Everyone born to parents within the Republic of Ireland and adopted at home or abroad will, from October, have access to their records previously withheld.
The legislation gives “legal entitlement to full and unrestricted access to birth certificates, birth, early life, care and medical information for any person who was adopted” or “boarded out.
Find out more from the Adoption Authority of Ireland.
Act now if you registered for the OGS conference but didn’t get to view all the sessions you intended to. They go away at the end of the month.
The Q&A from each session is also available. If you didn’t get the syllabus, it is also available for download.
Don’t miss the talk Canadian Wildflowers: A tale of pioneering women by Kyla Ubbink.
The focus this week is on the London area.
Over 18,000 additional Middlesex Baptism records have been added to this collection, from the parishes of New Brentford, Tottenham and Edmonton. The total collection now has 539,579 entries between 1538 and 1919.
A further 23,000 baptism transcripts have been added to Surrey Baptisms for the parishes of Lambeth, Stockwell, St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey and Walworth. The 1,846,249 in the collection stretch from 1530 to 1919.
Around 8,000 new records have been added to the Greater London Burial Index, mostly for Ealing which now accounts for 31.649 of the 2,084,920 records in the collection. There areentries as early as 1397, as late as 2004, with the bulk in the first half of the 19th century.
The latest post on The National Archives Blog looks at people with names you probably recognize, entertainers, born just in time to be in the 1921 census for England and Wales.
There’s a list of other prominent people born in the UK in 1921 here. Are there any in a field of interest to you and can you find them in that census? They would need to be born by census day — 19 June.
This collection, sourced from BAnQ, contains 63,553 records from 1813 to 1864.
The transcription record typically includes name, year and place of birth, date and place of incarceration, offence, sentence, date of discharge, and age at the time of discharge. Many are for short periods, just a couple of days, petty crimes. Records for more extended imprisonment may include additional information.
MyHeritage just released, free to all registered users, a photo tagger facility. Presently available on the mobile app for Android and iOS (and coming on the website), given that you’ve tagged individuals in a certain number of photos it will find them in other photos you upload through facial recognition.
Toronto-based Uri Gonen explains the feature in a 30-minute video. including some of the privacy protections the company has instituted.
In case you missed it, Ancestry last month introduced a colourization capability for black and white photos. Find out about it here.
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 26 July 2 pm: OGS Ottawa Branch Virtual Genealogy Drop-in.
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/virtual-genealogy-drop-in-2-2022-07-12/
Tuesday 26 July 2 pm: Organizing and tagging photos with the MyHeritage mobile app, by Uri Gonen for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/organizing-my-photos-at-myheritage/
Tuesday 26 July 2:30 pm: Building a Bridge Between Generations, by Daniel Loftus for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. https://acpl.libnet.info/event/6645258
Friday 29 July 9 am: Domesday in the public record, by Jessica Nelson for The National Archives (UK). https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domesday-in-the-public-record-tickets-350471278027
Friday 29 July 2:30 pm: What Official Records Exist About Your Scottish Ancestors? Searching Scotland Government Vital Records, by Erika Ward for BYU Family History Library.
Join by Zoom link, no reservation required: us02web.zoom.us/j/85924684291?pwd=NkRweDZ0WG9LK01LNm1iTmp4MUNKQ
It’s taken a while for the August issue of FT to come online through PressReader.
I’ve only scanned the issue so copy the table of contents below. There’s a good article on gravestones by Dave Annal, speaker at the coming BIFHSGO conference. Another by previous BIFHSGO conference speaker Chris Paton is of relevance for those with ancestors of the Scottish persuasion.
The genealogy stars shine brightly at this year’s BIFHSGO conference. They’re gathered together in four constellations.
First, on Wednesday, 28 September, two of the presentations are of particular Welsh interest: Migration and Wales by Gill Thomas and Researching Welsh Ancestry by Derek Blount. They follow My ancestor was a liar: ignorance, half-truths or wilful deceit? by Dave Annal. All our ancestors lied, even the ones that weren’t politicians!
To wrap up the first day, we return to Ottawa for The Journey to Genealogy Services at Ādisōke by Melissa Black (OPL), Robyn FeresCameron (LAC), Julie Roy (LAC).
The conference is spread out over four days. See the full schedule in pdf here.
It can be frustrating if information comes to us too quickly. BIFHSGO has arranged the schedule, so a 30-minute break follows each 60-minute talk.
Keep coming back to the blog for further details, including on some of the individual presentations,
Ancestry has released over 1.8 million additions to these extensive Greater London collections from the original registers deposited at London Metropolitan Archives and those formerly held by the Guildhall Library Manuscripts section. Records are from over 10,000 Church of England parish registers (including Bishop’s Transcripts).
London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 – 2,780,380 records.
The collection also includes registers of deaths and burials in workhouses operated by the Boards of Guardians covering 1834-1906. There are 46,428 records added since August 2021.
London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 – 18,018,976 records
This data collection contains baptism and burial records from 1538-1812 and marriage records from 1538-1753. That’s an additional 916,093 records since August 2021.
London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 – 13,835,348 records
This collection has been updated since May last year when it had 13,530,740 records with the addition of those for 1937 and 1938. The addition is 209,253 records.
London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1921 – 22,773,296 records.
This collection also includes registers of births and baptisms in workhouses operated by the Boards of Guardians. An additional year, 1921, has been added since August last year, with 672,913 added records.
Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
Baby names: why we all choose the same ones
Yorkshire, Sheffield, Air Raid Casualties, 1940-1941
FNP added an index of 659 casualties this week.
New Interactive Map and Timeline Added to Chronicling America
Library and Archives Canada could look here for inspiration.
WDYTYA on Sunday 7 pm on CTV – Allison Janney
I have literally waited all my life for this moment… pic.twitter.com/bsOkg4r0kr
— CBDude (@CBDHempFarmer) July 17, 2022
Thanks to this week’s contributors. Anonymous, Teresa, Unknown
This week, nearly 100,000 records from the West Riding of Yorkshire are added from the Family History Federation’s National Burial Index.
These additions are for 19 parishes — All Saints, St Mary, St Peter, Wesleyan Chapel, Nethertown United Reformed, St Paul, St Michael, Baptist Church, St Peter, St James, Bankshill, Bruntcliffe Lane Cemetery, Old Chapel, Queens St Wesleyan Methodist, Rehoboth Congregational, St Mary in the Wood, St Peter (Morley). Holy Trinity and St Mary (Woodkirk). They cover 1737-1954.
The burial records are derived from parish registers, bishop’s transcripts, earlier transcripts or printed registers by local family history society volunteers
The NBI now includes 12 million burial records from across England and Wales, although coverage is far from complete. Some counties, like Cornwall, are missing. There’s a listing of coverage by parish here.
