Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has added the following collections:
Liverpool, England, Crew Lists 1861-1919
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2364
New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Seamen, 1859-1936
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8814
Bermuda, Passenger and Crew Manifests, 1957-1969
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=9110
Massachusetts, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1949-1957
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=9215
Chris
Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And please consider purchasing the great new version of Caledonia by The Libations at 79p via www.caledonia2014.com - all profits go to help fund Scottish foodbanks
Showing posts with label Caribbean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caribbean. Show all posts
Friday, 10 October 2014
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
FindmyPast US launches major newspaper collection
The American incarnation of FindmyPast website (www.findmypast.com) has launched a major new collection of US based newspapers, which includes titles from several other countries. In total some 5350 publications are included.
From the site, some of the blurb:
Our US & World newspaper collections provide access to nearly 120 million pages from newspapers published in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Panama, and the Virgin Islands. Titles include a variety of local papers, as well as national publications, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Global historical newspapers from China, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, and South Africa are also searchable within the collection.
The site also now has 8.7 million service records of personnel who served with the US army from 1938-1946.
(With thanks to FindmyPast US)
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. For my other genealogy books, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html; whilst for my online Scottish based genealogy courses please visit the Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd site.
From the site, some of the blurb:
Our US & World newspaper collections provide access to nearly 120 million pages from newspapers published in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Panama, and the Virgin Islands. Titles include a variety of local papers, as well as national publications, including the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Global historical newspapers from China, Denmark, France, Germany, Jamaica, and South Africa are also searchable within the collection.
The site also now has 8.7 million service records of personnel who served with the US army from 1938-1946.
(With thanks to FindmyPast US)
Chris
My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. For my other genealogy books, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html; whilst for my online Scottish based genealogy courses please visit the Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd site.
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Caribbean Family History website
The latest Genealogy in Time newsletter (www.genealogyintime.com) has flagged up a new genealogy resource for Caribbean family history at www.caribbeanfamilyhistory.org. The site contains many resources such as a burials database for Barbados, as well as another for clergy based there.
(With thanks to Genealogy in Time)
Chris
Having a Christmas present crisis?! Check out my range of genealogy books at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html - perfect for the family historian's Christmas stocking...! Also now out - new Kindle edition of Tracing Your Family History on the Internet, from http://tinyurl.com/d3vqtz5
(With thanks to Genealogy in Time)
Chris
Having a Christmas present crisis?! Check out my range of genealogy books at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html - perfect for the family historian's Christmas stocking...! Also now out - new Kindle edition of Tracing Your Family History on the Internet, from http://tinyurl.com/d3vqtz5
Thursday, 18 October 2012
WDYTYA review - John Barnes
Last night's edition of Who Do You Think You Are is one of the most interesting episodes I think I've seen in a long while, though I think it would be fair to say from much of the Twitter chatter I was reading last night that people were quite divided about it. The subject was former footballer and now sports pundit John Barnes, and whilst all who viewed it seemed to think it was interesting, some found it slow and not particularly 'genealogical', but more 'political'.
In fact, it was precisely because of this that I found it so fascinating. The politics of our ancestors were as much a part of their stories as was their allegiance to a sports team, their relationship to others in their communities and more. In Scotland just now we are going through a debate about the future of our country, and whether it should separate from the UK, and there were some minor parallels with the Jamaican story of independence - not least of which a comment someone made on Twitter about the Jamaican flag containing a saltire! The Scottish and Jamaican stories were perhaps only thinly linked by the idea of a disconnection from a once mighty empire (Scotland and Jamaica had very different roles within that story after all), but where the story really resonated from my perception was within a comparison between Jamaica's struggle for independence and the modern Republic of Ireland's history. There was political agitation in WW2 in Jamaica, and the same in WW1 in Ireland; internment of political activists in Jamaica, something which certainly happened in Northern Ireland, the origins of the independence struggle coming from a socialist background and more. There were a lot of parallels, not necessarily all direct (Ireland did go down a more violent route) - but they were certainly there.
To me, what the programme showed once more was the idea that Britain, and in particular the media, is now looking back to its period of empire with just a bit more critical confidence. But whereas Jeremy Paxman's rather critical series 'Empire' recently tried to pick apart much of the empire's cohesion, to show that much of it was held together by luck and brutality as much as by any form of policy, WDYTYA last night told the story of one nation trying to shake itself free from that empire, ultimately successfully, and it did it from one family's point of view. What struck me about it was what seemed to be something of a universality of how that was achieved worldwide, and I think it is a story that many in the UK today still don't truly know about, despite it being so recent in our history.
If there is one real success about this run though, I think it might be the fact that it has broken away from the box-ticking formula of previous series. Last night's story could so easily have probably gone back and done the slavery thing, which virtually every story that ever reached the Caribbean in the past has focussed on to some degree. But just as much as the token Irish story is missing this year, the token Jewish story etc, this run feels a bit more editorially driven by the stories uncovered, and not an old menu waiting to be catered for.
It's been a largely good run, but there is one question on everyone's mind right now - what's going on with next week's now absent John Bishop story? As much as God moves in mysterious ways, so too it seems do BBC schedulers...
Chris
Scottish Research Online - 5 weeks online Pharos course, £45.99, taught by Chris Paton from 26 SEP 2012 - see www.pharostutors.com
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)
In fact, it was precisely because of this that I found it so fascinating. The politics of our ancestors were as much a part of their stories as was their allegiance to a sports team, their relationship to others in their communities and more. In Scotland just now we are going through a debate about the future of our country, and whether it should separate from the UK, and there were some minor parallels with the Jamaican story of independence - not least of which a comment someone made on Twitter about the Jamaican flag containing a saltire! The Scottish and Jamaican stories were perhaps only thinly linked by the idea of a disconnection from a once mighty empire (Scotland and Jamaica had very different roles within that story after all), but where the story really resonated from my perception was within a comparison between Jamaica's struggle for independence and the modern Republic of Ireland's history. There was political agitation in WW2 in Jamaica, and the same in WW1 in Ireland; internment of political activists in Jamaica, something which certainly happened in Northern Ireland, the origins of the independence struggle coming from a socialist background and more. There were a lot of parallels, not necessarily all direct (Ireland did go down a more violent route) - but they were certainly there.
To me, what the programme showed once more was the idea that Britain, and in particular the media, is now looking back to its period of empire with just a bit more critical confidence. But whereas Jeremy Paxman's rather critical series 'Empire' recently tried to pick apart much of the empire's cohesion, to show that much of it was held together by luck and brutality as much as by any form of policy, WDYTYA last night told the story of one nation trying to shake itself free from that empire, ultimately successfully, and it did it from one family's point of view. What struck me about it was what seemed to be something of a universality of how that was achieved worldwide, and I think it is a story that many in the UK today still don't truly know about, despite it being so recent in our history.
If there is one real success about this run though, I think it might be the fact that it has broken away from the box-ticking formula of previous series. Last night's story could so easily have probably gone back and done the slavery thing, which virtually every story that ever reached the Caribbean in the past has focussed on to some degree. But just as much as the token Irish story is missing this year, the token Jewish story etc, this run feels a bit more editorially driven by the stories uncovered, and not an old menu waiting to be catered for.
It's been a largely good run, but there is one question on everyone's mind right now - what's going on with next week's now absent John Bishop story? As much as God moves in mysterious ways, so too it seems do BBC schedulers...
Chris
Scottish Research Online - 5 weeks online Pharos course, £45.99, taught by Chris Paton from 26 SEP 2012 - see www.pharostutors.com
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
New edition of Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors
A new edition of Guy Crannum's Tracing Your Caribbean Ancestors, which deals with ancestral research in the British West Indies, has been published by Bloomsbury. The National Archives has a post on the back of the announcement detailing some of its online resources at http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/759.htm, whilst the book itself is available to order from http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/bookshop/details.aspx?titleId=2729.
From the blurb on the TNA site:
Fully updated and revised, this new edition covers recent developments in Caribbean archives, including details of newly released information and archives that are now available online. This book outlines the primary research sources for those tracing their Caribbean ancestry and describes details of access to archives, further reading, useful websites and how to find and accurately search family history sources.
As Britain does not hold locally created records of its dependencies such as church records, this book doubles as a gateway to the local history sources throughout the Caribbean that remain in each country's archives and register office. This book will be of use to anyone researching family history in British Caribbean countries of Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as Guyana, Belize and Bermuda.
Chris
Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)
From the blurb on the TNA site:
Fully updated and revised, this new edition covers recent developments in Caribbean archives, including details of newly released information and archives that are now available online. This book outlines the primary research sources for those tracing their Caribbean ancestry and describes details of access to archives, further reading, useful websites and how to find and accurately search family history sources.
As Britain does not hold locally created records of its dependencies such as church records, this book doubles as a gateway to the local history sources throughout the Caribbean that remain in each country's archives and register office. This book will be of use to anyone researching family history in British Caribbean countries of Anguilla, Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as Guyana, Belize and Bermuda.
Chris
Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Middlesex transportation records
Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has added a new database, Middlesex, England, Convict Transportation Contracts, 1682-1787, with some 4299 records of those transported predominantly to the American colonies, and the Caribbean.
The coverage is for transportations from 1682, 1715, 1720-1733, 1753-1756, 1762, 1767-1776, 1783 and 1787, with the source information stating that they have been obtained from Middlesex Quarter Sessions Court held at London Metropolitan Archives. Information available includes:
To access the collection visit http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2381
(With thanks to @ancestryUK)
Chris
British GENES on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BritishGENES and Twitter @chrismpaton
The coverage is for transportations from 1682, 1715, 1720-1733, 1753-1756, 1762, 1767-1776, 1783 and 1787, with the source information stating that they have been obtained from Middlesex Quarter Sessions Court held at London Metropolitan Archives. Information available includes:
- Convict Name
- Ship Name
- Captain Name
- Destination
- Transfer Dates
To access the collection visit http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2381
(With thanks to @ancestryUK)
Chris
British GENES on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BritishGENES and Twitter @chrismpaton
Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk and www.facebook.com/ScottishGenealogyResearch
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