Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary
Online from Gresham Collage, Professor Sarah Ogilvie, author of The Dictionary People: the unsung heroes of the Oxford English Dictionary, tells the fascinating stories of some of the hundreds of Londoners who helped create the world’s largest English dictionary.
Thursday, 16 Apr 2026 at 1 PM.
New at FamilySearch
FamilySearch quietly released four new collections on April 7, 2026, adding more than 484,000 records that cover births and baptisms from the early 1660s to the mid-twentieth century.
- Canada, Births and Baptisms, 1661–1959,
165,363 records - Canada, New Brunswick County Register of Births, 1801–1920,
175,485 records - Canada, New Brunswick County Registers of Births Index, ca. 1812–1919, 101,981 records
- Canada, New Brunswick County Registers of Births, ca. 1812–1919,
41,746 records.
Ancestry Updates Somerset Records
Somerset, England, Church of England Confirmations, 1843-1924,
1,569 records
Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1924
611,069 records
Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1924
1,596,992 records
Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1924
3,000,165 records.
Genealogical Miracles
Tune in to the Bruce County Genealogical Society at 7 pm on Monday evening, where Ken McKinlay is performing presenting genealogical miracles, some of the gaffs and errors found in family trees, such as “Resurrection”, “The well preserved”, and “Time travellers”. He covers how to prevent those mistakes in our own trees.
https://bit.ly/2026-04-13-KenMcKinlay
It would never be broadcast by the BBC in these enlightened times.
