Our annual look-ahead has been running for over 10 years now, straddling two census releases, three summer Olympics, countless prime minsters, the passing of a monarch, and a global pandemic.
Sharing what’s in store for family historians is great fun. Commercial constraints might keep gatekeepers tight-lipped on some projects, but there’s always plenty to get excited about. We’ve sought to give space to both big-ticket items and more local and esoteric material. Of the former, perhaps the most important is the longawaited 1921 census of Scotland, due on ScotlandsPeople before 2022 is out.
There’s news too from the Ogilby Trust, which launched its one-stop hub for digitised material from regimental museums in late 2021. We have details of upcoming tranches of data from the likes of Ancestry and TheGenealogist, as well as a number of people-powered transcription projects. There are brand new sites on the horizon too, including Explore Your Genealogy from the Family History Federation, alongside updates from some old favourites.
ANCESTRY
A recently announced partnership with the Imperial War Museum () should see the arrival of some interesting military material in 2023. The website is also releasing exclusive London data with Westminster Poor Laws and Kensington and Chelsea parish-chest material, as well as more wills from East and West Sussex. New
