Ancestry - LMA

[stonechat]

From Ancestry's help pages

As part of our ongoing commitment to providing our members with the richest and most diverse set of historical records, in a world first Ancestry.co.uk will shortly launch online the collection of the London Metropolitan Archives, which predates civil registration in 1837 and date as far back as the 1500s.

[kerryb]

Might just have to take up a membership again then! 

Can it really be true, will I be able to find all those missing London ancestors? 

Kerry

[stonechat]

Question is what are going to be included?

[coombs]

Hi

I am looking forward to it so that I can trace all of my missing London ancestors as well.

Ben

[stonechat]

Looked at the LMA website and saw this

http://www.rootschat.com/links/04ag

[kerryb]

Thanks Stonechat

That sounds very positive and I hope it lives up to expectation.  Its could potentially be very useful to me.

Kerry

[coombs]

Hi

This will also be very useful to me and will no doubt knock down a few more brickwalls and may help in finding my 4xgreat grandfather George Coombs.

Ben

[dawnsh]

Similar post here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,342652.0.html

and LMA announcement page here

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/Ancestry+digitisation.htm

On my last trip to the LMA I asked how the project was going, 'slowly' was the reply, the first records to go on-line will most probably be the Board of Guardians and Poor Law records. Parish registers are some way off, towards the end of the year.

Dawn

[coombs]

Hi

When I have been to the LMA I have trawled through many Board Of Guardians and Poor Law Records for Holborn and Shoreditch. They are very fascinating and those that survive can be as good as censuses and birth certs.

An 1878 poor law document for my ancestor Thomas Roberts lists him, his wife and all their children including their names and ages. It also says where the parents married and Thomas occupation, reason for seeking relief, and his addresses in the past 18 months, of which 3 were listed, including his current address of 69 Leather Lane, Holborn.

Poor law records are worth their weight in gold.

Ben