The Internet Archive 78 RPM Records Archive

A nice find by Dick Eastman.

"Want to listen to the music of your parents or grandparents? You can now do so, thanks to the Internet Archive. The Great 78 Project is a new project by the Internet Archive to preserve 78 rpm records that has released about 26,000 records as of today. One new digitized 78 rpm record is being added to the online collection every 10 minutes. More than 200,000 records are expected to be available online when the project is completed. In fact, you can even add your collection of 78 RPM records as well."

Go to https://archive.org/details/78rpm. Use the “Search this Collection” box on that page to quickly find what you are looking for.

Try the Maple Leaf Rag.

Advance notice: Ottawa Valley Weather Ways, 15 November

TheGenealogist adds 650,000 Nottinghamshire transcript parish records

The following is from a press release from TheGenealogist.

TheGenealogist has extended its UK Parish Records collection with a new and exclusive release of 650,000 parish records for Nottinghamshire.  These records can be used to find your ancestors’ baptisms, marriages and burials in these fully searchable records that cover parishes from this important East Midland county of England. With records that reach back to 1633, this release includes the records of 56 parishes, including:
369,100 individuals in Baptisms, 168,000 individuals in Marriages and 112,800 individuals in Burials

You can use these transcripts to find the names of ancestors, parents’ forenames (in the case of baptisms), father’s occupation (where noted), abode or parish, parish that the event took place in, the date of the event, and in the case of marriage records the bride’s maiden name and the witnesses’ names.

Ancestry adds Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1818-2011

Looking for adventurous cousins who migrated to Australia?

Ancestry now has 1.8 million birth, marriage and death records, 1818 - 2011, from more than 130 parishes of the Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney. There are images of the original record linked to indexes.

Contents vary, look for:
Baptism
name
date of birth
gender
father name
father occupation
mother name
mother occupation
address
baptism parish
baptism date

Confirmation
name
age
date of birth
address
confirmation parish
confirmation date

Marriage
name
marriage age
birth date
father name
mother name
spouse's name
spouse's marriage age
spouse's birth date
spouse's father name
spouse's mother name
marriage parish
marriage date

Burial
name
death date
gender
address
burial parish
burial date

LAC Lady Macdonald's Diary Crowdsourcing

All 91 pages of this diary of Sir John A. Macdonald's second wife, Lady Susan Agnes Macdonald, have been transcribed and 75 pages have been reviewed. The remaining 16 pages remain to be reviewed. If you can spare a little time to help finish off the project find it at http://t8.ourdigitalworld.org/en and click Get started where you can choose the page to work on.

What's New in Genealogy Books at English Public Libraries

The following genealogy books published in 2017, available at a selection of  public libraries in England, are listed in order of number of libraries in which they are to be found  or are on order (in parenthesis). Libraries of which the catalogues were consulted are Birmingham, Cornwall, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Norfolk, and North Yorkshire. Liverpool and Shropshire were without any 2017 genealogy publications listed in their catalogues.

(6) Tracing your pre-Victorian ancestors : a guide to research methods for family historians
Wintrip, John
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Family History, 2017.

( 4) A dictionary of family history : the genealogists' ABC / 2017.
Scott, Jonathan

(3) Tracing your army ancestors : a guide for family historians
Fowler, Simon
Third edition.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Family History, 2017

(2) My European family : the first 54,000 years
Bojs, Karin
London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017.

(2 )Tracing your ancestors' lives: a guide to social history for family historians/ 2017.
Starmans, Barbara J.

(2) Tracing villains and their victims : a guide to criminal ancestors for family historians
Oates, Jonathan
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Family History, 2017.

(2) A woven silence
By Hayes-McCoy, Felicity, author
Large print. English. Published Oxford: ISIS, 2017

(1) Tracing your Church of England ancestors / 2017.
Raymond, Stuart A., 1945-

(1) The Ellis family in Cornwall
By MacKenzie, Charlotte
Book. English. Published Truro: Cornwall history, 2017

(1) The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts
By Hammer, Joshua, 1957- author
Book. English. Published New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2017

BONUS: Find a list of the most borrowed books, none non- fiction, from UK public libraries for the first half of 2017 at www.thebookseller.com/news/night-school-casts-shadow-over-libscan-chart-607901.

John Grenham: Irish genealogy not complicated, weird.

Do you agree with Grenham that

"One of Irish genealogy’s dirty little secrets is that it’s all very simple."?

Experts like Grenham do tend to under-appreciate the knowledge they have. It's the old story about the bill for service of $1,000, $1 for tapping in the right place, $999 for knowing where the right place is.

Read that blog post at www.johngrenham.com/blog/2017/08/08/dirty-little-secrets/.

Last week I missed Grenham's very nice appreciation of Claire Santry's new book The Bee’s Knees and The Cat’s Pyjamas.

BIFHSGO Conference Speaker James F. S. Thomson: Maps, Shakespeare and Newspapers

BIFHSGO conference speaker James F. S. Thomson reminds me of the saying "Still waters run deep". Without fuss and eschewing the limelight, he delivers content-rich professional presentations. He's also someone I turn to for advice.
He has designed and taught over a dozen advanced and expert-level family history courses. For these courses and in his articles and presentations at conferences and workshops, as well as in his capacity as a University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies instructor, James draws on over thirty years of experience in family and local history research. He has spoken at two BIFHSGO monthly meetings and given an all-day workshop to BIFHSGO members on Maps and Mapping for Twenty-First Century Genealogists.

For BIFHSGO conference James will give a pre-conference half-day seminar:
Maps and Mapping
Explores sophisticated ways in which maps and mapping tools can contribute to family history research, analysis and writing. James will describe a new generation of map portals and interactive sites, before moving on to concentrate on explaining how a variety of mapping and other tools can be used creatively and effectively in your own genealogical projects, as research aids or in communicating project outcomes. The resources and examples used will be chosen with English and Welsh research in mind, although the principles and techniques described will be independent of geography.

During the conference he presents:
Genealogy and the Age of Shakespeare
Four hundred years after the death of Shakespeare we stand to be the beneficiaries of many substantial improvements in access to sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century records of great interest to family historians. As well as giving a solid review of new and important developments, James will cover recommended resources for mastering secretary hand and discuss what implications the new generation of cutting-edge SNP-based Y-DNA tests, and even advances in the field of population genetics, may come to have for researching inhabitants of England and Wales in the age of Shakespeare.

Historical Newspapers
Having noticed that all his recent personal breakthroughs, some retiring decades-old brick-walls, have newly digitized historical newspapers in common, James will describe what makes newspapers peerlessly exciting resources for genealogists; check in with the British Newspaper Archive and other digitization projects; suggest how to identify and access non-digitized titles and issues; promote some surprisingly useful but under-appreciated titles; and offer search tips and strategies for taking advantage of this spectacular new dawn of historical newspaper research.

Read more about these and the other presentations and events at the BIFHSGO conference here. Then follow the links for registration. Save by registering before 18 August.

Later in October during a full day workshop for OGS Toronto Branch, Researching Scottish Family History from the GTA: New Directions, on October 28, James will be giving four of the five presentations. He is also working on his first online course for the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies; called Researching Canadian Local History. It is scheduled for May / June 2018.

For a long life join the Legion

Legion Magazine lists 870 deaths of Legion members during 2017 in its Last Post database. 806 of them died older than age 59.
The median age of their death is just over 90 years, the mode (most likely) is 94.
Compare that to the average age at death for men who achieve the age of 65 of 83 years.

AncestryDNA marches on

In January Ancestry announced they had completed three million AncestryDNA test. By May it was four million.
This month, August, they announced five million.
Will it be seven million by the end of the year?

What's New in Genealogy Books at the Toronto Public Library

Here's a list of genealogy books published this year available or on order at the Toronto Public Library.

Digital humanities : knowledge and critique in a digital age
Book, 2017. 248 pages
1 hold / 2 copies

Map guide to Swiss parish registers : with full index of included towns
Hansen, Kevan M., 1962- author.
Reference only

Edith Craig and the theatres of art
Cockin, Katharine, 1963- author.
Reference only

The registers of St James, Church Kirk, 1747-1812
Reference only

The War of 1812 in British North America, searching for your ancestor's elusive war records
Cox, Kenneth G, author.
1 hold / 2 copies

Fictitious capital : how finance is appropriating our future
Durand, Cédric, author.
0 holds / 5 copies

My European family : the first 54,000 years
Bojs, Karin, author.
0 holds / 9 copies

The screen media reader : culture, theory, practice
0 holds / 2 copies

The Lowells of Massachusetts : an American family
Sankovitch, Nina, author.
2 holds / 5 copies

Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, 1715-1940, comté de Kamouraska
Reference only

Genealogy online for dummies
Helm, Matthew.
0 holds / 11 copies

Genealogy of the Pagan Gods.
Boccaccio, Giovanni
0 holds / 0 copies (copies on order)

The anthropology of Catholicism : a reader
Reference only

Genealogy for dummies
Helm, Matthew, author.
Access Online
4 holds / 1 copy

What's New in Genealogy Books at the Ottawa Public Library

Here's a list of genealogy books published this year  available or on order at the Ottawa Public Library.

A Dictionary of Family History: The Genealogists' Abc
By Scott, Jonathan
Holds: 17 on 2 copies

The Family Tree Irish Genealogy Guide: How to Trace your Ancestors in Ireland
By Santry, Claire
Holds: 7 on 6 copies

Family Tree Italian Genealogy Guide : How to Trace Your Family Tree in Italy
By Holtz, Melanie D.
Holds: 4 on 1 copy

Les Filles du Roy pionnières de Montréal
Holds: 1 on 1 copy

French Canadian Roots : Discovering Your Family Tree and French Canadian Genealogy
By Compagna, Lawrence
Holds: 19 on 1 copy

Genealogy for Dummies
By Helm
Holds: 18 on 1 copy
For Later

Genealogy, Psychology, and Identity: Tales From A Family Tree
By Nicolson, Paula
Holds: 4 on 2 copies

How to Write your Personal or Family History(if You Don't Do It, Who Will?)
By Wiebe, Katie Funk
Holds: 10 on 5 copies

Kids and Family History: Fun Ways to Spark Their Interest
By Niggemeyer, Vicki Korn

Paper and Spit : Family Found: How DNA and Genealogy Revealed My First Parents' Identity
By Anderson, Don
Holds: 10 on 1 copy

Tracing your Ancestors' Lives: A Guide to Social History for Family Historians
By Starmans, Barbara J.
Holds: 9 on 8 copies

Tracing your Army Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
By Fowler, Simon

Tracing your Nonconformist Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians
By Raymond, Stuart A.
Holds: 4 on 4 copies

Tracing your Pre-Victorian Ancestors: A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians
By Wintrip, John
Holds: 22 on 2 copies

The War of 1812 in British North America, Searching for your Ancestor's Elusive War Records
By Cox, Kenneth G
In-library use only at this time

BIFHSGO Conference Speaker Celia Heritage on Ordering GRO Certificates

On her website Celia Heritage describes herself.

I started to research my own ancestry in my early teens, and went on to make my passion my career, establishing Kent-based Celia Heritage Family History in 2008.

Since then I have helped hundreds of people discover more about their families. For me, research is not just about recording names and dates but is about really getting under the skins of our ancestors; learning more about the past and how it affected them. My special interests are death records, surnames and exploring history on the ground.

I am a regular contributor to national family history magazines such as Family Tree Magazine, Your Family History Magazine, Discover Your Ancestors and Who Do You Think You Are Magazine. I also write a popular column, entitled Heritage Corner, for the Kent Family History Society Journal.

One of my recent articles was an assessment of online genealogy source citations for Relatively Speaking, the quarterly journal of the Alberta Genealogical Society.

This short video is an example of Celia's clear presentations.



That's a video from Celia's newly developing YouTube Channel. There's also a video How to Start Your Family History about her Family History e-Course with a bonus if you watch to the end.

For BIFHSGO Celia will give two two pre-conference half-day seminars:

• The Manorial System and How to Use Manorial Records
• Pedigree, Provenance and Place

During the conference she presents the opening plenary

• Beyond All Reasonable Doubt

and lectures

• Researching in English and Welsh Records Offices
• Using Death Records to Break Down Brick Walls 
• I’ve Lost My Ancestor Before 1837

Read more about these and the other presentations and events at the BIFHSGO conference here. Then follow the links for registration. Save by registering before 18 August.

Update Notes

FamilySearch updated the England and Wales Census, 1911 on 3 August to contain 36,354,828 records with links to Findmypast images ($).

Ancestry updated the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 on 4 August to contain 49,722,470 records.

The British Newspaper Archive in the last week added
Alcester Chronicle
1869-1872, 1874-1887, 1894-1896, 1898-1899, 1903-1904, 1908, 1910
Eastern Evening News
1910
Eastern Daily Press
1870
Brighton Gazette
1871, 1873-1875, 1878-1888, 1890-1894, 1896, 1899-1903, 1905
Abergavenny Chronicle
1871-1888, 1893, 1896-1899
Shields Daily News
1939-1941, 1947-1949, 1952, 1955-1956
Tenby Observer
1876, 1884-1886

Findmypast adds Linlithgowshire Records

While Findmypast is promoting the addition of 4.3 million Nevada and California marriage records this week pickings for the UK are slim.

Scotland, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), Poorhouse Records 1859-1912
15,187 transcription records of admissions, deaths, discharges and sick rolls from 49 places.

Scotland, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian), Burials 1860-1975
87,466 transcription records with name, date of their burial, location of grave, occupation, residence, death date and names of additional family members. Cemeteries included are: Bathgate Boghead, Bathgate Glasgow Road, Bathgate Glasgow Road Extension, Bathgate Glasgow Road Johnston, Bathgate Glasgow Road Paulville, East Calder, East Calder Churchyard, Ecclesmachan, Fauldhouse, Kirknewton Churchyard, Linlithgow, Livingstone, Mid Calder Cemetery, Uphall, West Calder, West Calder Churchyard, Whitburn, Winchburgh and Niddry, and Woodbank (Torphichen).

Ottawa Genealogy Meetup

You're invited to join me this Sunday, noon at Westboro Beach Cafe, with a few genealogy friends.

The forecast is "A mix of sun and cloud. High 23."

BIFHSGO Conference Early Bird Deadline Approaching

Perhaps like me you felt conferenced out after the June OGS event in Ottawa. Understandable. I thought it might be better to give the volunteer organizers a break this year. The decision was made to continue, but ensure different speakers from those at OGS.

Headline speakers this year are:
Celia Heritage, based in the UK, a professional genealogy researcher, instructor, lecturer and author of several books, including Tracing Your Ancestors Through Death Records, and Researching and Locating Your Ancestors.
Paul Milner, a native of England based in Chicago, IL. Returning after receiving rave reviews the last time he spoke here, Paul has been designing workshops, writing books, and lecturing on genealogy for over 35 years. He specializes in research on the British Isles, migration to North America and research methodology.
James F. S. Thomson, another BIFHSGO favourite, is based in Toronto. He teaches advanced family history courses, drawing on over 30 years of experience of family and local history research.
To see the full program take a look at the brochure (pdf). Register before 18 August to receive the early bird discount at the BIFHSGO website; members need to sign in to receive the additional member discount.

MyHeritage Acquires Legacy

Late Thursday afternoon press releases announcing the acquisition of Legacy (Millenium Corporation and FamilyTreeWebinars) by MyHeritage arrived.

The first announcement contains a time-limited half-price offer from Legacy. I've recommended FamilyTreeWebinars before. Half price for an annual subscription is a deal. See the links below.

Further comment below the press releases.

Legacy Announcement
We are proud to share with you the biggest step forward we have ever made with our Legacy Family Tree software and our FamilyTreeWebinars.com webinar series. We have entered into an acquisition agreement with MyHeritage, a leading global destination for family history and DNA with 91 million users in 196 countries. The acquisition will provide the resources and cutting edge technologies to advance and expand both our #1 rated software and our #1 rated webinar series. Think Legacy is good now? Watch out future – here we come!

How will all this affect you? Entirely positively. Here’s a flavor of what you can expect in the future:

• A host of new features in Legacy software – we will be developing future versions of Legacy together. We have already started working on the new Tree Sync feature (to optionally have your Legacy file in a private or collaborative tree at MyHeritage)
• Improved webinar platform to surpass the 1,000-virtual seat limitation we currently have
• Significant discounts on MyHeritage services and DNA kits for Legacy users and webinar viewers not available anywhere else
• Most importantly, you can expect the same high-quality support and service that you have come to expect from us. The entire Legacy and webinar teams will continue on at MyHeritage in our existing roles.

“The more I’ve learned about and experimented with MyHeritage, the more I have felt we need to partner together,” said Geoff Rasmussen, founder of the FamilyTreeWebinars.com webinar series and “the face” of Legacy Family Tree software. “The technology behind their online trees and historical records is incredible – second to none. MyHeritage has positioned itself to become the leader of the future of the genealogy industry and we can be a part of it. It’s the perfect match – our software and webinars combined with their resources, technologies, and international reach will help both of us accomplish our mission – to help the world find their ancestors.”

We have published a separate article on our blog that addresses more of the details and has answers to questions you might have. Just as we are excited to contribute to the success of our new owners at MyHeritage, they, too, are anxious to elevate our Legacy software and webinar series to levels that have been beyond our reach.

To celebrate the acquisition, we are offering a limited time, never-offered-before discount on Legacy 9 software and annual webinar memberships. Through Sunday, August 13 (Geoff’s birthday), take 50% off:

- Legacy 9 software – from $34.95 $17.48
- 1 year webinar membership (or extension) – $49.95 $24.98

Click here to get Legacy software or webinar membership at 50% off.

Thank you all for your continuing support as we enter this exciting new chapter in the Millennia story.

Best regards,
Dave, Ken, Geoff, and everyone at the Legacy Family Tree / Millennia team

MyHeritage Announcement

TEL AVIV, Israel & SURPRISE, Arizona, August 3, 2017 — MyHeritage, the leading global destination for family history and DNA testing, announced today its acquisition of Millennia Corporation, makers of the popular genealogy desktop software Legacy Family Tree and genealogy webinar platform, Legacy Family Tree Webinars. This is MyHeritage's ninth acquisition to date.

With hundreds of thousands of devoted users since 1997, Legacy Family Tree consistently ranks among the top three most popular and highly rated genealogy software products in the industry. The Legacy Family Tree Webinar platform — which has amassed a large and dedicated fan base since 2010 — draws speakers who are leaders in their field and covers a wide variety of topics, including genealogical research methodology, DNA, and historical records, representing a full array of educational genealogy content.

MyHeritage, which has developed a world-class, global mobile and Web platform for family trees, historical records and DNA testing, used by more than 90 million users worldwide, will now offer its services to Legacy's users.

Legacy Family Tree will retain its full staff and continue developing its software and webinar platform, backed by MyHeritage's resources. Millennia Corporation and MyHeritage have started joint work on a new version of the Legacy Family Tree software — version 10 — which will include the optional capability to sync family trees to MyHeritage’s website and use the free MyHeritage mobile app to make remote updates to their family trees on the Legacy software. Legacy Family Tree version 9 has already integrated matching to MyHeritage's 40 million family trees and to its historical records collection — which surpassed 8 billion records this week.

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will continue to feature diverse and informative content, and will be promoted to the millions of MyHeritage users, to increase the webinars' audience. The webinar platform will also enjoy infrastructure upgrades to support increased concurrent viewership.

“We are very happy with the Legacy Family Tree acquisition as it gives us valuable assets that are highly complementary to our own, and a solid team.” said Gilad Japhet, Founder and CEO of MyHeritage. “We look forward to providing Legacy's software and webinar platform with useful upgrades, and to welcoming Legacy’s huge user base of experienced genealogists to enhance their genealogical explorations through MyHeritage's services.”

“The more I’ve learned about and experimented with MyHeritage, the more I have felt we need to partner together,” said Geoff Rasmussen, founder of Legacy Family Tree Webinars. “The technology behind their online trees and historical records is incredible — second to none. MyHeritage has positioned itself to become the leader of the future of the genealogy industry and we can be a part of it. It’s the perfect match: our software and webinars combined with their resources, technologies, and international reach will help both of us accomplish our mission — to help the world find their ancestors.”


“I’m excited for us to join forces with MyHeritage,” said Dave Berdan, President of Millennia Corporation. “MyHeritage clearly cares for genealogists and continues to invest in desktop genealogy software, in contrast to one of its major rivals that has done the opposite, shutting down its desktop genealogy software and then selling it off. As we’re passionate about genealogy, our team is happy to have found in MyHeritage kindred spirits and we’re excited about the value that we can create together to benefit millions of genealogists worldwide.”

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Comment: MyHeritage continues on a growth and acquisition path befitting a major commercial genealogy player. The companies are a good fit. The acquisition will strengthen MyHeritage's place, especially in the major US market, and provide new support to Legacy. While MyHeritage (Alexa rank about 6,000) is well back of Ancestry (Alexa rank 1,000) nad FamilySearch the company is moving ahead fast.

Did your ancestor experience a total solar eclipse?

At any given point it's likely a total solar eclipse (TSE), such as that coming on 21 August over much of the US, will not be experienced in a lifetime. Cloud conditions make the possibility of actually viewing the event even more unlikely.

UK
According to Wikipedia no TSE was visible from the United Kingdom between 1724 and 1925. There were TSEs on 3 May 1715 and 22 May 1724.
A TSE on 29 June 1927 was largely obscured by cloud. I recall viewing the eclipse on 30 June 1954 as partial from school through smoked glass. It was total at Unst in the Shetland Islands.
Several partial solar eclipses have occurred since including that on 20 March 2015 which I experienced while at the Genealogy in the Sunshine event in Portugal.
The next TSE in the UK is 23 September 2090.

Canada (Ottawa)

While missing a TSE on 31 August 1932 as the zone of totality passed just to the east, Ottawans were fortunate that clouds cleared in the early afternoon just in time to view more than 90% totality.
The path of the TSE of 20 July 1963 was another near miss for Ottawa. Spotty cloud cover made for intermittent viewing of the late afternoon event.
The 7 March 1970 TSE was observed along the US Atlantic coast. You could view it in Canada by flying "your Lear jet to Nova Scotia to see the Total Eclipse of the Sun." In Ottawa it was an 80% event.
The 75% eclipse of 26 February 1979 was completely cloud obscured in Ottawa.
The 21 August event in Ottawa this year will see about 75% of the sun obscured by the moon, who knows how much by cloud?
The predicted path of the 8 April 2024 eclipse puts totality south of Ottawa, with Montreal and Toronto just on the edge of the zone.

1775 Dublin Directory Database

The following is an extract from a press release from the Irish Genealogical Research Society.

The Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) is pleased to announce the launch of another online resource. It is a database index to Wilson's Dublin Directory, forming part of the 1775 edition of The Treble Almanac, which was published from 1787 to 1837.

As the name suggests, The Treble Almanac is comprised of three separate directories:

·         The first is John Watson Stewart's Almanac, which notes a wide variety of information relating to Ireland, encompassing details about mail and stage coach timetables, establishment lists for the army and navy, schools etc;

·         The second is the English Court Registry, listing royalty, nobility, parliamentarians, military and naval lists, the civil establishment and judiciary lists etc;

·         The third, and by far the most useful to genealogists, is Wilson's Dublin Directory. It includes a very comprehensive list of Dublin's barristers, attorneys, medical practitioners, merchants, pawnbrokers, grocers, shoemakers, tanners, upholsters, auctioneers, brewers, painters, ironmongers, drapers, butchers, bakers, tailors etc. It also includes a list of the capital city's streets, lanes and alleyways.

In the new online database, entries include the name of the person, their occupation and street address, and provides a link to a map taken from the Statistical Survey of the County Dublin, (Dublin, 1802). There are just over 3,600 entries available to search.

This edition of the Almanac is dated just a year before the American Declaration of Independence in 1776; interestingly the list of attorneys and barristers notes several who had qualified in Ireland but then migrated to the North American colonies. Among them are barristers Thomas Knox Gordon, who qualified in 1755 and by 1775 was the Chief Justice of North Carolina, and Edward Savage, who qualified in 1760 and subsequently became the Second Justice of North Carolina. There are also references to Canada, for instance barrister Jonathan Belcher qualified in Michaelmas term 1741 and by 1775 was the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.

Everyone can access the free-to-all database, which includes each resident’s surname, occupation and address. However, only members can see first names. Here is a link to the search page: http://www.irishancestors.ie/resources/unique-resources/the-dublin-directory-1775/.

Thanks to Steven Smyrl of IGRS for the tip.