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22 June 2017

FREE Access -- British & Irish Records -- FindMyPast (22-26 June 2017)

FREE Access -- British & Irish Records -- FindMyPast (22-26 June 2017)

From our friends, at FindMyPast, we learn that from today through the 26^th you have FREE access (with registration) to its British & Irish collection (though the 1939 Register, newspapers and some record sets are not included).

As the website says …

Being British ourselves, it's not in our nature to brag, but when it comes to British and Irish records you've come to the right place.

· Get back further with the most comprehensive set of British and Irish parish records anywhere (see map below).

· Find your wartime ancestors with the critical 1939 Register*.

· Go back further in military history with our records dating back to 1760.

· Uncover the role your Irish ancestors played in history with our unrivalled Irish record collection.

Read the full announcement on the website.

Which British or Irish ancestors are you hoping to uncover?

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19 February 2017

FREE Access to Ancestry UK Records Through 20 February 2017

FREE Access to Ancestry UK Records Through 20 February 2017

Researching UK ancestors? Check out these databases for FREE between now and Monday via this link.

What included record collection most intrigued you?

Editor’s Note: Apologies for the delay in posting this. Though I had heard the FREE access was coming, I couldn't find the appropriate Ancestry page referring to the sale and I gave up. I didn’t want to lead you astray! I was away from my computer, enjoying the sunshine, and doing non-genealogical stuff yesterday, and today finally stumbled across the appropriate landing page. Enjoy the remaining time with the FREE access, though, I'll be out enjoying the sunshine again!

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17 October 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes -- Laws, Cook County (IL) Cemetery, British Currency, New Zealand WWI, Tennessee Bible, OH Death Records, IA Newspapers, NH Maps & Atlases

Welcome to our newest edition of our periodic feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything genealogical!

We hope you found the past editions helpful. Use your favorite search engine with “Upfront with NGS” “Mini Bytes” or use this Google search link.

Do you have questions, suggestions for future posts, or comments? Please post a comment or send an e-mail to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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Laws are important. Free access to legal information is great. Check out this great collaboration between the Law Library of Congress and the legal publishing company William S. Hein & Co., Inc. as described by The Legal Genealogist.

Burials for the Cook County Cemetery at Dunning, IL are now online! With over 38,000 burials spanning some seventy years, it served as an institutional cemetery for the Cook County institutions. These consisted of the County Poor house and farm opened 1854, the Insane Asylum opened 1869, the infirmary opened 1882, and the Consumptive hospital (TB), opened 1899 and was the official Cook County potters field serving the poor and indigent of the county. Read the article, Database Remembers Chicagoans Buried, Forgotten in Dunning Cemetery, to learn more.

A research challenge we run into is when currency changes. How do we get a grasp on obsolete currency? The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH) has posted a nice & short summary of Post- and pre-decimalization monetary units (covering British currency).

New Zealand now has more than 140,000 World War 1 service files online. Search the database here. Read more about the project here.

Tennessee research has just gotten easier. More than 1500 bible records are available on the website of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. You can access the project here and read more about it here.

The Ohio History Connection’s State Archives’ online catalog of death records has expanded. On October 1, the Ohio Department of Health transferred nearly two million death certificates from the years 1954 to 1963 to the Ohio History Connection.

Fort Dodge (Iowa) newspaper archive is now online. It covers 56 local and area newspapers and publications for the years 1856-1934.

The University of New Hampshire has some neat Maps & Atlases online with the earliest item a Gazetteer of the state of New Hampshire from 1817.

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05 September 2014

FREE -- Familysearch Webinar Schedule Revealed for this Month!

Speaking of online programs (see earlier post FREE -- National Archives (NARA) Virtual Genealogy Fair, 28-30 Oct 2014 -- No Excuse NOT to attend!), FamilySearch has announced several upcoming webinars and the first one is tomorrow. Check each announcement page for full details.

Doing South African Research – September 6, 2014, series of 3 FREE webinars for all who are interested in learning how to use South African records to help expand their family history research efforts

US Research Series: United States Probate Records – September 11, 2014, a FREE webinar for all who are interested in learning how to use United States Probate Records to help them expand their family history research efforts

Doing Danish Research – September 11, 20 & 25, 2014, series of 5 FREE webinars for all who are interested in learning how to use Danish record sources to help expand their family history research

Doing Research Using Sources in the British Isles – September 15-19, 2014, several FREE webinars focusing mostly on research into the records of Ireland

Which one(s) will you attend?

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30 May 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – Ashkenazic Jews, The Vault, Congregational Archive, British WWI Army Diaries, Google Newspaper Archive, Canadian Parliament, Durham (NC), American-Canadian Marriages

We hope you found the past editions helpful. Use your favorite search engine with “Upfront with NGS” “Mini Bytes” or use this Google search link.

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Understanding of the origin of a surname can be very helpful as we research our ancestors. If you are researching Ashkenazic Jewish ancestry, consider reading Here's The Fascinating Origin Of Almost Every Jewish Last Name (Business Insider). [1 June 2014, Editor's note: the hyperlink to this article has been disabled. The article as originally written and as edited has been found to be filled with assertions which are non-referenced/sourced, myths, and contain untruths and inaccuracies. Rather than perpetuate this error-filled content, Upfront with NGS hopes to soon post an editorial about this article and the critical reaction it received from the community.]

If you don’t read The Vault on Slate.com with posts by Rebecca Onion, you might want to add it to your list. It is a neat blog where interesting historic information is often posted – typically in the form of a visual graphic that tells a story. Some examples are: Some Everyday Words That Meant Really Different Things to Early American Colonists, Chart Shows Occupations of Soldiers Most Likely to Be Rejected by the Union Army. (Sorry, Editors, Barkeeps, and Tailors.), and A Map of Hundreds of Noise Complaints in 1920s Manhattan, and Four Other Stupendous Digital History Projects. You can access the blog version here, which gives you a sense of the esoteric and interesting history tidbits shared.

Church archives and their records are fascinating. For some ancestors, early mentions in church records may be the only documentation of their existence, especially if they were landless, female, or just generally “under the radar” of who was documented. If you had practicing Congregationalist ancestors who lived in New England in the Colonial Era, check out the Congregational Library & Archives History Matters digital collection.

British Army war diaries (1914-1922) are online with more to be added. These are British Army unit war diaries for both Flanders and France. Note that these are not personal diaries.

Though the Google news archive of newspapers is no longer being added to, this doesn’t mean that you can’t access its really neat historic archives. Go to this page and you will see a list of all newspapers (or you can search for a title). Select a newspaper of interest and then you can browse the available issues. You can also search through the newspapers though I suggest you put the name of the newspaper in quotes along with your search term. The absence of a result may not truly mean that there is no matching content. Between the vagaries of the search feature and OCR indexing technology, don’t completely trust the search feature!

If you want a view of the Canadian Parliament in action, the historical debates (in English and French) of both the Senate and the House of Commons from 1867-mid 1990s are now online. Who knows, maybe a member of your family was a topic of conversation either directly or as part of a group impacted by the outcome of a debated topic.

Community digitization projects are always fascinating. Durham (NC) has a project, Digital Durham that includes Personal Papers, Business Records, Maps, Photographs, Printed Works, Miscellany, Public Records, and Audio all accessible online thanks to funding from Duke University and the North Carolina State Library.

The Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society has created a summary of American-Canadian Marriages 1599-1984 that reflects “Marriages from Canadian Parishes with American descendants.”

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25 April 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – Philadelphia, Irish Research, Vita Brevis, Portuguese Archives, Colorized Photographs, FIBIS, and Boston Immigrants

Welcome to our newest edition of our bi-weekly feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything genealogical!

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Do you have questions, suggestions for future posts, or comments? Please post a comment or send an e-mail to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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Did you know that there is something called Library Company of Philadelphia? The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Open to the public free of charge, the Library Company houses an extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, broadsides, ephemera, prints, photographs, and works of art. I learned about it through its Flickr page

Ireland’s Memorial Records are now digitized and online via the Flanders Fields Museum project website. These records represent the 49,000 names published in 1923 by The Committee of the Irish National War Memorial and were originally alphabetically listed in eight leather bound volumes.

AmericanAncestors.org (aka New England Historic Genealogical Society, NEHGS) has a new blog, Vita Brevis designed to offer the reader short essays by the Society’s expert staff on their own research as well as news of the greater genealogical community.

Dick Eastman (EOGN) brought to our attention that there is a new website, Tombo, with Information about 20+ District Archive Sites in Portugal. The website is mostly in Portuguese and you can select an English interface, though recognize that any records mentioned are listed in Portuguese.

Colorized historic photos are just mesmerizing. Check out a video, Brief Moments in History, to see some stunning images of what these photos might have looked like had color photography been invented and in wide-spread use.

Families in British India Society (FIBIS) has a new database, St. Helena, South Atlantic – Banns of Marriage 1849-1924. Check out the full holdings of the FIBIS database here.

The MapLab of WIRED ran a piece, Maps Reveal How Immigration Transformed Boston’s Neighborhoods. A new exhibit at the Boston Public Library uses maps, modern and historic photos, and census data to illustrate how waves of immigration shaped the city and its individual neighborhoods in the 20th century — and continue to shape them today.

Another Irish research resource! How to trace your Ancestors in County Monaghan (Ireland) is a free guide that discusses the many records available to genealogical researchers.

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20 June 2013

British, Scottish & Irish Records -- More & More Just Keep Becoming Available

Source: John Pinkerton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3A1818_Pinkerton_Map_of_the_British_Isles_(England%2C_Scotland%2C_Ireland)_-_Geographicus_-_BritishIsles-pinkerton-1818.jpg

Since my mom’s side is 100% English – well, there is the one lone Scotsman in the family – I am always on the look out for British records. And, I’ll tell you a secret – I have reason to believe that our Scotsman’s ancestors were probably Irish. Not just Irish -- Catholic Irish. As is often said, my mom would roll in her grave hearing that; she is the person who on St. Patrick’s day made a point of wearing orange!

And, enough about my family ... let’s look at some recent news (or sometimes “news” to me) about newly available records from across the pond from England, Scotland and Ireland.

Republic of Ireland's GRO indexes to go online at IrishGenealogy.ie & Irish wills calendars 1858-1922 now online (via British GENES)
Historic Graves (shows mostly Irish graveyards)
Valuation Revision Book Search (via PRONI, Public Records Office of Northern Ireland)
Start exploring Derry's Great Parchment Book (via Irish Genealogy News)
19th century immigrants' records released online (via National Archives (UK))
The British Newspaper Archive just keeps growing
Scottish Emigration Database
National Records of Scotland website up and running

Do you know of some other “new” British Isles resources that your fellow family historians would want to know about?

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20 July 2012

Do you have a British Convict sent to Australia in your family tree?

For most of us, the answer is probably NO.

And, given any English heritage, you “might” have a distant cousin who was!

The State Library of Queensland (Australia) has made available The British Convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database which has been compiled from the British Home Office (HO) records. It includes details for over 123 000 of the estimated 160 000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries - names, term of years, transport ships and more. More detailed information is available about this convict database. You can also find out about the creation and launch of the database.

Is there a British Convict in your ancestral tree? Do share.

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