Philadelphia Welsh Society records and Iceland censuses on Ancestry

Ancestry has a few new resources of interest. If some of family were Welsh migrants to Philadelphia, then the following collection may be of interest:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Welsh Society of Philadelphia Charity to Immigrants, 1798-1883
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60570
Source: The Welsh Society of Philadelphia Records, 1798–1978. Collection 1186. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Many early settlers in and around Philadelphia were Welsh. The Welsh Society of Philadelphia met for the first time in 1798 with the goal of providing “for the relief of such emigrants as arrive in this country from Wales.”

This collection contains records from the Welsh Society of Philadelphia, including list of immigrants who received charity, cemetery registers, emigrant registers, receipts, minutes, attendance records, and membership lists.

Records vary, but you might find names, dates, birthplaces, places of origin, arrival dates, arrival vessels, age at burial, date and place of burials, and other details.


Also newly available are third party web interfaces for the 1870, 1880 and 1890 censuses of Iceland.

Web: Iceland Census, 1870
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=70783

Web: Iceland Census, 1880
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=70784

Web: Iceland Census, 1890
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=70785

The original data is held on the website of the National Archives of Iceland (http://manntal.is/Upplysingar/#)

Chris

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Bump the app before you bump in bed

The population of Iceland, numbering just 320,000, is so inter-related that there is a actually an app now available that allows you to work out if you are related to a potential date. The slogan for the app is "Bump the app before you bump in bed".

The Smithsonian Institution website has the story at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/04/some-icelanders-are-accidentally-dating-a-relative-and-now-theres-an-app-for-that/

I live for stories like this... :)

(With thanks to @manx_maid on Twitter)

Chris

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