It’s good to see LAC getting back to digitizing these files for loading to Canadiana Héritage. They include material from 24 microfilms. Two-thirds of the files come from three microfilms.
35 files from the Department of Indian Affairs, Headquarters central registry system, microfilms C-12060 and C-12777.
31 files from the Directorate of Movements : Marine files, all for July 1945 and all from microfilm C-5630. These likely include war bride arrivals.
https://heritage.canadiana.ca/
The results of the 2020 Public Service Employee Survey are posted at https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/innovation/public-service-employee-survey.html
The survey was conducted during the pandemic from November 30, 2020 to January 29, 2021 — not normal working conditions. About 700 employees of Library and Archives Canada responded.
The results posted are detailed, and a challenge to analyze if you’re interested in a particular department.
Based on the overall scores here are the 20 questions that received the most favourable responses from LAC employees — discrimination is the least significant issue for them within LAC out of all questions posed.
Question 43c. To what extent have the following adversely affected your career progress in the federal public service over the last 12 months? Discrimination
Question 43d. To what extent have the following adversely affected your career progress in the federal public service over the last 12 months? Accessibility or accommodation issues
Question 70r. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Harassment or discrimination
Question 79e. I feel that the information I receive from my department or agency related to the COVID-19 pandemic is… Available in both official languages.
Question 70u. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Issue(s) with individual(s) working for me
Question 2. The material and tools provided for my work, including software and other automated tools, are available in the official language of my choice.
Question 70q. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Accessibility or accommodation issues
Question 35. Senior managers in my department or agency use both official languages in their interactions with employees.
Question 70v. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Issue(s) with other individual(s) (e.g., members of the public, individuals from other departments or agencies)
Question 70s. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Issue(s) with my co-worker(s)
Question 70t. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Issue(s) with individual(s) with authority over me
Question 29. During the COVID-19 pandemic, my immediate supervisor supported the use of flexible work hours.
Question 21. In my work unit, individuals behave in a respectful manner.
Question 12. I am proud of the work that I do.
Question 30. I am satisfied with the quality of supervision I receive.
Question 80. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, my department or agency has clearly communicated the mental health services and resources that are available to me.
Question 10. I know how my work contributes to the achievement of my department’s or agency’s goals.
Question 22. The people I work with value my ideas and opinions.
Question 49. Overall, my department or agency treats me with respect.
Question 20. In my work unit, every individual is accepted as an equal member of the team.
The issues of most concern, with those of greatest concern further down the list, were:
Question 70a. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Risk of exposure to COVID-19
Question 41. My department or agency does a good job of supporting employee career development.
Question 40. I feel I can initiate a formal recourse process (e.g., grievance, complaint, appeal) without fear of reprisal.
Question 70c. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Heavy workload
Question 72. Overall, my level of work-related stress is…
Question 33. Senior management in my department or agency makes effective and timely decisions.
Question 37. I feel that change is managed well in my department or agency.
Question 18f. I feel that the quality of my work suffers because of… high staff turnover.
Question 95. I am satisfied with the support (e.g., regular information, follow-up, making enquiries on my behalf, offering emergency or priority pay) I received from my department or agency to help resolve my pay or other compensation issues.
Question 86. My department or agency has provided me with adequate training and/or resources to manage a remote team during the COVID-19 pandemic. (for supervisors who manage employees who have been working remotely)
Question 18h. I feel that the quality of my work suffers because of… unreliable technology.
Question 18b. I feel that the quality of my work suffers because of… lack of stability in my department or agency.
Question 18a. I feel that the quality of my work suffers because of… constantly changing priorities.
Question 18g. I feel that the quality of my work suffers because of… overly complicated or unnecessary business processes.
Question 73. After my workday, I feel emotionally drained.
Question 18c. I feel that the quality of my work suffers because of… too many approval stages.
Question 70e. Overall, to what extent do the following factors cause you stress at work? Not enough employees to do the work
Question 42. I believe I have opportunities for promotion within my department or agency, given my education, skills and experience.
Question 18e. I feel that the quality of my work suffers because of… having to do the same or more work, but with fewer resources.
Question 96. I am satisfied with the support I received from the Pay Centre to help resolve my pay or other compensation issues.
Note that the two issues regarding pay received significantly fewer responses than the others. Is it the Pheonix Pay System still causing problems for those employees?
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. Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed.
Tuesday 22 June, 2 pm: Virtual Genealogy Drop-In, from Ottawa Branch of OGS and The Ottawa Public Library. https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/.
Tuesday 22 June, 2 pm: Top tips for reviewing Smart Matches™ and Record Matches, by Daniel Horowitz for MyHeritage Webinars. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=1695
Tuesday 22 June, 2:30 pm: Anabaptist and Mennonite Materials in the Genealogy Center, by John Beatty for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. https://acpl.libnet.info/event/5173693
Tuesday 22 June, 7 pm: United Empire Loyalists: A Case Study of Daniel Rose, by Stephen Bowley for Wellington County Branch OGS. https://wellington.ogs.on.ca/events/wellington-county-branch-united-empire-loyalists-a-case-study-of-daniel-rose-with-stephen-bowley-u-e/
Wednesday 23 June, 2 pm: Angel Island’s Immigrants from 80 Countries: Stories from the West Coast Counterpart to Ellis Island, by Grant Din for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=1632
Thursday 24 June, 6:30 pm: Jamaican Genealogy: Tracing Your Enslaved & Free People of Color Ancestors, by Phillip Nicholas for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. https://acpl.libnet.info/event/5177317
Saturday 26 June, 1 pm: AGM and presentation The mitoYDNA Project, by Mags Gaulden for Ottawa Branch OGS. https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/the-mitoydna-project-ottawa-branch/
Coming
19 – 26 September 2021: BIFHSGO Conference. Irish Lines and Female Finds: Exploring Irish records, female ancestors and genetic genealogy. www.bifhsgo2021.ca/.
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Here are four online presentations bring streamed free by the UK National Archives in July.
Tuesday 5 July: Top Level Tips: Using Discovery
Friday 16 July: Arthur Conan Doyle and the case of the Indian Lawyer
Wednesday 21 July: Musical Truth: A Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs
Friday 23 July: Testimony of the Victorian English and Welsh Poor.
Still to come in June are:
Tuesday 29 June: Rebel Countess: Eleanor de Montfort and the Second Barons’ War, 1264-5
Find details at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit-us/whats-on/events/all-events/
Registers for Hanwell, Mill Hill, St Marylebone, and Willesden Lane Cemeteries, with a total of 281,988 records are now available on Ancestry. For each there are Deed of Grant Books and various others.
Hanwell, formerly City of Westminster Cemetery, which opened in 1854, has 95,837 records.
Mill Hill, formerly Paddington New Cemetery, has about 120 entries between 1984 and 1987.
St, Marylebone, open in 1855 and now called East Finchley Cemetery, is where conductor Leopold Stokowski and artist, cartoonist specializing in complicated designs, Heath Robinson are interred.
Paddington Cemetery has a Burial Plot Book for 1939-1950 and three Deed of Grant Books from 1964 to 1969.
Browse over 10 million listings, 200,000 playable programmes (some not available outside the UK) and even early editions of Radio Times magazine at https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/.
If you grew up listening to the BBC this is a real nostalgia trip.
Here is information about a major free online event on Wednesday 30 June starting at 09:00 EDT. Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deep-histories-deepening-connections-the-uk-and-irelands-lost-records-tickets-159442373431.
On 30 June 1922 the Public Record Office of Ireland (PROI) in Dublin was destroyed in the opening battle of the Irish Civil War. The ‘Record Treasury’ at the PROI, with its six floors of records dating back to the twelfth-century conquest, was entirely ruined.
On the 99th anniversary of this tragic event, The National Archives invites you to a virtual research showcase, run in conjunction with the Beyond 2022: Virtual Record treasury of Ireland project. Deep Histories link archival collections in Great Britain to those lost in 1922. Now Deepening Connections are driving an exciting collaboration to recover and reconstruct in fascinating detail much that was lost, facilitating next generation access to seven centuries’ of Ireland and Britain’s deeply connected histories.
The showcase will focus on the contribution of The National Archives and other UK memory institutions to the virtual reconstruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland. In a series of presentations and discussions it will:
· reveal the surprising stories behind medieval tax finance and the accounting scandals that led to centuries of Irish records being sent to England
· tackle the conservation challenges of providing access to premodern collections;
Schedule
Welcome: 14.00
Dr Jessica Nelson, Head of Collections (Medieval, Early Modern, Legal and Maps and Plans), The National Archives
Session 1: 14.05-15.15.
DEEP HISTORY: The National Archives and Beyond 2022
Opening remarks and introduction to The National Archives’ Irish collections (Jeff James, Chief Executive Officer and Keeper of Archives, The National Archives Dr Paul Dryburgh, Principal Records Specialist (Medieval Records), The National Archives).
Medieval Irish Exchequer Gold Seam: the records and demonstration of the knowledge graph.
An introduction to the records of the medieval Irish exchequer at The National Archives, the scandalous background to their transmission to Westminster in the Middle Ages and an exploration of the impact new technology pioneered by the Beyond 2022 project on access to records of Ireland and Britain’s premodern past. This session will include a demonstration of the project’s Knowledge Graph for Irish History.
(Dr Elizabeth Biggs and Dr Lynn Kilgallon, Beyond 2022 Medieval Gold Seam Research Associates, Trinity College Dublin).
Conservation Conversation
Senior conservators and conversation scientists from the UK and Ireland in discussion about evolving conservation techniques, ongoing challenges and the potential of AI technology to open up new avenues of access to historic collections.
(Dr Lucia Pereira Pardo, Conservation Scientist, The National Archives, and Zoe Reid, Senior Conservator, National Archives Ireland).
Exploring the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
An online demonstration of the Virtual Reality model of the Public Record Office of Ireland as it was in 1922 and its potential to transform access to Ireland’s past.
Q&A (Chair: Dr Jessica Nelson)
BREAK: 15.15-15.45
Session 2: 15.45-17.00
DEEPENING CONNECTIONS: International archival partnership and archival discovery
Opening remarks Mr Adrian O’Neill, Ambassador of Ireland to the United Kingdom
Archival Discovery
An overview of The National Archives’ role in Archival Discovery in Great Britain and of the processes involved in locating, scoping and ingesting digitised images and records into the Virtual Record Treasury pipeline.
(Dr Neil Johnston, Head of Early Modern Records, The National Archives and Dr Sarah Hendriks, Beyond 2022 Archival Discovery Fellow, The National Archives).
Unlocking the Content and Linking Archives
Launch of the Beyond 2022 English-Language Handwriting Model on Transkribus: a preview of next generation access to records of Ireland and Britain’s past and the potential for linking collections digitally.
(Dr David Brown and Dr Timothy Murtagh, Beyond 2022 Archival Discovery Fellow, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland).
Q&A / Closing Remarks (Chair: Dr Jessica Nelson)
Close: 17.00
This online event will be presented on Zoom. You will be emailed an access link shortly before the event is due to start.
The collection has staff details from wage books, time books and insurance books. These are registers of those employed at the original site at which Jameson Irish Whiskey was distilled until 1971.
While Ancestry notes there are over 1 million records the information is scant. Names are often just surname and an initial, and sometimes just “Mr Smith.” You’ll find in which department J Smith worked, how much they were paid, insurance paid, etc. If you can identify your person you may be able to discern the period(s) they were employed.
Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
Dead reckoning: Canada’s national cemetery is bringing truth about residential schools to light.
Something’s rotten in the state of the internet, and archivists are worried
Are advertisers coming for your dreams?
Amsterdam is laying down a model for what tourism should look like after COVID
How a Scottish graveyard in Kolkata revealed the untold stories of colonial women in India
TheGenealogist has added 24 million transcript records from the Census of Scotland 1841-1901. Already available on Ancestry, Findmypast and in part on FreeCEN and MyHeritage, they are transcripts, the images being available exclusively on ScotlandsPeople.
The Society of Genealogists announce the last day they will be open at their Charterhouse Buildings location is Saturday 17 July. The collection will be inaccessible and kept safe pending a move — location in London to be announced. Digitization work with archive partners will continue.
Is the new feed working for you?
I’ve had one comment about an annoyance with the new feed of the daily update email now it’s switched to MailPoet. Let me know about your experience, positive or negative.
Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, Brenda Maitland, Brenda Turner, Celia Lewis, Douglas Wallace, Gail B., Glenn Wright, Unknown.
Here’s a report on progress with Library and Archives Canada’s Co-Lab Challenges since last month. No challenges report progress and two are less complete this month than last!
While other Co-Lab activity may have happened, the Challenges are a FAILURE this past month.
John Freemont Smith remains 89% complete.
War Diaries of the First World War: No. 2 Construction Battalion is 99% complete, 100% last month.
Canadian National Land Settlement Association remains 94% complete.
Molly Lamb Bobak remains 88% complete.
Diary of François-Hyacinthe Séguin remains 98% complete.
George Mully: moments in Indigenous communities remains 2% complete.
Correspondence regarding First Nations veterans returning after the First World War remains 99% complete.
Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 is 95% complete, 96% last month.
Legendary Train Robber and Prison Escapee Bill Miner remains 99% complete.
Japanese-Canadians: Second World War, remains 61% complete.
The Call to Duty: Canada’s Nursing Sisters remains 93% complete.
Projects that remain 100% complete are no longer reported here.
Sad to relay the news of the death of Father Edward J. R. Jackman, one of the prominent Jackman family of Toronto. A researcher and author, through his Foundation he made donations to a wide variety of non-profit organizations including in the history and heritage sector. A notable example is the Petworth Emigration Project.
St. Michael’s Remembers Edward J. R. Jackman, OP (1940-2021)
