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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

MyHeritage.com Look-alike Meter-Free to use. Local Studies and Archives Centres in NWKFHS area: Greenwich. Greenwich ST Alfege (copies of the Parish Registers) and the Roman Catholic Our Ladye Star of the Sea from 1794. photoLondon; database of 19th century Photographers and Companies.

MyHeritage.com Look-alike Meter-Free to use. 

MyHeritage.com has a free to use 'Look-alike' facility. You can upload photo's of a child and both parents and by using state of the art face recognition technology to determine the resemblance. Who the child most looks like. Look-alike Meter

Local Studies and Archives Centres in NWKFHS area: Greenwich.

The Greenwich Heritage Centre, Artillery Square, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6ST. e-mail Greenwich Heritage Centre 

Collections include those of the former Greenwich Borough Museum in Plumstead and the Local Studies Library at Woodlands. This includes maps, photographs, paintings, archaeological material, natural history specimens, and social history objects. It also holds the records for the London Borough of Greenwich, as well as its predecessors. More details at Greenwich Heritage Centre  and  Family History

The Parish Records for Greenwich are also available from NWKFS: Greenwich ST Alfege (copies of the Parish Registers) and  the Roman Catholic Our Ladye Star of the Sea from 1794. Details can be found at NWKFHS Publications

At Burial Records  you can arrange to search in person the cemetery burial records for Charlton Cemetery from 1855, Greenwich Cemetery from 1856, Woolwich Cemetery from 1884, Plumstead Cemetery from 1890 and Eltham Cemetery from 1935 or for an eye watering £49 fee request for them to be searched.

photoLondon; database of 19th century Photographers and Companies. 

Though this website is no longer being updated the approximately 9,000 biographical entries on photographic companies and the people who worked within the photographic industry in London during the 19th century is still maintained for archive purposes and you can still search the database for information. These include some Photographers who worked in the parts of London covered by NWKFHS. 

If you have a photograph you are trying to date or find more information about the Photographer this is a good place to start. photoLondon

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