Family tree chart offer from My History

From My History (https://www.my-history.co.uk) in Yorkshire:

Our latest `Deal of the Week`

25% off Printed Charts when you use our free online Chart Generator
Offer ends 4pm Thursday 21st February 2019

This week we are offering 25% off a printed chart when you order using our online chart generator. The chart generator allows you to create any number of free charts in PDF format for checking before deciding if you wish to have any of them printed. Click here to find out how to get started with your family tree file. The 25% discount will be automatically given at the cart. Prices from £11.58. Normally you would need to order two copies of a chart to get this discount.

COMMENT: Don't forget also to check out My History's Unlock the Past genealogy guide books section at https://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Unlock-the-Past-Booklets-p1.html.

Chris

My next Scottish Research Online course starts March 11th 2019 - see www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Details of my genealogical research service are available at www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk. For my Scottish and Irish themed books, visit https://britishgenes.blogspot.com/p/my-books.html. Further news published daily on The GENES Blog Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

My latest books are now available in the UK

My latest Unlock the Past books are now available for purchase from My History in Yorkshire:

A Decade of Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923
£7.50 plus p&p

As the issue of Home Rule reared its head for a third time, its supporters and detractors raised militias to defend their positions, whilst women fought for the vote and labourers fought for better terms from their employers. The First World War would soon dramatically change everything, leading some to see England's difficulty as Ireland's opportunity. When an independent republic was proclaimed through force of arms at Easter 1916, the response would see a brutal guerilla war fought between the British forces and Irish republicans, a partitioned island, and a nation divided.

A century on, in this book from Unlock the Past, Northern Irish born family historian Chris Paton will help you to discover whether your ancestors were caught up in the events of that period - whether they were Suffragettes, unionised workers, Ulster or Irish Volunteers, fighting with the British Army and Crown forces, against them as rebels and revolutionaries, and in the ensuing civil war on both sides of the Treaty divide. With improved cataloguing by archives, and better access to the records, both online and offline, a new gateway has been opened into one of the island's most tumultuous, tragic, exciting, and utterly desperate periods of the 20th century. In this book he will show you how to step through it.


Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition)
£11 plus p&p

In this newly updated and much expanded second edition of his best selling book, family historian Chris Paton explores the history and records of the various churches in Scotland prior to 1855, the year in which civil registration commenced within the country. He describes the theological changes imposed by the Reformation of 1560, the nature of the state’s battles with the Kirk, and the Kirk’s subsequent battles within itself. Most importantly, he also discusses the nature of the records generated by the various Scottish churches, how to interpret them, and above all else, how to find them.

Whether you are looking for tales of ministers carried into the air by Scotland’s fairy folk, the fire and thunder of John Knox, a detailed explanation of the online offerings of the ScotlandsPeople website, or the treasures waiting in the National Records of Scotland, this is the definitive research guide to help anyone with Caledonian connections.


These and other Unlock the Past books can be purchased via http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Unlock-the-Past-Booklets.html.

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. My Pinterest account is at https://www.pinterest.com/chrismpaton/.

Lanarkshire Local and Family History Show 2015

From Lanarkshire Family History Society, news of a major family history show in just over three weeks time:

LANARKSHIRE LOCAL AND FAMILY HISTORY SHOW 2015

Local and Family History Show 2015 ‘Celebrating Scotland’s Heritage’
Saturday 22nd August 2015
9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Motherwell Concert Hall and Theatre, Civic Centre, Motherwell ML1 1AB

Scotland’s largest Local and Family History Show will be taking place this year on Saturday 22nd August in Motherwell Theatre and Concert Hall.

Organised by Lanarkshire Family History Society, the Show has become a regular event on the genealogy calendar, appealing to everyone with an interest in family history and local heritage.

This year’s speakers are:

• Chris Paton, genealogist, lecturer and author on Using Newspapers for Family History Research
• Graham Maxwell of Scottish Indexes on Tracing Your Illegitimate Ancestors in Sheriff Court records
• Chris Fleet, Map Curator at the National Library of Scotland. His talk is about Finding and using online maps for family and local history
• Dr Tristram Clarke of National Records of Scotland will be talking about Soldiers’ Wills and records of Conscientious Objectors, as well as remembering those who survived WW1

Big-name players in the genealogy world, ScotlandsPeople, FamilySearch and The Scottish Genealogy Society will be taking part, along with the National Library of Scotland Maps, Scottish Monumental Inscriptions, Glasgow’s Mitchell Library, Scottish Catholic Historical Association, Scottish Indexes, the Guild of One-Name Studies, Scottish Local History Forum and Scottish Military Research Group.

Among the many family history societies attending will be those from Aberdeen and North East Scotland, the Borders, Central Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, Fife, Glasgow and West of Scotland, Lothians, Renfrewshire, Troon @ Ayrshire, West Lothian and of course Lanarkshire.

Genealogy supplies company My History will be returning to the Show, as will local museums and attractions including New Lanark World Heritage Site, Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life and the David Livingstone Centre. A large number of organisations involved in local history, archives and heritage will be exhibiting; schools and youth groups will be displaying their projects, and there will be activities for children and free workshops on family history topics.

New to the Show will be the Ayrshire-based writer on historical topics Dane Love with many of his books for sale; Alan Godfrey Maps, who produce old Ordnance Survey maps of Britain and Ireland; and Image Restoration, a Glasgow-based company which can help restore, edit or colour your faded or damaged old photographs.

Professional genealogists from the Scottish Genealogy Network (http://scottishgenealogynetwork.blogspot.co.uk) will be joining members of Lanarkshire FHS in the “Ask the Experts” area to offer free one-to-one advice to anyone starting out researching their family history or who has hit a “brick wall”.

Staff from the Universities of both Strathclyde and Dundee will be available for anyone interested in taking their passion for family history a bit further by signing up for courses in genealogy, palaeography (old handwriting) or other related subjects.

Information about tickets and an up-to-date list of exhibitors is available on the Show website http://lfhsshow.weebly.com/ Entry costs £2 per person, with talks priced at £4 each or £14 for all four. Buying one or more talk tickets allows free entry to the show. Children under 12 are admitted free with a paying adult. Book online or by post (by post send a cheque made payable to Lanarkshire FHS to: Lanarkshire FHS, c/o North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, 1 High Road, Motherwell ML1 3HU).

COMMENT: In addition to giving one of the talks at the event, I will also be helping with the Scottish Genealogy Network's one to one advice sessions. In addition, I'm delighted to say that My History (www.my-history.co.uk), which will also be in attendance, is the UK publisher of my Australian published books from Unlock the Past (www.unlockthepast.com.au). The company's founder Tony Beardshaw will have many of these for sale, including Discover Scottish Church Records, Discover Scottish Land Records, Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records, Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, British and Irish Newspapers, Irish Family History Resources Online (2nd edition), and my new book Discover Irish Land Records.

There will also be additional titles for sale such as Rosemary Kopittke's ScotlandsPeople: The Place to Launch Your Scottish Research, Paul Milner's Discover English Parish Registers and Buried Treasure: What's in the English Parish Chest, and many other titles on British and worldwide genealogy subjects, within the popular and inexpensive range. Full details on My History's offerings are available at www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Unlock-the-Past-Booklets.html.

(With thanks to Liz Irving)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including my recently released Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

My latest Unlock the Past Scottish and Irish books now available in the UK

Yorkshire based My History (www.my-history.co.uk) has now made available several more Unlock the Past books within the UK, including my two latest guides, Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis and Irish Family History Resources Online (2nd edition). Here are the details:

Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis
Price: £7
http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Down-and-Out-in-Scotland--Researching-Ancestral-Crisis-UTP0286.html#SID=876

It is perhaps one of greatest truisms of family history research that we will often find that the lives of our ancestors were best documented when the chips were truly down.

There were many battles that our forebears fought for and against in Scotland, both on a personal level and as part of the society within which they lived. There were the laws of the local parish church and the punishments awaiting those who breached kirk discipline; the struggles to avoid poverty and the stigma of being a debtor; the darkest moments of the soul, from mental health issues and illness, to murder and suicide; and the dramatic moments of rebellion, when our forebears drew a line in the sand against a perceived tyranny or democratic deficit. Illness, death, bigamy, abandonment, accidents, eviction, ethnic cleansing - a dramatic range of challenges across a lifetime, and at times, outright tragedy. And close to each of them, a quill and ink.

But through all of these episodes, there is an even greater story that emerges, of how our ancestors overcame such struggles. In this Unlock the Past guide, genealogist Chris Paton goes in search of the records of ancestral hardship in Scotland, to allow us to truly understand the situations that our ancestors had to endure and overcome across the generations, to help us become the very people who we are today.


Irish Family History Resources Online (2nd edition)
Price: £9
http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Irish-Family-History-Resources-Online-UTP0282.html#SID=876

There is a popular belief that Irish family history research is virtually impossible because ‘all the records were burned in the civil war’. But as Northern Irish born family historian Chris Paton demonstrates, the glass is most definitely half full rather than half empty when it comes to research in the Emerald Isle. Many records still exist which can help with your ancestral pursuits, and for those unable to make their way to Ireland to carry out research, the internet is finally coming to the rescue, as more and more material is increasingly finding its way online by the day.

This concise Unlock the Past guide explores the key repositories and records now available online, and will prove to you that if you have been put off with Irish research in the past, now is absolutely the time to take another look.



Ebook editions are also available from www.gen-ebooks.com. These are in PDF format, with the Scottish title available for AU$7.95 (about £4.15) and the Irish title at AU$9.95 (about £5.20).

For the full range of books now available from My History, please visit http://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Unlock-the-Past-Booklets.html.

Chris

For details on my latest book Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, and my other genealogy guide books please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. To commission me for genealogical research, please visit my research site at www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk.

MyHistory offers new automated chart printing service

Yorkshire based MyHistory is beta testing a new automated chart printing service via a dedicated platform at http://charting.myhistory.co.uk. The system allows you to send a Gedcom file, and it will print out a chart using the FamilyHistorian 6 software. The following is noted on the site:

This is our new website for customers to submit a gedcom file and get a chart design returned within minutes. It is currently in test mode but it does work and you may take advantage of a 20% discount if you place an order using this new automated design service. We would welcome feedback to support@myhistory.co.uk

Further details on the service are available via the website.

(With thanks to MyHistory via Facebook)

Chris

For details on my range of genealogy guide books please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. To commission me for genealogical research, please visit my research site at www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk.

JiGraH range acquired by MyHistory

The JiGraH range of old books and maps on CD, as well as printed town and city plans, has been acquired by My History (www.my-history.co.uk), following the retirement earlier this month of JiGraH's founders Jill and Graham Hadfield.

Congratulations to Tony Beardshaw and the team at My History on the acquisition, and best wishes to Jill and Graham in their retirement. The JiGraH range can be viewed at www.jigrah.co.uk.

(With thanks to @my__history on Twitter)

Chris

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