Researching Genealogy in Scotland – July 11, 2013 – Vancouver, BC

Dunnottar castle, Aberdeenshire area of Scotland, 2009. Copyright by Moyan Brenn http://earthincolors.wordpress.com Dunnottar castle, Aberdeenshire area of Scotland, 2009. Copyright by Moyan Brenn (CC Attrib.No.Deriv.). See the photographer’s website: http://earthincolors.wordpress.com

 

Researching Genealogy in Scotland Talk – July 11, 2013, Vancouver, BC

George Caldwell. Scottish Group Facilitator for the BC Genealogical Society (BCGS), will be giving a talk on Researching Genealogy in Scotland, Thursday, July 11th from 2:00 – 3:30 pm on the Vancouver Public Library’s Central Branch Lower Floor in the Alma VanDusen and Peter Kaye rooms.

Free. Co-sponsored by the BCGS and the Vancouver Public Library.

Vancouver Public Library (VPL) offers other free genealogy and history related events and activities. See the VPL’s event calendar for details. Coming up:

What’s Up, Doc? Series: The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche, Canadian novelist, a feature documentary screening, Monday May 27, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm.

Wired for Learning, Google Beyond the Basics, Wednesday June 12, 2:30 pm-4:00 pm.  Registration required.

Wired for Learning, How to Research your Vancouver Home Using Online Resources, Wednesday June 19, 2:30 pm-4:00 pm. Registration required.

BCGS Irish Group – Notes from 8 May 2013

The Ireland Reaching Out website was discussed by Mary Cooper, BC representative: http://www.irelandxo.com  

See the website’s feature, Find My Parish – by Province or County: http://www.irelandxo.com/where-do-i-start

The Peter Robinson settlers from Ireland 1823, 1825 were mentioned. The following is a sampling of websites with information, indexes and databases

The Archives of Ontario, see particularly the Land Records research guide, “From Grant to Patent: A Guide to Early Land Settlement Records, ca.1790 to ca.1850″, pages 11-12: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/the_records.aspx

Peterborough Museum and Archives: http://www.peterboroughmuseumandarchives.ca/Browsing/archivalcollections.htm

Peter Robinson Ships’ Lists, Trent Valley Archives: http://www.trentvalleyarchives.com/resources/online-resources/census-registries-directories/peter-robinson-ships-list

Emigration From Cork Ireland to Upper Canada, 1823, The First Peter Robinson Settlers by Roberta M. O’Brien: http://webhome.idirect.com/~obrienr/cork1823.html

Peter Robinson Settlers of 1823 and 1825, Joe Kenny: http://kennytree.com/links/peter_robinson.htm

Peter Robinson Settlers from Cork to Canada 1823 & 1825, The Ships List: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/peterrobinsonindex.shtml

Peter Robinson Settlers – 1825, Peterborough County GenSearch: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~peterborough/probinsn.html

Extracts from 8 of the Robinson ships, Surgeon-superintendent Reports for 8 of the 1825 vessels, Olive Tree Genealogy: http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/canada/PeterRobinson.shtml

Survey of Robinson’s Irish Settlers, Robinson’s Papers and Correspondence, Ships Lists, Medical Journals, etc. Transcription project: http://peannairi.com

See also -

The book, Peter Robinson’s Settlers by Carol Bennett (originally published by Juniper Books Ltd.: Renfrew, 1987, latest edition published by Global Heritage Press: Milton, Ontario, 2011).

1825 Robinson Settlers website for information on the 2025 Celebration planned and to contribute to a new book on Robinson settler families. Contact the Kawartha Ancestral Research Association Inc.: http://www.karagen.org/robinson.html

also mentioned -

Irish Centre for Migration, ERIN, The Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) at the Ulster-American Folk, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland and the Irish Centre for Migration Studies (ICMS) at the National University of Ireland, Cork : http://migration.ucc.ie/indexemigration.htm

Centre for Migration Studies, Ulster-American Folk Park: http://www.nmni.com/uafp/Collections/Emigration

Irish Petty Sessions Courts were another topic. Some on-line resources are -

Irish Petty Sessions Courts, Irish Genealogy Toolkit: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/irish-petty-sessions.html

Irish Petty Session records, Republic of Ireland only, Find My Past (FindMyPast.ie or .com or co.uk – World Search), see list of all Irish indexes and databases at Find My Past: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/help-and-advice/international-records/irish-records

Irish Petty Sessions records, Republic of Ireland only, see the FamilySearch catalog for films: https://familysearch.org/catalog-search

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, petty sessions for the 6 northern Ireland counties only: http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/family_history/family_history_more_sources/family_history_19th_century_sources.htm

BCGS Seminar Notes – Glenn Wright & Lesley Anderson – April 27, 2013

Handouts for Saturday’s seminar with speakers, Glenn Wright and Lesley Anderson, will be posted soon.

 Glenn Wright & Lesley Anderson, Burnaby, BC, Canada, april 2013

Glenn Wright’s book sold out at the BCGS Seminar on Saturday. Copies of Canadians at War 1914-1919: A Research Guide to Wordl War One Service Records (Global Heritage Press, 2010) are available at Global Genealogy: http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/military/resources/101160.htm

 

Many of the books mentioned during the talks are available at the BCGS Walter Draycott Library.

BCGS Editor, M. Diane Rogers, @mdianerogers, tweeted the seminar using the hashtag #bcgsseminar. The comments are her own.  The BCGS Twitter id is @bcgs_ca. If you are on Twitter, do follow BCGS! And you can still comment or ask questions.


What’s New at FamilySearch – webinar Wednesday April 24, 2013

Wondering what’s new or what’s changed this month on FamilySearch.org?

There’s a free webinar this Wednesday, “What’s New at FamilySearch”, a presentation by Devin Ashby, a Community Advocate for FamilySearch. There’s a new look at FamilySearch.org, but also new opportunities to share photos and stories, new learning videos and more.

April 24, 2013, 2:00pm Eastern; 11 am Pacific
More Details & Registration

If you can’t watch this live, the recording will be available for free at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com

FamilySearch indexers have hit the billion mark! One billion records have now been indexed and arbitrated. See the FamilySearch blog for more about this.

For all the upcoming genealogy webinars, chats, Google Hangouts, etc., see the GeneaWebinars site, a central spot for related genealogical educational opportunities.

 

BCGS 2013 Seminar, April 27 – with Glenn Wright & Lesley Anderson

The British Columbia Genealogical Society is pleased to present both Glenn T. Wright and Lesley Anderson speaking in an all day seminar, Saturday, 27 April 2013, in Burnaby, BC. at the Danish Lutheran Church.

Seminar door prizes will include a one year subscription to Ancestry.ca!  And lunch is included in your ticket.

This seminar will particularly interest anyone interested in military research, as Glenn Wright, previously at Library and Archives Canada, is a Canadian expert on those areas, or in early immigration to Canada, or in researching on-line with Ancestry as Lesley Anderson, is on Ancestry.ca’s staff.

Topics are:

The British Army in Canada 1750-1871
Canadians at War – 1885 Rebellion, South African 1899-1902, First & Second World Wars
Pre 1865 Immigration
What’s new at Ancestry?

More details about the topics will be available soon. For full information and to register, please go to the BCGS 2013 Seminar page on this website.

[Edited 28 February 2013 to include news about the Ancestry.ca door prize.]

Free weekend – Swedish research at ArkivDigital – March 16-17, 2013

For those researching in Sweden, ArkivDigital is free this weekend  – 16-17 March 2013.  This is to celebrate Family Research Day in Sweden!

http://www.arkivdigital.se/nyheter/slaktforska-gratis-16-17-mars-2013

Co-incidentally this is also the BCGS Scandinavian Group’s day to meet at the Scandinavian Community Centre,  6540 Thomas Street in Burnaby.

Come & join us,  1 – 3 pm.

BCGS Scandinavian Group webpage