On 26 September, the Public Archives of New Brunswick added 338 more archival photographs to its online database! Photos are added monthly: 1,405 in August and 736 in July. There are currently 3,406 digitized images available.

https://archives.gnb.ca/Archives/?culture=en-CA

Access a wide range of place data throughout England to build a detailed picture of what culture and creativity looks like in a specific area.

Data from Arts Council England Users is mapped to show investment in culture and creativity. Over 200 other data indicators, mostly from the 2021 census, tell about people and places across the country. Areas of relative wealth and poverty remain the same for decades, if not centuries.

https://culture.localinsight.org/#/map

Subscribers to TheGenealogist can now view the locations of over 18.4 million individuals recorded in the 1841 census. Locations may be the parish, street or even house.

The Genealogist has also posted The Remarkable Journey of Working-Class Nurse, Eliza Roberts, Who Defied Expectations and Helped Shape Modern Health Care.

Only until 6 October 2024 at 11:59 pm,  upload your DNA data to MyHeritage to get full free access to all advanced DNA features. That includes the Ethnicity Estimate and Genetic Groups, DNA Matches, and all tools to analyze your relationship to your matches. That saves the usual $29 unlock fee per file.

Colonial Office, Emigration to Canada Enclosures to Reports
Transcriptions and images from the Canadian Colonial Office document 1,888 children who emigrated from Britain to Canada between 1887 and 1892. In addition to the child’s name, age, and emigration year, these records may tell you where an individual moved from and where they ended up in Canada. For many children, there is also a detailed description of their situation within the original record image.

Register of Boys arrived in Toronto House of Industry
These 250 register entries document boys and men who the Toronto House of Industry received between 1858 and 1864. The Toronto House of Industry was a lodging house that catered to Toronto’s poor. Each record has both a transcription and an original image.

News-Cuttings Of Dr. Barnardo
Browse-only news cuttings about Dr. Barnado’s life and work. Barnardo’s organization was the largest in terms of the number of young immigrants to Canada.

The following is a request for responses to a short survey.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) Canadian office is launching a National Volunteer Program in 2025!
We will invite people from across Canada to get involved—wherever CWGC markers are located. We’ll need to find volunteers who are willing to visit local cemeteries to help us inspect and maintain the war graves in their own communities.
We appreciate your feedback to determine the best way forward. Please take 5-10 minutes to answer a few questions. Your answers will help us plan and shape what a new volunteer program in Canada will look like. Thank you!

 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CY7FTN2.

Professional Boxers
Ancestry has added Web: United Kingdom, Index of Professional Boxers, 1900-1979 with 70,938 entries.

Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, gail benjafield, Gloria Tubman, Lynne Willoughby, Teresa, Sunday Thompson, Unknown.

 

In the past week, an estimated 16% of additional records have been added, all for the USA.

These Ancestry collections were updated as of 17 September.

U.S., 1800s-current, 322,404,104 entries
UK and Ireland, 1800s-current, 9,073,912 entries
Canada, 1800s-current, 8,761,838 entries
Australia and New Zealand,  1800s-current,  875,666 entries

FreeBMD Database was updated on Friday, 27 September 2024, to contain 291,560,221 unique records, up from 291,402,577.
Years with more than 10,000 additions are 1992, 1995-96 for births, and 1994-95 for marriages and deaths.