Anglo-Celtic Connections

I hope like me you enjoyed some of the presentations made this weekend as part of the History for Ukraine fundraiser.
If you’re quick you may still have the opportunity to view them in replay on YouTube. They are divided into four parts, see the list below. You’ll have to judge where within you’ll find the presentation of interest. They are mostly in the order given although it was occasionally disrupted. The ones I’ve watched and enjoyed are highlighted — that’s no slight on the others, just my choice at the times available to me.

PART 1

Earl Charles Spencer: The White Ship
Phillipa Gregory: The Quiet 600 Years
Charlotte Gauthier: Resistance to Ottoman Expansion in the 15th Century Balkans and Central Europe
Susie Lennox: Body Snatching
Dr. Cat Jarman: The Viking Age Origins of the Rus
Dr. Janina Ramirez: Finding Women Then; Empowering Women Now
Dr. Saul David: ‘SBS: Silent Warriors’, the formation and early missions of the Special Boat Service in World War II (starts at 2:16)
Katherine Carter: Churchill at Chartwell
Dr. Kirsteen Mackenzie: Mythbusting the Jacobites
Annette Burke Lyttle: Finding American Quaker Records
Dr. Miranda Kaufmann: The story of Edward Swarthye, a BlackTudor
Sarah Wise: Streets Coloured Black and Blue: Charles Booth’s Notebooks and the Revelation of London Poverty (starts at 4:53)
Dr. Catherine Flinn: Urban Trauma & Recovery
Dr. Blaine Bettinger: DNA?? I’m so Lost!
Julia Laite: Trafficking in Times of Conflict
Rebecca Rideal: Killer Women
Nick Barratt: The seige of Saucy Castle
Vadim Aristov: Russian historical myths about Kyivan Rus
Dr. Gabrielle Storey: Ruling Sexualities: A History of the ‘Other’ in Royal Families

PART 2

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb: How Can We Recover The Lost Lives of Women
Cat Irving: Surgery Hall
Dr. Caroline Dodds Pennock: Indigenous American Discovery of Europe
Professor Kate Williams: Mary Queen of Scots
Dr. Kate Lister: Victorian Vibrators
Dr. Nicola Tallis: Crown of Blood: the Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
D. Joshua Taylor: The Power of Family History: Why Studying Your Past Matters Worldwide
Jen Baldwin: Ethnic Organizations in the US: Preserving our Ancestor’s Heritage in the New World

PART 3

Judy G Russell: The Rest of the Story
Cheri Hudson Passey: Where in the World? How to Tackle a New to You Research Location
Michelle Chubenko: Digital Genealogy in Ukraine
Fiona Brooker: With a Grain of Salt: (Dis)Proving Family Stories
Helen Good: The Globe Theatre and Star Chamber
Amy Johnson Crow: Finding Ancestors without Going in Circles: The WANDER Research Method
Maureen Taylor: Photos of Immigration
Dr. Jayne Persian: A Ukrainian Family History: War and Resettlement
Kelly Cornwell: Transportation to Tasmania
Margaret Roberts: Lottie Dod, the world’s first female sporting superstar
Helen Shields: Auntie Kate talks about her life and photo album
Rachel Croucher: German Ancestry
Professor Elaine Chaus: Ukraine and Canada (problem with slides)
Professor Tanya Evans: Importance of Family History in Australia

PART 4

Shauna Hicks: A Look at Ukrainian People in Australia
Dave Annal: Fact From Fiction: What the great 19th century novels can tell us about our ancestors
Michelle Patient: A Stitch Through Time
Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan: Feeding Minds as Well as Bodies: The Design of Communal ‘British Restaurants’ in World War 2
Nathen Armin: Princes in the Tower Mystery
Dr. Kate Strasdin: Lost Voices
Helen Carr: John of Gaunt: The Red Prince
Else Churchill: 20th Century Genealogy Research in England and Wales
Dr. Wanda Wyporska: Dancing with the Devil: Tales from Polish witchcraft trials
Tracy Borman: Crown & Sceptre: 1,000 Years of Kings and Queens
Dr. Caroline Shenton: National Treasures: Saving the Nation’s Art in World War II
Dr. Fern Riddell: It’s a Bit Queer Here: LGBTAQ+ History
Simon Radchenko: Lessons taken from pre-Historic art of Ukraine.

If you have trouble connecting try the Facebook links from https://historyforukraine.co/

If you do enjoy one or more please consider making a donation, I suggest at this time to the Canadian Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

24 London Hills

A different perspective on global climate change
Watch to the end

UK’s rainfall records rescued by volunteer army
16 days to key in 5.4 million individual rainfall observations, each keyed four times for quality control purposes. What’s the lesson for LAC Co-Lab Challenges?

Statues have their own history

Find a Grave Index Updates
With the March update, Ancestry now has 214,754,024 index records in their Find a Grave collection. Over 109,000 are added for the UK and Ireland and over 39,000 for Canada.

Nobody does it better

History Slam 207: Navigating Online (Mis)Information

Thanks to this week’s contributors. Ann Burns, Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Don Ross, Gloria Tubman, Lynne Willoughby, Rick Roberts, Teresa, Toni, Unknown.

On 30 March 2022 from 11 am to 5 pm EDT (4 pm to 10 pm Uk time), as a fundraiser for the British Red Cross Society’s DEC Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal. railway historians will live stream a series of 30-minute presentations. There’s a UK focus. Find the schedule at:

https://historyforukraine.co/railway-history-for-ukraine/

 

 

Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions
Nearly 4,000 transcript and image records are added to this collection from: Ealing, St Mary; Fulham, St Thomas of Canterbury; Isleworth, Quaker Meeting House; Littleton, St Mary Magdalene; Sunbury, Old Burial Ground; Teddington, St Mary; The Walled Garden, Sunbury. There are now 69,134 MIs in the collection.

Military Nurses 1856-1994
Nearly 9,000 transcript records are added to this collection. These mainly focus on military nurses who served in the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Reserve) and the Territorial Force Nursing Service during the First World War.

The information varies considerably. Those I checked were quite sparse. The collection now totals 19,731 records.

Indian Navy Records Of Service 1840-1947
This transcript set, 1,802 records sourced from the British Library, complements the Indian Army Records Of Service 1900-1947. You may possibly be able to discover crucial information such as rank, regiment, and time served.

 

Title: Arnprior McNab/Braeside Archives Update

Speakers: Kristen Mercier / Irene Robillard

Details: The Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives is excited to deliver an overview of their work over the last year, including the completion of two major projects: updates to the birth, marriage and death abstracts, and the digitization of local newspapers up to 1975! The Archives has also launched and improved tools for researchers, such as the digital War Memorial, places of interest maps, blogs and much more. A demonstration on how to search and browse the website will be provided!

When: 26 Mar 2022 at 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this Zoom meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcuirqD4rE9Hybd93oeeoebBg1116Mad7

All Ottawa Branch monthly presentations are open to the public at no charge.

 

On 22 March MyHeritage added 118,637 records for Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg Burial Records to its Death, Burial, Cemetery & Obituaries holdings. They are from Brookside, St. Vital and Transcona Cemeteries and include name of the deceased, date of burial, name of the cemetery, date of death, information about the grave and burial order number.

These records are free at the Winnipeg Municipal Cemeteries Branch website at https://www.winnipeg.ca/cemeteries/default.stm where they require separate searches at each of the three cemeteries.

 

I’m hoping there’s a typo in the program for this most interesting event. It gives times for New York as EST, but its 4 hours different from GMT until the UK moves clocks forward to summertime on Sunday morning.

I confess to not having heard of most of the headliner speakers. Some of the talks I’d most like to hear are in the early morning in Ottawa (and its suburb called New York!)

Find the program here and an abbreviated version with times in four time zones here.

The event gets underway on Saturday at 8 am Ottawa time streaming on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO0KMC1jECX4fr0u3fopQBQ

Unfortunately, Canada has no profile and the only talk with a Canadian connection, Professor Elaine Chaus on Ukraine and Canada is scheduled at 2 am on Sunday morning!

There is no registration fee, The event is a fundraiser for the British Red Cross Society. Those of us in Canada might prefer to donate to the Canadian Red Cross  Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal.

I’m fortunate to have a family doctor, one that I trust. For routine monitoring and common issues she’s good. She refers patients to a specialist when needed. That’s as it should be as, good as she is I wouldn’t want her performing heart surgery.

Library and Archives Canada management think differently. Try and get expert advice on newspapers or maps and LAC offers a general practitioner. That was not always the case and there are legacy items, like finding aids, that can be helpful. However, many of those are only available in print versions meaning, with current restrictions on entry to the building, you’re faced with a minimum two-week delay just to see the finding aid.

A new interactive map from Historic England allows you to search and explore historical aerial imagery of England captured over the last 100 years. The Aerial Photograph Explorer map includes over 400,000 digitized photos from Historic England’s aerial photo collections.

Careful. This is a mega rabbit hole

COMMENT: At the same site are a collection of photos taken from ground level. I was happy to find this image of the mouth of the River Yare in 1947 showing the parade of herring drifters in and out as I remember them.

Today, 23 March is World Meteorological Day as proclaimed by the World Meteorological Organization. While meteorology, the science of weather and the atmosphere, may not feature in your family history it could. There are 3,165 entries in Ancestry’s Canada Voters Lists, 1935-1980 collection with occupation meteo*.

More likely of interest is the weather on a special day, birthday, graduation, marriage or a memorable extreme weather event, like the 1998 Ice Storm, or one that changed the course of someone’s life.

Historical weather data for Canada may be found starting at https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html

For the UK check the Daily Weather Report /Daily Weather Summary (METDLA/6/1/1) back to 1860 along with other resources at the Complete Archive from the Digital Library and Archives of the British Meteorological Office.

Scottish prison registers

ScotlandsPeople now have admission entries of thousands of prisoners indexed to be searched using the prison registers search page. People from a broad range of backgrounds can be found in the prison registers and there is a wealth of information in these volumes for the genealogist and social historian alike.

The first set of released records concern admissions to Perth Prison between 1867-1879 and 1888-1921 which can be searched for free on ScotlandsPeople and the images viewed and downloaded for a small fee. This equates to over 50,000 indexed entries for Perth Prison over this period and includes details of both male and female prisoners.

Bibliography of Edinburgh History

You know of New Edinburgh, Ottawa. What about Old Edinburgh?

The Old Edinburgh Club is Edinburgh, Scotland’s local history society, concerned with all aspects of the city’s history and development.

They have a free online Bibliography of Edinburgh History to help anyone interested in exploring the city’s rich heritage, culture, economy, politics and society across the city. Inevitably, much of the history of Edinburgh as capital city is that of Scotland itself. The content ranges in time from prehistory to modern times.

Explore the Bibliography