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LONDON, April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- findmypast.co.uk, a leading UK family history website, has published online for the very first time parish records held by the City of Westminster Archives Centre. The Westminster Collection at findmypast.co.uk comprises fully searchable transcripts and scanned images of the parish registers, some of which are over 400 years old. The 1,365,731 records launched cover the period 1538-1945 and come from over 50 Westminster churches...

Archivists at the University of Illinois Library believe they have built a better tool kit. Their new online collections management program called Archon has more than a few attractive features "“ not the least of which is that it was developed for "lone archivists with limited technological resources and knowledge," said Scott Schwartz, one of the developers of the software program and the archivist for music and fine arts at Illinois.The state-of-the-art tool also is free, adaptable to...