The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.4 | March 2022

HGS News

Research Centre Report The Research Centre continues to develop at Winchester. Our new volunteers are now well established and have recently been joined by another new member. If you would like to volunteer at HRO please do let me know, you will be joining a friendly and welcoming team. As you will read elsewhere our Official Opening event took place just before Christmas where we were pleased to meet and talk to Hampshire Archives Colleagues and Hampshire County Councillors. In other news, our newly formed National and International Groups which meet via Zoom, have increasing support. If you do not live in Hampshire these groups offer interesting meetings and talks tailored to members with Hampshire ancestors who live outside the county both within UK and overseas. As well as being kept busy in the search room at HRO helping visitors with their queries, our volunteers are busy updating and producing new indexes for HGS. The HGS Catalogue which lists all our books and CDs has been slightly re-formatted and updated and is now available to search on the website. It has several thousand new entries. We are also currently working on our large index of Britains Dying Overseas. As you will know some of the pre-1900 index is already on our website; we have just added around 11,500 new entries with many more to be processed. John Bowman, the lead for the BDO work, is

currently recruiting volunteers to help with this project, so see his article for further details. A list of Hampshire Removals and Settlements is also now on the website and we have various other indexes etc in the pipeline to also be uploaded, including some Quarter Sessions records, so do keep checking our website. We have been pleased to have had some further donations of indexes of Havant records, the originals of which have been donated to Hampshire Record Office. A condition of this latest donation is that the indexes will be on our website under the Free Data. Some are already available via our MIs (Monumental Inscriptions) either on CD or as an email attachment Our thanks for this donation go to Hugh Owen and his colleagues at Havant. We now hold Havant Municipal burials up to 2006. This month there is news from both FindmyPast and Ancestry. FMP have now released the 1921 census and this is available to search. Even if you are an FMP member there is still a small charge to view the entries. As you will also read elsewhere, Ancestry have now begun work at HRO to digitise all the Hampshire Parish Registers and Probate records. This will be a long process, and the records are not expected to be available until the end of 2022 at the earliest. Chris Pavey HGS Research Centre Manager

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