Sunday Sundries

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Short and Cute Poems

Colonel Blood and the Theft of the Crown Jewels

Findmypast says “timelines will be met” on England and Wales 1921 census despite covid impact

Ottawa Public Library Annual Report
Despite a reduction in revenue from the city of $4million, a saving owing to the pandemic, mainly salary and benefits, meant there was a considerable surplus for the year. $5million of the surplus was allocated in 2021 to help fund the new LAC-OPL building. Read the report and believe nobody ever had anything negative to say about OPL services!

Poland, Gravestones, 1800-2020. MyHeritage made available for free over 4 million cemetery records from gravestones throughout Poland. Records may include the full name of the deceased, date of birth, date of death, place of burial, and more.

The wealth of unattached men and women aged 50 and older.
From 1999 to 2016, unattached women aged 50 and older saw their median wealth holdings grow almost twice as fast as those of unattached men aged 50 and older. The median wealth of couples with no children headed by a man aged 50 or older amounted to $801,500 in 2016, four times the median wealth of $195,000 observed for unattached men aged 50 and older.

The Streets of London
Let’s count our blessings.

Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, Barbara, Celia Lewis, Judith H, Roberta, Ken Hanson, Unknown.

Findmypast adds to British Military Records

The latest additions to FMP’s Britain, Campaign, Gallantry & Long Service Medals & Awards records are:

    • Indian General Service Medals 1854-1895, 1908-1935 and 1936-1939
    • China War Medal 1900
    • Second China War Medal 1857-60
    • General Service Medal 1918-1962
    • India Medal 1895-1902

There are now 30 types of recognition in this collection for dates ranging from 1793 to 2010. British Army Medal Index Cards, 1914-1920 has over 5.4 million entries in the database, the Victoria Cross 1,349.

Scots Guards Service Records 1799-1939 adds 44,940 records for the Second World War as part of the British Army Service Records collection. These records, exclusive to FMP,  range from a couple of pages to complete service histories documented over many different types of army forms and even some photos.

How to Find Kingston-Frontenac Newspapers

Researching with public library resources can be confusing. That goes for newspapers, a resource of growing interest to family historians. Specialist ibrarians can help.
Recognizing that, local history and genealogy librarian Jo Stanbridge from the Kingston Frontenac Public Library has prepared a series of short videos giving advice on using their collection of area newspapers. Kingston newspapers date back to 1810.

If your ancestry is in the area, three videos presently available on YouTube will be of interest.

Documentary Heritage Communities Program Awards 2021/2022

The Documentary Heritage Communities Program (DHCP) grants for 41 projects in local archival and library communities all across Canada are announced. The range of projects funded is a tribute to diversity. Listed below, alphabetically by province and city are the projects funded.

Organization Project name Funding Province City
Métis Nation of Alberta DHCP Application

$50,000

Alberta Edmonton
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre Women of Change: Celebrating Japanese Canadian Leaders

$49,965

British Columbia Burnaby
Adams Lake Indian Band – Title and Rights Archives ALIB Archives Inventory Project 2021–2022

$24,895

British Columbia Chase
Cortes Island Museum & Archives SocietyFootnote2 Unlocking the Archives

$1,340

British Columbia Mansons Landing
Upper Nicola Band Digitization and Migration of Upper Nicola Band Cultural Heritage Collection

$44,148

British Columbia Merritt
Satellite Video Exchange Society 40 Years of Media Art at the Satellite Video Exchange Society

$24,160

British Columbia Vancouver
Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance Filemaker Pro Migration, Cataloguing and Access Project

$16,150

British Columbia Vancouver
Visible Art Society (dba grunt gallery) Transfer, Transcribe, Transcend: Toward an Accessible Online Video Collection

$24,714

British Columbia Vancouver
Western FrontFootnote2 50 years of Western Front: Transfer, Access and Preservation of Performance Art Archives

$49,980

British Columbia Vancouver
Okanagan Indian Band Reclaiming Syilx Language and Culture History

$50,000

British Columbia Vernon
Williams Lake First Nation Williams Lake First Nation: Record, Digitize, and Share Traditional Knowledge and Language

$22,775

British Columbia Williams Lake
Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre Inc. Learning From Our Relatives

$49,972

Manitoba Winnipeg
Société historique de Saint-Boniface Digitizing Videos: Phase 1 – Miscellaneous Collections from the Société historique de Saint-Boniface

$27,494

Manitoba Winnipeg
Winnipeg Architecture Foundation Architecture Foundation Archives, Phase 2

$42,000

Manitoba Winnipeg
Joint Secretariat Illaiqpik – Inuvialuit Game Council Traditional Knowledge Repository

$35,405

Northwest Territories Inuvik
Avon River Heritage Society Preserving and Sharing Avon River Area’s Documentary History

$24,374

Nova Scotia Avondale / Newport Landing
Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth Restoration of Mi’kmaq Language Scripture and Prayer Books

$2,450

Nova Scotia Halifax
Kitikmeot Heritage SocietyFootnote2 Preserving the Past for Future Generations: Digitizing the Documentary Heritage of Remote Northern Communities

$47,973

Nunavut Cambridge Bay
Kitikmeot Heritage Society Tagging Inuit Knowledge: Facilitating Inuit Engagement with Digital Heritage Resources

$54,307

Nunavut Cambridge Bay
Canadian Slovenian Historical Society CSHS Descriptive Database Project

$5,053

Ontario Etobicoke
Historic 1000 Islands Village Foundation Gananoque Archive Collection Project

$43,023

Ontario Gananoque
Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation Digitizing and Preserving Historic Images of Canada: CHPF’s 20th Anniversary Photographic Retrospective of Founding Members

$22,158

Ontario Mississauga
Canadian Council of ArchivesFootnote2 Archival Monetary Appraisal Forum

$50,000

Ontario Ottawa
Living History Algoma Shingwauk and Beyond: Survivor and Intergenerational Memories

$45,000

Ontario Sault Ste. Marie
Inuit Art FoundationFootnote2 Digitizing Inuit Artistic Heritage

$50,000

Ontario Toronto
Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre Mitigating Risk: Preserving Magnetic Tape at the OJA

$48,900

Ontario Toronto
The Canadian Lesbian and Gay ArchivesFootnote2 The ArQuives Processing Project: Part 4

$49,900

Ontario Toronto
Société d’histoire de Drummond (SHD)Footnote2 Les écrits de notre mémoire Project: Digitization of the Newspapers La Parole and The Spokesman (1926–1970)

$22,566

Quebec Drummondville
Brome County Historical SocietyFootnote1 Preservation Project: Textual Records of Brome County (1790–1914)

$34 501

Quebec Knowlton
Centre d’archives régional des ÎlesFootnote1 Les Îles connectées au continent Project: Processing for the Purposes of Providing Access to and Preserving Audiovisual Archives

$60,000

Quebec L’Étang-du-Nord
Musée des ondes Emile Berliner Compo, Herbert S. Berliner and The History of Canadian Music and Radio Broadcasting

$49,964

Quebec Montréal
McCord Stewart MuseumFootnote2 Alexander Henderson Exposition

$35,904

Quebec Montréal
Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural InstituteFootnote1 Investing in Eeyou Istchee Archival Heritage

$60 000

Quebec Oujé-Bougoumou
Monastère des Augustines: Lieu de mémoire habité Inventorying to Provide Access to an Extraordinary Heritage: The Audiovisual Heritage of Canada’s Augustinian Sisters

$44,016

Quebec Québec
Société historique du SaguenayFootnote2 Web Accessibility and Improved Conservation of the Société historique du Saguenay’s Collection (P002)

$50,000

Quebec Saguenay
Musée régional de RimouskiFootnote2 Digitization of the Rita Chevron Photographic Collection #2

$8,190

Quebec Rimouski
ExporailFootnote2 Preservation, Description and Digital Access to the Photo Albums of Joseph W. Heckman

$36,532

Quebec Saint-Constant
Exporail Final Processing of the William Cornelius Van Horne Series from the Canadian Pacific Railway Company Fonds

$23,493

Quebec Saint-Constant
Mouillepied Historical Society Processing and Conservation of the Archives of Royal Canadian Legion Branch 68 in Saint Lambert

$19,339

Quebec Saint-Lambert
Société historique de la SaskatchewanFootnote2 Digitization of the L’Eau Vive Collection, 1971-1998

$43,249

Saskatchewan Regina
Council of Yukon First Nations CYFN Archives Access Project

$51,993

Yukon Whitehorse

Footnotes
Note 1
Multi-year projects starting in 2019/2020
Note 2
Multi-year projects starting in 2020/2021

Findmypast Adds Norfolk, Churchyard Graves and Memorials Image Browse

This first tranche of grave and memorial photographs from churchyards in Norfolk consists of 47,278 images from 290 cemeteries. They are the work of Norfolk resident Louise Cocker.

This is a browse collection so not searchable by personal name. With just 3 images from Appleton and Southrepps Burial Ground that’s not much of an issue. The media number of images per cemetery is 140 and you need to read the names of the monument, frequently weathered. The largest number of images is 1,497 from Aylsham Cemetery.

Here’s the complete list

Place Cemetery Image count
Acle Acle Cemetery 432
Alby Alby 130
Aldborough Aldborough 389
Alderford Alderford 99
Antingham Antingham 256
Appleton Appleton 3
Ashby Ashby 181
Ashmanhaugh Ashmanhaugh 110
Attlebridge Attlebridge 94
Aylmerton Aylmerton 325
Aylsham Aylsham Cemetery 1479
Baconsthorpe Baconsthorpe 205
Baconsthorpe Baconsthorpe Cemetery 67
Bagthorpe Bagthorpe 52
Bale Bale 176
Banningham Banningham 198
Barmer Barmer 23
Barney Barney 236
Barningham Winter Barningham Winter 114
Bawdeswell Bawdeswell 108
Bawdeswell Bawdeswell Cemetery 173
Beeston St Lawrence Beeston St Lawrence 114
Beetley Beetley 208
Beighton Beighton 193
Belaugh Belaugh 94
Belaugh Belaugh Cemetery 23
Bessingham Bessingham 80
Billingford (Near Dereham) Billingford (Near Dereham) 205
Billockby Billockby 37
Bintree Bintree 251
Bircham Newton Bircham Newton 43
Bircham Tofts Bircham Tofts (Ruin) 7
Bixley Bixley 57
Blickling Blickling 324
Blickling Blickling Cemetery 69
Bodham Bodham 269
Booton Booton 128
Bracon Ash Bracon Ash 228
Bradfield Bradfield 122
Bradfield Bradfield Congregational Chapel 118
Bramerton Bramerton 211
Brampton Brampton 148
Brancaster Brancaster Cemetery 320
Brandiston Brandiston 66
Brandon Parva Brandon Parva 134
Braydeston Braydeston 158
Briningham Briningham 170
Brisley Brisley 246
Brundall Brundall Cemetery 201
Brunstead Brunstead 136
Buckenham Buckenham 83
Burgh Castle Burgh Castle Cemetery 76
Burgh Near Aylsham Burgh Near Aylsham,Norfolk 86
Burgh Parva Burgh Parva 222
Burnham Sutton Burnham Sutton Ruins 4
Buxton Buxton 594
Bylaugh Bylaugh 84
Caister Caister Jewish Cemetery 11
Calthorpe Calthorpe 109
Cantley Cantley 249
Carleton St Peter Carleton St Peter 101
Cawston Cawston 238
Cawston Cawston Cemetery 440
Claxton Claxton 148
Cockthorpe Cockthorpe 48
Colney Norwich Colney Norwich 137
Costessey Costessey Cemetery 337
Cromer Cromer Old Town Chapel Cemetery 308
Dilham Dilham,Norfolk 222
Docking Docking Cemetery 31
Downham Market Downham Market 169
Dunton Dunton 84
Earlham Norwich Earlham Norwich 179
East Barsham East Barsham 175
East Bilney East Bilney 148
East Rudham East Rudham 109
East Rudham East Rudham Cemetery 258
East Somerton East Somerton 5
Easton Easton 263
Edgefield Edgefield 335
Edgefield Edgefield Ruins 65
Edingthorpe Edingthorpe 133
Elsing Elsing 242
Felbrigg Felbrigg 137
Felthorpe Felthorpe 246
Field Dalling Field Dalling 281
Fishley Fishley 60
Foxley Foxley 144
Framingham Earl Framingham Earl 269
Framingham Pigot Framingham Pigot 288
Freethorpe Freethorpe 233
Frettenham Frettenham 215
Fulmodeston Fulmodeston 75
Fulmodeston Fulmodeston Ruin 56
Garvestone Garvestone 268
Gillingham All Saints Gillingham All Saints Ruin 171
Gimingham Gimingham 200
Gimingham Gimingham Cemetery 137
Glandford Glandford 85
Great Hautbois Great Hautbois(St. Theobald)Norfolk 111
Great Plumstead Great Plumstead 244
Great Ryburgh Great Ryburgh 196
Great Snoring Great Snoring 211
Great Witchingham Great Witchingham 251
Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth Colby Gate Burial Ground 11
Great Yarmouth Great Yarmouth Dissenters Graveyard 8
Great Yarmouth Jewish Great Yarmouth Jewish Cemetery 23
Greater Burnley Greater Burnley 66
Gressenhall Gressenhall,Norfolk 439
Guestwick Guestwick 94
Gunton Gunton 56
Hainford Hainford 209
Hargham Hargham 51
Hassingham Hassingham 101
Haveringland Haveringland 112
Helhoughton Helhoughton Cemetery 85
Hempstead Near Happisburgh Hempstead Near Happisburgh 119
Hempstead(Near Holt) Hempstead(Near Holt)Norfolk 155
Hempton Hempton 16
Hevingham Hevingham 591
Heydon Heydon 224
Hindolveston Hindolveston (New Church) St George 16
Hoe Hoe,Norfolk 136
Horningtoft Horningtoft 116
Horsey Horsey 181
Horsham St Faiths Horsham St Faiths Cemetery 232
Houghton St Giles Houghton St Giles Chapel of Reconciliation 113
Houghton St Giles Houghton St Giles Slipper and Holy Spirit Chapels 18
Hunworth Hunworth 111
Ingham Ingham 375
Ingworth Ingworth 154
Irstead Irstead 145
Kettlestone Kettlestone 139
Kimberley Kimberley 185
Kirstead Kirstead 151
Lammas Lammas 215
Langham Langham 239
Langley Langley 152
Langley Langley Old Chapel 47
Lessingham Lessingham 141
Letheringsett Letheringsett 191
Letheringsett Letheringsett Cemetery 48
Limpenhoe Limpenhoe 171
Little Barningham Little Barningham 83
Little Massingham Little Massingham 196
Little Melton Little Melton 272
Little Snoring Little Snoring 157
Little Witchingham Little Witchingham 22
Longham Longham 248
Mannington Mannington 16
Marlingford Marlingford 224
Marsham Marsham 358
Matlaske Matlaske 89
Mautby Mautby 190
Melton Constable Melton Constable 156
Metton Metton 80
Morton on the Hill Morton on the Hill 76
Moulton St Mary Moulton St Mary 117
Narford Narford 87
Neatishead Baptist Neatishead Baptist 142
Necton Necton Cemetery 108
New Buckenham New Buckenham Cemetery 254
Newton by Castle Acre Newton by Castle Acre 78
North Barningham North Barningham 22
North Barsham North Barsham 66
North Burlingham St Andrew North Burlingham St Andrew 224
North Burlingham St Peter North Burlingham St Peter 52
Norwich Old Tabernacle Site Norwich Old Tabernacle Site 6
Norwich Quakers Norwich Quakers Burial Ground 168
Norwich St Bartholomew Norwich St Bartholomew Ruin 16
Norwich St George Colegate Norwich Norwich St George Colegate Norwich 132
Norwich St George Tombland Norwich St George Tombland 86
Norwich St Giles Norwich St Giles 107
Norwich St Gregory Norwich St Gregory 22
Norwich St Martin At Palace Norwich St Martin At Palace 67
Norwich St Peter Mancroft Norwich St Peter Mancroft 216
Norwich,St Clement,Colegate Norwich,St Clement,Colegate,Norfolk 51
Norwich,St Edmund,Fishergate Norwich,St Edmund,Fishergate,Norfolk 12
Old Catton Old Catton Cemetery 132
Oulton Oulton 225
Oulton Congregational Chapel Oulton Congregational Chapel 39
Oxnead Oxnead 64
Oxwick Oxwick 27
Panxworth Panxworth 40
Paston Paston 267
Plumstead Plumstead 94
Potter Heigham Potter Heigham 473
Rackheath Rackheath 196
Raf Coltishall-Scottow Raf Coltishall-Scottow Cemetery 244
Reepham Reepham Cemetery 738
Reepham & Kerdiston Reepham & Kerdiston Cemetery 82
Repps with Bastwick Repps with Bastwick 268
Ridlington Ridlington 123
Ringland Ringland 191
Rougham Rougham 179
Roughton Roughton 260
Runhall Runhall 122
Runham Runham 190
Salle Salle 189
Saxlingham Saxlingham 104
Sco Ruston Sco Ruston 51
Scottow Scottow 198
Sharrington Sharrington 133
Shereford Shereford 81
Sheringham Sheringham 25
Shipdham Shipdham 301
Sidestrand Sidestrand 182
Sisland Sisland 87
Skeyton Skeyton 191
Sloley Sloley 240
Smallburgh Smallburgh,Norfolk 228
South Acre South Acre 73
Southrepps Southrepps Burial Ground 3
Southwood Southwood Ruins 13
Spixworth Spixworth 260
Sporle Sporle 513
Sprowston,Norwich Sprowston,Norwich 344
Stalham New Stalham New Cemetery 253
Stibbard Stibbard 251
Stiffkey Stiffkey 354
Stockton Stockton 133
Stody Stody 113
Stratton St Michael Stratton St Michael 243
Stratton Strawless Stratton Strawless 245
Suffield Suffield 177
Surlingham,St Saviour Surlingham,St Saviour (Ruin) 7
Sustead Sustead 112
Swafield Swafield 138
Swannington Swannington 168
Swanton Abbott Swanton Abbott 285
Swanton Morley Swanton Morley Cemetery 78
Swanton Novers Swanton Novers 209
Tatterford Tatterford 101
Tattersett Tattersett 58
Themelthorpe Themelthorpe 47
Thompson Thompson 247
Thornage Thornage 279
Thorpe Market Thorpe Market 209
Thorpe-Next-Haddiscoe Thorpe-Next-Haddiscoe 100
Threxton Threxton 84
Thrigby Thrigby 76
Thurgarton Thurgarton 125
Thurne Thurne 209
Thurning Thurning 152
Thursford Thursford 73
Thursford Thursford Cemetery 113
Thuxton Thuxton 102
Thwaite(Near Alby) Thwaite(Near Alby) 117
Titchwell Titchwell 149
Tivetshall St Mary Tivetshall St Mary Ruin 123
Trimingham Trimingham 238
Trowse Trowse Cemetery 186
Tunstall Tunstall Ruins 36
Tunstead Tunstead 348
Tuttington Tuttington 136
Twyford Twyford 133
Walcott Walcott 235
Walsingham (Little) Walsingham(Little) Anglican Shine 93
Walsingham (Little) Walsingham(Little) Guild of All Souls 11
Walsingham (Little) Walsingham(Little) Methodist 9
Walsingham (Little) Walsingham(Little) the Annunciation 12
Warham All Saints Warham All Saints 158
Warham St Mary Warham St Mary 152
Waterden Waterden 39
Waxham Waxham 110
Weasenham St Peter Weasenham St Peter 215
Welborne Welborne 185
Wells Next the Sea Wells Next the Sea Old Cemetery 390
Wells Quakers Wells Quakers 28
West Barsham West Barsham 66
West Beckham(Ruins) West Beckham(Ruins)Norfolk 111
West Caister West Caister 10
West Raynham West Raynham Ruins 47
West Somerton West Somerton 251
Westwick Westwick 152
Weybourne Weybourne Cemetery 280
Whinburgh Whinburgh 166
Whissonsett Whissonsett 461
Wickhampton Wickhampton 117
Wicklewood Wicklewood 299
Wickmere Wickmere 200
Wiggenhall St Peter Wiggenhall St Peter 19
Wighton Wighton 191
Wighton Wighton Cemetery 72
Witton Near Walsham Witton Near Walsham 205
Wood Dalling Wood Dalling 241
Worstead Worstead 265
Worstead Worstead Cemetery 239
Worthing Worthing 106
Wroxham Wroxham Cemetery Norfok 149

With 540 parishes and more cemeteries in Norfolk, there are plenty more to come!

Findmypast.com 20% Discount

Most people who research UK ancestry find unique databases on findmypast.com/. It has all the same databases as findmypast.co.uk, ones you won’t find elsewhere. A FMP subscription also gives access to the complete collection of British newspapers in the British Newspaper Archive.

If you’d like to try it there’s an opportunity to save 20% on subscriptions to findmypast.com ending on Saturday 15 May. 

The discount is for new and returning (lapsed) subscribers only. 

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London Remembers

For Wednesday’s BIFHSGO London SIG meeting on Zoom we had suggested searching a topic of interest on London Remembers.  The aim of the website is to document all the memorials in London. That’s the plaques, monuments, statues, fountains, etc, that commemorate a person, an event, a building.
It has 210 mentions for Canada, 109 for Canadian, 122 Montreal, 13 Ottawa, 183 Toronto, 7 Winnipeg, 2 Saskatoon, 0 Calgary, 41 Vancouver – most related to the sinking of the SS Vancouver. 

Does your community have a website that aims to capture all memorials? If so please post a link in the comments.

Ancestry Updates Modern Death Indexes

As mentioned on 2 April, Ancestry was getting behind Findmypast and MyHeritage in their modern UK death indexes. As of 10 May Ancestry has:

England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2019  with 5,486,849 records. That’s an update from 191,625 to 337,640 index records for 2019 and from 184,548  to 267,155 records for 2018.

Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2020 now has 752,902 records.

These are transcriptions typically giving name, gender, age, birth date, last residence, postal code district, and death date from civic records and funeral homes, published with data from GreyPower Deceased Data compiled by Wilmington Millennium.

FamilySearch Updates

Here are the latest updated catalogue entries for UK and Ireland (although there are none for Ireland or Scotland)

Title Records Last Updated
England, Hertfordshire, Marriage Bonds, 1682-1837 3,637 May 11, 2021
England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988 1,967,944 May 11, 2021
England, Herefordshire Bishop’s Transcripts, 1583-1898 1,449,492 May 11, 2021
England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920 100,093 May 11, 2021
England, Lancashire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1746-1799 3,392 May 11, 2021
England, Essex Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1971 106,912 May 10, 2021
England, Gloucestershire Non-Conformist Church Records, 1642-1996 133,122 May 10, 2021
England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1574-1885 71,717 May 10, 2021
Wales, Marriage Bonds, 1650-1900 207,779 May 3, 2021

More on Identification of the remains of Warrant Officer John Gregory

Thanks to two helpful readers I was able to get a view of the recent article in Polar Record reporting on the DNA identification a Frankin Expedition crew member.
Y-DNA was extracted from a molar found at site NgLj-3 at Erebus Bay, King William Island, identified on a map here on page 10.
There was a perfect STR match at all 19 markers with a person identified genealogically as a descendant of John Gregory. Unsurprisingly, using Witt Athey’s Predictor the Y-haplogroup is R1b.
Most markers are exactly on the modal number of repeats. The largest deviation is for DYS576 which is 4 below the modal and occurs in less than 1% of samples according to https://yhrd.org/tools/marker/DYS576.
The paper estimates the odds are 47,030 more likely that there is a paternal relationship than not.
Mitochondrial DNA is also mentioned but no quantitative results given. Nor are results, even haplogroups given for other Y-DNA analysis.
The article also includes a facial reconstruction previously published here based on a skull, not on DNA.