Society of Genealogists | Mar 29, 2024, 12:00 PM
The Genealogy Gazette, Community News: Mar 24
Welcome to the Community News section of The Genealogy Gazette. Find out about the latest record releases, conferences and other family history news here.
The Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies will hold an international academic genetic genealogy conference in Scotland at the University of Strathclyde (hybrid access available) on the 7th and 8th of June 2024. The conference will be interdisciplinary in nature, with a particular focus on the themes of autosomal DNA and Y-DNA, as well as on bioarchaeology, genetics, and investigative genetic genealogy.
In-person Early-bird (register on or before the 3rd of May): £110.00
In-person Standard: £130.00
Online only: £80.00 Tickets and full details here.
The National Library of Scotland has just added a new feature to its Map Images Website. You can now search by postcode in the Map Finder or Georeferenced Viewers here.
A new video has launched on the CLiC Creative site showing how to use the CLiC Web App as a research tool or a creative resource - a powerful creative research tool tailor-made for historians, writers, and educators exploring the long nineteenth century: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/clic-dickens/clic-creative/.
The IMIRCE digital collection of the University of Galway has made thousands of Irish emigrant letters and memoirs from North America available to researchers. Explore here.
The Cork Graveyard project by Skibbereen Heritage Centre has completed its 2024 Burial Records Upload. There are now 82,702 records of burials from 128 Cork graveyards on the database, all free of charge – see here.
The Long Long Trail website now includes The Territorial Force Associations.
County Durham’s The Story, based at Mount Oswald in Durham City, is scheduled to open to the public on Friday 14 June. The Story, a brand-new cultural venue and register office for Durham and the wider county, will house the county’s archive collections.
The Story will also be the permanent home for the whole DLI Collection, reuniting it with the DLI Archive for the first time since 1998. Full details here.
Pleadings for the Court of Requests for the reigns of Edward VI and Philip & Mary (REQ 2/16-25) are now fully searchable on The National Archives Discovery catalogue.
The National Archive (TNA) will be digitising 300,000 farm records thanks to a generous grant from LundTrust. The 1941 National Farm Survey (MAF 32 and MAF 73) is one of their most requested record series.
In partnership with the University of Exeter’s GLAM-E Lab, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM)'s reproduction images are going open access. All can now use the public domain images for free. See their YouTube video for more.
Ulster Historical Foundation’s new website http://ulsterhistoricalfoundation.com is now live.
Their Finest Hour project at the University of Oxford is looking for Commonwealth citizens and ethnic communities of Commonwealth origin in the UK to submit stories of their own family's service and experience in the Second World War. Share your stories via the project’s Direct Submissions portal.
HistFest is back! The dynamic history festival that celebrates the brightest and the best in the world of history returns this April. Join HistFest for an exciting line-up of talks, discussions, performance and music.
Expect laughter and learning with an amazing line-up of historians, writers, performers and thinkers including Lindsey Fitzharris, Angela Saini, Brian Cox, William Dalrymple, Clive Myrie, and many more!
Writing the Air War Conference 11 - 12 May 2024 LRS
This two-day conference, jointly hosted by Bishop Grosseteste University and the University of Lincoln, will be held on 11 and 12 May 2024. The International Bomber Command Centre (IBCC) in Lincoln will be the setting to address questions about how air war has been represented across a broad range of textual forms - biography, memoir, letters, newspapers and inscriptions, as well as in other media such as plays and films. Lincolnshire’s place in the narrative of air war forms a key theme throughout, although regional perspectives will intersect with global ones to produce broader cultural understandings of aerial warfare.
A number of temporary exhibits will be on display. For further details see here.
Submit a Manuscript to the Journal, The History of the Family for a Special Issue on Turkish Families Settling in Europe: Social History Beyond Half a Century. The manuscript deadline is 15 October 2024. For more details and to submit a manuscript, see here.
THE LATEST DIGITAL COLLECTION NEWS
Ancestry has added:
- Aberdeen and North-East Scotland, Index to Memorial Inscription Booklets, 1500-2021
- London, England, Parish Maps, 1860-1880
- UK, Imperial Gazetteer Maps, 1900
- Northern Ireland, Street Directories, 1819-1900
- UK, Admiralty Records of Marriages and Baptisms, 1754-1878
- Northern Ireland, Headstone Indexes, 1658-2018
Findmypast has added the first global British Home Children Collection. Created in collaboration with organisations across the UK and Canada, including The National Archives, The British Library, Library and Archives Canada, and Home Children Canada, the new collection features a vast and varied range of records which tell the stories of those who were part of the forced child migrant scheme in place from the 1860s up to the 1970s.
The collection, launched at Rootstech, will be a growing repository with records added on an ongoing basis. It currently includes workhouse records, Juvenile Inspection Reports, Home Children Board of Guardian Records and emigration reports, while future updates are likely to see historical newspapers, migration records, workhouse and institutional records, periodicals and military records added. Over 130,000 children, now known as ‘British Home Children’, were sent across the Commonwealth, in particular to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Only 12% of these children were ‘true orphans’ - many came from charitable homes, workhouses, or destitute and struggling families. They were usually fostered into families when they reached their destinations to be used as unpaid domestic or farming labour.
Credit: Home Children Canada
Also added were:
- Ireland Land Commissions 1891-1920
- Women's Land Army Service Cards 1939-1950
- Ireland, Census of Protestant Householders 1740
- Ireland, 1766 Religious Census
- Ireland, 1775 Dissenters' Petitions
- Scotland, Poor Law & Poor Lists 1845-1930
- Scotland, Court & Criminal Database; Scotland, Mental Health Institutions Registers & Admissions 1858-1921
New newspaper titles:
- Tunbridge Wells Standard
- Brighouse Echo, 1887-1892, 1970, 1980-1983
- Gravesend Messenger, 1998-1999
- Kent County Examiner and Ashford Chronicle, 1888-1889
- Prisoners of War News, 1940-1945
- Scarborough Evening News, 1889, 1986-1992, 1995-1997
- The Regiment, 1896, 1898-1901
TheGenealogist has released a new feature as part of their powerful Map Explorer™ tool. For the first time, you can explore 1861 census records for England, Scotland and Wales seamlessly connected to contemporary maps with pins revealing the parish, thoroughfare, or even the very building where your ancestor lived. This enhancement adds a fascinating layer to your research and exploration. Most of the Greater London area and other towns and cities can be viewed down to the property level, while other more rural parts of the country can be identified down to the parish, road or street.
In this latest release from County Tipperary transcripts for over 80 parishes have been added: A full list of the coverage may be found here.
Other releases:
- 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 and Soldiers’ Wills 1914-1918
- Over 120,000 individuals recorded in Worcestershire Parish Records have just been released in association with Malvern Family History Society.
To celebrate this latest release, TheGenealogist is offering its Diamond Personal Premium Package for only £109.95, a saving of over £74. This offer includes a lifetime discount. To find out more and claim the offer, visit here. This offer expires at the end of 8th June 2024.
MyHeritage recently celebrated 20 years since MyHeritage was founded with a new documentary telling the story of MyHeritage: watch the full playlist here.
MyHeritage has just released OldNews.com, an innovative website for historical newspapers OldNews.com enables genealogists, researchers, and history enthusiasts to search, save, and share articles about people and events throughout history. At launch, OldNews.com includes a huge repository of hundreds of millions of historical newspaper pages from around the world, with millions more added monthly. The website features easy navigation and consists of a diverse range of high-quality publications, from major international newspapers to small-town journals and gazettes.
MyHeritage has also added:
Australia Newspapers (from 1803)
Austria Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (from 1622)
Czechia Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (from 1779)
England, Cheshire Bishop’s Transcripts Baptisms, 1526-1909
England, Cheshire Bishop’s Transcripts Marriages, 1598-1900
England, Cheshire Parish Births and Baptisms 1538-1969
England, Cheshire Parish Deaths and Burials (from 1538)
England, Kent Electoral Registers, 1570-1907
Germany Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (from 1689)
Germany, Telephone Directories (2001 & 2003)
Peru, Callao, Civil Registration of Births (from 1874)
California, San Diego Passenger Lists (1904-1952)
New Mexico, Doña Ana County Marriage Licenses (from 1848)
South Carolina, Charleston County Marriages (from 1900)
Texas, Maverick, Eagle Pass Arrivals (1900-1961)
United Kingdom Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (from 1665)
United States Newspapers from OldNews.com™ (from 1770)
Wales, Glamorgan, West Glamorgan Electoral Registers 1839-1925
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