Find 478,468 marriage transcript records added to MyHeritage for between the years 1598 and 1900. Records typically include the names of the groom and the bride, their residence, the date and place of marriage, and the names of their fathers.
There are no linked images. As you don’t need a MyHeritage subscription the source, which is not credited, is likely FamilySearch.
Both Ancestry and Findmypast, as well as FamilySearch, have good coverage of Cheshire parish records for the period.
FMP must be holding their fire until Rootstech. Only about 13,000 new records this week, all for the Roman Catholic parish of St Mary’s Batley, Yorkshire.
A total of 8,814 baptisms, 3,012 marriages and 1,379 burial records. There are both images and transcriptions.
There are also over 200,000 new newspaper pages, including the following with pages from the 19th-century
Bo’ness Journal and Linlithgow Advertiser, 1884, 1888
Leicester Chronicle, 1864
Market Harborough Advertiser and Midland Mail, 1869-1891, 1893-1897, 1899, 1953
Melton Mowbray Times and Vale of Belvoir Gazette, 1894-1896, 1898-1905, 1932-1942, 1974-1981, 1985-1989, 1991
Ripon Gazette, 1897-1900, 1910, 1950, 1986
Who doesn’t like things easier?
On Saturday at 1 pm, online for OGS Ottawa Branch, Calgary-based Tara Shymanski will show how spreadsheets make analyzing census records easier.
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/monthly-presentation-ottawa-2/
Whether you’ve been waiting patiently or not, you now have access to another year of Irish civil registration records. For births, 1923 is added; for marriages, 1947 and deaths, 1973.
Find the whole collection at IrishGenealogy.ie
On 12 February, Ancestry.co.uk updated several significant collections of Church of England Hampshire records and added a new collection of Hampshire Nonconformist records.
UPDATED Church of England Collections
Hampshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1536-1812 (2,966,019 records): As with other counties, BMBs were recorded together until 1812. This expansive collection, with nearly 1 million additions since last May, is derived from Parish Registers and Bishops Transcripts. Search results are linked to original images which are also browsable.
Hampshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1921 (2,965,545 records)
Hampshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 (968,110 records) Remember, you will often find an image of the marriage record with the sane information as you get buying it from the GRO.
Hampshire, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1921 (620,981 records)
NEW Nonconformist Collection
All these records derive from Hampshire Archives and Local Studies in Winchester.
New to MyHeritage are 4,678,564 records for Kent up to 1907. As voting rights were extended with the Reform Acts of 1867 and 1884, the collection is predominantly for the latter period.
These are transcripts giving name, record type, year and residence. There are no images.
The record type is either voter registration, burgess rolls or jury lists. Residence can be the parish or sometimes just the county (Kent).
Although for the period before receiving the vote on a par with men, under some conditions, women could vote and are found in Burgess Rolls, including nearly 2,500 Marys in this collection.
Find 254 collections, containing 746 million historical records, in the MyHeritage internationally diverse marriage collections — completely free for four days.
Is there Love in your family? Read about MyHeritage’s findings here.
Choose from selected free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed. Find out about many more mainly US events at Conference Keeper at https://conferencekeeper.org
Tuesday 13 February
2 pm: Introduction to the MyHeritage Knowledge Base and the MyHeritage Wiki, by James Tanner for MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/introduction-to-the-myheritage-knowledge-base-and-the-myheritage-wiki/
2:30 pm: Tracing the Path of African Americans from Enslavement to Freedom, byHillary Delaney for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9938395
6:30 pm: Common Probelms, Possible Solutions, by Kirsty Gray for OGS Lambton County Branch.
https://lambton.ogs.on.ca/calendar/lambton-county-branch-ontario-ancestors-a-british-home-child/
7 pm: The McDougall Corridor, by Willow Key for OGS Essex Branch.
https://essex.ogs.on.ca/meetings/essex-branch-presentation/
Wednesday 14 February
1pm: Dragons: A History, by Ronald Hutton for Gresham College.
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/dragons
2 pm: AI and Genealogy: Trouble Ahead? by Thomas MacEntee for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/ai-and-genealogy-trouble-ahead/
7 pm: How to Overcome Brick Walls in German, by Michael D. Lacopo for ACGSI and Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9223038
8 pm: Online Sources for Scottish Research, by Christine Woodcock for Lakeshore Genealogy Society.
Register at LGSregister@gmail.com
Thursday 15 February
1 pm: Archives of Ontario, by Emma Robinson for OGS Kawartha Branch.
https://kawartha.ogs.on.ca/Past-Events1/kawartha-branch-presents-archives-of-ontario/
6:30 pm: Indigenous Peoples – First Nations Genealogical Research, by Curt Witcher for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9938399
Friday 16 February
2 pm: Introduction to County Research in England. by Mia Bennett for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/introduction-to-county-research-in-england/
Saturday 17 February
10 am: Scottish Genealogy, by Amy Gilpin for OGS Kingston Branch (also includes the AGM)
https://kingston.ogs.on.ca/
1 pm: What’s in a Name – A Cultural Perspective, by Paula Crooks for OGS Quinte Branch.
https://quinte.ogs.on.ca/2024/01/31/paula-crooks-research-techniques/
1 pm: Analyzing Census Records Using Spreadsheets, by Tara Shymanski for OGS Ottawa Branch.
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/monthly-presentation-ottawa-2/
The National Library of Scotland calls the newly available online Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-Inch Ireland, 1829-1969 “the most comprehensive topographic mapping covering all of Ireland and Northern Ireland from the 1820s to the 1960s.”
https://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-ireland/
Many of the absent voters in this collection would have been in the military, the Merchant Marine, or the Red Cross. For Armaghthere are about 3,500 names, and for Londonderry about 4,500.
Here’s a typical transcript.
Name John Anderson
Residence Date 1918
Street Address Village of Laurelvale
Residence Place Armagh, Ireland
Registration Unit Mullahead
Polling District Tandragee – S.
Constituency Mid Armagh
Page number 359
In this case there’s a link to the original register with the additional information in a column headed “In the case of Naval or Military Voters description of Service, Ship, Regiment, Number, |Rank, Rating, &c. In the case of other Voters recorded address. For John Anderson that’s “71645 Pte., 36th Bat. M.G.C.”
A quick look at a selection of the contents of the new issue.
RESEARCHING MEDIEVAL
ANCESTORS
With professional genealogist Chris Paton, discover routes to learning about your family in the Middle Ages.
JIMMY MILLER – ‘MY FAMOUS FOOTBALLER ANCESTOR’
Researcher Lisa Edwards discovers a true champion in her tree.
ENHANCE YOUR FAMILY HISTORY WITH MAPS, PHOTOS & TAX RECORDS
Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal demonstrates how to weave together clues found in several documents to take your research to the next level.
WHY CAN’T | FIND MY IRISH ANCESTORS?
Professional researcher David Ryan has solutions to help you.
THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PUB
CAMRA supporter Mike Bedford tells the history of these much-loved institutions.
THE LESSONS | LEARNT WHEN | STARTED DNA
DNA advisor Karen Evans shares tips to help you navigate some of the stumbling blocks you may encounter on your first
foray into DNA.
I’m always interested to see the new books profiled, many of which are not yet, and may never be available in bookatores in Canada.
How Finland survived Stalin: from winter war to cold war
by Kimmon Rentola
Published by Yale University Press at £25 (hardback), ISBN
978000273618.
Iron, stone and steam: Britain’s railway empire
by Tim Bryan
Published by Amberley Publishing at £25
(hardback), ISBN 9781398112698.
Has anybody here seen Kelly?: In search of my
father |
by Joe Cushnan
Published by FeedARead (paperback) at £6.99, ISBN
9781803022451. [Published 2021]
IT Girls: Pioneering Women in Computing
by John S. Croucher
Published by Amberley Publishing (hardback) at
£22.99. ISBN 9781398112292.
Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
The Runcible Spoon
“They dined on mince and slices of quince,
which they ate with a runcible spoon.”
You’ll likely recognize the line from Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat” which immediately came to mind in reading a list of wedding gifts to a distant relative in the 10 August 1928 edition of the Sussex Chronicle and Sussex Observer. They received two gifts of Runcible Spoons.
Browsing other hits on runcible in the British Newspaper Archive I found no mention of such utensils in lists of wedding gifts. 
Wikipedia defines it as “a fork with three broad curved tines and a sharpened edge, used with pickles or hors d’oeuvres, such as a pickle fork. It is used as a synonym for “spork”.”
Do you have a favourite crumboblious term that Lear or others used?
Sir Arthur Doughty
Word is that the statue of Sir Arthur Doughty, for many years has behind the LAC building at 395 Wellington, is being moved. Preparations will start next Friday with the move on Saturday. The destination is the LAC complex in Gatineu.
Gemini Ultra – Full Review
With the release of Google’s Gemini Ultra this week, including available in Canada which Bard that it replaces wasn’t, there;s a real competitatoe to GPT4.
This YouTube video, a bit specialist, but interesting if you like that kind of thing, is a good review. Personally I found Gemini was able to interpolate data using a cubic spline that Bing, which supposedly used GPT4, couldn’t do. In another case I had to be persistant to finally get it to extract matching items from a table of contents.
London Roll
A database of the records of eleven London livery companies can be searched on the website of London Roll. The records of additional companies are due to be added in the future. Via https://genealogyjude.com/2024/02/10/judes-gen-february-2024/
a temes loff
From the Essex Record Office blog.
Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, Brenda Turner, gail benjafield, Joseph Denis Wayne Laverdure, Sunday Thompson, Sylvia Smith, Teresa, Unknown,Wanda Sinclair .
