Argleton Lancashire England

Argleton - Google Search: "Argleton is a 'phantom' settlement that appears on Google Maps and Google Earth but does not actually exist."

Fletcher Family Website

Welcome To Our Fletcher Family Website: "For over two hundred years our Fletcher ancestors and their families have resided in Cardiff and Glamorgan, South Wales. Their occupations have included coal miner, canal workers and agricultural workers. Their family descendants have spread far and wide. We hope we can reach some of them through this website and form more links to our past."

DESCRIPTION: The intention of the Fletcher Family History Website is to provide a facility for safekeeping our history, a meeting place for Fletchers and Fletcher descendants and to share information.

any site is safe only as long as someone pays - which is why I prefer:_
RootsWeb.com Home Page: "
Websites at RootsWeb
Websites on RootsWeb's Freepages
Requests for Web Space"

because as long as ancestry makes money they will maintain my sites for me

German postcards

Feldpost der Familie Mühlbauer | das Erleben des Ersten Weltkrieges im Bayerischen Wald
Military postcards written to my grandfather Anton MUEHLBAUER during the years 1914 to 1920 (world war I); he lived in East Bavaria/Germany; the postcards are sorted chronologically, by sender, by motif. An overview map is also privided.

my FMP honeymoon is over

from my email:-

Dear Hugh,

It has come to our attention that you have been offering free lookups to records on the Findmypast.com website.

As you may be aware, this contravenes our Terms & Conditions, and we would therefore be within our rights to terminate your subscription immediately. I draw your attention to the Terms & Conditions which are quite clear on this matter:

11.4 You agree not to use or allow the Services to be used for or by any third party to access, or view any Records or download any material or content of any Records, whether on a paid or gratis basis.

We are sure that this is an innocent mistake so we are happy not to take any action for now, but we will be monitoring your account usage and would ask you not to perform any lookups on behalf of others, or offer to do so in future, or we may be forced to suspend your usage of the site or take further action.

I am sure you understand our position – unfortunately, performing lookups for others inevitably pushes up the price for all subscribers, so we cannot allow customers to offer this service to others unless you would like to take out a corporate subscription.

If you have any questions, please get in touch.

German Research Center - Ancestry.com

There are many exciting challenges when researching your family history in German documents. At Ancestry.com, key data such as names and gender is often indexed and therefore easily accessible through our search pages for each German language database. However, the records are in German, and you will naturally get the best results if you search keywords, occupations, and place names in German. There is often a wealth of information available in the images of the original documents that can help you pinpoint your ancestors or learn about their lives and families. We have provided some basic tools on these pages that can help you as you work in German records.

Research Center - Ancestry.com: "Additional Help
Ancestry offers the German researcher many sources of help. Search the Ancestry Learning Center for articles, post a query on the German Community pages, or find German Research publications in the Ancestry Store."

Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 - Ancestry.com:
"Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850-1934" includes many danes travelling by an indirect route

This database contains passenger lists of ships that departed from the port of Hamburg, Germany from 1850-1934 (with a gap from 1915-1919 due to World War I). The database includes images of the passenger lists digitized from microfilm in partnership with the Hamburg State Archive, available here for the first time online. It also includes a complete index for the years 1885-1914 (up to the start of World War I).

Erstellen Sie Ihren Familienstammbaum und finden Sie Hilfe für Ihre Ahnenforschung - Ancestry.de: "Familienstammbaum Netzwerk"

Teaching in 1923 in Lake County

Teaching in 1923 in Lake County:
"by Marianne Wiley

Morley Library has a number of booklets listing teachers in Lake County beginning with the 1923-24 school year. The names of the teachers and board of education members are listed for what appears to be all the school districts in the county that year. (Board of Education members are listed in italics.) More information about where and what each person teaches can be found in the directories in the Genealogy Room. Some lists of retired teachers are also available. Here is a bit of interesting information from the end of the 1923-24 booklet. . . . ."

1923-24 Lake County, Ohio Teacher Directory

Josephine Butler (1828-1906)

Josephine Butler (1828-1906): "As time progressed and her reputation among poor women increased, Butler learned about rich men who could afford to pay to have female children kidnapped because they enjoyed raping virgins, about parlors of sado-masochism, and about international trading in white women for the sex slave trade.
She fought all of these movements. Although she fought organized prostitution, she continued to work for improvement in the conditions of prostitutes themselves, for she understood that many of them were forced into prostitution by poverty.

Josephine Butler had an enormous influence in western Europe. If you are a western woman descended from members of the poor or working-class, you can thank Butler that your great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, or even you yourself were not snatched up to become part of the sex trade. I think that warrants Butler a high place on any list of the most influential women of the second millennium. Unfortunately, there are many areas in the world today where the sex trade thrives, and Butler's work remains unfinished."

butler prostitution - Google Search

offentlige fruentimmer - Google Search: "Bergh, Ludvig Sophus Rudolph Om Tatoveringer hos de offentlige Fruentimmer. Særtryk af 'Hospitals-Tidende' Kjøbenhavn, 1891."

Butler is referred to in this book
Rudolph Bergh: Om Tatoveringer hos de offentlige Fruentimmer. 1891

Rudolph Bergh - Google Search: "Rudolph Bergh (1824–1909), full name Ludvig Sophus Rudolph Bergh, was a Danish physician and zoologist. He worked in Copenhagen"

the whole arose out of a discussion of the term offentlige Fruentimmer seen in danish church books.

hovedstadsarkiver.dk

hovedstadsarkiver.dk: "Siten hovedstadsarkiver.dk er udarbejdet af Arbejderbevægelsens Bibliotek og Arkiv, Frederiksberg Stadsarkiv, Københavns Stadsarkiv og Statens Arkiver."

hovedstadsarkiver sitemap - Emner"

hovedstadsarkiver.dk

hovedstadsarkiver.dk: "Uanset om éns slægt er fra København, Frederiksberg - eller et helt andet sted er der forskellige gode råd, som man bør følge, når man skal slægtsforske

En slægtsforsker laver sin anetavle ved at starte med en person - sig selv - og følge slægten baglæns fra generation til generation"

from my email:-

"In 1761 there were only 11 parishes in Copenhagen:

Vor Frue
Sankt Nikolaj
Helligånd
Sankt Petri
Holmen
Vor Frelser
Frederiks Tyske
Trinitatis
Garnison
Frederiksberg
Citadel

so it should be practicable to search them when you know an approximate year."

Statens Arkivers Arkivalieronline:
"Kirkebøger på internettet

Statens Arkivers Filmningscenter har siden 2002 digitaliseret kirkebøger med henblik på at gøre dem tilgængelige på internettet. Arbejdet er muliggjort takket være særbevillinger fra Kulturministeriet.

Alle kirkebøger ældre end 1892 var i oktober 2006 lagt ud på www.arkivalieroneline.dk. Disse kirkebøger er scannet efter mikrokort i sort/hvid kvalitet.
Kirkebøger efter 1891 blev frem til 2008 lagt ud i det omfang, at bøgerne er udskrevet før 1925-1930. Derefter blev udlægningen af kirkebøger, der er udskrevet før 1950, påbegyndt.
Kirkebøgerne efter 1891 er scannet direkte fra de originale bøger. Scanningerne sker i gråtoner."

USK WW1 AND WW2 MEMORIAL

Roll of Honour - Monmouthshire - Usk:

"WATKINS, ALFRED HENRY

Ordinary Seaman, HMS Somali, Royal Navy. Died 24th September 1942. No known grave. Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial." [my father]

The monument is in the churchyard of the Priory Church of St Mary. USK GWENT. It takes the form of a cross atop a three-step plinth. The front of the monument is close to the metal railings which form the boundary of the churchyard.

København stadsarkivet lukket

Copenhagen City archives are closed on the following days:-

Som tidligere annonceret holder stadsarkivet lukket på følgende dage:

Tirsdag d. 1. december og tirsdag og onsdag d. 15-16. december 2009.

Den første skyldes at vi holder store oprydningsdag. I den forbindelse takker vi jer for jeres overbærenhed i forbindelse med rodet og støjen som skyldes istandsættelse og lokalerne på første sal. Lidt falder dog af til publikum. Vi har fået lovning på at gulvet på læsesalen bliver vasket og poleret.

De to sidste dage skyldes det kommende klima-topmøde.
Nu er det desværre sådan, at det ikke slut med de besøgendes trængsler i den forbindelse

Mandag d. 7 og mandag d. 14. december lukker læsesalen kl. 12. Dette skyldes at forhuset skal lukkes grundet sikkerhedstjek.

Vi beklager meget dette.

Nu slutter det jo ikke med dette. Fredag d. 18. december lukker læsesalen igen tidligt, nemlig klokken 13.00. Grunden hertil er hverken sikkerhedsmæssig eller klimapolitisk, men det faktum, at julen nærmer sig og dermed også julefrokosterne.

Venlig hilsen
Lars Peter Jørgensen

- from my email.

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Welsh genealogy

BBC - BBC One Programmes - Coming Home: "Actress Michelle Collins traces her grandfather's tragic life as a professional boxer."

this excellent video is only available to people with british ISPs