LAC Co-Lab Update for March

There are currently 3,705 items in Collection Search identified as Co-Lab-only contributions. What happened? Last month, there were 3,875 contributions!

The reporting format has changed. Two projects among Library and Archives Canada’s Co-Lab Challenges appear to be reporting progress.

Treaty 9. is now 26% tagged. Previously 0 % complete.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary remains 47% complete.

Expo67 is 7% complete, up from 3 % last month.

Summiting Mount Logan in 1925: Fred Lambart’s personal account of the treacherous climb and descent of the highest peak in Canada remains 13% complete.

Women in the War remains 1% complete.

Arthur Lismer’s Children’s Art Classes is 1% complete.

John Freemont Smith remains 93% complete.

Canadian National Land Settlement Association remains 98% complete.

Molly Lamb Bobak remains 95% complete.

Diary of François-Hyacinthe Séguin remains 99% 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 95% 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 94% compete.

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

What’s New and Exciting at MyHeritage

At the recent RootsTech, MyHeritage Founder and CEO Gilad Japhet presented another talk in what has become an annual tradition. He started by discussing a development in his genealogy that added 100 people to his family tree using DNA recovered from an envelope. He then covered recent developments and what to look forward to from the company, including a forthcoming arrangement with FamilyTreeDNA.

Military Monday: World War Graphic History

Glenn Wright’s well-attended presentation, Hidden Treasures: Canadian Military Records Seen and Unseen, to OGS Ottawa Branch on Saturday was far too rich to summarize here. Become an Ottawa Branch member to view the recording now posted.

Toward the end, Glenn mentioned the  new to me website World War Graphic History. By Matt Barrett,  historian, animator, illustrator, and caricaturist, it details the biographies, experiences and personalities of each and every CEF battalion commander.

While many give the names as header, others are cryptic: The Prohibitionist; The Orangeman; The Physician; The Public Defender; The Elder; The Exonerated; The Bankrupt; The Indian Fighter; The Man Among Boys; The Labour Man; The Independent; The Police Chief; The Bug; The Nazi-Watcher, The Home Wrecker, The Broken-Hearted, The Philanderer, The Soldier o’ Fortune; The Quiet Man; The Incompetent; The Also Ran; The Undead.

There’s also a full-text search capability.

Newspapers.com Update

The following are updates of UK newspapers. Only one pre-dates the 21st century.

ENGLAND

Newspaper Title City/Community Years Included
Number of Pages
The Shuttle Kidderminster, Hereford and Worcester 2014-2019 22,272
Oxford Mail Oxford, Oxfordshire 2015-2019 14,499
The Guardian London, Greater London 1821-2024 1,143,179
The Bolton News Bolton, Greater Manchester 2014-2019 63,543
Harwich and Manningtree Standard Colchester, Essex 2016-2019 6,511
Andover Advertiser Andover, Hampshire 2015-2019 11,228
Leigh Journal Leigh, Greater Manchester 2014-2019 12,733
Knutsford Guardian Warrington, Cheshire 2014-2019 14,029
Harrow Times Harrow, Greater London 2015-2019 12,210
Bury Times Bury, Greater Manchester 2014-2019 12,204

SCOTLAND

Newspaper Title City/Community Years Included
Number of Pages
Greenock Telegraph Greenock, Strathclyde 2015-2019 9,265
Clydebank Post Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire 2015-2019 8,316
Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser Alloa, Central Region 2015-2019 9,743
Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald Ardrossan, Strathclyde 2015-2019 9,900
Border Telegraph Galashiels, Borders Region 2015-2019 7,434
East Lothian Courier Haddington, East Lothian 2015-2019 11,138
Central Fife Times and Advertiser Dunfermline, Fife 2015-2019 7,375
Dunfermline Press and West of Fife Advertiser Dunfermline, Fife 2015-2019 11,247
Helensburgh Advertiser Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute 2015-2019 7,906
Cumnock Chronicle Cumnock, Strathclyde 2015-2019 7,876
Evening Times Glasgow, Strathclyde 2015-2019 1,683
Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter Dumbarton, Strathclyde 2015-2019 7,628
Irvine Times Irvine, Strathclyde 2015-2019 8,308
Ayr Advertiser Ayr, Strathclyde 2015-2019 8,920

There were no new papers or updates for Wales or Ireland. Updates for Canada are for recent months.

You may be interested in the latest Newspapers.com Fishwrap blog post, Guinness World Records: How a Brewery Launched a Book on Records

Ancestry adds Isle of Man BMD Index

Ancestry sourced this new collection from ManxBMD,  a database of 349,789 index entries for civil registration in the Isle of Man. Civil registration began in 1849 but was not compulsory until 1878 (1884 for marriages).

The index provides birth year, surname, name, district, vol, entry, and notes for births.

For marriages, the year, surname, name, place of marriage, district, and further details are given.

For deaths: year, surname, name, age, district, vol, page, entry,  where from, notes.

Information on how to order certificates and fees, which increase on 1 April, is at https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/enterprise/central-registry/legislation/

Ancestry, Findmypast, MyHeritage and FamilySearch have other IOM databases which give additional information for a more limited timeframe, such as parents for births/baptisms and spouse for marriages. 

Sunday Sundries

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.


St. Patrick’s Day: How Irish-born writers contributed to Canadian and Irish histories

A genetic perspective on the recent demographic history of Ireland and Britain

Ravenser Odd: the medieval city Yorkshire lost to the sea

Housing policies need to fully consider market dynamics to move beyond ‘tall and sprawl’ cities

Sitting is bad for your health and exercise doesn’t seem to offset the harmful effects

Everyone Archives
Kyla Ubbink is presenting at 6:30 pm on 26 March on archival presentation at Bethell Fieldhouse, 166 Frank St, Centretown, Ottawa. Everyone Archives, a new initiative in Ottawa, will offer workshops, resources, and social opportunities for people working on archiving projects outside of major institutions.

Thanks to this week’s contributors: Allen Grant, Ann Burns, Anonymous, Barbara May Di Mambro, Bob,  Brenda Turner, Dianne, Donna Jones, gail benjafield, Jean, Kenneth R Marks, Linda Stufflebean, Nancy, Nick McDonald, Sunday Thompson, Teresa, Unknown.

 

 

The Genealogist Releases 3 Million Irish Records for St Patrick’s Day

County Tipperary transcripts

Over 80 parishes with 1,769,007 individuals have been added: Anacarty And Donohill; Ardfinnan; Ballina; Ballinahinch And Killoscully; Ballingarry; Ballycahill And Holy Cross. Ballylooby And Duhill; Ballyneale And Grangemockler; Bansha And Kilmoyler; Boherlahan And Dualla; Borrisokane And Uskean; Borrisokane, Uskane And Eglish; Borrisoleigh; Bourney And Corbally; Cahir; Cappawhite; Carrick On Suir; Cashel; Clerihan; Clogheen; Clonoulty And Clogher; Clonoulty And Rossmore; Cloughjordan; Cullen And Latten; Doon And Castletown; Drangan; Drangan And Cloneen; Drom And Inch; Fethard And Killusty; Golden And Kilfeacle; Gortnahoe; Gurtnahoe And Glengoole; Kilcommon; Killenaule; Killenaule And Moyglass; Kilronan Newcastle And Mulogh; Kilvenogue; Knockavilla; Lorha And Durrow; Loughmore And Castleiny; Moneygall And Barna; Monsea And Killodiernan; Moycarkey And Borris; Moyne And Templetuohy; Muckarky And Borris; Mullinahone
Nenagh; Nenagh And Lisbouny; New Inn And Knockgraffan; New Port And Killoughscully; Newcastle And Fourmilewater; Newport; Newport And Birdhill; Newport And Killoscully; Newport And Killoughscully; Pallasgrean And Templebredon; Portroe; Powerstown; Shinrone And Ballingarry; Silvermines; St Peter And Pauls Clonmel; Templederry; Templemore; Templemore And Killea; Templemore Killea And Clonmore; Templetenny; Terryglass And Kilbarron; Thurles; Tipperary; Toomevara; Upperchurch And Drombane; Waterford And Lismore; Waterford And Lismore Templetenny; Youghal Arra.

A full list of the coverage may be found at: https://thegenealogist.co.uk/coverage/parish-
records/ireland/#tipperary

Irish Wills
Find 1,263,399 wills in:
Dublin Will and Grant Books 1272-1858,
Calendar of Wills and Administrations 1858-1922,
Irish Will Indexes 1484-1858,
Prerogative and Diocesan Copies of Wills and Indexes 1596-1858,
Will Registers 1858-1900
Soldiers’ Wills 1914-1918

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A full list of the coverage may be found here:

Clonegal (Baptisms) 1833-1880*UPDATED: March 2024*
Clonegal (Marriages) 1833-1860, 1864-1881*UPDATED: March 2024*
Clonmore (Marriages) 1813-1833, 1860-1880*UPDATED: March 2024*
Leighlinbridge (Baptisms) 1783-1784, 1817-1867, 1869-1880*ADDED: March 2024*
Leighlinbridge (Marriages) 1783-1788, 1820-1842, 1844-1880*ADDED: March 2024*
St Mullins (Baptisms) 1796-1798, 1800-1816, 1820-1881*UPDATED: March 2024*
St Mullins (Marriages) 1792, 1796-1799, 1802-1814, 1816, 1818, 1820-1822, 1825-1881, 1908-1913, 1915-1916, 1918, 1920-1921, 1923

https://thegenealogist.co.uk/coverage/parish-records/ireland/#tipperary

Irish Wills

Calendar of Wills and Administrations 1858-1922
Since 1858, grants of probate and administration have been made in the Principal and District Registries of the Probate Court (before 1877) or the High Court (after 1877). They are indexed in the Calendars of Wills and Administrations. Up to 1917, the Calendars cover the whole of Ireland, but since 1918 they cover only the 26 counties in the Republic.

Dublin Will and Grant Books
Deputy Keeper Of Ireland, Index To The Act or Grant Books, and To Original Wills, Of The Diocese Of Dublin 1272-1858 (26th, 30th, and 31st Report)

Prerogative and Diocesan Copies of Wills and Indexes 1596-1858
This dataset contains records from before 1858 when wills were proved by the appropriate courts of the Church of Ireland (the Prerogative Court and the Diocesan or Consistorial Courts). While most of the originals were destroyed by the 1922 fire some survive for the Prerogative Court (1664-1684, 1706-1708, 1726-1728, 1728-1729, 1777, 1813 and 1834) and some Diocesan Courts – Connor (1818-1820 and 1853-1858) and Down (1850-1858). The will books for Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry are in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

Soldiers’ Wills 1914-1918
Over 9,000 wills held by The National Archive of Ireland, covering enlisted and non-commissioned soldiers who fought in the British Army in the World War I and a very small number from the South African war of 1899-1902.

Will Registers 1858-1900
Remnants of the wills distroyed in 1922.

Wills Index, 1484 – 1858
An index to those records where an original document still exists with the NAI (e.g. an original will, administration or grant of probate, a certified copy, a transcript, or even abstracts and extracts). Documents which are not technically wills were often included in the NAI testamentary card catalogues because it was genealogically useful and around 10% of this dataset is made up of these types.

TheGenealogist’s article: A Long Way from Tipperary:
https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2024/a-long-way-from-tipperary-7187/

WDYTYA Magazine: March 2024

It took a while for the March edition to become available through PressReader.

FEATURES
Money-Saving Tips
Sarah Williams shares her expert advice for making the
most of your money when using online records. I wonfer why there’s no mention that those of us in Canada with publuc library get access to WDYTYA Magazine for free!

For Evermore
Lewis Brown explains how you can commemorate your fallen relation online with this new website from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

WW2 Evacuees
Gillian Mawson tells the moving stories of the children
who were evacuated during the Second World War. There’s no mention of those evacuated overseas.

RESEARCH ADVICE 
Focus On
Chris Paton outlines how inheritance in Scotland has |
changed over the years, and how you can find records |
online and in the archives.

Best Websites
Jonathan Scott rounds up the online resources for Merchant Navy relations that you can’t afford to miss.

Record Masterclass
Learn how to track down and use apprenticeship records with Paul Blake’s research guide.

Tech Tips
Nick Peers presents a detailed step-by-step tutorial for
uploading material to For Evermore.

Francis Led Franklin’s Doomed Expedition
Fascinated by childhood stories of a noteworthy maritime relative,Angus Wardlaw has written a novel about his crucial role in one of the world’s greatest seafaring mysteries. By Claire Vaughan.

… and more.

Hidden Treasures: Canadian Military Records Seen and Unseen

If you have military ancestors, and who doesn’t, you’ll undoubtedly want to tune in to military historian-archivist Glenn Wright speaking at Saturday’s OGS Ottawa Branch monthly meeting. This is an online Zoom-only event. All Ottawa Branch monthly presentations are open to the public at no charge.

Researching a military ancestor in the 20th century takes us in many directions. From the service documents of First World War soldiers and nurses to war diaries of Canadian regiments that stormed the beaches of France on D-Day, we have a wide range of sources to document our men and women in uniform. Yet, there are records in archives, primarily Library and Archives Canada, that have been underused or not used at all. Better still – and this is the focus of the presentation — more than one hundred years after the end of the First World War, more personnel records are now available, and there is more to come.

When: Saturday 16 March 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time.

Register in advance at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvfuusqT4rHtF9uLAvyyX_hfb3_KJsFo4l

 

FindmyPast Weekly Update

St Patrick’s Day motivates attention to Irish records. Here’s how FMP describes their additions.

Ireland, 1766 Religious Census
This week’s biggest new set consists of 20,505 transcriptions from the 1766 Religious Census. Although the original documents were lost when Ireland’s Public Records Office was destroyed in 1922, these extensive transcripts were recorded by antiquarian and genealogist Tenison Groves prior to the fire.

From these records, you may be able to learn the name of the head of the household, the year, their religion, the parish and the county. The information recorded varies widely, because different enumerators recorded different details.

Ireland, Census of Protestant Householders 1740
Secondly, added transcriptions of a census that was taken of Protestant householders in 1740. The 15,957 records within this new set are from parishes in the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down and Tyrone.

Also created by Tenison Groves, these transcriptions contain details like a name, year, barony, parish and county.

Ireland, 1775 Dissenters’ Petitions
This week’s third and final new set is a collection of historic petition records. It contains approximately 4,000 names, of people who protested the Church of Ireland’s sacramental tests in 1775. The petitions consist of dissenters’ names categorized by parish, congregation, town, neighbourhood, or, in one case, barony.

Occasionally, members of the Established Church also signed the petitions. The lists typically specify whether signatories were dissenters or Established Church members. In cases where no denomination is indicated, the list contained names of both dissenters and Established Church members without differentiation.W hile available for all Northern Ireland counties except Fermanagh, these records are most extensive for areas in Counties Antrim and Down.

Belfast & Ulster Directories
In addition to these new Irish record sets, there’s a significant update to an existing Irish collection — 951,127 Belfast and Ulster directory records, with both transcriptions and original images available to explore.

These new additions span 1831 to 1900, and contain over 900,000 names. With almost 70 years of history covered, they offer a detailed glimpse into what the North of Ireland was like in the 19th century.

OTHER ST PATRICK DAY SPECIALS

MyHeritage has opened all its Irish historical records for  14 to 18 March.

23andMe is giving 20% off its Ancestry Service, now $119 US until 17 March.

FamilyTreeDNA has a slew of specials until 18 March

Family Finder + Y-37 $198 $169 |
Family Finder + Y-111 $328 $299
Family Finder + Big Y-700 $528 $499
Family Finder + mtFull Sequence $238 $209
Family Finder + mtFull Sequence + Y-37 $357 $319
Family Finder + mtFull Sequence + Y-111 $487 $449
Family Finder + Big Y-700 + mtFull Sequence | $687 $649

Ancestry.ca has free access to all Canadian records until 16 March. Maybe they’ll open up the Irish records for Canada Day!
Ancestry.com has $50* on AncestryDNA® until 17 March.

18th Anniversary

Today, 14 March 2024, is the 18th anniversary of this blog. I returned to the first month’s posts to see how things have changed.

There were 22 of them. A gratifying number still had useful information. Gene-O-Rama, not being held this year, was the topic for two, and I wondered about the links. How many still work? Here they are.

Ottawa Public Library – www.library.ottawa.on.ca
Surname Distribution – www.spatial-literacy.org
Ottawa Branch, OGS, Cemetery Index – www.ogsottawa.ca/cemeteries/
Canada 1901 Census – www.automatedgenealogy.com
Canada 1881 census, Pedegree Resource File, International Genealogical Index – www.familysearch.org
Ontario Death Registrations, England and Wales census 1851 to 1901, and much more, (a subscription site accessible without charge at the Main and Centrepointe branches of the Ottawa Public Library) – www.ancestry.ca
Canadian MPs and Senators since Confederation – www.parl.gc.ca/common/SenatorsMembers.asp?Language=E
Search for < > – www.google.com or www.ask.com
Maps, especially good for UK – www.multimap.com
Access to Archives – www.a2a.org.uk
Little DNA Project – www.geocities.com/littlednaproject/index.htm

Seven still work, some forwarded to a site that took over. Five are defunct.

Thanks if you’ve been visting the blog since those early days.