After a period with no new or updated records Ancestry follows on yesterday’s Glamorgan Calendar of Prisoners records with two new Australian collections from newspapers, for Hamilton (1860 – 1918), Melbourne (1854 – 2000) and Sydney (1831 – 2001).
Australia, Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-current: 672,360 records.
Australia, Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current: 5,756,110 records.
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MyHeritage has added a Birth Index for the Irish Sea community of the Isle of Man. The 53,316 index records, from civil registration which strated in 1878, include the given name and surname of the child, year of birth and registration district of the birth. The names of the father and mother are not in the index. Data is available to 1920.
These compliment a larger transcript collection of Isle of Man Births and Baptisms.
Isle of Man records are available from other sites as documented at the FamilySearch Wiki.
These 34,072 records are from “Calendars of prisoners tried at Assize Courts and Courts of Quarter Sessions. Cardiff, Wales: Glamorgan Archives: Archifau Morgannwg.”
Records in the collection may include the following information: Person’s name; Any known aliases; Birthdate; Age; Date of trial; Place of trial; Occupation; Criminal charge; Sentence.
Entries are greatest for the first decade, the 1850s have over 18,000 cases. By the 1910s that dropped to 3,000.
Expect to find the name of the victim as well as the accused in the criminal charge; the former is not indexed.
Back in October, I announced I was deleting Facebook. I’ve not gone back. Despite missing family and society posts, I believe it was the right decision. Here’s just one item from ResearchBuzz that reinforces the belief.
“CNN: Facebook sold ads comparing vaccine to Holocaust. “Facebook has sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages, comparing the US government’s response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany, casting doubt on the result of the 2020 election, and even pushing political violence. The ads have been run by merchandise companies that have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Facebook over the last few years.”
Here’s the original CNN post.
This Thursday, 9 December at 2 pm, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland, join artist/folklorist Michael Fortune for a special online presentation where he looks at Christmas from a uniquely Irish perspective. Michael has pioneered the use of digital media and has produced one of the most comprehensive collections of living folklore on film in Ireland to date.
The talk will introduce you to first-hand source customs and traditions found around the country from Christmas mumming plays and carols to the keeping of pieces of straw from the Christmas crib and or burning last year’s Christmas holly.
Book HERE
Project Civil War Bluejackets: Race, Class and Ethnicity in the United States Navy, 1861-1865 will include the creation of newly digitized muster rolls – registers of the officers and men on Union Naval vessels.
118,000 or so common sailors served in the US Civil War for the Union; 30 percent were British or Irish, and 15 percent were African Americans.
Choose from free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Those in red are Canadian, bolded if local to Ottawa or recommended
Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed.
Tuesday 7 Dec. 2 pm: Virtual Genealogy Drop-In, from Ottawa Branch of OGS and The Ottawa Public Library.
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/.
Wednesday 8 Dec. 7 pm: Ottawa’s Power : An Energy History of the National Capital Region, by The Bytown Museum.
https://bytownmuseum.com/get-engaged/whats-happening/
Wednesday 8 Dec. 8 pm: Documenting Families or Communities Lost in the Holocaust by Bullets, by Ellen Kowitt for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/documenting-families-or-communities-lost-in-the-holocaust-by-bullets/
Thursday 9 Dec. 1 pm: Christmas Carols and Nostalgia, by Jeremy Summerly for Gresham College.
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/carols-nostalgia
Saturday 11 Dec. 9 am: Holiday Social and Great Moments in Genealogy, by BIFHSGO members.
https://www.bifhsgo.ca/events
Saturday 11 Dec. 1 pm: They Came on Ships ~ Plotting a Course to Publishing Genealogical Research, by David Walker for OGS Ottawa Branch.
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/they-came-on-ships-ottawa/
Advance Notice
Monday 13 Dec. 7 pm: Ontario Records at Family Search, by Stephen Young for OGS Leeds and Grenville Branch.
In his book Wings for Victory, the late Spencer Dunmore recounts the following.
Jake Gaudaur, a former football player and later Commissioner of the Canadian Football League, was a flying instructor at Number 2 SFTS, Ottawa (part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.) On night flying exercises, he was fond of zooming low over the southern part of the city, where his wife lived, to tell her that he would shortly be home. Approaching the apartment building, he would slip the propeller of the Harvard into fine pitch, producing an ear-splitting howl. When an editorial appeared in the local paper about the antics of the airmen from the Uplands airfield, he decided it might be more prudent to phone.
Gaudaur was at Uplands as a pilot instructor and is mentioned many times in the Citizen and Journal playing football. The newspapers have mentions of the noise of railcar shunting, car horns, frogs, milkman’s carts — and bagpipes, but no such editorial that I can find.
Is this a story too good to be questioning its veracity? Dunmore had a love of a good story, as well as aviation.
THE Genealogy Show and The Scottish Indexes Conference are just ended, although you may still be able to view replays. That’s the end of the conference season for the year, one that saw everything online. Perhaps you attended The FHF Really Useful Family History Show, RootsTech, BIFHSGO, OGS or any another online genealogy conference in 2021. If you attended one or more please take this quick survey.
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Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
Church of Ireland Gazette
Claire Santry at IrishGenealogyNews reports that the Church of Ireland Gazette, 1856-2010, will remain free online until 2033.
Compare the Climate and Weather Between Two+ Cities Worldwide
Unboxing the Archives (of Ontario)
Simpson’s Paradox in vaccination data
Thanks to this week’s contributors. Ann Burns, Anonymous, Gail B., Judith H., Mike More, Toni, Unknown.
The Bread and Butter of Genealogy and The Secret Button are two blog posts by Ph. D. professional genealogist Sadie McMullon.
Specializing in research for Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and Bedfordshire, she has a particular interest in placing ancestors in context. That’s illustrated by those blog posts linked from her Genealogy Lantern website.
You may also be interested in reading her 2019 University of Leicester Ph.D. thesis Migration to Fletton, 1841-1911 : an exploration of family migration, the creation of community and social mobility through marriage
