FamilySearch have granted a few more days to order delivery of physical microfilms, now until 7 September. Full details on the transition and new arrangements are at FamilySearch Newsroom.
The British Newspaper Archive now has 21,284,568 (20,773,926 pages last month). The 55 (44) papers with new pages online are tabulated below with the major additions highlighted.
| TITLE | DATE RANGE |
|---|---|
| Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) | 1873-1888 |
| The Sportsman | 1888-1889, 1910 |
| Woolwich Gazette | 1901 |
| Clitheroe Advertiser and Times | 1900, 1908, 1917-1918 |
| Morecambe Guardian | 1922, 1924, 1927-1929 |
| Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News | 1860, 1872, 1874, 1890, 1912 |
| Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail | 1892, 1898, 1904, 1921-1923 |
| Exmouth Journal | 1869-1910 |
| Eastbourne Herald | 1939-1951 |
| Portadown Times | 1922-1941, 1954-1956 |
| Woolwich Gazette and Greenwich and Deptford Chronicle | 1873, 1875-1888, 1891-1892, 1895-1900, 1902-1903 |
| Stornoway Gazette and West Coast Advertiser | 1950 |
| Salisbury and Winchester Journal | 1873-1876, 1878-1888, 1890-1896, 1898 |
| Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette | 1879-1896, 1898-1909 |
| Annandale Observer and Advertiser | 1887-1888 |
| Eastern Daily Press | 1870-1876, 1878-1890, 1896, 1899, 1901-1909 |
| Colchester Gazette | 1877, 1879-1880, 1889 |
| Lowestoft Journal | 1874-1896, 1898-1910 |
| Northern Constitution | 1900-1907 |
| Newbury Weekly News and General Advertiser | 1870-1872 |
| Yarmouth Mercury | 1884, 1889 |
| Shields Daily News | 1864-1868, 1874, 1877, 1944-1945, 1951, 1953 |
| Kentish Independent | 1871-1910 |
| East London Observer | 1880-1928 |
| Saffron Walden Weekly News | 1891, 1896-1897 |
| West London Observer | 1916-1952 |
| Volunteer Service Gazette and Military Dispatch | 1864-1869, 1871-1877, 1879-1880, 1882-1903 |
| South London Chronicle | 1879-1890, 1892, 1895-1907 |
| Poor Law Unions' Gazette | 1868-1887, 1889-1900, 1902-1903 |
| Belfast News-Letter | 1930 |
| Leitrim Advertiser | 1886, 1890-1899, 1901-1916 |
| Illustrated War News | 1914-1918, 1939 |
| Leinster Independent | 1871 |
| Globe | 1830-1833 |
| Y Genedl Gymreig | 1901-1909 |
| Newry Reporter | 1872-1910 |
| North Wales Times | 1895-1896, 1901-1910 |
| South Wales Daily Post | 1897 |
| Pontypool Free Press | 1870-1871, 1879, 1894-1896, 1898-1903, 1905-1909 |
| Carmarthen Weekly Reporter | 1886-1891, 1894 |
| Y Goleuad | 1888, 1890, 1892, 1895 |
| Rhyl Record and Advertiser | 1887, 1901-1902 |
| Wrexham Guardian and Denbighshire and Flintshire Advertiser | 1869-1874 |
| Penarth Chronicle and Cogan Echo | 1893 |
| Potter's Electric News | 1858 |
| Dudley Herald | 1900 |
| Shipping and Mercantile Gazette | 1882-1884 |
| Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press | 1890-1897, 1899-1957 |
| Abergavenny Chronicle | 1890, 1892, 1894, 1900-1901 |
| Alcester Chronicle | 1864-1888, 1890-1910 |
| Milngavie and Bearsden Herald | 1930-1934 |
| Brechin Herald | 1890-1892 |
| Tenby Observer | 1888 |
| Nelson Leader | 1920-1922, 1938-1939, 1950 |
| Eastern Evening News | 1910 |
| Database | Company | Service |
|---|---|---|
| British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records Browse, 1704-1919 | FMP | Navy |
| British Royal Navy & Royal Marines Service and Pension Records, 1704-1919 | FMP | Navy |
| British Army, List Of Half-Pay Officers 1714 | FMP | Army |
| UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions and Discharges, 1715-1925 | Ancestry | Army |
| British Army, Royal Artillery Officers 1716-1899 | FMP | Army |
| British Royal Navy, Ships' Musters | FMP | Navy |
| British India Office Army & Navy Pensions | FMP | Army & Navy |
| Royal Navy officers' service records 1756-1931 | TNA | Navy |
| Web: UK, Royal Naval Officers' Service Records Index, 1756-1931 | Ancestry | Navy |
| UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Soldier Service Records, 1760-1920 | Ancestry | Army |
| UK, Chelsea Pensioners' Service Records, 1760-1913 | FS | Army |
| UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea: Discharge Documents of Pensioners 1760-1887 | FS | Army |
| Great Britain, War Office Registers, 1772-1935 | FS | Army |
| Cornwall, England, Militia and Sea Fencibles Index, 1780 - 1831 | Ancestry | All |
| British Army Pensioners - Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Ireland, 1783-1822 | FMP | Army |
| Army List 1787 | FMP | Army |
| British Mariners, Trinity House Calendars 1787-1854 | FMP | Marines |
| British Royal Navy Allotment Declarations 1795-1852 | FMP | Navy |
| Army List 1798 | FMP | Army |
| Household Cavalry soldiers' service records 1799-1920 | TNA | Army |
| British Army Officer Promotions 1800-1815 | FMP | Army |
| UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962 | Ancestry | Army |
| British Army Schoolchildren and Schoolmasters 1803-1932 | FMP | Army |
| London, Watermen In Royal Navy, 1803-1809 | FMP | Navy |
| UK, Militia Service Records, 1806-1915 | FS | Army |
| UK, Naval and Military Courts Martial Registers, 1806-1930 | Ancestry | Navy |
| British Army Muster Rolls, 84th Foot 1808-1818 | FMP | Army |
| Peninsular War, British Army Officers, 1808-1814 | FMP | Army |
| UK, Military Deserters, 1812-1927 | Ancestry | Army |
| UK, British Army Muster Books and Pay Lists, 1812-1817 | Ancestry | Army |
| British Army, War Of 1812 Casualties | FMP | Army |
| British Royal Marines, Marriage Registers 1813-1920 | FMP | Marines |
| Army Deserters 1828-1840 | FMP | Army |
| British Royal Navy Personnel 1831 | FMP | Navy |
| UK, Merchant Navy Seamen Records, 1835-1941 | FS | Navy |
| Harts Army List 1840 | FMP | Army |
| Royal Navy officers' service record cards and files c.1840-c.1920 | TNA | Navy |
| British Army, Worldwide Index 1841 | FMP | Army |
| Royal Marines' service records 1842-1925 | TNA | Marines |
| UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1848-1939 | Ancestry | Navy |
| British Army, Royal Artillery Officer Deaths 1850-2011 | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Worldwide Index 1851 | FMP | Army |
| England & Wales Merchant Navy Crew Lists 1861-1913 | FMP | Navy |
| Royal Navy ratings' service records 1853-1923 | TNA | Navy |
| Web: UK, Royal Naval Seamen Index, 1853 -1872 | Ancestry | Navy |
| British Army Discharges, 60th Foot 1854-1880 | FMP | Army |
| East India Register & Army List 1855 | FMP | Army |
| Victoria Cross registers 1856-1944 | TNA | Army |
| Royal Naval Reserve service records 1860-1955 | TNA | Navy |
| British Army, Worldwide Index 1861 | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Worldwide Index 1871 | FMP | Army |
| Indian Army & Civil Service List 1873 | FMP | Army |
| Army List August 1878 | FMP | Army |
| British Army Muster Rolls, 60th Foot 1879-1882 | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Northumberland Fusiliers 1881-1920 | FMP | Army |
| Harts Army List 1888 | FMP | Army |
| Royal Marines 1899-1919 | FMP | Marines |
| British Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1924 | FMP | Navy |
| Royal Navy Officers 1899-1919 | FMP | Navy |
| UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 | Ancestry | Army |
| Volunteer Reserve service records 1903-1922 | TNA | Navy |
| British Army Service Records Image Browse | FMP | Army |
| Royal Naval Air Service officers' service records 1906-1918 | TNA | Navy |
| British Army, Honourable Artillery Company | FMP | Army |
| British Royal Air Force, Airmen's Service Records 1912-1939 | FMP | Air Force |
| British Royal Air Force, Officers' Service Records 1912-1920 | FMP | Air Force |
| UK, Royal Air Force Muster Roll, 1918 | Ancestry | Air Force |
| UK, British Jewry Roll of Honour, 1914-1918 | Ancestry | All |
| Bexley, Kent, England, WWI Registration Cards, 1914-1919 | Ancestry | All |
| Prisoner of war interview reports 1914-1918 | TNA | Army |
| British Army medal index cards 1914-1920 | TNA | Army |
| British Army nurses' service records 1914-1918 | TNA | Army |
| British Army war diaries 1914-1922 | TNA | Army |
| Soldiers' service records | TNA | Army |
| Soldiers' pension records | TNA | Army |
| UK, British Army Recipients of the Military Medal, 1914-1920 | Ancestry | Army |
| Surrey, England, Regimental Rolls, 1914-1947 | Ancestry | Army |
| UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916 | Ancestry | Army |
| UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920 | Ancestry | Army |
| UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 | Ancestry | Army |
| British Army Service Records | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Bond Of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916 | FMP | Army |
| British Army, De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918 | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Deserters and Absentees In Police Gazette 1914-1919 | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Lloyds Of London Memorial Roll 1914-1919 | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book, 1914-1918 | FMP | Army |
| UK, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 | FS | Army |
| Merchant seamen's campaign medal records 1914-1918 | TNA | Merchant Navy |
| UK, Shipping and Seamen WWI and WWII Rolls of Honour, 1914-1945 | Ancestry | Merchant Navy |
| Royal Naval Division service records 1914-1919 | TNA | Navy |
| British Royal Navy & Royal Marines, Battle Of Jutland 1916 Servicemen | FMP | Navy |
| Women's Army Auxiliary Corps service records 1917-1920 | TNA | Army |
| British Army, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps 1917-1920 | FMP | Army |
| UK, World War I Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920 | FS | Army |
| Women's Royal Naval service records 1917-1919 | TNA | Navy |
| Royal Air Force officers' service records 1918-1919 | TNA | Air Force |
| Women's Royal Air Force service records 1918-1920 | TNA | Air Force |
| UK, Royal Air Force Airmen Records, 1918-1940 | Ancestry | Air Force |
| Web: UK, Women's Royal Air Force Index, 1918-1920 | Ancestry | Air Force |
| British Women's Royal Air Force Service Records 1918-1920 | FMP | Air Force |
| Royal Air Force Muster Roll 1918 | FMPt | Air Force |
| British Army, Plovdiv Military Cemetery Burials | FMP | Army |
| UK, Military Discharge Indexes, 1920-1971 | Ancestry | Army |
| UK, Electrical Engineer WWI and WWII Rolls of Honour, 1924, 1949 | Ancestry | All |
| Army Roll Of Honour 1939-1945 | FMP | Army |
| British Army Casualty Lists 1939-1945 | FMP | Army |
| British Army Casualty Lists 1939-1945 Image Browse | FMP | Army |
| British Army, Royal Artillery, 80th Field Regiment, WW2 | FMP | Army |
| UK, WWII Civil Defence Gallantry Awards, 1940-1949 | Ancestry | Civilian |
It's that time of year again. Kids looking forward to another year of learning. Parents joyfully forking out for supplies and extras. Drivers eagerly anticipating practical lessons in patience around school buses.
If you're inspired to improve your genealogy game consider online courses from The National Institute for Genealogical Studies or Pharos Tutors.
Pharos lists five courses starting in September:
| Course | Instructor | Start Date |
|---|---|---|
| Organizing Your Genealogy | Barbara H. Baker | 04 Sep 2017 |
| Nonconformity: it's records and history | Alec Tritton | 07 Sep 2017 |
| Scottish Research Online | Chris Paton | 11 Sep 2017 |
| The National Archives Website and Catalogue: Finding People | Guy Grannum | 15 Sep 2017 |
| Victorian Crime and Punishment: Courts, Police and Prisons | Antony Marr | 19 Sep 2017 |
Analysis and Skills Mentoring Program-Part 3
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ADVANCED
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|---|---|
| Australian: Education Records | ADVANCED |
| Canadian: Geography and Maps | ADVANCED |
| Canadian: Immigration Records | ADVANCED |
| Canadian: Local History and Special Collections | ADVANCED |
| Canadian: Migration Patterns | ADVANCED |
| English: Court Records-Criminal, Civil & Ecclesiastical | ADVANCED |
| English: Land and Property Records Including Manorial Documents and Maps | ADVANCED |
| Genealogy and Copyright Guidelines | ADVANCED |
| Genetics & Medical Family History | ADVANCED |
| German: Germans Outside of Germany***NEW*** | ADVANCED |
| Irish: Electoral and Taxation Records | ADVANCED |
| Irish: Estate, Plantation and Settlement Records | ADVANCED |
| Librarianship: Developing a Genealogy Website | ADVANCED |
| Methodology - Part 6: Professional Preparation and Practice | ADVANCED |
| Palaeography: Reading & Understanding Historical Documents | ADVANCED |
| US: Institutional Records | ADVANCED |
| US: Military Records | ADVANCED |
| Analysis and Skills Mentoring Program-Part 2 | INTERMEDIATE |
| Australian: Church Records | INTERMEDIATE |
| Canadian: Land Records-Part 2 | INTERMEDIATE |
| Canadian: Vital Statistics Records-Part 2 | INTERMEDIATE |
| Connecting Family: Online and Virtually | INTERMEDIATE |
| Creating Genealogy Programs for Adults & the Younger Generation | INTERMEDIATE |
| Electronic Resources: Organize & Publish a Family Tree | INTERMEDIATE |
| English: Occupations - Professions and Trades | INTERMEDIATE |
| English: Understanding Names in Genealogy | INTERMEDIATE |
| German: Civil Registration Records | INTERMEDIATE |
| German: Reading the Records | INTERMEDIATE |
| Google for the Wise Genealogist | INTERMEDIATE |
| Heraldry for the Family Historian | INTERMEDIATE |
| Irish: Civil Registration | INTERMEDIATE |
| Irish: Major Printed Sources | INTERMEDIATE |
| Irish: Monumental Gravestone) Inscriptions | INTERMEDIATE |
| Lecturing Skills Including Preparation | INTERMEDIATE |
| Librarianship: Handouts, Brochures and Online/Multi-Media Reference Tools | INTERMEDIATE |
| Librarianship: Programming and Marketing Your Services | INTERMEDIATE |
| Methodology - Part 3: More Strategies | INTERMEDIATE |
| Methodology - Part 4: Effective Searching and Recording | INTERMEDIATE |
| Methodology - Part 5: How To Prove It | INTERMEDIATE |
| Personal Historian: Telling the Stories | INTERMEDIATE |
| Personal Historian: Video Techniques | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: Alberta Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: British India Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: German Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: Manitoba Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: New Brunswick Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: Ontario Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: Quebec Non-Francophone Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: Scandinavian Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: South Africa Ancestors Including Military Records | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: U.S. Midwestern States Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Research: Ukrainian Ancestors | INTERMEDIATE |
| Skill-Building: Nuts & Bolts of Reporting Research | INTERMEDIATE |
| Social Media Tools for the Wise Genealogist | INTERMEDIATE |
| US: Cemetery and Mortuary Records | INTERMEDIATE |
| US: Migration Patterns | INTERMEDIATE |
| US: Religious Records-Part 2 | INTERMEDIATE |
| Writing for Genealogy: Articles, Blogs, Research Reports and so much more | INTERMEDIATE |
| Writing the Genealogist's Memoir | INTERMEDIATE |
| Business Skills: Career Development: Choosing a Niche-Part 1 | BASIC |
| Business Skills: Career Development: Choosing a Niche-Part 2 | BASIC |
| Business Skills: Creating a Business | BASIC |
| Business Skills: Establishing & Promoting Your Website | BASIC |
| DNA: Introduction to Genetic Genealogy | BASIC |
| Eastern European: Introduction to Research for North Americans | BASIC |
| Italian: Civil Registration Records-Part 1 | BASIC |
| Italian: Introduction to Research Outside of Italy | BASIC |
| Italian: Language and Location | BASIC |
| Personal Historian: Beginning Genealogy | BASIC |
| Scottish: Census Records | BASIC |
| Skill-Building: Breaking Down Brick Walls | BASIC |
| Skills: Transcribing, Abstracting & Extracting | BASIC |
| Business Skills: Business Administration | BASIC |
Early bird pricing for the Great Canadian Genealogy Summit ends 31 August.
The conference, being held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 13-15 October, 2017 at The Lord Nelson Hotel features all Canadian speakers on:
Immigration Resources,
Loyalist/Black Loyalist research,
Acadian/Cajun genealogy,
British Home Children in Canada
Early Scottish Settlers
DNA
Methodology.
To register and save: https://cangensummit.ca/
... but only until the end of this month (August 2017). After that FamilySearch will no longer offer the service. Eventually all microfilms will become digital microfilms available online. You may not be able to access them except by going to a FHC and for a while not all will be available.
The headline of this week's update for Findmypast is the 1851 Canadian census with more than 2.9 million records. They've long been available for free at sites from LAC and FamilySearch, so FMP is playing catch up.
Additions for England are over 870,000 Middlesex Protestation Returns 1641-42, and also for London 5,700 records in a Bunhill Fields Non-Conformist Burials 1713-1826 browse file.
The National Burial Index for England & Wales is updated with 173,801 new records for Wiltshire (1530 – 1839) bringing the NBI total to 12,300,167.
There are also 98,994 additions to the Wiltshire Baptisms Index 1530-1917 covering 153 parishes and bringing the total to 2,893,898.
This is catching up on the FreeBMD Database which was updated on Friday 4 August 2017 to contain 262,812,210 distinct records (262,363,308 previous update).
Years with major updates (more than 5,000 entries) are: for births: 1964, 1966, 1977-81; for marriages: 1965-66, 1977, 1979-83; for deaths 1976, 1979-81.
You need Ancestry access, no need to go up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, to access these new records online.
Bedfordshire, England, Land Tax Records, 1797-1832, 534,240 records,
Bedfordshire, England, Petty Sessions, 1854-1915, 118,272 records,
Bedfordshire, England, Valuation Records, 1838-1929, 451,819 records.
Each is indexed with links to original records images and there's also a browse facility by jurisdiction.. Some records occupy more than one page.
The records are from the Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service which has a Guides to collections from the Archives and Records office useful for further information on these and other collections.
Don't forget the massive collection of Bedfordshire electoral registers that Ancestry made available online in April.
A century ago, 24 August 1917, the Kingston Daily British Whig published the following recipe for War Cake.
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups hot water
2 tablespoons lard
1 package seedless raisins (or less)
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon soda
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Boil all the ingredients except the flour, raisins and soda together for five minutes. When cold add the soda sifted in one-half the flour and the raisins mixed with the rest of the flour.
Bake in loaves 45 minutes in slow oven, or
Bake in a sheet 30 minutes in a slow oven
Yield: two loaves (8 inches by 2 inches)
Two sheets (9 inches by 1 inch)
Cost of recipe: 32 cents, using one package of raisins.
I've had the opportunity to try War Cake at an event at Pinhey's Point and found it delicious.
A World We Have Lost examines the early history of Saskatchewan through an Aboriginal and environmental lens. Indian and mixed—descent peoples played leading roles in the story-as did the land and climate. Despite the growing British and Canadian presence, the Saskatchewan country remained Aboriginal territory. The region's peoples had their own interests and needs and the fur trade was often peripheral to their lives. Indians and Métis peoples wrangled over territory and resources, especially bison, and were not prepared to let outsiders control their lives, let alone decide their future. Native—newcomer interactions were consequently fraught with misunderstandings, sometimes painful difficulties, if not outright disputes.2. Capturing Hill 70: Canada’s Forgotten Battle. By by Douglas E. Delaney (Editor), Serge Marc Durflinger (Editor)
By the early nineteenth century, a distinctive western society had emerged in the North—West-one that was challenged and undermined by the takeover of the region by young dominion of Canada. Settlement and development was to be rooted in the best features of Anglo—Canadian civilization, including the white race. By the time Saskatchewan entered confederation as a province in 1905, the world that Kelsey had encountered during his historic walk on the northern prairies had become a world we have lost.
In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, vital terrain just north of the French town of Lens. The Canadians suffered some 5,400 casualties and in three harrowing days defeated twenty-one German counterattacks. This spectacularly successful but shockingly costly battle was as innovative as Vimy, yet few Canadians have heard of it. Capturing Hill 70 marks the centenary of this triumph by dissecting different facets of the battle, from planning and conducting operations to long-term repercussions and commemoration. It reinstates Hill 70 to its rightful place among the pantheon of battles that forged the reputation of the famed Canadian Corps during the First World War.3. The Vimy Trap: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War. By Ian McKay (Author, Contributor), Jamie Swift (Author, Contributor)
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Contending Great War memories have helped to shape how later wars were imagined. The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history—combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art—explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory.4. Tracks to the Trenches: Canadian Railway Troops
| Title | Years | County |
|---|---|---|
| Belfast Newsletter | 09/01/1738 - Current | National (NI) |
| Freeman's Journal | 03/01/1763 - 19/12/1924 | National |
| Irish Examiner | 30/08/1841 - 1999 | National |
| Irish Farmer's Journal | 16/03/1957 - 26/12/1998 | National |
| Irish Independent | 02/01/1905 - Current | National |
| Irish Press | 05/09/1931 - 25/05/1995 | National |
| Sunday Independent | 07/01/1906 - Current | National |
| Nationalist & Leinster Times | 22/09/1883 - current | Carlow, Laois & Kildare |
| Anglo-Celt | 06/02/1846 - Current | Cavan |
| Skiberreen Eagle | 02/01/1882 - 08/07/1922 | Cork |
| Southern Star | 13/02/1892 - Current | Cork |
| Derry Journal | 02/01/1844 - 31/12/1924 | Derry |
| Donegal Democrat | 06/06/1919 - Current | Donegal |
| Donegal News | 14/03/1903 - Current | Donegal |
| Dublin Evening Post | 21/01/1796 - 31/12/1798 | Dublin |
| Evening Herald | 19/12/1891 - current | Dublin |
| Nation - The | 15/10/1842 - 05/06/1897 | Dublin |
| Volunteer's Journal or Irish Herald | 13/10/1783 - 30/04/1787 | Dublin |
| Fermanagh Herald | 14/03/1903 - current | Fermanagh |
| Connacht Sentinel | 02/08/1927 - Current | Galway |
| Connacht Tribune | 22/05/1909 - Current | Galway |
| Galway City Tribune | 07/09/1984 - Current | Galway |
| Tuam Herald | 13/05/1837 - Current | Galway |
| Chutes Western Herald | 02/01/1828 - 04/05/1835 | Kerry |
| Kerryman | 20/08/1904 - Current | Kerry |
| Kerry Advocate | 25/07/1914 - 06/05/1916 | Kerry |
| Kerry Champion | 13/10/1928 - 29/03/1958 | Kerry |
| Kerry Evening Post | 24/05/1813 - 29/09/1917 | Kerry |
| Kerry Evening Star | 29/09/1902 - 12/03/1914 | Kerry |
| Kerry Examiner | 01/01/1841 - 11/03/1856 | Kerry |
| Kerry Independent | 28/10/1880 - 10/01/1884 | Kerry |
| Kerry News | 23/01/1894 - 16/06/1941 | Kerry |
| Kerry People | 27/09/1902 - 31/03/1928 | Kerry |
| Kerry Press | 28/07/1914 - 11/05/1916 | Kerry |
| Kerry Reporter | 10/05/1924 - 28/12/1935 | Kerry |
| Kerry Sentinel | 26/04/1878 - 23/12/1916 | Kerry |
| Kerry Star | 15/05/1861 - 27/03/1863 | Kerry |
| Kerry Weekly Reporter | 03/02/1883 - 14/08/1920 | Kerry |
| Killarney Echo & South Kerry Chronicle | 26/08/1899 - 14/08/1920 | Kerry |
| Liberator | 21/07/1914 - 02/09/1939 | Kerry |
| Raymonds Kerry Herald | 12/01/1856 - 16/02/1856 | Kerry |
| Tralee Mercury | 14/02/1829 - 20/07/1839 | Kerry |
| Kildare Nationalist | 05/01/2016 - current | Kildare |
| Finn's Leinster Journal | 01/04/1792 - 31/12/1828 | Kilkenny |
| Kilkenny People | 26/10/1895 - current | Kilkenny |
| Laois Nationalist | 23/08/2016 - current | Laois |
| Leinster Express | 24/09/1831 - Current | Laois |
| Leitrim Observer | 02/01/1904 -Current | Leitrim |
| Limerick Leader | 02/01/1905 - Current | Limerick |
| Longford Leader | 14/08/1897 - Current | Longford |
| Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal | 19/09/1835 - 25/12/1909 | Louth |
| Drogheda Conservative | 30/03/1864 - 29/12/1906 | Louth |
| Drogheda Reporter | 02/05/1863 - 01/08/1863 | Louth |
| Dundalk Democrat | 20/10/1849 - Current | Louth |
| Ballinrobe Chronicle | 03/02/1866 - 10/09/1903 | Mayo |
| Ballina Herald | 06/08/1927 - 28/04/1962 | Mayo |
| Connaught Telegraph | 22/09/1830 - Current | Mayo |
| Mayo Examiner | 06/07/1868 - 30/12/1876 | Mayo |
| Mayo News | 07/01/1893 - 29/12/2004 | Mayo |
| Western Journal | 03/06/1977 - 11/03/1983 | Mayo |
| Western People | 04/05/1889 - Current | Mayo |
| Meath Chronicle | 01/05/1897 - Current | Meath |
| Butte Independent | 22/01/1910 - 27/12/1930 | Montana (US) |
| Sligo Champion | 18/10/1879 - current | Sligo |
| Nenagh Guardian | 21/07/1838 - Current | Tipperary |
| Nenagh News | 05/01/1895 - 28/12/1924 | Tipperary |
| Gaelic Life | 14/01/2011 - Current | Tyrone |
| Strabane Chronicle | 03/10/1908 - Current | Tyrone |
| Tyrone Herald | 07/02/2011 - Current | Tyrone |
| Ulster Herald | 15/08/1901 - Current | Tyrone |
| Munster Express | 07/07/1860 - Current | Waterford |
| Westmeath Examiner | 28/09/1882 - Current | Westmeath |
| Wexford People | 12/09/1857- 29/12/1888 | Wexford |
| Wicklow Newsletter | 06/01/1900 - 24/12/1926 | Wicklow |
| 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard III | Richard III |
| 2 | Eleanor of Aquitaine | Elizabeth I |
| 3 | Alfred the Great | William Shakespeare |
| 4 | Elizabeth I | Anne Boleyn |
| 5 | Anne Boleyn | Henry VIII |
| 6 | Winston Churchill | Winston Churchill |
| 7 | Adolf Hitler | Eleanor of Aquitaine |
| 8 | Queen Victoria | Thomas Cromwell |
| 9 | William Shakespeare | William Marshal |
| 10 | Henry VIII | Adolf Hitler |
Out of the blue I received an email from Diane Miller who is involved at a genealogy summer camp in Colorado Springs this month helping "some savvy teens" create their own family trees. Diane wrote to thank me for my "non-spammy site", and also to pass along a resource found by "one of the our superstars, Mia". It's one I hadn't run across before:
History at home genealogy guide-
http://www.homeadvisor.com/article.show.History-at-Home-A-Guide-to-Genealogy.17370.html
It's worth a look.
Thanks to Diane, and Mia for making contact.
The August 2017 issue of Families, which combines the newsletter NewsLeaf, is now online and available to members. As members will recall distribution of printed copies has been discontinued.
Stepping in as Guest Editor for this slim Families issue is Alan Campbell. To see if there's anything of interest for your family history check the table of contents.
The included NewLeaf issue, largely about the 2017 Conference last June in Ottawa, has lots of pictures.
Commemorations of the centennials of First World War battles and those who participated should not marginalize civilians, men and women, who contributed to the war effort in other ways.
The heartbreaking story of the flying mathematicians of World War I is a longer piece by Tony Royle throwing light on their contributions, including those who died while doing practical research on aeronautics.
The 1,070,211 entries in the index of this new to Findmypast probate collection cover the whole of Ireland, except from 1918 when it's just the 26 counties in the Republic. Searching for a name will deliver hits for the deceased and for beneficiaries.
The printed calendar or index card originals are at the National Archives of Ireland and can be accessed at www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/index.jsp
Transcriptions of baptism, banns, burial and marriage records for over 210 Buckinghamshire parishes have been added to Findmypast from The Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies.
Approximate contents are:
| Records | Start Year | End Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banns | 101,300 | 1632 | 1933 |
| Baptisms | 870,532 | 1560 | 1919 |
| Burials | 662,620 | 1464 | 1960 |
| Marriages | 485,521 | 1545 | 1933 |
1. An area of land of a chain by a furlong is known as ...
an acre.
2. How many farthings in a groat?
16 farthings. Four farthings in a penny, four pennies in a groat. https://24carat.co.uk/farthingstoryframe.html
3. If there are 25 sheets of paper in a quire, how many are there in a ream?
500 sheets, 20 quires in a ream.
4. What was the traditional use of a silver sixpence?
A silver sixpence was kept year to year to put in the Christmas pudding. The lucky person to get it in their serving, if they didn't swallow it, got to exchange it for a regular sixpence.
5. In nautical terminology, how many watches in 24 hours?
7 watches.
First afternoon Watch: 12 noon to 4 pm.
First Dog Watch: 4 pm to 6 pm.
Second Dog Watch: 6 pm to 8 pm.
First Night Watch: 8pm to midnight.
Middle Night Watch: Midnight to 4 pm.
Morning Watch: 4 am to 8 am.
Forenoon Watch: 8 am to noon.
"At the end of Frances Itani’s Scotiabank Giller Prize—shortlisted Tell, a baby is adopted by a young Deseronto couple who are coming to terms with the end of the Great War. Eighteen years on, the baby, Hanora, now a young woman, is told about her adoption, but given no details. As a second world war looms, Hanora is determined to uncover the mysteries of her identity. This quest will take her across the ocean with her cousin, Billie, and headlong into the tumult of Europe. Amid the tensions of World War II, the music and the great dance halls of the era beckon, and a career as a journalist becomes possible, even as her great love, Tobe, enlists in the Infantry. But Hanora will not let the past lie, even though, decades later, the truth remains beyond her grasp. Billie, whose memory is fading as she slips into dementia, provides elusive clues, but it isn’t until Hanora discovers a set of diaries written by a late local artist and that she begins to piece together the central issue of her own identity, hidden from her since birth.The event is on Thursday, September 14, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. in the Pellan Room, 2nd Floor, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa.
Itani’s vivid storytelling, infused with music and seamless historical detail, reveals how memory, no matter how imperfect, can shape the person we believe ourselves to be."
Following up on yesterday's post, Ancestry has now extended their coverage of Nova Scotia BMDs forward in time
Nova Scotia, Canada, Births, 1840-1915, 330,053 records
Nova Scotia, Canada, Marriages, 1763-1940, 503,931 records
Nova Scotia, Canada, Deaths, 1864-1877, 1890-1965, 466,982
An additional year for all three sets is available at Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics.
As part of its program of Heritage Walking Tours, at 2 pm on Sunday 20 August Heritage Ottawa is conducting a tour of Lowertown East. The guide is Nancy Miller Chenier, a long-time resident of the area.
Meet at 501 Old St Patrick Street (LaSalle Academy). $5 fee for non Heritage Ottawa members, $10 for others. All welcome.
A challenge!
1. An area of land of a chain by a furlong is known as ...
2. How many farthings in a groat?
3. If there are 25 sheets of paper in a quire, how many are there in a ream?
4. What was the traditional use of a silver sixpence?
5. In nautical terminology, how many watches in 24 hours?
6. What was traditionally measured by the cran?
7. In measuring British ale or beer how many gallons in a firkin?
8. At a speed of one knot how long would it take to travel directly from the equator to the pole?
9. One horsepower, the power required to lift 33,000 pounds by one foot in one minute, equals how many watts?
10. How many guineas are required to make an even number of pounds?
Answers tomorrow.
It's shocking. One of the lessons I learned as a PhD student is that major effort goes into writing persuasive project proposals. That's something most of those submitting proposals for Documentary Heritage Communities Program funding have yet to learn.
Library and Archives Canada announced the successful proposals in the third round of the DHCP in June. $1.5 million was allocated to 48 projects, 18 in Quebec, 17 in Western Canada, 8 in Ontario, and 5 in Atlantic Canada. Those included 12 projects continued from previous rounds and 36 newly funded projects.
No information was made available about unfunded projects. Through an access to information request I was able to review copies of all third round proposals, funded and unfunded. Much information, including all personal and location information for those unfunded was redacted; it was not possible to evaluate the intrinsic merit of the proposals.
132 new proposals requesting a total of $5.8 million were submitted. 36 were funded (23 in English, 13 in French), 98 remained unfunded (67 in English, 27 in French). The success rate was one in four for the English language proposals, one in three for those in French.
The median amount requested across all new projects was $21.8K, for those funded it was $19.6K, for the unfunded $25K.
The most significant difference between funded and unfunded projects was the amount of detail provided as reflected by the number of pages in the proposal file. Each project proposal file I received included at least two pages not part of the original submission, but the number of pages is nevertheless indicative.
Funded project files averaged 16.5 pages, unfunded 5.7 pages. French language proposals were longer than the English, by 3 pages in the case of the funded projects. The longest unfunded project proposal was 15 pages, the shortest funded proposal 10 pages.
Proposals that provide substantial detail indicate a well thought-out project to the evaluators. Bare minimum proposals waste the time and effort for both proponent and evaluator.
On Saturday I stumbled across Britain's Forgotten Slave-owners, an award winning documentary on rerun on BBC World. It relies heavily on research at University College London.
At the project website https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ is a search tool where you can check whether names in your family history were associated with slavery. You can also check geographically in the UK to find people and organizations associated with slavery.
The program makes the point that much of the money paid by the British government to slave-owner for loss of their "property", derived from taxation, came back to be invested in the UK.
Claire Santry blogs about a major update to the online catalogue of the Chief Secretary of Ireland's Office Registered Papers (CSORP). The newly-available catalogue entries cover 1823-1830, and join those for 1818-1822.
Included are subcategories for State of the Country and Outrage reports. While viewing the original document requires a visit to Dublin the searchable detailed catalogue content, as in the example below, is exemplary.
The Billion Graves databases on Findmypast providing GPS-tagged headstone and burial records continue to grow.
| Nation/State | New | Total |
|---|---|---|
| USA | >2,200,000 | 15,558,486 |
| Australia | 377,389 | 1,608,001 |
| Canada | 87,830 | 946,158 |
| England | 76,151 | 580,290 |
| Scotland | 114,974 | 197,832 |
| New Zealand | 48,831 | 178,863 |
| Wales | 5,761 | 58,135 |
| Ireland | 16,038 | 25,357 |
