Findmypast this week added more than 100,000 new records, including women’s employment records during WWI, to its website.
Lancashire, Barrow-in-Furness Shipbuilding and Engineering Employees
These 96,374 records usually give a name, date of birth, the department worked in, address, and duration of work. They also include around 1,300 female employees from the First World War period.
United Kingdom, Commemorative Plaques
These 12,785 commemorative plaques remember figures like Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Pankhurst, and even Hodge, the feline friend of Samuel Johnson. Depending on the plaque, you may find a name, date of birth, date of death and address. Because they’re tied to physical locations, they help us to understand not only when key events happened, but where they happened.
