Choose from selected free online events in the next five days.
All times are ET except as noted. Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed. Find out about many more, mainly US events, at Conference Keeper.

Tuesday, 17 September

2 pm: Ottawa Virtual Genealogy Drop-in, for OGS Ottawa Branch. 
https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/events/virtual-genealogy-drop-in-2-2024-09-17/

2:30 pm: Pioneers and Pedigrees: Early Western New York Research, by Kaitlyn Pauley for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/11543641

8 pm: A Myriad of Slave Databases, by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/a-myriad-of-slave-databases/

Wednesday, 18 September

2 pm: Practical chromosome mapping: gaining insights from segments of DNA, by Jonny Perl for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Recommended.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/practical-chromosome-mapping-gaining-insights-from-segments-of-dna/

7 pm: Childhood Interrupted: A Child Migrant’s Journey as told by her daughter, Kathryn Adams (Rescheduled)
https://lambton.ogs.on.ca/events/lambton-branch-childhood-interrupted-by-kathryn-adams/

7 pm: A History of the Orillia Opera House, by Chris Decker for the Orillia Museum of Art and History.
http://www.orilliamuseum.org/7-24

Thursday, 19 September

6:30 pm: Unlocking Paternal Ancestry Through Y-DNA tests, by Scott Tribble for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/11544430

7 pm: Trace Your French-Canadian Ancestors to France and Find Records, by Jean-Yves Vanier-Verbeek for OGS Sault Ste Marie & District of Algoma Branch.
https://saultanddistrict.ogs.on.ca/events/sault-ste-marie-district-of-algoma-branch-trace-your-french-canadian-ancestors-to-france-and-find-records-jean-yves-vanier-verbeek/

Friday, 20 September

Webtember presentations from Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

10:15 am: The Real Life of New England Vital Records, by Diane MacLean Boumenot
11:30 am: Broken Branches: How to Detect Cases of Misattributed Parentage in Your Family Tree,  by Paul Woodbury.
12:45 pm: Using the Hudson Bay Company Records for Genealogy Research, by Tara Shymanski.
2:00 pm: Researching in Jalisco, by Lisa Medina
3:30 pm: 5 Ways to Make the Most of MyHeritage.com Photo Tools, by Maureen Taylor

Saturday, 21 September

10 am: Researching Indigenous Ancestors in Ontario, by Jenna Lemay for OGS Kingston Branch.
https://kingston.ogs.on.ca/

 

 

Tonight, Tuesday, September 17, 2024, the eclipse will begin around 8:40 p.m. EDT and peak around 10:44 p.m. EDT. Less than 10% of the moon will be covered this time by the darkest part of Earth’s shadow. The moon will appear slightly larger than usual owing to being closer to Earth in its elliptical orbit.
In Ottawa, the forecast is calling for increasing cloudiness through the nighttime.
Partial lunar eclipses occur about twice a year and roughly every 2 to 3 years at any specific location.
The next total lunar eclipses in Ottawa are on Thursday, 5 March 2026 and Monday, 25 – Tuesday, 26 June 2029.

This is a reminder that the new season of Gresham College presentations is underway. Depending on the phasing of daylight savings time changes, they are typically streamed at 1 p.m. ET.
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on

 

MyHeritage is patching deficiencies with its new coverage of Irish death records.

The 7,054,872 transcriptions are civil death records from all 32 counties of Ireland between 1864 and 1921, continuing for the Republic of Ireland until 1958. Records typically include the deceased’s name, age at the time of death, and the year and place of death.

Probate TV on YouTube dives into the world of international probate research. Follow stories from high-profile UK firm Fraser and Fraser as they chase down missing heirs.

The videos are 10 -12 minutes duration.

https://www.youtube.com/@ProbateTV

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Here’s what I wasn’t able to play fully on Saturday.

TheGenealogist now includes coverage of the 1910 Lloyd George Domesday records and geolocated maps for the entire county of Wiltshire. There’s information on more than 175,000 individuals and organizations.

Researchers can now:
● Locate ancestral homes and businesses with precision
● Discover details about the area their ancestors lived in, such as locating their local school, church or pub
● Gain insights into the social and economic conditions of Edwardian Wiltshire
● Cross-reference information with other historical records for a more complete family history.

There’s more information about the 1910 Lloyd George Domesday records at
https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/lloyd-george-domesday/.

For a limited time, you can claim a Diamond Subscription for £94.95, a saving of £45. Claim the offer at:
https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/MGBLGD924

The following are resources referred to in the presentation “Twas a Dark and Stormy Night: Connecting Weather and Personal Histories” by John D Reid for the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, 14 September 2024.

Reconstructed temperature records for the St. Lawrence Valley

Historical climate observations in Canada: 18th and 19th century daily temperature from the St. Lawrence Valley, Quebec, by Victoria Slonosky
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.11

NOAA/WDS Paleoclimatology – St. Lawrence Valley, Quebec 18th and 19th Century Daily Temperature Data
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/paleo-search/study/15654

Fort Colonge Records 1824-1831
Liveright J. 1833. Fonds McCord Family, P001-838 “John Liveright’s Thermometrical Journals”. McCord Museum: Montreal, QC, Canada.

Ottawa Storm Film December 1942.
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=filvidandsou&IdNumber=27583&q=1942%20ottawa%20video&ecopy=27583

Canada
Meteorological Service of Canada
http://weather.gc.ca
Scroll to Past Weather and then Historic Data
https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html

Ottawa Weather Stats
https://ottawa.weatherstats.ca/

UK
British Meteorological Office.
http:.//www,metoffice.gov.uk
Scroll to National Meteorological Library & Archive
and find Daily Weather Report

Weather in History: 11,000BC to present
https://premium.weatherweb.net/weather-in-history-11000bc-to-present

USA
US Weather Bureau Historic Weather Records
https://www.weather.gov/
Click on Past Weather

Daily Global Synoptic Weather Maps: 1900 to 1971
https://libguides.library.noaa.gov/weather-climate/synoptic-map

Bonus Items

Northern Tornadoes Project
https://www.uwo.ca/ntp/index.html

The Michael Newark Digitized Tornado Archive
A collection of source and analysis materials related to tornadoes and other damaging wind events dating back to the late 1700s.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/ntp_mndta/

The Climate Trends and Variations Bulletin
A quarterly summary of how Canada’s climate has changed over the recent past and longer through maps of current and past departures from the mean.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/science-research-data/climate-trends-variability/trends-variations.html

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Archives
See the publications
Climatological Bulletin (1967 – 1993)
The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar (1988 – 2019)
Canada’s Top Ten Weather Stories (1996 to date)
Chinook (1978 – 1989)
https://cmosarchives.ca/index_publications.html

Copernicus ECMWF
X (Twitter) has news of the latest climate developments at @CopernicusECMWF

A staggering 6.2 million records for Sheffield and Rotherham, Yorkshire, have been added to Ancestry. They are for the Established Church of England, the original records from the Archdeaconry of Sheffield and under the care of Sheffield City Archives.

Title	Records
Baptisms, 1813-1923	2,764,405
Marriages and Banns, 1754-1948	1,849,381
Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812	1,167,123
Burials, 1813-1998	488,050

You can browse by parish and date range at Ancestry.

The latest post on John Grenham’s Irish Roots blog is the All-singing, all-dancing barony maps.

It links to interactive maps. Pick a county, see the barony boundaries, zoom in to see the civil parishes in each barony, zoom in further to see townlands. No clicking through barony names to the wonders of related Irish records.

The post explains the history of the baronies, which were largely irrelevant by 1860.

This is shameless self-promotion.
I don’t often give presentations. The last was a mini one at the OGS Conference AI Day in June. Starting at 1 pm on Saturday, I’ll make an online presentation for the OGS Ottawa Branch.

I’m pleased to have the opportunity to speak on a topic that combines my professional background, meteorology, and family history.
Find out about our and our ancestors’ vulnerability to weather, some notable events in Ottawa area history with a weather connection, and how to find out about the weather on a special day in your family history. Finally, we’ll peek at Ottawa’s future weather by looking at trends over the past century.

Please attend—it’s free, you supply your refreshments. Register in the right-hand column at https://ottawa.ogs.on.ca/, where you can also find out about other Ottawa Branch activities.