Essex Ancestors update
Essex Ancestors, ERO’s online subscription service for digital images of Essex parish registers and wills, has undergone its next major update. The service now includes parish registers from the...
View ArticleNew team member: Andy Morgan
Our Digitisation Studio is one of those hidden but vital parts of the Record Office. The Studio does all of the digitisation work for Essex Ancestors as well as processing public orders, and creates...
View ArticleLumières, Caméra, Action!
We had a little bit of glitz and glamour at the record office today as the international television cameras started to roll in the Searchroom. The occasion was the filming of part of an episode of ‘Qui...
View ArticleWading into a Polystyrene Sea
After our recent posts on how to run a manor, what a manor was, and the records produced by manorial courts today we had an exciting package which arrived from Professor Lawrence Poos all the way from...
View ArticleWhere there’s a will: major update to Essex Ancestors
We love wills here at ERO. These fascinating and incredibly useful documents can tell us all sorts of things about the lives of people in the past, and are a brilliant resource for genealogists and...
View ArticleWhere there’s a will: Richard Leget of Hornchuch
We have just uploaded digital images of a further 22,500 wills to our Essex Ancestors online subscription service (more on this here), and to mark the occasion here we take a look at one of our...
View ArticleWhere there’s a will: the Dutch in Essex
Following the recent upload of images of an additional 22,500 wills to Essex Ancestors, Archivist Katharine Schofield takes a look at some of the wills of the Dutch population of Essex… Among the wills...
View ArticleWhere there’s a will: Margaret Lathum of Upminster, 1668
To continue to mark the upload of digital images of a further 22,500 wills to our Essex Ancestors online subscription service (more on this here), here is a brilliant example of the kind of detail...
View ArticleMajor Essex Ancestors update: remaining wills now all online
Essex Ancestors, our online subscription service which allows users to view digital images of historic parish registers and wills, has undergone its latest major update. Our collections include about...
View ArticleERO goes to Boston!
We have a very exciting announcement today – two ERO staff members will be crossing the pond in the summer for a flying visit to Boston, to introduce the delights of the ERO to an American audience....
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