Free access to FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) this weekend:
London, UK, 16 September 2015 Findmypast has announced that this weekend, they will be opening up their archives and giving unlimited free access to billions of records and newspaper pages from all over the world. From midday on Friday, September 18th to midday on Monday, September 21st (BST), absolutely everyone will have access to Findmypast’s comprehensive collections of historical records and innovative research tools, including:
· Millions of records you won't find anywhere else, including fascinating WW2 Prisoner of War records, millions of England & Wales Crime records and the incredible British in India collection.
· Birth, marriage and death records dating back to the 18th century
· The largest online collection of UK parish records, dating back to 1538
· Historical newspapers from across the world, including more than 11 million British newspaper dating all the way back to 1710
· The most comprehensive collection of UK military records anywhere online
· The largest collection of Irish family history records available online
· Passenger lists for ships sailing to and from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA
· An easy to use online family tree builder, which allows you to import and export your tree if you’ve built it elsewhere
… As well as millions of other records that will give everyone the opportunity to explore their family history, and bring their past to life.
Extended access for existing users
It’s not only new users who’ll enjoy special family history research opportunities this weekend. Those with current Findmypast Local subscriptions (with an active Britain, Ireland, US & Canada or Australia & New Zealand subscription) will be able to access Findmypast’s historical World records during the free access weekend, and those with active World subscriptions will have an additional three days added to their subscription.
Find out more at Findmypast’s dedicated Free Weekend page (www.findmypast.co.uk/freeweekend).
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.
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs course starts November 4th
The follow up to the Scottish Research Online course from Pharos (currently being taught by yours truly) is the five week long Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs, which starts Wednesday, November 4th 2015.
Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs (Old Parish Registers, i.e. the Church of Scotland parish registers) takes a look at some of the most fascinating areas of Scottish genealogical research, from land records and inheritance to nonconformism and burgh records. Here is the official description:
Scotland 1750 - 1850 - Beyond the OPRs (302)
This is an intermediate level course in Scottish family history for those who are going back beyond 1850. You should have some experience with research in the Old Parochial Registers of the Church of Scotland and in using major websites for Scottish research. This course discusses sources that fill the gap when the OPRs are uninformative or missing; for example, records of parish and town administration, occupations, land transfer and taxation. Using these records involves several different locations. You will learn how to check online finding aids and how to find the most effective way to obtain records that may be online, in print, on CD or microfilm. This is the second course on Scottish research. If you have not taken Scottish Reserach Online please check its description.
Instructor: Chris Paton
Kirk Sessions records and parish poor
Burgh records and town poor
Occupations, taxation and early lists
Land transfer and the value of sasines
Land, inheritance and estates
Each lesson includes exercises and activities; a minimum of 1 one-hour chat session per week. See How the Courses Work.
STUDENTS SAID: well structured chats with opportunities for questions as well
The course costs just £49.99 and lasts 5 weeks. I post the first lesson out on the first day, and each Wednesday thereafter, with an online chat session held on each Tuesday evening after to discuss the contents. There is more on how the course works at http://pharostutors.com/courseshowwork.php. A dedicated discussion forum is also available throughout - and it is a lot of fun!
To book, please visit http://pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. Please note that whilst it is advisable to have done the previous course, it is not compulsory.
Hopefully I'll see a few of you there!
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.
Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs (Old Parish Registers, i.e. the Church of Scotland parish registers) takes a look at some of the most fascinating areas of Scottish genealogical research, from land records and inheritance to nonconformism and burgh records. Here is the official description:
Scotland 1750 - 1850 - Beyond the OPRs (302)
This is an intermediate level course in Scottish family history for those who are going back beyond 1850. You should have some experience with research in the Old Parochial Registers of the Church of Scotland and in using major websites for Scottish research. This course discusses sources that fill the gap when the OPRs are uninformative or missing; for example, records of parish and town administration, occupations, land transfer and taxation. Using these records involves several different locations. You will learn how to check online finding aids and how to find the most effective way to obtain records that may be online, in print, on CD or microfilm. This is the second course on Scottish research. If you have not taken Scottish Reserach Online please check its description.Instructor: Chris Paton
Kirk Sessions records and parish poor
Burgh records and town poor
Occupations, taxation and early lists
Land transfer and the value of sasines
Land, inheritance and estates
Each lesson includes exercises and activities; a minimum of 1 one-hour chat session per week. See How the Courses Work.
STUDENTS SAID: well structured chats with opportunities for questions as well
The course costs just £49.99 and lasts 5 weeks. I post the first lesson out on the first day, and each Wednesday thereafter, with an online chat session held on each Tuesday evening after to discuss the contents. There is more on how the course works at http://pharostutors.com/courseshowwork.php. A dedicated discussion forum is also available throughout - and it is a lot of fun!
To book, please visit http://pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. Please note that whilst it is advisable to have done the previous course, it is not compulsory.
Hopefully I'll see a few of you there!
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.
TNA podcast - Big Ideas: On Pilgrimage in England
The latest podcast from the National Archives in England is entitled Big Ideas: On pilgrimage in England, a forty minute talk from Alexandra Harris. It can be listened to at http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/big-ideas-pilgrimage-england/ or downloaded for free from iTunes.
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.
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.
Monday, 14 September 2015
Hitler's Black Book on Forces War Records
From Forces War Records (www.forces-war-records.co.uk):
Hitler’s UK hit list translated into English to mark
75th anniversary of Battle of Britain
-Inspiration for James Bond was on Nazi death list-
List unveiled online on Battle of Britain Day, 15 September
To mark 15 September, Battle of Britain Day (its 75th anniversary), a remarkable historical record can be viewed in English - and online - for the first time. Known as Hitler’s Black Book listing ‘enemies of the state, traitors and undesirables, marked for punishment or death’, it has been painstakingly translated from the original German by specialist military genealogy website Forces War Records. It documents 2,820 of the Reich’s ‘most wanted’ people in Britain, for targeting following invasion. The entire digital Black Book can be seen and searched, free, on (www.forces-war-records.co.uk). There are many notables within the collection: probable and improbable politicians, intelligensia, even entertainers.
One further person on the hitlist however is a little known hero that the website’s historians, while researching the reasons WHY each had been named, believe was the inspiration for James Bond. If he had been killed, the series may never have been written. ‘Britain’s Schindler’ who saved 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust, is also named.
‘The real 007’
‘The real 007’, the wonderfully named Conrad Fulke Thomond O’Brien-ffrench, was a dashing and courageous spy who, for a dangerous few [weeks/months] was friendly with Bond creator, Ian Fleming.
Giving Daniel Craig (starring in the 24th Bond movie, Spectre, from next month) a run for his money, O’Brien-ffrench, was the quintessential secret agent. Classy, well-connected, intelligent, adventurous and athletic (leading a climbing party to safety in the Himalayas in 1921), he moved in only the best circles. The fluent Russian speaking, expert skier later inherited the title Marquis de Castelthomond.
Tim Hayhoe, managing director of Forces War Records – and the man behind the project explains: “Although wounded and captured during World War 1, he nevertheless managed to send letters in invisible ink to Cathleen Mann, the ‘Moneypenny’ to Major Stewart Menzies of British Counterintelligence. They contained details of troop movements and of a prototype heavy bomber, among other vital facts.”
After the war MI6 recruited him to gather information on the Russian Red Army. Then, as World War Two loomed, he was assigned ‘agent Z3’ and based in Kitzbühel, Austria, he posed as a businessman, but secretly established a spy network that stretched deep into Germany. It was there that O’Brien-ffrench met and impressed Fleming with his style, magnetism and derring-do. The dashing socialite was the first person to hear that German troops were moving towards the Austrian border in 1938, and immediately reported the news to London, necessarily blowing his cover by using an open line to prevent delay. He also managed to warn many local residents who were in especial danger, giving them time to escape. It is lucky that O’Brien-ffrench too managed to leave the country, as the fact that his name appears in the ‘Black Book’ proves the Nazis wanted revenge.
Britain’s Schindler
Major Francis E. Foley, born in Somerset in 1884, was studying Philosophy in Hamburg when World War One broke out, but managed to escape Germany with the aid of a borrowed German officers’ uniform. He initially joined the army and was later Injured in action & rendered unfit for service, he was invited to join British Intelligence and spent the rest of the war recruiting for and running spy networks across France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
After the Great War he worked as Passport Control Officer in Berlin, a cover for his work as head of the Berlin Station of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His position enabled him to save tens of thousands of people from the Holocaust in the lead-up to the Second World War, as despite having no diplomatic immunity and being liable to arrest at any time, he blatantly broke the rules when stamping passports and issuing visas to allow Jews to escape “legally” to Britain and Palestine. Sometimes he went further by going into Internment Camps to get Jews out, hiding them in his home and helping them get forged passports.
It is lucky for him that he was recalled to Britain at the outbreak of World War Two, since the Nazis were on to him – and his name was added to the Black Book. As it was, he lived to do even more damage to their regime; in 1942 he helped to co-ordinate MI5 and MI6 in running a network of double agents, the now famous “Double Cross System”.
Others on the list
The British Black Book was compiled with a view to taking out the top layer of society and undermining British spirit. However, alongside obvious contenders, such as Winston Churchill, Clement Atlee (deputy PM) and Anthony Eden (secretary of state for war), it has a number of quite bizarre names on it too, such as Noel Coward, Paul Robeson and intriguingly, some people who were actually Nazi sympathisers. The editors of the Daily Mail and Express were on it too. But left off, intriguingly, was the royal family.
If ‘the Few’ had lost the Battle of Britain, and Hitler’s ‘Operation Sea Lion’, the planned invasion of Britain in 1940, had succeeded, the people on the list would have been the first to be rounded up and risk being killed, sent to concentration camps or forced to throw in their lot with the Germans and start doing the Führer’s bidding.
The digitising of The Black Book
The list has been painstakingly translated from its original German, interpreted to make sense of the complicated government jargon and abbreviations, and transcribed by Forces War Records’ Managing Director Tim Hayhoe, with assistance from military history graduate Sean Bennington. Previously obscure abbreviations have been explained, biographical details for the people listed have been added where available, and background information has been given on each and every Nazi department mentioned and the heads of those departments. All of this has been a labour of love that has taken around a year to complete.
Similar lists were drawn up, and indeed used, for the USSR, France, Poland and many other countries in Europe; thankfully, the only place in the British Isles where the list was actually consulted to round up ‘enemies of the state’ was the occupied Channel Islands.
Of the 20,000 or so versions of the German lists originally printed, only two are thought to be in existence today: one at The Imperial War Museum – and the other somewhere in Germany.
(With thanks to Neil White)
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.
Hitler’s UK hit list translated into English to mark
75th anniversary of Battle of Britain
-Inspiration for James Bond was on Nazi death list-
List unveiled online on Battle of Britain Day, 15 September
To mark 15 September, Battle of Britain Day (its 75th anniversary), a remarkable historical record can be viewed in English - and online - for the first time. Known as Hitler’s Black Book listing ‘enemies of the state, traitors and undesirables, marked for punishment or death’, it has been painstakingly translated from the original German by specialist military genealogy website Forces War Records. It documents 2,820 of the Reich’s ‘most wanted’ people in Britain, for targeting following invasion. The entire digital Black Book can be seen and searched, free, on (www.forces-war-records.co.uk). There are many notables within the collection: probable and improbable politicians, intelligensia, even entertainers.
One further person on the hitlist however is a little known hero that the website’s historians, while researching the reasons WHY each had been named, believe was the inspiration for James Bond. If he had been killed, the series may never have been written. ‘Britain’s Schindler’ who saved 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust, is also named.
‘The real 007’
‘The real 007’, the wonderfully named Conrad Fulke Thomond O’Brien-ffrench, was a dashing and courageous spy who, for a dangerous few [weeks/months] was friendly with Bond creator, Ian Fleming.
Giving Daniel Craig (starring in the 24th Bond movie, Spectre, from next month) a run for his money, O’Brien-ffrench, was the quintessential secret agent. Classy, well-connected, intelligent, adventurous and athletic (leading a climbing party to safety in the Himalayas in 1921), he moved in only the best circles. The fluent Russian speaking, expert skier later inherited the title Marquis de Castelthomond.
Tim Hayhoe, managing director of Forces War Records – and the man behind the project explains: “Although wounded and captured during World War 1, he nevertheless managed to send letters in invisible ink to Cathleen Mann, the ‘Moneypenny’ to Major Stewart Menzies of British Counterintelligence. They contained details of troop movements and of a prototype heavy bomber, among other vital facts.”
After the war MI6 recruited him to gather information on the Russian Red Army. Then, as World War Two loomed, he was assigned ‘agent Z3’ and based in Kitzbühel, Austria, he posed as a businessman, but secretly established a spy network that stretched deep into Germany. It was there that O’Brien-ffrench met and impressed Fleming with his style, magnetism and derring-do. The dashing socialite was the first person to hear that German troops were moving towards the Austrian border in 1938, and immediately reported the news to London, necessarily blowing his cover by using an open line to prevent delay. He also managed to warn many local residents who were in especial danger, giving them time to escape. It is lucky that O’Brien-ffrench too managed to leave the country, as the fact that his name appears in the ‘Black Book’ proves the Nazis wanted revenge.
Britain’s Schindler
Major Francis E. Foley, born in Somerset in 1884, was studying Philosophy in Hamburg when World War One broke out, but managed to escape Germany with the aid of a borrowed German officers’ uniform. He initially joined the army and was later Injured in action & rendered unfit for service, he was invited to join British Intelligence and spent the rest of the war recruiting for and running spy networks across France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
After the Great War he worked as Passport Control Officer in Berlin, a cover for his work as head of the Berlin Station of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His position enabled him to save tens of thousands of people from the Holocaust in the lead-up to the Second World War, as despite having no diplomatic immunity and being liable to arrest at any time, he blatantly broke the rules when stamping passports and issuing visas to allow Jews to escape “legally” to Britain and Palestine. Sometimes he went further by going into Internment Camps to get Jews out, hiding them in his home and helping them get forged passports.
It is lucky for him that he was recalled to Britain at the outbreak of World War Two, since the Nazis were on to him – and his name was added to the Black Book. As it was, he lived to do even more damage to their regime; in 1942 he helped to co-ordinate MI5 and MI6 in running a network of double agents, the now famous “Double Cross System”.
Others on the list
The British Black Book was compiled with a view to taking out the top layer of society and undermining British spirit. However, alongside obvious contenders, such as Winston Churchill, Clement Atlee (deputy PM) and Anthony Eden (secretary of state for war), it has a number of quite bizarre names on it too, such as Noel Coward, Paul Robeson and intriguingly, some people who were actually Nazi sympathisers. The editors of the Daily Mail and Express were on it too. But left off, intriguingly, was the royal family.
If ‘the Few’ had lost the Battle of Britain, and Hitler’s ‘Operation Sea Lion’, the planned invasion of Britain in 1940, had succeeded, the people on the list would have been the first to be rounded up and risk being killed, sent to concentration camps or forced to throw in their lot with the Germans and start doing the Führer’s bidding.
The digitising of The Black Book
The list has been painstakingly translated from its original German, interpreted to make sense of the complicated government jargon and abbreviations, and transcribed by Forces War Records’ Managing Director Tim Hayhoe, with assistance from military history graduate Sean Bennington. Previously obscure abbreviations have been explained, biographical details for the people listed have been added where available, and background information has been given on each and every Nazi department mentioned and the heads of those departments. All of this has been a labour of love that has taken around a year to complete.
Similar lists were drawn up, and indeed used, for the USSR, France, Poland and many other countries in Europe; thankfully, the only place in the British Isles where the list was actually consulted to round up ‘enemies of the state’ was the occupied Channel Islands.
Of the 20,000 or so versions of the German lists originally printed, only two are thought to be in existence today: one at The Imperial War Museum – and the other somewhere in Germany.
(With thanks to Neil White)
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.
English and Welsh divorce database updated on Ancestry
Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has updated its U.K., Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1914 collection at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2465, although there is no detail on how it has done so.
Please be aware though that Ancestry is again showing its ignorance of what actually constitutes the United Kingdom, because this contains divorce files from England and Wales only. In England and Wales, divorce prior to 1858 was only possible via an Act of Parliament. After 1858, a civil based procedure became possible through a division of the High Court of Justice.
In Scotland, however, the law of divorce has always been entirely different, having been carried out via the civil courts since the 1560s. The courts initially handling such matters were the Commissary Courts, then the Court of Session from the 1820s, and since 1984, the Sheriff Court. For cases prior to 1984, check the National Records of Scotland catalogue at http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/welcome.aspx. For cases after 1984, a dedicated register has been kept by the GROS, which is accessible and searchable at the ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh (www.scotlandspeoplehub.gov.uk).
In Northern Ireland, divorce was not possible, other than by means of an Act of Parliament, until 1939, with the laws revised again in 1978. I'm actually a little unclear on where to source Northern Irish divorce records - I believe that they may still be held at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast or at a relevant county court.
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.
Please be aware though that Ancestry is again showing its ignorance of what actually constitutes the United Kingdom, because this contains divorce files from England and Wales only. In England and Wales, divorce prior to 1858 was only possible via an Act of Parliament. After 1858, a civil based procedure became possible through a division of the High Court of Justice.
In Scotland, however, the law of divorce has always been entirely different, having been carried out via the civil courts since the 1560s. The courts initially handling such matters were the Commissary Courts, then the Court of Session from the 1820s, and since 1984, the Sheriff Court. For cases prior to 1984, check the National Records of Scotland catalogue at http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/welcome.aspx. For cases after 1984, a dedicated register has been kept by the GROS, which is accessible and searchable at the ScotlandsPeople Centre in Edinburgh (www.scotlandspeoplehub.gov.uk).
In Northern Ireland, divorce was not possible, other than by means of an Act of Parliament, until 1939, with the laws revised again in 1978. I'm actually a little unclear on where to source Northern Irish divorce records - I believe that they may still be held at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast or at a relevant county court.
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.
Sunday, 13 September 2015
New records online for Tipperary North
From Roots Ireland (www.rootsireland.ie):
New Records Online for Tipperary North
Tipperary North Genealogy Centre has added the Roman Catholic parish of Thurles from 1795-1900 to its database at www.tipperarynorth.rootsireland.ie. The full list of available sources for the North Tipperary Genealogy Centre can be viewed here .
If you have any questions please check our Help section and if this does not provide an answer, then you may contact us or one of the county centres.
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.
New Records Online for Tipperary North
Tipperary North Genealogy Centre has added the Roman Catholic parish of Thurles from 1795-1900 to its database at www.tipperarynorth.rootsireland.ie. The full list of available sources for the North Tipperary Genealogy Centre can be viewed here .
If you have any questions please check our Help section and if this does not provide an answer, then you may contact us or one of the county centres.
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.
Interviewed by The Gaelic Hour in Ottawa
Earlier today I appeared on The Gaelic Hour radio show in Ontario, to help promote the forthcoming British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa conference next Sunday 20th September (www.bifhsgo.ca/aem.php?eid=1), and my preceding talks for the Toronto branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September (http://torontofamilyhistory.org). It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Austin Comerton yet again, having previously been some three years ago, and in the piece I talk a bit about some of the Scottish records I'll be discussing in both Toronto and Ottawa, and the Irish based talks that I'll be giving next Saturday.
To listen to the episode, please visit http://thegaelichour.ca/podcast/?name=201509131.mp3 - my interview is at ten minutes into the proceedings, but also featured in this episode are interviews with Lesley Anderson discussing a planned trip to Ireland next year, Gail Dever on social media and genealogy, and Ciara Kerrigan discussing the recent NLI parish records launch at http://registers.nli.ie.
(With thanks to Austin Comerton)
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.
To listen to the episode, please visit http://thegaelichour.ca/podcast/?name=201509131.mp3 - my interview is at ten minutes into the proceedings, but also featured in this episode are interviews with Lesley Anderson discussing a planned trip to Ireland next year, Gail Dever on social media and genealogy, and Ciara Kerrigan discussing the recent NLI parish records launch at http://registers.nli.ie.
(With thanks to Austin Comerton)
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.
Friday, 11 September 2015
Female munitions workers in the First World War
The National Archives in England has an interesting blog post by Chris Day and Vicky Iglikowski entitled Equal pay for equal work: female munitions workers in the First World War at http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/equal-pay-equal-work-female-munitions-workers/.
It's the second post on female munitions workers in the conflict, the first can be found at http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/image-female-munitions-worker/ - well worth checking both out!
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.
It's the second post on female munitions workers in the conflict, the first can be found at http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/image-female-munitions-worker/ - well worth checking both out!
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.
Irish, English and Welsh school records go online
FindmyPast has added several new collections today, including school registers:
First those from England and Wales, are available in a collection entitled National School Admission Registers 1870-1914 (with variable dates for individual schools), and are accessible at http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/national-school-admission-registers-and-log-books-1870-1914, which includes a list of participating archives, though no catalogue numbers. A list of the individual schools involved is available at www.findmypast.ie/articles/britain-national-school-admission-registers-and-log-books-school-list.
Secondly we have an Irish equivalent, the Ireland National School Registers collection, at http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/ireland-national-school-registers. This has 142,000 records from some National Schools in the Republic of Ireland from 1860-1920, but there is no list of schools presented that I can see, and although the digitised images state that they have come from the National Archives of Ireland, no accession numbers for the relevant collections.
Also available Surrey, Southwark, St Saviour's Grammar School Admissions 1690-1895 (http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/surrey-southwark-st-saviours-grammar-school-admissions-1690-1895) and for New South Wales in Australia, Coffs Harbour District Schools lists (1912-1984) at http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/coffs-harbour-district-schools.
Further details at http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/fridays/
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.
First those from England and Wales, are available in a collection entitled National School Admission Registers 1870-1914 (with variable dates for individual schools), and are accessible at http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/national-school-admission-registers-and-log-books-1870-1914, which includes a list of participating archives, though no catalogue numbers. A list of the individual schools involved is available at www.findmypast.ie/articles/britain-national-school-admission-registers-and-log-books-school-list.
Secondly we have an Irish equivalent, the Ireland National School Registers collection, at http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/ireland-national-school-registers. This has 142,000 records from some National Schools in the Republic of Ireland from 1860-1920, but there is no list of schools presented that I can see, and although the digitised images state that they have come from the National Archives of Ireland, no accession numbers for the relevant collections.
Also available Surrey, Southwark, St Saviour's Grammar School Admissions 1690-1895 (http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/surrey-southwark-st-saviours-grammar-school-admissions-1690-1895) and for New South Wales in Australia, Coffs Harbour District Schools lists (1912-1984) at http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/coffs-harbour-district-schools.
Further details at http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/fridays/
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.
Historic Town Atlas of Kilkenny now partly online
The Royal Irish Academy has presented a free to access version of its Historic Town Atlas No. 10, on Kilkenny town, as digitised by Eneclann - it can be viewed via www.ria.ie/research/ihta/online-resources/atlases-online/kilkenny.aspx. Here's the blurb:
This digital edition of the Irish Historic Town Atlas for Kilkenny is available below for you to explore online, free of charge. It is from the original printed Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA), no. 10, Kilkenny, by John Bradley (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2000). Users are encouraged to reference this digital edition in their work. Each pdf includes a guide to citation and usage on its introductory page. The digital edition includes the full text (essay, topographical information, bibliography, notes), as well as select maps (maps 1, 2, 3, 6 and legend sheet).
Due to copyright restrictions certain historical maps and images that are available in the printed atlases are not included in the digital edition. The full contents list of the published original is on page 2 of the cover so you can see what extra materials are available in the printed version. On page 3 of the cover you will also find a general introduction to the IHTA. The general abbreviations for the series is included as a separate pdf.
I'm a big fan of these resources (I have a print copy of one of the two Belfast editions), so do have a play!
(With thanks to @RachelMurphy via Twitter)
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.
This digital edition of the Irish Historic Town Atlas for Kilkenny is available below for you to explore online, free of charge. It is from the original printed Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA), no. 10, Kilkenny, by John Bradley (Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 2000). Users are encouraged to reference this digital edition in their work. Each pdf includes a guide to citation and usage on its introductory page. The digital edition includes the full text (essay, topographical information, bibliography, notes), as well as select maps (maps 1, 2, 3, 6 and legend sheet).
Due to copyright restrictions certain historical maps and images that are available in the printed atlases are not included in the digital edition. The full contents list of the published original is on page 2 of the cover so you can see what extra materials are available in the printed version. On page 3 of the cover you will also find a general introduction to the IHTA. The general abbreviations for the series is included as a separate pdf.
I'm a big fan of these resources (I have a print copy of one of the two Belfast editions), so do have a play!
(With thanks to @RachelMurphy via Twitter)
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.
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