Anglo-Celtic Connections

When information arrived in an email from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage about 359 million additions in a French Historical Records collection I took a quick look for a third cousin twice removed. He was supposed to have been born in France. While I didn’t find him I noticed the records shown weren’t all French; they were in French.

The collection includes 58,114 births/baptisms, 211,983 marriages and 211,983 deaths/burials in Canada. While mostly for Quebec I spotted entries for Atlantic Canada too. There were also US events from Louisiana, Read more about the collection in this MyHeritage blog post.

Daniel also mentioned updates to Sweden, Household Examination Books, 1800–1947 with 13.2 million records added, and to Germany, North Rhine Westphalia (Arnsberg and Münster) Death Index, 1874–1938 with 4.8 million records added.

 

The British Newspaper Archive is currently working on digitizing Irish newspapers. Papers recently added are:

Kerry People 1902-1914, 1917-1922.
Dublin Weekly News: 1860, 1865, 1870, 1875, 1879-1888.
Lurgan Times: 1879-1885, 1887-1915.
County Tipperary Independent and Tipperary Free Press:1882-1896.
Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner: 1891-1899, 1901-1926.
Cork Weekly News: 1883-1904, 1906-1907, 1910-1912, 1914-1923 + 1900, 1902 and 1920 coming soon.
Ulster Echo: 1874-1879, 1881-1890, 1897-1908 + 1881, 1886, 1890, 1902 coming soon.
Western People: 1889-1891, 1893-1912.

Additions have been made to Pue’s Occurrences: 1704-1706, 1714.

Findmypast will also have these in its newspaper collection.

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Relax with the Jellyfish at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Genealogy After Death
An article from Canada’s History magazine by Paul Jones.

TONI @13 Million
The Ontario Name Index continues to grow. Check it out at https://ogs.on.ca/toni/.

Shade Map
An interactive map that allows you to view the location of shadows from the sun throughout the day.

A Digital Map of Historical New York Offers an Extraordinary Level of Detail

We’ve Living Through the ‘Boring Apocalypse’

Thanks to this week’s contributors.  Ann Burns, Anonymous., Brenda Turner, Gail Roger, John Gilbert, Nancy Frey, Pat Jeffs, Unknown.

Over 60,000 new owner and occupier records covering Edmonton, Enfield and Southgate are now added to TheGenealogist‘s exclusive Lloyd George Domesday Survey records.

This continues TheGenealogist’s project based on the IR58 Inland Revenue Valuation Office records which were taken between 1910 and 1915. Other recent London-area additions have included Richmond, Ealing, and Haringey.

London, Synagogue Seatholders 1904 consists of 6,474 names and addresses of seatholders and officeholders in various Synagogues in Aldgate, City Of London, Dalston, Hackney, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Islington, Marylebone, Paddington, Southwark, Stepney and Stoke Newington.

Asia, Far East Directories & Chronicles 1833-1941 compiled annually from multiple sources, including government agencies and Western companies in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, The Philippines, Indo-China, Malaysia, Siam, Borneo and The Dutch East Indies. Look for name, occupation and employer for Americans, Canadians, Australians, British and other Westerners as well as information likely to be of interest to residents in the chronicles.

This Saturday, 11 December 2021 enjoy two Ottawa events online and open to all.

At 9 am BIFHSGO’s Holiday Social and Great Moments in Genealogy get underway. Details are at https://www.bifhsgo.ca/events

At 1 pm OGS Ottawa Branch presentation is`They Came on Ships ~ Plotting a Course to Publishing Genealogical Research’, by David Walker. Register here.

In between, depending on where you live, you might be able to squeeze in a visit to a live event (!) the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Mammoth Book Sale at the City of Ottawa Archives from 10 am to 2 pm. https://www.fopla-aabpo.ca/event/mammoth-book-sale/

On Wednesday four new items were added to Canadiana.

Title	Publication Date	Identifier
Department of Canadian Heritage, Canadian Parks Service : Park/subject classification system	1911-1968	T-11009
Department of Canadian Heritage, Canadian Parks Service : Park/subject classification system	1930-1968	T-11010
Department of Indian Affairs, Headquarters central registry system : thousand series	1893-1945	C-12081
James Hargrave and family fonds	1850-1854	C-77

The most interesting of these may well be the James Hargrave and family fonds. According to his entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Throughout his career Hargrave was a prodigious letter writer, corresponding with officers all over the HBC’s vast domains. His draft letter books, which give much detail about the logistics of the trade, reveal his assiduous attempts to satisfy the needs of every district with fairness and economy. His private letters, where he appears as esteemed friend and confidant, constitute the richest surviving record of life in western Canada during the first half of the 19th century. Besides providing valuable commentary on fur trade society with its blend of Indian, British, and French customs, these letters also contain much specific information about the personal lives of many of Hargrave’s contemporaries.

The period 1850-54 saw James Hargrave ending his assignment at York Factory and moving to Sault Ste Marie. Image 3 at Canadiana Héritage summarizes the scope of the contents. It mentions small handwriting and fading of the ink.

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.