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 5 July 9 am: Top Level Tips: Using Discovery, by Sarah Castagnetti for The National Archives (UK)/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/top-level-tips-using-discovery-tickets-350445280267

Tuesday 5 July 10 pm: The Madness of ‘Mc’ Surnames, by Carol Baxter for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/the-madness-of-mc-surnames/

Wednesday 6 July 2 pm: What’s New at DNA Painter, by Jonny Perl for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/whats-new-at-dnapainter/

Wednesday 6 July 2:30 pm: Researching Jewish Genealogy Sources for Your One Name Study, by Jeanette Rosenberg for the Guild of One-Name Studies.
https://one-name.org/jewishons/

Wednesday 6 July 7:30 pm. Indigenous Peoples, Primary Sources, and Huron County, by Michelle A. Hamilton for OGS Huron Branch.
https://huron.ogs.on.ca/events/huron-branch-michelle-a-hamilton-indigenous-peoples-primary-sources-and-huron-county/

Thursday 7 July 6:30 pm: One Man’s Y-DNA Results for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/6870425

Thursday 7 July 7:00 pm: Diaspora and Homelands, by Penny Walters for OGS/Ontario Ancestors.
https://ogs.on.ca/zoom-meetings/penny-walters-diaspora-and-homelands/

Thanks to VividPix, as you’ll see by the logo and short intro ad, some of the OGS Conference 2022 sessions have been uploaded for viewing. As of Monday morning, those available to conference registrants are:
Using Oral Histories in Your Genealogical Research, by David Ryan.
Why Did Our Ancestors move between Canada and USA? by Gordon L. McBean.
Telling the Stories that Matter, Lunch and Learn by Rick Voight.
Second World War British Migrants to Canada, by John D. Reid.
Wanted Dead or Alive: Peter Loucks UE (?), by Chuck Buckley.
What You Don’t Know About the Canadian Census (Ontario Focus), by Janice Nickerson.
Understanding the Past – To Improve Our Future, by Paul Barber.
The Art of Slow Genealogy, by Tara Shymanski.

To access these recordings, please proceed as you did to join your session. The videos will remain available until 31 July 2022.

I’ll post on others daily as they become available.

In June Canadiana Heritage added three digital microfilms Nominal rolls and paylists for the Volunteer Militia 1855-1914. They are T16554 for 1862-1914 ; T-16555  for 1883-1908; and T-16670 for 1906-1914.

Such lists are useful as many young, and not-so-young men were in the militia. Along with the church, it played an important social role.

If you have an Ancestry subscription with Canadian records, or Ancestry access through your public library, the collection Canada, Nominal Rolls and Paylists for the Volunteer Militia, 1857-1922 already provides those records, and more, searchable by name, and, as name indexing is always problematic,  browsable by military unit.

 

 

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

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How conspiracy theories spread

UK Inflation
A couple of weeks ago I posted Canadian inflation stats back to 1900, There’s a longer series for the UK, back to 1751 here.

PastPresentFuture
A blog by best-selling author Dan Gardner exploring history to understand today and shape a better tomorrow.
The Psychology of Uncertainty
Racism in the Early 20th Century

Railway Work, Life & Death
A project about railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland from the late 1880s to 1939. It includes a database documenting 3,914 deaths,

Thanks to this week’s contributors. Ann Burns, Anonymous,  Unknown.

Rebels and “Patriots”!

FMP adds “Descendants of the Signers of the (US) Declaration of Independence”, “Pennsylvania, Oaths of Allegiance Lists” and “Pennsylvania, American Revolution Patriot Militia Index” collections.

In the UK, Scotland Monumental Inscriptions pinpoint the exact graveyard of 12,000 additions from Angus and Fife. This collection now has over 1.1 million entries.

Only on Ancestry.com, save 50% on a 6-month membership, now through Monday. Terms, like new subscribers only, apply.

How can Library and Archives Canada best serve Canadians in the coming decade and beyond? Vision 2030, released on 29 June 2022, is LAC’s strategic plan.

It has four key elements
1. Inviting users to discover the collections
Make our collections better known and more accessible
2. Reflecting diverse voices
Acquire collections that reflect a diverse and inclusive society
3. Engaging with the community, partnering with the world
Work with our partners, in the community and around the world
4. Supporting our people, sustaining our heritage
Create the conditions that support our staff.

The thrust of the vision is “While the collections remain at the centre of LAC’s identity, the ability of Canadians to discover, understand and connect with the collections frames our vision of service.”

“LAC’s new digital services will give all Canadians seamless access to research help, interactive content and digital collections, no matter where people live, as well as a variety of self-service options. These services will encourage users to discover Canadian histories for themselves, forming a deep connection with LAC’s collections in ways that reflect their unique interests.”

However, Leslie Weir’s introduction is about stories. LAC’s primary roles — acquisition, preservation and access — can be looked at as a utility. Do those roles well, and the media and individuals will do the job of telling the stories. Just as the hydro utility does not attempt to expand into value-added, LAC would do well to concentrate on its core functions, with particular emphasis on developing online access to legacy and born-digital materials.

The role as a utility doesn’t have headline appeal — it’s not “sexy.” Neither is hydro — until you don’t have it!

This is another significant addition to Ancestry’s collection of English country records. Worcestershire midsize population (1.1 million for the historic country in 2011 – source) is not well covered by other websites with images of the original record.

The Ancestry collections, sourced from Bishop’s Transcripts at the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, are:

Worcestershire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812,  3,264,925 records.
Worcestershire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1812-1918, 1,727,188 records.
Worcestershire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935, 120,628 records.
Worcestershire, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1918,  432,453 records.

You can search and browse these records. If you don’t find a record, check the browse for the parish to look for gaps in coverage or, if not, the inevitable transcription errors.

The British Newspaper Archive now has a total of 53,950,371 pages online (53,458,903 last month).

This month 89 papers had pages added (206 in the previous month). There were 15 (21) new titles. Dates range from 1789 to 1998.

The 11 newspapers with more than 10,000 pages added are

TITLE	YEAR RANGE
Ottawa Free Press (Canada)	1904-1909, 1911-1915
Mirror (Trinidad & Tobago)	1898, 1901-1902, 1904-1911, 1914-1915
Stirling Observer	1991
Belper Express	1992
Birmingham Daily Post	1953
Ellesmere Port Pioneer	1986, 1990
Colonial Standard	1858, 1864, 1866, 1868-1869, 1871, 1873, 1875-1878, 1880-1895
Cork Weekly Examiner	1896-1912
Dominica Guardian	1893-1921
Dominica Chronicle	1910-1915
Irvine Herald	1989

The Summer issue has three feature articles.

FIND YOUR IRISH FAMILY In “Out of the Ashes,” Nicola Morris looks back at the fire at the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922 and explains how a project is giving long-lost documents a new lease of digital life
23ANDME
Debbie Kennett reveals “How to use 23andMe” and make the most of the health and ancestry reports from this testing company.
HOP PICKING
Caroline Roope remembers “The Heyday of Hopping,” the era when many urban ancestors spent their holidays in the hop fields.

Ian Waller, a speaker at the September BIFHSGO conference, explains how to use “Manorial Documents” for English and Welsh research, and Jonathan Scott profiles websites for British Army research. In another article, Scott provides a focus on Aberdeenshire records.

There’s a short item responding to a query about military service in the 90th Winnipeg Battalion Rifles in 1885.

The Treasury re-imagines and reconstructs through digital technologies the Public Record Office of Ireland, a magnificent archive destroyed on June 30th, 1922, in the opening engagement of the Civil War.

For genealogy, the records profiled are the 13-15th century medieval Irish exchequer, 17th-century Cromwellian Surveys of land ownership in Ireland, and a religious census of 1766.

https://virtualtreasury.ie/

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.