Julen ligger runt hörnet och att köpa den perfekta presenten till alla på din lista kan vara uttröttande och att undersöka vad som är bäst för varje ålder, personlighet eller intresse kan vara extremt tidskrävande. Hur kan man då hitta något som är meningsfullt men spännande, roligt men ändå pedagogiskt och i rätt tid men som ändå behåller sitt värde på lång sikt?

This may turn out to be a gold mine for historians and genealogists alike. The New York Times is planning to digitize more than a century’s worth of photographs, and it is going to use Google Cloud to do so.

The plan is to digitize MILLIONS of images — some dating back to the late nineteenth century — to ensure they can be accessed by generations to come.

Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Society, the Irish Family History Foundation's centre for County Sligo, has added more than 6,400 civil birth records to the RootsIreland.ie database. They are all from the Ballymote Dispensary District (Sligo PLU), and date from 1864 to 1918.

In many of these records, additional information to that included in the child's baptismal entry may be found.

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With the weekend of free access to FindMyPast's entire collection now finished, along comes a round of half price discount offers from each of the company's 'territories'.

Top billing has to go to FindMyPast UK, where you could take up a half-price deal for three months on your choice of Starter, Plus or Pro packages. (You take out a one-month UK sub and when three months have elapsed, your subscription will renew at the standard rate unless you have switched off 'Auto Renew' in the My Account section of the website.

Monday 12 November:Delayed (11am) opening in all NLI sites, plus NLI Reading Room and Manuscript Room closed all day. Venue: National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Delayed opening due to staff development meeting. On-going Monday closures are facilitating extensive redevelopment of the premises. All other services/exhibitons/cafe, including Genealogy Advisory Service, operate as normal. Details.

Monday 12 November: The Priest's Tale, with Caoimhe Whelan.