Anglo-Celtic Connections

Of Library and Archives Canada’s Co-Lab Challenges progress is reported on one project since last month.

Women in the War, with 70 images, remains 0% complete.

First World War Posters, with 140 images, is 91% complete, 83% last month.

Arthur Lismer’s Children’s Art Classes remains 0% complete.

John Freemont Smith remains 94% complete.

Canadian National Land Settlement Association remains 98% complete.

Molly Lamb Bobak remains 88% complete.

Diary of François-Hyacinthe Séguin remains 98% complete.

George Mully: moments in Indigenous communities remains 0% complete.

Correspondence regarding First Nations veterans returning after the First World War remains 99% complete.

Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 remains 96% complete.

Legendary Train Robber and Prison Escapee Bill Miner remains 99% complete.

Japanese-Canadians: Second World War, remains 3% complete.

The Call to Duty: Canada’s Nursing Sisters remains 92% complete.

Projects that remain 100% complete are no longer reported here.

Other Co-Lab activities not part of the Challenges may have happened; seemingly we’ll never know.

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

Tuesday 21 Dec, 8 pm: Uncovering Immigrant Origins Through Cluster Research, by Dana Palmer for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/uncovering-immigrant-origins-through-cluster-research/

Tuesday 21 Dec, 2:30 pm: What is WeRelate and How Can I Use It?, by Cynthia Theusch for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/5834650

Wednesday 22 Dec, 2 pm: Our Neaderthal Genetic Ancestry, by Ugo Perego for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/our-neanderthal-genetic-ancestry/

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is seeking next of kin for soldiers who fell in war for whom new memorials are being made. Could you be connected to any of these individuals? The 33 surnames are:

BANNISTER, BOOTH, BROOKER, CHISHOLM, CUNNINGHAM, DAVIDSON, DEANS, DUNCAN, DUXBURY, GRANT, GREENWOOD, GREENWOOD, GRIFFITH. HALSALL, HARRISON. HARVEY, HEADDEN, HUNTER, JACKSON, LEATHER, MARTIN, McCARRON, MEECHAN (Served as Peter Harrison), MINTO, NICHOLLS, PEGRAM, RITCHIE, SHORTT (Nurse), SIMPSON, SMITH, SUMPNER, TIDBURY, WISEMAN.

The detailed list is at https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/news/appeal-for-relatives-14-december-2021/

None were serving with the Canadian military.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all benefit from competition,  the lifeblood of commerce in any field. Congratulations to founder and CEO Gilad Japhet and the whole MyHeritage team on reaching a significant business milestone.

Read more at https://blog.myheritage.com/2021/12/myheritage-surpasses-1-million-annual-subscribers/

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Life in 1920s Ireland: Silent Films

http://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/world/europe/silent-film-ireland-discovery.html

From The Conversation Canada
This is one of the sources I regularly use in compiling Sunday Sundries. Some recent articles are:

Lab-grown meats and cow-free dairy can meet the demand for protein and help address climate change

If companies want net-zero carbon offices, they need to focus on building materials

Support and collaboration with health-care providers can help people make health decisions

How effective are vaccines against omicron? An epidemiologist answers 6 questions

Why we still fall for influencers, salesmen and politicians who lie

What else is on The Conversation? Find out at https://theconversation.com/ca and check out the other national editions.

Hampshire records coming to Ancestry

Multiculturalism @50 and the Promise of a Just Society
From the Association for Canadian Studies, a special issue of the series Canadian Issues.

Thanks to this week’s contributors. Ann Burns, Anonymous., Brenda Turner, Chuck Buckley, Donna, Irene Robillard, gail benjafield, Glenn W., Unknown.

Once again, as every year since 2010, I’m taking a bit of a break. Expect to find daily scheduled Yuletide R&R posts with some new and many “classic” items for your amusement.

To review the posts from previous years go to anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca and search for Yuletide

In the January 2022  issue, the feature articles are

The 1921 census — Alex Cox from Findmypast answers your questions about the eagerly-anticipated release

Websites to watch— Jonathan Scott looks at what we can expect from the biggest family history websites in 2022

Women of the future — When women went wild — Julie Peakman on how the 1920s changed the lives of our female ancestors.

Also in this issue:

Family hero Martin Caldicott’s great uncle captained a daring sea rescue in 1951

Eureka moment An old family Bible helped Paul Cooper find his grandmother’s father

Plus: News of speciality websites you probably haven’t heard about, the best websites for RAF ancestors, finding Scottish school records, a focus on Ayrshire, how to use RootsMagic 8 and more

Another FMP exclusive — this week Coventry Workhouse Deaths and Baptisms.

The 8,292 deaths are from 1845 to 1943, surnames are Abbott to Youngham.

The transcripts include name, birth year, death year, death date, age, address and burial arrangements – usually “Buried by Friends or Family” with the occasional mention of Coventry Cemetery otherwise unspecified.

The 1,778 baptism transcriptions from 1853 to 1930 are for surnames Adams to Young. The information includes the name, year of birth and baptism, date of birth, mother’s name, whether legitimate or illegitimate. There is a space for the father’s name but none of the transcripts I viewed included that.

Also released this week by FMP are 66,304 United States, California Immigration Office Special Inquiry Records. The information is for Chinese immigrants arriving in San Francisco and very sparse – name, date and ship name.

The Ontario Ancestors  (OGS) Virtual Conference is to be held June 24- 26, 2022.

The conference theme, The Past, The Present, and The Future, provides plenty of scope for creativity.

Could you be a speaker for one or more 40 minute live presentations?

The deadline for the submission of lecture proposals is Sunday, 30 January 2022 at 11:59 PM EST.

Find out more and how to apply at https://conference2022.ogs.on.ca/

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Wednesday 15 December 2021 to contain 283,149,543 unique entries, increased from  282,788,464  at the previous update.

Years with changes of more than 10,000 records since the last update are: for births 1986-87, 1990-92; for marriages 1987, 1989-91; for deaths 1989-91.

Looking back over the past year, the net addition to the database is 5,168,186 records, most in the period 1986 to 1991.