1	Sheffield Records Online / Info For New Users / Upcoming events  on: Mar 28th, 2012, 9:01am
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Anyone interested     Sheffield & District Family History Fair   To be held at ‘Centre in the Park’   Norfolk Heritage Park Guildford Avenue , Sheffield S2 2PL   Saturday 21 April 2012     10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

2	Sheffield Records Online / News / Burngreave Cemetery Grave Purchases  on: Apr 26th, 2008, 8:04pm
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Great News ! In conjunction with the "Friends of Burngreave Cemetery", we are adding another searchable database in the Data Menu under the burials section. The database contains the names and addresses of the actual Grave Owners and the people who were interred in the plot.   It can be accessed by selecting "Data Menu" from the left hand menu and then further selecting "Burials". You will need to be logged in, in order to search the database. The Burngreave Cemetery records are also included in the site's Global Search facility.   We would like to extend our thanks to "Friends of Burngreave Cemetery" who are transcribing the Grave Purchase Books and will be adding other burials from time to time so that the database will contain burials with the name and address of the purchaser or some with the name and address of the deceased.   A brief introduction from "The Friends of Burngreave Cemetery" The Cemetery opened in 1861 and the first burial was for five year old Oscar Brooks. The cemetery covers over 37 acres of land and up to date, there's over 150,000 burials that have taken place. Friends of Burngreave Cemetery are a voluntary group whose objectives are to help with the care of the chapels, its lands and also to further the historic and environmental benefits of this cemetery within the community.

3	Sheffield Records Online / News / General Cemetery records  on: Apr 10th, 2007, 1:15am
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Burial records for the General Cemetery are now being added to the site and can be accessed by selecting "Data Menu" from the left hand menu and then further selecting "Burials".  You will need to be logged in in order to search the database.  The General Cemetery records are also included in the site's Global Search facility and further records will be added on an ongoing basis.  We would like to extend our thanks to the LDS and Sheffield City Council for their permission to make these records available and their general cooperation.

4	Sheffield Records Online / News / Rotherham Marriages  on: Oct 21st, 2006, 11:06am
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Great news!!!!!!   Data has been added for the parish church of Rotherham based on William Phillimore's transcripts covering the period 1540 to the start of the civl registration in 1837.   You will find date of marriage, name and description of bride and groom, indication of whether the marriage was by licence.   This new database can be searched via the site's Data menu (Rotherham Marriages) or using the Global Search facility. Having selected the Data menu you may need to refresh your web browser page several times to flush out the old menu from your browser cache.

5	Sheffield Records Online / News / 1873 Land Owners added  on: Aug 8th, 2006, 10:24am
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Data has been added for all those people within the Sheffield, Rotherham, Ecclesfield & surrounding areas who were included in the 1873 Return of Land Owners.  The database contains their full name, extent of the land in acres, roods and poles, and the value of the land in pounds and shillings and can be searched via the site's Data menu (Land Owners) or using the Global Search facility.  Having selected the Data menu you may need to refresh your web browser page several times to flush out the old menu from your browser cache.

6	Sheffield Records Online / News / 1919 Trade Directory now completed  on: Jul 17th, 2006, 8:38pm
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White's Sheffield District Directory for 1919 has now been completed and contains 43,660 entries.  A VERY big thank-you to Mich who has completed the whole of this Directory single-handedly!  We hope people find this new resource of help in locating their Sheffield relations.

7	Sheffield Records Online / News / 1848 Poll Book added  on: Apr 27th, 2006, 4:16pm
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Data has been added for all those people within the Sheffield & Rotherham Polling Districts who were eligible to vote in the 1848 West Riding election between Sir Culling Eardley representing the Whigs and Edmund Denison representing the Conservatives.  The database includes their full name, residence and who they voted for (if they voted) and can be searched via the site's Data menu (Poll Books) or using the Global Search facility.

8	Sheffield Records Online / News / St Michael's RC Cemetery records added  on: Apr 3rd, 2006, 5:03am
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Burial records for St Michael's Roman Catholic Cemetery covering the years 1862 to 2000 have been added to the site and can be accessed from the site's Data Menu on the left hand side of the screen.  Access is via "Burials" and you will need to be logged in in order to search the database.  The online index can be searched by a combination of forename, surname, address and year of burial and both metaphone and wilddcard searching are available on the surname.  St Michael's RC cemetery records are also now included in the site's Global Search facility.  The data comprising this index has been compiled and very generously supplied by Vincent Hale to whom we would like to extend our sincere thanks for his generosity.

9	Sheffield Records Online / News / Site menu restructured  on: Mar 31st, 2006, 12:15am
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We decided there was a little too much crammed into the main site menu so we have restructured it and effectively split it into two: than main site menu and a data menu.   The latter provides access to all the site databases assuming you have logged in.  You can move between the two different menus at the click of a button.  If anyone has any queries or problems following this change then please drop us a line via the Contacts Page.

10	Sheffield Records Online / News / 1911 Trade Directory now completed  on: Mar 15th, 2006, 3:13pm
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White's Directory of Sheffield & Rotherham for 1911 has now been completed and contains 38,749 entries.  Although typically only trades people are listed it is nevertheless a very valuable source of information as the availability of the 1911 census is still some years away.  Thanks to all the transcribers that were involved and a special thank-you to Mich for a Herculean effort in helping to bring it to a conclusion.