Q/A on Heritage Minutes
Using City Directories in Your Genealogical Research
A blog post by Alan Campbell, Ambassador, Ontario Ancestors [The Ontario Genealogical Society]
About Find A Grave
The Wild West for chronicling the dead?
Historical Directories of England & Wales
The University of Leicester Historical Directories collection provides access to scanned images and full-text of 689 trade and local directories for England and Wales from the 1760s to the 1910s.
The same content is now available in Ancestry UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 and the University recommends this means of access to genealogists with an Ancestry subscription or access via their local library.
Why Use a Chromosome Browser
Diahan Southard emphasizes that 98% of the time you do not need a chromosome browser to do successful genetic genealogy work and that triangulating segments on more distant matches, like third and fourth cousins, can be problematic.
400 years of slavery
In August of 1619, a ship appeared near Point Comfort, a port in the British colony of Virginia. It carried more than 20 enslaved Africans, who were sold to the colonists.
Why we can’t just blame rising inequality for the growth of populism around the world
Check out Ireland, and Canada.
1 comment:
Re: using directories. I spent about 3 hours at LAC yesterday doing exactly that.
One added caution. Never forget why the directories were created. They were created, not for the residents, but for the business people serving the community. That is the reason for a married woman's name being in brackets after the husband's name. It enabled them to know who was ultimately responsible for debts incurred by the wife. It is the same reason that only single women and widows would be listed personally, as females, only they could have personal debts. Cheers, BT
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