Author: John Reid

Each Friday in September: 30 live and pre-recorded webinars in all free to view through the end of the month.

Register here for the live presentations. The pre-recorded presentations will be available at
www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/Webtember.

Date	Time (ET)	Live/Pre-recorded	Speaker	Title
3 Sep	10:00am	Live	Geoff Rasmussen	FAN Club in Action: a Simple Case Study
	11:00am	Live	Roberta Estes	Paint Your Way Up Your Tree with MyHeritage and DNAPainter
	12:30pm	Live	Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG	America’s Turnpikes, Rivers, and Canals
	2:00pm	Live here	Anita Wills	Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color
		Pre-recorded	Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, CG	Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of German Military Records
		Pre-recorded	Dr. Bruce Durie	How Can I Get a Legal Coat of Arms in Scotland?
		Pre-recorded	Denise May Levenick	Seventeen Secrets to Successful Scanning
		Pre-recorded	Mary Kircher Roddy, CG	Finding Jane Graham’s Parents: Using Clusters and Records in Three Countries
10 Sep	8:00am	Live	Carol Baxter	British and Irish Given Names – Part 1
	9:30am	Live	Daniel Horowitz	Don’t Believe Everything You Read
	11:00am	Live	Craig R. Scott, MA, CG, FUGA	The Loyalists That Stayed Behind: The Reintegration
	12:30pm	Live	DearMYRTLE and Russ Worthington	NEVER GIVE UP: 5 Strategies for Overcoming Genealogical Angst
		Pre-recorded	Carol Baxter	British and Irish Given Names – Part 2
		Pre-recorded	Debra Renard	What are the Odds? Finding Answers Using DNA Painter’s WATO Tool
		Pre-recorded	Schelly Talalay Dardashti	Did your Abuelita…? Seeking Jewish Heritage
		Pre-recorded	Melissa Barker	Diaries, Journals and Calendars: Preserving and Document Your Ancestor’s Day-to-Day Life
17 Sep	9:30am	Live	James Tanner	Researching Immigrants to New England in the Great Migration, 1620-1640
	11:00am	Live	Janice Lovelace, PhD	Afro-LatinX in the Old West
	12:30pm	Live	Daniel Horowitz	Genealogy on the Go with the MyHeritage Mobile App
	2:00pm	Live here	Lianne Kruger	A Toboggan Ride Through Canadian Records, eh!
		Pre-recorded	Rebecca Koford, CG, CGL	Out of the Ballot Box: Voter Registrations & Records
		Pre-recorded	Marie Cappart	Beneluxury archives! How to get the best out of belgian, dutch and lux archives online
		Pre-recorded	Fiona Brooker	A Step Through Time(lines)
24 Sep	8:00am	Live	Michelle Leonard	Inferred Matching Explained
	9:30am	Live	Thomas MacEntee	The Mysterious Death of Anna T. McPhillips
	11:00am	Live	Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL	“Twelve Good and Lawful Men”: Jury Lists in Genealogy
	12:30pm	Live	Paul Woodbury	Where Did That Come From?! Tracing the Origins of Unique Ethnicity Admixture
		Pre-recorded	Michael L. Strauss, AG	Roosevelt’s Tree Army: Researching the Civilian Conservation Corps
		Pre-recorded	Lisa Toth Salinas	Beginning Hungarian Genealogy
		Pre-recorded	Cathie Sherwood	One family, many connections: Using the FAN club in one Australian locality

 

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Thursday 26 August to contain 281,618,901  unique records (280,862,829 at the previous update). Years with major additions of more than 10,000 records are, for births 1986-87 and 1990-91, for marriages 1986-90 and for deaths 1986-90. 

Continual adjustments are made to earlier entries. For years before 1986 in the latest update, 477 births were added and 1706 deleted; for marriages, 442 added and 475 deleted; for deaths, 821 added and 983 deleted.

This time its Ancestry playing catchup with a record set that’s also on Findmypast.

Web: Saskatchewan, Canada, Death Index, 1889-1949,  66,164 records

Web: Saskatchewan, Canada, Birth Index, 1875-1919,  785,477 records

The leading Web indicates basic information from free web records and provides links to the original sites where you can view the full record, including any associated images. 

The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA) has announced a new series of family history podcasts.

While I was unable to find information on the AGRA website, WDYTYA magazine has the first episode, entitled Commissioning Effective Research, being released on 1 September.

Five further episodes, to be launched on the first of each month, will examine legal and Chancery records, Welsh ancestors, manorial and estate records, Liverpool ancestors and the Poor Law, The podcast will be available on agra.org.uk and various podcast services.

For County Claire, the additions are over 21,000 transcript and image records from Kilrush Union covering 1848 and 1870. There are now over 400,000 records for Claire Poor Law.

For County Waterford, Kilmacthomas and Dungarvan, it’s over 158,000 transcript and image records added from 1845-1921. The Waterford collection is over 420,000 records.

Some of the reasons for mention in the minutes include:

A member of staff or a guardian
Supplier
Received outdoor relief for work such as breaking stones
Paid or collected the poor rates
Assistance to take on a pauper apprentice
A request for assistance with emigration
Marriage announcements of inmates
Orphaned or deserted child
An inmate of the workhouse with special circumstances

 

Feature articles this issue are:

Expert Tips from the best genealogy tutors in the UK — busting brick walls and growing your tree. Who are the best tutors?  Susan Moore, Janet Few, Simon Fowler, Linda Newey, Chris Paton, Ian Waller, Tahita McCabe,  Karen Cummings, Dave Annal,  Mia (Amelia) Bennett, Else Churchill, Caroline Gurney, Les Mitchinson, Ann Ballard, Lucy Brown, John Cleary, Judith Batchelor, Lorna E Kinnaird, Ian C MacDonald, and Judith Russell. That’s a long list to keep to hand if you’re organizing a conference or looking for speakers.

Family Names. Harry Parkin, the editor of a new dictionary of British surnames explains their history.

Helping Germans. How Quakers reached out to Britain’s persecuted German community during the First World War, by Janet Sacks.

Also, learn about the best Welsh websites, the life of a Victorian governess, sources for relations in the Victorian merchant navy, and adding a timeline to your family tree.

A couple of reader’s letters tell war bride stories, following on my article in the July issue.

And there’s lots more. Read it free through Press Reader online at the Ottawa Public Library (and many others in Canada) magazines section.

Higher fertility has a significantly negative effect on longevity for both women and men. That’s from an article Examining the trade-offs between human fertility and longevity over three centuries using crowdsourced genealogy data published in PLOS One earlier in the month.

It’s based on a sample of 81,924 women and 103,642 men born between 1601 and 1910 across 16 European countries. The negative effects are stronger among the older cohorts and have reduced over time.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society, otherwise known as American Ancestors, offers a $20 discount on membership until the end of the month. That’s $10 better than the continuing new NEHGS membership offer for OGS members.

A regular individual annual membership, which includes access to 1.4 billion online records, is $94.95 US. To take advantage use the discount code 08AUG2021.

https://www.americanancestors.org/join

Over the past 18 months, Ken McKinlay has written a series of posts on his Family Tree Knots blog about how to access Ontario land records. It’s a specialist subject into which he has made a deep dive.

Now he’s compiled those in a blog post Finding on the Ground: Wrap Up linking to them all in a logical order. It’s not a simple topic. It sometimes seems like he’s pulling a rabbit out of a hat when helping during Ottawa Branch OGS regular Tuesday afternoon sessions. If land records can be helpful in your Ontario research check out Ken’s guidance. Dollars to donuts it’s sure to help.

There are 882,724 records in this Glamorgan Archives collection on Ancestry, from Bridgend, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil and Pontypridd. Checking in 10-year segments only 470,076 entries were found, 28% in the first decade of the 20th century.

 

UPDATE: The dataset is now renamed to replace Cardiff with Glamorgan. Ancestry may not always be sensitive to geographical niceties. In this instance they reacted quickly.

Perhaps you have a photo of a house where an ancestor lived and are curious about the history.  This article by house history expert Trevor Yorke for Findmypast might help you narrow down whether a 19th-century terrace belongs to the Regency or Victorian period.

The article is a promo for a House History special issue of Family Tree magazine, coming soon.

Choose from free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Those in red are Canadian, bolded if local to Ottawa or recommended. Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed.

Tuesday 24 August, 2 pm: Virtual Genealogy Drop-In, from Ottawa Branch of OGS and The Ottawa Public Library.
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/.

Tuesday 24 August, 2 pm: The New Family Tree and Relationship Diagram, by Uri Gonen for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=1699

Tuesday 24 August, 2:30 pm: Victor Henry’s Headstone, by April Lynne Earle for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofuCsqjwqGdS3rjy0RXLpz-2o_mteKJNC 

Wednesday 25 August, 11 am: Your Ancestors’ Military Photographs, by Paul Nixon for Findmypast. www.facebook.com/findmypast.

Wednesday 25 August, 2 pm: Fire, Water, and the 1890 U.S. Census: Researching Beyond the Ashes and Mold, by Elizabeth Williams Gomoll for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=1640

Thursday 19 August, 6:30 pm: Beginning Your Family History Journey, by Elizabeth Hodges for Allen Country Public Library Genealogy Center. https://acpl.libnet.info/event/5421018

Friday 20 August, 2 pm: 10 Ways to Find Your Native American Ancestor Using Y, Mitochondrial and Autosomal DNA, by Roberta Estes for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=1638

Coming

Tuesday, 31 August, 7:30 pm. Discussion with Terry Fallis about his latest book, Operation Angus. Organized by the Ottawa Public Library and Ottawa Writers Festival.
http://ow.ly/lFjm50FVey5

19 – 26 September 2021: BIFHSGO Conference. Irish Lines and Female Finds: Exploring Irish records, female ancestors and genetic genealogy. www.bifhsgo2021.ca/.