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posted by [personal profile] tobyaw at 01:30pm on 31/03/2021 under , , ,

Fifteen years ago I started working for Scotland Online, as the business was called back then. I started contracting through an agency in March ’06, and then when we realised I’d be there for a longer run, directly contracting from September the same year. And when it was obvious that I’d be about for a longer longer run, I became an employee in September 2010. All seems like another world.


When I started I think I was one of two software developers working for a company that was mostly focused on systems and infrastructure work. I spent the first couple of years writing PHP and MySQL, a skill set that meant I was well placed to develop the internal tools for handling the 1911 census project when we won that. And I’ve been doing the same sort of thing ever since, with technologies changing as the years have passed.


The company name changed to Brightsolid Online Publishing, then DC Thomson Family History, then Findmypast, but it is still the people I work with, and the history we work on, that continue to make work a pleasure.

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posted by [personal profile] tobyaw at 02:59pm on 29/03/2021 under , ,

We’re hiring again for data engineers. Part programming, part database work, and part systems work. Do you fancy working with big historic datasets?
https://apply.workable.com/findmypast/j/A80172A332/

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posted by [personal profile] tobyaw at 04:28pm on 30/11/2010 under , , ,
Today Findmypast released a fully searchable index of marriages in England and Wales between 1837 and 2005. This is the first time a search can be made across the full year range, searching for the bride's and bridegroom's names together.

http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/11/fully-name-searchable-marriage-records-1837-2005-on-findmypastcouk/

I've spent time over the past couple of months working on preparing the data for this. Good to see it launched. Family history researchers will find this very useful.
location: St Andrews, Scotland
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posted by [personal profile] tobyaw at 04:28pm on 30/11/2010 under , , ,
Today Findmypast released a fully searchable index of marriages in England and Wales between 1837 and 2005. This is the first time a search can be made across the full year range, searching for the bride's and bridegroom's names together.

http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2010/11/fully-name-searchable-marriage-records-1837-2005-on-findmypastcouk/

I've spent time over the past couple of months working on preparing the data for this. Good to see it launched. Family history researchers will find this very useful.
location: St Andrews, Scotland

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