Month: October 2021

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Explore ancestral places with YouTube
What can you find out if you search YouTube for a place of ancestral interest, perhaps adding a county?

YouTube: Understanding Probability and Genetic Genealogy

Time Team Digital

Archives of Ontario to recommence public services
As posted by OGS but not on AO website. Long overdue

Climate Change in the Arctic

How much would Bach make on Spotify?

Thanks to this week’s contributors. Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Gail, gail benjafield, Glenn W, Judy Humphries, KAYTHEGARDENER, Lynne Willoughby, M. Anne, Myrtle Johnston, Nancy Frey, Nick McDonald, rob bennie, Robert Halfyard, Susan Courage, Susan Oleskiw, Unknown.

You can’t miss “Find Your London Family” on the cover of the issue.

Jonathan Scott, a regular contributor, explores the most important website for probing the lives of Londoners. From A and AIM25 to W and West End at War, Scott finds 47 sites with London interest. They included the major commercial sites, archives, family history societies, and much more. If you want to find pictures to illustration your family history try https://www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/.

In the second featured article, Old Postcards, Heather Baggot reveals how she “follows the clues in postcards to uncover fascinating family stories.”

In Pillow Talk, Jas Adams gets into sex in the 1940s. A study in 1949 with over 2,000 people interviewed, supplemented by over 1,000 people in the Mass Observation study, found the 31% believed life could be happy without sex while 37% said it was impossible to be happy without sex.

If that’s not enough to get you to check out the issue, available through your public library, there’s other content on Oxfordshire, brickmakers, canal workers, nonconformists, Zotero, the 1911 census and more. A good way to spend a rainy day.

 

If your heritage lies in Essex new records for Chingford, Leytonstone, South Chingford and Walthamstow in Findmypast’s Essex Marriages and Banns 1537-1935 collection are likely to be of interest. Those parishes are now in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

The number of records is dwarfed by those of the other FMP addition this week, over 5.7 million records:

California marriages, 1850-1945
Indiana marriages, 1811-2007
Iowa marriages, 1809-1992
Massachusetts marriages, 1841-1915

Many have linked images of the original; the indexing is from FamilySearch.

As of 30 September for Canada, there are 31,113,161 entries in the newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current. That’s up from 31,056,223 in April. The database is particularly valuable for more recent years when official death records are not available.

For the US, there are now 843,651,119 entries in the equivalent index, up from 834,426,322 entries in April.

Looking for a deceased relative in East London? Chadwell Heath Cemetery (now known as Mark’s Gate) from 1934 comprising 16,681 records,  and Eastbrookend Cemetery from 1914 containing 23,066 records, are now available to view on www.deceasedonline.com. 

The records comprise digital scans of the original burial registers up to 2006, computerized records from 2006 to 2019, and grave details for each of the graves and their occupants

Coming next to complete the Barking and Dagenham collection will be Rippleside Cemetery with 62,622 records from 1886 to 2019.

 

Gloucestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1813 now has 4,858,358 records. In January 2019 the collection had 4,855,897 records, so the update is an increase of 2,461 records. No indication if the additions are for a particular parish or parishes.