GENEALOGE

Direct Dial Numbers - www.heartofengland.nhs.uk

2009-12-25T19:29:00.000Z

Direct Dial Numbers - www.heartofengland.nhs.uk

going to dial 999
and get freighted to heartlands hospital

Happy Christmas

2009-12-24T21:27:00.000Z

Happy Christmas and a foggy eve - Glædelig jul! and Happy XMAS tomorrow - a set on Flickr:

Slideshow

Adoption Research

2009-12-21T19:20:00.000Z

Adoption Research - FamilySearch Wiki: "Locating information about an adoption in your family takes time. Here are a few suggestions to help in your search. . . . ."

1939 UK National Registration

2009-12-12T12:54:00.000Z

1939: "Transcripts of the (now deceased) residents of 60 Holly Walk, Leamington Spa on the 1939 National Registration.

As supplied by the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care under a Freedom of Information request.

Person 1 – Deceased Name: John P Guy Sex: Male Age: 65
Occupation, profession, trade or employment: Landowner and Farmer retired
Condition as to marriage: Married
Membership of Naval, Military or Air Force Reserves or Auxiliary Forces or of Civil Defence Services or Reserves: No evidence"

snipped

It is hoped that a means to quickly digitise the schedules (if they still exist) or the transcribed information may be found.

Such a scheme could provide badly needed funds to the National Health Service.
Guy Etchells

Wales genealogy

2009-12-03T20:04:00.000Z

Welsh Family History Archive: "I'm John Ball, living in Mid Wales. I hope the features linked below will help you find out more about Wales and your own Welsh ancestry — and I hope you'll make some new friends, too!"

Christ College School in Brecon.:
Details of all the staff, servants, and pupils resident at Christ College School in Brecon, "
Transcripts of the 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, and 1911 censuses

Hay on Wye Booksellers : Second Hand Books :

2009-12-02T19:46:00.001Z

Hay on Wye Booksellers : Second Hand Books :: "We have an extensive back catalogue of books. A huge selection of titles can be found on the shelves of our two shops in Hay-on-Wye. The rest are housed in warehouses on the outskirts of Hay and we upload our inventory to this website at the end of everyday. This guarantees the results you receive here are current.

If for some reason you can't find the title you are looking for on our website it is always worth phoning the shop. New stock arrives everyday, and it is quite possible we will be able to find the title you are looking for."

FTM 2010

2009-12-01T18:58:00.001Z

Family Tree Maker User: Version 2010 - Plan Workspace:
"Family Tree Maker Version 2010
Plan Workspace
New Tree Tab

This is the initial screen that you see when you open the Family Tree Maker program for the first time. This is the control center where you manage your family trees. The Plan Workspace is divided into two tabs:

* New Tree
* Current Tree"

UK Archives for the 21st century

2009-11-30T18:55:00.000Z

Archives for the 21st century | The National Archives Kew: "New government policy on archives

Archives for the 21st Century (PDF, 3.7 MB)

Archive services are treasure chests holding national, local and family history. Publicly funded archives also hold the evidence of the decision-making and processes that shape our everyday lives. However, archives have a wider role than simply serving as custodians of the national memory. Archives can, as many already do, make a clear contribution to local policy initiatives that affect individuals’ daily lives, particularly in education and learning, empowering and engaging communities, supporting regeneration and facilitating volunteering opportunities.

In recent years the information world has changed beyond recognition and the creation and use of information have been revolutionised. People now expect information to be accessible online at all times and archives need to keep up with this pace of change. Archives for the 21st Century sets out a path for publicly funded services in both England and Wales, to raise awareness of the contribution archives make to everyone’s lives and to kick start action to ensure their continued survival."

DNA search for 'father' Christmas

2009-11-30T18:45:00.000Z

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | DNA search for 'father' Christmas: "A team of scientists in Oxford is trying to prove whether families with the rare surname of 'Christmas' all descend from a single male ancestor.

They want to compare the DNA of men from different Christmas clans to see if they are linked by a common genetic heritage as well as by their surnames."

1851 census completed

2009-11-30T18:20:00.000Z

Findmypast.com | 1851 person search: "Unfilmed 1851 census records

The 1851 census contains transcriptions and reconstructed images for around 180,000 individuals – available online for the first time – which have been retrieved from severely damaged pages.

The records for the Manchester, Chorlton, Salford, Oldham and Ashton-Under-Lyne registration districts were water damaged many years ago due to flooding.

As a result many were too fragile to be filmed or no writing was visible, but a 14 year project by the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society (MLFHS) has recovered information from around 82 per cent of the damaged records.

The reconstructed images follow the same layout as the originals, and where relevant include details of neighbouring households."

Footnote.com offer

2009-11-30T18:06:00.000Z

Footnote.com - The place for original historical documents online

Best Price Extends Through Monday 30 November 2009
Get an Annual Footnote Membership for only $39.95

We are extending our best price ever for Cyber Monday. Act now and get an Annual Membership for half price. You may never see this price again. Access the 62 million images currently on Footnote and the millions we will add in the upcoming year that include:

* US Census Records
* Historical Newspapers
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Prescott sheds tears for ancestor

2009-11-29T18:51:00.000Z

Coming Home will be broadcast on BBC One Wales (Monday 30 November, 1930 GMT).

BBC News - Prescott sheds tears for ancestor: "

He was moved to tears when he learned his great-great grandmother, Athaliah Parrish, bore four children while living with her widowed father, Thomas.

With the help of genealogist Gillian Smith he learns of their working 'below stairs' for the aristocracy.

But as the roots of his family tree are probed further, the secret about his maternal great, great grandmother, Athaliah Parrish, is revealed.

Ms Smith tells him: 'From what I've been told, the daughters took over the roles of the mother when they died, and they took over all the roles of the mother. It was quite common as well.'

Athaliah later married neighbour William Jones. Thomas Parrish was not invited to the wedding.

She died aged 42 in 1868. She had consumption and tuberculosis. She left 10 children."

listing of german software

2009-11-27T20:43:00.000Z

Kategorie:Genealogiesoftware – GenWiki: "Wir unterscheiden bei den Programmen grundsätzlich zwischen folgenden Unterkategorien:

* Freeware: Kostenfreie Programme
* Shareware: Programme, die eine Zeitlang ohne Kosten genutzt werden dürfen, dann aber lizensiert werden müssen.
* Kauf-Software: Programme, die nur gegen Bezahlung erhältlich sind, von denen es aber meist auch eine Testversion gibt.

und nach Betriebssystemen, auf denen die Programme laufen. Hiernach kann eine Unterkategorie ausgewählt werden."

1939 National Registration of the UK

2009-11-26T19:16:00.000Z

BBC News - Families on the brink of war: "The publication of the 1911 census for England and Wales has helped many to establish their links and some of those with unanswered questions are hoping that the release of the 1921 census - currently expected in 2022 - will help them.

But that census release is set to be the last for a generation.

The 1931 census was destroyed in a fire and there was no survey taken in 1941 because of the war. It may be more than 40 years until the 1951 details become public.

'The truth is, it's often far more difficult to find out about recent history than Victorian history and beyond,' says family historian Guy Etchells.

Mr Etchells is already something of a hero in the genealogy world, being credited as the driving force behind the early release of the 1911 census for England and Wales."

Birmingham City UK burials and cremationse

2009-11-25T19:03:00.000Z

Welcome to Birmingham Sport and Events Website

Cemeteries and Crematoria Contact Details - Birmingham City Council: "Cemeteries and Crematoria Contact Details
None
This page may be referred to as www.birmingham.gov.uk/cemeteries"

Burial Registers - research and copies of entries
Registering a Birth or Death
Genealogy: Introduction
Genealogy and Family History

Parish Registers - Church of England - Birmingham City Council: "Church of England Parish registers record baptisms, marriages and burials from 1538 onwards. The records were made by the clergy for the government, and are the earliest source of this type of information."

to search burial registers from about 1991 to about 2004 go to http://www.leisure.birmingham.gov.uk/bacas/regenq.asp

BBC News - restored war memorial

2009-11-25T16:32:00.000Z

BBC News - Ceremony honours plant's war dead: "Six servicemen who died during World War II are being commemorated following the discovery of two memorial plaques bearing their names at a cement works.

The war memorial plaques were found at the Lafarge plant in Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, in 2007.

Three of the men had worked at the plant while the others were employed at the former cement works in Rhoose.

Relatives of five of the men are travelling from around the UK to attend a rededication service on Wednesday.

Lafarge staff member Rolly Hughes found the plaques in a disused building and persuaded plant bosses to restore them."

WorldVitalRecords Free Access

2009-11-25T07:31:00.000Z

WorldVitalRecords Free Access to Early American Records |

WorldVitalRecords Blog: "In honor of Thanksgiving, through November 30, 2009, we have over 200 early American databases available to the public for FREE. This free access include vital records, court and land records, and military records.

Click here to see the databases.
This a great opportunity to try WorldVitalRecords!"

Monmouthshire in England or in Wales

2009-11-24T19:10:00.000Z

Monmouthshire (historic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"'Wales and Monmouthshire'

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica unambiguously described the county as part of England, but notes that 'whenever an act [...] is intended to apply to [Wales] alone, then Wales is always coupled with Monmouthshire'. However, most Acts of Parliament included Monmouthshire as part of England, for example the Local Government Act 1933 listed both the administrative county of Monmouth and county borough of Newport as part of England, but in the rare event that an Act of Parliament was restricted to Wales, Monmouthshire was usually included as 'Wales and Monmouthshire'."

Future Plans for the Irish Census

2009-11-24T15:32:00.000Z

Future Plans for the Census of Ireland : "All thirty-two counties for 1911 are now available on this site.

By end-September, we will be re-developing the site to include full transcription of all of the data on the household forms for 1911, including religion, occupation, relationship to head of family, literacy status, marital status, county or country of origin, Irish language proficiency, specified illnesses, and child survival information.

1901 Census material, with all data transcribed, will be launched between late 2009 and early 2010."

Argleton Lancashire England

2009-11-24T00:16:00.000Z

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

Fletcher Family Website

2009-11-23T20:20:00.000Z

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

2009-11-23T20:15:00.000Z

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

2009-11-23T19:50:00.001Z

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

2009-11-23T03:31:00.000Z

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

2009-11-22T08:48:00.000Z

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)

2009-11-21T18:28:00.002Z

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

2009-11-21T10:24:00.000Z

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

hovedstadsarkiver sitemap - Emner"

hovedstadsarkiver.dk

2009-11-21T10:20:00.000Z

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

2009-11-20T21:57:00.000Z

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

2009-11-20T18:36:00.001Z

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.

FamilySearch Record Search pilot

2009-11-19T07:49:00.000Z

FamilySearch Record Search pilot

More free online records for Brazil, Massachusetts, Mexico, Spain, and the U.S.

The states of Texas, Ohio, and Iowa were added to the U.S. 1920 Census at FamilySearch’s Record Search pilot. Spanish researchers will enjoy new civil registration images for the provinces of Cadiz, Granada, Malaga, Spain, from 1837–1870.

Over 500,000 new digital images were added to the Brazil Catholic Church Records Collection. These birth, marriage, and death records are from the states of Bahia, Menas Gerais, Paraná, Pará, Pernambuco, and Sao Paolo.

Over 400,000 Massachusetts marriage records were added for the period 1906 to 1915, and Catholic baptismal records were added for the Distrito Federal of Mexico.

None of this would be possible without the great contributions of many online FamilySearch volunteers. These individuals donate the time and talent needed to make these collections freely available to FamilySearch patrons. Find out more about volunteering at FamilySearchIndexing.org. Thank you
by email from Pauk Nauta

Welsh genealogy

2009-11-18T15:59:00.000Z

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

Glamorgan Record Office

2009-11-17T21:56:00.000Z

Glamorgan Record Office:
"The new GLAMORGAN ARCHIVES building has been completed 8 weeks ahead of schedule. Moving the collection has begun and is expected to take at least 3 months to complete

Searchrooms in the Glamorgan Building, Cathays Park, the home of the Glamorgan Record Office for the last 70 years will finally close on Christmas Eve, 24 December 2009. GLAMORGAN ARCHIVES opens to the public on its new site in early 2010; further details will be announced and posted on this website as they become known."

updated by Hedvig Pitzner-Jørgensen

2009-11-16T18:38:00.000Z

Fra Eutin til København: "Engel Grage kan føre sin stamtavle tilbage til midten af 1600-tallet, til Tiess (der alte) Drückhammer, som stammer fra Mecklenburg. Han får en søn, er også kommer til at hedde Tiess, og som naturligt nok bliver kaldet Tiess der Junge. Tiess der Alte kommer i sine unge dage vandrende til byen Meinsdorf, til den stedlige mølle. Her er mølleren død, og enken har brug for en mand til at tage over, så her får han beskæftigelse. Han forelsker sig i møllerens datter Annke Specht, og de bliver gift i 1647. I afskriften fra Eutin kirkebog står der følgende:

Auszug aus dem Copulationsregister der ev. luth. Kirchengemeinde Eutin.
Jahrgang 1647 Nr. 1, Seite 7.
Den 1. February Montags auf Duca 4 post Trin.

Tyes Drückhamer ein Meklenbürger Knecht, so eine Zeitlang auf der Brakermühle und zu Meynstorf gedienet, mit

Annke Spechts, weyland Müller auf der Brakermühle hinterlassener Tochter.

Geschah invitis Parentiby.
(Tyes Drückhammer, en svend fra Mecklenburg, som har tjent på Brakermühle et stykke tid, viet til Annke Specht, datter af den afdøde møller på Brakermühle. Dette skete imod forældrenes vilje). . . . ."

England : BRISTOL

2009-11-16T17:23:00.000Z

RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: England : BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT: "Topic: A mailing list for anyone with family history and genealogical interests in the county and city of Bristol and surrounding areas of South Gloucestershire and North Somerset within approximately a 20 mile radius. Topics include family, social, cultural and local history, past and present, including dialect, slang and sayings, traditions, occupations, recipes and folklore in order to place the lives of our ancestors in perspective, as well as methods and problems of recording both family and associated historical information."

RootsWeb: BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-L [B&D] [ADMIN] Important Reminder about the 1911 census: "We've had a number of new members to welcome to the list as well as
welcoming back a number of returning members who took time out from their research over the last year or so.

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the Terms and Conditions for the 1911 census are that the research you do on there must be for your OWN purposes *only*. That means no look ups for other people or you risk losing your account. FindMyPast does monitor for mentions of the 1911 census.

Please do NOT ask for look ups."

my reply was censored:-

As an adult I choose to take this risk - which I blogged long ago

I am in touch with FMP by email and phone and enjoy helping people with problems, and typically I report at least six transcription errors every time I log on

http://www.findmypast.com/CensusAddressSearchServlet?redef=1 and enter Bristol to get a list of streets
1504 results for 1841
6518 results. fro 1911

a typical error:-

A Redcliffe St Bristol
is in fact

87A Redcliffe St Bristol because the house numbers -A -B -C fail to get listed as numbers

RG78 Enumerators Summary book images are only accessible from buttons above the original schedule images, and include both the "Description of the Enumeration District" and the "Contents of the Enumeration District".

I found one image of a schedule was missing in Glamorgan but RG78 proved that it existed in 1911 and 4 or 5 emails and four phone calls and (a month later) the National Archives at Kew have found that the original document has survived but was neither imaged nor transcribed

1 Mythe Cottages Rockleage Road Sneyd Park Bristol
to those of us with local knowledge the two typos are obvious

Obviously a massive number of look ups for an individual is wrong
but helping other subscribers with problems is OK

at the end of any town list you get
Other Establishments
which includes really badly transcribed addresses
eg Hotels, inns or farms

or private houses like "The Willows" Usk with no street listed
except in RG78 hows it as a private house in Baron Street
by coincidence my granny's best friend my "aunty" Kitty - Kate Marfell is there :-)

Genea-Musings

2009-11-15T15:23:00.000Z

Genea-Musings: SDGS Ancestry.com Family History Seminar Highlights: "Publishing and Printing Using 'MyCanvas' '

This session covered using the 'MyCanvas' program, part of the Ancestry.com site tools, to create and print custom family history books, posters, and calendars to showcase your family history research and make gifts to share with your family. This is a 'Print on Demand' system - you make it, you can print it, or you can pat for a professionally produced book based on your selected content. The process relies on your Ancestry Member Tree for the names, dates and places, and the user can attach photographs and document images to create the MyCanvas product. The steps to creating the work is fairly simple - choose a size and format for the book, choose a start person from your tree, import data and records from your tree, add stories, documents, maps and more, choose layouts, backgrounds, frames and embellishments, etc. The page order can be modified as the user wishes. Pedigree charts, family group sheets and timelines can be created by the program. Notes and stories can be added to text boxes by typing into the text box or pasting from another document.

Creating the book or other article is free to anyone - they can create the family tree, upload their documents and photos, add or edit facts, sources and notes, etc. Up to five generations from the selected person can be included in the book, up to a maximum of 250 pages.

The book or other article can be printed to the user's printer, but cannot be saved on the user's computer. The book is saved on the Ancestry.com computer system, and can be accessed and edited at any time, even by another family member invited to do so by the creator. If the user wishes to have the book published by MyCanvas, price estimates are available based on cover style, binding type, and then umber of pages in the book.

Suzanne spent considerable time in this session demonstrating how to create a book from an Ancestry Member Tree, and then she manipulated book content from a previously created book to show how easy it was to add content, edit content, move pages around, add backgrounds and embellishments, etc. . . . ."

Elkington Family updated

2009-11-14T12:47:00.001Z

Elkington Family:

"This Website has been created to help those called Elkington or who may have relatives called Elkington

Some of the trees are taken from the works of Arthur Edward Hardwicke Elkington and his cousin, Christine Elkington, who worked tirelessly to record all the Elkington families known to them at the time of their work. Their notes have been used to form the records contained in these trees and backed up with Family Documents, Wills, Family Bibles, Church Records and Bishops Transcripts

Mini Histories, which provide a colourful background to the story of this family, have been carefully researched and documented by their families and local records. Most of the official documents start with the beginning of the Church Records in the C16 but various other documents have survived and whilst we cannot prove a direct line, it shows that the family has been in England since before the Norman Invasion. Every history has the tree of the person concerned at the end of it showing the source for that particular member and county he or she comes from originally

There are many Wills which have proved a useful source for identifying various members of the different families. In some cases it has proved totally not possible to read off words and a gap has been indicated by a blank but the overall result gives a more or less full picture of the Testators instructions

Trees covering families not in the United Kingdom are as correct as possible, but it has not been possible to be absolutely accurate with families outside the United Kingdom"

from my usenet email:-

Hi Everyone,  

I have now completed the first three generations of the Warwickshire Branch  of the ELKINGTON family.   I have included wills and Inventories of  each man of the first three generations.  

All children are named and opposite each of the founders of different  branches are the number of that tree.   In due course I hope to  publish the trees on the Internet site.   I think this should sort out much of the mis-information on the Internet and although I have based this on the works of AEH Elkington and C.M.Elkington,  corrections and additions have been made where appropriate. 

Many thanks to those members of the family and genealogists who have helped to compile these notes.   There is an address on the Website to write to if you have any queries and of course if you think you are descended from any  of the lines I would be pleased to hear from you.   

Regards

Judy  Elkington

Father met daughter after 30 years

2009-11-13T13:42:00.000Z

Father reunites with daughter after 30-year search: "April Antoniou, 30, of Newnan, Georgia, and her father, Scott Becker, of Wichita, Kansas, have been making the rounds of television news and talk shows since their internet-aided reunion this month.

Antoniou and Becker told Atlanta television stations WGCL-TV and 11Alive they had been independently trying to find each other for years but with no success.

Antoniou said she had frequently turned to Google but had no luck because her father's name is relatively common and she knew very little about him.

But when she typed 'Scott Robert Becker Looking for April' into the Google search box a few days ago it landed her on a website created by her father seven years ago - www.aprilbecker.com - where he had left a message:"

Mozilla Suite is history

2009-11-13T13:31:00.000Z

Mozilla Suite - The All-in-One Internet Application Suite: "You are currently viewing a snapshot of www.mozilla.org taken on April 21, 2008. Most of this content is highly out of date (some pages haven't been updated since the project began in 1998) and exists for historical purposes only."
better use FireFox and or SeaMonkey

Home :: The Netscape Archive: "* Official support ended on March 1st, 2008"

Google's Guinea Pigs

2009-11-12T13:10:00.000Z

Google's Guinea Pigs | Mother Jones: "More than a dozen testing services have launched since 2006, and industry sales, according to one estimate, could hit $1 billion this year. 'Genome-informed,' personalized medicine is viewed by doctors and patients as the wave of the future, the path to wellness—or, to quote the slogan of one California testing company, a way to 'Live Better—Longer.' But will we really? Or is peddling genetic tests as the medical equivalent of an iPod simply a way to reel in enough people to serve a greater business model—in which the test is the proverbial free toaster, and customer data is the real product for sale?"

Free Military Databases

2009-11-12T13:04:00.000Z

Free Military Databases for Veterans Day | WorldVitalRecords Blog: "Happy Veterans Day! The following list is of WorldVitalRecords military databases that are FREE for November 11-13, 2009. It’s a great time to research your veteran ancestor!"

Family Tree Statistics

2009-11-11T15:57:00.000Z

Genea-Musings: Family Tree Statistics from MyHeritage.com: "These charts, and the supporting statistics can be very useful to researchers. They may point out problems with data in the database (for instance, my database apparently has a male age 13 marrying a female age 34 - probably not!).

I checked RootsMagic 4, Legacy Family Tree 7 and Family Tree Maker 2010 and did not see comparable family tree statistics capability (did I miss them? If they are there, they are pretty well hidden). Family Tree Maker 16 has a limited File Statistics capability, but nothing like the MyHeritage statistics. I think that this type of statistics analysis should be a standard feature of genealogy software."

Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2010

2009-11-11T15:51:00.000Z

Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2010: "Tickets for Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2010 are on sale now!"

Welsh Genealogies

2009-11-11T14:35:00.000Z

The Bartrum "Welsh Genealogies":
By Darrell Wolcott

Over the past 10 years, we have reviewed, collated, dissected and cross-referenced literally thousands of pedigrees related to Welsh families prior to 1400. Our work was done without access to the eight-volume work by Peter C. Bartrum entitled 'Welsh Genealogies - AD 300 - 1400' which some claim to be the 'final word'.

Our approach has been to construct a timeline into which each succeeding generation must fit and which must closely parallel that of other families where marriage matches are claimed. And where persons can be securely identified, to chose a timeline which also accomodates Brut entries, extant grant and charter documents and official governmental records.[1]

Our work has disclosed a multitude of omitted generations in extant pedigrees, more than a few men who have been confused with men of the same patrynomic name and some who have clearly been attached to the wrong ancestors. Although the 'emendments' we suggest are not always supported by any prior authority, they are supported by logical reasoning and the resulting pedigrees are chronologically stable. In most cases, the reasons why those errors crept into the pedigrees can be seen and understood.

Recently, our library managed to acquire the Bartrum volumes mentioned above. After reviewing the work and comparing the pedigrees with our own constructions, it is clear his purpose was much different than is commonly supposed. We commend the work for its four volumes of indexes of names which reference the sources where they are cited. However, sources which did not agree with Bartrum's timeline are marked with ( ) which he says are 'incorrect'. We wish he had noted exactly what those citations said so we could decide for ourselves if they were corrupt or the alternate readings he accepted as 'correct' were, in fact, flawed. The four volumes are family charts, however, are little more than a compilation of what Bartrum thought the original pedigrees claimed. . . . ."

" . . . .

Like Bartrum, we have found the more ancient pedigrees contain much less problematical material than those compiled in the 16th century and thereafter. The works of Gruffudd Hiraethog, Gutyn Owain, Ieuan Brechfa, Robert Vaughan and others of the medieval period have kept extant much material which would have been otherwise lost. But none of those genealogists thought it important to adhere to a chronological timeline, resulting in endless repetition of material with patently impossible family constructions.

So long as today's researchers understand that Bartrum was NOT attempting to portray actual and feasible family charts, but limited his purpose to summarizing the material found in other manuscripts, his work can be very helpful. It should not, however, be cited as the principle source to "prove" any asserted facts. We have seen many cases where he linked unrelated men to the wrong same-named father. The citations were correct, their compilation into a chart was not.

One final observation: the charts and indexes are not a self-contained work. Lines and sources are carried back only until they connect to one of his two earlier works: "Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts" published in book form in 1966, and "Pedigrees of the Welsh Tribal Patriarchs" published in the National Library of Wales Journal, vol xiii, in 1963. Both those works must be at hand to complete the pedigrees which are continued in the 1974 "Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400""

1939 Registration Act

2009-11-10T21:06:00.000Z

1939 Registration Act:

"An Act to make provision for the establishment of a National Register, for the issue of identity cards, and for purposes connected with the matter aforesaid. [5th September 1939.]"

SCHEDULE.

MATTER WITH RESPECT TO WHICH PARTICULARS ARE TO BE ENTERED IN REGISTER.

1. Names.
2. Sex.
3. Age.
4. Occupation, profession, trade or employment.
5. Residence.
6. Condition as to marriage.
7. Membership of Naval, Military or Air Force Reserves or Auxiliary Forces or of Civil Defence Services or Reserves.

1939 Registration - soc.genealogy.britain | Google Groups:

"Guy Etchells

Nov 10, 2:51 pm
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.britain
From: Guy Etchells
Local: Tues, Nov 10 2009 2:51 pm
Subject: 1939 Registration

I have just received the Information Commissioner's decision with regards to my request for information recorded in the 1939 Registration.

The Information Commissioner has found partially in my favour.

This means that it is illegal for the NHS Information Centre to withhold any information taken under the 1939 Registration if that information relates to deceased persons.

Cheers

Guy"

FamilySearch Indexing

2009-11-08T17:33:00.000Z

FamilySearch Indexing: View Project: "UK, Warwickshire - Parish Registers 1754-1900 [Part 2]" sample image shows Coleshill

FamilySearch Indexing: Home: "YOU CAN HELP. No special skills or fixed time commitments are required. Volunteer when you can. Just register, sign in, and follow a simple process:

1. Select a “batch” of records to download to your computer.
2. Enter the requested information (names, dates, events, etc.) in the corresponding spaces.
3. Submit your completed index to the online system."

FamilyLink goes viral - Paul Allen (the lesser)

2009-11-08T17:25:00.000Z

This Week: Ancestry IPO, FamilyLink goes viral, Navigating Facebook Platform changes | Paul Allen (the lesser): "his week is going to be amazing. Possibly, the most interesting week of my career. I’ll explain.

Ancestry.com is slated to go public on Wednesday. I always dreamed of being part of that IPO, but I’ve been out of the company (7 years) longer than I was in the company (6 years). But my excitement about watching a company I helped create trade on a public exchange is mounting. I cannot wait to see what happens when ACOM debuts on the NASDAQ this week.

I’m thinking about holding an IPO party at my house on Wednesday for the early Ancestry.com employees who are no longer with the company. It would be fun to reminisce a bit and see where everyone is now. If “public demand” for a party is high, I’m sure we’ll be able to pull it off on short notice. Between LinkedIn and Facebook, my blog and twitter, we should be able to get at least a dozen or two people to show up. If you’re interested already (and qualify as a “former Ancestry employee”), shoot me an email. (paul AT familylink.com) We’ll watch a couple of old company videos and hopefully some Tivo’d coverage of some of the business news about Ancestry from Wednesday.

This week is also exciting because FamilyLink.com is going viral. Our FamilyLink.com Quantcast chart shows that we’ve had more than 6 million unique visitors since we debuted last month and we are just getting started. We think our Flash-based family tree tool is the funnest online tree ever created, and it is getting tons of usage. We hope to be a top Facebook Connect site soon. In fact, Facebook’s Wiki shows FamilyLink as an example of how to create invites and requests using Facebook Connect. Facebook has been an incredible platform for our company to build on."

Scottish Genealogy News

2009-11-08T16:55:00.000Z

Scottish Genealogy News and Events (SGNE): PRONI clarification on closure in late 2010:

"The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is concerned to note that inaccurate and incomplete information is being disseminated about its plans for preparing and moving the records to a new building, and the effect this will have on researchers. This note is intended to clarify the matter.

The on-site closure is due to begin in September 2010. PRONI has given twelve months forewarning in order to enable customers to plan their research programmes accordingly. Visiting groups and individuals will, therefore, know that they should not make plans to visit during the period of disruption, but that they may re-schedule to visit earlier or later. If later, then they will be visiting PRONI in its new premises with its much enhanced research facilities and improved overall service. There are well known deficiencies in the present service, owing to the age of the building and its inadequate storage facilities. A properly-conducted move and adequate time for testing new systems in the new building will lead to a much better experience for researchers.

It is important to realise that the temporary on-site closure will last no longer than 8 months. If the necessary work is completed before that, the re-opening date will be reviewed. . . . ."

Sources for genealogical research, both commercial and personal, are not restricted to PRONI. The 1911 Census, which covers all of Ireland, is now available on-line, at no charge, at www.nationalarchives.ie; the 1901 Census for Ireland will also be available before any disruption to PRONI’s on-site service takes place. These are key sources for family history. Another key source, Griffith’s Valuation, is also now on-line, again at no charge, at www.askaboutireland.ie.

Within PRONI, the recent launch of a number of 19th century street directories is another new and free on-line resource for family history research. Others will follow in the coming months, including the surviving fragments of three 18th century Census returns, adding to the PRONI sources already available on-line. There will, therefore, be a range of archive material for researchers to work on while they’ are unable to access PRONI’s premises.

OriginsTutorial

2009-11-08T16:06:00.000Z

USA OriginsTutorial: "Pitfalls: be very, very careful when building your family tree. Just because someone kinda/sorta fits the description of your great-grandpa doesn't mean that you should attach him to your tree and thus run off in the wrong direction (which happens all to often). Allow your tree to grow at a steady pace, and it will be infinitely more solid (and real)... check & double check every piece of information!"

a good newbies page mostly for USA

UK Newbies start here

2009-11-08T11:58:00.000Z

GENUKI: Newbies Guide by Roy Stockdill

Roy Stockdill's Newbies' Guide to Genealogy and Family History, although originally written for Yorkshire researchers, provides a lot of useful advice which is relevant to most areas of the UK.

always check sources to kill myths

2009-11-08T10:45:00.001Z

from my Usenet email by Chris Reynolds:-

I provide a help service for people who have hit a brick wall with their Hertfordshire Ancestors. In a nummber of cases the problem arises because they have copied someone else's research without checking , That persn had copied from dsomeone else with out checking - and so on - and the first person in the chain had made an error - so everyone is wrong because no-ne had bothered to check.

I have just posted an example of what can go wrong on my web site - in this case a shipping clerk in 1635 recorded the names of people who went on board "The Hopewell", As more people arrived he recorded less and less detail about them, making (by 21st century standards) many spelling and other errors. One of these errors is obvious to anyone with a knowledge of 17th century documents and Hertfordshire place names. However the error is easily overlooked by those simply looking for ancestral names on the list. As a result 99% of the references I have found on the internet given the wrong place of origin for the ancestor - in most cases assuming that if an adult travels from a (non-existant) place they must have been born there!

Answers: The Myth of Stanstede Abbey (Hertfordshire Genealogy):

'"Conclusions

There is overwhelming evidence that there was no such place as Stanstead Abbey - and the two 17th century documents which name such a place were created under circumstances where confusion between 'Stanstead Abbey' and 'Stanstead Abbots' was very likely.

An online search found 2 web pages which used the information accurately as part of a family tree. At the same time about 200 web pages contained wrong or misleading information - an error rate of 99% !!!
There may be many other copies of the incorrect information on submitted family trees, and other sources

In researching your family tree you should note the words of the poem at the head of this page [The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Caroll]. Saying something 3 times - or 200 times, does not make it true. If the information comes from a single source the truth, or otherwise depends on how reliable the source was when it was written, and the accuracy of any subsequent copying (perhaps by hand many years ago), transcription, indexing and interpretation.

Much of the family tree information currently on the internet has been assembled without proper checks and safeguards, often by people who are only collecting as many names as possible with minimal effort. Other people's family trees should be considered as potentially unreliable - particularly if the primary sources (i.e. the original contemporary sources) are not identified. The fact that the family tree is well presented, or has been entered onto the IGI is no evidence that it is correct.

Remember: It is important to understand each source - how, where, why and when it was written - to judge the potential accuracy of the document. Simply 'ripping out' the reference to someone whose name means he might be your ancestor from a document, index or published family tree and ignoring the context is a recipe for error."

Explore Historical Newspapers Online | NewspaperARCHIVE.com

2009-11-07T11:40:00.000Z

NewspaperARCHIVE.com Partners with World Vital Records, Inc. to Increase Access to Half-Billion Records: "Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 04:39 am | Uncategorized
NewspaperARCHIVE.com (www.newspaperarchive.com), the largest newspaper database available online, has partnered with World Vital Records Inc.'s Web sites (WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilyLink.com) in a unique way to provide increased access to a half billion records from newspapers ranging from 1759-1923.

'Historical newspapers contain valuable information about our ancestors, which may not have been preserved in any other form. By making these records easily accessible, we hope they can become a part of someone's family history,' said Jeff Kiley, General Manager, NewspaperARCHIVE.com.

The uniqueness of this partnership stems from the way in which World Vital Records, Inc. will extract vital record information from the newspapers and place it on its site.

'We wanted to have vital record information from early American newspapers. NewspaperARCHIVE.com has allowed us to extract this information from their newspapers that cover the first 160-years of their collection,' said Yvette Arts, Director, Content Acquisition, World Vital Records, Inc.

With this partnership, NewspaperARCHIVE.com will provide several million pages of vital record data (approximately a half-billion online records), which will be available for subscribers at WorldVitalRecords.com . . . ."

Explore Historical Newspapers Online | NewspaperARCHIVE.com: "NewspaperARCHIVE.com is the world's largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world, NewspaperARCHIVE makes exploring history and genealogy easy and fun. Discover fascinating news in archived newspapers hundreds of years old – including obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, and more – to fill in the life stories you are interested in. And share those stories with others through our community at OurNewspaperARCHIVE. All of our historical newspapers are full-page and fully searchable – try exploring above and discover your history today!"

another name for DOVE project

2009-11-07T10:17:00.000Z

IPS - Digitisation project: "This is the project to scan and digitise birth, marriage and death registration records for England and Wales from 1837 to present day.

In 2005, Siemens IT Solutions was awarded a three-year contract to undertake this work. The Siemens contract expired in 2008, by which time approximately half of the records had been digitised. A joint decision was taken by IPS and Siemens to not renew the contract. At that point the Digitisation of Vital Events (DoVE) project was closed. As a result of this closure, the project, which was intended to provide online access to the digitised indexes (MAGPIE), was unable to proceed."

IPS - Homepage: "The Identity and Passport Service is responsible for issuing UK passports and identity cards and for the registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales. It is an executive agency of the Home Office."

Amy: Finding My Past

2009-11-06T16:42:00.000Z

from findmypast.com in my email:-

One of our team, Amy Sell, has started a blog to chart her research into her family’s past. She began her quest in July and has documented her progress with regular blog updates. To see where Amy’s got to, pick up some tips, or to simply read about her experiences, visit:

Amy: Finding My Past: "If there’s one thing I’ve picked up while working at findmypast, it’s definitely this tip! Honestly, ask absolutely anybody involved in genealogy and they’ll all tell you the same thing, “start with what you know”.

It’s very easy to try to run before you can walk when starting family history research (particularly if you have any juicy family rumours doing the rounds!) but the advice I’ve been given has been very clear; don’t try to work forwards from a rumoured famous ancestor, always work backwards from yourself. . . ."

Online Dating UK • Friends Reunited Dating

2009-11-06T11:28:00.000Z

Online Dating UK • Friends Reunited Dating: "brightsolid today announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million. The completion of the deal is subject to clearance by the competition authorities.

brightsolid is a fast growing online innovation business owned by DC Thomson, one of the largest privately owned media and publishing groups in the country. A key part of brightsolid's strategy is building businesses that link 'people and places' on the internet.

Friends Reunited is the original social network with 20.6 million members. It was launched in 2000 to put old school friends back in touch with each other and swiftly became a British media phenomenon. Sister site Genes Reunited was launched in 2003 and is currently the UK's largest family history website with over 9 million members worldwide and 650 million names listed. Together with Friends Reunited Dating, the group attracts three million unique users per month.

The acquisition of Friends Reunited Group would create Britain's leading genealogy business by bringing together Genes Reunited and findmypast.com (which operate the official 1901 and 1911 Census websites respectively in association with The National Archives) and ScotlandsPeople in partnership with General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon."

Forsvarets Bibliotek en realitet

2009-11-06T09:08:00.000Z

Forsvarets Bibliotek en realitet: "Forsvarets Bibliotek en realitet
Forsvarets Bibliotek er en realitet. De tre værnsbiblioteker i forsvaret er i gang med at blive lagt sammen til et stort moderne forskningsbibliotek med øget service til brugerne.
02-11-2009 kl. 15:10

Med Forsvarets Bibliotek vil Forsvaret forbedre serviceniveauet og øge formidlingen af viden om forsvarsrelaterede emner, bl.a. gennem brugervenlige systemer på nettet.

Øget service og vidensindsamling
Onlinekataloger og elektroniske portaler er hverdag på dagens biblioteker, og forsvaret skal følge udviklingen for at yde den bedste service til brugerne af biblioteket. Et øget samarbejde med forsvarets officersskoler og Forsvarsakademiet er også en del af det nye bibliotek. Formålet er at øge videns- og dokumentationsindsamling inden for de områder, som forskningen og officersuddannelserne fokuserer på.

Kastellet som base
Forsvarets Bibliotek vil være placeret i og offentligt tilgængeligt i Kastellet. Herudover vil der blive oprettet betjeningssteder ved officersskolerne og på Forsvarsakademiet.
Samlingerne vil indeholde litteratur fra alle tre værn og fysisk bestå af ca. 38.000 bøger og tidsskrifter. De resterende bøger bliver opbevaret i magasiner, hvor fra de vil være til rådighed 1-2 dage efter forespørgslen. Søgning foretages gennem online kataloger.

Hele sammenlægningsprocessen forventes at være gennemført i juni 2010. Men allerede fra november flytter Flyvevåbnets Bibliotek sin åbne samling ind i Kastellet, mens Marinens Bibliotek følger efter med sin åbne samling i februar 2010.

Forsvarets Bibliotek
De tre biblioteker, der nu bliver ét er:

* Det Kongelige Garnisonsbibliotek (KGB) i Kastellet, København
* Flyvevåbnets Bibliotek (FLB) i Jonstruplejren, Ballerup
* Marinens Bibliotek (MAB) på Nyholm, København

Dertil kommer Forsvarsakademiets Bibliotek (FAKBIB), som dog forbliver på stedet som betjeningssted for Forsvarsakademiets studerende og ansatte.

Forsvarets Bibliotek vil være organiseret under Forsvarsakademiet."

free birth records information

2009-11-06T07:40:00.000Z

free birth records information: "This page is a partial listing of free online resources for finding birth records. Some of the webpages are government or library sites, while others are sponsored by religious or genealogy groups. Some sites, such as the Mormon (LDS) Family History resources and a few government sites, allow their visitors to view and download certificates for free. But, in most cases, you will need to order copies of birth certificates from the appropriate county, state, or national government office.

Many genealogy societies as well as governments and other organizations and groups are in the process of digitizing vital records, and their online databases are incomplete. That is because, rather than wait until all records have been indexed, they put the records indexed thus far online. So if you do not find what you want to find at a particular site, do check back periodically to see if the records you are interested in have been added to the database.

Many of these sites also allow you to search for marriages and deaths as well, but this page will only discuss birth indices, birth certificates, and baptismal records."

chapels built in south Wales

2009-11-06T07:37:00.000Z

Pillars Of Faith: "What this site is about

The Rhondda is synonymous with coal. Coal brought the people to 'The Valleys'. The people brought their religion with them.

And almost as fast as houses were built to serve the ever increasing population, chapels were built to serve their faith. There is a most famous quotation that by 1905 there were 151 Nonconformist chapels with a seating capacity of 85,105 in the Rhondda Urban District.

But for the people of The Rhondda, the chapel was much more than a place of worship. Much of the social life of the people revolved around the chapel.

Yet it is not so easy to explain the reasons for the decline in chapel attendance. The decline in the mining industry played, I believe, only a small part in this. But what is for certain, one by one the congregations diminished and the chapels closed. Many fell into disrepair and many of these were demolished.The lucky ones were acquired by developers who retained the structure and put it to good use.

And this year, I heard that several chapels with a close connection to my own family were forced to close and these could also vanish in the near future.

Although I have lived all my life in The Rhondda, I can still walk down a street and pass a building without realising that a chapel once stood at that location. But I feel that their visual memory should be retained which is why I decided to make this site."

1911 Census Help for England and Wales

2009-11-05T08:17:00.000Z

I have been using it since I got the full subscription on 9 October it takes time to learn the tricks for a big database do remember less is more http://www.findmypast.com/CensusAddressSearchServlet?censusYear=1911 so one word under "residential place" is the way to start eg Swansea . . . . continues in this archive RootsWeb: GLAMORGAN-L Re: [GLA] 1911 Census Help

Two of the most common transcription mistakes at the start of a word C for E and M for W

Heritage Collector file management

2009-11-04T09:35:00.000Z

Heritage Collector Suite:

"* Organize Photos and Documents
* Find Any Photo in Seconds
* Photo Identification
* Save Hard Drive Space
* Archive and Search CDs and DVDS
* Safeguard Files With Backup System
* Create Sharable PDFs

Free Newsletters: "Windows® 7 - The Mystery Unveiled
My report card and summary of experiences with the beta version of Windows 7.

This review is not technical, detailed or scientific. My goal was to see if I could install and use Windows 7 with my existing software and hardware. I had some pleasant surprises you will find interesting. Which is best for you? Windows 7, Vista or XP.

Added 10/12/2009"

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Churches in Birmingham UK

2009-11-03T09:51:00.000Z

Churches and Places of Worship in Birmingham UK: "Prior to the year 1715 Birmingham comprised only one parish; but at that period a portion of the original parish of St Martin was formed into the parish of St Philip.
The population explosion in the town soon meant they couldn't cope with all of the births, marriages and deaths, hence new churches were built at a remarkable rate throughout the 19th century. In 1829 two other districts were formed into the parishes of St George and St Thomas. Some of the new churches were large, others merely subsidiary chapels of the bigger churches. Also England's first Roman Catholic cathedral was built here.

Encumbents would do the rounds of these, performing ceremonies throughout their parish. In 1836 the Birmingham Church Building Society was founded with the aim of erecting 10 new churches in the poorer areas, though due to lack of funds only 5 were actually built. By 1865 another 10 anglican churches had been built, but the following 4 years saw the erection of a further 10 churches, due to the financial aid of the Birmingham Church Extension Society.

Birmingham was a hive of non-conformism in the 18th century. Its most illustrious leader was Joseph Priestley who was at the centre of riots in 1791 which led to some churches being destroyed by fire. Altogether there have been more non-conformist than state churches in the town. The complexity of their history makes the correlation of place of worship to denomination in the list below strictly speaking impossible."

Copenhagen Streets

2009-11-02T16:28:00.000Z

a really useful index of the streets of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg showing which parish, quarter, and police district to search for relevant records.

Københavnske gader: "København*- & Frederiksberg Kommune til 1925

For ikke at få for mange hits bør der indtastes mindst 3 sammenhængende bogstaver af gade/vejnavnet. Hvis du vil erstatte flere bogstaver, kan man anvende % som wild card. Et enkelt bogstav kan erstattes med _ [underscore].

*Brønshøj Sogn blev i 1901 udskilt af Brønshøj-Rødovre Kommune og indlemmet i Københavns kommune. Samme år blev endvidere Vigerslev, Valby og Kgs. Enghave udskilt af Hvidovre Kommune og indlemmet i kommunen. I 1902 blev hele Sundbyernes Kommune indlemmet i København."

Before the creation of the folkeregister in 1923 Copenhagen Police kept a card index of resident's addresses with childen, occupation, date and place of birth.

This was divided in 1923 with deceased citizens' records being sent to the archives (dødsblade - Google Search)
and those of the living used as the basis of the new Folkeregister

Søg dødsfald 1893 - 1923: "Dødeblade 1893 - 1923
Registerblade udskilt af Københavns* Politis mandtal

Der kan søges på alle kombinationer af fornavne, efternavn og fødselsår. For ikke at få for mange hits bør der indtastes så meget som muligt. Vær dog opmærksom på at stavningen af personnavne kan variere meget. Hvis du vil erstatte flere bogstaver, kan % anvendes som wild card. Et enkelt bogstav kan erstattes med _ [underscore].

*Brønshøj Sogn blev i 1901 udskilt af Brønshøj-Rødovre Kommune og indlemmet i Københavns kommune. Samme år blev endvidere Vigerslev, Valby og Kgs. Enghave udskilt af Hvidovre Kommune og indlemmet i kommunen. I 1902 blev hele Sundbyernes Kommune indlemmet i København. Ved disse indlemmelser fik Københavns Kommune næsten tredoblet sit areal og fik forøget sit indbyggertal fra ca. 360.000 til næsten 400.000. Dødsfald i disse områder er først registreret fra henholdsvis 1901 og 1902."

GenealogyMedia Blog

2009-11-01T21:47:00.000Z

GenealogyMedia.com: The Blog: "Google Wave is a tremendously powerful platform that will change the way genealogy and family history are done. Users of Wave create 'waves,' which are something between conversations, e-mail messages, collaborative authoring sessions, video and picture sharing, blog authoring, and so many more things.

The key technology involved in Wave, though, that makes it better than every other available product for collaborative authoring is that it allows for near real-time communication. If I send you an e-mail, I have to wait for you to read it. If I write a blog entry, and I'm collaborating with another author, I have to save my draft, then tell them to take a look. Even if I'm 'instant messaging,' I still spend a good portion of the time waiting for a response and staring at a message that say something like, 'So-and-so is typing.' But with Google Wave, I can see my correspondant type at the same time that I'm typing. The conversation is not serial, but parallel -- we are both talking at the same time. It's more like an actual conversation. When we work together on a document, we can each make edits wherever in the document we need to, and this can happen simultaneously as fast as we can type."

Society of Genealogists, London

2009-10-31T22:16:00.000Z

Society of Genealogists, Family History, Genealogy, Family Names

November Events

7 November 10:30am
Tracing your Medieval Ancestors
A full day course with Dr. Adrian Jobson 30/24 GBP

9 November 10:30am
Genealogy for Librarians & Archivists
A full day course with Else Churchill & Doreen Hopwood 30/24 GBP

11 November 2:00pm
DNA: Heredity and Disease
A one hour lecture with Dr. Geoff Swinfield 5/4 GBP

14 November 10:30am
Adoption and Fostering circa 1850 to 1930
A half day course with Louise Taylor 15/12 GBP

14 November 2:00pm
Careers in Genealogy, Pitfalls for Professionals
A half day course with Michael Gandy 15/12 GBP

18 November 11:00am
Using the Society of Genealogists Library
A one hour talk with the society's librarian, Sue Gibbons. Free of charge.

18 November 2:00pm
My Ancestor was a Tailor
A one hour lecture with Ian Waller 5/4 GBP

25 November 11:00am
Scottish Sources in the Society of Genealogists Library
A one hour lecture with Else Churchill 5/4 GBP

25 November 2:00pm
My Ancestor was a Brushmaker
A one hour lecture with Kenneth Doughty 5/ 4 GBP

Please also note the 18 Nov. visit to The National Archives and the 21 Nov. Family Historian software course are fully booked.

Lori Weinstein
Events co-ordinator
events@sog.org.uk

Tel: 020 7553 3290

Irish Genealogy

2009-10-30T07:02:00.000Z

Irish Genealogy: "The Central Signposting index (C.S.I) contains over 3 million genealogical records which may help you trace that elusive Irish ancestor. If you are not certain of the county of origin of your ancestor this could help you make a start.

There are currently 3,198,125 records in the database from Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Sligo, Tyrone & Wexford. Types of record include Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Griffith's Valuation, Tithe Applotments' and 1901 Census returns. Click here for a breakdown of the records.

The C.S.I (Central Signposting Index) will point you to the local county based IFHF genealogy centre that may hold the records you seek. To use the C.S.I please enter your search criteria into the form below and click on 'Search'."

The Kingdom: Bishop hands over records on diocese: "THE Bishop of Kerry, Bill Murphy, will this week oversee the formal handover of Church records to the Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism.

The bishop will officiate as Bertie Kelliher, chairman of the Kerry Genealogical Research Centre, will hand over of the diocesan records of baptism, marriages and deaths to department secretary, Con Haugh, this Tuesday.

The presentation of the digitised records marks the culmination of years of painstaking work by the Kerry Genealogical Research Centre which oversaw the computerisation of around 500,000 Church documents dating from the 1750s.

Kerry County Council, the Trustees of Muckross House, FÁS, the Catholic Church and Church of Ireland backed the project, while the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism directly supported the computerisation of an additional 100,000 Kerry records."

Jia Pu

2009-10-29T22:39:00.000Z

Jia Pu - Chinese Genealogical Record - An Introduction: "In the history of the Chinese people, there are three important elements that are significant. They are China's history, the local gazette and a clan's genealogy. Amongst these three elements, genealogy has the longest history and is the most influential.

Jia Pu (translated as genealogy record), also known as Zu Pu, is a record of a clan's history and lineage. It documents the origins of the surname, the migration patterns of the clan, the family lineage, the ancestral biography, the story of the locality, etc.

The origin of Jia Pu spans many eras and has been found as early as the Shang Dynasty (1523-1028BC). The family trees of the clans then were written on turtle shells, cow bones and bronze. Prior to the invention of writing, Chinese genealogical information was recorded by tying knots on ropes. Objects such as miniature arrows, shoes, cradle, bronze coins, kneecaps of goats and pigs were tied to the knots to show the number of generations, number of members (male and female), etc. in a family. This information was also verbally passed on to the later generations. Such were the earliest forms of Chinese genealogical record."

and who are using 家谱网 - 穿越时空的家族聚会

Jiapu.com, launched in 2008, hosts more than 3000 Jiapu – Chinese family histories bound in volumes – the earliest being from the 6th century BC and the most recent from the 1940s. The collection has been made available through an exclusive long-term partnership with the Shanghai Library, which holds the largest collection of Chinese family history records in the world. The site is in local language

lists of Passenger Lists

2009-10-28T16:55:00.000Z

What Passenger Lists Are Online?:

"Internet Sources for Transcribed Passenger Records & Indexes
Opening

note: If you don't find your ancestor's passenger list online (some have not been indexed or transcribed yet), you can still search offline using the available indexes and microfilmed records. The Finding Passenger Lists Guide is a good starting point for locating US arrivals from European ports.

This webpage is divided into three main sections:
US Arrival Records,
International Arrivals & Departures,
and General Sites.

Items marked 'requires payment' are part of Ancestry's online genealogy records collection."

Lorain County Chapter of OGS

2009-10-27T22:01:00.000Z

Lorain County Ohio

In 1824 Lorain County was created from parts of Huron, Cuyahoga and Medina Counties. For information around or before that date, you will want to visit those counties.

Elyria is our county seat and Wellington Village is the home of our county fair. The photo above is Lorain Harbor Lighthouse located at the mouth of the Black River.

Lorain County, Ohio is a member of OHGenWeb, USGenWeb, WorldGenWeb and The Ohio Genealogical Society. Visit The USGenWeb Archives for Lorain County and the Ohio State Resources for Researchers

Our Chapter was chartered by OGS in 1983 and membership includes two affiliates; Wellington Genealogical Group and Black River Genealogical Group. In 2008 our Chapter celebrated their 25th Anniversary as a chartered Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.

Ohio Genealogical Society: "The Ohio Genealogical Society is the largest state genealogical society in the United States.

Its mission is to meet the educational needs of its members and the general public through the acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of genealogical and historical information."

ohio genealogy society - Google Search

Crimean War

2009-10-25T21:39:00.000Z

Captain WP Richards' Letters from the Crimea (5): "I had my horse shot under me, as also had Dacres, Hamley and Wodehouse. I was knocked down by a round shot striking the ground under my feet, but it hopped 30 feet over my head. Afterwards I was charged by a Russian rifleman, several of whom got amongst our guns, he made a rush at me with his bayonet, but I saw him coming and when close, hopped inside his guard and floored him with a tap on the nose with my fist. I had nothing else as my sword was on the limber of one of the guns and I lost my revolver, which is a great loss, as it was a very useful thing, and also very expensive, however, thank God, I escaped, but other poor fellows were not so lucky."

Find My Family on TV in UK

2009-10-24T07:48:00.000Z

Wall to Wall - One of the world's leading producers of factual and drama programming: " . . . our new ITV 1 programme about family separation and reunion. The programme will follow the stories of people who have, for one reason or another, experienced long term separation from members of their family and are seeking to be reunited with them.

The programme hopes to help people who are struggling to find enough information to move closer to a reunion. The programme will aim to track down lost relatives and follow the stories from the search through to the reunion.

GUIDANCE FOR APPLICANTS . . . ."

SCANDINAVIA: MAP

2009-10-24T07:28:00.000Z

SCANDINAVIA: MAP: The Northern States. 1772 - AncestorStuff.com:

" Our reprint of Robert Sayer's map of The Northern States: The Kingdom of Sweden, Denmark and Norway will be of particular interest to those with Scandinavian roots. First published in 1772, this map shows the area divided into provinces and governments. Governmental districts in neighboring parts of Russia, Poland and present-day Baltic states are also shown.

Black and white map, printed on 18' x 24' paper."

free maps from the Roal Library in Copenhagen - need DjVu Browser Plug-in

Det Kongelige Bibliotek - Det Kongelige Bibliotek: "Det vil ikke være muligt at bestille eller reservere bøger i REX d.24/10 fra kl. 18 til d.25/10 kl. 02. I samme tidsrum er REX Classic lukket. Det sker pga forberedelser til opgradering af bibliotekssystemet. Vi beklager de gener, det måtte give vores lånere."

Digital Library

2009-10-23T18:28:00.000Z

Digital Library on American Slavery

Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color.
Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.

Information in the petitions can be accessed in three ways. To search the petitions by keyword, select geographic and date criteria then enter a search term or phrase below. To search the database for specific named individuals, select the Search By Name tab. To see petitions associated with particular historical, legal, or cultural topics, select the Browse Subjects tab.

Big Blue Mess: Family Tree Maker

2009-10-23T17:43:00.000Z

Big Blue Mess: Family Tree Maker: "Then there's the bit about the Mayflower. Almost anyone with my last name will tell you that we descend from a particular miscreant on the Mayflower, the only trouble there is that you can only work his line down to a certain point and it stops or you can work our line back up to a certain point and it stops - there's a missing link (not surprising, we're talking about my family). So, there's this gap that makes me say 'I'm not 100% certain this story is true.' However, if you look at any family tree books for our family, they'll all say 'we're descended from this here guy on the Mayflower... we can't prove it, but trust us, we're you're family'"

Bristol City Council: Records

2009-10-23T09:24:00.000Z

Bristol City Council: Records and archives - information and advice: Depositing records with Bristol Record Office: "ristol Record Office exists to collect, preserve and provide access to records that relate to the people and places of Bristol. We aim to preserve any record that provides us with evidence or information about Bristol.

There are no date limitations on the records that we collect; the documents in our collections date from as far back as the 12th century right up to the present day. However, we will not accept records to which frequent access is still required by the depositor for current business. We also do not usually collect multiple copies of a particular record or records that duplicate holdings of other record repositories.

Please read our Acquisition Policy for full details of our collecting policy. . . . ."

West Somerset church book TRANSCRIPTIONS

2009-10-22T21:48:00.000Z

TRANSCRIPTIONS:
"Where, prior to 1752, the 'Ecclesiastical' year went from March to March, I have corrected the calendar dates to modern format/usage; therefore, where a Register has, say, Baptisms of 1740 for Nov, followed by Dec, followed by Jan, I have corrected the latter date to be Jan. 1741."

looking for Bristol Workhouse in 1911

2009-10-22T20:34:00.000Z

RootsWeb: Bristol_and_Somerset-L Re: Bristol Workhouse, Stapleton: "'Confusion over the workhouses in Bristol often occurs because, not only were the workhouses of the Barton Regis poor law union and the Bristol poor law union sited close together, one at Eastville and one at Stapleton, but also because the two poor law unions were amalgamated in 1904. St Peter's Hospital (the old Bristol Union workhouse which had been replaced by the one at Stapleton ) became the administrative headquarters housing all of the records of the Bristol Union and some of the Barton Regis Union, all of which were lost when the building was destroyed by enemy action in 1940.

The small collection of Barton Regis Union records that we hold survived because they were stored at the Barton Regis Union workhouse at Eastville. Both workhouses were known by a variety of names which can add to the confusion over which institution was which. There is a map showing the location of the two workhouses in our Poor Law leaflet, a reference copy of which is available in our searchroom, which you may wish to see when you visit.'

To aid my confusion at the time I was told that the Barton Regis Workhouse (where my Grandmother was born!) was also called/known by Eastville Workhouse/ 100 Fishponds Road! Happily the records office did have records for this workhouse"

Welsh wills before 1856

2009-10-21T21:38:00.000Z

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - National Library of Wales : 190,000 Welsh Wills Online – Free to View: "The National Library of Wales has good news for family historians, social historians … and the inquisitive! Over 190,000 Welsh wills (some 800,000 pages) have been digitised and are now available on the Library’s website or direct on our online catalogue and are free to view.

Wills which were proved in the Welsh ecclesiastical courts before the introduction of Civil Probate on 11 January 1858 have long been deposited at The National Library of Wales. An online index and an opportunity to view digital images of these wills within the Library building has been available for sometime, however, from today remote users will also be able to view the digital images.

Amongst the collection is the will of Twm Siôn Cati alias Thomas Johnes, Fountaine Gate, Caron (SD1609-20), this year being the 400th anniversary of his death. The will of Howell Harris, the famous Welsh religious reformer can also be seen (BR1773-51).

As well as being a fabulous source of information the National Library’s online wills offer the ability to view all 193,000 wills free of charge, a service few other similar institutions are able to offer. Whilst most institutions charge readers to view their documents, the Library only charges for providing copies of them."

Calvary Cemetery, San Diego, CA

2009-10-21T16:19:00.001Z

Calvary Cemetery, San Diego, CA

This web site is a comprehensive study and presentation of existing information about the historic Calvary Cemetery (now a part of Calvary Pioneer Memorial Park) at 1501 Washington Place in San Diego, California. It is devoted to honoring and preserving the memory of the people who are buried there.

Calvary Cemetery (part of what is now Calvary Pioneer Memorial Park, commonly just called Pioneer Park) in the Mission Hills community of San Diego, California was a Catholic cemetery primarily in use between 1875 and 1919. Burials continued until 1960 however. In 1970 the cemetery was converted to a public park and the grave markers (but not the people) were removed. A group of some of the gravestones were clustered together and a central memorial was placed in the southeast corner of the park. Subsequently, the removed and discarded gravestones were buried on the grounds of San Diego's Mount Hope Cemetery. This action destroyed these historic monuments and the only existing record of hundreds of people who were born and died before birth and death certificates became standard.

The exact number of people buried at Calvary Cemetery is not known. Complete records no longer exist in one place. However, the exhaustive research for this web site has documented almost 4,000 burials. More than 1,500 of the burials occurred before July 1, 1905 when California established specific statewide requirements for registration of deaths.

New FamilySearch

2009-10-21T15:42:00.000Z

Genealogy's Star: New FamilySearch roll-out -- nearing the end:
"- - - - - After working with the program for a while, especially if your family has been members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) since pioneer times, it is hard to keep from being frustrated and almost exasperated over the data in the vast file.

For example, my 3rd Great-grandfather is depicted as being born in Cottonwood, Utah in 1795. If you aren't familiar with Utah or the Salt Lake Valley, it might help to know that Utah was first settled by the pioneers in 1847. Since there is no way to correct this information to show his correct birthplace, the incorrect information will remain as a monument to poor research for a long time.

Looking past the deficiencies in the data and the problem of duplication of ordinance work, the program itself is fundamentally sound and fairly simple to use. With rumors of the program being made available to those who are not members of the LDS Church in the first part of 2010, it will probably be around as long as I live.

I just hope that people will finally come to view it as what it is, a huge collection of unverified records, and not the ultimate authority on family relationships. However, as we are still teaching classes and talking to people who have never seen or heard of the program, even with the roll-out there is a long way to go."

FMP subscriptions

2009-10-21T15:37:00.000Z

Family history records subscriptions at Findmypast.com:
"1911 Census
Subscription
6 month - 12 month
£39.95 - £59.95"

Family history records subscriptions at Findmypast.com: "12 month
£149.95 less 20% £119.95 minus the value of amy remaining subcription

Overall best value choice"

and I am really enjoying redoing my own family research

Search Parish Records Collection 1538 - 2005

The parish records were transcribed and indexed mainly by family history societies, although a few dedicated individuals have also contributed data. These records come from different types of sources: parish registers, bishop’s transcripts (the copies of the original registers made each year for the bishop of the diocese in which they are situated), earlier transcripts or printed registers.

Please note that these records are a mix of both indexes and transcriptions, and therefore vary in depth of content. Indexes are primarily used to help locate a parish record, but they do still contain detail useful to the family historian. Our transcriptions, on the other hand, show every detail found within the parish register and are often a goldmine of genealogical information. The results you are presented with will not contain images of the original parish record.

Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn

2009-10-21T07:39:00.000Z

Wapedia - Wiki: Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn

The Cemetery of the Evergreens is a non-denominational cemetery in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, colloquially called Evergreen Cemetery. It was incorporated in 1849, not long after the passage of New York's Rural Cemetery Act spurred development of cemeteries outside Manhattan. For a time, it was the busiest cemetery in New York City; in 1929 there were 4,673 interments.

The Evergreens was built on the principle of the rural cemetery. Two of the era's most noted landscape architects, Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis, were instrumental in the layout of the cemetery grounds.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2007. ^[2]

Cypress Hills Cemetery lies to its northwest.

www.theevergreenscemetery.com - Google Search:
"The Evergreens Cemetery - site off line

Offers family lots, single graves, an urn garden, community and private mausoleums. Located on the border of Brooklyn and Queens. Lists famous people buried ...
www.theevergreenscemetery.com/ -"

Start Your Family Tree

2009-10-21T06:54:00.000Z

How to Start Tracing Your Family Tree Now | eHow.com:
"It seems that almost everyone wants to know more about their family history but, very few actually follow through by tracing a well researched genealogy. Too often it is because they just don't know how to get started. Here are step-by-step instructions that you can use to start your genealogy research today. Just as importantly, you will be starting the right way by documenting every fact you find.

Every step in this article can be completed for free. I don't recommend subscribing to paid online services until after you already have some experience with genealogy. Use the excellent free databases for now. Wait to use subscription sites until you know exactly what you want to find from them and are sure you are going to pursue genealogy as a serious hobby."

Germanic Genealogy Society

2009-10-20T12:44:00.002Z

Home of Germanic Genealogy:

"Germanic Genealogy Society
A branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society
Helping Members Research Germanic Ancestors Worldwide"

History and Purpose:

Founded in 1979 as the German Interest Group, the society became a branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society in 1981. The name Germanic Genealogy Society (GGS) was adopted in 1992. GGS is a branch of the Minnesota Genealogical Society (MGS). GGS became a member of the Federation of Genealogy Societies in 2000.

The Germanic Genealogy Society's objectives are:

to provide a national association of those interested in Germanic Genealogy;

to provide opportunities for the exchange of genealogy ideas and information;

to hold regular meetings for the instruction and interest of members;

to encourage interest in Germanic genealogy;

to publish a quality genealogical journal ;

to collect, publish genealogical, biographical, and historical material relating to Germanic genealogy worldwide;

to encourage the establishment of Germanic genealogical resources in libraries.

Germanic Genealogy Society - Google Search

Minnesota Genealogical Society - Google Search

World Vital Records Australia

2009-10-19T18:54:00.000Z

World Vital Records – subscriptions: "This is the first of our blogs on World Vital Records Australasia. These will include announcements of major content additions and site developments as well as tips and advice to get the most out of the site. World Vital Records Australasia is now up for subscription and access to 50 million records for Australasia and over 1 billion world wide. However a little more fine tuning is being done before it is widely announced, hopefully in a few days.

First up an introduction to subscriptions. Three levels are offered:

* Australasian collection – $9.95/month or $59.95/year
* Australasian PLUS collection – $15.95/month or $99.95/year
This is the same as the world collection minus records from America
* World collection – $19.95/month or $119.95/year"

Pilot FamilySearch Record Search

2009-10-19T16:52:00.000Z

FamilySearch PILOT Record Search

There are some fascinating new collections in FamilySearch’s Record Search. Ten million new records and images were added this update. Some particularly interesting highlights included the 1865 Massachusetts State Census, Wisconsin 1855 State Census, and 1869 Argentina Census—all now complete, the Ghana Census, 1982–1984 digital images, and the England, Cheshire School Records, 1796–1950, collections. See the char below for a list of all the newly added collections.

These collections can be searched for free at FamilySearch.org Record Search pilot (click Search Records, and then click Record Search pilot).

Hats off to the online volunteers who help make these collections freely available by donating a few minutes of their time or talents through the FamilySearch Indexing program.

Collection - Indexed Records - Digital Images - Comments

Argentina, 1895 Census - 47,007 - Updated index and images. Project is now complete.

Argentina, 1869 Census - 484,234 - 157,133 - Updated index and images.

England, Cheshire School Records, 1796–1950 - 435,681 -
New index only collection. Project is now complete.

Ghana, Census, 1982–1984 - 11,187 - New browse image only collection; project is ongoing.

Mexico, Coahuila, Catholic Church Records, 1627–1978 - 83,363
Updated browse image only collection. Project is now complete.

U.S., 1920 Federal Census - 7,330,741 - Added indexes for Wyoming, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington.

U.S., Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers, 1871–1915 - 369,962
- 19,781 - Updated index and images.

U.S., Massachusetts State Census, 1865 - 1,352,817 - 17,656 - Added indexes. Project is now complete.

U.S., Wisconsin State Census, 1855 - 133,164 - 3,088 - New index and image collection. Project is now complete.

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history.

To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dublin Ireland

2009-10-18T14:45:00.000Z

Dublin Evening Post 11 December 1858: . . . . "But, as regards the registration of births, marriages, and deaths, the importance of preserving a perfect record of such events could not be too highly estimated; and a day should not be unnecessarily lost in removing every impediment to organising a system with that end in view.
If the legislature will not remove the blemish from the record of its acts, for the sake of its own reputation, or of doing justice to those on whom the existing disability may press, let them wipe it out for the sake of accomplishing a great public good.

There is no country in Europe that has not among its public institutions one for the registration of the numbers of the population who are born, get married, or die annually, . . ."

Free Genealogy Tools

2009-10-18T10:35:00.000Z

Free Genealogy Tools: " . . . . . a quick recap of some geography-based family history resources from Britain (England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the whole friggin' Empire thing they had going on), along with those from the rest of Europe:"

Rationing in Britain

2009-10-16T08:55:00.001Z

Rationing in Britain during World War 2: "Rationing was introduced at the beginning of 1940.

National Registration Day

On National Registration Day on 29 September 1939, every householder had to fill in a form giving details of the people who lived in their house."

Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain ended at midnight on 4 July 1954, when restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat and bacon were lifted. This happened nine years after the end of the war.

ration book issued - Google Search

I must have been about thee years old when my father looked up from his newspaper at breakfast (The Times) and said "There is going to be food rationing"

JewishGen genealogy classes

2009-10-16T07:10:00.000Z

JewishGen Blog: The Home of Jewish Genealogy: Online Jewish Genealogy Class: "Not sure what JewishGen has to offer? What are the best websites? Organize your information better? Get personalized help?

Well consider JewishGen's Basic Jewish Genealogy course, which consists of 8 text lessons, delivered online twice weekly, which you can read online or download at your own pace.

The lessons cover using genealogy formats, organizing information, Jewish naming conventions, Internet Genealogy Resources, U.S. Vital Records, U.S. Census and U.S. passenger manifests (Ellis Island); two lessons will be devoted to JewishGen's web site and its many databases.

It will also contain hints and tips on how to best use your computer and the Internet. We feature an online Forum where students can post their ancestral information, documents and photographs, and get answers and suggestions from the instructor and fellow students.

The tuition for Basic Genealogy is $60, however, if you qualify for the Value Added Services by virtue of a $100 donation to JewishGen's general fund within the past 12 months, you are welcome to enroll at no additional charge (to get the waiver don't enroll just yet,"

Genealogy Apps for the iPhone

2009-10-15T16:42:00.000Z

Genealogy Apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch: "Now that I'm finally beginning to use my iPhone on a regular basis, I've started looking for useful genealogy apps. The iTunes store offers a number of family tree viewers for the iPhone (and iPod Touch), including:". . . . . .

missing in action

2009-10-15T16:25:00.000Z

GENEALOGE: missing in action:
Alfred Henry Watkins
17 August 1907 to 24 September 1942 - HMS Somali
nicknamed David by his wife"

1940 U.S. Federal Census :: 1940 Free Census Resources

2009-10-15T14:34:00.000Z

1940 Census :: 1940 U.S. Federal Census :: 1940 Free Census Resources: "1940 Census — Countdown to 2012

There are 898 days remaining until Sunday, April 1, 2012.

The official date for the 1940 Census was April 1st, but since that day will fall on a Sunday in 2012, it is unclear whether reseachers will have weekend access to film at the National Archives or will instead need to wait until Monday, April 2nd to satisfy their genealogical curiosity.
(No — this isn't an April Fools joke, you can check your calendar)"

Paul White AT ABERYSTWYTH MUSUEM

2009-10-15T14:06:00.001Z

EXHIBITION AT ABERYSTWYTH MUSUEM: "11 Oct 09
I will be exhibiting ruined mansion images, as well as other ruins throughout the counties of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire at Aberystwyth (my home town) Museum from the 16th October 2009 until November 21st 2009.

I will also be giving a talk on the exhibition:
'A Place Deserted: Misfortune & Neglect - Ruins of Mid & West Wales' on Friday 6th November at 2:30pm in the Coliseum Gallery. Please do come along!"

About Paul White: " . . . . . . I was eventually persuaded by a friend to attend college to study photography further. I spent two years at Carmarthen College in South Wales and a further two years at Nottingham Trent University. I found a life outside my solitude, a solitude I still cherished, but I also found a space to let people in.

Whilst at college I became aware of the work of Aaron Siskind. Edward Weston had taught me to find a substance in my subject matter. Siskind did the same but by flattening the perspective. His work came as a revelation. His images, as Weston’s had some years back, sat comfortable with me and once explored on the page his images became tactile. Could it be they seemed to act as a parallel emotion to my solitude?

I soon began documenting tiny abstractions in walls and old signs. For me, as it did for Siskind, my work acted as a universal language.

Paul White October 2008"

Taking Genealogy to the Common Person

2009-10-14T17:22:00.000Z

Taking Genealogy to the Common Person BLOG:

"Genealogy Questions Answered in 6 Minutes

How many times when you’re stuck on a genealogy problem have you thought to yourself, “I’m sure someone out there knows the answer to this question.” If you could just ask the right person a quick question it would save you a ton of time.
Well over at FamilySearch we’ve been kicking around some ideas of how we might help people with this experience.
This past Wednesday I was thinking about how much I’d like to find the death certificate for a particular ancestor when the thought struck me, “I’m sure someone out there knows the answer to this question.” The question for me was, how do I find the death certificate for Warren Dodge, who died about 1888 in Barton County, Kansas?

Well I decided to try a little experiment. What if I could throw that question out to a large audience. Would they respond? Would they answer my question? Here’s what happened.

6 May 11:47am I posed my question on Twitter. Twitter automatically put my tweet on Facebook as well. . . . . " and read on
Taking Genealogy to the Common Person BLOG:

ProQuest news

2009-10-14T10:53:00.000Z

ProQuest - Discover more with the all-new ProQuest platform.: "Customer-Driven Design
The new platform is being built from the ground up based on years of extensive student observations, surveys of more than 6,000 end users, focus groups, and individual interviews, along with ongoing interactions with users, librarians and faculty. Its core is a single platform for all content, with a single content store, single search engine, and consolidated user experience. Ultimately, users will be able to discover more and dig deeper into data, then, analyse, organise and use the findings more efficiently and with greater precision."

Military Records

2009-10-14T10:49:00.000Z

Free Genealogy Tools: Free Military Record Lookups: "a few top-notch resources for looking up military records. The resources are all from either the US or UK. US lookups go back to the Revolutionary War, through the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. English records extend back centuries, all the way to the medieval times of knights and crusades."

Scottish genealogy blog

2009-10-14T10:47:00.000Z

Scottish genealogy blog: "We are genealogists who particularly focus on Scotland. We can trace either an entire family tree or just help you with a specific problem area so you can carry on your research yourself. Our major project over the last few years has been to transcribe and index the census for the Scottish Borders and Dumfriesshire. We sell the census in book form"

Zakazukha

2009-10-14T10:05:00.002Z

as a pensioner my essential worldly needs are met so I do not need Zakazukha and ethically prefer to retain my independance.

So no Zakazukha in this blog :-)

about at Zakazukha: "What is Zakazukha?

When Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc reconciled back in 1998, the image of the Berlin Wall tumbling down was not the only media opportunity that was reported around the world.

The opening up of former communist countries to western ideals also created a zeal for new opportunities, and none more so than in the world of media and advertising.

What evolved was an industry based around placing paid articles in newspapers and magazines, a practice called zakazukha, a Russian word meaning payment for favourable editorial coverage.

In 2001 a Russian public relations agency exposed the practice by offering a number of Moscow newspapers cash in exchange for editorial coverage of a store opening. Sixteen publications entered into negotiations, with 13 running the story. The agency later revealed that no store actually existed.

Now lets call a spade a spade – someone has to get paid to generate the news stories businesses rely on to gain publicity as part of their overall marketing efforts (in fact Australia had its own cash for comment scandal in 1999 concerning paid advertising on radio masquerading as editorial commentary).

But don’t get us wrong, we’d never condone the practice of direct payment to media outlets for this sort of exposure (this caper is best left to the legitimate realms of advertising).

However if as much as 80 per cent of media content is derived from public relations material, then you’d be hard pressed to find a reason not to engage in an active media relations campaign."

Zakazukha - Google Search

Little Green Genie

2009-10-14T09:54:00.001Z

Little Green Genie - Most people don’t give a crap about the planet...they just say they do.:
"If you believe climate change is real and you want to do something about it, there’s really only three things you can do.

First you can stop wasting stuff and reduce your consumption in general.

Second you can recycle wherever possible.

Third you can invest money into renewable energy projects to offset the emissions you can’t avoid through steps one or two. By purchasing quality carbon credits you are creating demand for clean renewable energy. This demand will increase supply, therefore reducing our reliance on coal."

Zero Carbon Computer Challenge: "Is your computer costing the earth?

Where would we be without email, Facebook, websites and all the other really cool stuff that computers have made possible?
Sadly though, computers are not the most environmentally friendly devices in the world. By offsetting your computer’s carbon emissions through the challenge you will be joining a global community of carbon neutral computer users and raising money for renewable energy projects . . . . . "

Legacy and NewFamilySearch

2009-10-13T14:25:00.000Z

Legacy receives NFS read access certification., de Generation Maps Genealogy Chart Printing Service | Facebook:
"UPDATE 9/1/09 10pm:
Apparently Millennia Corp jumped the gun in their excitement and are not 'officially certified' until the product is shipping. It looks like they will be waiting until they meet the requirements for several other certifications to release the software. Here is their revised statement.

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Received this from Geoff Rasmussen today.

SURPRISE, Arizona – September 1, 2009 – Millennia Corporation today announced that its family tree software, Legacy Family Tree, has received official certification from FamilySearch.

Users of Legacy will soon be able to synchronize with, backup, and publish their information to FamilySearch’s Family Tree. These capabilities will be included in Legacy’s Standard (free) and Deluxe Editions. It will also soon provide support for LDS members including ordinance reservation and requests.

“We are excited to provide these new tools for the genealogy community,” said Dave Berdan, president of Millennia Corporation. “Our goal with our FamilySearch integration software was to make it drop-dead simple for brand new users to get started with their family history but also robust enough that it would appeal to advanced researchers. We think we have succeeded in both areas.”

Legacy's new tools help you and your family set goals, plan, and organize projects for working with your family trees in FamilySearch. A simple step-by-step workflow guides your family with constant monitoring of your progress and feedback measured against your goals. As family members collaborate to clean up and grow their trees, Legacy will help each family member share so that the whole family can enjoy their family tree."