
Friends' groups over the next twelve months; most FHSs can see that
our service complements their efforts and we're certainly not in any
competition with them.
After
this will be the release of the first of a series of major
collections from London: Manor Park Cemetery & Crematorium in
Forest Gate E7. Next up will be the launch of the first of the
Victorian Magnificent Seven cemeteries to be fully digitised:
Brompton Cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
These are two of the largest cemeteries in London, and their records
include hundreds of distinguished, famous and infamous people.
Other
areas still in the digitisation phase are the North East, Yorkshire, the
West and East Midlands, East Anglia, Wales, and the South West.
On top of all this, we
will also be offering new services through the website for further
customer support, and launching two competitions for users of the
database to win some superb history books.
Phew! It’s going to
be a great year . . .
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