The East Anglian Film Archive is now available online with 200 hours of material accessible for free. The accessible part of the collection is just a drop in the ocean however, compared to the archive's full holdings, but the catalogue can be searched for additional holdings.
To view the collection visit www.eafa.org.uk/default.aspx.
(With thanks to Valmay Young @valmayuk)
Chris
Saturday, 14 January 2012
SAFHS 2012 conference timetable
The SAFHS 2012 conference timetable is now online at http://safhs.org.uk/conference.asp. The event, co-hosted by Tay Valley FHS and Fife FHS, is entitled Crops, Cloth, Cod 'n' Coal, and is to be held in Dundee on Saturday 21st April 2012.
Chris
Chris
Cork Unitarian Church records
Cork Unitarian Church baptism records from 1717-1900 are online for free at www.unitarianchurchcork.org/BaptismRecords.html. Lists of communicants and church members are also available. The records were discovered by the church in 2010 and have been transcribed onto an Excel spreadsheet - there are some 4000 records, so potentially handy for those with Cork based nonconformist protestant ancestors.
(With thanks to Claire Santry via http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.com/2012/01/cork-city-non-conformist-baptisms.html)
Chris
(With thanks to Claire Santry via http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.com/2012/01/cork-city-non-conformist-baptisms.html)
Chris
Friday, 13 January 2012
Ancestry adds Dorset electoral registers
In addition to adding London electoral registers a couple of days ago, Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) has also added electoral registers for Dorset, covering the period 1839-1922. The collection has been sourced from Dorset History Centre.
To view the collection visit http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2167
Chris
To view the collection visit http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2167
Chris
The Irish in Canadian emigration papers
FindmyPast Ireland (www.findmypast.ie) has released a new collection, Canadian Emigration: Parliamentary Papers 1826. The official title of the collection is:
“Return of the Assessed Value of the Townships in the Newcastle District in Western Canada, which were settled by Pauper Emigrants from Ireland, between the years 1825 and 1828 at the public expense: Of the number of various Emigration Societies formed in Canada in 1840, by Canadian Proprietors desirous of Settling Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland upon their Estates (1848)”.
For more information visit http://www.findmypast.ie/content/News-Canadian-emigration-parliamentary-papers
(With thanks to FMP Ireland)
Chris
For more information visit http://www.findmypast.ie/content/News-Canadian-emigration-parliamentary-papers
(With thanks to FMP Ireland)
Chris
William Wallace letter comes home
A seven hundred year old letter once said to belong to Scottish knight and all round hero William Wallace (the man Mel Gibson thinks ran around Scotland with blue paint on his face and who he depicted fighting the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge without an err... bridge) has been returned to the National Records of Scotland on a long term loan from the National Archives at Kew.
Scottish Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has confirmed that the letter will be placed on display at the Scottish Parliament building this summer, but you can view a copy, along with a government press release, through the Scottish Government's website at www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/01/11164957
Alba gu bragh!!! And a big thanks to the good folk of TNA.
Chris
Scottish Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop has confirmed that the letter will be placed on display at the Scottish Parliament building this summer, but you can view a copy, along with a government press release, through the Scottish Government's website at www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/01/11164957
Alba gu bragh!!! And a big thanks to the good folk of TNA.
Chris
TNA - Henry III Fine Rolls podcast
The latest podcast from the National Archives is a talk by David Carpenter on a project to translate the original Latin fine rolls from the period of Henry III - these list payments made to secure royal favour. The podcast is available at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/henry-iii-fine-rolls.htm or through iTunes.
Chris
Chris
Thursday, 12 January 2012
RCAHMS Scotsman supplements
News from the Royal Commission for the Ancient and Historical Manuscripts of Scotland concerning a series of city photographs supplements coming out in forthcoming editions of the Scotsman this weekend:
Unique archive imagery from RCAHMS is featuring in a series of supplements produced in partnership with the National Library of Scotland and The Scotsman newspaper.
From intricate seventeenth century sketches and eighteenth century town plans, to pioneering Victorian photography and modern aerial survey imagery, the material from the RCAHMS National Collection is being used to produce visual timelines of the history of Scotland’s major cities and towns.
Highlights from the Collection being reproduced in the supplements include an engraving of the Great Fire of Edinburgh from 1824, original architects’ drawings of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and museum from 1892, Victorian photography of Aberdeen Harbour from 1880, imagery of the aftermath of the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster; and an unexecuted design for the Wallace Monument from the 1860s.
The supplements, which also feature maps and town plans from the holdings of the National Library of Scotland, are being given away free with copies of The Scotsman this weekend (Saturday 14 January). The series starts with Edinburgh, then follows with Glasgow in Scotland on Sunday on the 15th; Aberdeen, Inverness and Dundee on the 16th; Perth and Stirling on the 17th; and finishes with the Borders on the 18th.
You can browse and buy all the imagery featured in the supplements – plus a lot more – in our series of galleries on the history of Scotland’s cities and towns.
Galleries of the cities, and the original story itself, can be found at www.rcahms.gov.uk/news/a-history-of-scotlands-cities.
(With thanks to the RCAHMS)
Chris
Unique archive imagery from RCAHMS is featuring in a series of supplements produced in partnership with the National Library of Scotland and The Scotsman newspaper.
From intricate seventeenth century sketches and eighteenth century town plans, to pioneering Victorian photography and modern aerial survey imagery, the material from the RCAHMS National Collection is being used to produce visual timelines of the history of Scotland’s major cities and towns.
Highlights from the Collection being reproduced in the supplements include an engraving of the Great Fire of Edinburgh from 1824, original architects’ drawings of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and museum from 1892, Victorian photography of Aberdeen Harbour from 1880, imagery of the aftermath of the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster; and an unexecuted design for the Wallace Monument from the 1860s.
The supplements, which also feature maps and town plans from the holdings of the National Library of Scotland, are being given away free with copies of The Scotsman this weekend (Saturday 14 January). The series starts with Edinburgh, then follows with Glasgow in Scotland on Sunday on the 15th; Aberdeen, Inverness and Dundee on the 16th; Perth and Stirling on the 17th; and finishes with the Borders on the 18th.
You can browse and buy all the imagery featured in the supplements – plus a lot more – in our series of galleries on the history of Scotland’s cities and towns.
Galleries of the cities, and the original story itself, can be found at www.rcahms.gov.uk/news/a-history-of-scotlands-cities.
(With thanks to the RCAHMS)
Chris
Who Do You Think You Are? Live
A quick post just to announce what I'll be up to at this year's WDYTYA? Live in London. As well as giving two talks in the Society of Genealogists workshop programme, one on Scottish church records (Fri 5.30pm-6.15pm) and the other on Irish family history resources online (Sat 3.00pm-3.45pm), I'll also be doing an hour's stint on each day within the society's research advice area. This will be from 11am-12pm, and I hope to be able to help with queries particularly on the Scottish and Irish front. Incidentally, I believe the two talks I'm doing, along with many others at the event, will be signed for the deaf - see www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com/workshop-schedule for more details on all the talks.
Throughout the weekend I will be mainly based at the Family and Local History Handbook stall, where this year Bob and Liz Blatchford are launching the first ever edition of The Irish Family and Local History Handbook (www.genealogical.co.uk). Trust me, this one's definitely worth getting - when first launched at the Back to Our Past event in Dublin last year Bob's stock went from his stall like the plague was in town!There's more on the event itself at www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com - see ye there!
Oh - and I'll be bringing my video camera again!
Chris
Cé a Chónaigh i mo Theachsa?
Here's something a bit different, a short excerpt from an episode of the second series of Cé a Chónaigh i mo Theachsa? (Who Lived in my House?), produced by Tile Films. The series is shown on TG4, Ireland's national Gaelic language channel, and this particular piece is from an episode looking at Coolatore House in Moate, Westmeath, where Michael Jackson stayed for five months. Although a Gaelic series, the interview is in English and it is subtitled - have a butcher's!
(With thanks to @irishrootsmag)
Chris
(With thanks to @irishrootsmag)
Chris
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