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From:
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record-Aug 22-07
To: british columbia
<bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug
2007 13:26:16 +0100 (BST)
1307-1485
Norfolk Feet of Fines
Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership
of land in Norfolk. These abstracts were prepared by Walter Rye.
1380
Oxford City Poll Tax
The poll tax granted in 1379 was assessed and raised in the following two years.
Every lay person, man or woman, aged over 15 was to be taxed. The returns for
the city of Oxford, edited by J. E. Thorold Rogers, were printed for the Oxford
Historical Society in 1891.
1659-1661
Surrey Sessions Rolls and Order Books.
These are abstracts of sessional orders, minutes of criminal cases, memoranda
and other entries of record taken from the Order Books from Midsummer 1659 to
Midsummer 1661, inclusive, and the Sessions Rolls for Easter and Midsummer 1661.
1698
State Papers Domestic
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as
well as other miscellaneous records. Includes lists of passes to travel abroad.
1832
Eastern Division of Norfolk Poll Book
Under the Reform Act of 1832, the County of Norfolk was allotted four Members of
Parliament, being two Knights of the Shire for the Eastern Division and two for
the Western. The Eastern Division included the hundreds of Blofield, Clavering,
Depwade, Diss, Earsham, North Erpingham, South Erpingham, Eynsford, East Flegg,
West Flegg, Forehoe, Happing, Henstead, Humbleyard, Loddon, Taverham, Tunstead
and Walsham. The franchise was available to freeholders worth 40s a year or
over; copyholders and long leaseholders of £10 or more; short leaseholders and
tenants of £50 or more: but limited to adult males. Voting took place on 20 and
21 December 1832. This poll book lists the voters for each parish, with the
votes cast. Voting was not compulsory, and non-voters are not listed. Each voter
had two votes: the votes are indicated in the columns C. (Lord Henry
Cholmondeley, 2852); P. (Nathaniel William Peach, 2960); K. (Hon. George Keppel,
3261); and W. (William Howe Windham, 3304). The
voters were not necessarily resident in the parish, but derived their franchise
from the land there; so some of the names have addresses outside the parish.
After the name there may appear the abbreviations cop. for copyholder; oc. for
occupier; or le. for leaseholder: the rest are freeholders or annuitants.
1852
Perry's Bankrupt and Insolvent Gazette
Notices of bankrupts, bankrupts' estates, assignees, insolvents, and dissolution
of partnerships for England and Wales; Irish bankruptcies; and Scottish
sequestrations.
1885
Phonetic Journal
Lists of members of the Phonetic Society, reports of Shorthand Writers
Association and other meetings, news and advertisements, from the Phonetic
Journal.
From:
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record Aug 16-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007
10:10:45 +0100 (BST)
Added
this week:
Patent Rolls
1278-1279
Calendars of the patent rolls of the reign of king Edward I are printed in the
Calendars of State Papers: but these cover only a fraction of the material on
the rolls. From 1881 to 1889 the reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public
Record Office also include calendars of other material from the rolls - about
five times as many entries as in the State Papers - predominantly mandates to
the royal justices to hold sessions of oyer and terminer to resolve cases
arising locally; but also other general business. The calendar for the 7th year
of king Edward I [20 November 1278 to 19 November 1279], hitherto unindexed, is
covered here.
Intended Brides and Bridegrooms in Yorkshire
1626-1628
William Paver, a 19th-century Yorkshire genealogist, made brief abstracts of
early marriage licences (now lost) in York Registry. His manuscript, which
became Additional Manuscripts 29667 in the British Museum, was transcribed by J.
W. Clay, F. S. A., and printed in various issues of the Yorkshire Archaeological
Journal: this is from the volume for 1903. Paver did not note the dates of the
licences, merely listing them by year: his abstracts give the names and
addresses of both parties, and the name of the parish church in which it was
intended that the wedding would take place.
PCC Year Books of Probates
1630-1634
The Prerogative Court of Canterbury's main jurisdiction was central and southern
England
and Wales, as well as over sailors &c dying abroad: these brief abstracts,
compiled under the title "Year Books of Probates", and printed in 1902, usually
give address, date of probate and name of executor or administrator. They are
based on the Probate Act Books, cross-checked with the original wills, from
which additional details are, occasionally, added. The original spelling of
surnames was retained, but christian and place names have been modernised where
necessary.
Patents for Inventions
1852-1853
Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1
October 1852 to 31 December 1853:
giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is
then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.
Police Gazette
1923
The Police Gazette was published by Authority by the London Metropolitan Police,
and circulated, as confidential, to the police forces throughout Britain and
Ireland. The contents were based on the information routinely submitted to the
Criminal Record Office. There are several sections of particular interest:
Apprehensions Sought, in which each police force gave details of people for whom
arrest warrants had been issued and were now on their Wanted list. The details
given are: the name of the police authority (in bold) seeking an arrest; a brief
description of the crime; the suspect's full name (in bold); C. R. O. number,
year of birth, height, complexion, hair colour, eye colour, distinguishing marks
such as scars; clothing &c. There then follows a resume of previous convictions.
It was then sometimes additionally thought worthwhile to publish photographs of
the wanted person: these do not repeat the details given in the original Wanted
notice, but merely give the number and date of that item.
In order that the forces receiving the Police Gazette could keep their copies up
to date, it was necessary to publish notices of those suspects who had in due
course been arrested, and these were given in a section headed Apprehensions.
The name of the arresting force is given (in bold); then the full name of the
suspect (in bold), the C. R. O. number, and the case number and date of issue of
the original Wanted notice from the Police Gazette.
If one of these persons happen to die before being arrested, a death notice was
inserted in the Police Gazette. Details given were: full name (in bold); C. R.
O. number; case number and date for the corresponding initial wanted notice;
place and date of death.
Persons in Custody: in which each police force gave details of people taken into
custody on remand or awaiting trial. The name of the arresting force is given,
with duration of remand &c., and nature of charge; then the full name of the
suspect (in bold), the C. R. O. number; year of birth; height; complexion;
colour of hair; colour of eyes; occupation; birthplace; and details of previous
convictions.
Re-Convictions: in which were given details of people sentenced at the various
criminal courts round the country (with occasional notices of discharge &c.).
First of all, the full name of the suspect is given (in bold), the C. R. O.
number; the court; date; penalty or length of imprisonment; nature of crime.
There is then usually a cross-reference to the details of the case as previously
advertised in the Police Gazette, with number of case and date of issue.
Suspects: Sometimes in the description of a crime a suspect (but for whom no
arrest warrant had been issued) is named.
Notices were given from time to time of known swindlers, doubtful traders and
unregistered charities.
Aliens Expelled or Deported: The details given are full name (surname in bold);
C. R. O. number, sex, year of birth, height, complexion, hair colour, eye colour,
identifying marks such as scars; nationality; occupation; port of departure, and
date; and the name of the police authority (in bold).
Aliens Wanted for Crime. The details given are full name (surname in bold); C.
R. O. number, sex, year of birth, height, complexion, hair colour, eye colour,
distinguishing marks such as scars; nationality; clothing &c. There then follows
a resume of the crimes concerned, with the name of the police authority (in
bold) seeking an arrest.
Aliens Whose Whereabouts Are Sought. The details given are full name (surname in
bold); sex, age, nationality, and last known address, and date when last heard
of. There then follows the name of the police authority (in bold) seeking to
make contact. In most cases an arrest was not sought, merely the establishing of
present whereabouts. When the individual aliens had been traced, their names
were published under the heading Aliens Traced, with no more detail than the
name of the police authority, full name, and item number and date of the issue
of the Police Gazette in which the first request had been posted.
Convicts on Licence, Persons under Police Supervision and others whose
apprehensions are sought for failing to comply with the requirements of the
Prevention of Crimes Act: The details given are: the convict's full name (in
bold), with any aliases; C. R. O. number, year of birth, height, complexion,
hair colour, eye colour, distinguishing marks such as scars; occupation;
birthplace. There then follows a resume of the previous conviction and details
of release; reason for revocation of the licence (usually failure to report to
the police); name of the officer proving service of the notice; name of the
officer proving identity; previous convictions; names of police forces that had
had contact with the indivudual in the past. Often there is a police portrait.
We have compiled separate indexes here for prison and borstal inmates.
Deserters from the Armed forces. This gave, for each soldier: Office Number (i.
e., number in the deserters' list); Name; Regimental Number; Corps; Age; Height;
Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour; Trade; Date and Place of Enlistment; Parish
and County in which Born; Date and Place of Desertion; and any Distinguishing
Marks (usually scars or tattoos) and Remarks. For each sailor: Office Number (i.
e., number in the deserters' list); Name (surname and initial(s)); Ship Deserted
From (and whether straggler or deserter); Date; Rating; Where Born; Age; Height;
Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour; and any Distinguishing Marks (usually scars
or tattoos) and Remarks. For each airman: Office Number (i. e., number in the
deserters' list); Name (surname and initial(s)); Regimental Number; Unit; Age;
Height; Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour; Trade; Date and Place of
Enlistment; Parish and County in which Born; Date and Place of Desertion; and
any Distinguishing Marks (usually scars
or tattoos) and Remarks. Some of these men rejoined in due course, so there was
a subsidiary list of 'Men Reported as Deserters or Absentees who have Rejoined
or who, for any other Reason, are NOT to be Apprehended'. These might be from
the Army, Navy or Air Force. The list gives: Name (surname and initial(s));
Regimental Number or Rating; Corps or Ship; Police Gazette in which Advertised
(date and number).
Lists of soldiers in the British Army or the reserve discharged for misconduct.
This gave, for each soldier: Office Number (i. e., number in the list); Name;
Regimental Number; Corps; Age; Height; Complexion; Hair Colour; Eye Colour;
Trade; Cause of Discharge as stated on Parchment Certificate (misconduct,
convicted by the civil power, or with ignominy); Parish and County in which
Born; Date and Place of Discharge; and any Distinguishing Marks (usually scars
or tattoos) and Remarks.
All these sections have been indexed by us separately. Variations of surname
spelling and aliases are noted in the descriptions, and these variants and
aliases have also been indexed.
We have added a total of 96,689 new entries this week. We now have over 5.3
million entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
guaranteed authentic: no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans, or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice,
including variants.
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To:
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Subject: Scots language
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007
14:31:12 -0700
Greetings, an interesting BBC website, courtesy Norman Calder. regards,
the other Ron
Scots 'mither tongue' goes online
An archive of the Scots language is now available all over the world
thanks to a comprehensive new website. Researchers at
Glasgow University have
completed work on the online resource, which contains more than four million
words in Scots and Scottish English.
As well as meaning and usage, the project also has audio links, allowing
people to hear words being spoken.
The site, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, can be
accessed at
www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
People from the
US, Australia, China, Japan and South America have already logged on to use the
service, as well as people in Scotland.
It is one aspect of a long and flourishing cultural heritage.
Dr Wendy Anderson, Project researcher
The website currently includes text from 1945 up to the present day,
with researchers working on expanding it.
They are building up a new resource for older varieties of language,
dating from 1700 to 1945.
Once completed this should allow people to trace the development of
features of Scots and Scottish English over time.
Project researcher, Dr Wendy Anderson, said: "The Scots language is a source of interest across the world as it is one aspect of a long and flourishing cultural heritage.The website will be a useful language resource for academic researchers and students, language learners and teachers, dictionary writers and secondary school language teachers, not to mention for the large number of general users who just want to satisfy a curiosity about the Scots language."
Date: Fri,
10 Aug 2007 11:01:59 -0700
From: Anne Christiansen
Subject:
Ancestral Roots
tayroots.com
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Hi Bob,
I just
came back from Scotland
and had visited Dundee, and their library. Next year in Sept. 2008 they are
having a Roots Festival. A whole week of genealogy and tours, ceilidh etc. for
499 pounds.
It sounds very
interesting!
Members can view all
info at
www.tayroots.com
Anne Christiansen
From:
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record Aug 9-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007
12:48:47 +0100 (BST)
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Suffolk Lay Subsidy
1568
By Act of Parliament of December 1566 a subsidy of 8d in the £ on moveable goods
and 4s in the £ on the annual value of land was raised from the lay (as opposed
to clergy) population. These are the returns for Suffolk, printed in 1909 in the
Suffolk Green Book series.
Wandsworth Parish Registers
1603-1788
The ancient parish of Wandsworth in
Surrey comprised the single
township of Wandsworth,
including the hamlets of Garratt, Half Farthing and
Summers
Town.
It lay in the archdeaconry of Surrey of the diocese of Winchester:
unfortunately, few bishop's transcripts of
Surrey parish registers survive earlier than 1800. Although the original parish
registers of Wandsworth doubtless commenced in 1538, the volume(s) before 1603
had been lost by the 19th century. In 1889 a careful transcript by John Traviss
Squire of the first three surviving registers was printed, and we have now
indexed it year by year. The burial registers are considerably more bulky than
the baptism registers, because the burying ground was used by Dissenters, who
formed a large part of the population. These include a French Protestant
congregation that worshipped in a church (the registers of which do not survive)
in a courtyard immediately opposite the parish church. The burial registers of
the early 17th century
are particularly important because they contain the names of adults born well
back into the 16th century, a period for which the parish registers no longer
survive.
State Papers Domestic
1703-1704
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to
Britain, Ireland and the
colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other
miscellaneous records. Includes lists of passes to travel abroad. June 1703 to
April 1704.
Treasury Books
1705-1706
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
April 1705 to September 1706. The text covers a huge variety of topics involving
all manner of receipts and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil
servants, pensioners, petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among
the individuals named.
The Gentleman's Magazine
1819
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments, general news and domestic occurrences, as
reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items
from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. July to December 1819.
London Metropolitan Police Register of Joiners
1830-1842
The Metropolitan Police Register of Joiners (MEPO 333/4) lists policemen joining
the force through to 31 December 1842 (to warrant number 19892). The register is
alphabetical, in so far as the recruits are listed chronologically grouped under
first letter of surname. It is evidently a continuation of a similar earlier
register, not closed until its alphabetical sections were filled: consequently,
there are no entries in this register for the initial letters N, O, Q, U, V, X,
Y or Z; and the sections of this register start at different dates - A 18
April 1840 (warrant number 16894); B 11 December 1830 (5570); C 7 September 1830
(4988); D 27 May 1833 (8445); E 15 December 1838 (14476); F 30 March 1832
(7372); G 1 December 1835 (11,184); H 25 April 1832 (7457); I and J 13 February
1837 (12449); K 2 January 1838 (13457); L 3 October 1834 (9905); M 15 November
1832 (7999); P 4 October 1831 (6869); R 4 September 1837 (13021); S 30 March
1835 (10366); T 6 April 1840 (16829); W 30
December 1833 (9096). The register gives Date of Appointment, Name, Number of
Warrant, Cause of Removal from Force (resigned, dismissed, promoted or died),
and Date of Removal. Although the register was closed for new entrants at the
end of 1842, the details of removals were always recorded, some being twenty or
more years later. Those recruits not formerly in the police, the army, or some
government department, were required to provide (normally) at least two letters
of recommendation from persons of standing, and details of these are entered on
the facing pages. Recruits transferred from other forces or rejoining the force
did not normally need recommendations - in the latter case, former warrant
numbers are given - but some recommendations are from police inspectors, even
other constables. Recruits coming from the army sometimes have general military
certificates of good conduct, but most often have a letter from their former
commanding officer; recruits recommended b
y government departments (most often the Home Office) similarly have letters
from the head of department. But the great majority of the names and addresses
in these pages are of respectable citizens having some sort of personal
acquaintance with the recruit. Where more than two recommendations were
provided, the clerk would only record one or two, with the words 'and others'.
Tradesmen are sometimes identified as such by their occupations; there are some
gentry. Although the great bulk of these names are from London and the home
counties, a scattering are from further afield throughout Britain and Ireland.
Where a recruit was only recently arrived in the metropolis, the names and
addresses of the recommenders can be invaluable for tracing where he came from.
All surnames (10,121 recruits and 17,583 recommenders) have been indexed.
Registry of British Merchant Seamen
1840-1844
The registry of merchant seamen, including fishermen, sought to identify
individuals securely in this series of registers by assigning to each man a
unique number, grouped together by surname, and then by christian name, whereas
in previous registers names had been jumbled together under the first two
letters of the surname. Each man's age and birthplace was recorded, together
with any number brought forwards from previous registration, i. e. the number
assigned to the man in the registers for 1835 to 1840. Then each voyage is
listed, with his status (e. g. S for seaman, M for mate, &c.) on that trip, the
identification number of the ship, the date, and then the name of the ship. In
the event of it becoming known that a man had died during the course of a
voyage, that information is written across the remaining empty columns. This
volume (BT 112/3) covers seamen whose surnames start with Ba or McBa.
We added a total of 62,720 new entries last week. We now have over 5.2 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
guaranteed authentic: no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans, or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice,
including variants.
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From:
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record Aug 2-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007
16:54:00 +0100 (BST)
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1524
Inhabitants of Suffolk
The lay subsidy granted by Act of Parliament in 1523 was a tax on the laymen (as
opposed to clergy), levied on householders, landowners, those possessing
moveable goods worth £1 or more, and all workmen aged 16 or over earning £1 or
more per annum. Real estate was taxed at a shilling in the pound; moveable goods
worth £1 to £2 at fourpence a pound; £2 to £20 at sixpence a pound; and over £20
at a shilling in the pound. Wages were taxed at fourpence in the pound. Aliens
were charged double; aliens not chargeable in the above categories had to pay a
poll tax of eightpence. The records of the assessment for the
county of
Suffolk,
mostly made in 1524, survive in 64 rolls in the National Archives. From 42 of
these a compilation for the whole shire was printed in 1910 as Suffolk Green
Book x. This includes a list of defaulters of 1526 and a subsidy roll of 1534
for Bury St Edmunds.
1577-1603
London Inquisitions Post Mortem
Full and complete abstracts of inquisitions post mortem for the City of London
in this period. These are inquiries as to the real estate and heir of each
person holding in capite or in chief, i. e. directly, from the Crown. The
precise date of death of the deceased and the age and relationship of the heir
are usually recorded. This index covers all names mentioned, including jurors,
tenants, &c. This abstract also includes a handful of earlier items omitted from
previous volumes.
1603-1625
Middlesex Sessions Books
Incidents from the Middlesex Sessions Books. These are abstracts of sessional
orders, minutes of criminal cases, memoranda and other entries of record taken
from the three volumes of Gaol Delivery Register, four volumes of Sessions of
Peace Register and two volumes of Process Books of Indictments for the county of
Middlesex from the reign of king James I. The references at the end of each item
indicate the volume in question, the abbreviations being G. D. for Gaol
Delivery, S. P. for Sessions of Peace, and S. O. T. for Session of Oyer and
Terminer; occasionally preceded by S. for Special or G. for general, or followed
by R. for Roll or Reg. for Register. It should be noted that, in the case of
'true bills' or indictments, the abstract starts with the date on which the
offence took place, the date of the conviction &c. being at the end of the
entry.
1691-1700
Lancashire and Cheshire Marriage Licences
Licences for intended marriages in Chester archdeaconry, which covered Cheshire
and Lancashire south of the Ribble (by far the most populous part of that
county). As shown in the sample scan, licences to practise midwifery and to
teach are also included. The index covers bondsmen as well as brides and grooms.
1706-1707
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
October 1706 to December 1707. These abstracts of the Treasury minute books and
corresponding warrants for this period covers a huge variety of topics involving
all manner of receipts and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil
servants, pensioners, petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among
the individuals named.
1820
Gentleman's Magazine
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments, general news and domestic occurrences, as
reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items
from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. January to June 1820.
1835-1840
British merchant seamen
At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles
involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a
quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were
British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but
there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament
passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act a large register of
British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British and
Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. A parliamentary committee
decided that the system devised did not answer the original problem, and the
original register was abandoned after less than two years: the system was then
restarted in this form, with a systematic attempt to attribute the seamen's
(ticket) numbers, and to record successive voyages. The register records the
number assigned to each man; his name; age; birthp
lace; quality (S = seaman, &c.); and the name and official number of his ship,
with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men
recorded were born in the
British Isles,
but not all. The system was still very cumbersome, because the names were
amassed merely under the first two letters of surname; an attempt was made to
separate out namesakes by giving the first instance of a name (a), the second
(b), and so on. This section of the register (BT 112/2) covers numbers 1 to 2952
and 20200 to 23034, 5786 different entries, of men whose surnames began with the
letters Ba. During 1840 this series of ledgers was abandoned, and a new set
started with names grouped together by surname.
We added a total of 83,535 new entries this week. We now have 5.2 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
guaranteed authentic: no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans, or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice,
including variants.
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STEELE _ Margaret Winifred (nee Payne) August 31, 1923 - July 27, 2007 (Memorial Service Date Correction)
It
is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our cherished wife and
mother. Margaret slipped away after suffering a stroke the previous day. She
will be lovingly remembered by her husband Tom, son Murray (Anne Marie),
daughter Leslie (Mark), and grandsons Nikolas and Graeme. She will also be
dearly missed by her sisters, Dorie (John) and Eleanor (Al), their children and
grandchildren, and her many friends. Born in Vancouver and raised in Woodfibre,
BC, Margaret graduated from McGee High School and later worked at the American
Consulate in Vancouver. After her marriage to Tom in 1949, she chose to devote
the remainder of her life to home and family. In the years after the war
Margaret was an active member of the Mt. Seymour Ski Club. In the 50's and 60's
she volunteered her time with the Mary Matheson unit of the Willingdon United
Church. In the mid 70's she and Tom became very involved in researching their
family histories and joined the BC Genealogical Society. Margaret devoted many
voluntary hours to the society's library in her 21 years as a member. She was an
avid gardener and all will remember Margaret's love of life, devotion to family,
and her great sense of humor. We are all the richer for having known and loved
her. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, August 3rd, 3:00 pm
at the Pitt
Meadows Heritage Church, 12109 Harris Rd. A reception will follow. In lieu of
flowers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia would
be appreciated.
Published in the Vancouver Sun on 7/31/2007.
http://www.legacy.com/can-vancouver/Obituaries.asp
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To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:58:22 +0100 (BST)
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1310-1333
Lancashire landowners and their tenants.
This compilation of abstracts of Lancashire inquisitions, extents (surveys) and
feudal aids (taxes) was prepared for the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society
and printed in 1907, from originals in the national archives of the Public
Record Office. Almost all the material has been translated from the original
abbreviated Latin: where surnames have been Anglicized, the original is shown in
italics.
1352-1374
Inhabitants of London
Letter Book G of the City of London contains enrolments of recognizances between
inhabitants, particularly citizens, for sums of money lent or due; grants of
pieces of land or property; and various records relating to the city
administration.
1458-1471
Clergy, the religious and the faithful in Britain and Ireland
These are abstracts of the entries relating to Great Britain and Ireland from
the Lateran and Vatican Regesta of popes Pius II and Paul II. Many of these
entries relate to clerical appointments and disputes, but there are also indults
to devout laymen and women for portable altars, remission of sins, &c. This
source is particularly valuable for Ireland, for which many of the key
government records of this period are lost. Many of the names in the text were
clearly a puzzle to the scribes in Rome, and spelling of British and Irish
placenames and surnames is chaotic.
1674
Suffolk Hearth Tax
Hearth tax was raised by assessing each householder on the number of chimneys to
the dwelling. This provided a simple way to make a rough judgment as to the
value of the dwelling: paupers were issued exemption certificates, but they too
were listed at the end of each return. The returns were made by township,
grouped by hundred. A complete copy of the hearth tax return for each shire was
sent to the Exchequer: this is the return for Suffolk for Lady Day (25 March)
1674 (E 179/257/14) as printed in 1905 as Suffolk Green Book no xi, vol. 13. The
numbers given are the numbers of hearths: where two or more people are grouped
together with one number, it may be assumed that they were heads of separate
households sharing a single building with that number of chimneys.
1700-1710
Hertfordshire badgers, drovers and kidders
This is a list of licences granted to badgers (B.), drovers (D.) and kidders (higlers)
(K.) in the Hertfordshire sessions records. The numbers refer back to a key
indicating on which particular sessions rolls the licences are noted: scans of
the key are included with the scans of the entries.
1700-1752
Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a wide range of
criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the the most cases
(240) concerned assaults; presentments about repairs to roads and bridges (67);
larceny (63); unlicensed and disorderly alehouses (33); nuisances (28); and
trading without due apprenticeship (24). This calendar gives abstracts of all
entries in the Sessions Books and Minute Books for Hertfordshire sessions for
the period. Also a list of Justices of the Peace for the County of Hertford
mentioned in the Sessions Books for the period.
1702-1706
Hertfordshire office holders taking communion.
Under the Test Act of 1673, holders of public office were required to produce a
certificate from the minister and a churchwarden of their parish church
testifying that they had witnessed him receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's
Supper there on a particular date. A bundle of these Sacrament Certificates
survives among the Hertfordshire sessions records: this list shows, as well as
the name and address of the communicant, the names of the minister and
churchwarden and the church in question.
1702-1732
Inhabitants of Hertfordshire.
These people signed various rolls at Hertford, mainly concerning allegiance. The
letters are the key to the rolls involved:
a. Oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration under an Act of 1 George I:
1727 to 1732;
b. Oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration under an Act of 6 Anne: 25
April 1715;
c. Oaths of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration under an Act of 6 Anne: 21
August 1714 to 21 April 1718;
d. Oath for naturalizing Foreign Protestants under Act of 7 Anne: 10 May to 15
August 1719;
e. Oath of allegiance under Act of 1 Anne: I. 13 July 1702 to 19 July 1714; II.
13 July 1702 to 19 February 1709; III. 13 July 1702 to 8 October 1708;
f. Declaration against Transubstantiation, under Act of 1 William & Mary: I. 13
July 1702 to 9 January 1710; II. 12 July 1714 to 21 April 1718; III. 25 April
1715; IV. 10 July 1727 to 17 April 1732.
1723
Inhabitants of Hertfordshire
An Act of Parliament of 9 George I required all men aged 18 and over who had not
done so previously to swear allegiance. From 17 August to 24 December 1723 the
greater part of the men of Hertfordshire attended at various inns in the county
to sign the oath of allegiance: women were exempt from the act, but almost as
many attended and swore. This list indicates the place of attestation by letters
A., B., C., &c., for which there is a key, scans of which are included with the
main scan for the surname.
1745
Hertfordshire Loyalists
This list of the members of the Rebellion Association, 'an association of the
noblemen, gentlemen, clergy, freeholders and inhabitants of the county of
Hertford', preserved among the Hertfordshire sessions records, also records the
amounts of each individual's subscription or voluntary donation to the cause of
maintaining the Church and Crown of England.
1840-1844
British merchant seamen
The registry of merchant seamen, including fishermen, sought to identify
individuals securely in this series of registers by assigning to each man a
unique number, grouped together by surname, and then by christian name, whereas
in previous registers names had been jumbled together under the first two
letters of the surname. Each man's age and birthplace was recorded, together
with any number brought forwards from previous registration, i. e. the number
assigned to the man in the registers for 1835 to 1840. Then each voyage is
listed, with his status (e. g. S for seaman, M for mate, &c.) on that trip, the
identification number of the ship, the date, and then the name of the ship. In
the event of it becoming known that a man had died during the course of a
voyage, that information is written across the remaining empty columns. This
volume (BT 112/1) covers seamen whose surnames start with A or McA.
1862
Gentleman's Magazine
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the
Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland,
Scotland and abroad. July to December 1862.
We now have over 5 million entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
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Date:
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:26:53 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
More
info-FRC London closure-Society of Genealogists response:
To:
bcgs@bcgs.ca
More info-FRC London closure-Society of Genealogists response: http://www.sog.org.uk/latest.shtml
From:
"Federation Of Family History Societies" <ezine@ffhs.org.uk>
Reply-To: ezine@ffhs.org.uk
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
ONS
TO VACATE PUBLIC SEARCH FACILITIES AT FRC BY 31 OCTOBER 2007
ONS announced at a meeting of the Family Records Centre User Consultative Group on 25 July 2007 that they will be vacating their ground floor public search facilities at the Family Records Centre (FRC) Myddelton Street, London by 31 October 2007.
From 31 October until the previously announced date of closure at the end of March 2008, access to the Indexes for Births, Deaths and Marriages will be on the first floor of the FRC on MICROFICHE only.
Ordering of certificates will be ONLINE only and there will be no provision for certificate collection.
The ONS and General Register Office (GRO) were left in no doubt by the unanimous protestations of the Family Records Centre User Consultative Group. Full details and a copy of the Public Briefing Paper can be found at: www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/briefing070725.php
Alternatively for more information on this or other Archives matters please contact FFHS Archives Liaison Officer Maureen Bullows email archives.liaison@ffhs.org.uk
Maggie Loughran, Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies www.ffhs.org.uk
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
To: "Robert Daniel" <radaniel@dccnet.comSent:
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 4:18 AM
Subject: Delta Cemetery Tour-August 11, 2007
Forwarded by Diane R
For immediate release
Delta, July 20, 2007 - Coming events at the Delta Museum and Archives
COMMUNITY PROGRAM - Walking Tour: Boundary Bay Cemetery
Join Veronica Foxall and the Delta Museum and Archives for a walk through the
historic Boundary Bay Cemetery on Saturday, August 11, 2007, from 10:00am -
11:00am.
Veronica will share anecdotes about many of Delta's families dating as far back
as the late 1800's. Participants will also hear about the symbols, styles, and
materials used in the cemetery's grave markers and landscaping up until present
day.
The municipality of Delta originally purchased the plot of ten acres of
land from William Ladner, one of the areas' first settlers. Ladner settled
here, along with his brother Thomas in 1868. The cemetery became the final
resting place for many of Delta's pioneer families and in October 1893 was
officially recognized as the municipal cemetery.
Pre-registration for this event is required. The tour costs $10.00 per person
but if you register by August 1^st , pay the early bird price of $8.00 per
person. To register and for more information please call the Delta Museum
and Archives at 604-946-9322 or visit us at 4858 Delta Street, Tuesday to Sunday
10:00am - 4:30pm.
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From: Ron
MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: Celtic Connection Article
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007
15:52:08 -0700
To: Undisclosed
Recipients
jrmacleod@telus.net
Greetings,
Harry McGrath asked me to send out the undernoted web address. Harry recently
visited the Isle of Raasay, Scotland, and while there went to the north end of
the island where my father and mother were born and raised. He subsequently
wrote an article for the Celtic Connection based on his travels. Regards, the
other Ron
http://www.celtic-connection.com/features/feat2007_07_03.html
Date: Wed,
18 Jul 2007 23:54:45 -0700
From: cgmassey@telus.net
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
Baptismal Project completion
Dear BCGS :
I thought I would inform you of the project I finished and which is now online.
This is for the interest of your members and any other interested individuals.
In late 2000 I was working for the Genealogical Society of Utah in Victoria.
While microfilming Vital Stats records I inquired about two huge index volumes
of B.C. Baptisms which I had noticed buried in a cabinet in the Vital Stats
building.
I received permission to view them and asked what they were. Apparently between
the years 1948 and 1960 (?). B.C. had in its laws one which required all
churches to send to Vital Stats their Church registers for microfilming. Most
churches complied and the registers were filmed. The Index volumes represent a
key entry of all the names in the microfilmed registers. The index volumes
contained between 250,000 and 300,000 names and included names from 345+
parishes from all over the province.
The volumes listed the following information:
name, place of baptism, date of baptism, date of birth, reference number (volume
and page number).
The volumes have names from the earliest performances of baptisms dating back to
1836 when the first ones occurred. They included thousands of pre-colonial
events. I estimate 40-50% were aboriginal baptisms. The two volumes were alpha
sorted by name; one being A-L, the other M-Z.
Although a dynamic record, these volumes were of minimal use to family
historians especially in light of the fact that a large number of the records
were a single name given to aboriginals by the Catholic priest. For instance
there were over 1000 Marie's and any researcher would find it almost impossible
to find which one was theirs from the scanty information.
Furthermore the government would not allow me to microfilm them because of
privacy concerns. They treated them the same as birth records and would not
allow the public access with any events less than 100 years (now 120 years).
I would not take NO for an answer and asked if they would allow me to create a
separate database of all names which were releasable under the FOIP legislation.
They granted permission and over the next year my band of extractors picked out
60,000 names of baptized individuals all born before 1901.
Because the data was so minimal, I checked out the reference numbers to see if
they referred to the microfilms. Sure enough they did! I sorted the names by
reference numbers and recreated the order (roughly) of key entry from the films.
I next received permission to add the added information on the filmed volumes
which was missing from the indexes.
Over 5 years later the database is complete and on the bcarchives website. The
intervening years have seen painstaking care taken to add this data to the names
and make them very valuable to the researcher. Added information includes
parent's names, aboriginal names (english equivalent), places of birth and
anecdotal notations made by the clerics such as relations names. The slow nature
of the project,s completion was due to the nature of the condition of the
microfilms and the often below standard microfilming of that era. Combine this
with the often illegible handwriting of some priests and that they invariably
were either in french or Latin and the pace was extremely slow.
Be that as it may, it is now available for the world to see.
Some severe obstacles were placed in its path for full release including the
vehement objection to it being categorized the same as birth records. FOIP
clearly states that its legislation refers to government records only. During
the completion of the project one ill informed Minister in charge of Vital Stats
decided on a whim to change the release date legislation from 100 years to 120
years. Though strongly objecting and tfying to show him the error of this change
he forged ahead. Consequently only part of the database is released up to
1880's.
My reason in part for writing you this rather lengthy E-Mail is to request your
assistance in using your reputation and clout to get the B.C. government to
possibly release the rest of the names up to 1901 for research. Now you know the
background in more detail and are aware that the government renegged on their
original promise to me to release the whole database, perhaps you would have
more success than I.
As of March 2007 I have relocated to Alberta and am in the midst of trying to
get more Alberta records released.
Thank you
Chris Massey
(780)454-8930
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Subject: Update from the
Original Record July 18-07
To: british columbia <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007
12:55:19 +0100 (BST)
1699-1850
Hertfordshire Sessions Rolls
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Rolls. These cover a wide range of
criminal and civil business for the county, with presentments, petitions, and
recognizances to appear as witnesses: many of the records concern the county
authorities dealing with regulation of alehouses, religious conventicles,
absence from church, highways, poaching, profanation of the Sabbath, exercising
trades without due apprenticeship &c. Unlike the Sessions Books, the decisions
of the justices are not recorded on the rolls, which serve more as a record of
evidence and allegations. This is a calendar of abstracts of extracts: it is by
no means a completely comprehensive record of the surviving Hertfordshire
sessions rolls of the period, but coverage is good.
1759-1761
Apprentices and their masters
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per
pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade,
address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the
date and length of the apprenticeship. 12 April 1759 to 21 July 1761.
1822
Monthly Magazine
The Monthly Magazine or British Register included a section each month called,
enthusiastically, 'Provincial Occurrences, With all the Marriages and Deaths'.
There were also lists of bankrupts, dividends, ecclesiastical preferments, and
marriages and deaths in and around London. This covers the 53rd volume, 1
February to 1 July 1822.
1877
Ashton Guardian
The 'Ashton Guardian, Stalybridge, Dukinfield, Droylsden, Denton and Mossley
Courier' was issued weekly, and included birth, marriage and death notices for
this area of Lancashire and Cheshire.
1891-1892
Belgrave St Michael Parish Magazine
The new Anglican church of St Michael and All Angels, Belgrave, was consecrated
22 September 1887, and it was assigned an ecclesiastical district comprising
about two thirds of this suburb of Leicester. A monthly parish magazine was
started in January 1891. The issues included parish news; baptisms (with date of
baptism and full name of the child), marriages (with date of marriage and full
names of groom and bride), and burials (with date of burial, full name, address
and age of deceased); and lists of contributions, subscriptions, Sunday School
prizes and summary churchwardens' accounts.
1898
Navy List
The Navy List, published by Authority, corrected to 18 December 1898, includes
several important sources. Firstly, there is a list of the officers on the
Active List of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines. Each officer's surname,
christian name, and any middle initial(s) is given; with rank, date of seniority
in that rank, and 'where serving', the last being the number of his ship. The
ranks are: A, Admiral; A E, Assistant Engineer; A F, Admiral of the Fleet; A P,
Assistant Paymaster; Art E, Artificer Engineer; As Ck, Assistant Clerk; B,
Boatswain; Bandr, Bandmaster Royal Marines; C, Captain; Car, Carpenter; Ch,
Chaplain; Ch B, Chief Boatswain; Ch Cr, Chief Carpenter; Ch E, Chief Engineer;
Ch Gr, Chief Gunner; Ch P; Paymaster-in-Chief; Ck, Clerk; Cr, Commander; D I H,
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; E, Engineer; E Ins, Inspector
of Machinery; F E, Fleet Engineer; F P, Fleet Paymaster; F S, Fleet Surgeon; Gr,
Gunner; H Sch, Head Schoolmaster; I H, Inspector-
General of Hospitals and Fleets; L, Lieutenant; Mid, Midshipman; N C, Naval
Cadet; N I, Naval Instructor; P, Paymaster; R A, Rear Admiral; S, Surgeon; S C,
Staff-Captain; S Cr, Staff Commander; S E, Staff Engineer; S L, Sub-Lieutenant;
S P, Staff Paymaster; S S, Staff Surgeon; Schm, Schoolmaster Royal Marines; St
Ma, Sergeant Major Royal Marines; V A, Vice Admiral; W O, Warrant Officer Royal
Marines. The column 'Where serving' also may have these abbreviations: AdC,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen; AO, Clerk to Secretary to a Flag Officer; CG, Coast
Guard; CGP, Coast Guard Pension; DY, Dock Yard; GH, Greenwich Hospital; GHP,
Greenwich Hospital Pension; GSP, Good Service Pension; NH, Naval Hospital; NID,
Naval Intelligence Department; NP, Naval Pension (late Out-Pension of Greenwich
Hospital); PW, Pension for Wounds; Sec, Secretary to a Flag Officer; TP, Travers
Pension; TS, In the Transport Service; VY, Victualling Yard. Parallel with this
is a list of officers on the Retired List
s; and one for officers of the colonial navies - the New South Wales Naval
Defence Force; Naval Artillery Volunteers; South Australia Naval Defence Force;
Queensland Naval Defence Force; Victorian Naval Defence Force; and the Naval
Brigade - and the Royal Indian Marine. Then there is the Active List of the
Royal Naval Reserve and of Honorary Officers of the reserve. Each officer's
surname, christian name, and any middle initial(s) is given; with rank, and date
of seniority in that rank. The ranks are: A E, Assistant Engineer; E, Engineer;
Hon A P, Honorary Assistant Paymaster; Hon Ch E, Honorary Chief Engineer; Hon
Cr, Honorary Commander; Hon L, Honorary Lieutenant; Hon P, Honorary Paymaster;
Hon S L, Honorary Sub-Lieutenant; L, Lieutenant; Mid, Midshipman; S L,
Sub-Lieutenant; Sen E, Senior Engineer: and a matching Retired List. There is
also a list of the officers of the late Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, which
had been disbanded 1 April 1892. Each officer's full
name is given; with date of commission, and name of the brigade in which he had
served. There is a list of officers authorised to fly the Blue Ensign of Her
Majesty's Fleet on their British Merchant Ships. Each officer's surname,
christian name, and/or initial(s) is given; with rank, the name and official
number of his vessel, and the number date of last issue of his Blue Ensign
warrant. Finally, we have the officers of the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines
receiving pensions. Each officer's surname, christian name, and any middle
initial(s) is given; with rank, and date of pension. There are recipients of
Good Service Pensions; Pensions for Wounds &c. received in the service; officers
late on the Out-Pension of the Greenwich Hospital; and officers in receipt of
Travers Pensions.
But the navy also had a large civilian administration throughout the Empire. We
have lists of officials in the Department of the Secretary of the Admiralty;
Hydrographic Department; Department of the Director of Transports; Victualling
Department; Department of the Controller of the Navy; Department of the
Accountant-General of the Navy; Contract and Purchase Department, Whitehall;
Department of the Medical Director-General of the Navy; Director of Works'
Department; Department of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief; Greenwich Hospital
Department; Office of the Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves; Royal Marine
Office; Naval Intelligence Department; Royal Observatory at Greenwich; Nautical
Almanac Office; and the Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope; staff of the Royal
Naval College Greenwich; the Council of Naval Education; the Engineer and
Dockyard Schools; and the Royal Hospital School at Greenwich; as well as the
names of the officers then studying at the Royal Naval College;
officers of the Royal Navy dockyards at Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth,
Devonport, Pembroke, Portland, Gibraltar, Malta, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Bermuda,
Jamaica, Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, Trincomalee, Hong Kong, Esquimalt
(Vancouver's Island), Sydney, Bombay and Calcutta; officers of the Admiralty
jurisdiction of Great Britain and Ireland, principally judges, assessors and law
agents; surgeons and agents of the naval sick quarters throughout Britain and
Ireland, as well as dispensers in the medical establishments at home and abroad,
and sisters of the nursing staff.medical officers of the Royal Navy and Royal
Marines, with dates of appointment. It covers the Royal Hospitals at Haslar,
Plymouth, Yarmouth, Haulbowline, and Chatham; Royal Marine Infirmaries at
Portsmouth and Walmer; Royal Marines Barrack Dispensary at Plymouth; Royal Naval
Sick Quarters at Portland; Royal Naval Cadets' Sick Quarters at Dartmouth; Royal
Naval Sick Quarters at Yokohama; and Medical Establis
hments at Malta, Gibraltar, Bermuda, Halifax, Jamaica, Ascension, Cape of Good
Hope, Hong Kong, Esquimalt, Coquimbo, Trincomalee and Sydney; and officers of
the navy victualling yards at Deptford, Gosport, Plymouth, Haulbowline,
Gibraltar, Malta, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Bermuda, Jamaica, Cape of Good Hope,
Trincomalee, Hong Kong, Esquimalt and Sydney.
1936
Palestine Gazette
Changes of name in Palestine under the British mandate were advertised in the
Palestine Gazette. These are the changes listed from July to December 1936. This
was a period when there were many arrivals of persecuted Jews from eastern
Europe, and in many cases the new names replaced German, Polish, Lithuanian &c.
surnames with Hebrew surnames: but other faiths and nationalities are
represented. Each person's original and new name is given, together with their
nationality and address (no more precisely than, say, Haifa or Tel Aviv).
We have added a total of 50,653 new entries this week. We now have over 5
million entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records
guaranteed authentic: no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans, or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice,
including variants.
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Date: Mon,
16 Jul 2007 07:46:47 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers"
<diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject: Fw: FFHS-NEWS
The UK National Inventory of War Memorials wants your opinions to help shape
its future
To: Robert Daniel
bcgs@bcgs.ca
Forwarded...Diane R
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:12 AM
Subject: FFHS-NEWS The UK National Inventory of War Memorials wants your
opinions to help shape its future
The United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials is carrying out
an online survey to find out what you think about their website and how it can
be improved.
The survey will only take a few minutes and your opinions are vital to ensure
they make the most of this unique resource. To complete the survey please go to
www.ukniwm.org.uk/survey
Maggie Loughran
Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies
www.ffhs.org.uk
For the very best bargains in genealogical books visit
www.genfair.com
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Date: Mon,
16 Jul 2007 06:41:37 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Subject:
Footnote.com ---free trial offer
To: Robert Daniel
bcgs@bcgs.ca
If you have family who
lived in in the U.S., or if you're interested in U.S. history, check out
www.footnote.com
Right now, Footnote.com offers mostly images of documents in the National
Archives of the United States. Coming soon, data from The Center for Research
Libraries, including U.S. ethnic newspapers and more military records.
This is an 'interactive' networking website---you can annotate a document you
find, for example, and there are many free features---make a story page to
share, add your own photos, etc.
Footnote.com has some free databases---info from the Pennsylvania Archives and
from the U.S. government's UFO (Blue Book) project.
Searches on Footnote.com are free, but to view most documents you will need to
pay for view or subscribe.
Register for a free membership to check out the free features. No credit card
needed.
Footnote.com does have a free 7 day trial for the full subscription right now,
but you will have to give a credit card # to qualify for that.
Diane R
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
The
Original Record.com- another117k BUMPER new entries added
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007
18:47:47 +0100
Hi,
Bumper new additions
this week to the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1268-1301
Clerks and Clergy in Worcestershire and southwest Warwickshire.
The register of bishop Godfrey Giffard of Worcester, containing general diocesan
business, mostly relating to clergy, but with some parochial affairs and
disputes with names of parishioners. The diocese of Worcester at this period was
almost exactly coextensive with the county of Worcester (minus its western
finger), plus southwest Warwickshire (including Warwick itself). The register
also includes ordination lists (as in the sample scan) of subdeacons, deacons
and priests.
1509-1583
Citizens of Oxford
These selections from the Oxford city records were printed in 1880 under the
direction of the Town Clerk. Much of the material comes from the council
minutes: 24 common councillors were elected out of the citizens at large each 30
September. Apart from the general administration of the city, a large number of
cases involve people brought before the Council for using improper language, or
other misbehaviour. There is an almost unbroken series of hanasters, or
admissions to freedom of the city, listing the names of those who by purchase,
birth or apprenticeship were admitted to the guild merchant.
1559-1759
Tradesmen of York
No man or woman could trade in the city of York without having obtained
'freedom' of the city. Their names were recorded on the 'Freemen's Roll', or
Register of the Freemen of the City of York, which contains about 16,600 names
for this period. A list of names was prepared for each year. Each annual list
starts with the name of the mayor and the camerarii or chamberlains. The
chamberlains were freemen charged with the duty of receiving the fees of the new
freemen; of seeing that only freemen traded in the city; and of preparing this
roll, which was compiled from the names on their own account books from the
receipts for the fees. There are three groups of freemen: those who obtained
freedom after serving out an apprenticeship to a freeman; the children of
freemen (per patres); and a handful who claimed freedom by 'redemption', i. e.
by purchase or gift from the Mayor and Court of Aldermen.
1658-1700
Hertfordshire Sessions
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Minute Books. These cover a
wide range of criminal and civil business for the county: numerically, the the
most cases (759) concerned not attending church; presentments about repairs to
roads and bridges (247); unlicensed and disorderly alehouses (226); assault
(156); badgers, higlers, &c., trading without licence (142); and trading without
due apprenticeship (117). This calendar gives abstracts of all entries in the
Sessions Books and Minute Books for Hertfordshire sessions for the period.
1703
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
1703. The text covers a huge variety of topics involving all manner of receipts
and expenditure, customs and revenue officials, civil servants, pensioners,
petitioners and postmasters figuring particularly among the individuals named.
1756-1759
Apprentices and their masters: England and Wales
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per
pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade,
address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the
date and length of the apprenticeship. 13 September 1756 to 12 April 1759.
1936
Officials of the British administration in Palestine
Each weekly issue of the Palestine Gazette listed Appointments, Acting
Appointments, Termination of Appointments and of Acting Appointments,
Resignations, and Leave for the officials of the British administration in
Palestine.
We have
added a total of 117,070 new entries this week. We now have over 5 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records guaranteed authentic:
no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans,
or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice, including variants.
Hope you find what you
are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we
will email you when we have some records for you.
Good
Hunting. Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Date: Sat,
07 Jul 2007 22:23:33 -0700
From: Jacquie Jessup <jmjessup@shaw.ca>
Subject:
NFHS AncesTree Newsletter
To:
<Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Newsletter Exchange
Announcing the first ELECTRONIC
Nanaimo
Family History Society "AncesTree" Newsletter.
Nanaimo
Family History Society is trying to go green and save a few trees. If anyone has
any problems, concerns and/or items, queries please contact Jacquie Jessup,
editor c/o NFHS.
You will be notified when a newsletter becomes available.
NFHS AncesTree Newsletter link: http://www.members.shaw.ca/nfhs/ancestree_on_line.htm
Subject:
Family Tree Builder
launched on findmypast.com
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:14:46 +0100
From: "Marlene D'Silva"
<Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
Findmypast.com enhanced its offering to family historians with the launch of an
innovative, new, free, online family tree software – Family Tree Builder.
The online
application allows customers easily to create a tree from scratch or upload a
GEDCOM file exported from any existing family tree programme.
Elaine Collins, Commercial Director of Findmypast.com, commented: ‘Web applications that encourage you to store details of your family history have been around for a while, mainly for the purposes of matching other trees, but none has come close to meeting the needs of the serious family historian and replacing traditional software.’
The Family Tree Builder software was developed for the site by leading US genealogy firm PedigreeSoft, which was acquired by findmypast.com in May 2007. The original version was described by Dick Eastman, of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, as ‘…an excellent online genealogy application…and a snap to use.’ Founder and lead developer Matt Garner has rewritten the acclaimed product as a more fully-featured Web 2.0 and Flash-based application.
He commented: ‘Customers now demand easy-to-use web design that allows them to get started immediately. But we’ve designed this to adapt to the needs of the professional genealogist but also to be intuitive the beginner.’
‘If you’re going to put in the effort to enter in your ancestors’ details, it needs to be a service that you can use regularly to store all your source details and notes, photos and memorabilia in one place while providing full reporting, tree-building capability and collaboration tools that will become especially useful as your tree grows larger.’
The current launch is a beta version available free at findmypast.com. Paul Yates, Head of Product Development, stated that the intention is to provide a permanently free service, although enhanced paid options, with extra storage and family trees, will be introduced later in the year and made available to findmypast’s Explorer subscribers.
Further enhancements and features will be added over the summer, as well as full integration with Findmypast’s extensive collection of historical documents. ‘It will soon be a seamless process to feed an original record of your ancestor into your family tree,’ Yates commented.
Why online family
history software?
The
advantages of using an online program, rather than traditional software that you
have to load onto your hard drive, are clear:
**You
can access the latest version of your research from any computer with internet
access.
**Soon
you will be able to share your family tree with
invited members of your family or co-researchers without the need for them to
have a copy of the program you’re using.
**Your
research is always fully backed up on secure servers – never lose data again.
**No
need to keep paying for upgrades to your program and migrate your data – you
receive access to every program enhancement as it happens, without needing to
reinstall.
Start building
your free family tree at findmypast.com now!!
Please do
not hesitate to contact me or our Helpdesk at
info@findmypast.com should you require any further information.
Kind regards
Marlene
D'Silva
Marketing Executive
e-mail: marlened@findmypast.com
www.findmypast.com
24
Britton Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
Tel: 020
7549 0900 Fax: 020 7549 0949 DX 53347 Clerkenwell
Subject:
Findmypast.com Launches Another Decade to Outbound Passenger Lists
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:07:28 +0100
From: "Marlene D'Silva"
<Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
1890-1929 Now Available for UK Outbound Passenger Lists
Ancestorsonboard.com has added another decade of records to the UK Outbound
Passenger Lists currently available. Records now include an incredible
15,749,960 names within 97,614 passenger lists spanning 1890 to 1929.
There’s
more information available on the original images than in previous decades, such
as each passenger’s last address in the UK, making it easier than ever to fill
in the gaps in your research.
The
1920s - bright young things and abdicating kings
It was the era
of decadence and glamour. The Jazz Age in America, epitomised by the works of F.
Scott Fitzgerald, in Europe it was The Golden Twenties. With music,
entertainment and art people looked to purge themselves of the horrors of The
Great War; modernism flourished in both literature and an embracing of
technological advances.
In this
decade people were beginning to travel not purely out of necessity, but for its
own sake. People still emigrated and travelled on business but were now also
able to visit their family abroad, enjoy cruises and participate in
international sporting events. Immigration to the USA began to tail off as, in
1922, the States looked to close their borders. This led to a growth in people
seeking to make Canada and, increasingly, Australia their new home.
Famous Names
Amongst the
passengers recorded in this new decade are those from the burgeoning world of
entertainment and sport.
Noel
Coward, Cary Grant, under his real name Archibald Leach, Albert Warner of the
Warner Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford can all be
found in the 1920’s passenger lists, as can the Third Lanark Football team.
Start
Searching Now!!
Please do
not hesitate to contact me at this email address or our Helpdesk at
info@findmypast.com should you require any further information.
Kind regards
Marlene D'Silva
Marketing Executive
e-mail: marlened@findmypast.com
www.findmypast.com
24
Britton Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
Tel: 020
7549 0900 Fax: 020 7549 0949 DX 53347 Clerkenwell
From:
"Carl Stymiest" <kjoseph@novuscom.net>
To: "Shirley Dargatz" <ksdargatz@shaw.ca>
Subject:
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
EFFECTIVE TODAY,
Carl Stymiest
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007
09:37:22 -0700
Organization: Karel
Joseph Consulting
Hope this
reaches the 800+ emails in my present address book. I know some of yours has
changes as well so if you wish me to update your address, send it to my NEW
ADDRESS.
Please use the new email
address effective today 05 JULY 2007 and delete ALL OTHERS!
cstymiest@gmail.com
Carl
Stymiest UE, ONA., B.Ed. M.Ed. CG
Vancouver Branch UELAC-Genealogist:-
http://www.novuscom.net/~kjoseph/index.html
Bookstore Web Page:_
http://www.trafford.com/robots/01-0285.html
Family Web Site:_
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/y/Carl-W-Stymiest/
To: "BCGS"
<bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Fw:
Woodlands
Memorial
Garden,
opened June 22, 2007
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:27:19 -0700
Sent: Wednesday, July
04, 2007 11:07 PM
Hi, everyone;
Info about the opening of the Woodlands Memorial Garden, June 22, 2007
If you click on the photo, it will take you to an album of photos...http://www.communitylivingcoalition.bc.ca/WoodlandsGarden2007.htm
There is more info on this website about this project to commemorate the burials
in the Woodlands cemetery:
http://www.bcacl.org/index.cfm?act=main&call=ACDC4A06
> Diane R
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From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To"british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
The Original
Record.com- 150k BUMPER new entries added
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007
14:40:54 +0100
Hi,
Bumper new additions
this week to the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1272-1558
Tradesmen of York
No man or woman could trade in the city of York without having obtained
'freedom' of the city.Their names were recorded on the 'Freemen's Roll', or
Register of the Freemen of the City of York, which contains about 19,900 names
for this period. A list of names was prepared for each year, the year being here
reckoned as starting at Michaelmas (29 September) until 1373, and thence at
Candlemas (2 February). Each annual list starts with the name of the mayor and
the camerarii or chamberlains. The chamberlains were freemen charged with the
duty of receiving the fees of the new freemen; of seeing that only freemen
traded in the city; and of preparing this roll, which was compiled from the
names on their own account books from the receipts for the fees. There are three
groups of freemen: those who obtained freedom after serving out an
apprenticeship to a freeman; the children of freemen; and those who claimed
freedom by 'redemption', i. e. by purchase or gift from the Mayor and Court of
Aldermen.
1577-1700
Nottinghamshire Marriage Licences
Nottingham Archdeaconry, which was almost coextensive with the county of
Nottingham, lay in the diocese and province of York, but it had substantially
independent jurisdiction for both probate and the issuing of marriage licences.
These are abstracts of the archdeaconry marriage licences: they usually state
the groom's address, occupation, age, and condition; the bride's address, age
and condition; and the names of the churches or parishes at which it was
intended the marriage would be celebrated. Not all licences led to marriages.
Where the age given is 21, it should be construed as '21 or over'. There was no
obligation for the marriage to take place at the parish suggested, but the
licence would only be valid within the county. These abstracts have been
annotated with extra information found on the marriage bonds. 26 Nottinghamshire
parishes (Beckingham, Darlton, Dunham, Eaton, North Leverton, Ragnall, Rampton,
South Wheatley, Cropwell Bishop, Bleasby, Blidworth, Calverton, Caunton,
Edingley, Farnsfield, Halloughton, Holme, Kirklington, Morton, North Muskham,
Norwell, Oxton, South Muskham, Southwell, Upton and Woodborough) lay within the
small peculiar jurisdiction of Southwell, which issued its own licences:
abstracts of these for the period 1588 to 1754 are also included here.
1691-1849
Gravestones from Calcutta St John
The old Anglican church of
St John
in Calcutta was the last resting place of many of the British community in the
city. These monumental inscriptions are recorded in the Bengal Obituary of 1851.
1754-1756
Masters and apprentices
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks' articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per
pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master's trade,
address, and occupation, and the apprentice's name, as well as details of the
date and length of the apprenticeship. 2 August to 31 December 1754.
1835-1851
Gentlemen amateur rowers and watermen
Rowing was one of the English sports covered in detail in the pages of Bell's
Life in London, and from these was compiled a compendium called the Aquatic
Oracle. The text is divided into two main parts: Gentlemen Amateurs and
Watermen. All the entries are cross-referenced, and use these abbreviations: w.,
won; l., lost; b., beat; bn., beaten; sc. ma., scullers' match; o. ma., oars
match; do. sc. ma., double scullers' match; 4 o.ma., 4 oars match; 8 o. ma., 8
oars match; sk., stroke; cox., coxswain; as., a side; Oxon., Oxonian; V. to P.,
Vauxhall to Putney; W. to P., Westminster to Putney; P. to M., Putney to
Mortlake; M. to P., Mortlake to Putney; dis., distance.
1867
Wesleyan Methodist Magazine
The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine was issued monthly, and much of its contents
related to obituaries of the faithful: memoirs and portraits of featured
preachers; biographical sketches; recent deaths; and notices from the annual
conference of ministers dying during the past year. Necessarily, the obituaries
concentrate on the spiritual life of the deceased - early influences,
conversion, obiter dicta, fortitude in the face of calamity, hopeful utterances
in articulo mortis. The Wesleyan Methodist church in England and Ireland held
annual conferences, abbreviated minutes of which were printed in the Wesleyan
Methodist Magazine of September and October each year. These minutes include a
complete list of the stations of the ministers for the coming year, with the
names of the preachers 'on trial' and supernumeraries, arranged by district. The
32 British districts are covered, but not the ministers in Ireland or abroad.
1908
Journal of the Institute of
Bankers
The annual examinations of the Institute of Banking were held 13-15 April 1908.
A list of students passing the Final and Preliminary levels was printed in the
Journal of the Institute of the following October. Each student's name is given
in full, with the name of their bank; and, for the Preliminary level, their home
address. An examination was held 16 March 1908 at the end of Mr Campion's
lectures on banking at Nottingham; another was held 19 February 1908 at the end
of the Gilbart Lectures on banking; one was held in March 1908 at the end of
Professor Kirkaldy's lectures on banking at the University of Birmingham; one
was held 24 January 1908 at the end of Mr R Storry Dean's lectures on the law of
bankruptcy; and annual prizes were given to banking students of the Manchester
and Liverpool District Banking Co. out of the Thomas Williamson Memorial Fund.
Lists of all the successful students were duly printed in the institute's
journal.
We have
added a total of 150,141 new entries this week. We now have about 4.9 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records guaranteed authentic:
no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans,
or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice, including variants.
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you
find what you are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our
WISH LIST and we will email you when we have some records for you.
Good Hunting.
Kind regards, Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "Gordon A. WATTS" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
Subject:
Gordon Watts
Reports' - new issue now online July 4
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007
22:30:07 -0700
Greetings All.
The latest issue of "Gordon Watts Reports" is now online at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0101.htm
Topics in
this issue include:
* Meeting with Statistics Canada
* Review of 'informed consent ' question - a correction
* Working with alternate characters
* Looking for grandpa in FBI files
* Ecclesiastical source for Slave Societies
* Memories of Nova Scotia
* 'Planters and Pioneers' reprint
* BHC documentary in the works
* Cloverdale library offers free access to Ancestry.com
Enjoy
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edmwaa05.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
SFU Course
Correction
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007
19:48:24 -0700
Greetings, apparently there was an error in the course
outlines emailed on June 27th. Cancel HUM 332-4. The correct course is listed
below. Regards, the other Ron
HUM 305-4: Medieval
Studies: The Rise and Fall of the Gaelic World
Department of Humanities, AQ
5115, 604-291-3689
Semester: Fall 2007
(1077), E1, Burnaby
Instructor: James Acken
Prerequisites: 45
credit hours
Course Description:
From:
"Family History Place.net Newsletter"
<newsletter@familyhistoryplace.net>
To: <webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject: July 2007
Newsletter
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007
17:12:56 -0400
News
of First Newsletter:-
Please
visit
http://www.familyhistoryplace.net/newsletter/0706a.php
For information on subscribing to this newsletter, or unsubscribing,
please visit
http://www.familyhistoryplace.net/newsletter.php
From:
"Federation of Family History Societies" <manager@genfair.com>
Reply-To: manager@genfair.com
To:
bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
Closure of FFHS
Publications and Distribution
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007
12:57:45 +0100
Dear Reader
I don’t know if you were aware but the Publications business is being closed.
There are various plans for the individual sections of Publications, like
Genfair, FamilyHistoryonLine and NBI to continue to operate, albeit under
different ownership/partnership/license agreement or whatever. However books are
being closed and the Bury offices shut down. I have no deadline for that at
present.
We have two objectives for the books. One is obviously to convert them into cash
as best we can before we are closed and the remaining books are pulped.
But we also want the Societies to try to do what we can no longer do and
stockpile these books for future use within the Family History world for several
years to come.
Therefore this weekend we announced to the FHS Societies at the York fair that
we intend discounting the books to the societies by 67%, i.e. one third of RRP.
We are hoping that this will encourage the Societies to buy in now, those titles
they feel will continue to be required by Family Historians in the future, so
they are not lost forever.
Alongside this we are making a major push to sell to the general public via
Genfair at up to 50% discount. The society discount of 67% will still provide
some margin for the societies vis-a-vis the general public during the close down
period, but when we close, the discount to the public will cease.
Note that this will only apply to FFHS Publications, I do buy in other
publications which you would normally get 25% discount on and this would
continue for the time being. These titles I usually only stock in small
quantities so they don’t present the same problem as our own publications where
we have printed several thousand on occasions.
Because of the lead times for adverts in magazines the Genfair 50% offer was
made public a day or two before our official announcement, but this was a timing
issue and it was never our intention to offer to the public better discounts
than we were giving to the societies.
I hope this explains the situation, and you will be able to help preserve the
titles which will be of benefit to Family Historians over the next few years
Best Regards
Ron Eyre
Operations Manager
FFHS Publications Ltd
Company No 2993798 (England)
Registered Office: Unit 15/16, Chesham Industrial Centre, Oram Street, Bury,
Lancs BL9 6EN, VAT Reg No GB 616214959.
Tel: 0161 797 3843. Fax: 0161 797 3846. E-mail: manager@ffhs.co.uk
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from:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To"BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
Meeting with
Statistics Canada
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007
12:19:47 -0700
Greetings All
By this time you will
all be aware of the low response of YES answers to the informed consent question
on the 2006 Census. We all agree that something must be done to prevent a
similar result for the Census of 2011.
Bill S-18 provided for
a review of the administration and operation of the 'informed consent' provision
that we were forced to accept without opposition in order to regain public
access to Historic Census records. We are hoping that pressure from
genealogists and historians might prompt an early review and ask that you write
your parliamentary representatives seeking their support for this to happen.
On 16 July 2007,
representatives of the Canadian Historical Association, along with myself will
be meeting with Anil Arora, Director General, Census Program Branch, Census
Manager of Statistics Canada. Representatives of the Canadian Sociological
Association and the Canadian Political Science Association may be in attendance
as well.
The meeting will be held
in Ottawa,
and the subject matter of the meeting will be the 'informed consent' question
imposed on us by Bill S-18.
We are hoping that
meetings with Information Commissioner Robert Marleau, and Privacy Commissioner
Jennifer Stoddart can be arranged for the same time, but that has yet to be
confirmed.
I will keep you informed
of any further developments.
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada
Census
Committee
Port Coquitlam, British
Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon
Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
Subject:
RE: Ancestry.com at Cloverdale
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007
14:19:06 -0700
From: "Cooke, Laurie" <LCOOKE@surrey.ca>
To: "M. Diane Rogers" <diane_rogers@shaw.ca>
Cc:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
The
Cloverdale branch of the Surrey Public Library, is pleased to announce that we
now offer free access to
Ancestry Library Edition. This International version includes resources for
British and American research, a wealth of digitized images, and the world's
largest, online Canadian collection of genealogy records. Available in library
only.
Thanks! Laurie
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Subject:
The Original Record.com- another 48k new entries added
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007
21:57:38 +0100
Hi, This week's
additions to the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1220-1619
Bedfordshire charters in the Bodleian
Abstracts of charters and deeds in the Bodleian Library in Oxford; not only from
the main sequences of charters, but also from volume lxxvi of the Dodsworth
manuscripts there.
1422-1471
French Rolls
King Henry VI of England
(one of the grandsons of Charles VI of
France)
claimed the throne of France (and quartered the fleurs-de-lis of
France with the lions of
England on the royal standard)
as had his predecessors since Edward III, as descendants of Philip IV of France.
The English had real power or influence in
Brittany,
Normandy, Flanders and Gascony, and actual possession of several coastal
garrisons, in particular Calais, where the French inhabitants had been replaced
by English. Henry VI came to the throne only seven years after his father had
trounced the French at
Agincourt; but his cousin, Charles VII, who became king of
France in the same year,
spent his long reign rebutting the English king's claim to his throne by
territorial reconquest and consolidation. The English administration kept a
series of records called the French Rolls. On these are recorded royal
appointments and commissions in
France;
letters of protection and safe-conduct to soldiers, merchants, diplomats and
pilgrims traveling to France from England and returning, and to foreign
legations. There are also licenses to merchants to export to the Continent, and
to captains to transport pilgrims. As Henry VI's reign progressed, and the
English grip on northern France loosened, the French Rolls also increasingly
include entries concerning the ransoming of English prisoners.
1379
Bedfordshire poll tax
The poll tax granted in 1379 was assessed and raised in the following two years.
Every lay person, man or woman, aged over 15 was to be taxed. This undated
return from the National Archives (E 179/71/41) consists of two parchment strips
listing payers of a subsidy of that period from hundreds in Bedfordshire. The
two strips are duplicates: but both are largely missing the right hand side,
with the sums assessed, and often, alas, even the surnames. The term "s'" which
appears frequently in the lists means 'serviens', i. e. servant. Some place
names are missing; but those identified are Biggleswade, Melchbourne and Turvey.
1708
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies,
from January to December 1708. These also include records of the appointment and
replacement of customs officers such as tide waiters and surveyors.
1819
The issue of the Macclesfield Courier, Stockport Express and Cheshire General
Advertiser (viii 447) for 27 February 1819: with local news and advertisements
and some national content.
1899-1902
The Queen Victoria's
South Africa Medal was awarded (after her death, in the event) to all who had
served honorably in the various campaigns in the Boer War. Returns were made
from each unit, and consolidated into nominal roll, of which this is the one for
the Royal Artillery. Confusingly, the ledgers used had originally been printed
for a register of men transferred (or re-transferred after mobilization) to 1st
Class Army Reserve. All the original column headings were therefore struck
through, and the roll was prepared with this information: Date of Issue;
Regimental Number; Rank; Name; Unit; Medal (a 1 indicating that a medal was
awarded); [number of] Clasps; the reference to the source in the original
returns, usually starting with AG for papers in the hands of the
Adjutant-General, and 68/Art/ for the Royal Artillery records. The final column,
normally left blank, was occasionally used for explanatory remarks.
1948
Medical Directory
Each year a schedule was sent to each doctor to be returned to the publishers,
so as to keep the directory up to date. In the directory the doctor's name is
given first, in bold, surname first, in capitals; then current address. Next are
the qualifications; the italic abbreviations in parentheses following the
qualifications indicate the medical school at which they were gained. Then there
is a list of posts and honors within the profession, starting with those then
current; previous posts are preceded by the word 'late'. Finally, brief details
are given of any publications. This index covers the sections for London,
Scotland, Ireland, Abroad, Naval, Military, India and Royal Air Force, as well
as the lists of foreign doctors temporarily practicing in Britain, and the
secretaries of the National Health committees.
We have
added a total of 59,929 new entries this week. We now have over 4.7 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records guaranteed authentic:
no input from users or from databases.
Purchase sets of scans,
or buy open access for the name(s) of your choice, including variants. www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you find what you are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we will email you when we have some records for you.
Good
Hunting.
Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record
Team, email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com, website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
From:
"Federation of Family History Societies" <ezine@ffhs.org.uk>
Reply-To: ezine@ffhs.org.uk
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject: FFHS Ezine Information
Dear Reader,
Please would you forward
the following article giving details of the new FFHS Ezine, to your journal
editor for inclusion in your next edition. If you would like an image to
accompany the text please contact either FFHS Administrator, Maggie Loughran
admin@ffhs.org.uk or myself
ezine@ffhs.org.uk and we will arrange for an image to be emailed to you.
Regards, Diane
Maskell
FFHS Ezine Editor.
FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES EZINE
Wanting to share and distribute family history news, and other interesting and related information, to as large an audience as possible, the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) embarked on an exciting new project in the early part of 2007. This was the launch of the Federation Ezine. This is a topical and colourful email newsletter which will carry family and local history news, reviews, competitions and much more to hundreds of thousands of individual researchers around the world, as well as the Federation's Member Societies in the UK and overseas.
If you would like to view the Federation Ezine, it can be located on the FFHS website at www.ffhs.org.uk/ezine/intro.ph. But why not sign up to receive your own copy of the Federation Ezine which will be emailed out around the middle of February, April, June, August, October and December of each year. You can subscribe on the Federation website, www.ffhs.org.uk.
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edmwaa12.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: New Zealand Scots
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:57:56 -0700
Greetings, the following
courtesy Dr. Leith Davis, SFU. Regards, the other Ron
It's guid to be merry and
wise,
It's guid to be honest and
true,
It's guid to support
Caledonia's cause,
And bide by the buff and the
blue!
Here's a Health to Them
that's Awa'. -Robert Burns
Vice-Chancellor Professor David Skegg says the Stuart Chair in Scottish Studies is a welcome and fitting development, given the Scottish heritage of the University and of southern New Zealand.
"New Zealand's first university was founded in the early days of the Otago settlement, a move which reflected the Scottish settlers' strong belief in higher education as an uplifting social force. I am delighted that this generous endowment will allow us to recognise and further that vision through this Chair." The Council's $1.5m donation has been made as part of the University's Leading Thinkers Initiative and will be matched under the Government's Partnerships for Excellence scheme, lifting the total to $3m. Humanities Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Alistair Fox said the new professor, to be appointed after an international search for a senior scholar, would pursue research and teaching into Scottish history, culture and society and its considerable impact on New Zealand's identity and development. Professor Fox says some census estimates indicate people born in Scotland accounted for up to 25 per cent of migrants to New Zealand between 1850 and 1950. "The professor's tasks will include fostering research partnerships with scholars and institutions both here and abroad, developing Scottish exchange partnerships for staff and students and responding to and developing community interest in Scottish Studies," he says. The new professor will establish a multi-disciplinary Scottish Studies programme which builds upon existing expertise at the University. The programme's two strands will cover Scottish history, politics and economics and Scottish literature, music and culture, he says. The rich range of materials held in Dunedin institutions, such as holdings in the Hocken Collections, the Dunedin Public Library, Knox College and the Otago Settlers' Museum could sustain undergraduate, postgraduate and staff research for many years, Professor Fox says. The new Chair is the second Leading Thinkers initiative that the Stuart Residence Halls Council has endowed after recently divesting its property portfolio. The Council's support for a Chair in Science Communication was announced in September. Council Chair Martin Anderson says the idea of supporting the Scottish Chair appealed strongly. "This was a very easy decision for us - it's a very good fit given the Council's history, and a worthwhile initiative that closely complements the University's recently-appointed Chair in Irish Studies," says Mr Anderson. The Stuart Residence Halls Council was originally formed in the 1940s by a group of Dunedin businessmen of Scottish ancestry to support initiatives that addressed student accommodation shortages. The Council was named after Knox Church's first minister, Reverend Donald Stuart, who was also a long-serving Chancellor of the University (1879-1894). A function celebrating the endowment of the Stuart Chair in Scottish Studies will be held at the University Council Chambers at 5:00pm on Thursday 30 November. Entertainment will be provided by a group of local dancers from the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society New Zealand Branch, and a local piper. Refreshments will include a wee dram of Scotch. Media are welcome to attend.
From:
"Sue Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
The Original Record.com- bumper week 116k new entries added
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:38:46 +0100
Hi,
This week's additions to the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1256-1279
Northumberland Assize Rolls for the General Eyre
The royal justices made periodic general eyres through all the shires of
England, hearing civil and criminal cases that had accrued from the lower
courts. Here we have the assize rolls of three Northumberland eyres, 24 April to
7 May 1256; 25 June to 15 July 1269; and 20 January to 9 February 1279. The bulk
of the text relates to civil pleas from the county of Northumberland and the
town of Newcastle upon Tyne; finishing with abstracts of the pedes finium, or
feet of fines (lawsuits or pretended lawsuits establishing the ownership of
land) arising at the three eyres. But there are also criminal cases, lists of
bailiffs, &c.
1277-1278
Patent Rolls
Calendars of the patent rolls of the reign of king Edward I are printed in the
Calendars of State Papers: but these cover only a fraction of the material on
the rolls. From 1881 to 1889 the reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public
Record Office also include calendars of other material from the rolls - about
five times as many entries as in the State Papers - predominantly mandates to
the royal justices to hold sessions of oyer and terminer to resolve cases
arising locally; but also other general business. The calendar for the 6th year
of king Edward I [20 November 1277 to 19 November 1278], hitherto unindexed, is
covered here.
1370
Payments by the English crown
The Exitus or Issue Roll of the Exchequer, compiled by the Clerk of the Pell,
recorded all issues or payments made by the English crown: presents of plate and
jewellery to foreign nobility; household payments to officers and servants;
wardrobe payments; alms; payments for the upkeep of royal palaces, manors,
residences and chapels; repayments of loans to the king; payments to messengers
and couriers; wages of mercenaries; the upkeep of the navy; ransoming of
hostages; maintenance of castles, forts, garrisons and fortifications; salaries
of judges and other officers of the courts of Chancery, Exchequer, King's Bench
and Common Pleas; as well as a host of miscellaneous other items. This is a
translation of the text of the roll for the 44th year of the reign of king
Edward III, when Thomas de Brantingham, Bishop of Exeter, was Lord High
Treasurer of England.
1549-1603
Middlesex Sessions
This printed calendar collates a number of surviving records from Middlesex
sessions for the period. Principally these are the Gaol Delivery Rolls (G. D.
R.) and the General Sessions of the Peace Rolls (G. S. O. P. R.). Both series
cover general criminal indictments (bills) together with the recognizances of
the witnesses to attend; but the Gaol Delivery Rolls, by their very nature, tend
to deal with the more serious cases - felonies where the accused could not be
released on bail. The General Sessions rolls also include the sheriff's lists of
bailiffs, sub-bailiffs, high and petty constables in the shire; writs of venire
facias for production of jurors, writs of capias, lists of jurors, jury-panels
&c. The Gaol Delivery Rolls also include coroners' inquests, writs of
supersedeas, and memoranda of proclamations. Special inquiries are recorded in
separate Sessions of Oyer and Terminer (S. O. T.) rolls and Inquest or
Inquisition rolls (I. R.) Although coverage is good, none of the sequences of
rolls for this period is complete. A peculiarity of this calendar is that in the
case of actual incidents, the date given at the start of each entry is the date
that the incident was alleged to have taken place rather than the date of the
court proceedings.
1581-1700
Hertfordshire Sessions
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Rolls. These cover a wide range of
criminal and civil business for the county, with presentments, petitions, and
recognizances to appear as witnesses: many of the records concern the county
authorities dealing with regulation of alehouses, religious conventicles,
absence from church, highways, poaching, profanation of the Sabbath, exercising
trades without due apprenticeship &c. Unlike the Sessions Books, the decisions
of the justices are not recorded on the rolls, which serve more as a record of
evidence and allegations. Where the date of a roll is given with an asterisk, it
indicates that that particular document was not then in the county muniments,
but in the archives of the Marquess of Salisbury (whose ancestors had served as
Custos Rotulorum) at Hatfield House. This is a calendar of abstracts of
extracts: it is by no means a completely comprehensive record of the surviving
Hertfordshire sessions rolls of the period, but coverage is good.
1625-1645
Wiltshire freeholders
Inquisitions post mortem were held after the death of freeholders who held their
estates in capite or in chief, i. e., directly from the crown. The inquisition,
held by the royal escheator upon the oath of jurors from the county who were
also normally freeholders, recorded what estates the deceased had held, by what
tenure, what they were worth, the date of death, who was the next heir, and
whether the heir was of age. The sample scan shows an unusually brief
inquisition: these abstracts usually run to two or three pages of print.
1701-1753
Nottinghamshire Marriage Licences
Nottingham Archdeaconry, which was almost coextensive with the county of
Nottingham, lay in the diocese and province of York, but it had substantially
independent jurisdiction for both probate and the issuing of marriage licences.
These are abstracts of the archdeaconry marriage licences: they usually state
the groom's address, occupation, age, and condition; the bride's address, age
and condition; and the names of the churches or parishes at which it was
intended the marriage would be celebrated. Not all licences led to marriages.
Where the age given is 21, it should be construed as '21 or over'. There was no
obligation for the marriage to take place at the parish suggested, but the
licence would only be valid within the county. These abstracts have been
annotated with extra information found on the marriage bonds. 26 Nottinghamshire
parishes (Beckingham, Darlton, Dunham, Eaton, North Leverton, Ragnall, Rampton,
South Wheatley, Cropwell Bishop, Bleasby, Blidworth, Calverton, Caunton,
Edingley, Farnsfield, Halloughton, Holme, Kirklington, Morton, North Muskham,
Norwell, Oxton, South Muskham, Southwell, Upton and Woodborough) lay within the
small peculiar jurisdiction of Southwell, which issued its own licences:
abstracts of these for the period 1755 to 1833 are also included here.
1839
London criminals and witnesses
Minutes of the evidence presented at the Central Criminal Court were recorded in
shorthand by Henry Buckler. This volume covers the whole proceedings of the
Queen's Commission of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, for the
City of London, and Gaol Delivery for the county of Middlesex and those parts of
the counties of Essex, Kent and Surrey lying within the jurisdiction of the
Central Criminal Court, for the 7th to 12th sessions, from May to October 1839.
The index covers both the accused and the witnesses (including police constables
&c.) summoned to give evidence. The accused's name is given an asterisk if
previously in custody; and a dagger if a 'known associate of bad characters'.
Each entry usually concludes with the age of the accused, the verdict, and,
where guilty, the sentence.
We have
added a total of 116,602 new entries this week. We now have over 4.6 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). All records guaranteed authentic:
no input from users or from databases.
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you find what you
are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we
will email you when we have some records for you.
Good Hunting.
Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record
Team, email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com, website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: 'Gordon Watts Reports' - new issue now online
June 13
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:21:47 -0700
Greetings All.
The
100th issue of 'Gordon Watts Reports' (formerly 'Post 1901 Census News') is now
online. It can be accessed at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0100.htm
Subjects in this issue include:
**British Columbia Historical Federation presents award.
**Alberta Genealogical Society Homestead indexes
**Person access to Ancestry.com at Family History Centers
**Nova Scotia coal miners tribute
**Abbotsford Genealogy Society probate indexes
**Paper of Record
**Wells Fargo Bank into genealogy?
Gordon
A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my
column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca,
Subject: Re:
The Original Record.com- 90k new entries totally 4.5million entries
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007
20:02:31 +0100
Hi,
This week's additions to
the
www.theoriginalrecord.com include:
1259-1290
Cheshire Court Rolls
Civil and criminal cases for most of
Cheshire were handled by the
county courts. Here we have the county court rolls for November 1259 to August
1260, December 1281 to September 1282, and December 1286 to September 1289. The
city of Chester exercised its own jurisdiction, and here we have crown pleas and
presentments from 1287 to 1297. The royal manor of Macclesfield in the east of
the county had three independent jurisdictions - the hundred, forest and
borough. Royal justices in eyre dealt with civil and criminal cases from the
hundred and forest during their yearly visits, and here we have records from
1284 to 1290. Also covered by this index is an Inquest of Service in Time of War
in Wales of 1288, listing knight's fees in the county.
1426-1466
Yorkshire Testators and Legatees
Wills and testaments from the diocese of York (Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire,
Hexhamshire, Lancashire north of the Ribble, and southwest Westmorland)
registered at York.
Richmond and Southwell archdeaconries had their own lower probate jurisdictions,
so the wills registered at York are predominantly from the East and West Ridings
and the eastern part of the North Riding of Yorkshire. In theory, wills dealt
with real property and testaments with personal property, but the distinction
hardly applies in practice: most of these wills are in Latin, but some are in
English. Being before the Reformation, they commonly start with benefactions to
churches, chantries, chapels, &c., and with provisions for the burning of
candles ('lights') and saying of masses.
1485-1569
London and Middlesex Feet of Fines
Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership
of land in London
and Middlesex.
1697
Official Papers
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as
well as other miscellaneous records. Includes lists of passes to travel abroad.
1771
People in the News
Births, marriages and deaths, reports of crimes, trials and hangings, and
general news, mainly from England, reported in the Chronicle section of the
Annual Register
1777
Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military
promotions, clerical preferments, and bankrupts, as reported in the Gentleman's
Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and
abroad.
1785
Birth, marriage and death notices, law reports, shipping movements and
obituaries from the Daily Universal Register of April 1785.
1860
Officers of the British Army
The New Annual Army List first lists officers of the rank of major and above, by
rank, and with dates of appointment to each successive higher rank, and (where
appropriate) when placed on half pay. An asterisk indicates temporary rank; a
superscript p shows that a commission was purchased; a dagger shows officers on
the half pay of their last regimental commission. An ornate W indicates those
officers actually present in any of the actions of 16, 17 or 18 June 1815 and
therefore awarded the Waterloo Medal; P is put before the name of an officer who
served in the Peninsula or the South of France; T for the Battle of Trafalgar; VC
for the Victoria Cross. For each officer in this section, the final column notes
his then present or immediately former regiment and/or office, if any. Next, all
the officers of the army are listed, down to the rank of ensign, by regiment or
corps, giving rank, name, date of rank in the regiment, and date of rank in the
army, with occasional further notes. Again, holders of medals are duly noted, as
in the first list. For each regiment the paymaster, adjutant, quartermaster,
surgeon and assistant surgeons are named, as well as the civilian agent; and the
regimental motto, battle honours, and colours of the facings and lace of the
dress uniform are stated. After the British regiments of the line, the Rifle
Brigade, the officers of the West India infantry, the Ceylon rifles, the Cape
Mounted Riflemen, the Royal Canadian Rifles, St Helena Regiment and the Gold
Coast Artillery Corps are given; then the officers of the garrisons and other
military establishments; the Royal Artillery; Royal Engineers; Royal Marines;
Commissariat Department; Medical Department; Staff Officers of Pensioners;
Chaplains' Department; Staff (of Great Britain, Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda,
British Columbia, Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, East Indies, Falkland Islands,
Gibraltar, Heligoland, Hong Kong, Ionian Islands, Jamaica (including Honduras),
Malta, Mauritius, Newfoundland, North America, St Helena, the Western Coast of
Africa, and the Windward and Leeward Islands); Military and Civil Department;
and Barrack Masters. Then there is a separate list of officers retained on
retired full pay and half pay (including the German Legion, the Brunswick
Cavalry, the Brunswick Infantry, Chasseurs Brittaniques, Royal Corsican Rangers,
the Greek Light Infantry, Royal Malta Regiment, Meuron's Regiment, Roll's
Regiment, Sicilian Regiment, Watteville's Regiment, the York Light Infantry
Volunteers, Foreign Veteran Battalion and the Foreign Corps of Waggoners).
1868
Inhabitants of Worcestershire
Gentry, farmers and traders listed in J. E. R. Kelly's Post Office Directory of
Worcestershire.
1900
Eton College boys
and masters
Printed lists of boys attending Eton College were issued each School-Time or
term. This is the list for Lent School-Time, 1900. The governors and masters of
the schools are given first: then the names of a scholar elected for King's in
December 1899, and the names and ages of 16 scholars elected for Eton in July
1899, 12 of whom had been admitted. Winners of the Newcastle Scholarship, two
each year, back to 1829 (here indexed from 1859 onwards), and of the various
college scholarships and prizes for 1899, precede the Distinctions in Trials
(examinations) for December 1899. The First Hundred and Certificate examination
list for Election 1899 list the boys in order of merit and with the marks
awarded in Classics, Mathematics, Scripture Knowledge and History. The
Certificate list is divided into First, Second and Third Classes, Passed, and
Failed. The names of examiners and absentees are also given. Then follow the
main lists of all the pupils, arranged by class. For every boy his position in
class, surname, house tutor's name and classical tutor's name, are given; and
evey boy's entry is annotated with details of his prizes during his whole period
at the school. In the fifth forms the list for each class is divided into four
parts, divided by a dotted line, then a wavy line, and then a full line. The top
fourth had all obtained distinction in the last trials; those above the wavy
line had been classed in the last trials; next were the unclassed; and below the
full line were those boys who had failed in the trials. Separate indexes cover
the two following terms - Midsummer and Michaelmas.
We have
added a total of 90,103 new entries this week. We now have over 4.5 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR).
All records guaranteed authentic:
no input from users or from databases.
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you find what you are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we will email you when we have some records for you.
Good
Hunting.
Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
From:
"Editor - BCGS" <editor@bcgs.ca>
To: Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Subject: Re:
found photo album
Hi, Bob;
Do you want to add this?
I did include it in the last e-newsletter.
Diane R
-----Original message-----
From: "Sarah" ivorie31@telus.net
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007
00:50:43 -0700
To: editor@bcgs.ca
Subject: found photo album
Hello,
Although I am not a member (yet)
I was wondering if you could put the following message on your web-site? > I'd
really appreciate it
Hello
The other night while walking in the rain, down a back alley in Newton Surrey
BC , I found a photo-album,.
As I am an avid family historian. I feel this is a precious item. If you could
help or suggest ideas to aid me in the return to the original owner I would be
most *grateful*, as I hope the owner would be.
The album itself is a sort of redish pink colour with darker pink & black
stripes.
Pictures in it include:- Paris France, The French Riviera, Nice, Sedona,
Fiji
There is a postcard addressed from Nice postmarked 19 Sept 1986 , signed by
"love Mom & Dad, and it is addressed to
Miss K (Karen) McKAY
6191 Azure Ave Richmond BC
V7C 2N8
There is also in it a postcard that says
"a Special Touch of Paradise" Sheraton Fiji - on the back it says- "Ideally
located on the shores of the Nadi Bay"
Very few of the pictures include names, but some do mention folks (Florence,
Alf?)- that live in Oceanside California & there is a mention of a Gordon which
I think may be "Dad"
This album has pictures of a mother & children dated 1962.
IMHO, many of these photos are priceless as they are of children growing up
and scenes from Paris France including architecture. Pictures that cannot be
replaced.
If you happen to know of a Karen McKay formerly of Richmond (and maybe married
now), please do let her know I have this valuable family heirloom?
Thank you to all who can help with in my quest to return this heirloom!
I would think this album was likely stolen.
With Respect Teena
Please contact me so I may return this to the original owner!!!!
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To: ".N&M
AND SC NEWS" <nmscnews@vpl.ca>
Subject: nmscnews: Fwd:
June VPL News from the Newspapers & Magazines / Special Collections Divisions
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007
17:22:35 -0700
WELCOME to the "Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections News," an
occasional e-letter from the Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections
Divisions of the Vancouver Public Library.
* * * *
Heres our June newsletter
Upcoming programs in June
*
Ann Vincente Book Arts and Music
Book artist Ann Vincente will talk about the process of making unique artists
books. She will use her lates books as examples based on Requiem for a Charred
Skull by Bramwell Tovey Mirror on the Mirror by Aarvo Part Lark Ascending by
Vaughan Williams Trout Quintet by Franz Schubert
Monday, June 11, 7:30 to 9:00 pm
Held in the Peter Kaye Room, Lower Level, Central Branch
A BC Book Arts Guild session.
*
Discover Your Past - Stanley Park
Using the resources in the Special Collections Department, we will search for
and find information on the history of Stanley Park which was officially opened
in 1888.
Participants in the workshop will be given a guide to finding information on
Stanley Park, as well as a good overview of the local history research tools
(indexes, maps, directories, etc.) that are available to them in Special
Collections. A slide show of historical images of the Park will also be shown.
Thursday, June 21, 7:00-9:00 pm
Held in the Special Collections Division, Level 7.
Registration is required, call: 604-331-3778
*
For more information about VPL programs, check out the online Events Calendar at
http://www.vpl.ca
(& click on Events + Programs on the blue bar at the top right) or pick up a
monthly Events brochure at any information desk.
* * *
News and Updates¦
Like to get your news online? Some new titles added to PressDisplay are:
Times of Malta. A general news daily from Malta, in English.
** Algemeen Dagblad. A national news and daily from Rotterdam. In Dutch.
** Cultura. A culture and entertainment weekly from Moscow, in Russian.
** The Marlborough Express. A local and national news evening daily from New
Zealand.
** SME. A national general news daily from Slovakia, in Slovak.
** Stampa. A national news and entertainment weekly from Athens, in Greek.
** Sovetskaya Rossiya. A left wing national news daily from Moscow, in Russian.
** Itogi. A weekly newsmagazine from Moscow, in Russian.
PressDisplay offers full-image digital versions of current newspapers from over
55 countries and 30 languages. You can access today's newspapers and back issues
for up to 45 days.
Access by clicking on Electronic Resources from the library home page, at
www.vpl.ca and scrolling down through the alphabetical list to find
PressDisplay.
* * *
Special Collections Display
Stanley Park : A Walk Through Time
Photographs, pamphlets, souvenirs, and books on our Stanley Park throughout
history. Also on display will be artifacts and memorabilia on loan from the
Maritime Museum, such as from the SS Beaver.
Up until the end of August.
* * * *
That is all for this issue of Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections
News.
If you have any ideas or comments for future issues, please send us an email to
nmsclist@vpl.ca We welcome all your suggestions.
Vancouver Public Library
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver BC V6G 1B6
(604)331-3603
To see our all of our current and upcoming programs go to:
http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/nm/home.html#Programs
OR
http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/home.html#Programs
To e-mail us a question:
http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/qis/emailref/eRefService.html
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Hello,
from Chris Krawczyk
We’ve launched a new Genealogy
site recently. It's called
www.familyhistoryplace.net.
Our site contains links
to over 1000 Genealogy Societies. We’ve added a link to the British Columbia
Genealogical Society to our links page for British Columbia. If you could take a
moment and verify your listing and link, we’d appreciate it greatly. Please let
us know if there are any problems.
We believe that
Genealogy Societies are a
vitally important research tool,
too often ignored by the online community, and are trying to create a site
that encourages people to find them and join.
We're hoping that in return you
will add a link to your site pointing to us? By
doing so you are helping to create a network that will help all of the world's
Genealogy Societies.
We are also building
a library of articles about genealogy.
We’re looking for people to contribute.
Could you pass this on to your members? We envision a library of thousands of
genealogy articles sharing knowledge. Knowledge that people can search and use
for free.
Thanks for taking a look
at our site. Please let us know what you think.
Best Regards,
Chris Krawczyk,
Editor:-
editor@familyhistoryplace.net
Website:-familyhistoryplace.net
p.s. We will also be sending out a free quarterly newsletter highlighting the best new articles added to our site. If you know anyone who may be interested in receiving it please ask them to send an email to newsletter@familyhistoryplace.net with the word subscribe in the subject line. That will add them to the list.
From: "Bulkley
Valley Genealogical Society" <bvgs2@hotmail.com>
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
Smithers Genealogy Seminar
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007
11:21:24 -0700
Hi:
Please find attached a poster for our September seminar featuring Dave Obee and
Ann ten Cate (Archivist and outreach coordinator, BC Archives). If you could
post or forward this information to other societies in BC we would much
appreciate it.
Thank you,
Lorne D. McIntosh
seminar committee
Bulkley Valley Genealogical Society
Smithers, BC
Poster in PDF
format
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Re:
The Original
Record.com-another bumper 59k records added
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007
17:15:34 +0100
Hi,
This week's additions to
the
www.theoriginalrecord.com include:
1198-1485
London and Middlesex Feet of Fines
Pedes Finium - law suits, or pretended suits, putting on record the ownership
of land in London
and Middlesex.
1275-1312
Inhabitants of London
Letter Book B of the City of London contains enrolments of recognizances between
inhabitants, particularly citizens, for sums of money lent or due; grants of
pieces of land or property; and various records relating to the city
administration.
1276-1277
Patent Rolls
Calendars of the patent rolls of the reign of king Edward I are printed in the
Calendars of State Papers: but these cover only a fraction of the material on
the rolls. From 1881 to 1889 the reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public
Record Office also include calendars of other material from the rolls - about
five times as many entries as in the State Papers - predominantly mandates to
the royal justices to hold sessions of oyer and terminer to resolve cases
arising locally; but also other general business. The calendar for the 5th year
of king Edward I [20 November 1276 to 19 November 1277], hitherto unindexed, is
covered here.
1619-1657
Hertfordshire Sessions
Incidents from the Hertfordshire Sessions Books and Sessions Minute Books. These
cover a wide range of criminal and civil business for the county.
1694-1695
Official Papers
The State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain,
Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as
well as other miscellaneous records. Here we have the period from January 1694
to June 1695.
1696
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies,
from April to September 1696. These also include records of the appointment and
replacement of customs officers such as tide waiters and surveyors.
We have
added a total of 59,384 new entries this week. We now have over 4.4 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR).
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you find what you are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we will email you when we have some records for you.
Good
Hunting.
Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
B.C.G. S. DNA Group Discussion
meeting
The B.C.G.S. DNA group discussion will be Thursday, June 21 from 7-9 pm at the
BCGS Walter Draycott Library & Resource Centre, Unit 211, 12837 - 76th Avenue,
in Surrey.
Please note the date
change from June 9 to June 21***
The purpose of this
first meeting is to discuss the recent Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation
project sampling, although all are welcome.
We can discuss
expectations, limitations, what is happening with the samples, what results may
be obtained (and with what difficulty!), time frame, and what may be the next
step for those who wish to use coupons, etc.
For more
information, contact David W. Brown:
DNARose@shaw.ca
or Diane Rogers:
diane_rogers@shaw.ca
Subject:
Clearbrook Library Genealogy Fair
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:26:48 -0700
From: "Shiloa Thomas" <shthomas@fvrl.bc.ca>
To:<bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Hello to
Everyone,
This is to confirm your attendance at the Clearbrook Library Genealogy Fair on
May 26th.
The Fair will run from 10 am to 5 pm. We are having 2 sessions "Exploring the
Ancestral Trail" presented by Lorene Lyle at 10:30 am and "Organize: The Second
Prime Directive" by Brenda Smith at 1:30 pm.
I have attached a poster that you can send on to people or put up in your areas.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Cynthia Churchill
will be here on the 26th to assist with the day's events. Her local is 233. The
meeting room will be open on Friday the 25th from 1-5 pm if anyone wants to set
up early.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Shiloa Thomas
<<Genealogy
Fair poster 2007.doc>>
Shiloa Thomas
Adult Services Librarian
Clearbrook Branch
Fraser Valley Regional Library
32320 George Ferguson Way
Abbotsford, B.C.
V2T 6N4
604-859-7814
shiloa.thomas@fvrl.bc.ca
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
The Original Record.com- another amazing 51k new entries added This Week
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007
15:01:27 +0100
Hi,
This week's additions to
the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1275-1276
Patent Rolls
Calendars of the patent rolls of the reign of king Edward I are printed in the
Calendars of State Papers: but these cover only a fraction of the material on
the rolls. From 1881 to 1889 the reports of the Deputy Keeper of the Public
Record Office also include calendars of other material from the rolls - about
five times as many entries as in the State Papers - predominantly mandates to
the royal justices to hold sessions of oyer and terminer to resolve cases
arising locally; but also other general business. The calendar for the 4th year
of king Edward I [20 November 1275 to 19 November 1276], hitherto unindexed, is
covered here.
1329-1363
Clerks and Clergy in Somerset
The register of bishop Ralph de Salopia or Shrewsbury of Bath and Wells,
containing general diocesan business, mostly relating to clergy, but with some
parochial affairs and disputes with names of parishioners. The diocese of Bath
and Wells at this period was almost exactly coextensive with the county of
Somerset.
1660-1679
Allegations for marriages in southern England
The province or archbishopric of Canterbury covered all England and Wales except
for the northern counties in the four dioceses of the archbishopric of York
(York, Durham, Chester and Carlisle). Marriage licences were generally issued by
the local dioceses, but above them was the jurisdiction of the archbishop,
exercised through his vicar-general. Where the prospective bride and groom were
from different dioceses it would be expected that they obtain a licence from the
archbishop; in practice, the archbishop residing at Lambeth, and the actual
offices of the province being in London, which was itself split into myriad
ecclesiastical jurisdictions, and spilled into adjoining dioceses, this facility
was particularly resorted to by couples from London and the home counties,
although there are quite a few entries referring to parties from further afield.
The abstracts of the allegations given here usually state name, address (street
in London, or parish), age, and condition of bride and groom; and sometimes the
name, address and occupation of the friend or relative filing the occupation.
Where parental consent was necessary, a mother's or father's name may be given.
The ages shown should be treated with caution; ages above 21 tended to be
reduced, doubtless for cosmetic reasons; ages under 21 tended to be increased,
particularly to avoid requiring parental consent; a simple statement 'aged 21'
may merely mean 'of full age' and indicate any age from 21 upwards. These are
merely allegations to obtain licences; although nearly all will have resulted in
the issuing of the licence, many licences did not then result in marriage. This
index also includes marriage licence allegations for the jurisdiction of the
Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1558 to 1699.
1711
Treasury Books
Records of the Treasury administration in Britain, America and the colonies, for
1711. These also include records of the appointment and replacement of customs
officers such as tide waiters and surveyors.
1858
Customs Officers
Complete lists of serving customs officers and clerks in the Port of London and
all the outports of Britain and Ireland (including the Isle of Man and the
Channel Islands) were published each year in The British Tariff. This issue is
corrected to 30 September 1858.
We have
added a total of 51,055 new entries this week. We now have over 4.3 million
entries directly available online.
Free unlimited search.
All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR).
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you find what you are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we will email you when we have some records for you.
Good
Hunting.
Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record
Team, email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com, website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: Scottish Coming events
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:20:14 -0700
Greetings. Two coming events of interest. Regards, the other Ron
.1. SFU PIPE BAND CONCERT:
.
WHERE: Red Robinson Theatre, Boulevard Casino, 2080 United
Boulevard, Coquitlam, BC
.
WHEN: 7:00 PM on Saturday, June 23rd
.
TICKETS: available through Ticketmaster at 604-280-4444, or,
at the Red Robinson Theatre Box Office.
.
OTHER: Accompanied by fiddler Shona le Mottée and a full
Celtiic ensemble
.
CONTACT: Jack Lee at
jack.lee@shaw.ca
. 2. THE 7TH CELTIC FEST 2007 SUMMER SCHOOL AND CONCERT SERIES
.
WHEN: July 7 - 13
.
WHERE: Tigh-na–Mara and River Bend Resorts, Parksville, BC
.
WHAT: an awesome variety of instruction in Celtic Arts
presented by 30 Celtic music, dance and art professionals, plus evening
concerts.
.
CONTACT: René Cusson or Carolyn Phillips Cusson at
1-250-758-0208
.
WEBSITE:
.
http://www.celticperformingarts.com/2007concertrackcard.pdf
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edtnaa05.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
Highland Games
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007
19:26:35 -0700
Greetings a message mainly
about the BC Highland Games with add-ons about Skye and other Highland Games.
The BC Highland Games are very much dependent on volunteerism. Many community
activities across BC are disappearing because of a shortage of volunteers.
Hopefully, that wont happen with the oldest Highland Games in this area.
Regards, the other Ron
1. BC HIGHLAND GAMES & SCOTTISH FESTIVAL AT PERCY PERRY STADIUM, (FORMERLY COQUITLAM TOWN CENTER STADIUM) SATURDAY, JUNE 30TH
If you can volunteer 2 -3 hours on the day of the Games, or, prior to the games, please do so.In return, you will receive free admission, a Games T-shirt, and the satisfaction of knowing that you have made an important contriibution.
If interested, come to the VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION NIGHT at 7:30 PM Monday. May 14th at at the Scottish Cultural Centre, 8886 Hudson Street, Vancouver, BC.
Register by contacting Ann at 604-688-1418 days; 604-671-8215, or by emailing ann@danielmcintyre.com
Check the website at www.bchighlandgames.com
2. An interesting website, courtesy JOHN PEARSON, for those interested in the possible renaming the Isle of Skye to Eilean a’Cheo (the Misty Island) http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=659562007
3. Some further notes on 2007 Highland Games
NOTE: THE 2007 PENTICTON GAMES ARE CANCELLED (lack of volunteers)
Here are four more Highland Games, courtesy BRUCE CAMPBELL:
British Columbia
June 7 – Caribou Highland Games, Quesnel, mostly dancing and Bands
http://www.cariboohighlandgames.com
Alberta
June 10 – Grand Prairie Highland Games, Maklin Field, mostly dancing and Bands
http://www.gphighlandgames.com
June 23 - Red Deer Highland Games, Westerner Exposition Park
http://reddeerhighlandgames.ca
Saskatchewan
May 20 - Regina Highland Games, Campbell College Park, Regina
http://www.reginahighlandgames.org/
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Subject: Re:
The
Original Record.com- 43k more new entries added This Week
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007
19:56:08 +0100
Hi,
This week's additions to
the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1835-1836
British merchant seamen
At this period, the foreign trade of ships plying to and from the British isles
involved about 150,000 men on 15,000 ships; and the coasting trade about a
quarter as many more. A large proportion of the seamen on these ships were
British subjects, and so liable to be pressed for service in the Royal Navy; but
there was no general register by which to identify them, so in 1835 parliament
passed a Merchant Seamen's Registration Bill. Under this act this large register
of British seamen was compiled, based on ships' crew lists gathered in British
and Irish ports, and passed up to the registry in London. Each seaman was
assigned a number, and the names were arranged in the register by first two
letters of the surname (our sample scan shows one of the pages for 'Sm'); in
addition, an attempt was made to separate out namesakes by giving the first
instance of a name (a), the second (b), and so on. But no effective method was
devised to prevent the same man being registered twice as he appeared in a
second crew list; moreover, the original crew lists were clearly difficult for
the registry clerks to copy, and some of the surname spellings appear to be
corrupted. A parliamentary committee decided that the system devised did not
answer the original problem, and this register was abandoned after less than two
years: but it is an apparently comprehensive source for British merchant seamen
in 1835 to 1836. The register records the number assigned to each man; his name;
age; birthplace; quality (master, captain, mate, 2nd mate, mariner, seaman,
fisherman, cook, carpenter, boy &c.); and the name and home port of his ship,
with the date of the crew list (usually at the end of a voyage). Most of the men
recorded were born in the British Isles, but not all (for instance, Charleston
and Stockholm appear in the sample scan). The final column 'How disposed of' is
rarely used, and indicates those instances where a man died, was discharged, or
deserted his ship during the voyage.
We have added a total of
43,638 new entries this week.
No subscription. Free
unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR).
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you
find what you are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our
WISH LIST and we will email you when we have some records for you.
Good Hunting.
Kind regards,Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "Canada Census Campaign" <CANADA-CENSUS-CAMPAIGN-L@rootsweb.com>
Subject: "Gordon
Watts Reports" - new issue online april 24
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007
21:25:37 -0700
Greetings All
The latest issue of Gordon Watts Reports is now available online at
http://www.globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0099.htm
Topics in this issue include:
- In Memorium - Kenneth George Aitken
- 2006 Census response to 'Informed Consent'
- Where to now?
I would like to suggest that the second and third articles are of some
importance to genealogists and historians. Every one reading this post should
read the articles and feel free to pass them on to others.
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edmwaa05.telusplanet.net
From: Ron
MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: Highland Games schedule
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007
10:38:40 -0700
Greetings, it is getting
close to that time of year when we look forward to the skirl of the pipes and
the grunts of the Caber tossers – in other words, Highland Games are soon upon
us. Here is a schedule for some games including two from faraway places (there
are scores of them across the continent). Regards, the other Ron
Websites
noted have been checked and they all worked when tested; try Google if need be.
British Columbia
May 19- Comox Valley Highland Games, Lewis Park, 489 Old Island Highway, Courtenay, http://www.cvhg.org/For those in a travel mood, two very large games, one in Canada and the other in the USA
July 12 - 15 – Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, MacRae Meadows, Linville, North Carolina, http://www.gmhg.org/
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To:"british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject: Re:
The Original Record.com- 45k huge increase of records this week
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
22:49:26 +0100
Hi,
This week's additions to
the
www.theoriginalrecord.com include:
1831-1859
Outstanding British artillerymen
Non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery recommended for good
conduct medals and gratuities. The lists state rank, name, battalion or corps,
date of recommendation, date awarded, and total length of service (in years and
days), with length of foreign service (in years and months) and as serjeant and
staff serjeant (in years and months). The lists themselves are basically of
recommendations, then annotated to show award of medal and/or gratuity, which
in most cases naturally followed. Where an award was not made, the reason is
usually given.
1860-1901
Outstanding British soldiers
Each year the best soldiers were chosen for long service and good conduct
medals. These registers, covering all regiments and corps, give rank, name,
regimental number, and date of recommendation. Where no gratuity accompanied the
medal, the entry is marked 'W. G.' (without gratuity); where, for one reason or
another, the medal was not issued, the entry is marked 'N. S.' (not sanctioned)
and struck through.
We have added 609 new indexes this week, containing a total of 45.304 new entries, No subscription. Free unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR). www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you
find what you are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our
WISH LIST and we will email you when we have some records for you.
Good Hunting.
Kind regards, Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edmwaa05.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
Bands and MODs
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007
09:47:35 -0700
Greetings, two messages.
Regards, the other Ron
1. SFU’s Robert Malcolm Memorial Band has openings for new members to become pipers and drummers.
Come to the Open House on May 1st, 2007 to see what it is all about. The Open House will be held at the Burnaby Mountain campus of SFU on Tuesday, May 1st between 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM .
Sign up for a 6 week instructional session on learning to play the pipes or drums if you are between ages 7 and 13, no experience necessary. You will be instructed by members of the World Champion Senior and Juvenile Bands. You can earn credits towards B.C. high school graduation.
Contacts: www. rmmpipeband.com or email robwatt@rmmpipeband.com
2 Mòd Vancouver is a celebration of Scottish Gaelic music, language and culture. Held every second year, the festival attracts enthusiastic participants from all regions of Canada, the U.S.A. and Scotland. In addition to the usual competitive events, Mòd Vancouver also presents several workshops on various aspects of Gaelic language, music, culture, history and folklore. These workshops are presented by Gaelic resource people especially invited for their expertise in the subject.
This year, we are delighted to welcome Mairi MacArthur, Catherine MacKay, Donnie Murdo MacLeod, Murdo Morrison and Calum Ross as our 2007 resource personnel.
Each night, ceilidhs and concerts are held featuring our special guests, local musicians, and Mòd Vancouver competition winners. (PS: the closing ceilidh the evening of May12th is an event that brings it all together – whether an English or Gaelic speaker, you will find much to enjoy.)
Come and join us at Mòd Vancouver 2007 and experience the precious culture of the Gael.
Mòd Vancouver events take place at the Scottish Cultural Centre 8886 Hudson Street Vancouver, B.C. V6P 4N2 Canada
For information, please contact: Maureen Lyon - plyon1@telus.net phone (604) 536-1367 Dolly MacKay - dollymackay@shaw.ca phone (604) 575-7688 John MacLeod - rolesmac@shaw.ca Or, check the website at www.modvancouver.com
The British Columbia
Genealogical Society is pleased to present Ugo A. Perego of the The
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation
Participate in a DNA
Study
Friday, April 27,
2007 at the BCGS Resource Centre, Unit 211, 12837 – 76th Avenue,
Surrey, BC
2 Sessions available:
5:30-6:30 pm & 6:30-7:30 pm
Participants need to bring along a pedigree chart with a minimum of 3
generations, plus a signed release form (this will be available at the Centre).
The sessions are free – to sign up, email Eunice Robinson at
eunice@dccnet.com
Subject:
2 Programs left for this
season at Cloverdale
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:24:30 -0700
From: "Cooke, Laurie"
LCOOKE@surrey.ca
Hi Diane & Bob,
We have 2 programs left this
year, the Lock In and a Publishing program (info is at the bottom.)
I believe you already have the Lock In info, but I've attached the poster
now too.
Not mentioned on the poster, we will be offering Ancestry database
tutorials throughout the day, and Brenda Smith will be doing 2 seminars:
1
LOOK AFTER THE PAPER: FAMILY HISTORIAN AS ARCHIVIST
Family historians are front-line archivists. We hold the bulk of our country’s
historical documents in our private hands. Explore the basic methods and
supplies for taking proper care of our precious papers.
BRITISH COLUMBIA VITAL RECORDS: The Essentials
Brenda demonstrates how to access British Columbia’s historic birth, marriage
and death records, including baptisms, colonial marriages, overseas military
deaths, and delayed registrations. She relates these important sources to the
telling of British Columbia’s history.
Lock In Poster:
<<Lockin
Fundraiser2007.pdf>>
2
Researching, Writing
and Publishing Your Own History: from Print to your Readers!
Saturday, May 12th, 2007
1:00 - 3:00pm
Author Historians Gavin Hainsworth and Katherine Freund Hainsworth return with a
wealth of tips for fledgling historical writers, especially those working with
publishers.
After a review of the research and writing aspects required to create a local history, our speakers will focus on their real life experiences with publishing, including contract negotiation - the art of the deal, market positioning, the galley process and beyond - how local history can be marketed after publication.
Pre-registration
required.
604-598-7328
genealogy@surrey.ca
By the way, we have new
phone numbers:
Information 604-598-7320
Genealogy: 604-598-7328
Thanks! Laurie
From:
"Mary"
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Fw: [LAN]
News on 1911 census
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007
01:40:30 -0700
Found the info that
might help some in the future, Mary Turnbull
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 5:46 AM
Subject: [LAN] News on 1911 census
Hi List
News on the 1911 census. The FFHS reports that The National Archives has
announced that Scotland Online will partner the UK government's official archive
in the forthcoming project to put the 1911 census for England and Wales online.
From 2009 there will be a phased release of the information in the 1911 census
starting with the major conurbations. This will include images and transcription
data, but with sensitive data redacted in line with the Information
Commissioner's recent ruling. From 3 January 2012 the public will have full
access to the entire 1911 census, including the information not accessible in
2009. Researchers anywhere in the world will be able to search across the fields
of the census by name, address or The National Archives reference, and download
high-resolution digital images.
Best wishes
Kathryn
www.familytreefolk.co.uk
http://familytreefolk.blogspot.com/
Make sure your subject line contains the Who, What, Where, and Why of your
message.
Please keep all messages on topic: Lancashire genealogy and history.
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Date: Thu,
12 Apr 2007 16:28:22 -0400
Subject: Archives and You Conference
From:
archivesgenealogists@chelsea-group.net
Have you ever
wondered about the wealth of material available in Canada’s network archives? Everything
you wanted to know about archives...but were afraid to ask!
Join us for the Archives and You! Conference
at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 11, 2007.
We are also planning site visits to regional archives on May 12 (for conference
participants only).
From first-rate plenary sessions, to interactive roundtables and workshops,
tours of local archives and exhibits presenting the latest information and
services, “Archives and You!” is designed to sharpen the archival users’
tool-set. Visit the
conference web site for a preliminary program.
To register or to learn more, visit the web site at www.archivesconference.ca or call toll-free (866) 775-1816 or (866) 775-1817.
From:-
Brenda L Smith <emmalou@telus.net>
Subject:-
Two
great BC Historical Federation Workshops for non-profit groups
Darte:- April 11, 2007
4:15 PM
The BC Historical
Federation is offering two workshops on May 10th in Victoria, B.C. which will of
interest to non-profit groups, societies, museums, etc. who are looking to
INCREASE THEIR MEMBERSHIP AND KEEP VOLUNTEERS
ACTIVE and a workshop on
LOOKING AFTER YOUR ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS.
Full information is available
on the
www.bchistory.ca website - click on the
Conference Rollover at the top then
on the Register for a pre conference
workshop to view all the information. Space is limited so check
soon. Brochure
Brenda L.
Smith
Education Officer
British Columbia Historical Federation
604-466-2636
emmalou@telus.net
Plan to
attend in Victoria May 10, 2007
Cultivate Membership in Your Organization
Look After Your Archival Documents
www.bchistory.ca/conf.html
Subject:
Findmypast.com has added another decade records to the UK Outbound Passenger
Lists!
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:27:58 +0100
From: "Marlene D'Silva"
<Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
3rd
decade added to passenger lists
With the
addition of another decade of data to the UK Outbound Passenger lists, records
now include an incredible 11.3 million names within 71,600 passenger lists
spanning 1890 to 1919.
What
is available for 1910 to 1919?
The era
of Olympic-class passenger liners emerged in the early 20th century as a direct
result of improvements in transportation and competition between the great
shipping lines, Cunard and White Star Line.
At the
turn of the century, the fastest Atlantic liners were German, and the British
sought to win back the Blue Riband title for the fastest transatlantic crossing,
and the White Star Line began construction on their new series of Olympic-class
ships, named after the races of Greek mythology -
Olympic,
Titanic and Britannic (originally Gigantic).
Look out for your ancestors onboard the largest and most luxurious ships ever to
operate in this period.
The only
list you’ll find missing for now is RMS Titanic, which we’re saving for
the 95th anniversary when the ill-fated ship sank after hitting an
iceberg on her maiden voyage on 14 April 1912. But explore now to find details
of an earlier, less-celebrated, Titanic.
The
events that changed history
In
this new decade you will discover passenger lists recording the journeys of war
brides who had recently married, and in many cases already had children by,
Canadian servicemen who had served in Europe during WW1.
We have found Charlie Chaplin and Stanley Jefferson, aka Stan Laurel, travelling together with a host of other actors and actresses as part of Fred Karno’s troupe touring America from 1910 to 1912. Irish poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats on board Cunard’s infamous Lusitania going to New York in 1914, the same year Marcus Garvey is recorded as a young journalist sailing to Jamaica on board the SS. Trent.
We invite you
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and would like to hear about the ancestors you have discovered at
stories@ancestorsonboard.com.
You
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In our
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choosing a ship name enables you to view all the years in which it sailed.
Selecting the year you’re interested in will display a list of results of all
the relevant voyages and destinations.
And in
Person Search, you can now also narrow your search with the name of a travelling
companion.
Start
searching the Passenger Lists now
How
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Buy the
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From: "nm
sc news list" <nmsclist@vpl.ca>
To: nmscnews@vpl.ca
Subject: nmscnews:
April VPL News from the Newspapers & Magazines / Special Collections
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007
11:47:12 -0700
WELCOME to the
"Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections News," an occasional e-letter
from the Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections Divisions of the
Vancouver Public Library.
* * * *
Here is our April newsletter
Upcoming programs in April
*
Press Display
Read your favourite newspapers online using your VPL card. PressDisplay offers
over 300 newspapers from more than 60 countries in 40 languages.
Two identical sessions are offered on Tuesday, April 10 2:00 to 3:00 pm and
7:00 to 8:00 pm
Held in the Level 5 Computer Lab, Central Branch Basic computer skills are
required.
To register, call: 604-331-3742
*
Discover Your Past : Local History Resources in Special Collections. Using
resources in the Special Collections Department, we will search for and find
historical information on a house in the Strathcona neighbourhood. Participants
in the workshop will be given a good overview of the local history research
tools (indexes, directories, maps, etc.) available to them in Special
Collections. These resources can be used to research their own homes.
Slides and film footage of Strathcona will be shown.
Wednesday, April 18, 7:00-8:45pm
Held in the Level 7 Computer Lab, Central Branch Registration is required, call:
604-331-3778
*
Creating a Handful of Odes and other Book Arts Adventures
Jennifer Van de Pols artists book of ink drawings with watercolour washes. Jen
will discuss both the technical issues that she worked through in creating A
Handful of Odes, and the artistic issues encompassed in all the aspects of
creating a book.
A B.C. Book Arts Guild session Monday, April 23, from 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Peter Kaye Room, Central Branch, Lower Level Registration is not required. For
more information call: 604-331-3778
*
Finding Japanese News Online - In Japanese
Get the latest news from Japan by using the PressDisplay database, blogs, and
newspaper and TV web sites.
Two sessions are offered in Japanese
Tuesday April 17, 2:00 to 3:00 pm and 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Held in the Level 5 Computer Lab, Central Branch. To register, or for more
information, call 604-331-3691
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For more information about VPL programs, check out the online Events Calendar at
http://www.vpl.ca (& click on Events + Programs on the blue bar at the top
right) or pick up a monthly Events brochure at any information desk.
* * *
News and Updates
Like to get your news online? Some new titles added to PressDisplay are:
**AIF Superzvezdy. A bi-monthly celebrity news tabloid, in Russian.
**The Citizen. News tabloid from Johannesburg, in English.
**Nordbayerische Zeitung Furth. A news daily from Germany, in German.
**The East Valley / Scottsdale Tribune. A news daily from Scottsdale,Arizona.
**Politis. A news daily from Cyprus, in Greek.
**Alyaum. A news daily from Saudi Arabia, in Arabic.
**Tribuna. A national weekly from Moscow, in Russian.
**Komsomolskaya Pravda Weekly. A national weekly tabloid, from Moscow, in
Russian.
PressDisplay offers full-image digital versions of current newspapers from over
55 countries and 30 languages. You can access today's newspapers and back issues
for up to 45 days.
Access by clicking on Electronic Resources from the library home page, at
www.vpl.ca and scrolling down through the alphabetical list to find
PressDisplay.
* * *
Special Collections Display
Visits of State
Visit our visual display of memorable visits of state to B.C. The display will
show a variety of materials relating to royal visits, as well as costumes
donated by Bard On The Beach.
The display will be on levels 2 and 5 as well as in the Special Collections
Division on level 7.
Up for April and May.
* * *
That is all for this issue of Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections
News.
If you have any ideas or comments for future issues, please send us an email to
nmsclist@vpl.ca We welcome all your suggestions.
Vancouver Public Library
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver BC V6G 1B6
(604)331-3603
To see our all of our current and upcoming programs go to:
http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/nm/home.html#Programs
OR
http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/home.html#Programs
To e-mail us a question:
http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/qis/emailref/eRefService.html
To suggest a purchase:
http://www.vpl.ca/online/PrintableSuggestedPurchase.html
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To:
ScotschairII@priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
Scotschair coming events
Reminder
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007
10:35:04 -0700
Greetings, three
reminders re coming events. Regards, the other Ron
1. Lord Steel speaks
at the SFU Harbour Centre 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 4th on “The Scottish
Parliament: Its origins, what it does and where it is going.” A reception to
follow. Call 604-291-5100 for information.
2. Tartan Pride
Ceilidh at the Scottish Cultural Centre, 8886 Hudson, Vancouver. A rousing
evening of entertainment commencing 8 PM Saturday, March 31st; doors open at
7:00 PM. Contact 604-576-1619.
3. Vancouver Gaelic
Choir and soloists at the Scottish Cultural Centre, 8886 Hudson, Vancouver
in a run-up to the Gaelic Mod (May 8 –12). Concert starts at 8:00 PM. All
welcome. Contact 604-423-3326 or 604-536-1367.
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: 'Gordon
Watts Reports' - New issue online mar 26
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007
11:21:43 -070
Greetings All.
FYI.
The latest issue of
'Gordon Watts Reports' is now online at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0098.htm
Topics in
this issue include the following:
* Canadian Census 2006 -
informed consent
* Nova Scotia's
Historical Vital Stats now online
* Ancestry.com
discontinues free access for Family History Centers (LDS)
* Changing names
* Changing address
(previous article link)
* Another Lunenburg
reunion
* HeritageQuest Online
sold
* Ancestry.ca adds
Drouin Collection
* Genealogy Film
Festival at 27th IAJGS International Conference
* DNA testing at BCGS
Enjoy!
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon
Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edtnaa05.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
Ron MacLeod:
Odds and ends
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007
14:24:23 -0700
Greetings, a few bits of
information. Regards, the other Ron
1.
Volunteers – once again the call goes out for volunteers for the B.C.
Annual Highland Games, on June 30th at the Coquitlam Town Centre Stadium (on
Pinetree north of Coquitlam Mall, Lougheed Highway). Most positions call for a
2-hour shift which leaves a lot of time to enjoy your free admission to the
festivities. There are a variety of positions open. An orientation session is
scheduled for the Scottish Cultural Centre, 8886 Hudson, Vancouver.
Contact: Angus
Macpherson at judimac.shaw.ca or Bill or Sharon Elder at
wandselder@shaw.ca The Games’ website is at
http://www.bchighlandgames.com
2.
Courtesy Harry McGrath
Following further
research and feedback, the article on place names in Vancouver, British
Columbia, has been revised and expanded. Of the names of the 359 cities,
communities and neighbourhoods that have been identified to date in Greater
Vancouver, 79 (22.0%) can be found as place names in Scotland or are based on
Scottish family names or Scottish words. Of course, some of these names are used
in other parts of the British Isles as well, but 42 of them (11.7%) appear to
have a unique connection with Scotland, whether directly or indirectly. For all
the background, see
http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_vancouver.htm
3.
Courtesy Robert Henderson, Calgary
A Bill for Tartan Day is
before the House of Commons right now and needs your help. Check the Calgary
Saint Andrew – Caledonian Society's website http://www.standrew-caledonian.ab.ca
for details on how to express your support.
4.
Courtesy Catherine Macpherson
Scotland on TV can be
accessed at
http://www.scotlandontv.tv/
5. I have
a text copy of an interesting bit of fluff from Alexander McCall Smith titled “A
Wee Identity Crisis”. The article deals with recent revelations that, by and
large, Scots and English share the same DNA. Highland folk may point out a
difference - many tend to have a greater weight of Norse (and in my own case, a
bit of the “old folk” with a touch of the Moor for flavour) mixed with the
Celtic than do the Sassenachs.
If you are interested in
the article let me know and I will send it along.
Date: Tue,
20 Mar 2007 00:10:29 -0700
From: fdjh@shaw.ca
Subject:
Abbotsford Roots
Around the World Seminar 2007
To:
undisclosed-recipients:
Most of you will already
have been made aware of our
Roots Around the World Seminar 2007 that will take place on April 28, 2007
in Abbotsford, B.C. but we would really appreciate it if you could remind your
members of it again at your next meeting and/ or put up our poster or email a
copy to your membership etc.
We are very excited
about the line-up of speakers and topics we have this year eg. Halvor Moorshead
from "Family Chronicle" and "Internet Genealogy" magazines, DNA testing, Home
Children, Printing with Fedex/Kinko's etc.
All the details and a
registration form are available on our website at
www.abbygs.ca
Thank you very much for
your help.
Lois Martin/Fay Hicks
Coordinators, Seminar
2007
Abbotsford Genealogical
Society
Date: Sun,
18 Mar 2007 22:21:53 -0700
From: Karen Snodgrass <karenskorner@shaw.ca>
Subject:
PGGS Seminar 2007
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Could you please add the
following message where appropriate. Thank you.
Greetings!
The Prince George Genealogical Society will be hosting a Genealogy Seminar on
June 2, 2007, and everyone interested in genealogy and genealogical research is
invited to attend.
Attached is a poster giving dates, times, speaker names and topics, etc.
Also attached is a registration
form. Please share this information with people in your community. If you
have any questions or comments, please email me at
karenskorner@shaw.ca. Some links that might be beneficial to Seminar 2007
visitors are:
The Prince George
Genealogical Society website -
http://members.tripod.com/pg_genealogy_society/welcome.html
Seminar 2007
registration form -
http://pg_genealogy_society.tripod.com/seminar_registration.pdf
Prince George
Accommodations -
http://bccommunities.ca/princegeorge/index.php
Prince George
Accommodations -
http://prince-george.travel.bc.ca/accommodations/
Prince George
Hotels/Motels -
http://hotel-guides.us/british-columbia/prince-george-bc-hotels.html
BC Bed & Breakfast -
http://bcbnb.ca/bnb-princegeorge.html
Regards, Karen
Snodgrass, Vice President PGGS
Note: The Prince
George Genealogical Society does not endorse any of the listed accommodations in
the links above. We provide them here merely for the convenience of our
visitors.
From:
"George & Janet Edwards" <gkedward@uniserve.com>
To"British Columbia Gen SOC" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: :
24-1 Newsletter
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007
00:02:17 -0700
Hello
This is our Spring Newsletter. click here:-
MS Word Doc As you will note we have to move and have a new mailing
address.
Thank you for updating your files.
Kathie
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From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Re:
The Original Record.com- today 76,903 new entries - 4 million total to date
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007
12:06:29 -0000
Hi,
This week's additions to
the
www.theoriginalrecord.com are:
1200-1610 Deeds from
Bath in Somerset
More than 500 mediaeval deeds survived in the muniment chest of Bath in
Somerset, almost all dealing with the transfers of small plots of land in the
city. Each names the grantor and grantee, describes the land, and is witnessed
by other citizens. This printed edition was prepared by the Reverend C. W.
Shickle, Master of St John's Hospital in Bath. Where (as in many cases) the
earliest deeds were undated, he was able to assign periods to each on the basis
of style and content, particularly the names of witnesses.
1860-1906
Next of Kin Advertisements
The Unclaimed Money Registry and Next-of-Kin Advertisement Office of F. H.
Dougal & Co., on the Strand in London, published a comprehensive 'Index to
Advertisements for Next of Kin, Heirs at Law, Legatees, &c., &c., who have been
Advertised for to Claim Money and Property in Great Britain and all Parts of the
World; also Annuitants, Shareholders, Intestates, Testators, Missing Friends,
Creditors or their Representatives, Claimants, Unclaimed and Reclaimed Dividends
and Stock, Citations, Administrations, Rewards for Certificates, Wills,
Advertisements, &c., Claims, Unclaimed Balances, Packages, Addresses, Parish
Clerks' Notices, Foreign Intestates, &c., &c.' The original list was compiled
about 1860, but from materials dating back even into the 18th century: most of
the references belong to 1850 to 1880. For each entry only a name is given,
sometimes with a placename added in brackets: there may be a reference number,
but there is no key by which the original advertisement may be traced. The
enquirer of the time had to remit £1 for a 'Full and Authentic Copy of the
Original Advertisement, together with name and date of newspaper in which the
same appeared'. Then successive supplements were issued by the company through
to 1906: these are also indexed here. The 1886 edition also had a very useful
section entitled 'Unclaimed Property in Chancery': "THE following is a list of
the titles of causes in the Court of Chancery, to the credit of which funds have
remained unclaimed for many years, and for which ADVERTISEMENTS have appeared
calling upon the NEXT-OF-KIN, HEIRS-AT-LAW, and LEGAL PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES
to come in and establish their claims. In every case the amount UNCLAIMED is
upwards of FIFTY POUNDS." We have also indexed this.
1895
British in India
Thacker's Indian Directory lists European residents in the cities of Calcutta,
Bombay and Madras, and throughout the Indian Empire. Profession is usually
stated, and an address - a station, or for Calcutta a full address.
1919
Birmingham City Battalions
The Roll of Honour for the 14th, 15th and 16th battalions of the Royal
Warwickshire Regiment has complete lists of men, with roll number, rank, surname
and initials, for each platoon, each platoon list having a matching group
photograph.
1919
Birmingham Rolls of Honour
The Roll of Honours for the major firms in Birmingham list the men who joined
his Majesty's forces, giving for each his surname and initials. The names of
those killed in the conflict, wounded, discharged, gassed or captured are
frequently noted as such: in larger firms the lists are arranged by departments
in the firm. There is also some material referring to workers from departments
of Birmingham firms in London and elsewhere.
Also collections of birth, marriage and death notices, accounts of trials, shipping movements, civil service, military and naval appointments, naturalization of aliens &c. from London, provincial and colonial newspapers for various dates from 1704 to 1937.
We have
added 268 new indexes this week, containing a total of 76,903 new entries. We
now have over 4 million entries directly available online.
No subscription. Free
unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR).
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Hope you find what you
are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we
will email you when we have some records for you.
Good
Hunting.
Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
correction to previous message
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007
23:22:53 -0700
Greetings All
Further to my earlier
message, it would appear the link I provided to access the 'informed consent'
question results on the Statistics Canada website does not work. It seems that
it is not possible to go directly to the desired page. Here is how to access
the results.
Access the home page of
Statistics Canada at
www.statcan.ca/start.html
Click the link for March
13, 2007 and select HTML.
Click the link for
'Population and dwelling counts, 2006 Census'
Scroll down the page to
the paragraph heading 'Release of personal census information after 92 years'.
Click the link for
'tabular form'.
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon
Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS"
bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject:
Response to 'informed
consent' in 2006 Census
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007
22:49:45 -0700
Greetings All
This morning (Tuesday 13
March 2007) Statistics Canada released the first information from the 2006
Census of Canada. This release included information relating to the response to
the 'informed consent' question included for the first time in the history of
Canadian Censuses.
I am not happy, either
with the responses given, or the form in which they have been given to the
public. You can see these results yourself at
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/reference/infor/gen_results.cfm
FYI, I copy below a
message sent this evening to my Census contact in Statistics Canada.
Gordon A.
Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon
Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
=========================================
From:
Gordon A. Watts
To:
Dale.Johnston@statcan.ca
Sent: Tuesday, March 13,
2007 9:33 PM
Subject: Statistics re:
informed consent in 2006 Census
Dear Dale.
I have viewed the first results of the 2006 Census of Canada released this morning on the Statistics Canada website. I must state in the most unequivocal terms possible my disappointment in the way response to the so-called 'informed consent' question has been presented.
In your email to me of 14 December 2006 you indicated that when released, the response to the 92-year question would be broken down for each geographic area, to those who responded YES, those who responded NO, those who incorrectly responded in more than one way (MULTIPLE RESPONSES), and those who did not respond to the question (left it BLANK). You indicated that numbers would be given for each category of response.
In the chart shown on the Statistics Canada website, for each geographic area the number of those who responded YES is given as a percentage. Those who gave MULTIPLE RESPONSES, those who responded NO, and those who left the response BLANK are lumped together as a single percentage. Lumping these categories together fails to give a true picture of the responses to this question. It also fails to consider the number of BLANK responses for those living in 'collective dwellings' where information for the individual being enumerated has been taken from administrative records, thus depriving the individual of the ability to answer the question for themselves.
The appearance is that someone in Statistics Canada does not wish a true picture of the response to the 'informed consent' question to be made public.
I would greatly appreciate it if you would provide me with the numbers relating to responses to questions 8 and 53, broken down as per information you provided to me in your message of 14 December 2006. While the language of the forms completed is of little importance to me, I would appreciate additional information showing the breakdown of responses to the question on short forms and long forms, similar to that provided to me for the 2004 Test Census. If necessary, I will request such information through Access to Information, but I would prefer not to have to go through that route.
While not intended as a personal reflection upon yourself, you are aware it is my considered opinion that Statistics Canada in general, and Dr. Fellegi in particular, failed miserably to live up to promises made to Senate Committees deliberating Bills S-13 and S-18. During those Senate Committee hearings Dr. Fellegi committed that, as Chief Statistician of Canada, he and Statistics Canada would promote and encourage respondents to Census to answer positively to the 'informed consent' question.
Had information from the Statistics Canada website, specifically that titled "The 92-year question - Say yes!", been included as an insert with the paper Census questionnaires, we might have considered the promise of Dr. Fellegi to have been fulfilled. As it is however, Statistics Canada receives a less than satisfactory grade for their failure to make known to all respondents to Census the importance of responding positively to questions 8 and 53.
The value of Historic Census records for genealogical and historical research has been in the 'completeness' of the records. The overall positive response of less than 56 percent for the 2006 Census falls far short of the 90 percent plus estimate given by Dr. Fellegi to the Senate Committee deliberating Bill S-18. Future research value of the 2006 Census has been destroyed by the 'informed consent' question that genealogists and historians were forced to accept in order to regain access to Historic Census records to which existing legislation already stated our entitlement. More than 45 percent of future genealogists seeking ancestral information from the 2006 Census will be out of luck. Historians will be unable to use Census records to paint an accurate picture of the History of Canada relating to 2006 and later.
The legislation enabled by Bill S-18 provides for a review of the effect of the 'informed consent' question after two Censuses had been conducted under it. It may come as no surprise to you that consideration is being given to seeking that review without waiting for the research value of another Census to be destroyed.
I look forward to hearing from you again soon.
Gordon
Date: Tue,
13 Mar 2007 09:44:17 -0700
From: "M. Diane Rogers"
Subject: For BCGS
Website
To: Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Hi, Bob
Would you please post
this note on the website under 'news' with the heading
'Genealogical Codicil'. We have an article
in the March 2007 journal about this subject & I said I'd post a few links for
people to have a look at.
Thanks,
Diane Rogers
DearMyrtle,
'Gen Codicil' :
http://www.dearmyrtle.com/04/0219.htm
-one version of a
genealogical codicil with some notes from Myrt
Robert A. Fornal's
website: http://www.fornal.org/Bob/Genealogy/Genealogy_019.htm
-another version of a
genealogical codicil with a Word version for easy use or editing
Paul Drake's version of
a genealogical codicil, VA-Roots forum: http://listlva.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0402&L=VA-ROOTS&P=R5781&D=0&T=0
see also his addition to
this:
http://listlva.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0402&L=VA-ROOTS&P=R6306&D=0&T=0
BC HIGHLAND GAMES, 30 JUNE, 2007, SATURDAY LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS IN COQUITLAM CONTACT BARBARA STANYER, 604 253-0210
ALL THOSE PARTICIPATING IN THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE MEET AT 10 AM, SUNDAY 18 MARCH, 2007 IN VANCOUVER AT THE CORNER OF GRANVILLE AT DRAKE STREETS. CALL BARBARA, 604 253-0210
From:
"Mary" <>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@priv-edmwaa12.telusplanet.net>
Subject: Fw:
[LIN] MILITARY -
Lincolnshire
born who served in Australian Armed Services.
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007
12:53:03 -0800
Hi
Folks,
Not sure if you are aware of this site on the Australian records of UK or
Canada born who served under Australian Govt you can access their records online
putting in the different war years. hope this helps someone.
Mary Turnbull
Many of the Australian WW1 Service Records are now online and can be
viewed free. They give wonderful info including age, physical description,
name and address of next of kin, place of birth (although this may sometimes
just show "Lincolnshire", often the actual name of the village is given),
details of any apprenticeship served, record of service, medals, list of
injuries, etc. etc. etc..
Most WW2 ones can't be viewed online yet, but can be ordered.
Go to
http://www.naa.gov.au/The_Collection/recordsearch.html
Click on "Search now - as a guest"
By typing in "Lincolnshire" as the Keyword.
"1914 - 1920" as the Date.
I got 109 records of servicemen who had been born in Lincolnshire .....most of
which I could read online, download, print etc..
By leaving Lincolnshire as the Keyword and typing "1939 - 1945" in as the Date,
I got 82 records, Although these can't be read online (yet) there is still a
lot of info.
Of course, there will be a lot for whom the place of birth is just shown
as "England" so if you don't find who you are looking for by
using "Lincolnshire" as the Keyword, then search for the name that you are
looking for. Type in their surname, followed by their first name.
Can also be a good way of tracing rellies who emigrated earlier by finding the
record of a son or daughter who served.
One can even do a search by typing in the fathers's name as the
Keyword, fathers are often recorded as next of kin.
The Australian War Museum has the Nominal Rolls of all personal who served.
Go to
http://www.awm.gov.au/
Click on "Biographical Databases"
Click on "Nominal Rolls" and take your pick.
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From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net>
Subject:
'Gordon Watts Reports' - new
issue online
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007
15:03:11 -0800
Greetings All
The latest issue of
Gordon Watts Reports is now available online at:
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0097.htm
Topics in
this week's issue include:
- Electronic petitions
to government - yes or no?
- West Coast genealogy (Canada)
- Family Roots Radio
- Canada Roots
- UK Passenger Records online
- Message from Ian E. Wilson, Librarian & Archivist Canada
- New at Library and Archives Canada
Have a great day!
Gordon A.
Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada
Census
Committee
Port Coquitlam, British
Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
To:
nmscnews@vpl.ca
Subject: nmscnews:
March VPL News from the Newspapers & Magazines / Special Collections Divisions
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007
10:18:35 -0800
WELCOME to the
"Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections News," an occasional e-letter
from the Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections Divisions of the
Vancouver Public Library.
* * * *
Upcoming programs in March
*
Times of London and Globe and Mail
Cruise the (old) news. Learn to browse, search, print and save pictures,
articles, and ads from the computerized versions of the Times of London Digital
Archive 1785-1985 and the Globe and Mail: Canadas Heritage from 1844-2001.
Sunday, March 11, from 3:00-4:30
Held in the Level 5 Computer Lab, Central Branch
Registration is required, call: 604-331-3742
*
Old News : doing research with Vancouver newspapers
Using newspaper indexes, explore "old" Vancouver news stories dating back to the
1860's. In this two hour session, learn to find articles from the large
Vancouver Public Library collection of local newspapers. A slide presentation on
the history of Vancouver newspapers will also be included as part of the
workshop.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, from 2:00 to 4:00
Held in the Level 5 Computer Lab, Central Branch
Registration is required, call: 604-331-3678
*
This/That and the Other Thing
ECIAD instructor Paul Mazzucca shows a selection of projects, including his most
recent, a limited edition letterpress book. (This/That and the Other Thing)
that investigates a cognitive connection between the physical landscape and the
printed word. He will discuss his visual installations, as well as the
relationship between his personal work and his practice as a graphic designer
and educator.
A B.C. Book Arts Guild session
Monday, March 12, from 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Peter Kaye Room, Central Branch, Lower Level
Registration is not required. For more information call: 604-331-3778
* *
For more information about VPL programs, check out the online Events Calendar at
http://www.vpl.ca (& click on Events + Programs on the blue bar at the top
right) or pick up a monthly Events brochure at any information desk.
* * *
News and Updates
Like to get your news online? Some new titles added to PressDisplay are:
- Komsomolskaya Pravda Weekly. Moscow edition. Weekly tabloid, in Russian.
- Rossiyskaya Gazeta Soyuz. A national, conservative weekly, in Russian.
- Townsville Bulletin. A regional daily from North Queensland province,
Australia.
- Nelson Mail. A provincial news daily from New Zealand.
- Southland Times. A provincial news daily from New Zealand.
- Indian Express. A national, general news daily from New Delhi, in English.
PressDisplay offers full-image digital versions of current newspapers from over
55 countries and 30 languages. You can access today's newspapers and back issues
for up to 45 days.
Access by clicking on Electronic Resources from the library home page, at
www.vpl.ca and scrolling down through the alphabetical list to find
PressDisplay.
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Special Collections Display
The Arabian Nights
A major display focusing on the various editions from the Rare Book collection
and the Marion Thompson collection. Five cases will display 20 editions, from
various countries of origin, alongside a variety of artifacts from personal
collections.
Up until the end of March.
For details, visit the Virtual Display:
http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/virtualdisplay/arabian/index.html
* * *
That is all for this issue of Newspapers & Magazines and Special Collections
News.
If you have any ideas or comments for future issues, please send us an email to
nmsclist@vpl.ca We welcome all your suggestions.
Vancouver Public Library
350 West Georgia Street
Vancouver BC V6G 1B6
(604)331-3603
To see our all of our current and upcoming programs go to:
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OR
http://www.vpl.ca/branches/LibrarySquare/spe/home.html#Programs
To e-mail us a question:
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Subject: Cloverdale Programs
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007
16:09:20 -0800
From: "Cooke, Laurie" <LCOOKE@surrey.ca>
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Hi Bob,
There are 2 upcoming
programs at Cloverdale this Spring - last of the season until Fall,
excepting
Start Searching Your Family History our ongoing program which runs again in
April and the Fall.
Internet Genealogy: Dig up your Roots
for St. Patrick's Day with Jacqui Haines (a lecture using on
screen demos):
Brochure in Adobe PDF
March 17th - 10:30am -
Noon, $10:00
AND
Cloverdale Lock-In Fundraiser
with Cloverdale Genealogy staff and guest speakers
Brochure in Adobe PDF
Sunday, April 29,
10:00am - 3:00pm $35.00
Thanks! Laurie
Laurie J.Cooke
Cloverdale Library
5642 - 176A Street
Surrey, BC V3S 4G3
604-576-1384
lcooke@surrey.ca
From:
"'joan pearce'"
<pearcer@nbnet.nb.ca>
To:
Subject:
Sources By The Sea
Genealogical Conference 2007
Date:
Sun, 25 Feb 2007
22:55:40 -0400
Hello,
If you have
free advertising of upcoming genealogy conferences in newsletters notices of
meetings or your magazine, it would be much appreciated if you could place this
information. Thank you. The attachment has more information.
Joan Pearce
Sources By The Sea
Genealogical Conference, Villa Madonna, Rothesay, New Brunswick.
Canada
June 15-17, 2007
Sessions
will feature: how
cartographic
records may be used in the context of family history research; the link between
the politics of loyalist New York and loyalist Saint John; Irish immigration to
the city and the evolution of the Irish Catholic community of 19th century Saint
John; the use of modern
computer technology in ancestral research and web
resources for
tracing your ancestry in Canada and Great Britain.
Material
from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick will be available for research.
More information on the conference is available on the Saint John Branch
N.B.G.S. Inc. web site at: <
http://www.nbgssj.ca/> or contact Joan Pearce at:
pearcer@nbnet.nb.ca or Telephone: 506-652-1551
Brochure in MS Word
To:
Subject: Angus John and
Donald Cameron Dunvegan Ont
From: Alex W Fraser
<jars@mars.ark.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007
19:34:28 -0800
Greetings
A New Title Announcement for:-
From: "Sue
Fowler" <Sue@fowler89.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "british columbia" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Re:
The
Original Record.com- 188,166 new entries added This Week
Hi,
This week's additions to
the
www.theoriginalrecord.com include:
1798: muster books of
the British fleet engaged in the destruction of the French fleet in Aboukir Bay
at the mouth of the Nile ('the Battle of the Nile') on the evening of the 1st
and morning of the 2nd August 1798. Being continuation books in series covering
wages and victualling from as early as 1794, they also include the names of some
men who had died, deserted or been discharged from the ship from then to 1798.
These indexes cover the sailors, volunteers, and boys, as well as the usually
each person's entry gives his birthplace, and also his age on entering the ship.
We have also compiled separate indexes to the marines carried on board, and to
the French prisoners taken up after the battle.
1851: census of
Southwark St George the Martyr registration district, London Road sub district
1854-1856: Sebastopol in
the Crimea was the great Russian naval arsenal on the Black Sea. A combined
assault by British, French and Turkish troops resulted in the reduction of
Sebastopol and led to the Treaty of Paris of 27 April 1856, guaranteeing the
independence of the Ottoman Empire.
By Admiralty Order the Crimea Medal was awarded to sailors and marines present
during the campaign, between 17 September 1854 (the first landing at Eupatoria) and
9 September 1855 (when the
allies secured Sebastopol). The sailors' medals were mostly delivered to them on
board ship in the course of 1856; the marines' medals were sent to their
respective headquarters for distribution. Four clasps to this medal were awarded
to the men present in the actions at Sebastopol itself, Inkerman, Balaklave
(Balaclava) and (the sea of) Azoff, and the recipients of these clasps are
recorded on separate rolls, also separately indexed.
1858-1860: the China
Medal, awarded to soldiers and sailors who took part in the prosecution of the
war against the Chinese from 1856 to 1860. Separate clasps were awarded for men
who had been in receipt of the China Medal of 1842; for being actually present
at Canton on 28 and 29 December 1857, when that city was bombarded and finally
captured; for being actually engaged in the operations which ceased with the
first capture of the Taku Forts, 20 May 1858, and led to the Treaty of Tientsin;
for being actually present at the capture of the Taku Forts 21 August 1860; and
for being actually present before Pekin the day the gate of that city was given
up to the allied (British and French) army, viz. on 13 October 1860.
1863-1867: New Zealand
War Medal roll for service in the New Zealand campaign 1863 to 1867: the rolls
were compiled following a general order in 1869 and the medals were distributed
in 1870.
1882: the war medal roll
for the Egyptian campaign of 1882 is annotated to show those men actually
present at Tel-el-Kebir, and thereby also entitled to the Tel-el-Kebir clasp. In
addition, there follows an almost duplicate roll of men entitled to the Bronze
Star granted by the Khedive of Egypt in recognition of the campaign.
We have added 424 new
indexes this week, containing a total of 188,166 new entries
No subscription. Free
unlimited search. All records hand-indexed in England (no OCR).
Go on to
www.theoriginalrecord.com and have a look.
Hope you find what you
are looking for, if not just enter your name of interest on our WISH LIST and we
will email you when we have some records for you.
Good Hunting.
Kind regards,
Sue
The Original Record Team
email:
admin@theoriginalrecord.com
website:
www.theoriginalrecord.com
Subject:
UK Outbound Passenger Lists Available from 1890 to 1909 on ancestorsonboard.com
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007
17:55:23 -0000
From: "Marlene D'Silva"
<Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
Available for the first time online
Records of 30 million passengers on thousands of ships sailing to destinations
worldwide
findmypast.com,
in association with The National Archives, launched ancestorsonboard.com in
January 2007, a new database featuring
BT27 Outward Passenger Lists for
long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles.
With
ancestorsonboard.com, you can search for records of individuals or groups of
people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand,
South Africa and USA featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York.
Passengers include not only immigrants and emigrants, but also businessmen,
diplomats and tourists. Images of the passenger lists are available to download,
view, save and print.
New
Decade Added
Findmypast.com has added another decade of records to the UK Outbound Passenger
Lists currently available.
Records
now include a staggering 7.5 million names within 50,553 passenger
lists spanning 1890 to 1909 alone.
Records,
once complete, will cover 1890 to 1960 and are expected to contain more
than 30 million individual passengers. Nearly twice as many people
travelled by ship between 1900 to 1909 compared to the previous decade and more
increasingly for business and as tourists.
Breaking down ‘Brick Walls’
These
records can provide valuable information on ancestors whose trails have gone
cold.
Read Stephen Rigden’s article to find out how he broke down a brick wall of
his own using the UK outbound passenger list records.
Find
out more
To be
kept informed of data releases and updates,
sign up here for our ancestorsonboard newsletter. Email
our customer helpdesk at anytime or call 0870 777 1837 (9am -5pm Monday to
Friday).
Start
searching the Passenger Lists now
You can
start searching at
ancestorsonboard.com. To view passenger list transcriptions and images you
will need pay-per-view units.
Why not
also search our collection of
migration records?
Do not
hesitate to contact me at this address if you would like any more information.
Kind
regards
Marlene D'Silva
Marketing Executive
e-mail: marlene.dsilva@findmypast.com
web:
www.findmypast.com
24
Britton Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
Tel: 020
7549 0900 Fax: 020 7549 0949 DX 53347 Clerkenwell
CHANGE OF SPEAKER
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dave Obee will be unable to present at our
seminar Saturday March 3, 2007. However, we are delighted to announce that
Penelope Christensen has agreed to speak in his place.
Notice in
MS
Word
Notice in
Adobe PDF
Date: Fri,
16 Feb 2007 08:40:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: Clare Massey <familyhistorychest@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject:
Family History
Chest becomes Family History Quests
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Dear Sir
Thank you very much for
putting details on my new website on your news page however things have changed
somewhat since our last correspondance.
Due to the likeness of
the name to another site I decided to change the name to Family History Quests,
all the same principals of the site remain unchanged. I decided on this name as
family history is very much a quest for knowledge of our ancestors, a journey
back in time.
The site will be able to
be found on
www.familyhistoryquests.co.uk with the email being
info@familyhistoryquests.co.uk.
I shall be launching the
site on 27th March 2007 with press releases being sent to all family history
magazines and FHS's.
Regards
Clare Massey
www.familyhistoryquests.co.uk
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edmwaa06.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: Ceilidh
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007
13:23:28 -0800
Greetings, a notice
re an upcoming Ceilidh. Regards, the other Ron
WHAT:
Gaelic Society Ceilidh featuring The
Piper’s Creek from Seattle for an evening of music and dancing.
WHERE:
Scottish Cultural Centre, , 8886 Hudson St, Vancouver, B.C.
WHEN: Saturday, March 3rd at 8:00 P.M.
COST:
$12.00 - tickets at the door.
OTHER:
The Piper’s Creek present a blend of
traditional Irish and Scottish music. The band takes its name from the Piper’s
Creek watershed in North Seattle. Their website is
http://www.seattlepiper.com/piperscreek
All welcome
CONTACT:
John Bessuille at
john@egigraphics.com
Also, keep in mind the April 7th Ceilidh
which will feature the Vancouver Gaelic Choir. More later.
From: "Alastair Menzies" <amenziesscotland@hotmail.com>
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject: Blue Thistle Genealogy
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:08:45 +0000
BLUE THISTLE GENEALOGY, SCOTLAND
Blue Thistle is a new and enthusiastic Family History service, based in
Scotland.
At Blue Thistle, we pride ourselves on being friendly and approachable, and are
happy to tackle a wide range of tasks, from compiling a full family history, to
a single look-up at Register House in Edinburgh. We can locate and photograph
places, gravestones, etc., or provide you with a detailed social history of an
area - in other words, not just where your family lived, but how they lived -
just let us know what you require!
We wonder if you could bring us to the attention of your society's members?
- either by mentioning Blue Thistle in your newsletter, or by letting us know
your advertising rates?
With best wishes from Scotland!
Alastair Menzies
www.bluethistlegenealogy.com
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From: "Marlene D'Silva" <Marlene.D'Silva@title-research.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:01:48 -0000
Subject: 1841 Census now
complete on findmypast.com
1841 Census now complete!
findmypast.com
is delighted to announce that you can now search the complete 1841 Census for
all of England, Wales and the Islands on our website.
As with all our
online censuses, we have transcribed more fields than any other online
census, offering you the widest range of search options thus increasing your
chances of finding those elusive ancestors.
The completion of the 1841 census is a notable achievement,
and findmypast.com has successfully added another piece of the jigsaw to the
family history research puzzle.
From 1841 the census returns for England and Wales were
compiled using the same system of registration districts and sub-districts that
was used for the registration of births, marriages and deaths.
This means that there is a direct link between the two most
important 19th-century sources for family historians and as
findmypast.com currently provides the most complete set of BMD indexes for
England and Wales it means that we can also offer our customers the opportunity
to view these invaluable documents in the same place and simultaneously using
our unique cross-database search facilities.
More information
If you have any questions about the 1841 Census or any of our
online services please
contact our customer helpdesk. Or call 0870 777 1837 (9am -5pm Monday to
Friday).
Do not hesitate to contact me at this address if you would
like any more information.
Kind regards
Marlene
D'Silva
Marketing
Executive – Findmypast.com
e-mail: marlene.dsilva@findmypast.com
web:
www.findmypast.com
24 Britton
Street, London, EC1M 5UA, United Kingdom
February BCGS E-NEWSLETTER V2 #1 now available in MS Word or Adobe PDF
From:
"Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net>
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
New issue of 'Gordon
Watts Reports' now online
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007
11:21:10 -0800
Greetings All.
For those interested, the latest issue of 'Gordon Watts Reports' is now
online at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0096.htm
Topics in this issue include:
Back in the Saddle
1911 Census of England and Wales
New Provincial Archives for Ontario
GENCLASS update
2006 Census statistics re: 'informed consent'
Have a great day!
Gordon A. Watts
gordon_watts@telus.net
Co-chair, Canada Census Committee
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm
Permission to forward without notice is granted.
From:
"Keith Clay" <keithclay55@hotmail.com>
To: bcgs@bcgs.ca
Subject: RE: Fw:
1911,1921, &1931 census
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007
22:25:15 -0800
Hi Bob.
I received the following email from England, you may want to look at this and
pass it on as a general interest item to the rest of the group.
Keith
Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:33 am (PST)
Many of you may have recieved emails from other mailing lists, but just in case
there is anyone that has not see this message, then please read....
"Downing Street is offering a petition for people to sign, which would reduce
the census release period from 100 years to 70 years, thus making the 1911, 1921
and 1931 censuses available immediately. If you would like to add your name,
please click on this link:"
For info, the URL to go directly to the petition is :
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/CensusInfoFreed/
http://webmail.tantrem.com/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpetitions.pm.gov.uk%2FCensusInfoFreed%2F
to date about 5900 people have signed, and there is a deadline of 08 March
>2007.
You have to be a British citizen or resident to vote.
Please forward this letter to other mailing lists.
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Date: Fri,
26 Jan 2007 11:51:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: Clare Massey <familyhistorychest@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: New Website - Family
History Chest
To:
Webmaster@bcgs.ca
Dear Sir/Madam
I am
working on a new site which should be live within the next couple of months
called Family History Chest.
It will be a site full
of information for new and old family historians a like, but not necessary the
run of the mill information ie. not census information. Eventually it will
include various interesting querky family history information (I can't give too
much away at this time!).
I already have a
personal website for my research business
www.findourroots.com but Family History
Chest although branded under Find Our Roots is a very seperate enitiy hopefully
bringing much more information free online!
I will have a links
page for Family History Societies worldwide, these I believe provide the
backbone for any family historian old or new and therefore I feel should have
their own space on my site. I am requesting your permission to put a link to
your site on my Family History Chest? Should you have an image or picture you
wish to go beside your link you can email me it as a JPEG attachment.
I look forward to your
response.
Regards
Clare Massey
To: <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Genline Swedish
Church Records online archive
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:53:45 -0500
Hello!
I have had the pleasure of meeting some of you in the past, when I visited Burnaby with the SwedGen Tour!
Genline’s online archive of Swedish Church Records is now 99.95% complete! We have now digitized and made available online 99.95% of all existing church records from the 1600’s to 1895. Sweden’s church records are the most important source of genealogical information for those researching their family history—they contain birth, marriage, and death records, as well as household census data and records related to moves within Sweden and emigration. Ancestors Swedish is a complimentary web site featuring books and CDs important to Swedish genealogical research.
I would like to establish positive and on-going relationships with the various Swedish-Canadian and Genealogical organizations within Canada. I have given considerable thought as to how I might provide for a win-win relationship. I have developed the following program which I would like you, as an organization, to consider.
We can offer to your organization’s membership discount subscription prices on a 3-month and a 1-year subscription to Genline’s online Swedish Church Records archive. We would hope that you would promote this as a benefit of membership in your organization and that you would provide a link to www.genline.com on your website.
Ø 3-month introductory subscription (for 1st time subscribers) for 440 SEK (about $75 CAD)—this price is over 50% off 3-months at our regular monthly rate of 295 SEK
Ø 1-year subscription for 1795 SEK (about $303 CAD)—this price is over 33% discount off our regular annual rate of 2690 SEK
I can also offer to your organization a 5% commission on sales that were forwarded to the eshop at www.AncestorsSwedish.com from your site. An automated affiliate program is in place for the Ancestors Swedish site, which will track sales resulting from a link to www.AncestorsSwedish.com from your organization’s web site. This 5% commission could either by paid out semi-annually to your organization or used to offset purchases of products for sale at www.AncestorsSwedish.com.
We would provide to you an article describing Genline, Ancestors Swedish, and the special offers, that you could use to announce the offer to your membership. This could be placed in one of your newsletters or sent out to your membership by email, if you have an email list for your membership.
This program we are offering to your organization would be a benefit of membership to your current and potential members, as well as providing some income to your organization (through the eShop commission). For Genline, it would help us spread the word about our online archive and the Ancestors Swedish eShop within the Swedish-Canadian population!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me. I look forward to your thoughts on this offer!
Best Regards,
Connie
Whitmore
Genline North America
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edtnaa06.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject: Burns Museum Makeover
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:10:11 -0800
Greetings, a website that will be of interest to all who honour the memory of
Robert Burns. Thanks to Jean Hall for the information. Regards, Ron
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=128022007
Everyone,
Attached
is our brochure advertising the
March 3rd seminar featuring Brenda Smith and
Dave Obee.
MS Word Doc
Adobe PDF
Please note location, and the fact that we will be including lunch. Please pass on to all your BCGS and genealogical contacts.
Tickets are available at the February meeting or by cheque to BCGS and mailed to the Society's address. Or people can contact me. The room we have for this event is capable of holding about 60 people (perhaps a few more).
Thanks,
Eunice
To:
ScotschairII@priv-edmwaa06.telusplanet.net
From: Ron MacLeod <jrmacleod@telus.net>
Subject:
Burns & More
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007
11:24:34 -0800
Greetings, two more Burns dinners and a world-class piping
event. Regards, the other Ron
Greetings, I left out the contact for the Gung Haggis Fat
Choy. The website is
www.gunghaggisfatchoy.com. Tickets can be ordered through the Firehall Arts
Centre! 604-689-0296. Regards, the other Ron
Ever had Haggis Dim
Sum appetizers? Expect the Unexpected!
3. 10th ANNUAL MASTERS OF SCOTTISH ARTS CONCERT
The World’s Best Bagpipers, Drummers, Fiddlers and Dancers
FRIDAY Feb 2, 2007, 7:30 PM
S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall
3RD Ave. & University St.
Seattle, Washington
The concert has the distinction of being the most well
attended concert of its kind anywhere in the world. According to Piper and
Drummer Magazine the concert set “a record for the piping world for attendance
at a show that doesn’t feature a pipe band. No electronics or smoke and
mirrors, just plain old great piping and drumming” fiddling and dancing.
Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster ticket centers,
online at
www.ticketmaster.com,
by phone at 206-292-ARTS, or at the Benaroya Hall box office.
The concert is held in conjunction with The Mastery of Scottish Arts Winter School for piping, drumming, fiddling and dancing which is being held at the Seabeck Conference Center on Hood Canal from February 4 - 7, 2007. MSA is a registered 501-C3 Non Profit Corporation. For further information, call 206-444-4344, or write Masters of Scottish Arts, PO Box 3713, Bellevue, WA 98009. Visit our web site at www.masteryofscottisharts.org
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Subject:
upcoming archival conservation workshop
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007
11:32:48 -0800
From: "Lindsay McArthur"
<lmcarthur@tol.bc.ca>
To:
bcgs@bcgs.ca
The Langley Centennial Museum is offering three conservation workshops on
Saturday, February 17. Could a notice of this event be made available to
members, for example by being posted on the website or in a newsletter? If it
is possible, I’ve included a brief write-up below.
Lindsay
“Care For It
Like A Conservator” Workshops ~ Saturday, February 17 ~ $15 per workshop or $35
for the day
Join the conservators from Fraser Spafford Ricci to learn simple and inexpensive
techniques to help you preserve your collections. These workshops are ideal for
heritage workers at sites that do not have a conservator.
Care for Archival Material ~ 10am-11:30am
Care for Fine Art ~ 1-2:30pm
Care for Historic Objects ~ 2:45-4:15pm
Lindsay McArthur
Arts and Heritage Programmer
Langley Centennial Museum
-----
Original Message -----
From: Maggie Loughran FFHS Administrator <admin@ffhs.org.uk>
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:04 am
Subject: FFHS-NEWS 1911 CENSUS UPDATE
On 19th December, we advised you that the Information Commissioner had upheld
an appeal from a complainant who requested information from the National
Archives (TNA) relating to the 1911 census schedules, and requiredTNA to
disclose the requested information to the complainant.
We said that, in response to the Information Commissioner's decision, TNA
were working hard to launch a service enabling them to deal with individualrequests
for some information in the 1911 census, and that this was planned to be made
available from 17th January 2007.
Earlier today, the TNA announced that it has launched its Freedom of
Information online request service to see entries from the 1911 Census.Requests
can be submitted via the web page www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/1911census
as an interim system in advance of the digital release of the records.
Applications can also be made in writing to TNA, rather than through the online
system.
We would remind you however that the 1911 census does not have a name index,
so it is only possible to supply information based on an address search.Researchers
using this service will currently be charged a non-refundable research fee of
�45
that will cover the costs of each search.
Most of us will therefore prefer to wait until 2009. That is when the TNA
Press Release (which can be read in full at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/17jan2007.pdf)
restates that it is hoping to start to provide online access to the 1911
Census, through an approved partner, with only the personally sensitive data
remaining closed until 2012.
The 1911 census records consist of individual householder's schedules, not
enumerators books as in previous censuses. With the increase in populations
well to over 35 million, the 1911 census is more than 12 times the size of the
1901, and there are also 38,000 volumes of summary books which TNA have agreed
will be included. It would therefore be unrealistic to expect TNA to start to
progressively deliver online access to the 1911 census before 2009. Even for
counties with the least number of households, this will still be a major task
if it is to be handled properly and transcribedaccurately, which is the FFHS's
main concern in its liaison with TNA regarding the 1911 census.
Added to this is the fact that TNA, as a government department, has been
compelled to follow strictly the EU directives for contract tendering, which
means that the negotiations with the various bidders before TNA can finally
choose the approved partner have had to be protracted.
TNA have kindly kept the FFHS informed on progress throughout, and an FFHS
representative was even privileged to take part in an interactive session at
which the final short-listed candidates each presented their case as to why they
should be awarded the contract. We will naturally inform you as soon as we are
able to, once the contract has been signed, who the approved partner is.
Geoff Riggs,
Chairman,
Federation of Family History Societies
www.ffhs.org.uk
News message 121 from the Federation of Family History Societies
From: "Amy
Knopinski" <aknopinski@pts.com>
To: <webmaster@bcgs.ca>
Subject:
public interest website at www.exploregenealogy.co.uk
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:45:32 -0000
Hello,
I see that the 'Genealogy
News' section of the British Columbia Genealogical Society website gives really
useful and extensive information. We have created a public interest website at
www.exploregenealogy.co.uk which is very focused on tracing your family tree.
We don't make any money from the site but we'd like to spread the word and get
the information out to as many people as possible. Links from sites like
www.bcgs.ca are really valuable to us and I was wondering if you could place a
link to www.exploregenealogy.co.uk
?
Please let me know if you'd like any more information about our site, or if
there is someone else I need to speak to about this.
Thanks in advance
Amy Knopinski
w:
www.exploregenealogy.co.uk
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From: Maggie Loughran FFHS Administrator <admin@ffhs.org.uk>
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:04 am
Subject: FFHS-NEWS Changes at the Family Records Centre Ground Floor
Family historians will be interested to learn that the Office for National
Statistics (ONS) have today issued two News Releases.
Firstly, ONS intends to close its public search facility, currently located at
the Family Records Centre (FRC) in Islington, and instead to make indexes
available at The National Archives (TNA) in Kew. The relocation is expected to
be complete by April 2008. The services currently provided by ONS in Islington
will then cease. (When TNA announced earlier this year that it intended to
relocate from the FRC 1st Floor to Kew, ONS said that it would be reviewing the
services it offered at the FRC on the Ground Floor.)
The News Release can be read at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/frc0107.pdf but,
as its wording is open to misinterpretation, the FFHS has contacted the Project
Manager of the Digitisation of Vital Events (DoVE) team at Southport for
clarification.
The heading of the Release states "Births, marriages and deaths records to go
on the Internet" and in its main body it states "This will enable researchers to
access records yet to be digitised in paper or microficheformat."
What we have been told will be available at Kew are the indexes to Births,
Marriages and Deaths, not the records themselves (i.e. full registration
details will still only be obtainable by purchasing copy certificates).
Furthermore, the DoVE Project will not have been completed at the time the
relocation takes place. For those records that have been digitised and
re-indexed, the newly produced indexes will be accessible on computer screens
at Kew. Where
digitisation will not have been completed, it is the existing indexes that will
be made accessible: we understand that ONS have not yet established with TNA
whether these will be the binders currently in use at the FRC or whether,
because of space constraints, they will need to be provided in microfiche
format.
The FFHS is scheduled to hold its periodic liaison meeting with the DoVE Team
next week, and we will continue to keep you posted with the latestinformation
on the DoVE Project as soon as it is available.
The second announcement from ONS today is that is also proposing to close its
London
headquarters at Drummond Gate, Pimlico, by 2010.
Most of the 600 staff will move to Newport, South Wales, as part of a
government programme to move jobs out of London, the ONS said. A small number of
staff will go to Titchfield, in Hampshire, whilst the remainder numbering 100
or so will move to the FRC building.
Although this news does not apparently appear on the ONS website, fullerdetails
can be viewed at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6267087.stm
Geoff Riggs,
Chairman,
Federation of Family History Societies
www.ffhs.org.uk,
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News message 120 from the Federation of Family History Societies
Date: Mon,
15 Jan 2007 14:29:58 +0000
From:
"Yvonne Boni" <Yvonne.Boni@fife.gov.uk>
To: <bcgs@bcgs.ca>
Subject: Fife Family History Fair 2007
Fife
Family History Fair, 22nd September 2007
Please have a look at our new website
http://www.fifefamilyhistoryfair.org.uk/
It's full of interesting information and there's a quiz too!
Please tell everyone about the website!
Yvonne Boni
Library Supervisor (information)
Fife Council
Cupar Library
Cupar
Fife
KY15 5AS
tel: 01334 413216/412285,
http://www.fifefamilyhistoryfair.org.uk/
From: "Margery Kapas"
To: "BCGS" <bcgs@bcgs.ca>,
Subject: Emailing: Kilkeel (Co Down,
Ireland)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 20:37:55 -0800
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL -
While roaming through websites for Chinese New Year, of all things, I came across these pages - at least 12 pages - in Co Down, Ireland. http://www.raymondscountydownwebsite.com/html/kilkeel.htm