British Columbia genealogists from Campbell River, Powell River, Port Alberni and Nanaimo and places in-between, and even one from Maple Ridge, converged on a wet and windy Courtenay last Saturday for an all-day seminar.
Activity got underway on Friday evening with an informal dinner at the White Spot restaurant where about half the 93 people who attended on Saturday listened to a friendly debate between myself and Lesley Anderson, an Ancestry employee, on whether given an extra $200 to spend on family history you should use it to buy an Ancestry subscription or a DNA test.
Lesley gave presentations on "Census records online – A goldmine of information ", "Directories – What are they and how to use them" and "Searching Effectively on Ancestry." I presented "Early 20th Century British Immigrants to Canada", "Your Family History in Newspapers Online" and "Some lesser-known websites for British family history."
There was a hiccup in the proceedings when the power went out. As one person commented, the presentations were so exciting we blew the power. It was restored in time for shortened versions of the final two presentations to be given.
Kudos to the CVFHRG organizers Norma O'Toole and Bob Scales for the fine organization and arranging the extra goodies participants took away, including some great prizes.
| Calendar for any year, date of Easter, moon phase | |
| UK religious holidays, Regnal years, old/new style dates | |
| Institute for (Place) Name Studies | |
| Weather in history, summaries | |
| British Meteorological Office, monthly wx station data | |
| PublicProfiler, surname distribution | |
| Population reports for UK and Ireland from 1801- 1937 | |
| Historical Hospital Admission Records Project (formerly Small and Special) | |
| Sources for some Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Sussex, Warwickshire parishes. | |
| East End London, Thames Watermen & Lightermen ($) | |
| Dictionary of Victorian London | |
| Resouces for the Medway area of Kent | |
| British History Online | |
| Huge collection od digitized documents ($) | |
| The National Library of Wales | |
| International collection | |
| A growing collection of cemetery burial records ($) | |
| Free digitized city directories | |
| Black Sheep and others indexed ($) | |
| What’s that medal? | |
| The Coalmining History Resource Centre | |
| C of E Children’s Society online archive | |
| Information on workhouses across Britain | |
| Summaries of more than 100,000 trials | |
| Victorian Crime and Punishment | |
| Leigh Rayment’s Peerage Page | |
| Guild of One Name Studies | |
| Society of Genealogists | |
| Misc database links |
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