Month: April 2023

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

The Techno-Libertarian Faith
There is simply no reason to believe, a priori, that the good of a technology will always outweigh the bad, (and vice versa.) Read it, then scroll down to Gardner’s Postscript.

Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

12 Clever Hacks to Make Cleaning a Snap

Black History in Ontario
OGS Toronto Branch is offerring a free 3-part lecture series, starting on 13 April.

If you run into anything that would make a good addition to Sunday Sundries please let be know. You can just leave a comment.
Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Glenn Wright, Jackie Corrigan, Nick Mcdonald, Teresa, Unknown.

 

 

1939 Register
90,809 new records have been opened in this latest update. Records are opened when the person’s death is reported or they pass their 100th birthday.  You can normally find an ancestor’s name, date of birth, address, occupation and marital status, plus extra details such as civilian role and other family members. Findmypast has the most up-to-date version of the 1939 Register online.

Sussex Burials
A further 46,567 records have been added into this existing collection, now more than 507,000 records. The additions are for the Worthing local authority area for 1850-2012. Expect to find name, birth year, age at death, burial date and church dedication. Sometimes, you might also find extra notes, such as titles, places of residence, occupations, relatives’ names, marital status and workhouse status.

 

This collection contains published registers of medical doctors living in the United Kingdom and Ireland digitized from original documents at the archives of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin.  This collection of annual registers lacks 1882, 1915 and 1940. Expect to find

Date of registration
Name
Residence
Qualifications

As you can search by residence you may be able to find a physicial who treated a family member.The family doctor I had as a child, Guy Hope Buncombe, was listed in 18 of these directories.