Choose from selected free online events in the next five days. 

Wayne Shepheard has rerecorded his Legacy Family Tree Webinars talk Genealogy and the Little Ice Age.  He discusses the importance of understanding the Little Ice Age (1300-1850 AD) in genealogical research. The presentation includes:

The Little Ice Age’s impact on climate and environment:
Effects on human populations
Historical and genealogical implications
Useful information sources for genealogists.

However, at 2:55, he claims that during the warm periods of the last 10,000 years, temperatures were much higher than today. That’s the view of some climate skeptics but at variance with the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment.

However, that should not detract from Wayne’s analysis of climate impacts during the Little Ice Age.

 

Find over 15 million records for Cheshire in this new Ancestry release. Transcriptions are linked to images of the original record. You can also browse by parish. It doesn’t get much better.

Title	Records
Cheshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812	5,689,110
Cheshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1939	2,086,347
Cheshire, England, Non-Conformist Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1800-1948	341,835
Cheshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1923	5,484,641
Cheshire, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1998	1,410,680

 

The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa’s 2024 conference. Teaghlach Gaelach: a Celebration of Irish Family History will be held virtually on 26-27 October  2024.

Registration opened on 1 September.

The conference registration fee ($35 for BIFHSGO members, $50 for non-members) includes six presentations on topics ranging from researching farming ancestors to using surnames to map families, bonus Connect Sessions, and access to the presentation videos and handouts until 30 November.

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Tribute to Childless Cat Ladies

All About That Place
From Friday, 27 September to Sunday, October, take advantage of 140 recorded 10-minute talks from well-known speakers on genealogy and local history. It’s a FREE learning event from the Society of Genealogists, the Society for One-Place Studies, and the British Association for Local History and Genealogy Stories.

All About Belfast
A collection of Belfast Street Directories leads off this enthusiast site. There’s much more. https://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/

The London Bawdy House Riots of 1668

Skeptical Science
Getting skeptical about global warming skepticism.

Congratulations to those who tried and were delighted with the results from the new FamilySearch Experimental Labs Search of Canadian Probate Records.

Here are the newspapers.com titles that are newly available or have had updates in the past month. They are shown in descending order of the number of pages available for titles with more than 10,000 pages.

United Kingdom

Newspaper	Years Available
The Guardian	1821–2024
The Bolton News	1867–2019
Isle of Wight County Press	1884–2019
South Wales Argus	1901–2019
Lancashire Telegraph	1959–2019
The Press (York ed.)	2014–2019
Dorset Echo	1984–2019
Daily Echo (Bournmouth)	2015–2019
Evening Times (Glasgow)	2014–2019
Evening Times (Glasgow)	2014–2019
Southern Daily Echo (Southampton)	1994–2019
The Argus (Brighton)	2015–2019
Swindon Advertiser	2015–2019
Oxford Mail	2015–2019
The National (Glasgow)	2015–2019
Aberdeen Evening Express	2014–2019
The Courier (Dundee ed.)	2014–2019
Hereford Times	2014–2019
Daily Gazette (Colchester)	2016–2019
The Oxford Times	2015–2019
County Gazette (Taunton)	2015–2019
Greenock Telegraph	2015–2019
Warrington Guardian	2014–2019
Evesham Journal	2014–2019
The Westmorland Gazette	2014–2019
Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard (Cotswold ed.)	2014–2019
East Lothian Courier	2014–2019
Dunfermline Press and West of Fife Advertiser	2014–2019
The Shuttle (Kidderminster)	2014–2019
Hexham Courant	2014–2019
Stourbridge News	2014–2019
Salisbury Journal	2015–2019
St. Helens Star	2014–2019
Wirral Globe	2015–2019
Whitehaven News	2014–2019
Hampshire Chronicle	2015–2019
Free Press (Pontypool ed.)	2015–2019
Kilmarnock Standard	2014–2019
Lancaster Guardian	2014–2019
Cotswold Journal	2014–2019
Harrow Times	2014–2019
The Herald (Wantage)	2014–2019
Western Telegraph (Haverfordwest)	2014–2019
Witney Gazette	2015–2019
Gloucestershire Gazette	2014–2019
Ayr Advertiser	2014–2019
Monmouthshire Free Press	2015–2019
Clydebank Post	2014–2019
Bury Times	2014–2019
Craven Herald and Pioneer	2014–2019
Stroud News and Journal	2014–2019
South Wales Guardian	2014–2019
Leigh Journal	2014–2019
Andover Advertiser	2015–2019
Thurrock Gazette	2016–2019
Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer	2014–2019
Largs and Millport Weekly News	2014–2019
Berrow’s Worcester Journal	2014–2019
Penarth Times	2014–2019

Canada

Newspaper	Years Available
The Toronto Star	1900–2024
Calgary Herald	1888–2024
The Province (Vancouver)	1894–2024
The Hamilton Spectator	1852–2024
The Gazette (Montreal)	1857–2024
The Ottawa Citizen	1898–2024
Edmonton Journal	1903–2024
The Windsor Star	1893–2024
The Leader-Post (regina)	1883–2024
Waterloo Region Record	1893–2024
Daily Gleaner (Fredericton)	1884–2024
National Post	1907–2024
Le Devoir	1910–2023
Whitehorse Daily Star	1901–2024
Guelph Mercury	2001–2016
L’Acadie Nouvelle	1984–2014
Etobicoke Guardian	1952–2002
The Scarborough Mirror	1962–1999
The North York Mirror	1957–1999
The Willowdale Mirror	1960–1984
The Weston-Downsview Mirror	1965–1999
Etobicoke Gazette	1975–1981
The Lakeshore Advertiser (Etobicoke)	1927–1987