Post Office Records Boost Family History Search
02 April 2009 by David Lynch - © Hellmail.co.uk
The British Postal Museum & Archive has partnered with Ancestry.co.uk™, leading social and family history website, to make Post Office appointment books from 1831 to 1960, fully searchable and available online for anyone interested in researching their family history.
Prior to 1831 appointment records were not kept uniformly over the country and separate series were produced. In 1831 centralised employment records were first created by the Post Office by copying the relevant minute numbers and brief details relating to appointment, transfer, dismissal, resignation, retirement, or death.
The BPMA said it already had the appointment books microfilmed and the next stage would be to scan the microfilm and then create a linked index on Ancestry.co.uk, making the records fully name-searchable for the first time.
