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What's new

The following additions have been made:

July 2011

• 1821 census project - South Ronaldsay and Burray (Orkney)
• Edinburgh's war 1914-1918
• Histpop - the online historical population reports website
• Hudson's Bay Company Archives: biographical sheets
• Irish Genealogical Research Society
• National Library of Australia - Trove: digitised Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954
• Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland
• Scottish Post Office directories (National Library of Scotland)
• Visualising urban geographies
• The National Archives: Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills 1384-1858

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