England Directories
This new collection consists of over 10 million transcriptions from 327 directories covering the mid-18th century through the early 20th century.

Business Directories: Highlight local businesses, their owners, and trades, offering insight into economic activities and commercial networks of the time.
Residential Listings: Many directories provide alphabetical listings of residents, allowing for research into family history and property ownership.
Government & Official Information: Listings of local officials, government offices, and services, reflecting the administrative structure of towns and regions.
Local Topography & Historical Context: Some directories incorporate descriptions of towns, points of interest, and notable landmarks.

The directories span various locations, north, south, east and west counties, from major cities like London and Liverpool to smaller towns such as Leicester, Swansea, and Lincoln.

Jersey, Huguenot Abjurations 1685-1815
These 693 transcript records document the history of the Huguenots – a French Protestant group who moved to escape persecution – in Jersey between 1685 and 1815.

Britain, Royal and Imperial Calendars 1767-1973
This collection of British calendars now contains an additional 4,395 browse-only images, which are from intermittent years between 1844 and 1926. Many years incorporate a civil service list.

Newspapers
Two titles are added this week: Garstang Courier, 1994, 1998, and Horsham Advertiser, 1997-1998.

A couple of the feature articles in the November issue are:

Demystifying Ancient Egyptian Mummies
Myths often stem from a combination of misunderstandings about ancient Egyptian culture, sensationalized accounts from early Egyptologists, and the influence of popular media. Campbell Price’s article on ancient Egyptian mummification practices exposes more myths than facts. From debunking curse myths to exploring the realities of embalming techniques and even the preservation of pets, this feature offers a scholarly yet accessible approach to a subject that has long captured the British public imagination.

Female Criminals Through the Ages
I immediately thought of Bonnie (Parker), of Bonnie and Clyde. Rosalind Crone’s list in this article includes six British women: Alice Diamond, Fanny Davies, Sarah Russell, Mary Willcocks, Tilly Devine, and Violet Charlesworth, who made their mark on the criminal underworld from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Baby farmers like Amelia Dyer don’t rate. The only Canadian who came to my mind is Karla Homolka.

Other feature articles are:

Medieval Power Play: Richard II vs Henry IV
The Forgotten Prince in the Tower
Understanding Nazi Motivation
SAS Hostage Drama.

Track my archival order (TMAO is an online feature that allows you to track the status of your archival consultation orders at 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa. It offers real-time updates and details on your orders for those with an LAC My account.

Read the LAC blog post at https://thediscoverblog.com/2024/10/01/track-your-archival-orders/.

It’s unclear whether this replaces the previous email notifications.

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.