Anglo-Celtic Connections

Each year organizations federally registered as charities in Canada for tax purposes must file returns with the Canada Revenue Agency. Financial and other information is available on the Revenue Canada website. Search for individual society reports at
https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplyBscSrch?request_locale=en.

This post reprises and updates that of 11 August to incorporate MGS, GANS, SGS, and VGS reports. The SGCH report remains unavailable.

While two societies received substantial donations, for two-thirds revenues declined from the previous year and expenditures exceeded revenues.

Figures for the previous financial period (usually calendar year) follow the most recent in parentheses.

Alberta Genealogical Society

For the reporting period ending 2022-12-31, total assets of $1,041,398 ($590,395) and liabilities of $212,232 ($175,854.) The total revenue was $614,488 ($188,456.) That included an extraordinary item, a charitable tax eligible gift or gifts, totalling $422,882.  Expenditures totalled 199,863 ($183,798). The individual annual membership fee remains $50 for digital journal subscription. 

British Columbia Genealogical Society

For the reporting period ending 2022-12-31, total assets of $216,503 ($233,931) and liabilities of $20,517 ($37,201.) The total revenue was $27,392 ($29,895.) Expenditures totalled $28,201 ($29,895). The individual annual new membership fee remins $65.

Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc

For the reporting period ending 2022-12-31, total assets of $78,308 ($80,912) and no liabilities. The total revenue was $32,500 ($35,743.) Expenditures totalled $34,912 ($27,526.) The individual annual membership fee remains $42.

Manitoba Genealogical Society

For the reporting period ending 2022-12-31, total assets were $87,173 ($76,104) and total liabilities of $13,100 ( $12,516). Total revenues were $69,300  ($91,050) and expenditures $58,815 ($79,710.)The individual annual membership fee is $60 ($50.)

For the reporting period ending 2021-12-31, total assets of $2,034,220 ($1,577,182) and liabilities of $280,466 ($271,019,) The total revenue was $1,004,580 ($552,102.) That included an extraordinary item, a gift or gifts, totalling $651,492.  Expenditures totalled  $556,489 ($518,402.) The individual annual membership fee remains $63.

For the reporting period ending 2021-07-31, total assets of $18,985 ($24,235) and liabilities of $4,593 ($7,260.) The total revenue was $29,203 ($43,066.) Expenditures totalled $31,785 ($31,269.) The individual annual fee remains at $75.

For the reporting period ending 2022-12-31 total assets were $220,754 ($232,273.), liabilities $116,355 ($117,868). Total revenues were $222,338 ($240,443) and expenditures $232,345 ($227,656.) Individual basic annual membership remains $70.

For the reporting period ending 2022-12-31 information is still not yet posted.

For the reporting period ending 2023-05-31  Total assests were $44,093 ($49,864) and liabilities $0 ($0. ) Total revenues were $21,680 ($25,410) and expenditures $26,507 ($28,230) Individual annual membership remains $60.

 

UK, Wills of Royal Navy and Royal Marines Personnel, 1786-1882, sourced from ADM 48: Navy Board, Navy Pay Office, and Admiralty, Accountant General’s Department: Seamen’s Wills at TNA, contains 32,361 records.

Most are handwritten onto pre-printed forms. You will usually find name, rank, will date, ship, captain, esecutor and beneficiary on the first page. Be sure to look beyond the first page for other information.

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

There’s a great sense of relief about viewing death practically
An essay for The Telegraph by Billy Connolly

LAC DHCP Applications Open
While genealogical and family history societies have had rather limited success in the Documentary Heritage Communities Program, this project funding source is available for the right project(s). Applications for funding for the 2024–2025 cycle are being received until 11 January 2024.

In From the Cold
This UK project recently had 53 new WW1 names and one WW2 name accepted by the CWGC for commemoration as official war casualties. Almost all died post-discharge of various illnesses.

Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity

Thanks to this week’s contributors: Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Teresa, Unknown.

Ancestry’s card index notes updates to Hampshire records, with images of the original.

Hampshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1536-1812
1,999,963 records.

Hampshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1921
1,586,354 records.

Hampshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
794,719 records.

Hampshire, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1921
304,643 records.

However, the number of records for each is exactly the same as back in May. What’s changed Ancestry?

Shown here are additions to Canadiana Heritage extracted since the start of the month:

Three digital microfilms for the Department of Indian Affairs, Headquarters central registry system : First series (C-8239 to C-8241),

Five for Nominal rolls and paylists for the Volunteer Militia of various date ranges from 1855 to 1916 (T-16767 to
T-16772),

Three identified only as Records of entry and other records (T-16597 to T-16599),

Seven Western Land Grants between 1907 and 1917 (C-6170, C-6207, C-6218, C-6229, C-6230, C-6429, C-6555).

The Land Grants are from the LAC collection Canada. Department of the Interior: Letters patent which contains
274 reels. According to LAC
“This collection consists of copies of (one page) Letters Patent issued on lands granted by the Department of the Interior and its predecessors from July 13, 1883, to February 28, 1950. The copies have been given individual folio numbers and are bound together into libers (books) which are numbered sequentially from 1 to 1039. These documents were issued on western homestead lands only when a Homestead Inspector confirmed that the conditions of residency, cultivation and construction, as required by the various Dominion Lands Acts, had been met by the homesteader.”

Suppose you were looking for the patent issued to George Schmaltz. who obtained land in Township Eight, Range Eight, West of the Fourth Meridian in the Province of Alberta.

Canadiana Heritage provides no way to find it short of scanning every microfilm, and it may not even be in their collection.

The LAC Collection Search is of no help. Instead, at LAC go to A to Z tools and guides, then to the last page and Western Land Grants (1870-1930). Searching Schmaltz gives 21 hits including 2 for George.

One hit has a map and the information it’s Folio: 482, Liber: 772, Microfilm Reel Number: C-6555, Item Number: 270127. Microfilm C-6555 is one newly added to the Heritage collection, described as including Liber 772, Folio 57 to Liber 773, Folio 190. BINGO! Now you just have to figure out where on the microfilm you find it.

It turns out the patent was issued on 19 December 1917.

The second George Schmaltz hit also has a map and Folio: 390, Liber: 600, Microfilm Reel Number: C-6412, Item Number: 270128. C-6412 isn’t in the Heritage collection.

This is an example of where LAC and Canadian Heritage both have good information but don’t play nicely together.

Ancestry has a collection Alberta, Canada, Homestead Records, 1870-1930 providing additional information.

This week’s additions are for Oxfordshire and are obtained through an agreement with FamilySearch.

Oxfordshire Baptisms
20,185 additions make the collection total 233,822 transcription records from 1524 to 1950 for 163 parishes. Banbury, Bampton and Bicester each have over 10,000 entries.

Oxfordshire Marriages
The 67,864 total records within this set are a combination of new and existing records, with 13,098 new ones added this week. They span from 1538 to 1936 for 153 parishes.

Banbury and Oxford have more than 5,000 transcription records each.

Oxfordshire Burials
These transcription records are mostly new, 34,612 new of the 37,241 collection total, Again Banbury tops the list with 3,650 entries, folowed by Bampton with 3,325.

A reminder of the presentations this Saturday, 14 October at the BIFHSGO monthly meeting

9 am: Ireland in Ken McKinlay’s Back to Basics series. Details of the series are on the Events page of the BIFHSGO website, www.bifhsgo.ca/events .

10 am: From Derry to the Pontiac: The Dales of Clarendon, presented by Nancy Dale Conroy.

10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT:  Feature Talk

Attend the meeting in person at Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St. on the corner of Elgin St. in Ottawa, or register HERE to attend online.

On Friday at 9 am ET Sean Cunningham, Head of Medieval and Early Modern Collections at The National Archives (UK), will explore some of their records which reveal how life and death were understood in medieval lives across the country.

From memorials and tombs to prayers, spirits and magic, the links between the living and the dead were compelling in pre-modern society.

Book in advance at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/connecting-with-the-dead-in-medieval-england-wales-tickets-698281718417?aff=web

 

Ireland, Select Catholic Marriage Registers, 1778-1942
Now updated with a total of 401,663 records, including images. The source is e-Celtic Limited, of Dublin. Still no sign of my lot!

Ireland, Ulster, Dissenters Petitions, 1775
New on Ancestry, this 4,683 item collection is an index of information drawn from a series of petitions sent to the Irish Parliament in 1775 in protest of a law enacted in 1774.  . The index is searchable by name and place of residence. Images of the documents and the text of the petitions aren’t available. The index has information from every county except Fermanagh, and the most complete records were produced in counties Antrim and Down.

Londonderry Corporation Minute Books, 1673-1901
New on Ancestry, this collection contains images of 23 minute books for the Londonderry Corporation dated between 1673 and 1901.  Records in this collection may include the following information:

Names of municipal officials
Dates of municipal meetings
Details about municipal meetings
Information about community development

They are browse only, no indexing.

Genealogy Quebec offers 25% off annual subscriptions from today until Sunday the 15th. The discount is unavailable from the main site, only through an exclusive link.

Today, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission introduces a new facility that allows the addition of text, images, and even video from YouTube or Vimeo to the information already available from official documents for one of The Fallen. You can tell their story.

It’s a step up from the Canadian Virtual War Memorial’s capability to add images.

There’s an instructional video and step-by-step guide on how you can add a story at https://www.cwgc.org/who-we-are/our-apps/stories-portal-help/

 

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. Are you looking for more options? Additional mainly US events are listed at https://conferencekeeper.org/virtual.

Tuesday 10 October

2 pm: The Latest Photo Feature from MyHeritage, by Tal Erlichman for MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/the-latest-photo-feature-from-myheritage/

2:30 pm:  Exploring American History in British Newspapers, by Jen Baldwin for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9187711

7 pm: The Complexities of Settling North Lambton- Arkona, Port Franks, and Widder, by Greg Stott for OGS Lambton County Branch.
https://lambton.ogs.on.ca/calendar/lambton-county-zoom-meeting/

Wednesday 11 October

2 pm: Wednesdays with Witcher: Collecting the Stories of Our Lives: Tips for Writing Our Families’ Stories, by Curt Witcher for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9187730

8 pm: Help! How do I separate genealogical fact from fiction? by Carol Baxter for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/help-how-do-i-separate-genealogical-fact-from-fiction/

Thursday 12 October

6:30 pm:  Scaling the 1870 Brick Wall in African American Research, by Ari Wilkins for Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.
https://acpl.libnet.info/event/9187753

7 pm: They Came Through Ontario, by Gordon McBean for OGS (Members only).
https://ogs.on.ca/

Friday 13 October

2 pm: Gold! Gold! Gold! The 1897 Klondike Rush, by Jill Morelli for Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/gold-gold-gold-the-1897-klondike-rush/

7 pm: South Buxton and Romney Charge, by Eric Skillings for OGS Kent Branch.
https://kent.ogs.on.ca/events/kent-branch-south-buxton-and-romney-charge/

Saturday 14 October

9 am: Back to Basics – Ireland, by Ken McKinlay for BIFHSGO.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvceCtqTktGNz17hop8Vv1iB4HKk56iRcU

10 am: From Derry to the Pontiac: The Dales of Clarendon, by Nancy Dale Conroy for BIFHSGO.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvceCtqTktGNz17hop8Vv1iB4HKk56iRcU

OTTAWA EXTRA
10 am – 4 pm: The 613 Flea market at the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa will include a Patricia McGregor stand with a selection of books on Ottawa, the Ottawa Valley, Eastern Ontario and Quebec – and some other things as well. 

10 am: A Gentle Introduction to the Holdings of Western Archives, by Sheila Johnston for OGS London and Middlesex Branch.
https://londonmiddlesex.ogs.on.ca/events/london-and-middlesex-branch-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-holdings-of-western-archives/

2 pm: Genealogy Gems in Scottish Libraries & Archives, by Christine Woodcock for OGS Simcoe County Branch.
https://simcoe.ogs.on.ca/events/simcoe-county-branch-genealogy-gems-in-scottish-libraries-archives-with-christine-woodcock/

2 pm: DNA and Genetic Genealogy Basics, by Graham Burt for OGS Wellington County Branch
https://wellington.ogs.on.ca/events/wellington-county-branch-with-guelph-public-library-dna-and-genetic-genealogy-basics/