Perhaps your attention is immediately grabbed by MAPS on this magazine cover.
When I opened the cover and read in Editor Sarah Williams column that there was an article on weather and our ancestors all other priorities for a couple of hours went out the window.
The article, by Norfolk genealogist, writer and educator, Gill Blanchard is a comprehensive look at a myriad of types. There’s a panel with six essential maps for family historians, another on using the National Library of Scotland online map collection, and yet another on 10 useful map websites. Included is Faden’s Map of Norfolk, new to me, London Picture Archive, and Map History.
Ruth Symes article “Hurricanes and Heatwaves” is an overview of “how you can find out how the weather affected your ancestor’s lives.” Much of the article deals with efforts to digitize weather information from various historical sources. Missing is an explanation of how to get weather information for an event in your family history in the past 150 years or so from official records at the British Meteorological Office. A panel on how to do that, much as in the maps article for the National Library of Scotland maps collection, would have made the article more valuable.
There are lots more: street photos, First World War pension cards, Lost Cousins, postal workers, Rosemary Collins has an article on the pubs of coastal Lincolnshire refering to a project website www.letstalk.lincolnshire.gov.uk/inns-on-the-edge
As always, the issue is available through the PressReader subscription of many Canadian public libraries.
Mostly derived from newspaper listings are the following updates.
I was surprised to find a reference to this mural monument in a book I recently reviewed. The image is from the Illustrated London News of 17 November 1855; the monument in the Cathedral Church of St Paul in London, Ontario. It pays tribute to Lt. Col. Chester and the men of the 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers who fell at the Battle of Alma during the Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856).
No travelling. No expensive hotels and restaurant meals. All the conveniences of home. Registration is now open. for the 24 -26 June Ontario Ancestors (OGS to its friends) conference.
As people die, and some become centenarians, their records in the 1939 Register for England and Wales are opened. This addition is 117,965 records.
On this date in 1939 Trans-Canada Air Lines inaugurated cross-Canada (if you ignore the Atlantic Provinces) service. The flight was from Montreal to Vancouver with lots of stops, most of them scheduled. The first was Ottawa.