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Accessing the UK Censuses Online By: Sandra Beckett If you are beginning to search for your UK ancestors, you might like to know that you can do it in the comfort of your own home, IF you are connected to the internet. This is where you can find them: 1841 - Available on Ancestry.uk, also on CDs and at the Origins and The Genealogist sites. 1851 - Available on Ancestry.uk and on CD 1861 - Available on 1837online, Ancestry.uk and on CD 1871 - Available on Ancestry.uk and on CD 1881 - Available for free on Family Search also Ancestry.uk 1891 - As yet only part of 1891 available on 1837 online, also Ancestry.uk 1901 - Available on Ancestry.uk.

Also free at the National Archives site. Plus there\'s the FreeCEN project as well. Note that other databases, eg parish records, civil registration indexes, wills, etc are also available at some of the �pay to use� sites. Some LDS libraries and larger genealogical societies subscribe to one or more of these subscription sites and possibly your local public library subscribes as well, so check with them. Here are subscription details if you decided to go it alone: SUBSCRIPTION SITES: British Origins see www.originsnetwork.com 72 hours - �5.95, Monthly - �7.95, Quarterly - �12.50, Annual - �22.50 1837online see www.1837online.com 90 days + 50 units @ 10p �5 120 days + 176 units @ 8.5p �15 365 days + 313 units @ 8p �25 Ancestry.uk see www.ancestry.co.uk 14 day Pay per view + 10 credits �4.95 Monthly �9.95 Annual�unlimited credits �69.95 The Genealogist see www.thegenealogist.co.uk Monthly�using credit system (from) �4.66 Pay as you go (time limited) (from) �5.00 Monthly - credit free (from) �5.75 FREE SITES: Family Search see www.familysearch.org National Archives see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk FreeCEN see www.freecen.rootsweb.com Note also that some dedicated volunteers have transcribed portions of County censuses and made these available free on the internet. Try Googling with the name of the county plus census. Finally, don�t forget the 1881 Census (both on fiche and on our computers), is freely available for searching at our library.  Article Source: http://www.familyhistoryarticles.com

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Translating Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone

In 1909, Charles Walcott, a paleontologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, discovered one of the greatest and most famous fossil troves high in the Canadian Rockies on Burgess Pass in British Columbia. The slabs of Burgess Shale that Walcott excavated contained the earliest known examples at the time of many major animal groups in the fossil record, in rocks that were about 505 ...

Coming up in Harding, the Chesters, Mendhams and Washington Twp.

MONDAY, July 26 A program on end of life decisions is planned for noon at the Washington Township Public Library, 37 E. Springtown Road, Long Valley. Discussion topics will include, autonomy, informed consent, living wills, do not resuscitate orders and more. A complimentary luncheon will be served. Call (908) 876-3596 or go to www.wtpl.org and sign up under Adult ...

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* The water show is back. Wet and wild fun for the whole family. The Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Libraries will present two shows at two locations. The first show will be at the Eastern Library at Little Cincinnati at 11 am.

Translating the Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone

A once-worrisome gap in the fossil record preceding the Cambrian has ignited intense interest among geologists and paleontologists.

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Under the Sea Costume Party will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Mendham Township Library (corner of Cherry Lane and East Main Street in Brookside). Go down under the sea to celebrate Summer Reading Club with ocean games, crafts, puppet show and tasty tidbits fit for mermaid, pirate or sea creature.