Anglo-Celtic Connections

Once again this year the Ontario Genealogical Society, known to some of its friends as Ontario Ancestors, is offering a half-off matching program for membership. Once again I’m looking for someone new who would like to join the OGS to match with me. And, I’m offering to match others. If you’re not an OGS member and would like to be, send me your name and email address. If you’re an OGS member and would like to match with a newbie, send me your name and email address.  The chances of finding a match if you’re a potential new member are excellent.

Send your information to john dot d dot reid at gmail dot com.

Find information about the Grow Our Family program at https://ogs.on.ca/grow-family-campaign/

UPDATE
The list of members wanting to pair is now quite long. Newbies will have no problems finding a match.

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, 2 Nov,  1 pm: Portraits, Biographies and Public History, by Ludmilla Jordanova for Gresham College.
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/portraits-biographies

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

Tuesday 2 Nov, 7:30 pm: Proudly They Served: Researching Canadian Men and Women in the Second World War, 1939-1945 by Glenn Wright for Durham Branch OGS.
https://durham.ogs.on.ca/

Tuesday 2 Nov. 9 pm: Uncovering the lives of your London (England) ancestors, by Cathie Sherwood for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/uncovering-the-lives-of-your-london-england-ancestors/

Wednesday 3 Nov, 2 pm: Investigative Genetic Genealogy – the Use of DNA for Law Enforcement, by Diahan Southard for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/investigative-genetic-genealogy-the-use-of-dna-for-law-enforcement/

Thursday 4 Nov., 7 pm: Second World War- Researching the Canadian Fallen, by Ken McKinlay for OGS.
https://ogs.on.ca/zoom-meetings/november-webinar-ken-mckinlay/

Friday 5 Nov, 2 pm: Say Amen: Going to Church with the Master –Finding the Mother Church, by Char McCargo Bah for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/say-amen-going-to-church-with-the-master-finding-the-mother-church/

Saturday 6 Nov, 2 pm: The Spanish Flu, by Mike Clare for Simcoe County Branch OGS.
https://simcoe.ogs.on.ca/branch-meetings/

 

	Title	Category	Records
	Canada, World War II, Faces of the Second World War, 1941-1945	Military	3,929
	Canada, World War II Newsreels, 1942-1945	Military	106
	UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945	Military	129,017
	Canada, Canadian Airmen of WWI, 1914-1918	Military	13,410

 

The British Newspaper Archive now has a total of 45,747,098 pages online (45,139,078 last month).

This month 88 papers had pages added (118 in the previous month). There were 45 (67) new titles. Dates range from 1726 to 1997

Those with more than 10,000 pages added are:

TITLE	YEARS
Bury Free Press	1995-1997
Edinburgh Evening Dispatch	1886-1892, 1894-1895, 1897
Flintshire Observer	1857-1895, 1897, 1904-1911, 1913-1914
Grantham Journal	1960-1967, 1981-1983, 1994-1996
Illustrated Times	1853-1854
Kentish Weekly Post or Canterbury Journal	1726-1733, 1735-1741, 1743-1764, 1767-1768
Lynn Advertiser	1989, 1991-1992, 1994
Newark Advertiser	1931-1957, 1991-1992
Newmarket Journal	1976-1977, 1994-1997
Scottish Leader	1888, 1890-1893
Spalding Guardian	1881-1884, 1887, 1890, 1892, 1903-1911, 1913-1918, 1920-1930, 1932-1934, 1944-1946, 1948-1952, 1957-1964, 1976, 1978-1979, 1982, 1985, 1995-1997
Stamford Mercury	1916, 1954-1985, 1987
Warminster Herald	1857-1893
Westerham Herald	1883-1889, 1893-1896, 1898-1935
Wolverton Express	1901-1954

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week

Sophisticated English humour

At the Main Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library in the curved part of the ceiling above the entrance.

It reads, “You see, I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”

It’s from episode 10 of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Your Town’s Future Climate

Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi
A new podcast from the TED Audio Collective

Thanks to this week’s contributors. Anonymous, Dalcy, Dianne, Gail, Glenn W, Judith, Karen, Norm, Sheila, Susan, Unknown.

via Persephone.

The latest release from TheGenealogist is 49,552 owner and occupier records from the Lloyd George Domesday Survey — the 1910 Land Survey records for the areas of Barnes, Hampton, Richmond upon Thames, Teddington and Twickenham.

These occupier and ownership records can be searched for using the Master Search at TheGenealogist or by clicking on the pins displayed on TheGenealogist’s MapExplorer™.  Only available online from TheGenealogist, these records enable thoroughly investigating a place in which an ancestor lived even if the streets have undergone massive change in the intervening years.

Scotland, Names of Witches 1658
In this small but spooky collection, you’ll find details on some of those accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland. 117 results.

Scotland, Court & Criminal Database
Unlock criminals and victims in your Scottish family tree with this detail-rich collection. The records include names, occupations, addresses and information about the crimes. Most results are from the latter part of the 18th century and later. 473,288 results.

 

Ancestry has made one of its periodic updates to its Canadian and US newspaper indexes, this time for marriages.

The US index, now with 261,346,523 entries, runs to 2020 while the Canadian with 6,996,403 ends in 1999 according to the title but does include later announcements.

Starting today, for the first time in over a year, I’m away. Expect blogging to be somewhat less than normal for a week.

TNA, the UK National Archives, and Findmypast announce that the 1921 Census for England and Wales will be published online by Findmypast on
6 January 2022.

As with previous releases, the census will first be made available on a pay per vire basis at a cost of £2.50 for every record transcript and 

£3.50 for every individual image. A 10% discount will apply for Findmypast’s Pro subscribers. Visitors to TNA’s facility at Kew will likely receive free access.

Find out more at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/1921-census-online-publication-date-announced/

and

https://www.findmypast.com/blog/family-records/1921-census

Who will you be rushing to research?

I count 114 items added to Canadiana serials so far this month.

Most are niche. The titles of 31 start with “Annual”, 24 with “Report(s),  8 with “Minutes.”  Those are mostly for religious and charitable organizations.

Some of more general interest:

Evening Gazette (Saint John, N.B. ) [January 1, 1889-December 31, 1891]
Fredericton Globe [June 6, 1891-December 16, 1893]
Guardian (Bay Roberts, NL) [January 28, 1910-December 24, 1925]
Star, and Conception Bay Journal [January 1, 1834-October 7, 1840]
The Herald (Saint John, N.B.) [July 14, 1877-Dec. 14 1878]
Victoria weekly times [April 14, 1893-March 30, 1894; April 13, 1894-August 2, 1895]