11 December 2009: The paper street indexes for the 1861 census have been uploaded comprising 1286 pages for 147 registration districts. See the project page for more information and how you can contribute.

20 November 2009: The paper street indexes for the 1871 census now uploaded comprising 1164 pages for 138 registration districts. See the project page for more information and how you can contribute.

5 November 2009: Your Archives now has its own Twitter feed. Follow us @YourArchives.

• Local history research - an introduction
• Carr, William Broughton (1837-1909) Bee Keeper and Author
• House history research - an introduction
• Birley's Bible - compiled to track the careers of German Army officers
• case of Elizabeth Laura Keeling - Fraudulent abstraction of the entry of baptism of Elizabeth Laura Keeling from the registers, 1866
• Taylor, Samuel Coleridge- (1875-1912) Composer
• Log Books Flt Sgt Cyril Holyoak RAF, Wireless Operator, Airgunner, Signaller
• Enclosure awards
• Abstract of will of John Herringham (1784)

• Metropolitan Police Records (MEPO)
• Davies, Sidney George John, Serjeant 553755, Royal Sussex Regiment
• papers relating to the 1929 case of the Well of Loneliness
• How to search the Valuation Office records
• Zong Massacre (case of Grayson v Gilbert 1783)
• George Prowse (1886-1918) VC DCM, naval rating, Royal Naval Division
• Discovery of a medieval music manuscript at The National Archives

A list of some articles that may be of interest during December

• Christmas Rebellion, 1831
• Tay Bridge Disaster
• Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658) Lord Protector
• Will of John Christmas, Seaman (1801) ADM 48/18
• Browse Category:Astronomy as we come to the close of the International Year of Astronomy which celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first glimpse of the stars through a telescope

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