Maps

Step back in time with these new and updated visual records

Shining new light on the working lives of our forebears

compensations is launching before the end of 2020.

These cover 91 collieries and record roughly 70,000 compensation payments. Although names will be anonymised because of legal restrictions, unredacted data will be available for research requests. Meanwhile, the site’s structure will change to reflect both archival partners in Warwickshire and Derbyshire.

nidirect.gov.uk/proni

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is running a ‘Stay Home Memories’ project to record people’s experiences of lockdown. PRONI’s events going into 2021 will be Zoom-based (they will later be available online), and it’s adding images to its e-catalogue, name indexes to digitised titheapplotment books, and records about the creation of Northern Ireland and its centenary in 1921. thegenealogist.co.uk

TheGenealogist plans to expand a range of record types and research resources in 2021. Map Explorer will have new features, including a georeferenced image archive and a range of new data layers that will allow subscribers to quickly visit an ancestor’s parish, street and house. In partnership with The National Archives, it is also planning to continue adding detailed maps as part of the Lloyd George Domesday Survey records, alongside more parish, Catholic, naturalisation, criminal and change-of-name records, and newspapers. New military material will include records of Army, Navy and Royal Air Force operations. Meanwhile the company’s TreeView Online ( treeview.co.uk) is being rewritten with brand-new functionality.