Showing posts with label Medieval. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medieval. Show all posts

07 March 2016

20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources - 2016 Version Part 1


I have my annual present for you ... Just over a year ago, I did a multi-part years “20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7)

As I trawl genealogy newsletters, blogs, and elsewhere, I kept an email folder of all the news items that aren’t “big enough” for a full post and yet sound useful for genealogists and family historians.  These range from how-to type information to databases.  There is so much information out there and it’s impossible to fully blog about most of it.

In order that those collected don’t go to waste, I am again planning to create a few posts where I present you with 20 “relatively” new resources and the associated hyperlink.  That’s it; a very no frills list. If the title doesn’t convey enough info I will add a note about what content caught my eye ...

I will be doing this from oldest to youngest in my queue – so, some of these may seem familiar to you and probably less familiar as I get to the more recently collected pieces.

CANADA
2.     Canadiana.org -- a coalition of memory institutions dedicated to providing broad access to Canada's documentary heritage.

IRELAND
3.     IGP Headstone Project [Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives] – over 85,000 Headstones

UNITED KINGDOM
9.     Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow – Digital Volumes – vaccination registers covering 1801-1831 (fascinating!)
10. Lane’s Masonic Records -- John Lane’s Masonic Records 1717-1894 is an authoritative listing of all the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges from the foundation of the first Grand Lodge in 1717 up until 1894.
11. Last Chance to Read (Free to signup, $ to access pages) (UK & Ireland) – over 4000 newspapers
12. Bedlam Burial Ground Register -- register of over 5,000 people buried at the Bedlam Burial Ground at Liverpool Street in the City of London

UNITED STATES
15. U.S. Serial Set – Starts 1817 and contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports & American State Papers -- the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838
18. Penn Libraries Launches ‘OPenn’ Digital Resources Online Platform -- Some rare books and manuscripts from Penn Libraries can now be accessed online
19. Congregational Library & Archives, History Matters – Series I: Church Records -- This series contains collections of church records documenting early Puritan, Congregational, and Christian (denomination) history in New England






Editor’s Note: As of today, each of the above links worked.  Now, whether the links in any of the identified articles work, I cannot vouch for that.  And, armed with the information provided, it should be relatively easy to get to determine where the discussed database currently resides.  If you get really stuck, drop me an email and I’ll try to ferret out the recalcitrant link or cross out my entry in the above list!

Editor’s Note: Know of a neat resource that you think might be a hidden gem?  Drop an email to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.
















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21 November 2014

Medieval Parchment Doodles and Creative Repairs ... who would have expected?


Sometimes you don’t think of something until someone mentions it.  That was certainly the case when I recently read two items about Medieval parchment on Colossal – Art, Design, and Visual Culture both by Christopher Jobson.


I like reading pieces like this because they get me thinking outside-the-box as I look at documents.  Back in the day, they didn’t have staplers, paperclips, whiteout, erasers, glue, or many of the other tricks of the trade that we use to repair issues in documents.  So, what did they do?

I’ve seen words cut out of documents (a definitely permanent form of “delete”), I’ve seen wax used to attach a re-write, I’ve seen thread used to sew a tear, I’ve seen paper scraped to almost transparency to remove some text

I added in the doodling link as I have come across such myself when researching in court records and in private manuscript collections. You will be looking at some serious papers and then all of a sudden see a doodle.  I find that when I see these, they immediately “humanize” the individual in my mind.  Even our ancestors didn’t just work, work, work while on the job.  It makes you wonder what they daydreamed about?  The same things that we do?

Sometimes, the doodles are clearly those of a child.  Did the parent step away from his desk and a child entered and wanted to practice writing or drawing?  Or did the clerk grab a sheet of paper not realizing that the reverse side was already scribbled on and just opted not to rewrite the official document? 

It also made me wonder if my kid’s doodles (their school papers seem to be full of them) mean that someday an important document in the future will contain their scribbles?  It also got me thinking, if we move more and more to a computer-based virtual world and paper continues to be passé, can one really doodle electronically to the same affect?  Will a window into who we are be lost?

So, these types of articles both give me something to think about regarding ancestors and historical documents while at the same time giving me food for thought about the future?

Have you seen a really neat/creative document repair or correction?

Have you come across doodles in the most unexpected places when doing research?

Are there any conservators amongst our readers? Do you know of any neat resources that talk about how documents were repaired through time?





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