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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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03 November 2015

FREE Index ($ to access found records) -- FindMyPast Releases 1939 Register

Findmypast has just made available the so-called 1939 Register. You can search the index for FREE though it does cost (separate from any other Findmypast subscription or pay option) to access the actual data and related information.

This is an important record because the 1931 census of England and Wales was destroyed by fire in 1942, there was no 1941 census taken and the 1951 census survives though won’t be available until 2052 due to the 100-year closure rule established after the 1911 census.

This is personally interesting for me as this is the first time my mother would show up with her parents as she was born in 1937. I did search on my grandfather, when I couldn’t find my mother, and found the household. Interestingly, the household is shown with the head of household (my grandfather -- John R Fountain), 1 other (should be my grandmother) and 1 locked individual (should be my mother). This is because the listed individuals have to have surpassed the one hundred year and one day mark in order for the information to be made public. Since exact birth dates are part of the collected information, as individuals achieve this milestone, their information will become available.

In my case, since my mother is deceased, there is “supposed” to be a mechanism available where if I provide proof that she is deceased, access can then be granted. As soon as I know more about this option, I’ll add that info to this post. Once I unlock my mom, I’ll then go looking for my then still-living great grandparents and other family members.

Want to learn more about these records and their digitization? Check out these resources:

+ BBC Magazine article, Plugging genealogy's 30-year gap

+ Introducing the 1939 Register, video from Findmypast on the digitization process

+ Introductory video on using the database from Findmypast

+ Facebook Page for 1939 Register (a convenient platform to use to get questions answered)

+ General information about “The 1939 National Identify Card” via 1911Census.org.uk

Did you make a great find?

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24 June 2015

24 Hours in The Past -- a BBC Living History TV Show involving celebrities

The genealogy community often talks about television programs that are about individuals researching their ancestry (e.g. WDYTYA, Finding Your Roots, Journey to Find Their Roots, Genealogy Roadshow, etc). There is so much we can learn from these programs as we vicariously share in each individual’s journey.

I came across an interesting premise in a relatively new BBC show called 24 Hours in the Past. Per a Wikipedia page about the show, it is described as “Six celebrities were immersed in a recreation of impoverished life in Victorian Britain. Each of the four episodes represented 24 hours living and working in four different occupations.”

In the U.S. we cannot access the full episodes and we can watch quite a few clips.

What time period would you think would make for an interesting historically premised show where celebrities live as their ancestors once did?

If you could watch a day in the life of an ancestor – when and where would that be?

Maybe, in the future, we’ll see familiar celebrities living as those in 24 Hours in the Past are.

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25 August 2014

Good News -- Mother's names to now be added to marriage certificates in England and Wales!

England marriage certificate of my parents, Richard Alfred Acey + Margaret Joyce Fountain, 1958.
Notice that only the fathers are listed!
(Copyright 2014 Diane L Richard)

Since Queen Victoria’s time 1830’s—marriage certificates in England and Wales included only the names of the father of the bride and groom—not the mothers. Scotland and Wales already include mother’s names. In fact when civil registration was introduced in Scotland in 1855 mothers' names were on marriage certificates from day one!

Due to a petition gathering - with nearly 70,000 names and over 100 members of Parliament this will now be changed to include mothers’ names on marriage records. One hundred years ago women were the “property” of their father’s which probably explains why only the father’s names were included. This “rights” an historical wrong against women and for future researchers to learn about their ancestors.

To learn more see: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-28844124. Prime Minister Cameron said: "It's high time the system was updated."

The link above includes a few videos that discuss the history, the petition, and interviews the person behind the petition: Ailsa Burkimsher Sadler.

Source: IAJGS Public Records Access Alert via Jan Meisels Allen, Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee, via Jan Alpert (Past President NGS)

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28 September 2012

New Voices of Genealogy Release: Ronald Ames Hill, CG, FASG “Research Adventures in England”

From guest editor, Arlene V. Jennings

The National Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the September video release honoring the 100^th anniversary of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ): Ronald Ames Hill’s recollections of “Research Adventures in

England

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Dr. Hill was a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, when he inherited a collection of early nineteenth-century letters from the collection of his great-aunt. Already a highly skilled scientific researcher, he went to work learning the stories of his ancestors with the same determination and thoroughness he brought to his profession. He undertook his first journey to Cornwall, to the parishes of his ancestors, in 1971 and by now has made sixteen such trips for fourteen months of on-site research. Since his retirement from Sandia in 1994, ancestral research and publishing have become a full-time occupation. He has published four books and thirty-one articles in national genealogical journals based on his ancestral research. NGS members can read over twenty of his articles at the Society’s website www.ngsgenealogy.org where they can access the NGSQ back to 1978.

Dr. Hill earned the certified genealogist credential in 1997. His The Tumultuous Achym/Fulford Relationship received the Jacobus Award in 2004 from the American Society of Genealogists (ASG). In 2005, in recognition of the quality and quantity of his genealogical writing, the ASG named him a fellow of the society. In 2008 he received the NGS Award of Excellence for a Genealogy and Family History Book for his The Ancestors and Descendants of Reuben Ball.

Hill is a former president of the New Mexico Genealogical Society and a former trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. He has been a speaker at national genealogical conferences since 1992 and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the NGSQ.

Previous releases in the Voices of Genealogy archive now playing at the NGS website (http://www.ngsgenealogy.org) are Robert C. Anderson, FASG; Mary McCampbell Bell, CG; John Frederick Dorman, CG (Emeritus), FASG, FNGS, FVGS; David L. Greene, PhD, FASG; Henry B. Hoff, CG, FASG, FGBS; Harry Macy, FASG, FGBS; George Ely Russell, CG, FASG, FNGS; and Shirley Langdon Wilcox, CG, FNGS.

The Ronald Ames Hill video was produced by award winning filmmakers Kate Geis and Allen Moore from an interview by Melinde Lutz Byrne, CG, FASG, co-editor of the NGSQ. Ronald Ames Hill, CG, FASG, “Research Adventures in

England

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