Thanks to Ann Sherman for the following:
Lincolnshire Archives in St Rumbold St, Lincoln are holding a free Family History Fair on Saturday 15th June between 10.30 and 3.00pm. Included are tours of the search room and their 'Links to the Past' website.
Further details at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/residents/archives/events-gallery-and-document-of-the-month/
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Competing Stories 1912-22 event in Belfast
From PRONI (www.proni.gov.uk) in Belfast:
COMPETING STORIES 1912 - 1922
Free event incorporating films, talks and discussions, hosted by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
Thursday 23rd May 2013
2.00pm – 4.45pm at PRONI
(Titanic Quarter, Belfast)
PRONI will be hosting an event as part of Community Relations Week (20th-26th May) in partnership with Community Relations Council (CRC), Northern Ireland Screen and Heritage Lottery Fund.
Rarely seen films from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive will be shown. These will include The Ulster Covenant, produced in 1962 to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of The Ulster Covenant and also the 1961 film Saoirse? (Freedom?), depicting the events of 1919-1922 and produced by Gael Linn.
Discussions will consider what is “documented community memory”? As versions of history shape the present, there are risks and opportunities in commemorating the decade 1912-22. Will the same versions of history which shaped the present, be driving the future?
Link to PRONI website:
http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/exhibitions_talks_and_events/talks_and_events/understanding_our_past.htm
The event at PRONI is free to attend and open to the public. Booking not required.
Please contact PRONI if you have any queries
E: proni@dcalni.gov.uk
T: (+44) 028 90 534800
(With thanks to Gavin McMahon)
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
COMPETING STORIES 1912 - 1922
Free event incorporating films, talks and discussions, hosted by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
Thursday 23rd May 2013
2.00pm – 4.45pm at PRONI
(Titanic Quarter, Belfast)
PRONI will be hosting an event as part of Community Relations Week (20th-26th May) in partnership with Community Relations Council (CRC), Northern Ireland Screen and Heritage Lottery Fund.
Rarely seen films from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive will be shown. These will include The Ulster Covenant, produced in 1962 to mark the 50th anniversary of the signing of The Ulster Covenant and also the 1961 film Saoirse? (Freedom?), depicting the events of 1919-1922 and produced by Gael Linn.
Discussions will consider what is “documented community memory”? As versions of history shape the present, there are risks and opportunities in commemorating the decade 1912-22. Will the same versions of history which shaped the present, be driving the future?
Link to PRONI website:
http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/exhibitions_talks_and_events/talks_and_events/understanding_our_past.htm
The event at PRONI is free to attend and open to the public. Booking not required.
Please contact PRONI if you have any queries
E: proni@dcalni.gov.uk
T: (+44) 028 90 534800
(With thanks to Gavin McMahon)
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
County Down records on FindmyPast Ireland
FindmyPast Ireland (www.findmypast.ie) has added records for the First and Second Presbyterian Meeting Houses and the Church of Ireland, and Catholic churches of Annaclone/Anaghlone and Ballyroney, near Banbridge, County Down
Full details at www.findmypast.ie/articles/news/county-down-parish-registers.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Full details at www.findmypast.ie/articles/news/county-down-parish-registers.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Northallerton Library genealogy event
Northallerton Library in Yorkshire is holding a genealogy afternoon event on June 18th. For full details, visit http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10431219.Family_history_information_session_at_library/?ref=nt
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
BBC Motion Gallery - online nostalgia
The BBC has a Motion Gallery with all sorts of online films on subjects nostalgiac. For the full story visit http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=200aef5c26a09097ba0a07170&id=90bde20128&e=26027fd8b4
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
The forgotten members of the RAF
Lee Oliver at the National Archives at Kew has written about the AIR 29 Miscellaneous Records series on the archive's blog. These records concern other branches of the RAF in the Second World War, such as repair and salvage units, not as prominent to society as the various Spitfire and Bomber squadrons and their actions in the conflict.
To read the post, visit http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/cataloguing-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-raf/.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
To read the post, visit http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/cataloguing-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-raf/.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Monday, 20 May 2013
Discover Scottish Land Records book promotion
My book Discover Scottish Land Records, published in Australia by Unlock the Past, is on a promotion just now from Gould Genealogy, retailing at AU$14.50, about £9.30 (normally AU$20), plus p&p. The promotion lasts until the end of May. For full details of what is in the book, and to order, visit www.gould.com.au/Discover-Scottish-Land-Records-p/utp0283.htm.Alternatively, the book is also available in a PDF based ebook format from http://www.gen-ebooks.com, retailing at AU$18 (no p&p!), roughly £11.60, and where you can also find an ebook version of my Discover Scottish Church Records, at AU$21.50, about £13.80.
Happy reading!
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Family Tree comedy series broadcast in July
The Facebook page for Who Do You Think You Are magazine (www.facebook.com/whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine) has announced that the Family Tree comedy series, starring Chris O' Dowd and already being broadcast in the United States on HBO, will be shown on BBC2 in July. There is no official confirmation yet from the BBC on an exact transmission date, such details normally being announced a fortnight in advance of broadcast.
For more on the comedy series visit my earlier posts at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/family-tree-comedy-series-coming-soon.html and http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/family-tree-comedy-series-series-preview.html - the original BBC press announcement when first announced last November is at www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/family-tree.html.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
For more on the comedy series visit my earlier posts at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/family-tree-comedy-series-coming-soon.html and http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/family-tree-comedy-series-series-preview.html - the original BBC press announcement when first announced last November is at www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/family-tree.html.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Ancestry Library Edition available in Aberdeenshire
The Library Edition of Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) is being freely offered to visitors at libraries in Aberdeenshire. Amongst offerings available via this version of the Ancestry site are the 1841-1901 Scottish census transcriptions.
Full details at www.kincardineshireobserver.co.uk/news/local-headlines/chance-to-research-family-1-2935051.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Full details at www.kincardineshireobserver.co.uk/news/local-headlines/chance-to-research-family-1-2935051.
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
Friday, 17 May 2013
Northern Irish GRO vital records platform online by October?
I've just received my latest copy of North Irish Roots (Vol 24, No.1), the Journal of the North of Ireland Family History Society (www.nifhs.org), packed with goodies!
There's an interesting unconfirmed report in the journal within a feature on civil registration in Ireland that the planned GRONI civil registration records platform may be going online in October of this year - I stress may. The platform, inspired by the success of ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk), is believed to be intending to operate similar closure periods to the Scottish site for births (100 years), marriages (75 years) and deaths (50 years), as well as to offer, for the first time, online indexes to Norn Irish BMD records after 1921. For further back ground to this, see my previous posts at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/gro-northern-ireland-to-set-up.html (which includes a version of the tender that was posted on the United Kingdom Tenders website) and http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/more-on-new-groni-records-website.html.
It has to be stressed that this is unconfirmed - but it could make sense if GRONI was intending to perhaps launch it an event such as Back to Our Past in Dublin, which happens in that month.
One plea I would make in advance - if the GRONI has been inspired by ScotlandsPeople on this project, one would hope that they would follow the inspiration on that site's pricing also, where vital records can be purchased for approximately £1.40 each (including search fee). At present, the GRO in Belfast charges the highest rates in the United Kingdom for civil registration based GRO certificates for births, marriages and deaths, at £15 per record (cf £12 Scotland, £9.25 England and Wales).
Fingers crossed....!
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
There's an interesting unconfirmed report in the journal within a feature on civil registration in Ireland that the planned GRONI civil registration records platform may be going online in October of this year - I stress may. The platform, inspired by the success of ScotlandsPeople (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk), is believed to be intending to operate similar closure periods to the Scottish site for births (100 years), marriages (75 years) and deaths (50 years), as well as to offer, for the first time, online indexes to Norn Irish BMD records after 1921. For further back ground to this, see my previous posts at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/gro-northern-ireland-to-set-up.html (which includes a version of the tender that was posted on the United Kingdom Tenders website) and http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/more-on-new-groni-records-website.html.
It has to be stressed that this is unconfirmed - but it could make sense if GRONI was intending to perhaps launch it an event such as Back to Our Past in Dublin, which happens in that month.
One plea I would make in advance - if the GRONI has been inspired by ScotlandsPeople on this project, one would hope that they would follow the inspiration on that site's pricing also, where vital records can be purchased for approximately £1.40 each (including search fee). At present, the GRO in Belfast charges the highest rates in the United Kingdom for civil registration based GRO certificates for births, marriages and deaths, at £15 per record (cf £12 Scotland, £9.25 England and Wales).
Fingers crossed....!
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers, starts May 15th - see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/scotland-1750-1850-beyond-oprs-starts.html. Time to smash a few brick walls...!
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