We received a few questions for The Forum but we always need new ones. Do you have any quirky or interesting family stories for news News from the trenches or any new information for the Were you aware...........sections? Next week's county for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be the country, Ireland. A new addition - a picture - is being tried for this week's Bulletin. Hopefully this will not create too many problems for our readers. If you don't get the picture and would like it, please email us and we will send it on. Even the most sophisticated emailed newsletters have their idiosyncratic problems - I received no text at all for this month's National Archives UK newsletter.

In this Bulletin

Announcements - FHC is closed for Thanksgiving and "Who Do You Think You Are?" The Forum New questions and a picture
In Were you aware... A few additional websites for Scotland and the National Archives puts Non-Conformist Birth, Marriage and Death records on-line.

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be this Saturday and Monday for the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend.

"Who Do You Think You Are?" This new CBC television programs airs the first program of 13 parts on Thursday October 11 at 7:30p.m. "Where does Don Cherry get his combativeness? Did Margot Kidder inherit her passion for social justice? Is Margaret Trudeau the descendant of a Hindu Princess? Randy Bachman visits the German port where his ancestors fled poverty for the new world, while musician Steven Page unearths details of Nazi massacres of Jews in Poland. Watch as 13 celebrities embark on fascinating journeys to discover their family roots." The British series of the same name has been immensely popular, even spawning a magazine of the same name. We hope that the CBC can create the same buzz for Canadian Family History.

Favourite UK County Sites Next week's favourite county will be actually be a country: Ireland. Irish researchers are well aware of the problems of researching Ireland. A fire in the early 1920's destroyed about two thirds of the parish registers; only fragments of the 19th century censuses remain; and full civil registration did not start in Ireland until 1864. Still there are a lot of web-based resources available. Please send us your favourites for next week's Bulletin. This week's favourite county was Sussex. The silence was deafening - we received no suggestions for websites at all. At the Family History Centre we have 116 films containing mainly Sussex parish records, the National Burial Index CD which contains 315,000 entries for Sussex and the British Isles Vital Records Index which has about 340,000 christenings and 70,000 marriages. As usual the GENUKI website for Sussex is worth perusing closely.
The ForumQuestions: Q1/40/2007. UK.Edward Lawson was 9 months old on 2nd July 1837 when he died of 'Hoopingcough' at the farm called Beckside in Hellifield, near Settle in the county of York. William Lawson, the Brother, Farmer's Son, was the informant. If this is the person I think it is, he would have just been ten years of age. Did an informant on a death certificate have to be 'of age' ? This was also a very early certificate - so maybe restrictions weren't quite so tight?
Q2/40/2007. Wisconsin, USA.Our researcher is wondering why the groom in this wedding photo of about 1900 in Wisconsin is wearing an apron for this formal picture. Also does the gentleman in the front have his hat balanced on a gun or a stick? The rest of the photograph shows a neat two storey farmhouse in the middle of cleared fields with many tree stumps still visible and lots of women and children off to the right. The groom has two glasses and an empty jug (of beer?) in his hands and a stogie hanging out of his mouth. It is a great photo but why the apron?

Q3/40/2007. USA.I can't find my grandfather on the Ellis Island database. The census says he came in 1877. How do I find him?

Films received in the 7 days ending 4 October 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 1 November 2007.


Film Content	Film No
CAN NL St Joseph's RC PR 1874-1899	2169291
DEU Bresin CRs 1874 - 1883	1417608
DEU OLD Church Souces for Research	1045463
DEU Schwetz Kirchenbuch 1856 - 1918	0245588
ENG BDF Dunstable PR 1558-1749	1545404
ENG BDF Dunstable PR 1749-1812	0826468
ENG DEV South Molton PR 1601-1795	0917529
ENG WWI burnt records Powell, M.-	2263527
IRE WIC Delgany 1901 Census	1592785
ITL Petilia Policastro births 1843-1862	1916391
ITL Petilia Policastro births 1871-80	2164071
ITL Petilia Policastro deaths 1809-1852	1916636
ITL Petilia Policastro deaths 1853-1865	1916697
NLD Index to Dutch in French Army A-M	1963041
NLD Zeeland Hulst RC Pr 1715-96	0122382
POL Lodz Belcatow pr 1837-1844	0681033
USA IL Chicago St Cecelia's RC Pr 1885-	1752980

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Were you aware.................. Scotland/CanadaA person with Scottish roots dropped in this week and made us aware of a few more useful Scottish websites:www.ayrshire-roots.com This website has a number of databases which have been indexed for easy searching - about 220,000 records. You must sign in with a password but the searching is free. Databases include Poor Relief and World Wars Casualty indexes but the one our informant found most useful was the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald database. This has the index to many of the Birth, Marriage, Anniversary, Death, Memoriam, Missing in Action, etc. notices from this newspaper. Our researcher found that even when the death was in Canada, notice may have been made in the hometown newspaper. www.monaghan95.freeserve.co.uk This website has access to photographs of many, many headstones and some Scottish towns. While the photographs are no longer on the actual website, email the website owner and he will apparently email you back the requested photograph. Non-Conformist Birth, Marriage and Death Index On-line The National Archives UK announced that they have put Non-confomist BMDs on-line. BMD Registers provides access to the non-parochial and nonconformist registers 1567-1840 held in RG 4 and RG5. As with all the other National Archives records, searching is free but you must pay to download each record.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 39/2007

Needed: questions for The Forum and information for the News from the trenches and the Were you aware...........sections. Next week's county for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be Sussex .

Email problems continue with a new twist last week. It appears that some of our readers' spam-checkers did not like one of the websites for Scotland we had included in our Bulletin last week. Please do let us know if you do not receive the Bulletin - this will help us determine the problem. If you would like last week's Bulletin 38/2007 and did not get it, let us know and we will be happy to send it to you. Remember to add our email address to your list of safe contacts.

In this Bulletin

Announcements - FHC is opening on Tuesday evenings again
The Forum An answer to "What does Of This Parish mean?"
News from the trenches ... Why did English couples marry in Scotland?
In Were you aware... Federation of Family History Societies has On-Line Databases

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be opening again for the winter on Tuesday evenings 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. This is in addition to our 9:30 am to 4:00 pm hours.

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's favourite county will be Sussex.

This week's favourite counties were The Scottish Highland Counties.

Vida Preece writes: "Here are some links for Kintyre.

http://groups.msn.com/Kintyre/kintyregraveyards.msnw

http://www.kintyremag.co.uk (Back issues have quite a bit about genealogy.)

This website contains a pile of links for Scotland:

http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Society_and_Culture/Genealogy/Organisations/

This has a few links for Angus - http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/scotland/angus/index.html "

Sheila Smith sent in a number of interesting websites:

Shetland Family History Home Page at: http://bayanne.info/Shetland/ It contains thousands of records of people born, married or buried in the Shetlands. This should be everyone's first stop if they have a Shetland family.

Shetland Family History Society: http://www.shetland-fhs.org.uk/index.htm

Shetland Newspaper Transcriptions: http://www.jghalcrow.co.uk/
Transcriptions of birth, marriage and death announcements in various newspapers, from 1872-1963.

Orkney Genealogy: http://www.cursiter.com/indexNC.shtml
Also includes information on Caithness and the Shetland Isles. It includes a large index of births, baptisms and marriages.

Highland Family History Centre: http://www.highlandfhs.org.uk/Index.asp

The Scottish Emigration Database: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/index.html
A searchable database put together by the University of Aberdeen, containing the names of over 21,000 passengers. Can be searched by name, town, port of arrival, ship's name etc.

Am Baile: Highland History and Culture: http://www.ambaile.co.uk/en/index.jsp
This site includes photos and audio collections of Highland life and heritage.

Dorothy Stewart adds:

"Here is a GREAT site I have found for MORAY/ELGIN (library index) - http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp

(I have found a lot on my husband’s family members on it.)"

Gwen Armstrong suggests:

Shetland Newspaper Transcriptions BMD 1873-1900 - http://www.jghalcrow.co.uk/bdm/bdm.html

Additionally, for the Lowlands (last week's counties) - Irregular Border and Scottish Runaway Marriages -

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/hlpsrch/sumrmar/runmar.html

The Forum

Questions: No new questions were received this week. Please send some in.

Q2/37/2007. UK. Meaning of the term “of this parish” in marriage records.

Although the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 which set up the Poor Law Unions and the workhouse system stipulated that the parishes within the union were required to support only the poor who had a right of settlement in those parishes, it seems that it did not prevent people from living and working outside their parish of settlement. On the other hand, if they were guilty of vagrancy – begging or prostitution for example – they could be returned to their parish of settlement.

Marriage in a church requires that at least one of the parties has to be a resident of that parish and the banns of marriage have to be called in that parish on three consecutive Sundays (and in the other party’s parish if that situation applied) and that is the rule to this day. However, this rule was easily circumvented. To avoid the additional cost of calling the banns in two parishes a prospective bride or groom would establish “residency” at the address of a friend or relative during the period the banns were being called. Nowadays it is commonplace for a couple who wish to get married in a “pretty” church rather than in their own parish church, will establish residency at a Bed & Breakfast in the desired parish at a special “don’t actually come here” rate. The “pretty” parish church is happy with the additional income thus generated and could be counted on to not ask too many questions

Films received in the 7 days ending 27 September 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 25 October 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN PQ Grenville Baptist pr	2022285
CAN PQ Land records M-T Jul 1856-60	1723582
ENG BKS Wills Archdeaconry 1738-42	1042593
ENG BKS Wills Archdeaconry 1742-45	1042594
ENG BKS Wills Archdeaconry 1756-61	1042598
ENG BKS Wills Archdeaconry 1765-68	1042601
ENG BKS Tingewick PRs BMB 1560-1812	1042441
ENG CON St Ives PR 1651-1868	1595570
ENG ESS Great Clacton pr 1802-87	1702213
ENG ESS Little Clacton pr 1538-1963	1565719
ENG HAM Hambledon Bapt 1778 - 1812	1041206
ENG KEN Preston-Nxt-Faversham PR	2354700
ENG KEN Preston-Nxt-Faversham PR	2354699
ENG LAN Liverpool St Peter BMD 1823-1828	1068925
ENG OXF Banbury BTs BMBs 1606-1817	0095208
ENG OXF Fringford BTs BMB 1680-1856	0095248
ENG OXF Stratton Audley PRs 1696-1950	0887489
ENG Royal Artillery Desc. Books 1815-40	0867036
ENG Royal Artillery Desc. Books 1815-43	0866559
ENG Royal Artillery Desc. Books 1815-45	0866596
GRD Civil Reg 1910-1916	1523259
IND Bombay BMB vol 12 1835-1836	0523839
IND Reg of Madras Soldiers 1786-1839	1885890
IND Reg of Madras Soldiers 1840-1850	1885891
IRL Marriages Vol 7 1849	0101308
NLD Haarlem PR Index Ma 1578 - 1811	0540675
NLD Haarlem PR Index Mi 1578 - 1811	0540677
SVK Kemarok pr 1813-	1739452
SVK Kemarok pr 1813-	1739451
USA MI Muskegon Naturalizations 1898-	1787480

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News from the trenches

Helen Billing noticed the call for useful websites for the Scottish Lowlands last week and wondered how many readers, interested in English genealogy, knew about Gretna Green marriages. "Early on in my research whenever I could not find a marriage record, my mother would say 'Oh, they must have been married in Gretna Green'. Interest piqued, I looked up Gretna Green marriages. Gretna Green was on the stagecoach route between London and Edinburgh, and was the first changing post across the English border into Scotland. When Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act came into effect in 1753, brides and grooms under the age of 21 in England and Wales had to have their parent's permission to marry; and for all, banns had to be read or a marriage licence obtained (Jews and Quakers were exceptions to this part of the law). However the Act did not apply in Scotland, where grooms could marry at 14 and girls at 12 without their parent's consent and banns did not have to be read. The reading of banns in England occasionally resulted in objections being raised and the marriage could not take place.

Scottish law allowed for 'irregular marriages', meaning that, so long as a declaration was made, in front of two witnesses, almost anybody had the authority to conduct the marriage ceremony. The result of these differences was that thousands of English couples were married in Gretna Green's blacksmiths' shops, inns and smallholdings by the owners, self-appointed 'ministers'. Later on, in law, a Gretna Green marriage came to mean a marriage transacted in a jurisdiction that was not the residence of the parties being married, in order to avoid restrictions or procedures imposed by the parties' home jurisdiction. A few (about 4500) of these marriages have been indexed at http://www.achievements.co.uk/services/gretna/index.php .

Currently in England and Wales couples can be married at 16 years of age with parents' consent and 18 without. Couples can marry at 16 with or without parents' consent in Scotland.

Gretna Green has taken advantage of its history and still has a thriving wedding industry. Marriages can be held in the Old Blacksmith's Shop, Anvil Hall, The Mill Hotel and Forge, etc. I have seen estimates that 13 to 15% of all marriages in Scotland currently take place in Gretna Green."

Were you aware..................

The Federation of Family History Societies has searchable on-line databases which have been created by its member family history societies. You must create a user name and password to search the Index. Searching is free but to obtain further details of an entry you will need to establish credit, minimum £5. In each case charges are shown before debiting your account. You have 6 months in which to spend this and each further credit that you add. The charges are very reasonable. For example, one marriage record or baptism record costs a mere £0.06 to look at. Have a look at:

http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 38/2007

More questions are needed for The Forum, and information for the News from the trenches and the Were you aware...........sections would be welcomed. Next week's county for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be The Scottish Highland Counties.

In this Bulletin

Announcements - FHC early closing on Friday, September 21 and OGS Fall Courses & Scottish Family History Workshop

No new questions in The Forum but a couple of interesting answers

In Were you aware... Irish Census records coming on-line; CBC's fall schedule includes "Who Do You Think You Are"; a new decade of overseas passenger lists departing from Britain; and marriage entries missing from the UK Marriage Indexes

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closing at 2pm tomorrow, Friday, September 21

OGS Scottish Family History Workshop and Fall Courses

In two recent Bulletins, the name of James Thomson has been misspelled, first with respect to the course in British Army Records which he is teaching this autumn (http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/courses.html), and then with respect to a session entitled A Survey of Scottish Family History Resources in the GTA which he is delivering as part of the Toronto Branch OGS workshop Exploring Scottish Ancestry on Saturday, November 10 (http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/scottish.html). James is a frequent contributor to the Bulletin.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Two CDs have been added to our permanent collections:

ENG SRY Haslemere BMBs 1770-1812

ENG Lincolnshire Marriages for Huttoft, Mablethorpe St Mary & St Peter with Stain, Stain, Mumby, Mumby Chapel, Trusthorpe, Willoughby and Wilthern

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's favourite counties will be The Scottish Highland Counties. These include: Aberdeen, Forfar (Angus), Argyll, Banff, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannan, Dunbarton, Fife, Inverness, Kinross, Elgin (Moray), Nairn, Orkney, Perth, Ross & Cromarty, Stirling, Sutherland, and Shetland.

This week's favourite counties were The Scottish Lowland Counties.

Wendy Frew sent in these suggested websites:

1. www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (This is the government website. Gwen Armstrong notes that it can be expensive. 6 pounds for 30 credits. Each search will cost you a credit. If you want to view the record it is 5 credits. If there happens to be a change to the record or Reg. of Cor. Entry, it is another 2 credits. It is easy to search and you can find a lot quickly but 6 pounds goes fast.)

2. www.ayrshireroots.com

3. Coal Mining History Resource Centre - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cmhrc/

4. Scottish Mining Museum - http://scottishminingmuseum.com

5. Rampant Scotland - www.rampantscotland.co/genealogy.htm There are lots of suggestions here. If researching Ayrshire, go to Ayrshire in Scotlands Gen Web section. A useful email address would be Jill McColl at the Ardrosson Library's North Ayrshire Local History Department. She was very helpful when I visited the Library.

6. When visiting North Ayrshire, the North Ayrshire Cemeteries Service in Saltcoats is a goldmine. It is within walking distance of the Ardrossan Library.

Gwen Armstrong suggests:

Scotland Borders Family History Society - http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/ I like the Other Websites page. Lots of links to family/surname sites.

Mitchell Library - http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualmitchell/ - old photographs of Glasgow which are searchable

National Archives of Scotland - http://www.nas.gov.uk/familyHistory/

Scotlands Family - www.scotlandsfamily.com

Scottish Lowland Family History Researchers - http://www.geocities.com/elnalexjoe/lowlands.html

Scottish Association of Family History Societies - http://www.safhs.org.uk/ I like this because it has links to all the Scottish Family History Societies. I don't have to go searching.

Catholic Church links - http://home.att.net/~Local_Catholic/Catholic-Scotland.htm

Scotland Census on-line - http://www.freewebs.com/mmjeffery/index.htm

Talking Scot - http://www.talkingscot.com/

Scottish Mining Villages - http://www.mining-villages.co.uk/index.html

National Library of Scotland – digital maps - http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/index.html

The Forum

Questions: No new questions were received this week. Please send some in.

Answers

Q3/37/2007. UK .

A musical question - Can anyone recall the Parson's Nose song, because I want to start singing it to my nieces and nephews at carving time?

Paul Jones suggests that it might be this one:

"Here’s a link to a site with lyrics for a music hall number, “Christmas Day in the Cookhouse”, that may or may not be what your correspondent is seeking with regard to the parson’s nose. None of it is overtly off colour, but one suspects that there may be some euphemisms (e.g. “Fishcakes”) and perhaps some rhyming slang and other wordplay that escapes us today.

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/xmas/christmasdayinthecookhouse.shtml "

Q4/37/2007. UK/Newfoundland.

I am seeking advice regarding searching for my great great grandfather, Robert Woodman, who came from Devon and settled in New Harbour, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland in or about 1812. Could someone suggest a way over this brick wall?

Kathleen Lopez writes:

"I have spent considerable time researching Newfoundland settlers in the English records. Most of the English fisherman who eventually settled in Newfoundland came from within 20 miles of the southern coast of England. They were hired at Fairs and given enough money to walk to their place of embarkation early in the spring. This cuts down your search area for Robert Woodman considerably. If you consult Henry B. Guppy's book, " HOMES OF FAMILY NAMES IN GREAT BRITAIN", you will see that the name was most often found in Northumberland and Middlesex, thus it would not be a common name in the south of England. Spiegelhalter traced it in Devon. Having said all that, there are exceptions. My own ancestor, who settled very close to yours in Trinity Bay, was born in 1799 in North Yorkshire, but spent his youth in Bridport, Dorset. The men who worked the fishing boats in England and who sailed to Newfoundland were considered a source for the Navy --- "a nursery for the navy". There was even an early law which stated that every boat bound for Newfoundland had to have aboard a certain percentage of "green fishermen" - men who were new to fishing. This was because a land soldier could be trained in a short period of time, but men aboard a navy vessel took a long time to train. Therefore the Newfoundland homeward bound fishing vessels were often boarded before returning to port and men were pressed into the navy. The moral of the story is that Robert Woodman may well have never set eyes on the sea before boarding that vessel that took him to Newfoundland.

"I would not put a lot of stock in the story of the 3 brothers. Every person I have ever talked to searching in Newfoundland has a story about 3 brothers coming from England to Newfoundland. There seems to be something mystical about the number 3 in their family lore. But don't be pessimistic as I have had great success searching for ancestors born in England, suddenly appearing in church records in Newfoundland, but with no clue given about their birth place. The more uncommon a name the greater the chance of finding the individual in the English records.

"I had also great success in 1992 searching for the birth place of my Newfoundland NEWHOOK ancestor---with no idea of where he was born in England. No computer at that time!!! I went to the "GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH DIRECTORY" for 1989, 1990 1991 etc. and wrote to the several listed Newhook researchers and got a lead that way. I would suggest that this gentleman go to the library and search back copies of the Directory and see where people were listing their Woodmans. I have looked at my Directory copies for late 1980 and early 1990 listings for WOODMAN and see that people were searching in certain parishes in Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. I would start searching in those parishes for Robert Woodman." ( Editor's Note: The FHC has two " Genealogical Research Directories" in its library - the 2001 and the 2005 Editions. They can be found in the General Research section - three green dots on the top shelf of bookcase #1.)

Along a similar line, the researcher could always check out the RootsWeb mailing list for Devon, searching for Woodman and the Rootsweb Message Boards for Woodman & Devon.

Films received in the 7 days ending 20 September 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 18 October 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN NF Marriage Index 1920-1922	2168861
CAN ON Kent Co. M 1925	2413310
CAN ON Lanark Co. M 1925	2413311
CAN ON Simcoe Co. Marriages 1925	2413322
IRE CAV Kilmore 1911 Census	0812123
ITL Pachino births	1466349
POL Lezajsk (Krzeszow) RC PR 1810-	2002535

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Were you aware..................

Irish Census Records for 1901 and 1911
The Irish census records will be starting to go online this fall at www.nationalarchives.ie. There will be both nominal indexes and the actual census images -- all free of charge. They will go on in stages, starting with the 1911 records for Dublin and then Belfast and eventually covering all 32 counties, including those now in Northern Ireland. They will be accompanied by contextual matter about the history and social conditions and wonderful pictures from the collection of the National Library of Ireland. Catriona Crowe, the Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland, was interviewed about the Irish Census Project on CBC Radio One, Ontario Today, on Monday, September 17. You can link to the interview at http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/story_archive.html. In order to listen to the broadcast you will need to have RealPlayer software on your computer. You can download this from: http://www.real.com.

Who Do You Think You Are?

The CBC is producing a Canadian Version of Who Do You Think You Are?, the genealogical documentary show that follows celebrities as they discover the truth behind a family legend. The series was originally created for the BBC and has been extremely popular there. It is scheduled to premiere on Thursday 11 October 2007 at 7:30pm and will have 13 parts showcasing Canadian celebrities (like Don Cherry, Margot Kidder and Chantal Kreviazuk).

BT27 Overseas Passenger Lists Departing from UK Ports

James Thomson reports that an additional decade (1930-1939) of BT 27 passenger lists for overseas voyages departing from ports in the United Kingdom has now been uploaded to www.ancestorsonboard.com .

Missing UK Marriage Index Entries

Jean Harris alerts us to the fact that a few entries are missing from the published GRO marriage indexes for 1856, 1858 & 1861. These missing entries are available at the following website: http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/StCathsTranscriptions/#Missing .

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Please keep sending your questions and answers for The Forum and information for the News from the trenches and the Were you aware...........sections. Next week's county for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be The Scottish Lowland Counties.

In this Bulletin

Announcements - September Meeting of Toronto Branch of OGS and more information on the Scottish Family History Workshop

Two new questions in The Forum

News from the trenches - a couple of amusing stories

In Were you aware... that the National Burial Index has 13.2 million Records and that our Family History Centre Library can help you decipher those ancient and foreign documents and, finally, James Thomson reminds us of the proposed launch tomorrow of online indexes to and images of certain English Non-Parochial Registers.

Announcements

Toronto OGS Meeting The next meeting of the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will be held on September 24, 2007 at 7:30 pm in the Burgundy Room of the North York Civic Centre (concourse level). The speaker, Bill Bienia, will talk about Genealogical Software Progams. He will compare four of the leading genealogical programs for the PC (RootsMagic, Family Tree Maker, Legacy, and The Master Genealogist). Topics will include ease of use, source citations, augmenting bare facts, creating narratives and chronological profiles, generating charts and reports, books and Web sites, and using data with other programs such as word processors and spreadsheets. From 6:15 pm some members will be there with some of the programs on laptops for informal discussion. Guests are welcome to attend, particularly those who can assist with the pre-meeting demonstrations. If you are willing to help, please contact Linda Reid at reidlinda@rogers.com.

Scottish Family History Workshop - Exploring Scottish Ancestry

The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has announced the line-up of speakers and topics for the Scottish Family History Workshop to be held in Toronto on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at the North York Central Library Auditorium. Both beginners and experienced researchers will find topics of interest. Sessions are as listed below:

A: Scottish Emigration & Canadian Settlement: An Historical Overview - Dr. Kevin James

B: Building a Scottish Family Tree Using ScotlandsPeople - Marian Press

C: Scotland's Other Congregations and Churches: Looking for Records - Sherry Irvine

D: Question and Answer Panel

E: Tour of the North York Central Library's Canadiana Department

F: Scottish Pedigree Analysis: From the late 19th century back over 100 years - Linda Reid

G: A Survey of Scottish Family History Resources on the GTA - James Thompson

H: Valuation Rolls in Scotland - Sherry Irvine

I: General Register Office for Scotland - Paul McGrath

Full details, along with downloadable registration form, are available at www.torontofamilyhistory.org/scottish.html, or by request from 416-733-2608. The program's sponsor is the St. Andrew's Society of Toronto and the program is supported by the Canadiana Department of North York Central Library.

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's favourite counties will be The Scottish Lowland Counties. These include: Ayr, Berwick, Haddington (East Lothian), Edinburgh (Midlothian), Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peeble, Lanark, Linlithgow (West Lothian), Renfrew, Dunfermline, Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown. Please send us suggestions of websites you have found helpful.

Last week's county was Essex. Frances Radford sent us the following three websites:

http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/login.asp - Essex Archives Online

http://www.essexchurches.com/ _Photographs of Essex Churches

http://www.essexpast.net/ - Victorian County History of Essex

Margaret Taylor adds:

Essex Surname List - http://freespace.virgin.net/annemarie.shuttle/

Essex Villages Site - http://www.essexvillages.net/index.html

London, Essex & Kent Pubs, Inns, Taverns & Beer Houses History & Trade Directory - http://essexpub.net/

Essex County Council Website(Local Studies) - http://www.essexcc.gov.uk/vip8/ecc/ECCWebsite/dis/guc.jsp?channelOid=15524&guideOid=17103&guideContentOid=15563

A recent addition to the Online Parish Clerks: - http://essex-opc.org.uk/AboutUs.php

The Forum

New Questions

Q1/37/2007. Czech Republic .

Does the FHC have microfilms of records in the Czech Republic, formerly Czechoslovakia, formerly Bohemia? If so, how do I find them?

Q2/37/2007. UK.

What does "of this parish" really mean in UK marriage records? I have seen the phrase for people seemingly born elsewhere and living elsewhere not long before or after. It implies a person with a residence in the parish but how long do they have to lived there or does it mean anything else?

Q3/37/2007. UK .

A musical question - The tail end of a roasted turkey, the spade shaped part, is referred to as the parson's nose, or the pope's nose, depending on your religious affiliation. When I was very young, dinner at my Grandparents house would often be roast turkey. As it was trotted in to the table, my Grandfather would start to sing a song about the parson's nose, which must have had suggestive lyrics unsuitable for youngsters as Grandmother would always hush him up in short order, to the guffaws of all the male adults present. My Grandfather died when I was only eight so I never learned the words to The Parson's nose song. Can anyone recall this, because I want to start singing it to my nieces and nephews at carving time?

Q4/37/2007. UK/Newfoundland.

I am seeking advice regarding searching for my ancestors in Devon. My great-great grandfather, Robert Woodman, settled in New Harbour, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland in or about 1812. He married a Priscilla but we have not located a marriage record that might have parental information. They had a first child in 1815, but the baptismal record contains no additional information. Based on Robert's grave stone he died in 1868 age 85 which puts his birth about 1783. Family folklore says he was from Devon and left England with two brothers, one of whom went on to settle in the Maritimes, perhaps PEI, and the other in the USA, perhaps near Boston. Based on the repeated family names, I would guess at their likely first names being either John, James, William or Edward. I have been told that only a small number of Parish records have been filmed by the IGI/FHC, and to find a Woodman family in Devon, who had 3 sons born in the late 1700s who did not marry or die there would be impossible, because of the number of Parish records to search. And as yet I do not know Robert's birth town, nor the names of his parents. Could someone suggest a way over this brick wall?

Films received in the 7 days ending 13 September 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 11 October 2007

NO FILMS RECEIVED THIS WEEK

News from the trenches

Many thanks to Paul Branson for contributing the following stories:

After the Crimean War in the 1850's, His Majesty, the King of Sardinia, saw fit to award 400 medals to British troops for exceptional displays of Military Valour. Here is an excerpt from the rolls outlining the bravery of Private P. McGuire, AND the reason he never received his medal.

No. 3510 Private P, McGuire.... Was in advance on the 18th of June 1855 in the attack and capture of the cemetery by the Second Brigade Third Division. Was one of those who reached close under the Russian Batteries. Though severely wounded in the left hand, he remained at his post during the whole day, firing on the Russian Embrasures.

Why did he not receive his decoration for this meritorious service? A hand written note in the margin explains all.

"has deserted since he was recommended for the medal"

Many family researchers who are also interested in history will know that public schooling started in England around 1865. As a teenager I would often visit my Great Uncle Horace to visit/interrogate him for family information. He told me that when he was in school, in order to remember a date, the kids were often taught a song or verse. Here are the words to a song he related to me about the start of the public school system in England, and you can tell, for what may have been the norm a generation earlier, there was now a stigma attached to people who lacked schooling or were illiterate. Dear old Uncle Horace was not much of a singer, so I do not remember the tune!

The members of our school board

must be men of common sense

To do their duty nobly, without the least offence

And for those who must still work

To keep their families alive,

Should be free of persecution, in 1865

Were you aware..................

The Family History Centre has the set of four CDs of the National Burial Index. These CDs contain 13.2 million burial records in England and Wales and complements the International Genealogical Index (IGI) which is mainly a finding aid to baptisms and marriages. It is very fast and easy to use. This is a volunteer project by the local family history societies, and some of the counties are better covered than others. As pointed out last week coverage of Hertfordshire is almost complete for burials up to 1837; and this week's county, Essex, has more than half a million recorded burials listed. If you do find any ancestors on the National Burial Index, do order in the LDS film to check the original parish records, if they are available. You never know what interesting tidbits you might find - occasionally the parish clerk will write "Small Pox" or "Cholera" or "Suicide" or something much more interesting.

Our Family History Centre's library is another underused resource. A couple of the more useful books are:

Abbreviations and Acronyms - Did you know that vid. means widow? or that vf. is a widower? or that av. is years lived (annos vixit)? or IGI is International Genealogical Index? Have a look at this book when you come across a term you do not understand.

Following the Paper Trail - A Multilingual Translation Guide - This excellent guide is broken down into four basic sections by language groups - Germanic, Romance, Slavic and Other. Each language within each group is starts with the alphabet and then proceeds with examples of documents and writing and common forenames in each country, and concludes each language with a genealogical dictionary. One of our researchers of German records has relied entirely on this book for translations of the records she has been looking at.

The books in our FHC Library have a rather unorthodox filing system: the general interest books have a series of blue dots (the two examples above have 4 blue dots for Interpretation of Records); books on Asia have gold stars; Canadian books have red dots; books about the States have green dots; books on England have red stars; Ireland has green stars; Scotland has blue stars; and Wales has yellow dots. For a list of our books, have a look in the grey FHL books folder on bookcase 3, shelf 4. A more detailed explanation of the filing system can be found in the back.

Non-Parochial Registers in England & Wales (RG 4, RG 5, RG 6, RG 7, and RG 8). James Thomson writes: "As a brief follow-up to last week's extensive piece about the fact that these series at The National Archives (at Kew) are being digitized, don't forget that tomorrow, September 14, is the scheduled launch day for series RG 4 and RG 5 at: www.bmdregisters.co.uk ; more information about these series is on this website and in last week's Bulletin. The official names of these series is as follows:

RG 4: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Surrendered to Non-Parochial Registers Commissions

RG 5: Birth Certificates from the Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist Registry and from the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry, 1742-1840

I look forward to seeing how this information is presented online.

Some of these records, as noted in http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/people/nonconformist.htm , have at least been partially indexed before; both the IGI and the British Isles Vital Records Index (2nd edition, on CD at the Family History Centres and the Toronto Reference Library), for instance, contain some entries drawn from these series. I have read that the IGI is estimated to include about 80% of entries in TNA’s RG 4 class. The British Isles Vital Records Index notably includes many entries from:

a) The Protestant Dissenters Registry (Dr. Williams’ Library) (containing records of nearly 50,000 pre-1837 births of children born to Baptist, Presbyterian or Independent/Congregationalist families; note that parents of the mother may be given)

b) The Wesleyan Methodist and Metropolitan Registry (10,000 births and baptisms, most 1818-1837; again, parents of the mother may be given)."

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 36/2007

We received a couple of questions for The Forum this week but please send us more questions or gems for the News from the trenches and the Were you aware...........sections. Next week's county for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be Essex.

In this Bulletin

Announcements - Re-opening on Tuesday evenings on October 2

Acquisitions in Additions to our Permanent Collections

A couple of new questions in The Forum and an answer to last week's Polish question

In Were you aware... Toronto OGS offers a one day Scottish Family History Workshop and Fall Courses in Genealogy; and James Thomson describes five new developments which we can look forward to, the first happening at the end of next week..

Announcements

The Family History Centre will be opening on Tuesday evenings 6:30-9:30 starting on October 2, for the winter.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

BOOK CAN Western Canadian Directories on microfiche and microfilm - A Finding Aid

CD ENG SRY Stoke D'Abernon Bap 1619-1812; Mar 1620-1812; Bur 1619-1812 (not complete)

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's favourite county will be Essex. Please send us suggestions of websites you have found helpful.

Last week's counties were Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. The Hertfordshire Family History Society has transcribed all the burial data (137,000 entries) for the 138 parishes in Hertfordshire from 1800 to 1837. It is part of the National Burial Index CD set which the Family History Centre has as part of its CD collection. The NBI includes the following information (where available): forename(s) and surname of the deceased; date of burial; age (if available); and details of the place where this was recorded. The CD set can be found on the bottom shelf of bookshelf three. Bedfordshire burials are also very well represented on these CDs, with approximately 356,000 burials listed for their 141 parishes.

Carol Lewis has again contributed many interesting websites - this time for Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire:

Genealogy in Hertfordshire - http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/index.htm

Hertfordshire old maps - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_Pages/ENG_pages/hrt.htm

Leighton Linslade Past Times - http://www.leighton-linslade.com/

Pictures of Olde Tring - http://www.oldtring.co.uk/

Hemel Hempstead War Memorial - http://www.dacorumheritage.org.uk/ww1-rolls-HemelHempstead.htm

Hertfordshire Family History Society - http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/websites/hfphs.htm

Bedfordshire Family History Society - http://www.bfhs.org.uk/

Bedfordshire Towns and Villages Photo Album - http://www.countyviews.com/beds/index.htm

Bedfordshire Gaol - http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/

Poll Book of Bedfordshire 1722 - http://www.rabancourt.co.uk/abacus/p1722h.html

Poll Book of Bedfordshire 1784 - http://www.rabancourt.co.uk/abacus/p1784h.html

Bedfordshire and Luton Archives - http://blars.adlibsoft.com/form.html

Biggleswade History Society - http://www.biggleswadehistory.org.uk/

An incorrect Buckinghamshire link was given last week. The Index to Robson's 1839 Directory of Buckinghamshire by David Kolle is - for names A-F: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Directories/bucksdira.html ; for names G-O: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Directories/bucksdirg.html and for names P-Y: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Directories/bucksdirp.html .

The Forum

Answers: Q2/35/2007 Poland

My cousin believes her mother, born in 1907, was from a town in Poland called Swintsian. Could someone suggest where this town might likely have been, and how the name might be properly spelled and pronounced?

Many thanks to Paul Jones for the following comprehensive answer: "I went to JewishGen (http://www.jewishgen.org/ ) and entered Swintsian in the search engine. My rationale: So many eastern European communities had a significant Jewish community in days of yore and have been extensively studied by Jewish genealogists.

Three communities came up. One was in SW Germany and can be easily dispensed with. Another Zbąszyń, 345 km west of Warsaw, was known as Bentschen c. 1900 and was part of Germany, so it doesn’t sound too convincing either.

The third, corresponding to one of the target communities identified by your correspondent, is variously written as Švenčionys [Lith], Sventzion [Yid], Święciany [Pol], Shventsian [Rus], Svencionyz, Shvintzion, Shvyentsiani, Shvyetsiani, Svenchan, Sventsian, Sventsiany, Swenziany, Svintzian and is part of present-day Lithuania. Between the wars, c. 1930, it was part of Poland, but before WWI, c. 1900, it was in the Russian Empire. This yo-yo existence certainly fits with the suspicions of the questioner. Note the also the almost exact identity between Swintsian as posed in the question and Shventsian as the town was c. 1900, as well as two of the name variants Swenziany and Svintzian. I’m not saying this is the right place—but it surely deserves to be studied carefully until something better comes along.

Your correspondent can pursue this further by going to http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Svencionys/svencionys.html where there is geographical and historical information about the town (albeit from a predominantly Jewish perspective), along with links suggesting further research, including one to the current municipal website (although it’s not in English!).

It might also be worth talking with someone who actually knows something about this part of the world, maybe someone from the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada ( Toronto) - www.jgstoronto.ca/About.html ."

New Questions

Q1/36/2007. Canada.

Our fame spreads! We are now receiving e-mails from England with new questions. "I am interested in obtaining a full birth certificate for one of my ancestors -WILBERT FRANK DREDGE who was born in Nepenee, Ontario 25th October 1891." Using this sparse information, FHC staff were able to find the marriage of Wilbert's parents in Napanee and Wilbert's marriage to Bertha Vosburgh in South Frederickburgh. But we have been unable to find birth certificates for either Wilbert or Bertha. In 1901 Wilbert is living with his maternal grandparents - George and Minerva Keller. We found no trace of the death of Wilbert's parents - Harry or Harvey and Minnie. Could anyone suggest a further avenue for exploration? What percentage of births and deaths were registered in Ontario around that time frame?

Q2/36/2007. USA.

My immigrant ancestors spent their first few years (1905-1906) in Freehold, New Jersey. I only know that they communicated by mail at a P.O. Box there, and we believe they lived on a farm, possibly with a relative. Would anyone know how to trace the owners of US Post Box Numbers?

Films received in the 7 days ending 6 September 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 4 October 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN NF Marriage Index 1892-1920	2168860
CAN NF Marriage Returns 1913-1922	2168997
CAN NF Placentia RC PR 1822-1944	2169241
CAN NF Placentia RC PR 1822-1944	2169240
CAN ON Carleton marriages 1925	2412462
CAN ON Victoria marriages 1925	2413330
CAN PQ Quebec St Patrick's CRs 1888-1896	1853794
DEU Mittelreidenbach PR 1755-1889	0584949
DEU Sien PR 1704-27, 1798-1869	0556072
ENG CON Scilly Isles PRs 1726 - 1834	0254230
ENG DEV Exeter Death Dty Reg 1796-	1368367
ENG DUR Chester-le-Street PR 1582-	0091090
ENG ESS Little Waltham PR 1538-1875	1526972
ENG HER Weston-Beggard PR 1591-	1040030
ENG LAN St Thomas L'pool BMD 1821 - 1875	1068943
ENG LEI Ashby de la Zouch BTs 1563-	0585295
ENG MDX Spitalfields PR mar 1783-1812	0592625
ENG MDX St Martin in Fields PR 1550-	0560373
ENG SOM Pitminster BTs 1597 - 1836	1470913
ENG WO 69/120 description books RA	0866580
ENG WO 69/79 description books RA	0866546
GRD Register of Records 1889-1894	1563414
IND Bombay CMBs 1835	0623839
IRE CAV Kilmore 1911 Census	0812125
ITL Pachino marriages	1466350
ITL Petilia Policastro PR 1866-1910	2164072
NLD Ede BMD 10 year tables 1883-1892	0518718
NLD Oldemarkt births 1863-1912	1300058
POL Lezajsk (Krzeszow) RC PR 1853-	2002536
POL Lodz Belchatow Births 1841-1851	0681034
RUS Zhitomir Metrical Books 1843-1885	1884071
SVK Nova Lesna Evang PRs 1859 - 1946	1791937
UKR L'viv Gk Cath Metr.Bks 1784-1847	1925039
UKR Zalszczyk RC PR 178-1881	2329199
USA NY NY City Marriage Index 1888-97	1653852

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.

News from the trenches

Last week's feature on the County of Buckinghamshire mentioned a website for looking up wills of ancestors - http://apps.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms/wills/search.aspx. Helen Billing used the website (which she had submitted!) and found a number of useful wills, of which she had been unaware. The note last week mentioned that copies of the wills could be purchased by mail but once the date has been ascertained, the appropriate LDS film can easily be ordered.

Were you aware..................

The Toronto branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is offering a one day workshop on Scottish family history research on November 10, 2007. For more information on this and their fall offering of family history courses, please see their website: http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/courses.html .

James Thomson alerts us to future developments on five fronts in British Isles research, as follows:

" 1. Passenger Lists: Arrivals in the United Kingdom.

In Bulletin 32/2007, of August 9, 2007, I answered a question which had been submitted to the Forum and which related in part to eastbound transatlantic passenger manifests, from North America to the British Isles. Just as there is a record series containing lists of westbound transatlantic passengers (and passengers on other voyages headed for ports overseas) prepared at the point of embarkation in the United Kingdom (series BT 27 at The National Archives (TNA) at Kew, London, entitled Board of Trade Passenger Lists Outwards, 1890-1960 – the series being indexed and digitized at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/ ), so there is a record series containing eastbound transatlantic passenger lists (and lists of passengers on other voyages which originated at ports overseas) prepared at the point of arrival in the United Kingdom: the Board of Trade Passenger Lists Inwards, 1878-1960, which are held at TNA as series BT 26. For more information about the BT 26 series, see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=106 , http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=243 and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/migrantancestors/passengers.htm.

In answering the Forum question, I had noted that, as part of its 2005-2011 digitization program, the aim of which is to place digital copies of all of TNA's most popular series online by 2011, TNA had indicated that it hoped to launch a project to digitize and index the BT 26 lists sometime this year, with a completion date of 2009. There has been important news since. The partner in this undertaking now has been announced as Ancestry.co.uk, and it is hoped that some results from this indexing and digitization project may be uploaded as early as the fall of 2008. If, as with current Ancestry.co.uk databases, the resulting database is included in AncestryLibraryEdition, then, absent some catastrophic change in the status quo, such database would be freely accessible to all Toronto Public Library (TPL) cardholders at all TPL branches.

How terrific it will be to be able to follow ancestors back and forth across the Atlantic, using tools such as (a) Ancestry's US Immigration Collection, containing indexes to and images of passenger lists prepared at the point of arrival in the US; (b) the equivalent databases for 1865-1935 Canadian passenger lists and related records being undertaken by Library and Archives Canada and Ancestry.ca (see my earlier e-mail); (c) the indexes, transcriptions and images of 1890-1960 passenger lists prepared at the point of departure from ports in the UK and now uploaded in part at www.ancestorsonboard.com ; and (d) this new database comprised of indexes to and digital images of 1878-1960 passenger lists (for eastbound transatlantic and other incoming voyages which originated overseas) prepared at the port of arrival in the UK. Remember also that ports now in the Republic of Ireland were included in the definition of UK ports up to the very early 1920s.

2. Registration of Aliens

Three other TNA series relating to immigration to the UK are being digitized and indexed by Ancestry.co.uk as part of the same general project, as follows:

HO 2 (Home Office: Aliens Act 1836: Certificates of Arrival of Aliens, 1836-1852)
HO 3 (Home Office: Aliens Act 1836: Returns and Papers, 1836-1860 and 1867-1869)
HO 5 (Home Office: Aliens' Entry Books, 1794-1921)

For more information about the content of these series, see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=243#13 and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/migrantancestors/alien.htm

3. Non-Parochial Registers in England & Wales (RG 4, RG 5, RG 6, RG 7, and RG 8)

In February 2007, it was announced (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/151.htm) that S&N Genealogy Supplies Ltd. would index and digitize several well-used TNA record series, including the series RG 4 to RG 8 inclusive, which contain "Non-Parochial Registers" from England and Wales. For more information about these series, see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/people/nonconformist.htm but note that RG 4 - RG 8 do not include just Protestant nonconformist records (such as Quaker, Methodist, Independent, Baptist and Presbyterian records etc.); as Amanda Bevan notes on page 46 of Tracing Your Ancestors in the National Archives: the Website and Beyond (7th edition, 2006), "...in addition to several thousand Protestant Nonconformist registers, the collection also includes a number of Church of England registers from churches outside the usual parish structure, 77 Catholic registers, a few registers of foreign churches in England and some cemetery registers." Various records of clandestine marriages are also included -- many, though, of uncertain reliability.

Next week's Bulletin will describe these series at greater length, as we will then be on the eve of the appearance online of the first fruits of this project: indexes to and digital images of two of these series, RG 4 and RG 5, are scheduled to launch at www.bmdregisters.co.uk on September 14, 2007, a week from tomorrow. For information about the launch, see http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/launch_info.php and http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/launch_info_list.php . (Many thanks also to Marian Press for having alerted me to the fact that the launch is reported as well in Family Tree magazine.)

Some of these records, as noted in http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/people/nonconformist.htm , have at least been partially indexed before; both the IGI and the British Isles Vital Records Index (2nd edition, on CD), for instance, contain some entries drawn from these series. The webpage just noted also refers to digest registers on microfilm at the Society of Friends Library in London; these manuscript Quaker records (compiled prior to the transmission of the registers themselves and their eventual deposit at TNA as series RG6) are also available at the Toronto (Don Mills) FHC.

4. Births, Deaths & Marriages at Sea

The digitization and indexing project referred to in the preceding section also will include, in due course, these three TNA series respecting British-registered vessels and/or UK nationals (for more information, see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=246 and the sources mentioned therein):

BT 158: Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers at Sea (births 1854-1890, deaths 1854-1890, marriages 1858-1883)

BT 159: Registers of Deaths at Sea of British Nationals, 1875-1891

BT 160: Registers of Births at Sea of British Nationals, 1875-1891

For launch information, see: http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/launch_info_list.php .

Note that BT 158 registers can now (and in future) be freely consulted on microfilm at the Toronto (Don Mills) FHC; the film numbers are 1419469-1419472 inclusive. For the BT 158 registers, see also http://www.findmypast.com/resources/bmdatsea/ .

5. Overseas Baptisms, Marriages and Burials of UK Nationals

The digitization and indexing project referred to in Section 3, above, also will include, in due course, the TNA series RG 32 to RG 36 inclusive, containing non-statutory returns of certain overseas births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials deposited with the Registrar General (for more information see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/guide/migrantancestors/overseas.htm ). For launch information, see: http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/launch_info_list.php

The first webpage in the preceding paragraph refers also to records of baptisms, marriages and burials in British India; remember that indexes to these are held at the Toronto (Don Mills) FHC, and that the original entries on microfilm can be borrowed from Salt Lake City. Lastly, the same webpage refers as well to registers and transcripts (of entries of overseas baptisms, marriages and burials) now at the Guildhall Library (for which, see also http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/overseas.htm); I understand that more good news on this front, also, may soon be forthcoming from the Toronto (Don Mills) FHC."

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 35/2007

We received a few questions for The Forum this week but new questions or information for the News from the trenches and the Were you aware...........sections are really helpful. Next week's counties for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.

In this Bulletin

Announcements - Holiday closing

Acquisitions in Additions to our Permanent Collections

Three questions to set you thinking in The Forum

In Were you aware... James Thomson describes the new (beta) interface for free searches in historical issues of the London Gazette; we list the Toronto OGS Fall Courses in Genealogy; Margaret Taylor tells us of Genealogy Podcasts (!)

Announcements

As announced last week, the Family History Centre will be closed this Saturday and Monday for the holiday weekend.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

New fiche have arrived to augment our permanent collection:

6128583 ENG NTH Peterborough St. John Baptisms 1789-1807; Burials 1781-1807

6142044 ENG OXF Hethe (Heath) St Edmund & St George Bap 1679-1997; Mar 1701-1997; Ban 1755-1994; Bur 1678-1997

6129458 ENG NTH Woodford nr Thrapston PRs Baptisms 1806-1812; Burials 1801-1812

6129474 ENG NTH Woodford nr Thrapston PRs Baptisms & Marriages 1764-1812

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's counties will be Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. If you have found any useful internet sites for these counties, please let us know. Last week's county was Buckinghamshire.

Carol Lewis has contributed a great list of internet sites:

The Buckinghamshire Surname List - http://webpages.charter.net/dcarlsen/genuki/BKM/bucksurname.html

The Buckinghamshire Family History Society - They have a new online store where you can purchase parish records for some parishes, on fiche, paper or CDs which are easy to use and great aids for research. They also have other records available. They have a data base of birth, marriage and burial records for many parishes and offer searches of these for a reasonable fee. - http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/

1841 census transcriptions for:

Gt. Marlow - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/marlow1841.htm

Aylesbury - http://www.lanchbury.id.au/genealogy/aylesbury1841.html

Waddesdon - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lanchbury/waddesdon1841.html

Hedgerley - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lanchbury/hedgerley1841.html

Grandborough - http://www.lanchbury.id.au/genealogy/bledlow1500.html

Fulmer - http://www.lanchbury.id.au/genealogy/fulmer1841.html

Transcription of Parish Register for Bledlow Ridge - http://www.lanchbury.id.au/genealogy/bledlow1500.html

All of the above census and parish registers transcriptions can be found at the Lanchbury site map - http://www.lanchbury.id.au/genealogy/sitemap.html

A one place study of Wing, Buckinghamshire - http://www.wing-ops.org.uk/index.html

Victorian Prisoners, Aylesbury Gaol - http://apps.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms/libPrisoners/index.aspx

County Photos Buckinghamshire/Bedfordshire - http://www.countyviews.com/

Buckinghamshire Poll 1784 - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pobjoyoneill/ENGPOLLS/buck1784.html

Beautiful pictures and some local history for the area around Lacey Green - http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/laceygreen/speen/speen.htm

Another reader adds a few more sites:

Buckinghamshire Wills Index On-Line - http://apps.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms/wills/search.aspx Archdeaconry of Buckingham Wills 1483-1858. Searchable Index of testators. Wills may be purchased by post.

The People of Tingewick - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tingewick/ A very comprehensive look at the inhabitants of Tingewick, complete with family trees, pictures, census transcriptions, etc.

Pigots's Trade Directory 1830 - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Epobjoyoneill/tradedir/bkm1830/bkm1830.htm An index of the trades people of Bucks giving their location and the page number of the original publication.

Robson's Directory 1839 - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Epobjoyoneill/tradedir/bkm1830/bkm1830.htm An index of names with trade and location.

Bucks Family Websites - http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbkm/websites.html A list of the families of Bucks who have their own website.

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New Questions

Q1/35/2007. England.

In the 1901 Henry Cook, a groom, is shown as living in Great Holland, Essex "In the Street" as were many other families. Almost all seem to be employed. What does this mean?

Basically this means that Harry is living on " Main Street". Because Great Holland is rather small, despite its name, there was no need for street names or numbers in 1901. The Street was enough for the postman to find Harry. Because Great Holland is so small, using old Ordnance Survey maps you can probably pinpoint the very house Harry lived in. Go to Old-Maps-UK: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/indexmappage2.aspx and enter "Great Holland, Essex" in the Search Bar. A map of the town will appear. Scroll down and you can chose a map of three different dates. As the census to which you refer is 1901, try looking at the 1898 map. On the census page, you will notice that Harry is living right next to Manor Farm. So his house is the dot to the right of Manor Farm and the other residents who are living "In the Street" are living in other buildings along the main road.

Q2/35/2007. Poland.

My cousin believes her mother, born in 1907, was from a town in Poland called Swintsian. We know that the people from that geography called their area " Poland" but it may, in fact, have been Russia. Because of spelling and transliteration, I am not sure where the town is located or how it would be pronounced or spelled in the correct language. I have found two likely locations. The first is about 50 km north-east of Vilnius in today's Lithuania, called Svencionys, and the other possibility is in today's Poland, either Szczecin or Szczecinek. Could someone suggest where this town might likely have been, and how the name might be properly spelled and pronounced?

Q3/35/2007. England.

Our reader writes that "his wife's family is causing him problems" (only genealogically, we trust): One of my wife's relatives married Edward Kennard born 1829 Bologne. How can I learn if he were a British or a French Subject ? None of the censuses that I have seen has indicated anything, nor does the IGI.

Films received in the 7 days ending 30 August 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 27 September 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN NB Saint John Cathdl PR 1855-1861	0861217
CAN NB Saint John Cathdl PR 1862-1868	0861218
CAN NB Saint John Cathdl PR 1868-1873	0861219
CAN NB Saint John RC PR 1837-1858	1412416
ENG LAN Mancheser cathedral burials	2357001
ENG LAN Ringley St. Saviour's pr	2356506
ENG Mil. Recs. (Unburnt) 1914-1920 G	1735234
ENG wills 1891 'H'	1544514
ENG YKS Northowram PRs 1744-1837	0828149
ENG YKS Skelbrooke BT 1609-1836	0919308
NLD Medemblik RC PR 1664-1811	0115813
NLD Medemblik RC PR 1750-1811	0115816
WLS DEN Wrexham Ruthin Road Mis	2276537

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United Kingdom . Gazettes Online. James Thomson writes: “A new and improved (beta) interface for free searches of archived issues (back to February 1665/6) of the London Gazette (and, in due course at least, the Edinburgh Gazette for Scotland and the Belfast Gazette for Northern Ireland), is available at http://beta.gazettes-online.co.uk/ . This is the official (government) newspaper of record, and here we find things such as, by way of example: notices of and citations for honours, awards and medals, and of admissions to orders of chivalry; announcements of military, naval and militia appointments and changes of rank; official despatches during wartime; notices of civil, church and legal appointments; announcements of changes of name; notices respecting the naturalization of aliens; and notices or advertisements respecting company and partnership dissolutions, insolvencies and bankruptcies, and claims respecting estates, etc.. There are useful descriptions at: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/official-publications/gazettes.htm and at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Gazette .

An "Advanced Search" interface for searches in the archived issues is at http://beta.gazettes-online.co.uk/AdvancedSearch.aspx ; search terms are entered in the "Words" section, and there is an option to restrict the search to a date range of one's choice (or to certain pre-defined "historic events", such as World War 1). (There is also a "Search Builder" facility at http://beta.gazettes-online.co.uk/SearchBuilder.aspx?Step=1 which permits one to construct a search one step at a time.) The results which are returned are presented first as snippets; if any one looks interesting, click on "See PDF" to launch Adobe Reader and see a digital image of the full relevant page of the Gazette. If one then wants to go back a page or forward a page within the Gazette, change the page number in the "Go to Page" box above the digital image, and click on "Go". Happy searching!"

Autumn Family History Courses

The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is offering a number of diverse and interesting courses this fall:

Basic Genealoy and Family History - Jane MacNamara

Introduction to English Family History Research - Linda Reid

Researching Community & Municipal Records at the Archives of Ontario - James Gordon & Keisha Gordon

Wehe There's a Will, There's a Way: Finding Ontario Estate Files - Jane MacNamara

Advertising Your Ancestors - Marian Press

Finding Your ancestors in Newspapers - Marian Press

British Army Records - James Thompson

More detailed course information can be found on the OGS website: courses@torontofamilyhistory.org

Podcasts

Magaret Taylor write to tell us of podcasts produced by the National Archives, available free for download from:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/rss/podcasts.xml

There are currently 23 podcasts available including Wills; Births and Deaths at Sea; and Sources and Resources at the Family Records Centre.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 34/2007

Please send us more questions as we have received no new questions for The Forum or interesting tidbits for the Were you aware...........section. Next week's county for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be Buckinghamshire.

In this Bulletin

FHC holiday closures in Announcements

Acquisitions in Additions to our Permanent Collections

Book Sale in News from the Trenches

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on Thursday, August 30 due to staff holidays.

It will also be closed for the Labour Day holiday on Saturday, September 1 and Monday, September 3.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

The Family History Centre has purchased 13 CD's from the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society. They are transcripts of much of the 1851 census for Manchester, Salford and the surrounding area which were damaged by water while in storage, making them impossible to film. The data recovery on each CD ranges from 57% to 97%. Below is the description of each CD and the FHC CD number. You will find them on the third shelf of the third bookcase.

BR35	ENG LAN Ashton-under-Lyne 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR36	ENG LAN Chorlton-on-Medlock 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR37	ENG LAN Ardwick 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR38	ENG LAN Prestwich, Blackley & Harpurhey 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR39	ENG LAN Pendleton & Pendlebury 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR40	ENG LAN Oldham Below Town 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR41	ENG LAN Salford, Greengate 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR42	ENG LAN Manchester, St George 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR43	ENG LAN Hulme 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR44	ENG LAN Deansgate 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR45	ENG LAN London Road 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR46	ENG LAN Rusholme, Gorton & Openshaw 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)
BR47	ENG LAN Salford, Regent Road 1851 Census Unfilmed Returns (Transcripts)

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's county will be Buckinghamshire. Please send us your suggestions.

This week's county is Suffolk. We received the following ideas from Margaret Taylor:

Suffolk Record Office: http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/LeisureAndCulture/LocalHistoryandHeritage/SuffolkRecordOffice/

Suffolk Surnames of interest: www.suffolk-surnames-list.co.uk

RAOGK ( Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness) Look ups by volunteers:(Scroll down for England/Suffolk)

http://www.raogk.org/england.htm

and of course Genuki: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/

Ellen Maki writes: Here are some websites that I have found useful in my Suffolk research:

Index to cemeteries located along the Waveney River The Waveney District Council Cemetery Index: http://www.waveney.gov.uk/Environment/Cemeteries/cemeteries_index.htm (The records for Lowestoft are particularly useful going back to the late 1800’s.)

The Cosford database is run by Ray Long: http://fp.raylong.plus.com/

The following site doesn’t contain any genealogical information, but it’s interesting to see our ancestors’ places of worship. http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ (It has excellent pictures of 585 Suffolk churches with accompanying text describing the churches. Check out Southwold St. Edmund - the pictures of the rood screen and the carved hand rests in the choir stall are quite amazing.)

4. The Suffolk Family History Society: http://www.suffolkfhs.co.uk/ (It has a very good links page.)

More Welsh sites: Thanks to Sheila Emblem who found the following sites very helpful in researching her ancestors in Flintshire, NE Wales:

http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/index.shtml

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mossvalley/index.html ;

http://www.northwalesbmd.org.uk/

Vida Preece writes: 'One of my favourite ways to look up names is the following. I go to the Google search engine. I then type in the name of an ancestor inside quotes. i.e. "Thomas Brown" I sometimes add the spouse in separate quotes. "Isabel Watt". I then put in the name of a place such as Murroes. It's amazing how often I find someone who is also researching the same people.'

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/33/2007. Canada. Eleazar King (Roy? Roi? Leroy?) was born in Lower Canada ( Quebec) in 1811/12. His descendants were listed as "French" on the census forms, so obviously his name must have been changed. He was married and lived for a time in the Niagara region (St Davids) before moving to Brantford. Would anyone have an idea as to how I might go about tracking down Eleazar and his ancestors?

Susan Hampton suggests: The person trying to track down Eleazar King/Roy/Roi/Leroy may find this site useful: http://www.bms2000.org/default.aspx

This site was one of many recommended by the Societe Franco-Ontarienne at a course held at the North York Reference Library last spring. To access the site, a password is required, which can be obtained without charge. Limited information can be obtained for free, but there is a small charge for more complete information. The details of Catholic marriages which occurred in the province of Quebec and in some northern Ontario parishes are provided on this site. A certificate lists the name of the bride and groom, their parents, former spouses (if any) and the date and place of the marriage. There are many options for searching. One can search by the name (or first part thereof) of either spouse or of the parents of the bride or the groom. There are also some baptism and burial records available.

The North York Reference Library also holds a number of parish records, available upon request. If you know the area where the wedding likely occurred, you may be able to track down some information this way.

Your editor found in the Ontario census records from 1851 to 1881 that Eleazar (Ebenezer, Elizar) King was married to a Mary, but found no trace of a previous wife or children.

Films received in the 7 days ending 23 August 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 20 September 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Leeds Co. Marriages 1923	1838208
CAN ON Toronto Marriages 1923	2266923
ENG KEN Boxley PR 1559-1876	1473727
ENG KEN Boxley PR 1678-1895	1473728
ENG Military Records A-E 1914-1920	2081342
ENG SOM Staple-Fitzpaine BTs 1599-1855	1470977
FRA Pais-Bas history	1181886
GRD Civ Reg Births 1905-1910	1523217
IDN Dutch Nationals fam archive Kl-Kis	1304067
IND Bombay CMBs 1864	0523923
ITL Petilia Policastro PR 1872-1910	2164073
JAM Marriages 1848-1871	1291746
JAM St. Andrew pr 1664-1870	1291698
NLD Amsterdam Marriages 1758-1783	0114685
NLD Amsterdam Marriages 1761-1769	0114668
POL Lodz Belchatow B 1851-61 D 1854-58	0681036
POL Lodz Belchatow D 1838-53 M 1844-64	0681035
POL Poznan Wladyslawow (Turek) 1776-1807	0764480
RUS BES Borodino familybook 1881-00	1768282
RUS St. Petersburg 1885	1897692
SCT Edinburgh Wills 1798	0231129
SVK Nova Lesna RC PRs 1762 - 1895	1791936
UKR L'viv Gk Cath Metr.Bks 1841	2270165
UKR L'viv Uhnow RC PR 1680-1945	2039909
UKR Zalszczyk RC PR 1763-1879	0757268
USA NY Manhattan - AD8 Census 1905	1432883
USA NY state census 1905 ad 16	1433091

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News from the Trenches

British Family History Books. Linda Reid tells us that GENfair - the on-line bookstore of the Federation of Family History Societies (UK) - is closing down. Many books are now less than half-price. For researchers of British family history there are bargains at: www.genfair.com/shop/pages/fed/index.html

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 33/2007

The drought of film arrivals ended this week with 40 films being received. Some Bulletins bounced back to us last week but not too many. Keep sending us questions for The Forum and snippets for the News from the trenches and the Were you aware...........sections. Next week's county for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be Suffolk.

In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to a TV programme in which we were involved, in Announcements

Interesting acquisitions in Additions to our Permanent Collections

Two questions to set you thinking in The Forum

Australian Electoral Rolls and Saskatchewan homesteading are dealt with in Were you aware...............

Announcements

On the History Channel at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday 18 August, the Ancestors in the Attic programme is showing for the first time an episode that we were very much involved with and which we reported on briefly in a previous Bulletin. This involved a lady living here in Toronto who was adopted as a baby in Scotland. We were successful in locating birth relatives but there are many twists to the story and we are told that at one point the entire film crew were in tears. Enjoy!

Additions to our Permanent Collections

We are very pleased to announce, thanks to Paul Branson's donation, that we now have the Crimea War Medal Roll 1854-1855 and the Afghan War Medal Roll 1878-1880, both in CD form.

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's county will be Suffolk. Your suggestions are invited.

Thanks to Kathy Hartley we have some more Shropshire sites:

http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/research.nsf
http://www.secretshropshire.org.uk/
http://www.sfhs.org.uk/
http://www.a2a.org.uk/) This is very useful for Shropshire research as many of the Shropshire record indexes have been
computerised.
This week we should be dealing with the Welsh counties but we have only one submission:

Anne Crawford writes: "I found this site while browsing for incidental information on Cardiff, and imagine my delight in finding a photo of my grandmother's parish congregation, c.1912, with her entire family there. Some of them I had never had a picture of before.http://www.tlysau.org.uk/en/index Welsh cultural history"

The Forum

New Questions

Q1/33/2007. Canada. Eleazar King (Roy? Roi? Leroy?) was born in Lower Canada ( Quebec) in 1811/12 and was a Roman Catholic. His descendants were listed as "French" on the census forms, so obviously his name must have been changed. He was married and lived for a time in the Niagara region (St Davids) before moving to Brantford. He died in 1905 and was buried in the "Catholic cemetery" in Brantford. No information is available there. I have tried the Drouin collection on ancestry.ca, but can't get anywhere. Have been unable to find out anything about his first wife's death in St Davids or her burial location, or indeed, anything about her father's ancestry. Would anyone have an idea as to how I might go about tracking down Eleazar and his ancestors?

Q2/33/2007. England/Canada. I am seeking advice regarding searching for my ancestors in Devon. My great-great grandfather, Robert Woodman settled in New Harbour, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland in or about 1812. He married a Priscilla but we have not located a marriage record that might have parental information. They had a first child in 1815, but the baptismal record contains no additional information. Based on Robert's grave stone he died in 1868 age 85 which puts his birth about 1783. Family folklore says he was from Devon and left England with two brothers, one of whom went on to settle in the Maritimes, perhaps PEI, and the other in the USA, perhaps near Boston. Based on the repeated family names, I would guess at their likely first names being either John, James, William or Edward. How can I discover some more details of these people and where in Devon (if in fact they came from Devon) they lived?

Films received in the 7 days ending 16 August 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 13 September 2007

Film Content	Film No
BRB Marr Index C-P 1849 - 1912	1159608
CAN NF deaths bks4-6 1902 - 1914	2168728
CAN ON Trafalgar Land Recs 1808-1958	0179050
CAN ON Trafalgar Land Recs 1808-1958	0179049
CAN ON York & Wentworth Marr 1923	2266942
CAN PQ Grenville PR 1883-1899	1992903
ENG GLS Clifton BTs 1786-1837	1595528
ENG GLS Tewkesbury PRs 1779 -1847	0856972
ENG MDX St George's chapel Mayfair pr	0845233
ENG OXF Bicester PRs 1539 - 1812	0887478
ENG SAL Ellesmere PCRs 1685-1726	1911406
ENG SAL Ellesmere PCRs 1726-1804	1911407
ENG SAL Ellesmere PCRs 1727-1755	1911405
ENG SAL Ellesmere PCRs 1728-1779	1911408
ENG SAL Ellesmere PCRs 1776-1777	1911409
ENG SAL Middle PCRs 1671-1920	1702903
ENG SAL Middle PCRs 1671-1920	1702879
ENG SOM Frome BT 1598-1826	1470972
ENG WW1 Burnt Records Jones, Thos.	2300813
ENG WW1 Unburnt Records - Keir	1879019
ENG YKS Doncaster BT 1711-1814	0919338
ENG YKS Horbury BT 1598-1812	0844552
ENG YKS Topcliffe BTs 1600 - 1820	0918435
ENG YKS Topcliffe BTs 1820 - 1856	0919050
ENG YKS Penistone PR 1600-1815	0919311
IND Madras BMB V.22-24 1844-1845	0521844
IND Madras PR tscpts BMB 1784-1808	0506955
IRL LDY Templemore 1911 census	1840295
IRL WIC Delgany 1901 census	1592897
JAM Misc. Parish Reg. BMD 1860-	1291710
NLD C.C. van Valkenburg Genealogy	1393243
NLD Amsterdam Marr Indx 1578-1650	0536925
NZL NI Electoral Rolls H-N 1905 - 1906	0420066
POL Stendsitz RC PR Marr Dths 1847-	0544865
SVK Velka Lomnica PR 1784-1944	1791934
SVK Vrbov PR 1783-1860	1791920
SVK Vrbov PR 1867-1925	1791921
USA MA Boston Arrivals Jan/May 1902	1724623
USA MA Boston Arrivals May/Aug 1902	1724624
USA NY Inbound Passengers 1820-46 'H'	0350242

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Australia . The Electoral Rolls for New South Wales 1903, Western Australia 1901 and Tasmania 1903, which are the nearest you can get to census information for Australia, are now available on a CD published by the Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies. Unfortunately the cost is $150 and so unless some fairy godparent steps up there is very little chance of this appearing in the Toronto Family History Centre.

Canada , Saskatchewan. Gwen Armstrong draws our attention to a site http://sasksettlement.com/ Saskatchewan Settlement Experience. She writes " I particularly liked it for the explanation it gave of homesteading. How you got one, what kind of forms were filled out. What it cost. Found some interesting old photos of churches some with a brief history. Very easy to navigate and the search engine is excellent".

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 32/2007

Several readers have reported that they did not receive last week's Bulletin although we did not get a bounce back - and these readers report that this is the first time that this has happened. We know not why. Our Bulletins are numbered sequentially so if you are missing one let us know and we will send out a copy to you.

The snail mail dearth continues. Not a single film has been received this week, the second week that this has occurred. It seems that a one day holiday disrupts the mail for a long time.

Meanwhile we have to report that we have not received any questions this week for The Forum neither have we got any of those priceless nuggets for News from the trenches. Your contributions are invited.

And just to compound the misery the Favourite UK County Sites section which this week was to cover the whole of Wales, received less than stellar support, only one comment having being received. We know that quite a few readers have Wales interests so we will leave this open for another week but we seem to have exhausted the major counties and we now pass this over to our readers to tell us which counties they would like to see featured.

In this Bulletin

As there were three questions in last week's Forum all relating to passenger lists we are dealing with this in some detail, James Thomson having gone above and beyond to solve these reader's problems. We are putting this in The Forum section although it could equally well have fitted in the Were you aware.......... section. We would urge all our readers with UK/Canadian ancestry to study this section.

We draw your attention to another site for those of you with British India connections in the Were you aware........... section.

Favourite UK County Sites

This week's counties were to have been the 13 counties of Wales. As noted above we are holding this over for another week.

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/31/2007. England/Canada. George Prosser came to Canada from England in 1903 with his wife Sarah and children, George Henry, Rowland, Harold, Herbert, Claud and Lily. They homesteaded in Saskatchewan. What ship did they come on and what route did they take to get to Saskatchewan?

James Thomson writes: “As things stand at the moment, the easiest place to start is with the indexes to, and digital images of, the passenger manifests prepared at the point of departure in the British Isles; these are available at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/, which has been described in various past issues of the Bulletin. The enquirer will be able fairly readily, by use of the free index, to determine that the Prossers came in two or more groups in 1903, some coming to Montreal ( Quebec) and some to Halifax. If the enquirer then went further and paid to access transcriptions of the records, the names of the vessels and the departure dates from the British Isles would be readily forthcoming. Having done that, the enquirer could turn to a database of 1865-1922 passenger manifests prepared at the point of arrival of Canada; this is on the website of Library and Archives Canada (LAC), and the search screen is located at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/001045-100.01-e.php . For each voyage of interest, the enquirer should enter the ship's name and the year and port of arrival, and then choose, among the search results, the entry for the voyage which terminated in Canada a week or two after the voyage commenced in the UK. Each page of the manifest could be examined in turn, until the entries for the Prossers are found. In 1903, one would expect each passenger's intended destination to be given, but there may well not be a column – as there would be in later years – giving the name of the railroad on which the journey was to be continued. There may, however, be a general annotation on the first page of such manifest providing a reference to trains to which passengers transferred. It is reasonable to anticipate that the Prossers made their way west by rail.

I began this response with the qualifier “as things stand at the moment”. The LAC and Ancestry.ca have announced a partnership to extend the range of online digitized Canadian passenger lists; to digitize ancillary records such as US to Canada border crossing records and the 1919-1924 Form 30 and Form 30A immigration records (below); and to provide nominal indexes to the whole lot! At that point, research in Canadian passenger lists will be transformed.”

Q2/31/2007. England/Canada. Albert King came to Canada on the 'Scotian' in June 1913. Where precisely did he go to live in Canada? He had returned to England by August 1915. Are there records of people returning to the UK?

James Thomson writes: “Splendidly, the enquirer has already identified the ship and voyage on which Albert King made the trip to Canada. The information which the enquirer seeks about destination within Canada is most easily sought in the passenger manifest for the same voyage prepared at the point of arrival in Canada. The good news is that a digital image of this manifest is now online; at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/001045-100.01-e.php , enter Scotian as the Name of Ship and 1913 as the Year of Arrival. In the list of results which are returned, click on “SCOTIAN” next to the arrival date of June 16, 1913 (this must be the voyage of interest, as the enquirer knows that Albert was a passenger on a voyage which commenced on June 5, 1913). At this point, in theory, one could step through the images of the pages of the manifest until Albert is located, and then inspect the column for his intended destination. Now for the very bad news. Much of the passenger information, at least on the digital version, is virtually completely illegible. The enquirer could try the equivalent microfilm at NYCL (T-4798), but the image there is not much better (and perhaps no better). I'm afraid that one may have to make some guesses here. For instance, there are several passengers at the foot of page 13 who may have the surname King. In each case, the ages and occupations are legible; there are, among others, a 17 year old gardener, a 45 year old carter, and a 24 year old fitter. Do any of these sound like good candidates for Albert? If not, are any of the other legible combinations of ages and occupations, anywhere in the manifest, a good fit? If one can identify a likely entry, then one may be in luck; in almost all cases in this manifest the column in which the intended destination is given is legible as well.

The enquirer's second question relates to eastbound transatlantic passenger manifests, from North America to the British Isles. Just as there is a record series containing westbound passenger lists prepared at the point of embarkation in the United Kingdom (series BT 27 at The National Archives (TNA) at Kew, London, entitled Board of Trade Passenger Lists Outwards, 1890-1960 – the series being indexed and digitized at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/ ), so there is a record series containing eastbound passenger lists prepared at the point of arrival in the United Kingdom: the Board of Trade Passenger Lists Inwards, 1878-1960, which are held at TNA as series BT 26. As part of its 2005-2011 digitization program, the aim of which is to place digital copies of all of TNA's most popular series online by 2011, TNA has indicated that it hopes to launch a project to digitize and index the (eastbound) BT 26 lists some time this year, with a completion date of 2009. The intent is to attract a partner in the undertaking, as has happened with the BT 27 Passenger Lists Outwards, and indeed a licence respecting the BT 26 series (and related series) is now being negotiated.”

Q3/31/2007. England/Canada. Joseph Ernest Gloster came to Canada in the spring of 1920 on the 'Melita' from Liverpool to Saint John N.B. possibly travelling with a Rose Ann Stacey. I believe they were making their way to Watrous, Saskatchewan. How can I verify this?

James Thomson writes: “The LAC database of 1865-1922 passenger lists referred to above does not at this point include arrivals at Saint John in 1920, though in due course indexes to and images of such manifests will be available online (as described above). For the time being, such manifests can be consulted on microfilm at NYCL, but there is another class of records which in this case makes a better starting point. Starting between 1919 and 1922, and lasting until 1924, passengers arriving in Canada can be sought in the immigration Form 30A (Ocean Arrivals) records, as described at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-908.004-e.html .

The Form 30A records also will in due course be indexed and digitized and available online, but for the time being they can be consulted on microfilm at the NYCL. The records are in quasi-alphabetical order and I am pleased to report that the enquirer will find a record for Joseph Ernest Gloster on film T-15040 (in a section of surnames beginning with Glo...) and will find a record for Rose Ann Stacey on film T-15201 (in a section devoted to the surname Stacey). Both records are highly informative, and I hope will be of the greatest interest to the enquirer, who shouldn't overlook the fact that in each case the image of the “Passenger's Declaration” is preceded on the film by a “Description of Passenger” which forms part of the same record. The enquirer may be able to make a good assessment of whether Joseph Edward (a widower) and Rose Ann (single) were travelling together by comparing their ticket numbers and dates of purchase of such tickets etc..

While at the NYCL, the enquirer can take the matter even further. The Form 30A records make it clear that both Joseph Ernest Gloster and Rose Ann Stacey were passengers on a voyage of the Melita which commenced at Liverpool on March 19, 1920, and arrived at Saint John on March 28, 1920. The passenger manifest for this voyage is available and is split between two films at the NYCL: the first part is the last item on film T-14839 and the second part is the first item on Film T-14840. Joseph Ernest and Rose Ann both are recorded in the second part; he is on a page 32 (as numbered by hand in the top right corner), and she appears a few pages later; the information in each case supplements what is in the Form 30A records. Don't pass over the manifest as a whole too quickly; the first page (of the first part, at the end of film T-14839) provides useful information about the ship and the voyage, and a careful inspection of the entire manifest may disclose other passengers who were heading to Watrous (which you may find mistranscribed in the manifest as Watrons). Happy hunting!”

Q4/31/2007. Widow Bicknell in receipt of parish relief for many years in Binstead, Hampshire but no sign of baptisms or burials of Bicknell's in Binstead. Since to obtain parish relief she would have to have settlement there why is this and are there suggestions as to where her family might be. Widow Bicknell might have had settlement in Binstead by being born there and unless you know her maiden name you would be unable to find her baptism. We note that you have searched baptisms and burials but we think it important that you now search the Binstead marriages which, for the years 1754-1837 are on Film No. 1041228. This might reveal somebody marrying a Bicknell which could help you find the baptism. There is a further possibility that Widow Bicknell remarried and this is the reason you are unable to find her burial - or she died outside the parish and was not buried in Binstead.

Films received in the 7 days ending 9 August 2007

No films have been received this week.

Were you aware..............

British India . Sheila Smith writes:- " I wanted to pass along a new site that is very useful to people researching their family in British India. It's at http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ and it is a searchable database of the British Library's India Office card index. The records include Ecclesiastical returns of births, marriages and deaths, army records and biographical info. It can be searched by name, keyword and presidency, and includes records from the earliest days of the East India Company, to the 1940's."

I had a look at this website and find that it has 300,000 births, marriages, deaths and burials of British and European people in India between 1600 and 1949. The site points out that this represents about 10% of the British Library India Office holdings. Searching for Goddards I got 160 hits - 28 births, 30 baptisms, 43 marriages, 4 deaths, 45 burials and 10 biographical notes but there was some double counting here as a marriage, for example would appear twice - once under the groom's name and once under the bride's. A very useful site indeed and a useful adjunct to the excellent collection of films on British India we have here in the Toronto Family History Centre.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 31/2007

Many thanks to those people who responded to my request for questions for The Forum as illustrated below. A constant supply would be nice.

The problems we were having with the email distribution of the Bulletin seem to have been overcome. We did not have any bounce back to us last week and have had no reports of non-delivery.

Mind you we are not having such a good time with the snail-mail. Not a single film was received this week.

Next week's counties for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be the 13 counties comprising the principality of Wales.

In this Bulletin

Some posers in The Forum for our readers to work on on holiday Monday, when according to tonight's forecast we can expect a lot of rain.

More on convicts, crime and punishment and World War 1 "Unburnt" army records in Were you aware............

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for the Civic Holiday on Saturday 4th August and on Monday 6th August.

The Ontario Genealogical Society Toronto Branch tell us that there is still space available for the Dutch Family History Workshop at the North York Central Library on Saturday, August 11 th. Information about the workshop, full details about the day’s program and registration form can be found at http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England, Leicestershire , Marriages for the following parishes:

Humberstone 1559-1837, Quorndon 1576-1837,Swithland 1624-1837.

Walton-on-the-Wolds 1568-1837, Wanlip 1563-1837, Woodhouse 1623-1837 (All on CD No. FTM33).

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's counties are the 13 counties that comprised the principality of Wales.

This week's counties are Hampshire and Dorset. We have had no submissions for Hampshire. For Dorset, Frances Radford suggests:

http://www.weymouth-dorset.co.uk/ - information on Weymouth, Old Weymouth, Melcombe Regis, History Timelines, the Borough, Local Villages and other related subjects.

The Forum

New Questions. We have three similar questions this week and we believe that we could provide immediate answers to all of them. However, we would like our readers to send in their ideas and next week we will publish answers which may be of help to those who have not had experience in this area of research.

Q1/31/2007. England/Canada. My grandfather George Prosser came to Canada from England in 1903 with his wife Sarah and their children George Henry, Rowland, Harold, Herbert, Claud and Lily. They homesteaded in Saskatchewan. I would like to know what ship they came on and what route they took to Saskatchewan.

Q2/31/2007. England/Canada. Albert King left England to come to Canada on the 'Scotian' from London on 5 June 1913. Is there any way of finding out exactly where he went to live in Canada? By August 1915 he was back in London. Are there shipping records for people who returned to the U.K.?

Q3/31/2007. England/Canada. I think my grandfather Joseph Ernest Gloster came to Canada from England on the 'Melita' from Liverpool to Saint John N.B. in the spring of 1920. His travelling companion may have been Rose Ann Stacey/Stacy. I believe they were making their way to Watrous, Saskatchewan. How can I verify this?

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Q4/31/2007. England. In researching the parish of Binstead in Hampshire, I have found a Widow Bicknell in receipt of parish relief from December 1807 to November 1825 (a total of 18 years), and another (or the same?) Widow Bicknell from January 1787 to December 1791 (5 years). However I have been unable to find any record of Bicknell (or any name close) in the parish records of baptisms (1785-1839) or burials (1809-1860). Given that relief was in the parish of settlement I find this unusual. Does anyone have any ideas as to where her family might be?

Films received in the 7 days ending 2 August 2007.

No films have been received in the past 7 days.

News from the trenches

Following up on the piece in last week's Bulletin on Australian convict records, Chris Roberts writes:

"Some time ago, an Australian born friend recommended a book by Robert Hughes called "The Fatal Shore" . It was a riveting, well-researched account of the various aspects of transportation from a human and political/historical perspective. Very readable and more powerful than any novel!
Another good book is called "Bury the Chains" by Adam Horthschild about the abolition movement in Britain to end slavery. Very readable and informative".

Were you aware..................

Canada . Kathy Hartley spotted an article in the National Post concerning Canada's war graves. www.mapleleaflegacy.com is aiming to provide on-line a photograph of every Canadian war grave. Checking this out I find that it is based on the information carried on the Commonwealth War Graves site www.cwgc.org and could be considered as an alternative in searching for Canadian war deaths. They seem to have some way to go before they have a good representation of the actual graves.

England . Crime and Punishment.

In last week's Bulletin we reported that from 1788 to 1868 165,000 people were transported to Australia from England having been convicted of what in many cases was a minor offence. I have now discovered that that figure represented about one-third of all convictions during that period.

By the early 1800's there were over 200 offences for which the penalty was death by hanging and there is no doubt that transportation was seen as a humane alternative for the lesser offences. Many of the offences for which death was the prescribed penalty were very similar. Stealing from a shop, a house, a warehouse or a brothel were all separate offences but the main groups were:

Murder

Attempted Murder

Arson

Rape

Sodomy

Forgery

Uttering (passing counterfeit money)

Coining

Robbery

Highway Robbery (street robbery, now called mugging)

Housebreaking

Robbery in a dwelling house

Returning from transportation

Cutting and maiming (now called grievous bodily harm)

Horse Stealing

Cattle Stealing

Sheep Stealing.

By 1861, the offences that demanded the death penalty upon conviction had been reduced to just four - high treason, murder, piracy and arson in a Royal dockyard.

Between 1800 and 1899 3,351 men and 167 women were hanged in England and Wales (roughly 35 per year), Between 1900 and 1964 when the lasting hanging took place, 748 men and 15 women were hanged (roughly 12 per year). These figures exclude 18 American servicemen who were executed in England in WW2, 12 for murder and 6 for rape.

In 1965 the homicide rate for England & Wales was 6.8 per million population. By 1997 this had more than doubled to 14.1 per million population.

England/Australia transportation.

In last week's Bulletin I pointed out, somewhat tongue in cheek, that among the convicts listed as being transported to Australia were two with the surname Billing. (Helen Billing is a very valuable member of the Toronto Family History staff). Helen now writes:-"Last week you touched a nerve with your article on transported criminals, citing Billing examples. As my husband, Alan, exclaimed, it was not his ancestors who were transported but rather my 4g grandfather. Aaron Chevell was one of 76 people charged in 1816 with rioting and stealing, after riots in Littleport and Ely ostensibly against the high price of grain. Of these 5 were hung; seven were transported to Australia and another dozen spent a year in Ely "goal". Aaron had stolen a total of nine pounds. The 7 transportees were jailed in Ely Jail, sent to a convict hulk on the Thames and transported by ship first to Sydney and then to Hobart, Tasmania. By 1819 the governor recommended that the families of four of these men be sent to Hobart as the men were well able to support their families. But no action was forthcoming from Cambridge and my 4g-grandfather lived for 40 more years in Hobart, while his wife and four children stayed in Littleport. Thanks to the information on Ancestry I now know that he was pardoned by 1841.

Australians are very keen on finding convicts as ancestors and there is a lot on the internet to help track them down. If you have a convict ancestor, you can "claim" him or her in order to get in touch with other descendants at http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/. If you wish to know more about convict jargon "tickets of leave", etc, try http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/page100.html. The "Dead Persons Societies" in Australia have good links for finding Australian relatives, for example: Melbourne - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dpsoc/ or Perth - http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/default.html. Existing Australian censuses (1841,1891 & 1901) do not detail the names and ages of each person but seem to just give the head of household and the distribution of males and females by age in the household. So it is rather frustrating trying to find my lowly ancestor who was probably never the head of a household. The Australian information on Ancestry will be a huge help to many people. Thanks to the Editor for highlighting it last week".

And thank you Helen for the interesting story and for the additional information.

First World War British Army Records.

James Thomson writes: "I contributed to Bulletin 08/2007 of February 22, 2007, a note about the launch on Ancestry of indexes to, and digital images of, the First World War WO 364 British Army soldiers' papers (known as the "unburnt documents"), for soldiers whose surnames began with the letters "A" or "B". I'm delighted to see that Ancestry has now completed their WO 364 project by adding indexes to and digital images of such papers for soldiers whose surnames began with the letters "C" through "Z". For more information, see http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/default.aspx?htx=List&dbid=1114 ; this database is freely available to Toronto Public Library (TPL) cardholders at all TPL branches (as part of AncestryLibraryEdition), as well as to Ancestry subscribers with access to the UK & Ireland Collections. (Editor's Note: such access is available through the Family History Centre.) For more detailed information about the WO 364 record series, and the complementary WO 363 ("burnt documents") series, see the Research Guide prepared by The National Archives at

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=18

A few brief notes:

1. If one finds an index entry of interest, the digital image to which one is taken when one clicks on “View image” should be the front of the first form in the set of records for that soldier; to see the next image, click on the “Next” icon (a right-pointing arrow) immediately above the displayed image. To see the entire set of images for the soldier, continue doing this; the end of the set of papers relating to that soldier should be indicated by an image of a card reading “Next File”. Don't be surprised if the soldier's papers contain what appear to be duplicate copies of the same form; there may be some subtle differences between them.

Note: I emphasize the words "should be" because both Margaret Taylor and I have noted that it sometimes has been the case (at least with the first tranche of such records, namely those for soldiers whose surnames began with "A" or "B") that (a) the image to which one was taken when one clicked on "View image" was not in fact the first record in the set of records for a particular soldier (meaning that it may also be worth clicking on the "Prev" icon (a left-pointing arrow) immediately above the displayed image of what is ostensibly the first such record for such soldier, just to be sure that there are no records relevant to the soldier before that image); and/or that (b) the "Next File" card was sometimes missing, meaning that one might inadvertently find oneself at some point straying into the series of records for the next soldier in the sequence.

Note that both WO 364 and the larger series WO 363 (the "burnt documents") contain the papers of non-commissioned officers and "other ranks" only; the records of commissioned officers are not included.

2. The estimates of the number of soldiers (NCOs and "other ranks") in the British Army in the First World War range up to 7 million (or more), and there are said to be records for about 750,000 of these in WO 364 and records for about 2 million in WO 363; in consequence, it is generally said that there are extant soldiers' papers for about 40% of those who served (papers for the other 60% having been destroyed by fire as a result of bombing in the Second World War).

As I noted on the earlier occasion, Ancestry also intends to index and digitally image the two million sets of records in the WO 363 ("burnt documents") series, and to complete that task by the end of 2008: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/150.htm?homepage=news It has been estimated that, when complete, there may be a total of about fourteen million digital images in the WO 363 and WO 364 databases!

3. Not included in either WO 363 or WO 364 are the records of soldiers who remained in the British Army after 1920 (or who re-enlisted prior to the Second World War); such records are with the Ministry of Defence.

It is worth noting also that records of those who served in (or, to be more precise, whose service ended with) the Household Cavalry are not in WO 363 or WO 364, but rather are in TNA series WO 400. Further, the records of those who served with the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, or Scots, Irish or Welsh Guards remain with the regimental headquarters of the Foot Guards regiments and hence do not comprise any series at the TNA. This is important for me, for instance, as the Coldstream Guards are one of the regiments in which my family members served. The records of the Household Cavalry should all be available, while the records of the Foot Guards did suffer some losses in the Second World War.

For such First World War service records of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps as survive (only about 7,000 out of the original 57,000), see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/waac.asp, and for First World War service records of men as well as officers of the Royal Naval Division (not the Royal Navy), see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/royalnavaldivision.asp ."

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 30/2007

A reminder that we require a constant supply of questions for The Forum and interesting stories and comments for News from the trenches. Next week's counties for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be Hampshire and Dorset.

In this Bulletin

An unusual entry under Announcements whereby we give our readers the opportunity of acquiring a car at a bargain price.

We draw your attention to convict records in Were you aware..............

Announcements

Our Mission Office has a number of used vehicles to dispose of at bargain prices. They have five 4-door automatic Chevrolet Cavaliers - two 2003 models and three 2004 models all with Air Conditioning and AM/FM radios. They have around 80,000km on their clocks and all are priced at $7,500. There is also a 2005 model Chevrolet Uplander SUV with approx. 90,000km clocked, priced at $14,950. All these vehicles have been well maintained, have full service histories and will come with certificates of roadworthiness. First come, first served. Contact Elder Nicol at the Mission Office on 416 490 6869.

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's counties will be Hampshire and Dorset. Your submissions are invited.

This week's counties are Kent and Surrey. Nobody has submitted sites for Surrey but several of our readers have made suggestions for Kent. We have eliminated duplications and combined comments and descriptions.

http://kentarchaeology.org.uk/ - Kent Archaeological Society - the oldest and largest society devoted to the history and archaeology of the ancient county of Kent. This site has a fine Research section which includes: Maps, place names, MI's and photographs, as well as Tithe Award Schedules and Wills. Not just archaeology!

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/ - an excellent resource for genealogy in the County of Kent, England.It includes many indexes and transcripts containing over 80,000 names and over 350 links to other useful sites.

http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/ - the web presence of the Medway Council Archives Service which is based at the Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Civic Centre, Strood, Kent, England. They preserve and make available for research the archives of the Medway area of Kent and also the parish records of north-west Kent. The oldest records date from 604

www.kfhs.org.uk/ Kent Family History Society

http:// freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~penney/ Sheerness and Isle of Sheppey census, PR and other interesting information

www.rootsweb.com/~engken/bmd.html Listing of transcribed Kent births, marriages and deaths

http://extranet3.kent.gov.uk/sp/rois/home.html Online indexes of Kent BMDs from 1837-2002

The Forum

New Question

Q1/30/2007. Canada. On the ships manifest for my maternal grandfather coming to Canada in 1927, it has as his final destination "L.I.B. Winnipeg". Does anyone know what this means?

Films received in the 7 days ending 26 July 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 23 August 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN ONT Bruce Co Marriages 1925	2412461
CAN ONT Leeds & Grenville Co Mar 1925	2413313
CAN ONT Waterloo Co Marriages 1925	2413331
CAN PQ Land petitions	1630572
ENG LAN L'pool St Nicholas PRs M 1808-21	0093840
ENG LAN L'pool St Peters PRs C 1815-1820	0093874
ENG WIL Trowbridge Marr 1822-1971	1279314
GER Urloffen Baden pr	0949966
IRL DOW Dromore 1911 Census	2092684
IRL DOW Dromore 1911 Census	2092683
JAM Kingston pr 1722-1871	1291761
JAM Ver pr 1707-1869	1291677
POL Stendsitz RC PR Bapt 1835-1890	0544864
USA MI Dec of Intention Indx 1859-1941	1320185
USA MI Naturalization Indx 1894-1931	1787479
USA NY Manhattan - AD12 Census 1905	1433088

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News from the trenches

England , Abney Park Cemetery. In last week's Favourite UK Counties section we referred to the records of Abney Park Cemetery which is in the Stoke Newington/Stamford Hill area of north London. Helen Billing writes:-

" Visiting Abney Park to search for our ancestors for whom we had burial cards was a bit of a shock. It is now Abney Park Nature Reserve and Conservation Area. Our hunt for the tombstones of our ancestors was futile as most of the stones are covered with ivy, fallen over, under broken trees, and completely illegible. We had obtained the burial numbers, like I-7456, from our burial cards and the Abney Park Cemetery website but these were not useful as all the "I's" were not together. However it was very beautiful and a great place to wander on a sunny afternoon.

The cemetery was established in 1840 as a garden cemetery, a semi-public arboretum and an educational institute. It is large - 32 acres. The trees planted for the arboretum have matured and even fallen over. This is now a lovely green area with much wildlife, including lots of birds and butterflies (especially considering the surrounding parts of London).

A few stones are legible and well kept - the founders of the Salvation Army, William & Catherine Booth, and other Salvation Army Commissioners have large memorial stones. No interments have taken place since 1980, except when the family has previously held a plot there".

England/Australia. Your editor writes: In the course of my research into the Australian convict records, I came across a Charles Billing who was sentenced in 1823 at the Old Bailey to 7 years transportation for stealing some lead and a Joseph Billing who was sentenced on 5 March 1823 at the Bedford Assize to transportation for life. I don't know what his crime was. Joseph sailed for Australia on 29 July 1823 on the " Asia" arriving early in 1824. Twenty years later,on 1 May 1844 he was recommended for an Absolute Pardon "having held a conditional pardon beyond the usual time and his conduct being favourably reported". He had held a conditional pardon for 6 years. There were 42 Goddards listed in the Australian convict records.

Were you aware.................

England/Australia. From 1788 to 1868 165,000 convicts were transported to Australia mainly from England but a few were picked up in the West Indies by the convict ships on their way to Australia. The voyage from England to Australia usually took between 4 and 6 months depending on how many stops were made on the way for stores and repairs. Recently added to the Ancestry.com website (available free of charge at the Toronto Family History Centre and in Toronto Public Libraries) is a searchable database of these convicts showing their names, where and when they were convicted (but does not indicate the crime), the length of their sentence and the name of the ship on which they were transported together with the sailing date. The date of the arrival in Australia is not shown.

Besides the Convict Transportation Registers this area of the Ancestry.com site contains other databases - Convict Musters 1806-1849 (these are like a census to discover who was living in the colony) which, in some cases, shows the year of birth, Convict Pardons 1834-1859 and the Convict Lists 1787-1834. A Conditional Pardon allowed a convict to work for someone outside the prison system or even to set up a business (but not to leave the country) whereas if a convict was granted an Absolute Pardon he (or she) was free to return to England. Some saved enough money after they were granted a Conditional Pardon to enable them to pay their fare back whilst others worked their passage. (An indication of the material that can be gleaned from these records is shown in News from the trenches (above).

England . Benefit of Clergy and the Neck Verse

Benefit of Clergy was the privilege originally extended to clergy so that they might avoid the severity of English criminal law when hanging was the standard penalty for numerous offences. Later, the right to claim Benefit of Clergy was broadened so that anyone who could read was entitled to claim it. The loophole (noose-hole?) became wider since the standard test applied by the Courts was the ability to read verse 1 of Psalm 51.

Have mercy upon me, O God

According to thy loving kindness

According unto the multitude of thy tender mercies

Blot out my transgressions

Of course it didn't take long before the illiterate among the criminal classes learned this verse by heart and thus it became known as The Neck Verse.

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Toronto Family History Bulletin 29/2007

It seems we are not alone in having problems getting bulk email delivered. Dick Eastman, who sends out a daily on-line genealogy newsletter and uses a bulk-mail service to do it, apparently has the same problems with a significant percentage of subscribers not receiving his messages. He says that this is common to all bulk email and there is no way around it.

Next week's counties for the UK Favourite County Sites section will be Surrey and Kent. Your submissions are invited. And we could do with some questions for The Forum and interesting stories for News from the trenches.

In this Bulletin

News from the trenches reveals the difficult birth of the London County Council

In the Were you aware.......... section, James Thomson provides us with further details concerning the Crimean and Second Afghan War medal rolls.

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's counties will be Surrey and Kent.

Middlesex was a county we covered in Bulletin 26/2007 but we now have a further submission. Maurice Hardman tell us that http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~abneypark/abneyy.html has a searchable database of burials at the Abney Park Cemetery which is in the Hackney area.

This week's counties are Worcestershire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. We have not received any submissions for Worcestershire but Sheila Smith sent us the following for Herefordshire:`

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs/ The Herefordshire Family History Society.
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/herefordshire.shtml Herefordshire Feet of Fines:(abstracts from 1359 -1509)
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/ProbateRecords/ The Wills of Herefordshire;
http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/ Historic Herefordshire Online:(includes a searchable database of land owners)
and Vida Preece offered some more:

http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/herefordshire/index.html Herefordshire Genealogy Links, provides links to lots of other useful Herefordshire sites

http://www.genealogy-of-uk.com/England/Herefordshire/genealogy.htm Herefordshire Genealogy site

Here's one for Shropshire:

http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/shropshire/index.html Shropshire Genealogy Links, provides lots of links to useful Shropshire sites

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/28/2007. Genealogy generally. Where can I buy a pair of gloves suitable for handling valuable archival material? We received numerous replies to this question - for which many thanks. Our readers think that cotton gloves purchased from Shopper's Drug are as good as any but you could also buy them on-line from Global Genealogy on http://www.globalgenealogy.com/

Q2/28/2007. Canada. What does "British Bonus Allowed" mean on a Passenger List for a ship arriving in Canada ? Jeannette Colgan writes to tell us that the answer to this question can be found on http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-908.001-e.html and is defined " A commission paid by the Canadian government's Immigration Branch to steamship booking agents in the United Kingdom for each suitable immigrant who purchased a ticket to sail to Canada. The immigrants themselves did not receive a bonus."

Q3/28/2007. England WW1. No one seems to have seen the campaign medals of a relative who died in WW1, to which I know he was entitled. Is there a source where I can obtain the medals or even miniatures? Beryl Peros went to a lot of trouble to respond to this one having already obtained, in 2001, a WW2 medal to which her father was entitled from the Army Medal Office in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire. She discovered that the medal office is now the responsibility of the Ministry of Defence in Gloucester but having phoned them was told that they are no longer issuing WW1 medals and the only source would be from a medal dealer. And Mary Parry writes: "My mother used Toad Hall Medals in Devon to get her father's medals from WWI. You will need your relative's regimental number and full name. They are now incorporated into Bigbury Medals see http://www.toadhallmedals.com/#605X0 "

Films received in the 7 days ending 19 July 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 16 August 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN PQ Grenville church records	1430826
CAN PQ Grenville St. Matthew's cemetery	1711400
CAN PQ Grenville St. Matthew's pr	1992751
CAN PQ Montreal St George BMB 1843-	1430788
ENG HUN Great Paxton pr 1583-1876	1040745
ENG NBL Newcastle St John's PR 1825-	0847920
ENG SAL Ellesmere Wills & Adm 1636-1858	0095264
ENG SAL Ellesmere Wills & Adm 1636-1858	0095257
ENG SOM Corfe PRs 1566 - 1936	1526553
IND Madras BMB V.17-19 1834-1840	0521842
IND Madras BMB V.2-3 1784-1808	0463296
IND Madras BMB V.7-8 1818-1823	0521837
ITL Brindisi F'villa Fontana CivR 1809-	1329884
SCT PER Perth OPR Marr 1784-1799	1040158
SCT KKD Kells PRs	1067975

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News from the trenches.

England . London. Formation of the London County Council and a rogue Goddard

The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was created in 1855 responsible for developing the infrastructure of a rapidly expanding London and was for a number of years the only London-wide adminstrative body. Eventually a series of scandals brought about its demise and the creation of the London County Council comprising 28 metropolitan boroughs. In 1879 the MBW purchased the Old Pavilion Music Hall in Piccadilly Circus apparently needed for the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue. As the road plans were in an early stage the site was leased to an R.E. Villiers but in addition to his lease payments he was making regular payments to the Chief Valuer of the MBW, a certain Frederick William Goddard. In 1883 a more permanent lease was signed with Villiers for £3,000 per annum despite there being an offer of £4,000 per annum from another party. In 1886 Villiers sold the Pavilion and Goddard received £5,000 of the proceeds. The MBW became known as the "Metropolitan Board of Perks". In 1888 Parliament established a Royal Commission to look into the MBW and recommended its abolition and the formation of the London County Council. Meanwhile the MBW continued on its corrupt way and despite being asked not to take any important decisions refused to take notice and announced that they were about to award contracts for the construction of the Blackwall Tunnel. Faced with this Parliament took immediate action, abolished the MBW and the London County Council came into being on 21 March 1889.

Were you aware.................

England - Crimean War Medals 1854-1855 and Afghan War Medals 1878-1880.

In last week's Bulletin we responded to a question from Paul Branson asking whether it was possible to bring in CDs from Salt Lake. We advised that this was not possible but that these particular CDs were available for purchase from a supplier in the UK.

Paul tells us that he has ordered the CDs and that when he is finished with them he will be donating them to the Family History Centre. This is marvelous news and we are most grateful. On this same topic James Thomson writes:

"The news that Mr. Branson will consider donating the CDs containing digital images of the medal rolls for the Crimean War and for the Second Afghan War is splendid; these would be most welcome additions to the resources available for British Army research in Toronto. Here are some thoughts relating to these items:

The Baltic Medal Roll, 1854-1855 CD from the same vendor would complement the Crimea War Medal Roll CD wonderfully, should the FHC be considering acquiring it.

Using the CDs containing digital images of these medal rolls may require some patience on the part of the researcher: they do not include nominal indexes; they are browseable rather than text-searchable; and some pages of the manuscript lists of recipients may be easier to read than others.

As regards nominal indexes, Brian Oldham had been constructing the Great Crimean War Index, a searchable database of participants; I hope to provide information about its status next week (the relevant site, www.crimeanwar.info, is not currently operational). For the Second Afghan War, The Afghan War Database Project at www.angloafghanwar.info may be of interest; it so far includes 770 entries.

Published casualty rolls for both wars are at the Toronto Reference Library (TRL): see Casualty Roll for the Crimea (TRL Stacks: 947.07 C585) and Second Afghan War 1878-1880 Casualty Roll (TRL Stacks: 958.103 F13).

For a review of the range of medals awarded with respect to the Crimean War, see the website of the Crimean War Research Society at www.crimeanwar.org and in particular the “Crimean War FAQ”. Published books (and Army Lists) referred to there can be sought at the TRL; for issues of the London Gazette see www.gazettes-online.co.uk .

The University of Toronto now subscribes to a text-searchable database of the (British) House of Commons Parliamentary Papers; the Papers include reports (in 1860 and 1871) from the Royal Patriotic Fund providing information about assistance provided to widows and orphans of Crimean War participants (and about petitions for assistance which had been rejected). Other Parliamentary Papers include, for example, lists of officers and men who received medals for Crimean War service from the King of Sardinia.

For recipients of the Afghan War Medal who served in Indian regiments, rather than in the British Army, it may be necessary to consult medal rolls in the records of the India Office, at the British Library.The relevant India Office Military Department series are L/MIL/5/117 to L/MIL/5/124. "

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 28/2007

The email gods smiled on us last week. The Bulletin did not bounce back from any of the over 400 addresses we send it to. What we don't know is whether all those people received it. Would anybody who did not receive it let us know.

We have had no responses to our call for websites for the counties of Worcestershire, Shropshire and Herefordshire for the UK Favourite County Sites section so we are keeping this open for another week. Surely there is somebody researching these counties.

In this Bulletin

A very lengthy response to a Forum question but we thought it well worthwhile copying as it is likely to help all Alberta researchers.

And interesting stuff in the Were you aware......... section on Medal Rolls and Passenger Lists

Announcements

Richard Holzapfel, Ph.D., Professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University is giving a talk Why the Book of Mormon is the Word of God - Internal Evidences of Its Antiquity at the Church, here at Don Mills and Eglinton, on Saturday, July 14 at 7.00. Non church members are welcome.

Favourite UK County Sites

As we received no submissions for the counties of Worcestershire, Shropshire and Herefordshire we are letting this run for another week. Hopefully we will have something to report for next week.

The Forum

Answer to Previous Question

Q1/27/2007. Canada. Obituary of May 1918 mentioned a son, Henry Lorne Carter as living in Champion, Alberta. How do I find out what happened to him?

To help us answer this question we enlisted the support of Alberta's Ask a Question service provided by libraries in Alberta and were delighted to receive within 48 hours, the following response:

" Please note that Champion is part of a rural area in Alberta. A local history worth noting about the Champion area,
and the Carter surname, is available on the Internet at: Our Future, Our Past - Alberta Heritage Digitization
Project http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=3523389 "Cleverville-Champion, 1905-1970: A History of Champion and Area", by Cleverville Pioneer Club History BookCommittee, page 265, 3rd paragraph. This only denotes that there is a presence of a Carter Family in the Champion area. I suggest the following contacts to further your quest:
Champion Public Library
Contact: Patty Abel, Librarian
Box 177 / 2 Avenue South
Champion, Alberta T0L 0R0
Tel: (403) 897-3099
Fax: (403) 897-3099 Email: libcha@chinookarch.ab.ca

Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA)
8555 Roper Road
Edmonton Alberta T6E 5W1
Tel (780) 427-1750
Fax (780) 427-4646 Email paa@gov.ab.ca
http://www.cd.gov.ab.ca/preserving/paa_2002/inquiries.asp

By getting the assistance of a family historian or genealogist available at the PAA, you should be able to tap
into municipal voter's list and tax records to decipher Henry Lorne Carter's time line.
Alberta Family Histories Society - Cemtery Look-up
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/data/cemeteries/search.php
- no results for Henry Lorne (or L.) Carter
May I also suggest contacting the: Alberta Genealogical Society Research Services Committee
Alberta Genealogical Society
116, 10440 - 108 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
T5H 3Z9 Canada
Telephone: 780-424-4429
Fax: 780-423-8980
Email: research2@abgensoc.ca
Website: http://abgensoc.ca/research.html

and the Alberta Family Histories Society for further help.

Alberta Family Histories Society
712 - 16 Avenue NW
Calgary, AB T2M 0J8
(403) 214-1447 (voice mail)
Website: http://www.afhs.ab.ca/

Newspapers for the Champion area:

"Alberta Newspapers: An Historical Directory, 1880-1982", by Gloria M. Strathern, pp. 60-61, is another valuable source. Champion had five (5) newspaper titles:

Champion Spokesman, 29 Apr 1914-1914, weekly, no issues located
Champion Weekly, 1917-1919(?), weekly, no issues located
Champion News, 1919-1920(?), weekly, no issues located
Champion Chronicle, 1 Jun 1919-13 Nov 1941, weekly
Chronicle, 20 Nov 1941-25 Mar 1943, weekly

- the later two newspaper are located at the Alberta Legislature Library, Edmonton, Alberta from 21 Oct 1920-5 May 1921; 2 Jul 1925-25 Mar 1943 - these newspapers can be brought in on inter-library loanto the nearest public library, please see their librarian for instructions and costs (if any).
Alberta Legislature Library

216 Legislature Building
10800 - 97th Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T5K 2B6
E-mail: library.requests@assembly.ab.ca
Phone: (780) 427-2473
FAX: (780) 427-6016
Website: http://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/library/index.htm "

Although their reply was lengthy we thought it worthwhile copying it in extenso as the information contained therein is no doubt of value to all Alberta researchers. We have conveyed our appreciation.

New Questions

Q1/28/2007 Genealogy generally. Where can I buy a pair of gloves suitable for handling valuable archival material?

Q2/28/2007. Canada. My relatives arrived in Canada in 1907, on the SS Ottawa of the Dominion Line, sailing from Liverpool to Quebec City. Many of the entries on the passenger list have a stamp that reads "British Bonus Allowed". I have never been able to find out what this means. Was it a subsidy paid by the British government to encourage emigration, or a company specific discount? Whatever it was, my ancestors did not receive the "British Bonus"

Q3/28/2007 England, WW1. I have a relative who died in the First World War, but no one seems to have ever seen his service medals. I have the medal card file and know he was entitled to the 1915 Star, Victory and British Medal. Would these have been sent to the family posthumously? We do have the bronze " Dead Mans Penny", which was issued specifically for a death. Is there a source where you can reorder medals, or even miniatures, for a charge?

Films received in the 7 days ending 12 July 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 9 August 2007

Film Content	Film No
BRB Marr Index V.101 1889	1158018
BRB Marr Index V.104 1890	1158021
ENG NFK Welney Accounts & Certificates	1040569
ENG NFK Welney BMDs - 1786	1040559
ENG NFK Welney BMDs 1755 - !876	1040568
ENG YKS Pickhill PRs 1571 - 1880	0468126
ENG YKS Sandhutton BTs 1602 - 1874	0918433
ENG YKS Thirsk BTs 1600 - 1864	0918432
IND Madras Eccl. Recs BMB 1860-1861	0521851
IRL ANT Killead 1901 Census	1952257
IRL LDY Templemore 1901 census	0819485
JAM Wills 1756 - 1930	1937930
NLD Amsterdam Marriages Jan-July 1817	0113660
POL Stendsitz RC PR BMD 1692-1846	0072746
POL Stendsitz RC PR BMD 1839-1858	1618608
RUS BES Borodino deaths 1873-1898	1198719
RUS BES Borodino PR 1817-1855	1766542
SCT INV Sleat PRs 1813 - 1853	0990672
SVK Velka Lomnica PR 1784-1944	1791933

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.

News from the trenches

Paul Branson writes:

Family tree researchers are well used to being content with progress in baby steps. It is then, a rare and sublime moment when something really important appears, when you're not even looking for it. As a teenager my grandmother gave me an old pocket watch, which was inscribed on the inside "to James Bancroft...... for Bravery in the Crimean War" No one knew if this was a family relative, or if the watch may have been merely bought at a pawn shop. One day I was copying marriage indexes for siblings in my G-G-G-Grandfathers family, and when accessing the "show others on same page" feature, there was the name of James Bancroft who had married one of his sisters!! There is an entry in a book I had read on the Battle of Inkermann in the Crimean war, which describes his involvement. James was struggling with two Russian soldiers, one on the ground holding his feet, and another attempting to bayonet him. He had to viciously kick away the man on the ground in order to deal with the more immediate threat from above. Obviously he survived, but later received the stern rebuke from his sergeant "Bancroft, don't kick a man when he's down!!!"

Were you aware................

England - Crimea War Medals 1854-1855 and Afghan War Medals 1878-1880. Obviously following up from his research as illustrated above, and having found in the Family History Library Catalog that Salt Lake has CDs containing these medal rolls, Paul Branson wrote to ask if it were possible to bring in these CDs in the same way that we borrow films from Salt Lake. Well the answer is no, we can bring in only microfilms and microfiche. It is not possible to order books and CDs from Salt Lake. However, looking into the possibility that we could buy these CDs, I found that these, and a host of other CDs - parish records, school records, medal rolls, records of actors and actresses etc. are published by (to me anyway) a little known concern called YesterYears Genealogy whose website www.yesteryearsgen.com is well worth looking at. The Crimea Medal CD contains the scanned images of 6,980 pages and costs £9.99 while the Afghan Medal CD has 1,660 pages scanned and costs £19.99. Both prices are plus postage. Readers views on whether we should acquire these for the FHC would be appreciated.

USA , New York Inbound Passengers 1820-1846. John Mahler draws my attention to the existence of fully indexed lists of passengers arriving in New York between 1820 and 1846. These have been filmed by the LDS on 103 films commencing Film No. 0350204. Search the Family History Library Catalog on www.familysearch.org inserting this number on the Film/Fiche Number search to locate the actual film containing your ancestors.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 27/2007

Remember, your submissions for the News from the trenches and the Were you aware........ sections of the Bulletin are always welcome.

Next week's Counties for the UK Favourite County Sites section will be Worcestershire, Shropshire and Herefordshire.

In this Bulletin

Some amusing tales of marriages in the Carlisle area of northern England in News from the trenches and

News of church records for Armagh, Ireland becoming available on-line, another tranche of passengers leaving UK ports from 1920-1929, further British Phone Book listings becoming available and an offer of free genealogical software all brought to you in Were you aware...............

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's Counties will be Worcestershire, Shropshire and Herefordshire.

This week's Counties are Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland.

Annie Massey offers the following:

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/longtown19/index.html provides a fascinating insight to 19th Century life in Longtown, Cumberland from extracts from the Carlisle Journal and Carlisle Patriot (see examples in News from the trenches)

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/longtown20/index.html contains a good number (but not all) cemetery inscriptions
from Arthuret parish (which includes Longtown) and selected family inscriptions of other local parishes.

And Ian Robson offers:

http://www.ndfhs.org.uk/ Very useful site and you really should be a member of the NDFHS (Northumberland Durham Family History Society) if only to get their quarterly journal!

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DUR-NBL

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/NORTHUMBRIA/2007-06

Both these Rootsweb lists, which really cover the same territory, are quite active and have many knowledgeable members.

http://www.keystothepast.info/k2p/usp.nsf/pws/keys+to+the+Past+-+home+page Covers archeological and historical buildings and monuments & has photos.

http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/northumberland/ As the name implies, Genealogy Links is a list of about two dozen sites useful for Northumberland research.

http://www.redmire.net/lookup/nbl.html Is a list of volunteers willing to do lookups for specific areas.

http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/ A great site I’ve used a lot for historical research of towns. Lots of old photos there as well.

http://www.tomorrows-history.com/ Regional local studies site for northeastern England I use for finding, among other things, old maps

http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/dfcdeathshistorical#perfsearch A bit limited, but Newcastle has births (1837-1870) and marriages (1837-1900) on line and you might get lucky.

And Margaret Taylor gives us:

http://www.tyneandweararchives.org.uk/ Tyne & Wear Archives Service is the record office for the cities and metropolitan districts of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside and North Tyneside. Documents relating to the area from the 12th to the 21st century, and the service is free for everyone to use.
http://www.ndfhs.org.uk/Articles/index.html Northumberland & Durham Family History Society. Interesting & helpful articles from the NDFHS Journal
http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/index.php Number of records currently available: 2,200,863
NEW:
Index to 15,122 Baptisms at: Birtley:1850-1851, Birtley (St. Joseph Roman
Catholic):1810-1840, Chester-le-Street:1809-1851, Chester-le-Street
Congregational:1813-1837, Pelton:1843-1851, Witton Gilbert:1810-1851
Marriages at Hartlepool St. Hilda's 1714-1900
http://flambard.dur.ac.uk/dynaweb/handlist/
Durham University Library -Archives & Special Collections
http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/library/asc/misc/genealogy-DULASC.pdf
A Brief Guide to chief series of records of genealogical interest in Durham University Lib Archives & Special Collections
http://familyrecords.dur.ac.uk/nei/ Durham and Northumberland probate records, 1540-1857
http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/england/durham/index.html Durham Genealogy Links| Censuses | Cemeteries | Marriages | Military | Passenger Lists | Parish Registers
http://www.joinermarriageindex.com/pjoiner/genuki/DUR/
Genuki - Durham

The Forum

New Question

Q1/27/2007. Canada. I am searching for information about Henry Lorne Carter. Lorne was born on August 19, 1880 in the County of Huron, Town of Clinton Ontario. His father Henry Carter died May 16, 1918 in Clinton Ontario. Henry Carter's obituary mentioned his son Henry Lorne Carter living in Champion Alberta. What happened to Lorne?

Films received in the 7 days ending 5 July, 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 2 August, 2007

Film Content	Film No
ENG SSX Newhaven PR 1754-1881	1067272
ENG WOR Tenbury pr	0992549
ENG YKS Luddenden PR 1653-1811	1542110
IND Madras BMB 1886-1887.	0521874
IND Madras BMB 1888	0463300
IND Madras BMB V.27 1848	0521846
ITL Pachino Civ Recs 1900-1910	1915695
JAM St Ann Parish BMD 1765-	1291703
NLD Sibbe-Mthly Bulletin NLD Gen.1941-	1053155
RUS BES Borodino births 1881-1903 LS	1198714
RUS BES Borodino births 1881-1903 RS	1198713
USA MA Deaths 1921-1925	0954727

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News from the trenches

England , Cumberland. Marriage report from the Carlisle Journal of September 20, 1823 (see site mentioned above in Favourite UK County Sites):

"At Arthuret on Monday last, Edward Finley, who had been a soldier in the Guards above 18 years. The hardy veteran disdained to march without music; of course a fiddler (that had never fiddled before) walked before the happy pair, who on their return from church received the clamorous salutations of nearly all the children in the town. The valiant son of Mars, who never turned his back upon an enemy, dared not to face this novel and noisy attack, but took to flight, leaping hedges and ditches, leaving his fair bride to trudge home, preceded, if not by music, at least by a man carrying a fiddle."
And from the Carlisle Patriot of September 18, 1841:

"At Gretna, on Sunday week, Mr William Morrison of Longtown, the celebrated author, orator and wrestler, to Miss Martha Tweddle, Lodging House Keeper of Brampton. This is the fifth time Mr Morrison has been married".

Were you aware..................

James Thomson writes:

I contributed the following to the May 17, 2007 Bulletin 20/2007

" Ireland: Last week, the Irish Family History Foundation, which coordinates the county-based genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, signed an agreement with a technology company to launch pay-per-use online access to the databases held by the centres: http://www.irish-roots.net/view-details.asp?NewsID=66. Note the last few lines of the announcement: "This is the most exciting development in Irish genealogy since the county centres began indexing records in the late 1980s. The first centres will be online later this month. Watch this space for further information. Please sign up to our mailing list if you wish to be advised when new data is added to the pay Per View system." A suggestion: in the meantime, don't overlook certain existing online indexes comprising the Central Signposting Index: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/csi/csi_main.cfm. Two other examples of the same type (in that they are the product of bodies which have been part of the same program) are DublinHeritage.ie (limited data) (http://www.dublinheritage.ie/) and the databases of the Ulster Historical Foundation (Antrim and Down): http://www.ancestryireland.com/database.php ."

The first of the new databases have now been uploaded; these are for Armagh and can been reached at http://armagh.brsgenealogy.com/. For more information, see http://www.irish-roots.net/view-details.asp?NewsID=68.

James also points out:

United Kingdom Another decade (1920-1929) of BT 27 overseas passenger lists departing from ports in the United Kingdom has just been added to the online database: www.ancestorsonboard.com As noted in the news bulletin, in the 1920s the passenger's last address in the United Kingdom began to be added to the information which was recorded.

United Kingdom Ancestry has just added a third tranche ("release") of data to its British Phone Books, 1880-1984 database, which is descibed at: http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1025 . This database is included in AncestryLibraryEdition, which is freely available to all Toronto Public Library (TPL) cardholders at all TPL branches and at the Toronto Family History Centre.

And we hear:-

Genealogy. Findmypast.com at www.findmypast.com announced today that they are supplying, free of charge, a genealogy software programme. They say " Family Tree Builder has been developed by leading US genealogy firm PedigreeSoft and is designed to be intuitive and easy for beginners but also sophisticated enough for even the most advanced of family historians. This new and innovative software allows you to start building a tree from scratch, or upload your existing one from any family tree programme. And because it's online, you can use it anywhere".

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 26/2007

Our email problems continue. Last week the Yahoo.ca addresses did not bounce back - as they normally do - but the Yahoo.com ones did and whereas when we send the yahoo.ca out again, not as blind copies, they go through, the Yahoo.com ones again bounced. Having looked into it further it seems we need to purchase some specialist software which would send the Bulletin out personalised to every subscriber but I think we would be a bit reluctant to spend our funds in this way.

I could do with some help in compiling these Bulletins. If you have an interesting story for News from the trenches or can throw some light on a little known source for Were you aware......... section, then please let me have them.

Next weeks counties for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland.

In this Bulletin

A give-away book in Announcements

Some discussion on the curmudgeon minister of Hawick in News from the trenches

A Society for you to join for all those readers who can identify a rogue - a real rogue - among your ancestors in Were you aware............

Announcements

Canada Day Closing. The Family History Centre will be closed on Saturday, June 30 and Monday July 2.

Freebie. Thanks to a donation we have two copies of a hard cover book - "The Oxford Guide to Family History" - so we are giving away the spare copy. First come, first served.

Additions to our Permanent Collection

We are pleased to report the following additions, generously donated.

England & Wales. Book "Discovering your Family History" by Don Steel.

England , Somerset, Martock. Book. "The Martock Genealogist" by Roy Maber.

Ireland . Book. "Irish Genealogy - A Record Finder" by Donal F. Begley.

United Kingdom . Book. "Naval Records for Genealogists" Published by The Public Record Office.

India . Book. "The Records of the East India College, Haileybury" by Anthony Farrington.

Canada . Book. "Checklist of Parish Registers 1981". Published by Public Archives Canada.

Canada , Quebec, Beaumont. Book. "Baptisms of Saint Etienne 1692-1985" by Rosaire Saint-Pierre.

Canada , Ontario, Northumberland County. Book. "Wesleyan Methodist Baptisms Registers 1834-1902" by Linda Corupe.

Canada , Quebec, Saint-Severe. Book. "Marriages 1856-1978". Published by Societe de Genealogie, Trois Rivieres.

Canada , Ontario, Frontenac County. Book. "Wesleyan Methodist Baptism Registers 1835-1902" by Linda Corupe.

Canada , Ontario, Ernestown. Book. "The Anglican Registers of Rev. John Langhorn 1787-1814". Published by the OGS, Kingston Branch.

Canada , Ontario, Portland Township. Book. " Portland Township Census 1861" Published by the OGS, Kingston Branch.

Canada , Ontario, St Catharines. Book. "Sincerely Lamented, St. Catharines Obituaries 1817-1918" by Paul Hutchinson.

And also:

England , Shropshire, St. Martin. Monumental Inscriptions of St. Martin of Tours Church 1695-1978 (Fiche No. 6343567 - 2 fiche).

England , Northamptonshire, Woodford nr. Daventry. Parish Register Baptisms 1813-1840 (Fiche No. 6129475 - 2 fiche).

England , Northamptonshire, Woodford nr. Thrapston. Parish Register Baptisms 1813-1857 (Fiche No. 6129459 - 2 fiche).

USA New England. Compendium of New England Gazetteers. A compendium of 10 early New England Gazetteers (CD published by Archive CD Books USA, kindly donated by Linda Reid)

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's counties will be Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland.

This week's Counties are London and Middlesex. Jeanette Colgan offers the following:

http://www.victorianlondon.org/ Has links to very good old maps of London. See where your ancestors lived and many other interesting things about London.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/ Find out if your ancestors went to trial - London and surrounding area.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php A very helpful forum for genealogy buffs, has specific boards for London and Middlesex. A lot can be discovered just by browsing or you can join free and post your own questions.

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/25/2007. England/Canada. Herbert Harold Harrison born 1885 Yorkshire emigrated to Canada 1910, parents gravestone in England indicates he died 13 Dec 1913. Known to have Ontario connections but cannot find death in Ontario or England.

Gwen Armstrong writes "I believe that Herbert Harold Harrison died in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Registered as Herbert Harrison, age 27, died 19 Dec 1913. Registered in St. Boniface, reg # 1913-071087.

A copy of this record can be ordered from the Manitoba Government at the Province of Manitoba Vital Statistics Genealogy Searches for Unrestricted Records website. http://web2.gov.mb.ca/cca/vital/Query.php

On this site you can search for births more than 100 years ago, marriages more than 80 years ago and deaths more than 70 years ago.

Do your search and when you have found the record you are searching for, click on Select Record, and then return to the search page. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you can view your shopping cart. If you click on view, a Request for Copy of Genealogy Record will be displayed that you can print. This form can then be mailed or faxed. The cost of a record is $12.00 and can be paid for by cheque, money order or credit card".

Q2/25/2007. Ireland. Finding graves where the grave has been reused. My impression is that churches (unlike civic cemeteries) do not keep plans of the actual location of the graves and once the original gravestone have been removed it would not be possible to establish where the grave was. However it should be possible to discover whether an ancestor is likely to have been buried in a particular churchyard although there must be plenty of cases where the burial service was conducted in a church but the body transported elsewhere for burial. In your case (burials in Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone) the parish records have been transcribed and indexed, the indexes being in the possession of Irish World - see www.irish-world.com

Films Received in the 7 days ending 28 June 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 26 July 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN BC marriages 1928	2074552
DEU Repatriated Germans-Burgardt	1806295
ENG 60th Reg Foot-McGuire	0898133
ENG CHS Wallasey BTs 1750-1878	1836285
ENG LEI Bagworth pr	0585300
ENG YKS Bradford BTs 1829-1832	0990538
ENG YKS Halifax BTs 1830-1837	0990602
ENG YKS Ovenden Meth Ch BTs 1779-1837	0828150
IRL DOW Belfast 1901 Census	0829084
IRL DOW Belfast 1901 Census	0829083
ITL Pachino Civ Recs 1884-1899	1466349
RUS BES Beresina Familybook 1834-	1766557
RUS BES Beresina Familybook 1846-	1768263
RUS BES Beresina PR 1817-1861	1766556

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News from the trenches

Scotland . Last week we reported some unusual descriptions of the deceased appearing in the parish burial record of Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Daniel Parkinson writes:-

"I enjoyed the entries Mary selected but don't agree that the minister was disrespectful. In Scottish families, and this was true in Canada as well, individuals were often known by their nicknames which was the only way to know who was being spoken of, as many in a community would have the same names. A person with knowledge of family nicknames, would be able to identify that the recorded death for Thomas Scott was the person searched for by the addition of "Wicked Tommy" Despite James Irvine being noted as a miser, someone benefited from his "gift". Was it to the church? I have found that it is a risky practice to judge our ancestors by modern standards of behaviour and protocol".

Editors note: I cannot altogether agree with this interpretation. All the entries were in the same hand and the entries preceding them and the entries appearing on the same film for adjoining parishes did not have these embellishments so why would this minister have found it necessary to identify them in this way? In Wales, because of the predominance of certain surnames it is quite usual for someone to be known as Jones the Milk, to differentiate him from Jones the Sweep and Jones the Cobbler i.e. using a trade to define who is being referred to. And whilst on the subject of Welshmen take a look at the piece on Black Sheep in the Were you aware............section.

Were you aware................

International. There is an International Blacksheep Society of Genealogists whose membership is open to anyone who can establish a direct relationship to someone who is, or was undoubtedly a Black Sheep. This term is not precisely defined but murder and robbery would definitely seem to qualify. Details on http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com

And now going back to Welshmen and modern standards, I remember a nursery rhyme that started off "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief". I suppose that somebody is going to tell me that in the interests of political correctness and the avoidance of racial stereotypes, this rhyme has long since been expunged from every nursery rhyme book and all known copies of books with it in have been pulped, the residue having been dumped in a site registered to take toxic waste.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 25/2007

Our email problems continue. Although those addressees whose provider is yahoo.ca bounce back to us each week, we can cope with that and send them out again individually. The real problem is those that don't bounce back since we have no way of knowing of their non-delivery unless readers report it to us. Many thanks to those readers that have offered suggestions. However it is not a problem with the anti-spam settings on reader's individual computers since this would not account for the Bulletin being received some weeks and not others. We understand that other organisations are having similar problems.

Next week's Counties for the Favourite UK County Sites section will be London and Middlesex.

In this Bulletin

Read what a curmudgeon of a minister in Hawick, Scotland had to say about some of his parishioners in News from the trenches.

News of Ancestry.com offering a DNA testing service in Were you aware............

Announcements

We fast and then we feast. Last week we reported that no films had arrived in the previous 7 days. This week 56 have arrived - see below for details. Delivery times seem to be back to normal.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England , Buckinghamshire Broughton Marriages 1720-1837 (CD FTM32)

England , Buckinghamshire Lathbury Marriages 1690-1837 (CD FTM32)

England , Buckinghamshire Moulsoe Marriages 1559-1837 (CD FTM32)

England , Buckinghamshire Newport Pagnell Marriages 1558-1837 (CD FTM32)

England , Derbyshire Derby, All Saints, Marriages 1558-1837 (CD FTM31)

England , Middlesex Chelsea St. Luke's Marriages 1803-1837 (CD FHM1)

The Forum

New Question

Q1/25/2007. England/Canada. Herbert Harold Harrison born 14 May 1885 at Huggate, Yorkshire emigrated to Canada in 1910. An inscription on his parents grave stone in England says "Harold Harrison died on 13 Dec 1913" . To all family knowledge Harold never married and there were family connections with Ontario in the mid/late 1800's but I cannot find a record of his death in Ontario or England. Any suggestions?

Q2/25/2007. Ireland. Reusing Graves. Seeing the item on this in the recent weekly bulletin brought to mind the following experience and question. When I visited Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, in Northern Ireland, where I believe my grandfather, and probably my great grandfather, as well as others were buried in the Church of Ireland cemetery, I could find no evidence. I spoke to the person responsible for taking care of the church and cemetery, and he explained that about 1977 or so, the church advertised in local newspapers, and unless family members expressed a desire to keep old existing graves active, gravestones were removed and the gravesites reconsecrated for new use. I didn’t think to pursue the matter more at the time, but In retrospect it seems strange that there would not be some archival record of those gravestones removed. Does anyone know if the UK situation applies to in Northern Ireland, at least for the Church of Ireland, and whether tracing graves reconsecrated is possible?

Favourite UK County Sites.

Next week's County will be London and Middlesex.

This week's County is Somerset .

Several readers responded and submitted the following:

www.somerset.gov.uk/archives/ - Somerset Archive and Record Service exists to find, preserve and make available written records of Somerset's people and communities

http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/. Great website for BMD for the Bath area.In progress but almost complete

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ian.sage/index.htm PR transcriptions index for Somerset. http://www.parkhouse.org.uk/index.htm Roy Parkhouse's site.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sarahhawkins/parish_transcriptions.htm Sarah Hawkins' South Somerset transcriptions:

http://wsomparreg.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ Stogumber, Somerset churchyard plan.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nmfa/Directories/pigot_directory_of_somerset_c1844/ Pigot's Directory of Somerset 1844.

Films received in the 7 days ending 21 June 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 19 July 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN BC births 1900	2134886
CAN BC deaths 1905	1927114
CAN BC deaths 1907	1927123
CAN BC marriages 1888	1983529
CAN BC marriages 1893	1983524
CAN BC marriages 1904	1983530
CAN BC marriages 1910	1983703
CAN BC marriages 1923	2074316
CAN BC marriages 1926	2074505
CAN ON Lincoln Co Marriages 1924	1838209
ENG HAM Binstead Parish Chest	1565952
ENG HAM Binstead PR Bapt 1653-1864	1041227
ENG 17th Regiment of Foot 1760-1854	0876928
ENG 34th Regiment of Foot 1760-1854	0885439
ENG DEV Musbury PR 1614-1837	0917202
ENG ESS Barking Muniments	1966258
ENG KEN Canterbury Bnds & Alleg 1777-79	1894571
ENG LAN Liverpool St Peter C 1823-1826	0093876
ENG LAN Liverpool St Peter C 1835-1837	0093881
ENG LAN Liverpool St Peter C 1839-1841	0093883
ENG LAN Liverpool St Peter C 1841-1846	0093884
ENG LIN E. Allington pr 1750-1940	1542354
ENG Mil Rec WW1 box 7261/2 Moores	2029129
ENG NFK Southery Ats 1706-1811	2186449
ENG SFK Tuddenham St Martin PR	0992049
ENG SSX Brede PRs 1559 - 1837	1364151
ENG SSX Westfield PRs 1540 - 1837	1364169
ENG WW1 Burnt Records 'Drake'	1735985
ENG WW1 Burnt Records 'Wilkins'	2028525
ENG WWI Burnt records Edwd Keir-	2325148
ENG YKS Darfield land tax 1784-1832	1658054
FRA RHN Lyon PRs 1711 - 1713	0727768
FRA RHN Lyon PRs 1714 - 1720	0727769
FRA RHN Lyon PRs 1742 - 1745	0727776
FRA RHN Lyon PRs 1746 - 1749	0727777
FRA RHN Lyon PRs 1750 - 1753	0727778
IND Bengal BMB vol 205 Jul-Sep 1888	0510885
IND Bengal BMB vol 470/1 Jun-Sep 1923	0527568
IOM Douglas St Matthew's PR's 1718-1849	0106718
IOM K. Braddan PR's 1849 - 1860	0106188
IOM K.Braddan PR's 1626 - 1849	0106708
IOM K.German PR's 1849 - 1883	0106177
IRL FER Drumhoney Census 1911	2145440
NLD Meclemblik PR	0115811
SCT C of S & United Churches Rec.Indx	1368204
SCT The James Rusland Family	1750819
SCT Unitarian & R.C. Church Records	1368203
USA MO Linn Co. Marr 1857-1897	1009871
USA PA Alegheny Deeds index O-S	1533099
USA PA Alegheny Deeds index S-Z	1533174
USA PA Allegheny Orphans Crt 1847-50	0866208
USA PA Allegheny Orphans Crt 1850-53	0866209
USA PA Allegheny Orphans Crt 1853-54	0866210
USA PA Allegheny Orphans Crt 1854-55	0866211
USA PA Allegheny Orphans Crt 1855-57	0866212
ZAF Natal deceased estates 1918	1295111

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.

News from the trenches

Mary Crandall spotted some marvellous entries in the Parish Register of Burials in Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

Samples:

Unnoted year. April 5. Isabel Leithead (dirty tibby), spouse of James Leithead, labourer.

Unnoted year. April 12. William Anderson (happy Joe) child of William Anderson.

Unnoted year. April 14. William Nichol (Will o the pit) died in Dumfries house of correction.

1823. February 1. Robert Scott, commonly called Oily Rob, 86.

1836. July 3. Thomas Scott, carter (called Wicked Tommy).

1836. August 1. Jane Ekron (called Old Tush)

1838. May 18. William Tinline (Will The Nag).

1838. May 20. John Wilson (Punch Bowl)

1860. February 7. Isabel Murray (tibby the hoddock)

1860. February 21. James Irvine (the miser died in a lodging house and gift a considerable sum of money).

Seems that the minister was not overly respectful of the dead.

Were you aware................

Christina Scott has sent us an article from the Salt Lake Tribune of 17 June wherein it is announced that The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com, has joined with Sorenson Genomics of Salt Lake City to provide a DNA testing and publishing service. Ancestry.com will begin selling self-test kits on line at "somewhere between $100 and $200". The swab will be forwarded to Sorenson who will determine the customer's genetic profile. The profile will be uploaded to an Ancestry.com database and should a link be found with another profile the customer will be notified. The kit will be made available without signing up for Ancestry.com.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 24/2007

Help Needed. Does anyone have bulk emailing experience? This Bulletin is sent out to over 400 people each week, all having asked to receive it. The problem is that we know that not everyone receives it - I did not get my own copy last week and one reader who is on the list under two different names consistently receives only one. Both of us have Toronto Family History in our address books. Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

Next week's County for the Favourite UK County sites will be Somerset.

In this Bulletin

Please see Announcements for a previously unscheduled closing

Some interesting statistics and the intricacies of Scottish divorce in Were you aware.................

Announcements

We regret that due to staffing difficulties the Toronto Family History Centre will be closed at 2 p.m tomorrow afternoon, Friday 15 June (instead of the normal 4 p.m. closing).

The National Institute of Genealogical Studies announce a free lecture given by Dr. Bruce Durie, Academic Director, Genealogical Studies, University of Strathclyde to be held on Tuesday 3 July from 7 to 10 p.m. in Room 728, University of Toronto Claude Bissell Building, 140 St. George Street. Topics will include Regular and Irregular marriages in Scotland before 1834, Wills, Testaments, Inventories and Retours - Inheritance in Scotland. Registration in advance is essential - call 416 861 0165 to register for what is obviously going to be a popular event.

The Tuesday evening session at the Toronto Family History Centre is now discontinued until after Labour Day.

No films have been received this week. We have no reason to believe that we are returning to a period of long delays in the delivery of films - probably just a hiccup in the postal service.

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's County will be Somerset. Your contributions are requested.

Last week's Counties were Devon and Cornwall. Eve Richardson has written to add some important sites. "For those of us (few though we may be) whose Devon (and other West Country) roots include Jewish ancestry, I would like to add two other very important sites: The Exeter Synagogue Archive: http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-uk/community/exe/history.htm The Susser Archive: http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-uk/susser/ Anyone with an interest in the history of the Jewish communities of Devon and Cornwall should have a look at these sites".

This week's County is Warwickshire. Alas we have not had a single response.

Films received in the 7 days ending 14 June 2007.

No films have been received this week.

News from the trenches

Just before Christmas I was successful in solving a problem set by the TV show Ancestors in the Attic. A lady living in Toronto who was adopted as a baby in Glasgow wanted to find who her birth parents were and whether she had any siblings. I discovered that she had a half brother living in England and Ancestors took her over there and filmed the first meeting. Both of them are absolutely delighted that they have made contact. As the brother is now visiting Toronto the adopted lady invited me to her home to meet her and her brother and the rest of her Toronto family. It was a pleasure to have been able to help these gracious people.

Were you aware...............

Scotland , Divorce. In 2006 there were 55,690 births registered in Scotland and 55,089 deaths. 29,896 people were married and 13,013 were divorced. However, the figure for divorces represented a large increase over the number granted in 2005 (10,940) due to a change in the law.

For centuries divorce laws in Scotland were more liberal than they were in England. In 1573 desertion was added to adultery as being a ground for divorce but it was not until 1938 that cruelty also became a ground. In 1976 another ground “unreasonable behaviour” – subsequently to receive very wide interpretations – was added, as was the concept of divorce by agreement. If both parties were agreed, divorce became possible after two years separation and without the agreement after five years separation. On 4 May 2006 a new law came into effect whereby divorce after a one year separation was possible provided that both parties were agreed and after two years without such an agreement and this change in the law was, no doubt, responsible for the spike in the number of divorces noted above. Prior to 1984 divorce cases were heard by the Court of Sessions in Edinburgh (equivalent to the High Court) but from 1984 divorce cases could be heard locally in a Sheriff’s Court.

The papers of divorces heard before 1984 are held in the National Archives of Scotland although searching for them seems to be rather a cumbersome process involving searching two indexes before the researcher is able to get at the files containing the actual papers. From 1984 the General Register Office for Scotland has compiled a register of divorces but does not hold the papers. If the case was heard in the Court of Sessions the papers are held by the Court for six years (longer if children under the age of 16 were involved in the divorce settlement) at which point they are passed to the National Archives. If the case was heard in a Sheriff’s Court then the papers would be held by the Sheriff’s Clerk.

It does not appear to be possible to search for Scottish divorce records on-line. Should you want to search these records let us know and we will contact our friendly Edinburgh researcher whose charges are always very reasonable.

United Kingdom . Re-use of old graves. Cemeteries in the United Kingdom run by Local Councils are to be allowed to re-use old graves after 75 years, (hitherto 100 years) after seeking permission from surviving relatives. How hard they have to look for relatives is not specified. The preferred method is to lift existing remains, deepen the grave and lay a new coffin on top. Of the approximately 500,000 deaths in the U.K. each year, 350,000 are cremated.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 23/2007

Next week's County for the Favourite UK County sites will be Warwickshire. Please send us details of the sites you find useful. Still wanting too, questions for The Forum. And would someone like to take some time off from their Sudoku puzzle and solve this week's Forum question.

In this Bulletin

In a generous mood this week - a reduction in the charge for films and we're giving away a valuable book - see Announcements

Some interesting tales in News from the Trenches

Announcements

Reduction in Film Charges. Due to the improvement in the exchange rate of the Canadian Dollar against the U.S. Dollar we are able to reduce our charge to patrons for the ordering or renewing of a microfilm from $7.00 to $6.50, effective Friday 8 June, 2007.

Tuesday evening session. We will be discontinuing the Tuesday evening Family History Centre session through the summer. The last session will be on Tuesday 12 June. We will resume this session shortly after Labour Day, the exact date to be announced later. This announcement supercedes the announcement made in Bulletin 21/2007.

Book Give-away. We have a copy of the 1988 edition of James G. Ryan's "Irish Records Sources for Family & Local History" to give away. We have a more recent copy of this book which we regard as the book for Irish record sources,but the earlier edition is still relevant in most respects. First come, first served.

Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will be holding its final meeting before the summer break on Monday, June 25 at 7:30 pm in the auditorium at the North York Central Library. The main speaker will be Ruth Burkholder talking about Where did all Great-Grandma's Children Go in North America?: Strategies for Finding People after 1900. There will also be a mini-presentation from Diana Thomson on Untangling Great-Grandma's Roots: A collaborative study of an isolated Orkney community.

The Forum

New Question Q1/23/2007. Canada/USA/Ireland. My grandmother, Florence Edna Josephine Wilkinson, or Wilkison, is shown in the 1900 Census of Detroit, Michigan as Edna J. Wilkison and being born in Michigan in October 1896. Her mother, Elizabeth is shown as being born in Canada E in March 1856 and gives her mother's place of birth as Ireland. Her father, Edward is shown as being born in Kentucky in October 1855. Elizabeth is shown as having immigrated into the USA in 1880 and there is in fact another daughter, Anna G, who is shown as having being born in Michigan in August 1881 lending credence to this. I don't know Elizabeth's maiden name and I can't find a marriage either in Ontario or Michigan of Elizabeth and Edward. According to family legend both Elizabeth and Edward died in 1903 and my grandmother was shipped to live with a family in Ontario named Wells.

I would like to find birth, marriage and death records for Elizabeth and Edward and the birth record of my grandmother who was always known as Edna. Any ideas anybody?

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's County - Warwickshire. Let's us hear from you Black Country people.

Addition to last week's County, Norfolk. Helen Billing writes: "There is a good list of Norfolk Consistory Court wills, some parish settlement papers and even a few coroner's inquests on http://nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk " (And see the interesting things you can find amongst the Coroner's Records in News from the trenches.

And now for this week's County - Devon . Frances Radford has come up with a wonderful list of sites which we detail below:

www.devon.gov.uk/etched - a collection of illustrations of places, people and events all over Devon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/ - BBC Devon pages

http://www.cheritonbishop.org.uk/ - website for the village of Cheriton Bishop, Devon

http://www.john.lerwill.btinternet.co.uk/personal/country.htm - Country Life in Devon

http://www.dartmoorpress.clara.net/index.html - Dartmoor Press website - lots of stuff about Dartmoor

http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdev/index.html - Devon Gen Web

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valhender/dirtrans/ - Pigots 1830 Directory of Devon

http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ - Devon Family History Society website

http://www.devonlife.co.uk/ - Devon Life Magazine

http://www.devonheritage.org/index.htm - A collection of Devon History and other information

http://www.devon.gov.uk:8080/record_office.htm - Devon Records Office

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/index.html - Exeter history

http://www.foda.org.uk/main/about.htm - transcriptions of the 1723 oath of allegiance rolls for Devon and Exeter, the 1744 and 1779 replies to Bishop's visitation queries and Devon Freeholder's Books 1711-1799

http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/ - Exeter Express & Echo website

http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ - A compendium of Devon information

http://www.moretonhampstead.org.uk/ - Village of Moreton Hampstead website

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~terryw/index.htm#plymouth_directories - info on Plymouth and Southwest Devon

http://www.modbury-heritage.co.uk/ - history of the village of Modbury

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3033/churches.html - Devon churches

http://ca.geocities.com/stokedamerelopc@rogers.com/ - website for the OPC for Stoke Damerel

and Jean Harris writes:

"The very best for Devon is Genuki Devon:

http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/

The list administrator is extremely good at adding links for web sites of everything and anything relating to Devon. So you will find many web sites listed there. Also he has entered all the Devon names I have extracted from the various calendars (Brit Record Socty Index Library volumes at the Refce Library) for PCC wills 1383-1699.

Another site that one of our DEVON-L rootsweb.com subscribers has recently found (and to be listed on Genuki Devon) is:

http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/culturetourism/libraries/localstudies/etched.htm?url=etched/ixbin/hixclient.exe&_IXP_=1&_IXR=100329
I copied this from the DEVON-L message and it should work OK!"

Films Received in the 7 days ending 7 June 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 5 July 2007

Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Essex 1924 Marriages	2266891
ENG LAN Ringley PR 1836-1940	2356507
ENG MDX Holborn list of newcomers	0569943
ENG WW1 burnt records Jones, Thomas	2300814
IRL DOW Knockbreda/Belfast 1901 Cen	0829087
IRL DOW Knockbreda/Belfast 1901 Cen	0829973
POL Kalisz RC PR	1980838
POL Kalisz RC PR	0814722
POL Przasnysz RC PR 1871-1884	1809615
POL Przasnysz RC PR 1871-1890	1809610
USA NY Albany Rural Cem. index Burns-	0415533
USA NY Albany Rural Cem. index Stover-	0415539

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.

News from the trenches

Among the Coroner's Records Helen directed us to (see Favourite UK County Sites) is the following entry:- "John Carpenter, age 40. 19 June 1773, St. Stephen. He was thrown and kicked by his horse near the cockey. Verdict. Accidental Death". While I was still wincing I discovered that cockey is a word of saxon derivation meaning watercourse, and that the Great Cockey flows through Norwich.

And I am indebted further to Helen for the following:

"What did Your Ancestor do?

I have occasionally puzzled over the occupations listed in the census for my ancestors and have turned to a couple of books we have in the FHC library – “What did they do?” and “Langham’s Occupation List” (found on BK1-2). But a Glasgow census entry, transcribed on Ancestry.com and shown me by one patron, was quite unusual. The occupation listed was “Cugmeers Fetter”. We had no idea what that might be. Thinking about how it could be written, led us to postulate that “fetter” could be:

1. Fitter - originally a joiner

in the 19c, a person who assembled several portions of machinery

a mechanic who uses a lathe

a coal broker who conducts sales of coal between colliery & shipper

2. Felter - a worker in the hatting industry

3. Fuller - one who fulls (changes & thickens) cloth using fuller’s earth

4. Feller - textile worker who laid or felled seams in material

tree or wood cutter

5. Filler - a person who filled bobbins in mills

6. Fettler - a textile worker

The patron felt that the person could be involved in the textile industry as his sister was but ten years later in 1891, he was an apprentice blacksmith. Although we have a number of possibilities for “Fetter”, what on earth is “Cugmeers” - the name of a company? Maybe viewing the census image would provide the answer.

So if you are puzzled by an occupation, have a look in our library. You could add an interesting tidbit to your family tree".

Were you aware................

UK . British Phone Books 1880-1984. If you, like me, were a bit disappointed at the coverage when the British Phone Books went on-line at Ancestry.com , it might be worthwhile taking a second look. They now have 772 directories on-line and testing it out I was able to trace the whereabouts of various people in the 60's and 70's.

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Toronto Family History Bulletin 22/2007

Lots of interesting things to report this week but still no new questions for The Forum. We had an underwhelming response too for this week's Favourite UK County Site - Norfolk - so for next week we will combine two counties, Devon and Cornwall. We know a number of you are involved with these counties so please, let us have the details of the sites you use.

In this Bulletin

See the Additions to our Permanent Collections for news on some really useful fiche, generously donated.

We continue to plug the usefulness of the WW1 Burnt and Unburnt Records films. Further evidence now in News from the Trenches.

News of 3 more significant datasets which have been added to the British Origins website, of a free offer by Ancestry.com and of the usefulness of the Odessa3 site to patrons with ancestors in Germany and Eastern Europe all in the Were you aware........ section.

Announcements

The film arrival situation continues to improve. We now have only one film outstanding from the order we placed on 26 April and all previous orders have now been received.

The Quebec Family History Society are holding their Roots 2007 30 TH Anniversary International Conference on June 15-June 17 at McGill University, Montreal. Full details on www.qfhs.ca

The Ontario Genealogical Society and the Canadiana Department of the North York Central Library are presenting a one day workshop on Dutch Family History on Saturday, August 11. Full details on www.torontofamilyhistory.org

The Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, have given us details of their Autumn 2007 courses. Brief details:

Basic Genealogy and Family History. Oct. 2 – Nov. 20 (Tuesdays 2-4 pm)

Intro to English Family History Research. Oct. 4 – Oct.25 (Thursdays 2-4 pm)

Researching Community and Municipal Records. Oct. 20 (Saturday 9.30 am – 12.30 pm)

Where’s there’s a Will, There’s a Way: Finding Ontario Estate Files. Oct. 27 – Nov. 3 (Saturdays 10.15 am – 12.15 pm)

Advertising your Ancestors. Oct. 24 – Nov. 03 (Saturdays 2 – 4 pm).

Finding your Ancestors in Newspapers. Nov. 15 – Nov. 22 (Thursdays 6 – 8 pm)

British Army Records. Nov. 17 – Dec. 8 (Saturdays 2 – 4 pm).

Details of these courses are available in the Toronto Family History Centre but do not appear to be posted, as yet, on the OGS Toronto Branch website www.torontofamilyhistory.org

Additions to our Permanent Collections

USA . Rhode Island. Nichols family genealogy. Fiche No. 6088197 (2 fiche).

Ireland . Ulster. Discovering Ulster Origins. Fiche No. 6085757 (1 fiche)

England . Staffordshire. Alrewas. Parish Register. Baptisms 1841-1882. Fiche No. 6114770. (4 fiche)

England . Staffordshire. Alrewas. Parish Register. Marriages 1837-1901. Fiche No. 6114771. (5 fiche).

Our grateful thanks go to Jean Harris who has donated the following microfiche.

Ireland . Index to Irish Wills 1913. (2 fiche).

Ireland . Pigot's Directory of Ireland 1824 covering Connaught, Munster and Ulster. (4 fiche).

England . Berkshire. Pigot's Directory 1823-1824. (1 fiche).

England . Dorset. Poll Book 1807. (2 fiche)

England . Dorset. Pigot's Directory 1823-1824 (1 fiche)

England . Dorset. Pigot's Directory 1830. (1 fiche)

England . Essex. Pigot's Directory 1823-1824 (1 fiche).

England . Gloucestershire. Bristol. Rev. Beaven Bristol Lists 1525-1899 (electoral appointments) (2 fiche)

England . Hampshire (including Isle of Wight). Pigot's Directory 1830. (2 fiche).

England . Shropshire (Salop). Directory 1828. (2 fiche).

England . Shropshire. Pigot's Directory 1830. (1 fiche).

England . Somerset. Pigot's directory 1830. (2 fiche)

England . Sussex Poll Book 1734. (2 fiche)

England . Sussex. Pigot's Directory 1823-1824 (1 fiche)

England . Wiltshire. Slater's Directory 1850. (1 fiche).

Genealogy General. Human Longevity - J. Easton - 1799 (2 fiche).

Favourite UK County Sites.

Next week's counties (see note at the beginning of this Bulletin) will be Devon and Cornwall. Details required of sites used by all you West Country researchers.

This week's county:

Norfolk .

Alan Billing writes:- "A small website that recently has been useful for me is at www.gravestonephotos.com, which includes several counties, with variable coverage. It includes about 32 parishes in Norfolk, which is far from complete coverage. The monumental inscriptions are indexed by name, and you can search for a surname through all the entries of all counties at
once. It apparently is possible to obtain a photographic image of a monument of interest".

Films received in the 7 days ending 31 May 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 28 June 2007.

Film Content	Film No
DEU BAD Urloffen RC BMB 1657-1900	0949963
DEU BAD Urloffen RC Marr 1747-1798	0949965
DEU PRU Army bmd 1832-1940	0072972
ENG 4th Reg foot 1760-1854	0864781
ENG CHS Wallasey PR 1594-1812	0090135
ENG CHS Wallasey PR 1813-1903	1737061
ENG SAL Wentnor BT 1638-1867	0992622
ENG SOM Norton St Phillips PR 1781-	1597208
IND Bengal BMB Jul-Sep 1927	0527591
IND Bombay BMB Vol 45 1871	0523847
ITL Barete Civ. Reg. 1860-1864	2013666
ITL Barete Civ. Reg. 1865	2013735
ITL Barete Civ. Reg. 1866-1892	1170519
ITL Barete Civ. Reg. 1893-1910	1168313
NLD Amsterdam Marr 1750-1811 W-Z	0456071
SCT ROX Hawick PR 1819-1854	1067936
UKR L'viv Met Bks Vol 618-2, 400-408	2394865
USA AK Bio. Memoirs of East. Arkansas	0934823
USA NY Oneida Bible Recs 1744-1910	1435190

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.

News from the trenches

Dorothy Stewart tells us that having ordered a WW1 Unburnt Records film hoping that it would provide details of her grandfather’s military career and having been disappointed when it produced absolutely nothing she did not have great hopes of success when she ordered the Burnt Records film in January.

However, having waited 4 months for the film to arrive – which it finally did last week – what a bonanza of information it provided. She copied 20 pages from his file – and that was not all of them – which gave her not only information on his assignments during the war but more importantly about the character of the man himself. There were letters written by Dorothy’s grandmother and her great grandmother giving Dorothy insight into the family situation and possibly a hint of why things played out the way they did. And to cap it all, on the very same day, Dorothy received an email from a lady in New Zealand who happened to live next door to the cemetery where Dorothy’s husband’s great grandmother was buried enclosing photographs of the grave plus the graves of two of her daughters together with copies of their burial records!

Were you aware....................

Ancestry.com Deanna Cassidy advises us that for the period 26 May to 6 June, Ancestry.com are offering free access to their collection of US Military Records.

UK & Ireland. That increasingly useful website www.originsnetwork.com have added three significant databases to their site. The information below is copied from their site.

1.Migration North America to Britain and Ireland 1858-1870. The only surviving ships' passenger lists for ships returning to Britain and Ireland from North America between 1858 and 1870. Because of the threat of an uprising in Ireland, the government required that ports in Britain and Ireland submit their incoming ships' passenger lists. These records were deposited at The National Archives of Ireland and are not available at the UK National Archives. The Index contains all details recorded on these documents as well as lists of ships and details of their voyages. Over 42,000 names are recorded most of whom were of Irish, English or Scottish origins.

2.Boyd’s Family Units

Boyd's London Inhabitants dataset has been extended by a further 10,000 Boyd’s Family Units family sheets which include 137,000 names. Families from London, all over Great Britain, and elsewhere, are recorded, including North American families linked to England mostly from the 16th to 18th Century This collection has been one of the glories of the Society of Genealogists Library, and provides a unique source of information on whole families.

3. London City Burials

The London City Burials Index covers over 36,000 burials in 76 parishes of the City of London for the period 1813-1853. It greatly extends Boyd's London Burials, which contains details of 243,000 burials, but over a much longer period. London City Burials covers all burials - men, women and children - and nearly always shows the age.

Germany , Poland, Eastern Europe. We wrote extensively in Bulletin 46/2006 on the huge amount of genealogical data on people of German origin who were "repatriated" to Germany at the beginning of WW2. Gwen Armstrong tells us of the success she has had in adding 840 people to her tree from the fully searchable details of the EWZ files available free of charge on the www.odessa3.org site.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 21/2007

My special thanks to Gwen Armstrong who so capably produced the Bulletin whilst I was away and to James Thomson for his magnificent contributions to those Bulletins.

We are still requiring questions for The Forum. This Bulletin goes out to over 400 readers - someone out there may have the answer to your problem.

In this Bulletin

Most of us have succeeded (if that is the word) in uncovering some dark secrets from our family's past. Wait till you read about Christina Scott's rogue ancestor in News from the trenches.

See Gwen Armstrong's highly informative piece on Canadian censuses in Were you aware............(now that she's got a taste for it there's no stopping her).

Announcements

The world renowned Mormon Taberacle Choir is visiting Toronto and giving two performances, at 2.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. on Friday 22 June at Roy Thomson Hall. Tickets which range from $45 to $90 can be obtained from the Box Office at 416 872 4255.

As is our usual practice, we will be discontinuing the Tuesday evening Family History Centre session through July and August. Actual dates will be announced later.

Film Arrivals. The unusual delays that have occurred in the receipt of films ordered from Salt Lake seem to be abating. We now have just one film ordered in January that has still not been received (our special apologies to Ed Bonner) and six ordered on 26 April. All the films ordered in February and March and for the earlier April orders have now been received.

Favourite UK County Sites

Next week's county will be Norfolk . If you know of sites that are particularly useful, please send us the details.

This week's county is Staffordshire. Bulletin readers have sent us the following:

Staffordshire BMD: http://www.bmsgh.org/staffsbmd/index.html

Staffordshire Monumental Inscriptions http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/STS/MIs.html (Very good coverage - especially the northern parts of the county).

Films received in the 7 days ending 24 May 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 21 June 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Toronto mar 1924	1838200
CAN ON Toronto mar 1924	1838046
DEU Repatriated Germans - Brusow	1806283
DEU Rohau Civ. Reg. 1875-1881	1194896
ENG Burnt Records - Frarey, John Edw-	2148306
ENG Burnt Records - Fraser, Alexander-	2148307
ENG Burnt Records - Fraser, Alexander-	2148308
ENG Dragoon Gds Soldiers Recs 'T'	0866450
ENG GLS Bristol St James BT 1737-	1595553
ENG PCC Wills 1781	0093057
ENG STS Buxton pr 1764-1921	1278995
ENG STS Yoxall pr 1645-1900	1517739
ENG WWI burnt records Howis	2354088
IRL FER Derryvullan Census 1911	2145346
IRL Tithe App. Killyleagh-Killyglen	0258462
IRL Tithe App. McMurry-Nevill, William	1565515
NLD Amsterdam Karthuizen Bur 1745-	0114707
PHL Laguna Binan Marr 1903-1913	1658271
POL Karczew RC PR 1810-1816, 1818	0689487
POL Karczew RC PR 1817	1618645
POL Karczew RC PR 1819-1825	0689488
POL Karczew RC PR 1826-1836	0689489
POL Karczew RC PR 1836-1847	0689490
POL Karczew RC PR 1848-1857	0689491
POL Karczew RC PR 1858-1861	0689492
POL Karczew RC PR 1862-1866	0689493
POL Karczew RC PR 1866	1618658
POL Karczew RC PR 1875-1883	1618642
POL Karczew RC PR 1884-1885	1618643
POL LW St Maria Magdalena BMD 1920-1945	2034926
SCT INV Sleat PR 1813-1853	0990672
UKR L'viv St Peter & Paul D 1916-	2382507
UKR L'viv Hospitals	2329665
UKR L'viv Hospitals	2329664
UKR L'viv Hospitals D	2382879
UKR L'viv Hospitals D	2382872
UKR L'viv St George Cath. D 1862-1887	2290664
UKR L'viv St George Cath. D 1887-1903	2382868
UKR L'viv St Peter & P. BMD 1883-1927	2290949
USA SD Walworth Naturalization 1883-	1782857
WLS Wills, Admons, Inventories 1817 - 18	1657278

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.

News from the trenches

Christina Scott writes: "Having researched and followed the well documented life of my 7th Great Grandfather

Jacobus Haverkamp, school master and organist in the little Dutch village of Stedum, I was searching through the Parish
records and came across the following story.

On September 14, 1707 Jacobus Havercamp was removed as elder of the church having placed his hand underneath the apron of Widow Lubbert IJwes and fondled her pregnant abdomen. He was replaced by Willem op 't Holt Backer as elder.

(The Widow had conceived a child after her husbands death.)

Jacobus was already over 75 years at the time of this incident. The life of Jacon Havercamp had been previously documented by Petronella J.C. Elema in the Netherlands in an article for a regional genealogy magazine, in which she reported the previous troublesome behaviour of my ancestor, which ranged from disturbing the peace, argument with the pastor, and land boundary disputes. On several occasions he had been barred to attend the "holy evening meal". Jacobus had 3 wives, 17 children and lived to well over one hundred years old. The Parish church council films are interesting to read, and hold volumes of information about the lives of many of our ancestors. Too bad they are not always available."

Were you aware.................

Canada . Census Data.

Until Confederation in 1867, Canada had no official national census. Since 1666 areas throughout Canada conducted their own censuses in different years. Very few of these have survived.

The census of 1871 included Ontario or Canada West, Quebec or Canada East, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. As provinces joined confederation they were included in subsequent federal census returns. Manitoba, British Columbia and PEI are in the 1881 census. Alberta and Saskatchewan did not become provinces until 1905 and a special census in 1906 was done to track population growth of the west and thus only Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are included. Newfoundland and Labrador did not become a Canadian province until 1949 and had their own census before that.

The 1851 Census was not completed until 1852 and covered:

Ontario or Canada West (sometimes referred to as English Canada)

Quebec or Canada East (sometimes referred to as French Canada)

New Brunswick

Nova Scotia (head of household only)

Quebec Census returns before 1851 are rarely complete for any geographical area and most list only the head of each household. Note that some portions of the 1851 Census have not survived – and as some were not done until 1852 it is wise to check the title page to see the date the enumerator did it. This is important when calculating birth dates etc. In 1851 question was age at next birthday.

If the place you are researching does not appear in the database, it is usually because it was a smaller town or village that was not enumerated separately. Those places were enumerated within the surrounding area, depending on how the province was divided at the time. In Ontario, the sub-districts usually correspond with townships; in New Brunswick, with parishes; in Manitoba, with rural municipalities; in Quebec, with townships and parishes; in Prince Edward Island, with Lots. There was no standardized system for the division of Nova Scotia and the districts west of Manitoba.

Availability

1851

fully indexed with images available by subscription available at www.ancestry.ca
Missing from the 1851 Census: Quebec – Shefford and Stanstead counties; Ontario – Russell and Simcoe counties; New Brunswick – Gloucester, Kent and Queens counties; Nova Scotia – all except Halifax and Kings

1861

no national index

1871

Ontario head of household index available http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020108_e.html

1881

fully indexed without images available at www.familysearch.org

1891

no national index available (image films available at Toronto FHC)

1901

fully indexed with images available by subscription available at www.ancestry.ca
fully indexes with images available free at www.automatedgenealogy.com

1911

fully indexed with images available by subscription available at www.ancestry.ca
fully indexes with images available free at www.automatedgenealogy.com

There are many communities available online for links to the websites try:

http://www.censusfinder.com/canada-census-records.htm

http://www.census-online.com/links/Canada/

http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/census.html

National Archives of Canada film numbers for Census Returns on Microfilm, 1666 – 1901

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/020121_e.html

You can read about the history of the Canadian Census at: http://www.statcan.ca/english/census96/history.htm

Lists questions asked in census:

http://simmons.b2b2c.ca/CENSINFO.HTM

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/datalib/censusq.htm

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 20/2007

Peter is still away and your substitute Bulletin editor is still hard at work. Hardly working?

In this Bulletin

Changes at familysearch.org – see James Thomson’s update in Announcements….
Lots of new information available on line – see James and Linda’s comments in Were You Aware….
A program to help you with your transcribing project – see Were You Aware….

Announcements

James Thomson writes: "A brief word about some announcements made recently:

1. Family History Centres: In the past few days, there have been, as you may have seen reported by Dick Eastman (www.eogn.com) or on the news releases page of the FamilySearch site (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Home/News/frameset_news.asp?PAGE=home_press.asp ) or elsewhere, many announcements respecting changes planned for the FamilySearch site and respecting resources which will be newly and freely available through the Family History Centres. There's a great deal to look forward to as an FHC patron, both in terms of what has been announced to date and in terms of what is yet to come! So perhaps the best and most concise thing to say at this point is: watch this space, for announcements of new resources as they are made available at the Toronto FHC and other new developments as they occur.

2. Toronto Reference Library: Anyone engaged in family history research in Toronto is likely to make use of or at least know of the excellent and growing collections of the Toronto Reference Library (TRL) --- not only the genealogy collection in the Special Collections, Genealogy and Maps Centre on the 4th floor but also the complementary collections of interest to us (and conveniently available under one roof), including newspapers, current and historical periodicals and society publications, maps, directories, dictionaries, biographies, the Baldwin Room collections, and all manner of works of social history or local history or military history etc. etc. The TRL has announced that it is holding a "Community Open House" to discuss certain renovation plans; this will be held in the Asquith Room (2nd floor of the TRL) on Tuesday June 5th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. The TRL is at 789 Yonge Street, on the east side of Yonge one short block north of Bloor. The nearest subway station is Bloor/Yonge."

News from the Trenches

From Linda Reid:- The first item on the film of baptisms for Arbroath, Scotland that is now in the FHC (0993332) is:
" William Leslie natural son of Isabel Leslie and Pompy Black Servant to Capt. James Bruce was born the 9th Jany 1781 and bapized [sic] the 12 said Month Witnesses Robert Kerr, Thomas Gimmell, Margaret Allan." I guess the paternity of this child was fairly obvious.

The Forum

New questions always needed. Send us details of your brick wall; perhaps another reader has the answer you have been searching for.

Answers to previous questions:

Q1/18/2007 England/Canada . How long would it take to cross the ocean in a sailing ship in 1854? Margaret Taylor writes:- “My husband's gt aunt sailed May 6 1856 from Liverpool to New York, U.S.A. on the "Emerald Isle" - a fully rigged schooner (definition-A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel having at least two masts, with a foremast that is usually smaller than the other masts). The ship arrived New York 8 June 1856. Another ancestor sailed from Liverpool May 28 1852, landing in New York June 28 1852. Both voyages taking a month, so I would assume an 1854 voyage to Canada would be a very similar length”

Favourite UK County Sites

With our esteemed bulletin editor away, it is up to the assistant to make an informed and well thought out decision as to which county should be highlighted next week. So I threw a dart at the map and it landed on Staffordshire.

Kindly send us your favourite sites.

Wiltshire sites as recommended by our readers:-

http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/ - Wiltshire wills ---many that can be viewed free right on the site. I found some dandies for my family. Also includes other counties.

www.wiltshirebmd.org.uk - for, Trowbridge, Calne, Chippenham, Corsham, Malmesbury

http://www.burbage-wiltshire.co.uk/burbageindex.html - emphasis on Burbage

Films received in the 7 days ending 17 May 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 14 Jun 2007.

Film Content	Film No
DEU BAY Bellenburg PR 1720-1900	1978837
DEU Repatriated Germans - Berg	1806191
ENG 4th Reg foot 1760-1854	0864786
ENG LIN Grantham BTs 1701-1859	0432510
IRL LDY Artrea C'stle Dawson Cens 1911	1840351
NLD Amsterdam citizen bks 1788-1811	0114932
POL Bodzanow Jewish BMD 1851-1865	0729203
POL Drobin Jewish BMD 1826-1846	0729204
POL Drobin Jewish BMD 1826-1887	1201496
POL Leczyca Jewish BMD 1817-8,1824	0767130
POL Wyszogrod Jewish BMD 1859-1865	0730210
POL Zuromin Jewish BMD 1846-1865	0702525
UKR Krzwcza Met Bks 1785-1889	2380081
UKR L'viv PR Vol 201 2241-9	2202515
UKR Zlotniki PR 1753-1944	2329212

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.

Were you aware...............

· James Thomson writes: "Readers might be interested in a number of new developments:

1. Ireland : Last week, the Irish Family History Foundation, which coordinates the county-based genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, signed an agreement with a technology company to launch pay-per-use online access to the databases held by the centres: http://www.irish-roots.net/view-details.asp?NewsID=66. Note the last few lines of the announcement: "This is the most exciting development in Irish genealogy since the county centres began indexing records in the late 1980s. The first centres will be online later this month. Watch this space for further information. Please sign up to our mailing list if you wish to be advised when new data is added to the pay Per View system." A suggestion: in the meantime, don't overlook certain existing online indexes comprising the Central Signposting Index: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/csi/csi_main.cfm. Two other examples of the same type (in that they are the product of bodies which have been part of the same program) are DublinHeritage.ie (limited data) (http://www.dublinheritage.ie/) and the databases of the Ulster Historical Foundation (Antrim and Down): http://www.ancestryireland.com/database.php .

2. England and Wales: The National Archives (TNA) at Kew ( London) has just uploaded a new resource to DocumentsOnline: Southwell Workhouse and Poor Law Union Papers. Southwell Workhouse, in northern Nottinghamshire, is a National Trust property and is of unique interest as being the "best preserved" of the Victorian workhouses which were established pursuant to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. As with other DocumentsOnline databases, one can freely explore the highly useful background information on the site, and can freely search the index, but in this case one can view the digital images of documents free of charge as well. More information is found at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/160.htm?homepage=news and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/workhouse.asp. Permit me to make two suggestions. First, in addition to exploring the excellent TNA research guides to which there are hyperlinks in the "Further Information" section of the second webpage, above, do explore the excellent website www.workhouses.org which surveys workhouses (poorhouses in Scotland), and the Victorian systems of poor relief, throughout the British Isles. Second, note that the "Further Information" section also recommends articles in the TNA magazine Ancestors; the Toronto Reference Library (see above) now has a subscription to Ancestors and has acquired almost all the back issues -- current and back issues are available through the Periodicals Centre on the 4th floor.

3. British Isles: The University of Toronto has fairly recently subscribed to the online database The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 (fully-searchable text and digital images of the final editions of The Times of London) and has extended its subscription to the online database [British] House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (fully-searchable text and digital images) so as to include the twentieth century as well as the nineteenth."

England , London . Linda Reid draws our attention to New Data - City of London Burials 1788-1855. Searching for burials in London is never easy and the problem is worse in the City of London itself, where there were 98 churches within the so-called 'Square Mile', or historic core of the city. Exclusive to Findmypast.com, an estimated 292,000 of these carefully transcribed records are now available online for the very first time.

The URL is http://www.findmypast.com/lbSearchStart.action?redef=0

Transcribing . For those of you that do a lot of transcribing, Christina Scott recommends this program that is available as freeware.

http://www.jacobboerema.nl/en/Freeware.htm

‘It is a transcript program – you can load the image to the upper half of the program and transcribe in the lower. I have used it for years, works well.”

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 19/2007

Peter is away this week and a substitute Bulletin editor has been drafted. She is very grateful to James, Margaret and others for their input.

In this Bulletin

Dade Registers in Yorkshire – see Were You Aware...

Announcements

James Thomson writes: "A brief word about two helpful resources for British Isles family history research which have come online in the past week:

1. Scotland : Digital images of entries in the Register of Corrected Entries (RCE), linked to the original entries in the statutory (1855+) registers of births/marriages/deaths which they correct, have just been added to ScotlandsPeople (http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/). A description of the RCE is available at:

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?1314

Viewing the RCE entry is charged at two (2) credits per entry; this is additional to the five (5) credits required to view the original entry. If an RCE entry is available in connection with the original entry, this is indicated by the appearance of an additional red button on the results screen, bearing the words "View RCE (2 credits)".

With respect to an image of an original entry which one had viewed (at five (5) credits) before the release of the RCE images, but which may in fact have a corresponding RCE entry, log in to ScotlandsPeople, click on "Viewed Images", call up the image of the original entry, and note whether a red button, as described above, now appears above the image. If it does, one can view the RCE entry for the additional two (2) credits, without having to pay for the original entry again.

2. England and Wales: Data for the year 2005 has been added to Ancestry's indexes to post-1983 vital events registered in England and Wales, as reported to the General Register Office:

Births: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8782

Marriages: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8753

Deaths: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=7579

These particular databases are freely searchable, upon registration, from home or from the Family History Centres or elsewhere, and are included in AncestryLibraryEdition, which is freely available to all Toronto Public Library (TPL) cardholders at all TPL branches."

Permanent Collections

We have added 6 new films to our permanent collection:

1476492, 1476493,1476494,1476495,1476496,1476497

These films contain the Christian Fiess Collection. For those of you researching Germans From Russia you will recognize the name. For the rest of us, these films contain copies of original documents, pedigrees, and other certificates of migration, emigration and documentation for those leaving Bessarabia and entering Germany, 1940-1941.

A searchable surname index can be found at http://www.odessa3.org/collections/bess/fiess/ as well as a complete description of the films.

News from the trenches

Gwen Armstrong writes:-
”I have been fortunate enough to find records of my family in the Christian Fiess Collection. Including a marriage record of a direct ancestor and a handwritten pedigree chart that goes back 7 generations! The pedigree chart gave me the names of the original settlers in Russia, their exact birth dates, and the village in Germany where they were born. Now if only I could read German…"

The Forum

New Questions

Q1/18/2007 England/Canada . In 1853 Robert & Charlotte Carter were married in East Yorkshire England and set sail for Canada in 1854. It was told to me by my mother that her grandmother Charlotte ‘suffered greatly’ during the crossing in a very turbulent ocean. Charlotte Carter swore that she would never again set foot on a sailing ship. How long would it take to cross the ocean in a sailing ship in 1854?

Favourite UK County Sites

We could still use a few more sites for Wiltshire so we are extending our request another week. Please send us details of the sites you find useful outlining what can be found on those sites.

Films received in the 7 days ending 10 May 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 7 Jun 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN PQ Sorel C of E pr 1784-1842	1430819
ENG Burnt Records - Jones, Thomas J-K	2300817
ENG MDX London All H'lows mun'ts 1500-	1966259
ENG SOM Kingston PR 1715-1897	1526663
ENG STS Buxton pr 1764-1921	1278996
ENG WOR Kidderminster mar 1767-	0435263
ENG YKS Almondbury BT's 1774-1814	0990854
ENG YKS Marsden Cong.PR 1796-1911	1657363
ESP Segovia Turegamo b 1864-1927	1387733
IND Bengal BMB Jan-Mar 1928	0463389
IRL census index McShane/Johnson only	0824240
IRL Tithe App. Seapatrick-Tamlaght O'C	0258468
Patron ordinance submission forms	1553589
POL LU Chelm Jewish BMD 1932-33	0702691
POL LU Chelm Jewish BMD 1934	0702692
POL Zamosc RC PR 1781-1787	0904334
POL Zamosc RC PR 1786-1826	1980399
PRU WPRU Simkau Civ Reg 1874-1879	1194910
UKR Borszczow CR Births 1847-1902	2125359
UKR L'viv BMD 1821-1870	2290937
UKR L'viv BMD 1861-1877	2290938
UKR L'viv BMD 1881-1905	2290939
UKR L'viv BMD 1884-1896	2291019
UKR L'viv BMD 1886-1900	2289637
UKR L'viv BMD 1896-1920	2289638
UKR L'viv BMD 1903-1914	2290934
UKR L'viv BMD 1906-1926	2290940
UKR L'viv BMD 1913-1940	2290935
UKR L'viv Dormition Ch. BMD 1885-1898	2290910
UKR L'viv Dormition Ch. BMD 1899-1908	2290911
UKR L'viv Dormition Ch. D 1876-1902	2382866
UKR L'viv Hospitals	2329663
UKR L'viv Hospitals 1833-1888	2329662
USA MO Dec. of Intentions 1916-1917	1749650
USA NY New York Dth Indx 1905-1908	1324915
USA NY New York Dth Indx 1918-1921	1324918
USA NY New York Marr Indx 1906-1909	1653855
USA NY New York Marr Indx 1910-1913	1543903

Were you aware...............

Margaret Taylor writes:-

“In Yorkshire some parishes were extremely lucky in having what were called DADE REGISTERS, named after the Rev William Dade, vicar of several Yorkshire parishes, who instituted a system of giving substantially more information than normal. If you come across these they are a gold mine, since they usually give in a baptismal entry not only the name of the father but the mother's name, father's occupation, and the names of both grandfathers and parishes of residence, thus taking you back another generation and to other places. In 1812 a further new system was introduced extending the amount of information given but, ironically, giving less information than had previously occurred under Dade Registers. There is no overall guide to which parishes had Dade Registers but you will certainly know them when you see them.

Finally, if you want to know what parish had what registers you really should obtain one of two books - Yorkshire Parish Registers by Colin Blanshard Withers, which covers all Anglican parishes in Yorkshire with full details of when the registers begin, where the originals are held and what copies exist; or the National Index of Parish Registers, Volume 11 Parts 2 and 3, published by the Society of Genealogists (in two volumes, one covering the North and East Ridings and the other, Part 3, the West Riding). The NIPR gives details of not only Anglican churches but Catholic and Nonconformist as well. These books also list Yorkshire Record Offices (of which there are many). “

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 18/2007

Another fine response from readers giving us details of their favourite Lancashire sites. Next week the county will be Wiltshire.

In this Bulletin

Your chance to influence our future permanent collection holdings- see Permanent Collections

Announcements.

Outstanding Film Orders. Despite the arrival this week of a large number of films (see below) we are still waiting for 9 films ordered in January, 2 in February and 5 in March. We will do all we can to speed these up and meanwhile apologise for the inconvenience to our patrons.

Permanent Collections

From time to time, thanks to generous donations received from our ever generous patrons, we are able to make significant additions to our permanent collections. That time has arrived. The material can be in the form of microfilm, microfiche, CDs/DVDs or books but it must have fairly widespead appeal and must not already be, or likely to be soon, on-line and preferably not something readily available elsewhere in Toronto. We would like suggestions from readers of the Bulletin as to what they would like the Toronto Family History Centre to hold. Our present collections tend to be biased toward the UK and this represents the interests of a large number of our patrons but this may be a chicken and egg situation - maybe we would attract larger numbers of members of other communities if our collections covered their interests. So please, let us have your suggestions.

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions.

Q1/17/2007. England. Re. Edmund George Benson "late Captain of the Royal Wiltshire Militia". We think that your best chance of unravelling this is to consult LDS film 0917276 which contains the Records of Officers Services for the Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Militia from 1835 to 1893.

Q2/17/2007. England. Re. the disappearance after WW1 of Ernest Joseph Gloster. We think that you should firstly search for his death past 1962 when he would still have been only 81 years old. About 7% of the male population were living beyond that age at that time. We have entertained the idea (as we feel sure you have) that he emigrated and have searched the 1920 and 1930 censuses of the USA, the Ellis Island immigration, the SSI death index, Ontario marriages and deaths, Manitoba deaths, B.C. marriages and deaths and New South Wales marriages and deaths, without success.

Q3/17/2007. England. Re. John and William Axford who were in Parkhurst Prison in 1841, transported to New Zealand in 1842 and subsequently returned to England. What was their offence? The records of Parkhurst prisoners for the period 1838 to 1875 are held at the UK National Archives in the HO24/1 series. These would normally give the details of their offence, the date of their conviction and sentence, their occupation, character, state of health and physical characteristics. Since they were 17 and 15 and unmarried their father's name might also appear. Details can be found on www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/ifa_15_tracingc18toc20_criminals_sk.pdf The bad news is that for the National Archives to do the search the charge is £60 but you might well be able to find a private researcher to do the job more cheaply.

Q4/17/2007. England. Re. Henry Scatchard, a plumber and glazier, said to have created a stained glass window in a Leeds church, can I search for him in occupation records? The combination of plumber and glazier is a common one since both trades required a skill of working with lead but we know of no records of these trades. To pursue the idea that he might have been responsible for the stained glass window you could try parish chest records to see if their is any record of a payment to him but there is always the possibility that the window was donated and payment to Mr Scatchard was made by the donor.

Favourite UK County Sites

The county for next week will be Wiltshire. Please send us details of the sites you fine useful outlining what can be found on those sites.

This week's county is Lancashire. Here are the contributions from a number of readers (we have eliminated duplicates).

www.boothstown.com an excellent site about a village west of Salford

www.worsley.history.btinternet.co.uk Worsley, a village south of Manchester- historical connections to the Duke of Bridgewater and the Bridgewater Canal

www.Manchesteronline.co.uk Daily newspaper internet site

www.manchesterhistory.net/longsight an area of Manchester - links to Belle Vue

www.lancashire.gov.uk/educationrecord_office Lancashire archives

www.churches-online.org.uk/salfordarchives/ Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford,Lancs

www.sthelenschat.co.uk history information

www.mlfhs.org.uk Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society web site--a good bookshop

www.lan-opc.org.uk/ The OnLine Parish Clerks' Project. An online parish clerk is a volunteer transcribing records from parishes in a specific area. Lancashire records include parish registers, cemetery records, directories, churchwardens' accounts and others. There are links to other Lancashire sites.
www.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm Gay Oliver's website. Gay's site deals mainly with Ashton-under-Lyne and the Tameside area of south-east Lancashire, but there are many, many links to genealogy and history sites of both local and general interest. It's very comprehensive. There are some transcribed records online, e.g. the 1811 census of Ashton-under-Lyne.
www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/ The Briercliffe Society.This is a new site, started in March, relating to the Briercliife area near
Burnley in north-east Lancashire. Already, there are some transcribed records, e.g. wills, parish records, census, plus names of interest and queries, and histories of old houses in the area, on the site. There are some links to other local sites.
www.lancs-lookup.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Lancashire Look-up Exchange. Volunteers will look up specific names in local records, including census records, some parish registers, directories, Monumental Inscriptions, and references in some books. There are links to other Lancashire sites.

www.interment.net/uk/eng/lancashire.htm part of the Interment.net series of sites – growing – cemetery indexes – volunteer transcribers.

http://cheshirebmd.org.uk/ Part of the local bmd sites – please note that all records for Ashton-under-Lyne are on this site rather than the Lancs BMD site – confusing I know!

www.tameside.gov.uk/localstudies/ Great site – search the image archives

www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/ Almost 5 million records. – Oldham includes Saddleworth, which before 1974 was in Yorkshire but originally part of Rochdale Parish – another confusing fact.

www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm Lancashire Will Search – nearly a quarter of a million records. 16th to early 19th Century.

www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries/arls/registers/index.htm Lots of amazing information, plus searchable photo archives and listings of holdings.

www.ancestordocs.co.uk/Lancashire.htmPart of Beryl Anderson’s historical documents for sale – check back often. www.google.co.uk/books?id=9cgRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=Lancashire Google Books – type in Lancashire <enter> and you’re set for the whole day – including Tim Bobbin:-

http://members.pcug.org.au/~pfthomps/lancshis/lancsint.htm If you’re interested in Lancashire dialect, this will either clear up confusion, or confuse you even more

www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/ Interesting Merseyside items from old newspapers

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.asp?gid=20&region=6 History of Lancashire

http://crem.oltps.sthelens.gov.uk:8080/crem/servlet/Telesearch#results St Helens area, local cemetery records

http://www.sthelens-connect.net/forums/index.php?s=a9504cfedca6d8f021f4111d6949397b&showforum=244 St Helens area. The Local History section of the St Helens Connect site has free downloads of parish records and census indexes for the area.

Films received in the 7 days ending 3 May 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 31 May 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Newmarket RC PR 1849-1910	1305825
CAN ON Parry Sound mar 1924	2393910
DEU Budwethen Baptisms 1772-1796	1813537
DEU Emigration Card File 1782-1784	1327507
DEU Rohau Civ. Reg. 1874	1194895
DEU SCI Brieg Evang. B 1792-1803	0879605
ENG CON Paul PR 1595-1812	0226178
ENG CON Paul PR Bapt 1813-1959	0226179
ENG DEV Hartland Hdrd Land Tax 1798	1526151
ENG DEV Stoke Damerel PR 1595-1782	0916921
ENG DEV Stoke Damerel PR 1765-1786	0916919
ENG DUR Gateshead b 1763	0252780
ENG LAN Ashton-in-Makerfield PR 1698-	1885657
ENG LDN Grocers Co Records 1345-1881	1850737
ENG MIL RECs 1914-20 Jaques	2300237
ENG MIL RECs 1914-20 Moores James	2324152
ENG MIL RECs 1914-20 Moores P-T	2324153
ENG NFK Archdeaconry Wills 1710-1712	0167144
ENG SFK Stoke-Ash PRs Transcripts	0992048
ENG WAR Bordesley PR Bapt 1889-	1520101
ENG WOR Tenbury BTs 1813-1860	0992549
ENG YKS Otley BT 1774-1826	0918401
ENG YKS Otley BT 1848-1897	1849387
FRA BAS Hatten births 1793-1815	0731410
IND Bengal pr vol 83-4, 1853	0498991
IOM Douglas St Barnabas C of E 1833-	0106716
IRL Civ. Reg Marriages 1845	0101271
IRL DON Carricknahorna Census 1911	2080824
IRL FER Derryvullan Census 1901	0836122
ITA Provincia Civil Recs 1902-1903	1802008
ITA Provincia Civil Recs 1903-1904	1802009
NLD Amsterdam Immigrants 1820-1851	0493665
NLD Amsterdam Karthuizen Bur 1758-	0114709
NLD Ancestral Research Netherlands	0845093
NLD Medemblik Ch Memb 1698-1800	0516576
NLD Medemblik Ref Ch Bapt 1750-1805	0115812
PHL Megcauagan Deaths 1907-1915	1128529
PHL Megcauagan Deaths 1915-1933	1128530
PHL Pangasthan S'Barb Bapt 1860-73	1128949
PHL Tagudin Baptisms 1843-1858	1214470
POL Karczew RC PR 1866-1875	1618641
POL Nowa Weis Gk Cath PR 1784-1941	1979587
POL TP Chorostkow RC PR 1818-1945	2005223
RUS BES Fiess Collection #1-1971	1476492
RUS BES Fiess Collection #1972-3541	1476493
RUS BES Fiess Collection #3542-5192	1476494
RUS BES Fiess Collection #5193-6900	1476495
RUS BES Fiess Collection #6901-8270	1476496
RUS BES Fiess Collection #8271-9351	1476497
RUS BES Karlswalde Luth. Ch. Bks 1885	1897692
SCT ANS Arbroath Bap 1781-1819	0993332

News from the trenches

Joan Challis writes:-
"I've been waiting quite a long time for a WW1 Burnt Records film to arrive -but it was well worth the wait. My husband's grandfather's service record was on the film which not only showed all the details of his service - including when he was disciplined for leaving the base without permission - but also details of his marriage and the births of his children. We always
thought he had two children but it turns out he had three, one dying at the age of 6 months and the child's death certificate formed part of the record."

Were you aware...............

Genealogy generally. Probate and Administrations. (this latter sometimes called, for reasons unknown to me "admons").

Requirements vary slightly from one jurisdiction to another but generally speaking when somebody dies leaving assets owned in their name (bank accounts, real estate, vehicles etc) it is necessary to get an order from a court giving permission to a relative, a solicitor, a bank, a creditor, to deal with the estate and to transfer ownership to a rightful claimant. Where the deceased leaves a will and names in the will an executor (or executors) those persons would normally obtain the court's consent - a Grant of Representation - to deal with the estate. This is a Grant of Probate. If the deceased did not leave a will or the will was invalid or if the executors named in the will were unwilling or unable to act, other persons may apply to act as the executor for the estate and if granted this would be a Grant of Administration. There seems to be a popular misconception that a will does not exist where a Grant of Administration has been made but this is not necessarily the case. Of course, it is also possible for someone to leave a will but no grant of probate or administration is made but this would only be possible if the decedant had constructed their affairs so that no assets remained in their sole name at the time of their death. This is done to avoid Death Duties and Probate Fees but in that event there is no court to fall back on since technically the deceased did not own anything when they died.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 17/2007

Our grateful thanks to all those readers of the Bulletin who have responded so admirably with more questions for The Forum and for the submissions to the new feature Favourite UK County Sites. We need to keep this going - submissions required for next week's county, Lancashire.

In this Bulletin

Some great new questions in The Forum. Your input needed.
We tackle a really hot subject in Were you aware..............

Announcements

A few more films dribbled in this week from orders which we placed in January but we regret that there are still some that have not yet arrived from an order placed by us on 11 January.

The Forum

New Questions

Q1/17/2007. England. In 1870 Edmund George Benson married Albertina Coombes in London. In 1877 Albertina died, age 32, of chronic liver disease but the informant was her aunt. Albertina was described on the death certificate as "wife of Edmund George Benson, late Captain of the Royal Wiltshire Militia" which could be read as meaning that Edmund was deceased or that he was no longer a Captain in the Royal Wiltshire Militia. However, I have been unable to find his death between 1870 and 1877 and there is no trace of him in any subsequent census. How do I find out what happened to him?
Q2/17/2007. England. Ernest Joseph Gloster was born in Solihull, Warwickshire on April 10, 1881. In 1902 he married Lilian May Roberts and they had 6 children but when he returned from WW1 Lilian had left the children in the care of her mother and gone to live with a Patrick Mulry (Mulroy). Ernest left the children with Lilian's mother and then disappears. When Lilian died in 1942 as "Lilian Gloster otherwise Mulroy the wife of Joseph Gloster". I have searched for his death as Ernest or Joseph and with variations of the spelling of Gloster from 1920 to 1962 without success. Any ideas?
Q3/17/2007. England. I believe I am related to two boys, John and William Axford, who appear in the 1841 Census age 17 and 15 in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. At the time there was a scheme to send juvenile offenders to Australia and New Zealand to complete their sentences and these two were sent to New Zealand arriving 25 October 1842. They returned to England and in 1851are living with their parents. How do I find out what offence they committed that saw them sent to Parkhurst?
Q4/17/2007. England. I am trying to find more about Henry Scatchard my aunt's great-grandfather. I wonder if I can trace him through his occupation. I have traced him in the 1841-1871 census. He died in 1880. In 1851 he was 19 living with his parents in Ollerton, Nottingshire and is listed as a 'Plumber & Glazier'. In 1861 he was married and living in Eckington Derbyshire and was a Plumber, Journeyman. In 1871 he lived in Wortley, (Leeds) Yorkshire and was listed as a plumber.
My Aunt understands he created a stained glass window for a Church in Leeds. Plumber and Glazier do not sound like related occupations. Can I search for him through occupation records?

Favourite UK County Sites

The county for next week will be Lancashire . Send it details of your favourite sites giving details of what can be found on these sites.

This week's county is Yorkshire . A number of readers have sent in details (we have eliminated duplicates) and give here what those readers describe:-

www.simplesite.com/Keighleyhistory/2944508 The site covers the Keighley area of West Yorkshire with many small tidbits of interest; included are old photos of people and places as well as recent pictures of this lovely area. There is a link to Keighley BMDs, Brigg Burial Ground (with pictures of some of the tombstones) and the Keighley Workhouse

http://www.driffield.org.uk/index.html Driffield. It has lists of people from local Directories, BMD from the local churches, history, stories about local people etc.
http://www.calverley.info /. Calverley and area. This is a marvelous site with church records, census records, trade directories, maps, war memorials, news items, schools, wills, voters lists, history, constables, etc.
www.familia.org.uk/services/england/kingston_upon_hull.html Kingston upon Hull. Hull also has a city genealogist on staff.

http://www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk Yorkshire BMD.

And a whole lot of sites given without description (but the URL gives a good idea of what they might contain).
http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ENG-SHEFFIELD
http://www.gleadless.net/pages/other/streets.htm
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/sfca/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/
http://www.gencem.org/resources.html#edresources
http://www.sheffieldfhs.org.uk/
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/yks.htm

Films received in the 7 days ending 26 April 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 24 May 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Peterboro' Co Marriages 1923	2266931
CAN ON Richmond St Philip RC pr	1304679
CAN ON Simcoe Co. Marriages 1924	2393912
CAN ON Stormont Co. Marriages 1924	2393913
CAN ON Victoria Co. Marriages 1924	2393914
ENG Burnt Records - Jones, Thomas	2300828
ENG GLS Hanham PRs	1849449
ENG MDX Islington Banns 1827-1853	2232195
IND Bengal BMB Apr/Jun 1921	0527926
IND Bengal BMB Jan-Mar 1936	0528998
IND Bengal BMB Jul-Sep 1906	0527536
IND Bengal BMB July/Sept 1921	0527927
IND Bengal BMB Oct-Dec 1913	0527902
ITL Udine San Vito Al Tagliamento PR	2163742
ITL Udine San Vito Al Tagliamento PR	2163741
ITL Udine San Vito Al Tagliamento PR	2163740
POL Krasnik Jewish Births 1826-1849	0715440
POL Krasnik Jewish Deaths 1847-1865	0715444
POL Krasnik Jewish Marr 1826-1865	0715442
POL Wielkie Oczy CR 1784-1875	2380058
RUS BES Kishinev Lutheran B 1909-19	2161881
RUS BES Kishinev Lutheran M 1892-	2161884
SCT DFS Tundergarth PR 1791-1854	1067971
SCT DFS Wamphray PR 1709-1854	1067972

Were you aware...................

Canada /United Kingdom/ United States. Trying to find out where someone was buried? As cremation becomes more and more popular the chances increase that they were not buried at all but that their ashes were disposed of to places unknown. Many crematoria in the United Kingdom have attached to them what are called "Gardens of Remembrance" where the ashes of the deceased are said to be scattered although it occurs to me that if they are then it can only be a token amount since otherwise the garden would soon become prone to ash storms at the slightest gust. My late wife's ashes are buried in the village churchyard but there is no stone to mark the spot the minister explaining to me that if this were allowed the churchyard would soon become paved over like a parking lot. But just how prevalent is cremation becoming?

Here are some statistics. Percentage of all deaths:

United Kingdom

1900 0.1%

1930 0.9%

1950 15.6%

1970 55.4%

1990 69.6%

2004 72.2%

Canada

1930 0.5%

1950 1.9%

1970 5.9%

1990 32.5%

2004 56.0%

USA

1950 4.0%

1970 4.6%

1990 17.1%

2001 26.9%

One wonders how much longer the practice of embalming a body so that it looks nice for a few hours in a funeral home is going to be allowed to continue. The principal embalming fluid is formaldehyde, a Class 1 carcinogen and when the body is consigned to the ground it seems inevitable that the fluid must find its way to a water course. Cemeteries are currently exempt from the provisions of the Enviromental Protection Act. And no doubt the popularity of cremation is being encouraged when the relatives of the dear departed discover that the cost of a modest casket to be lowered into the ground starts at about $8,000.

Canada , Ontario. Sue Gest draws our attention to a site http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/ which contains the maps of 40 Ontario counties published between 1874 and 1881. The maps show property owners names (but not all the owners of property within the county) and these names can be searched.
Scotland . Indexes (but not images) of all the censuses of Scotland 1841 to 1901 are now available on www.ancestry.com (can be viewed on Computer No. 1 at the Toronto FHC).
Scotland , Aberdeenshire. A new genealogy centre is opening in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to be hosted in the Arbuthnot Museum. It will hold tax records dating to the 1690s, burial records dating from 1841, and registrars' birth, marriage, and death records dating from 1855. An article on the new centre can be read at:
http://www.buchanie.co.uk/archived/2007/week_16/news/genealogy.asp
Australia , Queensland . Births, marriages and deaths 1829-1914 are now on-line at http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/bdm/IndexSearch.htm (I am indebted to RootsWeb Review for this and the piece on Aberdeenshire above).

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 16/2007

We need some more questions for The Forum. Experience seems to suggest that long involved questions do not get answered - better to keep them short and then, if necessary, follow up with another question.

In this Bulletin

A book give-away in Announcements
We burrow into Australian genealogical resources in Were you aware
Favourite UK County web-sites. A feature for future Bulletins in Announcements

Announcements

Every now and again we have to weed out little used books from our collection to make room for those that might enjoy greater usage. The following are offered free to anyone who wants them - if not taken they will finish up in the recycling bin. 1. World Conference on Records 1980. 14 volumes. Two volumes are devoted to North American Family and Local History, two volumes to British, one to Scandinavian, one to Australasia, one to Latin America, one to Continental Europe and so on. You can be selective, you don't have to take the lot. 2. The History Magazine. Two volumes. Vol.1 covers October 1999 to September 2000, Vol. 3 covers October 2001 to September 2002. 3. The Olschwanger Journal. 4. The Plantagenet Connection. 5. Jefferson-Hemings. A Special Issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. This contains a lengthy review of the evidence that Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States fathered children by his slave, Sally Hemings.
Gwen Armstrong has come forward with the idea that we include in future Bulletins a feature where members of staff and readers of the Bulletin give details of their favourite website covering a particular UK county describing what can be found on that site. Although we might combine some of the smaller counties, we will announce each week the county to be covered the following week. So next week we will start with Yorkshire . Come on you tykes write-in and tell us your secrets.

Films received in the 7 days ending 19 April 2007, due to return (unless renewed) 17 May 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN British Forces Recs J-K	1711862
CAN ON Kemptville Cath PR 1844-1910	1302005
CAN ON Kemptville Cath PR 1844-1910	1302004
CAN ON Kent County marriages 1924	1838207
DEU PRE Tilsit deaths 1853-1871	1813540
ENG 93'd Reg of Foot O-S	0861706
FRA HRN Colmar PR C 1650-1723	0729827
PHL Meycauagan Bulacan Bapt 1919	1128525
PHL Meycauagan Bulacan Bapt 1928-	1128526
POL LU Ratoszyn Catholic PR 1811-24	0753339
POL LU Ratoszyn Catholic PR 1825-29	0753340
POL LU Ratoszyn Catholic PR 1850-65	0753341
SCT CAI Thurso PR 1671-1854	0990556
UKR Bruckenthal BMD 1804-1862	2328797

Were you aware...............

Australia . RootsWeb Review reports on an interesting development by the National Archives of Australia - who I wouldn't describe as being in the vanguard of making records available - offering a service where anyone can request the digitization of any of their publicly available records which is done at a reasonable cost ($16.50 for a file of up to 100 pages) and once digitized the record becomes available on-line for all to access. Seems a good way to get the funding to speed up the process. Full details of the service can be seen at http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/digitisation-service.html A good number of records are already available (not by the digitization on-demand programme) including the service records of 366,000 Australians who served in WW1. These are described by the National Archives as their "gift to the nation". Strange wording. I would have thought that the records belonged to the nation anyway and presumably their availability on line was at the cost of the Australian tax payer. Bit like somebody borrowing something from you, giving it back as a birthday present and handing you a bill. Nonetheless, these are valuable records and can be accessed at http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/gift-to-the-nation.html
By going to http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html one can search the 18.2 million records that are already on line. The site seems very busy and despite several tries I have been unable to complete an actual search. Having put in a name you are offered various types of records that are available:- Immigration and Naturalization records, High Court Cases, Court Martial Records, Passengers arriving Fremantle 1926-1946, Army Personnel Records 1901-1976, Navy 1911-1976, Air Force 1921-1976 etc. (In Bulletin 14/2007 we drew your attention to the Australian sites where details of immigrants to Australia under the assisted immigration schemes could be found. Those arriving in New South Wales 1839-1896 are shown on http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/indexes_online_3357.asp . Arriving in Victoria, Australia between 1839 and 1871 are shown on http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=24 .

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 14/2007

In this Bulletin

Easter Closing, the Ancestry.com situation and delays in film arrivals in Announcements
Another inspiring story in News from the trenches
The Story of The Petworth Experiment and news of new databases in Were you aware............

Announcements

Easter Closing. The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on Friday and Saturday 6th and 7th April and on Monday 9th April.
The sky did not exactly fall in with the advent of the restricted access to Ancestry.com. We started the 1/2 hour per booking schedule on Computer No.1, the only computer where we have full access, and have to report that we easily coped with demand and nobody was inconvenienced. On the limited access computers a message comes up inviting you to take out a private subscription. Cheeky, I thought.
We are continuing to experience delays in the delivery of some films from Salt Lake. Whilst about 75% of our orders are being met in 2 to 3 weeks the remaining part of the order is still taking up to 12 weeks. This week we received some films that were ordered on 11 January.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England , Yorkshire, Penistone. Parish Records. Baptisms and Burials 1644-1812. Fiche No. 6358999 (5 fiche)
USA/Germany. Bridging the Atlantic. Finding your German Ancestor. Fiche No. 6039324 (1 fiche)
Netherlands . Dutch Family Research. Using the collection of the Central Office for Genealogy in the Netherlands. Fiche No. 6085787 (1 fiche).

Films received in the 7 days ending 5 April 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 3 May 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Norfolk Co. Marriages 1923	2266928
CAN PQ Montreal Christ Church 1819	1430780
DEU BAD Urloffen Births 1756 - 1877	0949964
DEU BAD Urloffen Marrs 1786 - 1868	0949966
DEU Schwetz Births 1862-1883	0245574
ENG KEN Canterbury Peculiars Marrs	0396184
ENG NFK Archdeaconry Marr Bonds 1715-34	1596561
ENG NTH Peterboro' Marr Bonds 1824-	1999617
ENG NTT Sutton on Trent BTs 1813-38	0504538
HRV Croatia Sumber Births 1673-1857	2099963
IRL DOW Belfast 1901 Census	0829082
IRL DOW Belfast 1901 Census	0829079
NL Amsterdam Vit Recs Indx 1903-12	1452998
UKR L'viv RC Marr Indx 1931-1946	2034921
USA NY Erie Co. Deeds 1840 - 1841	0590039

News from the trenches

David Parker writes:-

"Some years ago, when I first started my research into the history of my family, a member of the FHC staff told me that it was not just getting the names and the dates, it was meeting the people. He was so right. Over the years I have had the pleasure of meeting many previously unknown relatives, mostly a little distant.

One of the things that I have learnt from all this research is persistence, and so just two weeks ago came the greatest pleasure, the end of a long search. I am one of six cousins on my paternal side. Because of family feuds I had never met one of them and had only seen two of them about twice, and that not since 1960. Now we are all in contact with each other, for the first time ever. The two that I was already in touch with are in Basildon, Essex and in Worthing, Sussex; the two that I had hardly ever seen are now in Ireland and in Portsmouth, he having returned there recently from Missionary work as a JW in Spain and the one that I had never met is in New Zealand. My cousin in New Zealand, had no memory of her father and had seen no pictures of him - the parents having separated when she was two and he died five years later. One of my greatest joys was sending her pictures of her father. The last cousin that I located, that two weeks ago, the JW Missionary has just got engaged for the first time at the age of 61! We are hoping to visit England next year, and I am hoping that all the British Isles cousins can meet again."

Were you aware..............

United Kingdom . The AncestorsonBoard website www.findmypast.com have added a further ten years 1910-1919 to their database of passengers leaving for overseas from UK ports so that now 1890 to 1919 is available. This is becoming an increasingly valuable resource -see Bulletin 13/2007 for hints on how to obtain lots of data without it costing you a penny.
Scotland . James Thomson tells us - " Ancestry.com has just uploaded transcriptions of the 1881 and 1901 censuses / censi of Scotland, completing their set of transcriptions of the 1841-1901 Scottish censuses. To crib once more from my own earlier e-mails to you when other censuses were uploaded: Digital images of the enumeration schedules are not included, but a huge strength of the Ancestry transcriptions lies in the number of fields that have been keyed and the fact that one can search on any one or more of them - it is possible, for instance, to do searches on address, occupation (where given), birthplace, first name only, or certain other members of the household such as spouse or parent. Searches in the Ancestry transcriptions might also be useful as preparation for obtaining images from ScotlandsPeople; one may be able to precisely identify a person of interest by taking advantage of the Ancestry search facility and transcriptions, and so not waste credits unnecessarily when in the pay-to-view ScotlandsPeople site".
England , Assisted Emigration and The Petworth Experiment. Around 1830 various parishes in England hit on the idea of providing assisted passages to enable people on parish relief i.e. an increasing number of poor having to be provided for by a static number of taxpayers, to emigrate to one of the colonies – mainly Canada, Australia and New Zealand. A one-off payment would take them off the parish relief roll for ever. Petworth in Sussex joined with other neighbouring parishes in what became known as The Petworth Experiment. The Rev. Thomas Sockett set up the Petworth Emigration Committee and every year from 1832 to 1837 ships were chartered to take parish assisted immigrants from Portsmouth to Toronto. These Petworth immigrants have been extensively studied and two books published – Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada: The Petworth Project 1832-1837 and English Immigrant Voices, Labourers’ Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s see www.petworthemigrations.com/intro.htm . Petworth was not a big place with a population of just 2,427 in 1851. The Imperial Gazetteer published in 1871 notes that Petworth was "formerly in a disagreeable condition but has been greatly improved".

The cost of the assisted passage varied. Single women of good character going to New Zealand were often given free passages and this included provisions for them on the roughly 100 day voyage while an adult going to Canada could be charged £6.6s. A pamphlet issued by the National Emigration Aid Society c.1869 extolling the virtues of emigration is shown in full on www.theshipslist.com/Forms/assisted1869.html

Various databases exist for these assisted immigrants. Those arriving in New South Wales 1839-1896 are shown on http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/indexes_online_3357.asp . Arriving in Victoria, Australia between 1839 and 1871 are shown on http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=24 . Assisted immigrants to New Zealand between 1871 and 1888 are on a series of LDS films, 1514972 to 1514979 and 1514952 to 1514962.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 13/2007

In this Bulletin

We update you on the Family History Centres and Ancestry.com situation in Announcements
We tell you how to spend a lot of money - or not spend any money - in gathering data from two commercial sites in Were you aware...........
A "Never give up" story in News from the trenches.

Announcements

Ancestry.com situation. We have received no new information or instructions from Salt Lake and so we must assume that as from April 1, Ancestry.com will discontinue supplying their full databases to Family History Centres. In response to Gwen Armstrong's enquiry to Ancestry.com as to whether we, as a Family History Centre, could obtain from them a Library subscription we received today the following message:- " We understand your desire to have Ancestry.com inside your Family History Center. At this point we are not set up to engage in negotiations with individual centers. We remain hopeful there is still a broad agreement that can be reached with the Church".

This means that commencing Monday, April 2, we will continue to be able to provide the full Ancestry.com service i.e. indexes and images, only on one computer - Computer No. 1. The other computers we believe will be able to obtain the limited service - England & Wales 1841-1891 censuses indexes but not images (but note that we could provide the 1891 images on microfiche) and the 1880, 1900 and 1920 US censuses indexes and images but neither the 1901 England & Wales or the 1930 US census index or images.

To cope with this situation - which we hope will be of a short duration - we are making changes to the booking procedures for Computer No. 1. As from Monday, April 2 patrons will be able to book this computer for only one half-hour period per session. (A session is defined as the periods 9.30 to 12, 12 to 2, 2 to 4 and 6.30 to 9.30). Needless to say if no one else has booked, the patron is free to continue. The other computers will remain bookable for the full session.

2006 Canadian Census. Linda Reid draws our attention to the following: Not too late
The 2006 mini-census had a question about "informed consent". Unless people specifically indicated that the data could be released to the public in another 92 years, their information would never come into the public domain. Not answering the question was considered to mean "no". Recent data from Statistics Canada shows that only 56% of Canadians gave the required permission for their data to become part of the historical record.
If you or someone you know neglected to answer "yes" to the question about release in 92 years, it is not too late to make a change. Visit the Statistics Canada web site to get a form to grant permission.
For background reading see Gordon Watts' article of March 26, 2007 on the Global Gazette at :
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazgw/gazgw-0098.htm
A Toronto Star editorial on March 26 also urged Canadians to leave a "snapshot of who we were".
Form for changing your response at:
http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/reference/info/change.cfm

Additions to our Permanent Collections

USA . Pennsylvania, Alleghany Co., Round Hill. Presbyterian Church Records 1871-1935 and Cemetery Records 1788-1970.

Fiche 6048270.

Germany . Hamburg Passenger List Research Papers. Series C, No. 30. Fiche 6000034

Germany . Captured 1932-1945 German Documents. Fiche 6334167

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/12/2007. England. ( William Parker, b. 1876, 1901 Census of Aston, Birmingham shows him as Electrician and Lay Preacher. How do I find out what his church connections were?). The fact that he married in the Church of England Parish Church I do not think is terribly significant. If he belonged to a denomination such as the Methodists or Baptists he would not have been able to marry in their place of worship unless he had a Registrar present which would have added to the cost. However, the place where any children were baptized would be significant and if, in fact they were baptized in an independent church you might well assume that this is where his affiliations were – he might well have baptized his own children. I note that in the 1901 census he is not described as a lay preacher but as a local preacher and I note too that just a few doors away from where he lived in Dolobran Road stood the Christ Church Mission Hall. This, no doubt, was affiliated to the Parish Church of Christ Church in Aston and I would not therefore discount the possibility that his local preaching took place there. The Church of England did use lay preachers, particularly in working class areas, quite often Church Army officers. Baptisms for the period 1901-1912 which took place in the Parish Church are on LDS film 1545530 and, if your further research leads you to suspect that his connections were with the Church of England you might want to take a look at the Vestry Minute Books in case he charged up some expenses. For the period 1832 to 1917 these are on LDS film 1545635.

Q2/12/2007. Scotland/Canada. (Heard family emigrated from Scotland to Canada 1850's). We have made some progress with this quesion and expect to be able to provide an answer shortly.

Films received in the 7 days ending 29 March 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 26 April, 2007.

Film Content	Film No
ENG BKM Choulesbury PR 1583-1837	0919225
ENG BKM Gt Hampden PR 1557-1812	0924816
ENG ESS Great Oakley PR 1559-1928	1565653
ENG NTT Lenton BTs 1600-1812	0503787
ENG SAL Burford PR BMB 1813-1928	1526893
ENG YKS Masham PR BMB 1742-	0993290
ENG YKS Masham PR BMB 1800	0993291
SCT Chiefs of Grant	0277773
SCT Chiefs of Grant	0277771

News from the trenches.

Never give up. Chris Roberts writes:

My Search for "Russian Tom"
In March 2002, I came to a roadblock trying to establish the birthplace of my Sheffield g-g-grandfather, Thomas Surgey. I knew nothing about him except that he was called "Russian Tom" by his mates "at the works," and that he had been in the navy. I was unable to find his 1838 birth on the GRO and so, in the absence of earlier census information, concluded that he probably wasRussian born and had Anglicized Sergei to Surgey. I sent an email request to Rootsweb's Sheffield mailing list for some ideas about "Russian Tom's" birthplace including the above facts . Nothing came of that and so, I set the search aside.
In November, 2006, I received an email from woman in England. She had seen my request in the Rootsweb archives and was writing to tell me that "Russian Tom" Surgey was her g-g-g-grandfather and that her mother was my grandmother's first cousin! (They were both born in 1897.) Over the following months, we emailed back and forth filling each other in on the oral history that we had heard, as well as sharing new information we were now finding on early censuses, BMD indexes, cemetery transcriptions and certificate data. Through her, I was put in touch with another Surgey descendent of Tom whose father was another cousin of my grandmother. Now, we had a descendent from each of Tom's three children.
We found out that Tom Surgey was indeed English-born--in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. His father died when he was 2 and in 1851, at age 12, he was in a Horncastle workhouse. We learned from another relative that he did sail on ships--plying the Baltic Sea--before he settled in Sheffield. (Perhaps this is where his moniker originated.) But the icing on the cake, was receiving photos of ancestors I knew only by name--extended family members who lived but a few streets apart. (Being immigrants, our photo collection of this family was very limited.) Now, I have photos of my great-grandparents when they were young, my g-g-ggrandmother in old age, as well as siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins of my grandmother, two family wedding
groups--even a photo of Captain Surgey's straight razor and his pipe. Perhaps the most poignant, were the photos of Gran as a young woman, lovely and stylish and her only sister that died of TB at age 23 in 1918. I treasure them daily, often noting some striking family resemblances.
As a result of a simple query on Rootweb, I have gained so many insights about my mother's and grandmother's early life and the
ancestors/extended family that were important to them. I can't begin to express just how much it has meant to me. So, don't give up. "Cast your hook and a fish will come."

Were you aware.............

United Kingdom . Searching for living people. Only around 40% of UK telephone subscribers ( England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) are now home phone BritishTelecom subscribers. Competition is such that you can sign up for service by the local supermarket chain and more and more people are using just a cell phone service, dispensing entirely with a home phone. But it is only BritishTelecom that has a searchable telephone directory and even with this one has to know the area in which the person is living. You have to be fairly lucky then to find someone. An independent service – www.192.com – provides an alternative. Their records are based on the Electoral Rolls with a listing of 29 million people. For £349.99 you can buy a CD which would enable you to search by a name or an address but I can’t imagine many of you buying this. However you can search free of charge on-line by a name and a town and the listing shows all the people of that name living within a 25 mile radius of the town. It doesn’t show the full address, just the name of the town or village or the postal district of the bigger cities. But it does show the names of people living with the named person so, knowing the name of a partner, one can often identify the correct person. However, you still won’t have the full address. To get this you will have to buy credits from 192.com, the minimum subscription being £9.95 for 5 credits, 1 credit being required for each search for an address from the original free of charge listing. Now, here comes the Toronto Family History Centre bonus. I have a personal collection of Electoral Roll CDs that I will willingly look up for you. Email me pgoddard@interlog.com with the details – possibly obtained from the free of charge 192.com listing – and I will do my best to provide you with the address information.

United Kingdom . We have referred in previous Bulletins to the www.findmypast.com site as being the place to go for Passenger Lists for people leaving the UK. Again this is a pay-per-view site but it is possible to obtain quite a lot of useful information without paying a penny. As a test of this I put in "Goddard" in the main search box and came up with over 1000 entries in the Passengers leaving the UK 1890-1909 database, in most cases giving me their full name, their destination and year of departure. I was able to cut and paste the listing into MS Excel and sort by year of departure, giving me an idea of who was travelling with who. Where they were going to the US I was able to compare this with the Ellis Island lists. The search also gave me the full names of 8 Goddards appearing in the Clergy List of 1896 and 6 in the Medical Register of 1913. To obtain copies of the actual entries can get expensive. An image of a passenger list uses up 30 units and the smallest number of units one can buy is 50 at a cost of £5.

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 12/2007

Lots of questions in this week's Forum Would appreciate help in answering them!

In this Bulletin

Shocking news from Salt Lake on the future of Ancestry.com in Family History Centres (Announcements)
We draw your attention to the valuable background information available to you in The Three Gazetteers (Were you aware........).
James Thomson discusses current and future General Register Office BMD indexes ( England & Wales) in Were you aware.........

Announcements

Family History Centre Directors in English Language areas throughout the world have been advised by Salt Lake Family History Support that as of April 1, 2007 Ancestry.com will discontinue providing access in Family History Centres to the full Ancestry.com data bases. Ancestry.com will continue to supply index and images for the 1880, 1900 and 1920 US censuses and indexes (but not images) for the British 1841-1891 censuses but neither index or images for the 1930 US census or the British 1901 Census. We are still hopeful that Salt Lake and Ancestry.com will reach an agreement and in next week's Bulletin we will bring you up to date with the latest position
We are still experiencing long delays in the delivery of some films ordered for patrons. Yesterday we received some films which almost completed the order we placed on 4 January but we are still awaiting films from orders we placed on 11 January and thereafter. We spoke to Salt Lake today and were advised that they are getting the problem - caused by staff shortages - under control, and are gradually catching up.

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/09/2007 UK/Canada/USA. Professional records such as for lawyers and doctors (partially answered in Bulletin 10/2007). Marian Press writes: The Inner Temple Admissions Database is online. I found one of my relatives there.
http://www.innertemple.org.uk/archive/itad/index.asp.

New Questions

Q1/12/2007. England. My grandfather William PARKER was born in 1876, in Aston, Birmingham. The 1901 census shows him as a "Lay Preacher and electrician" In July 1901 he married at a local C of E Parish Church. I doubt if at the age of 25 he would have been a lay reader within that denomination - Methodism or Baptist would be more likely -he was teetotal. That he was a lay preacher was a surprise at the time of the release of the 1901 to all his grandchildren and his one remaining daughter-in-law, for none of us remember him as a Church-goer. By 1905 he had left Aston for Heysham, Lancs and by 1915 was in Portsmouth. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to discover what his church connections were.

Q2/12/2007. Scotland/Canada. I am having trouble tracing my great grand-aunt, Mary Jane Heard/Hurd. Her parents, Robert and Jane immigrated to Canada from Scotland in the mid-1850's with their children: Andrew, William Robert, Elizabeth, Annie, James and Joseph. The first record I have of Mary Jane is on the 1871 Canadian census for District No. 58, North Peterborough, in the Township of Dysart, where she is listed as living in the same household as her mother, Jane (age 75) and three siblings: Andrew (age 27), Annie (age 28), Joseph (age 24). Mary Jane’s age is shown as 19, making her date of birth 1852. According to this census, the place of birth for all members of the family was Scotland. On the 1881 census ( Peterborough East, District 125), the family is now comprised of Jane (age 85), Andrew (age 37), James (age 34), and Mary (age 25), making her date of birth 1856. Her birthplace is now shown as Ontario, although the rest of the family are listed as being born in Scotland. As you can see, I have not determined the particulars of Mary Jane’s marriages. I cannot find a death record without knowing her married surname and date of birth. As to the birth, I am not sure if it occurred in Scotland or Ontario and remain uncertain of the date. Depending on the date, her legitimacy may also be called into question. I would be most appreciative if anyone has any suggestions how to resolve this problem.

Q3/12/2007. Canada. My 2nd ggrandmother was born Mary Brown c 1804. On 23 April 1823 she was married at St Mary's Cathedral Kingston, ON, to Ronald MacDonald, witnesses John MacDonnell & W Fraser. Mary and Ronald moved to Wolfe Island, ON and the births of their childlren are recorded in either the St Mary's Cathedral Kingston and or Sacred Heart of Mary Church Wolfe Island, ON registers between 1825 and 1848. Mary is listed in the 1851 census for Wolfe Island, with her family, as age 47 and born at sea. She is also in the 1861 census for Wolfe Island but shown as age 59 born Wolfe Island. Her husband Ronald MacDonald (UEL) was born Glengarry ON c 1798, died 22 October 1862 and is buried in the Sacred Heart of Mary old Cemetery on Wolfe Island. His Will dated 1862 and registered in 1868 mentions "my beloved Mary McDonell". Mary is not mentioned in the 1871 census for Wolfe Island and I have not located her with any of her children in that census. Furthermore, I have not found a death, remarriage or interment record in either the Sacred Heart of Mary or St Mary's Cathedral records. I would be very glad to receive any advice on where I might look for my missing Mary. Also her birth at sea without confirmation of family member names seems impossible to confirm. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Q4/12/2007. England. I have been searching unsuccessfully for the British military record for my maternal great grandfather, John Thompson. There is clear evidence (official & unofficial) that he spent from the 1840s to the early 1860s as a member of the Royal Artillery. He was stationed in or near Montreal in the 1840s, and was married (apparently in Montreal) to Ann Walford and back in England by about 1850. His children’s census and birth references indicate his family address was at Woolwich (headquarters of the RA I think) for nearly all of the 1850s, and in the 1861 census he is listed at Frimley (near Aldershot). In the 1861census and in his son’s (my grandfather’s) 1855 birth record, John Thompson is identified as a Sergeant in the Royal Artillery.In 1862, he and his family of 5 children (all born in England), returned to Canada (whether still in the military or as a civilian is not known), where 6 more children were born. In 1869 he received a land grant in Draper Twp in Muskoka, where he farmed and lived until his death in 1899.According to all census references ( England and Canada) he was born in Scotland, around 1822 to 1824. His Ontario death record indicates he was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. I have unsuccessfully tried a number of sources including: the National Archives in Ottawa (for British military who served in Canada), and the suggestions from earlier FHC bulletins for searching for records of British military personnel through the (British) National Archives website. So far I have found nothing, including in the search by name. However, not having much knowledge of military ranks, practices and administrative procedures, terminology, etc., I may have missed the proper place to search. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Films received in the 7 days ending 22 March 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 19 April 2007.

Film Content	Film No
CAN Bio. of Lucy Anna Olney Nichols	1033909
DEU Budwethen Baptisms 1844-1849	1813545
DEU Repat Germans EWZ 57	2098537
ENG CON Tremyne Family	1696698
ENG DBY Dronfield pr 1560-1922	1041034
ENG DEV Exeter Death Duty Reg 1796	1368366
ENG LAN Ashton in M'field Bur 1861-	1885663
ENG NFK Scoulton PR 1550-1924	1526885
ENG OXF Headington Monument Inscrip	0496510
ENG YKS Slaithwaite PR 1813-1837	0990698
ENG YRK Huddersfield pr 1818+	0990695
GRD St Andrew Civ Reg 1905-1931	1523427
IND Bengal BMB Jan-Mar 1909	0528122
IOM Douglas Athol Str Ind Chapel 1809-	0106721
NDL Almelo Doopgazinde Kerk Baptism	0116413
NLD Medemblik Burial Bk 1783-1826	0526660
PHL Binalonan Pangasinan Bapt 1884-	1209459
PHL Binalonan Pangasinan Bapt 1895-	1209735
SCT ANS Maines S'mtin PR 1635-1740	0993488
USA Alvin Nichols Utah Pioneer	0962259
USA Nichols Families in America	0874432
USA Nichols Family History	1440708
USA UT Brigham City LDS Records	0025810

Were you aware…………….

Canada/England/Scotland. The Tale of the Three Gazetteers . Most of you will know that I have very little patience with those researchers (I use the word with some difficulty) who go merrily adding names to their shaky family tree with little evidence, other that they found names that looked right on the IGI. Even less with those who publish their dubious findings on some website or other. The laws governing pornography should apply. But many keen researchers overlook discovering what the places where their ancestors lived were really like – the places where they were born, where they were married, where they had children, where they worked and where they died.

A rich treasure trove awaits you in three gazetteers that we have on microfiche in the Toronto Family History Centre. Here I give you examples of the material you can find for places taken more or less at random from each of these gazetteers. You will almost certainly find even the smallest hamlet in these gazetteers

Canada . The Dominion Directory 1871 . (Microfiche 6046766. 48 fiche)

Box Grove. A small village in the township of Markham, county of York. It possesses good water privileges. Distant from Scarborough, a station of the Grand Trunk railway 10 miles; from Markham 3 miles; from Toronto 20 miles. Mail daily. Population about 150. (There follows a list of 40 of the inhabitants among which are John Bede a toolmaker, John McCaffrey the postmaster, Joseph Milroy the tavernkeeper, William Hendley the butcher, a cooper, a blacksmith, a weaver, several carpenters, farmers, labourers and John Raymer who worked in a cheese factory.

England . The Imperial Gazatteer (sic) Published 1871. (Microfiche Nos. 6020308 to 6020336)

DATCHET, a parish in Eton district, Bucks; on the river Thames and on the Windsor branch of the South Western railway, 2 miles E of Windsor. It has a station on the railway and a post office under Windsor. Acres 1,630. Real property £6,086. Pop., 982. Houses 182. The property is much subdivided. Two bridges called the Victoria and the Albert, the former a neat iron structure, give communication across the Thames. Datchet Mead was the scene of Falstaff’s punishment in the “Merry Wives of Windsor”. A fishing house of Sir H. Wotton, yearly visited by Isaak Walton, stood on the Thames at Datchet; and was succeeded by a summer house of the painter, Verrio. Anglers from the old times till the present, have loved to fish here; and Pope says, respecting Charles II,

“Methinks I see our mighty monarch stand,

The pliant rod now trembling in his hand:

And see, he now doth up from Datchet come,

Laden with spoils of slaughter’d gudgeons home”

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford, Value £145. Patrons, the Deans and Canons of Windsor. The church was rebuilt in 1869 and is in the decorated style. There are a Baptist chapel, a library and reading room, a national school, and charities £119.

Scotland . The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland. Published 1882. (Fiche Nos. 6020391 to 6020411)

Alloway. An ancient quoad civilia and a modern quoad sacra parish of Ayrshire, on the lowest reaches of the ‘bonny Doon’ 2 miles S of the town of Ayr. The ancient parish, lying wholly to the right of the Doon, and separated by Glengaw Burn from Ayr, was united to the latter towards the close of the 17 th Century; the modern parish includes a portion of Mayhole, on the Doon’s left bank, and had 815 inhabitants in 1871 (315 of them in Mayhole). In the presbytery of Ayr and synod of Glasgow and Ayr, with a stipend of £150, it possesses a handsome Gothic church (1858), and a public school, which, with accommodation for 159 children had (1879) an average attendance of 117, and a grant of £75.13s - . ‘Alloway’s auld haunted kirk’ a little roofless ruin, First Pointed in style, stands just below the ‘Auld Brig’ of Doon. Visited now by pilgrims from many lands, this long had been merely the resting place of unknown peasant folk, when Burns selected it for the scene of the demon revelry of Tam o’Shanter. Near the churchyard gate, the grave of the poet’s father (1721-1784) is marked by a simple stone – not the original which relic-mongers carried piecemeal away; the poet himself would fain have shared that grave. The interior of the kirk has been stripped of its woodwork, for snuff boxes and the like; here is buried David Cathcart, Lord Alloway (1764-1829), senator of the College of Justice. A cenotaph to Burns, erected in 1820 after a design by Hamilton of Edinburgh, at a cost of £3350, and comprising a triangular base, a Corinthian cyclostyle, and an ornate cupola, with surmounting tripod, stands about 100 yard E of the old church and is surrounded by an enclosed plot of 1¼ acre, in which a small grotto contains Thom’s statues of ‘Tam o’Shanter’ and ‘Souter Johnnie’. The Auld Brig o’Doon, a gaunt structure of great antiquity, famous for the fight between Cassillis and Bargeny (1601), more famous for its part in Tam o’Shanter, crosses the river close to the monument; and the neat new bridge, later than Burn’s day, spans it, some distance lower down. The ‘Auld Clay Biggin’, Burns’ birthplace (23 Jan 1759), and scene of his ‘Cotter’s Saturday Night’, stands about ¾ mile to the N, and, theretofore a public house, was purchased in 1880 for £4000 from the Ayr Corporation of Shoemakers by the trustees of the monument, by them to be converted into a kind of Burns museum. Mount Oliphant, to which Burns’ father removed in 1777, is about 1 ½ mile to the ESE; and Doonbrae Cottage, Cambusdoon House, Roselle, and Doonholm are seats within ½ mile of the church or monument. Alloway Moat, near the avenue leading to Doonholm, is an ancient artificial mound, used in old times for holding courts of justice. Ord.Sur, sc 14, 1683.

England and Wales. Post-1837 Indexes to Births, Marriages and Deaths . James Thomson writes “I touched last week on online indexes to local register office registers; an excellent starting point in finding such indexes is www.ukbmd.org.uk . (Although the URL was given correctly last week, there was problem with the hyperlink – the link as given in the preceding sentence should work fine.) There are, as was noted, some prospective advantages in searching in the local registers in preference to the national (General Register Office, or GRO) registers which were compiled from them.

One of the great advantages of the GRO indexes, of course, is that it's possible to search across all registration districts in England and Wales at one go. Additionally, such indexes (or indexes compiled from data in the GRO indexes) are conveniently and freely available to us here in Toronto: for instance, FreeBMD www.freebmd.org.uk is an excellent resource for the period 1837-1915; the Toronto FHC in Don Mills has a complete run of the GRO indexes on microfilm and then fiche for the period 1837-2003 (with the 2004 fiche about to arrive); and there are databases (currently freely accessible from home, upon registration) in Ancestry which include browseable digital images of the GRO indexes for the period 1837-1983 and fully searchable databases for the period 1984-2004.

The GRO indexes are known to suffer from errors and omissions, however, and hence the indexes (such as those in FreeBMD and Ancestry) compiled from data in them can be no better. However, there is now a major program to completely re-index the entries in the GRO registers, and to make the new index freely available online. The new index will also include data fields not in the current GRO indexes for the early years of civil registration, such as: for births, mother's maiden name (now available only from 1911); for marriages, spouse's name (now available just from 1912 or through FreeBMD); and, for deaths, age at death (now available just from 1866). Of course, this is in essence a new and enhanced index to the GRO registers – and to the extent that the entries in the GRO registers themselves contain errors (such as transcription errors introduced when the GRO registers were compiled from the local registers), indexes to local registers such as those signposted on www.ukbmd.org.uk may remain an attractive alternative.

It is planned that the new index will start to appear online early in 2008, the first tranche perhaps to consist of birth and death entries for the period 1837-1958. Although it will be possible to order a certificate of a register entry by way of a direct link from the index, and although digital images of the register entries themselves are also being created, current plans -absent legislative change- are to employ such digital images internally only, for certificate preparation (in other words, one would still have to order a certificate of such an entry rather than having direct access to the digital image – in contrast to the situation in Scotland, for instance).”

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 11/2007

In this Bulletin

I'm sure you know about the Scottish Fornication Courts but what about their Register of Inhibitions? And interesting stuff about testaments and confirmations in Were you aware................
James Thomson draws our attention to the value of Local Register Office BMD indexes ( England & Wales) in Were you aware..................

Announcements

The Drouin Indexes (mainly Quebec marriages) have just been uploaded onto the Ancestry.ca site. We have not, as yet, had a chance to check them out but we hope to report on them next week.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Canada, Ontario Grenville Co. Cemetery Records. Microfiche No. 6067284 (2 fiche)

Canada , Ontario, Kempville Marriages 1858-1880. Microfiche No. 6126032 (1 fiche)

England , Devon, Kingsbridge Parish Register 1612-1797. Microfiche 6035471 (4 fiche)

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Q1/11/2007. England & Ireland.

I recently started to research my mother's side of the family which has roots in Ireland. My great great great grandparents were John and Elizabeth Hand (formerly Hand). I have no dates or place of birth or death for either John or Elizabeth but do know that they were married on March 3, 1872 in the Catholic Chapel, St. Mary's Church, on Haddington Road in Dublin. The marriage certificate lists James as being of "full age" and Elizabeth being 18 which puts her date of birth in 1853 or 1854. The 1901 British Census lists James' age as 54 and if that is accurate would put his year of birth at 1846 or 1847. However, the 1871 census records his age as 32 with his year of birth as 1839. Other information on the marriage certificate - Elizabeth's father's name was John Hand (bricklayer) and James' father was named Bernard Hand (farmer). I also know that subsequent to their marriage John and Elizabeth lived on West St., Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan where they had their first child, a daughter named Mary Anne who was born on June 19, 1874. They then had a son John Hand born on September 4, 1976 in either Castleblayney or Dublin. They then emigrated from Ireland to Prestwich, England between 1876 and 1879 where my great great grandmother Elizabeth Christina Hand was born on January 8, 1879. John and Elizabeth went on to have five more sons James G., William, Francis, Herbert J. and Charles E.
I also know that at one point a nephew named James Hand lived with James and Elizabeth in Broughton, Salford, England and that the nephew was the son of Patrick and Harriet Hand who lived in Liverpool, England. I do not know if Patrick was John or Elizabeth's brother.
I would be grateful if you had some suggestions as to what my next step would be to continue the search for both John and Elizabeth's family and roots without any other pertinent information which has been made even more difficult seeing as both have the same last name.

Films received in the 7 days ending 15 March 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 12 April 2007

Film Content	Film No
DEU Emigration Card File 1784-1785	1327508
DEU Emigration Index Schneider - Tram	1326496
DEU WPRU Gruppe PRs Births 1867-1881	0245600
DEU WPRU Gruppe PRs Marrs 1854-1883	0245602
DEU WUE Kirkenbuck PRs 1553 - 1974	1340217
ENG DEV Hartland Land Tax 1716-1832	1471064
ENG DEV Hartland Land Tax 1780-1816	1471063
ENG LDN Grocers Co Records 1345-1881	1850673
FRA BAS Hatten BMD Index 1813-1862	0731409
IRL CAV Kilmore 1901 Census	0812125
IRL CAV Kilmore 1911 Census	2029028
JAM St Anns Marriages 1880 - 1890	1389334
PHL Pangasthan S'Manuel Bths 1922-6	1778187
PHL San Juan La Union Bths 1922-32	1748578
SCT KCD Ternian Banchory pr	0993308

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Scotland . Most of you will be familiar with the term “my last will and testament” i.e. the document where you set out your wishes for the disposal of your assets upon your death and that, I believe, is the general understanding of the term. Not so in Scotland. According to “ Scotland’s People” http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk a testament is a document drawn up by the court confirming the appointment of the executor of the estate. But, according to the National Archives of Scotland www.nas.gov.uk/guides/wills.asp a testament is the collective term used to describe all the documents relating to the executry of a deceased person. And that is only the beginning of the confusing terms surrounding wills in Scotland.

Testament testamentar is equivalent to the English Grant of Probate i.e. it gives the executor the right to dispose of the deceased’s property according to the terms of the will. Where no will exists the testament dative equates to the English Letters of Administration.

In Scotland an individuals property was divided into Heritable Property i.e. land and buildings, and Moveable Property consisting of everything else. Until 1964 Heritable Property would pass to the eldest son unless (from 1868) the will specified otherwise. However it was not until the 20 th Century that property ownership began to become widespread in Scotland, prior to that all of the land was owned by just 3% of the population. However, there are over 600,000 wills and testaments indexed on Scotland’s People covering the period 1514 to 1901, nearly all of which will contain an inventory of an individuals assets and naming the executor. Searching the index is free of charge and you can download copies of the documents for a standard charge of £5.00.

To throw in another confusing term, The Calendar of Confirmations has nothing to do with a church ceremony but again roughly equates to the English Probate Indexes. From 1876 to 1936 is covered by LDS microfiche starting with fiche no. 6068884 which we have in the Toronto Family History Centre and which will indicate where the probated documents are located. From 1937 to the present day we would need to get our friendly Edinburgh researcher to identify the death and find any will or testament that might exist. Contact us if you need this help.

The Calendar of Confirmations is tremendously informative and one must not think that only the wealthy are to be found there.

Take this as an example from the 1902 Calendar of Confirmations:

"WINTER, Jane Macfarlane or (note maiden name is given), sometime residing at 84 High Street, Ayr latterly at 31 Queen's Terrace there widow of Robert Winter Ironmonger died 16 March 1902 testate. Inventory given up at Ayr 3 December by Margaret Mcfarlane or Urie, 31 Queen's Terrace aforesaid, widow, Executrix nominated in will or deed dated 8 May 1900 and recorded in Court Books of Commissariot of Ayr 5 December 1902. Value of Estate £10."

I will refrain from going on about other strange sounding indexes such as the Services of Heirs and the Register of Sasines but I can’t help advising you that the Register of Inhibitions is not some strange Scottish custom of recording an individual’s oddities but is the listing of the writs whereby a debtor is prohibited from selling or burdening his property!

England and Wales. Local Register Office Indexes to Post-1837 BMDs . James Thomson writes: “Anyone researching births, marriages or deaths (BMDs) registered in England or Wales after July 1, 1837, will soon be familiar with the quarterly indexes to such events produced by the General Register Office (GRO) or by others using data from the GRO (including FreeBMD and Ancestry). Easier to overlook, perhaps, is a growing body of indexes to the registers in which such BMDs were originally entered, namely those of the local register offices.

There is an excellent starting point for finding available indexes to local registers, at www.ukbmd.org.uk . It briefly describes the relationship between the local registers and the (national) GRO registers which were compiled from them, and refers the reader to a very good article which notes the perils of relying on the current GRO indexes: www.lfhhs.org.uk/help/factsh/lbmd.htm After reading these descriptions, one might well feel inclined to see whether an index to local registers is also available for the region in which one would like to search, and the place to start is by clicking the “Local BMD” button near the top left of the UK BMD home page (above).

It will quickly become apparent that the available indexes cover various types of geographic unit (some large, some small) and various date ranges, and are structured in different ways (though at least eight use software developed for the indexing project in Cheshire, and it is possible to search across all of the eight indexes at once). Nonetheless, it won't take long to get a sense of what is available, and the reward could be locating an entry which had long proved elusive in trolling through GRO indexes (or locating such an entry more easily – some of the indexes are fully searchable, by name, for part or all of the period (notably 1915-1983) for which certain indexes based on the GRO registers are merely browseable).

Having said all this, one must not fail to salute the splendid work which continues to be done by volunteers transcribing the GRO indexes through FreeBMD; to see exactly where the project now stands, click on the hyperlinks on http://www.freebmd.org.uk/progress.shtml to the birth, marriage and death coverage charts. In a future Bulletin, I'll outline three pending developments respecting GRO indexes generally.”

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 10/2007

Every week we try to include in the Bulletin some informative items, usually in the Were you aware............ section. All readers are invited to contribute to this section. If you have a piece of information that you feel would be of interest to other readers, please submit it.

In this Bulletin

News of changes to the England GRO system of providing the index information of births, marriages and deaths in Were you aware...........
Sources for Irish genealogical data in Were you aware..............

Announcements

The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has advised us that James Thomson's course Expert Topics in Scottish Family History (being held in April/May at the Toronto Reference Library) is full.
The Simcoe Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society tell us that they are hosting the Region V Annual Meeting and Conference to be held at the Alumni Hall, Georgian College, Barrie on Saturday April 28 featuring, inter alia, presentations on Ontario Land Records and What there is on the Internet for Canadian Genealogists.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England , Essex, West Ham. Our thanks to Margaret Taylor who has donated 3 microfiche issued by the Essex County Record Office showing Baptisms, Marriages and Burials for the parish church of All Saints for 1746 to 1749. (These are not available on LDS film or fiche).

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/08/2007. England. What happened to the children of Snowden Temple after they were orphaned in 1841? We regret we still have not got any definitive answers to this question. However we suggest that as Snowden's wife, Sarah Simpson, seems to have established settlement in West Acklam, Yorkshire, you investigate whether she had siblings in that area and for the females, if any, try to discover who they married. We will publish any further details we are able to obtain.

Q1/09/2007. UK/Canada/USA. Is it possible to find schooling and/or other professional records for doctors, lawyers etc? Although one finds the occasional record of professionals both on LDS films and on-line there doesn't seem to be any continuous run of records. When I have hit this problem in the past I have been successful in obtaining details from the professional associations such as the British Medical Association and from the details they have provided I have established the name of the university they attended. Most professional associations publish directories of their current members.

Q2/09/2007. England & Wales. Certificates provided by the GRO appear to be all in the same hand. How can I obtain a certificate showing the 'real' signatures? 1) The local registration offices copied – either by hand or typewritten – the entries made in their registers and sent them to the GRO. Certificates issued by the GRO are photocopies of these copied entries so none of them will show the hand writing or signatures of the parties involved. 2) You don't have to order certificates from the GRO - you can order them from the registration office responsible for the area in which the original certificate was issued. You may be lucky in being able to get a birth or death certificate with the original signatures if the local registration office provides photocopies of the original register entries but most of these offices issue handwritten/typed copies of the original – you should enquire which method they use before placing an order.3) In the case of a marriage occurring in a Parish Church, LDS filmed copies of the register are often available. Consult the Family History Library Catalog to see if the filmed Parish Register covers the event you are interested in. A problem with this is that the registration district shown in the GRO indexes will usually cover a number of parishes and so you will need to be sure which parish the marriage took place in.

Films received in the 7 days ending 8 March 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 5 April 2007.

Film Content	Film No
DEU Repat Germans GenealogicalData	1797311
ENG IOM Marr Dissent Indx 1884-1964	0454953
ENG IOM Marriage Index 1884-1964	0454951
ENG YRK Otley pr	0918402
NDL Rotterdam Marriage Intent 1868	1339142
NDL Rotterdam Marriage Intent 1909	1748840
NDL Strijen Marriage Intent 1837-1838	0120829
NDL Strijen Marriage Intent 1863-1867	1337427
SCT Service of Heirs 1852	0231429

Were you aware...................

England & Wales I received a letter this week from the GRO advising me that they will not be producing the microfiche version of the indexes of births, marriages and deaths beyond the year 2004. (We have the indexes up to 2003 in the Toronto Family History Centre and expect to receive the indexes for 2004 shortly). They tell me that by early 2008 they expect to have the new versions of the index (which will include spouses surnames in the marriage indexes, maiden surname of mothers in the birth indexes and age of death in the death indexes) for viewing free of charge on-line. Initially the years covered will probably be from 1837 to 1958 with the years to 2006 following shortly thereafter. The Family Records Centre in Islington will close by April, 2008 and their records will be moved to the National Archives complex at Kew. The GRO currently issues about 180,000 certificates per month three-quarters of them having been ordered on-line.
Ireland . The Irish Family History Foundation is the co-ordinating body for a network of government approved genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and in Northern Ireland which have computerised tens of millions of Irish ancestral records of different types . Their website is www.irish-roots.net On this site you will find a county by county listing of all the Parish Records - Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland and Presbyterian that have been indexed and available for consultation through the county research centres. There is a charge for these services. The site indicates that these records are shortly going to be made available on-line on a pay-per-view basis. Whilst on the subject of Ireland, may I remind you that we have in the Family History Centre the Civil Registation Indexes from 1864 to 1959 (from 1845 for Protestant Marriages). We have also the Irish Will Indexes from 1828 to 1920 and the PC of Armagh Probate Calendars from 1811 to 1857. Apart from this a vast amount of data is available to order. The 1911 Census of Ireland is contained in 3,317 films, the 1901 Census on 1,269 films and then, if you have some convicts in your family, there are over 100 indexed films of giving name, offense and the date and place of conviction. There are 5 films giving the details of convicts transported to Australia.
And while we are on the subject of convicts take a look at the photograph of William Goddard who was in Aylesbury Gaol in 1872 on http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bucks_prisoners/prioner_detail.asp?Counter=413 There is no family resemblance. Is there?

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Toronto Family History Centre Bulletin 09/2007

We apologise for the late despatch of this Bulletin. Weather conditions yesterday evening dictated that it was prudent to stay at home.

In this Bulletin

The horrors of the English penal system in the late 19th Century are described in News from the trenches
News of the arrival on-line of the 1871 and 1891 Scottish censuses and another Scottish site in Were you aware..........

Announcements

A delicate matter. It has been brought to our attention that some people are allergic to perfume - sufficiently so as to bring on an asthma attack. One of our regular patrons has had to cease attending a session since she knows that she will react to a perfume worn by another patron who tends to attend the same session. We work in a confined area - can we agree to make it a scent-free zone?
The days when it was necessary to book a film reader 3 weeks in advance have long gone but we would still like you to tell us in advance when you plan to attend the Centre. If nobody has booked and nobody is in attendance the volunteer on duty might well decide to close up long before the official closing time. Recently, there were no bookings for a particular session and three people turned up, fortunately before the volunteer had closed up. Then on a Saturday morning a patron turned up and we were unable to accommodate him. So please, make a booking.
The 9 films that were outstanding from the order placed before Christmas arrived here minutes ago (not included in the list below).

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions.

Q1/08/2007 (The Snowden Temple question). We have put in quite a bit of work on this but are puzzled by certain aspects. We hope to publish the results next week.

New Questions

Q1/09/2007. UK/Canada/USA. Is it possible to find schooling and/or other professional records for doctors, lawyers, etc.?

If so, where would one look for them? Is there a general index? (Our questioner did not say which countries were being referred to - we made this limitation).Q2/09/2007. England. I had always (naively) thought that, the certificates ordered from the GRO were photocopies of the original. And therefore the (informant & bride & groom) signatures on the certificates were actually the signatures of my ancestors. However, looking closely at them I conclude that all the fields are written by the same person.So my question is - what actually are the certificates received from the GRO? Are they photocopies of transcriptions of the original? If so, who did the transcription & when? Can one actually obtain a copy of the original, with the 'real' signatures? Films received in the 7 days ending 1 March 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 29 March 2007.


Film Content	Film No
DEU Offenback RC PR 1691-1798	0466715
ENG DUR Auckland-St And. Bap 1813-	0434938
ENG DUR Auckland-St And. Bap 1856-	0434939
ENG DUR Auckland-St And. Mar 1845-	0434936
ENG WO 69/8 Desc Bks 1843-1851	0866534
ENG YKS Dewsbury PR 1798-1821	0990587
SCT ANS Mains & Strathm'tn PR 1740-	0993489
WLS DEN Wrexham BTs 1710-1823	0104827

News from the trenches .

England. Crime and Punishment. Last week I drew your attention to the availability on-line of a vast number of documents through the National Archives Documents on Line facility. Among them were the Victorian Prisoners Photograph Albums which consist of photographs and details of 626 prisoners in Wandsworth Prison ( South London) in 1872 and 1873. Wandsworth housed all manner of prisoners but it was not until 1878 that executions were carried out there. Of the 626 prisoners I found that no less than 114 of them were children under the age of 16, twenty of them girls.

33 were 15 years old

35 were 14 years old

27 were 13 years old

12 were 12 years old

6 were 11 years old and 1 was just 10 years old.

So what heinous crime did 10 year old George Davey, born in Richmond, commit? He stole 2 tame rabbits and was sentenced to 1 month hard labour.

Then there was 13 year old Henry Munday born in Clapham who stole 14lbs of sugar who was sentenced to 4 days hard labour and a whipping.

James William Hempson age 13 born in Surrey stole a box of figs and got 4 days hard labour and 10 strokes of the birch. Henry Miller age 15 born in the Borough stole a loaf of bread and got 10 days hard labour and a whipping

The short sentences of 4 and 10 days seem always to be accompanied by the sentence of a whipping or a birching. In the case of birching the number of strokes was defined but not so the whipping. The longer sentences of up to 3 months hard labour were usually accompanied by a sentence of a period in a reformatory school of up to 5 years duration. John Greening age 11 born in Mortlake got 1 month hard labour and 5 years reformatory for stealing a quart of growing gooseberries.

The girls were not subjected to corporal punishment but their period of hard labour and reformatory was much the same as the boys. Sarah Coker age 13 got 1 month hard labour and 4 years reformatory for cheating (not defined) while Mary Ann Anscombe who was 13 when she stole a pencil case got 1 month hard labour and 5 years reformatory.

But the saddest case of all to my mind is poor 12 year old George Page whose offence

was that he was a vagrant and was wandering abroad with no visible means of subsistence. He got 1 month hard labour and 5 years reformatory.

England/Germany/USA. The case of the disappearing husband. One of my Goddard Association members emailed me for some help. Her grandfather, Edward Brett Goddard married in Leicestershire in 1912 and fathered 5 children between then and 1919. Edward apparently remained in the army at the end of WW1, returned to Germany and disappeared. However his wife subsequently discovered that he had “married” a German woman, Elizabeth Tiel but none of her letters addressed to his last known army address in Germany ever elicited a reply. While I was bracing myself to attempt to discover details of this “marriage” which was going to be no small task, the member emailed me again to tell me that she had spotted a reference to him in the Ancestry.com One World Tree, having died in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1989. Although reference was made to Elizabeth Tiel and 4 children (by this “marriage”), the children were not named. Armed with this information it took very little time to find Edward in the Ellis Island lists emigrating from Germany in 1930 followed a few weeks later by Elizabeth and 3 children. Since one of the children was named Stafford it was not particularly difficult to find out what happened to Stafford who is still alive – as is my member’s mother aged 90 who is one of the five children of Edward’s legitimate marriage. Both sides of the family are now in touch and making arrangements to meet!

Were you aware...........................

Scotland . Laura Holland has drawn our attention to a little known site http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/. This is a free of charge site and we were pleasantly surprised by the amount of material on it. Well worth looking at for anyone doing Scottish research.
Scotland . James Thomson has advised us that transcribed versions of the 1871 and 1891 Scottish censuses are now available on Ancestry.com (available free of charge at the Toronto Family History Centre). Although the actual images of the census returns are not available on this site, James points out that the great advantage of the Ancestry site is the ability to search over a very wide range of fields raising the possibility of being able to save money by being able to pinpoint the required image from the Scotland's People site.

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Questions for The Forum still required. This Bulletin now goes out to nearly 400 people - there's probably someone among them who knows the answer to your problem.

In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to the vast number of documents that are available to download on Documents On-Line in the Were you aware..........section.
Also in this section we report on the appearance on-line of a first group of the First World War British soldiers WO 364 records - the "Unburnt Documents".

Announcements

We are acutely aware that some of you have been waiting an inordinate length of time for films that they have ordered to arrive. We place an order on Salt Lake once a week at lunchtime on Thursdays. We are still awaiting 9 films ordered on 21 December, 6 films from the 4 January order and 6 films from the 11 January order. We are told that there is a problem in the Salt Lake distribution system which they are trying to resolve. The 21 December films should arrive here within 14 days with the other outstanding orders following shortly thereafter. We apologise for this delay.

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Answer to Previous Question

Q1/07/2007. Scotland/Canada/USA. George Porter lived in Chapman Township, Ontario, and apparently died between 1891 and 1901 but I can find no record of his death in Ontario. However, he might have died in Seattle, Washington where civil death records did not start until 1907. How do I find a record of his death? Firstly, we think you should make absolutely sure that George did not die in Ontario. We have come across many examples of bizarre indexing with, for example, the surname having an incorrect first letter and the rest of the surname thoroughly mangled. But Ancestry.ca (available for use free of charge at the Toronto Family History Centre) allows you to search over a number of fields. For example, by putting in just the first name, George, the death year 1896 + or - 5 years and "Scotland" in the keyword will produce all the Georges born in Scotland who died in Ontario from 1891 to 1901. Having satisfied yourself that Seattle is a more likely venue for his death you can contact the King County, Washington archives on www.metrokc.gov/health/vital_st/ to see if they can help. Barbara Billing writes "

Washington State has a website, "Washington Secretary of State" http://www.secstate.wa.gov/ research on line for some documents. The State Archives and Library have been very useful in my own genealogy search. Just click on "Library" then click on "Ask a Librarian"". New Questions

Q1/08/2007. England. Snowden TEMPLE was born in Bridport, Dorset June 18,1806. His father , a weaver, had relocated to Bridport c 1800 from North Yorkshire. I next find Snowden Temple marrying Sarah SIMPSON May 12, 1832 in West Acklam Middlesboro . The 1841 CENSUS found him in Dudley, Worcester, Freebodies with 2 little girls, Mary, aged 7 years and Ellen aged 5 years-- all NOT born in this county --no sign of a spouse.

A subsequent search found that Sarah ,his wife ,had died 18th of June 1840, 6 week old old Lydia had died 14th of June, 1840, 2 year old Ann had died 16th of June 1840. To make matters worse Snowden died 8th of October, 1841 of "a bursting of a blood vessel in a natural way by the visitation of God"

This left the 2 little girls now aged 8 and 6 as orphans. Snowden had other siblings--maybe they took the girls in, but how does one locate an Ellen and Mary Temple any place in England?? I have searched the 1851 CENSUS without any success-- Mary and Ellen Temple are very common names. I do not know if their mother, Sarah ,had family--the girls might have gone with one of the Simpson family. Would they have gone into a Poor House? Now I am lost. Any suggestions?

Q2/08/2007. England. Charles Robert John Edwards: 1850-1921: 2^nd Great Grandfather Known facts Birth Certificate showing birth in Hammersmith. Father shown as William Henry Edwards an artist and mother as Sarah Anne Edwards formerly Field. Missing was William Henry’s middle name of Foreman. Marriage Certificate showing marriage to Emma Han of Crewkerne Somerset. Children: including Henry Hann my Grandfather shown in the census, by birth certificates and as known by family members William Henry Foreman Edwards: 1820 - ?: 3^rd Great Grandfather Known facts 1851 Census shows him as proprietor of a drawing academy born in Hammersmith. His family includes Charles (Robert John) then aged 1 year also born Hammersmith. His age however is given as either 31 or 36 which means, if it is 36 that he was born in 1815 not 1808. Sarah Anne would have been only 16 at the time of marriage as she is indicated to be 29 and therefore born 1822. Question: could 16 be ‘Of full age?.” Is this a serious concern about the dates – how accurate was the recording of ages in the 51 census? Marriage Certificate of November 1838 shows marriage to Sarah Anne Field daughter of John Field. Both are recorded as “Of full age”. His residence is shown as Acton. Certificate does not include his Foreman middle name. It shows his father as Robert Edwards, an artist. Sarah Edwards from information of monumental inscriptions at St.Pauls, Hammersmith was buried in 1854 aged 34 so that would make her born 1820. This is a variance with the census record by about 2 years. Parish registers for St.Pauls Hammersmith show various baptisms of their children with the father a ‘drawing master’ married to Sarah Anne. Interestingly there are various artists living in Hammersmith having children baptized including Richard Dyer who named his child Wilmot (see Robert Edwards’s child Elizabeth Wilmot) and in 1837 a Noah Foreman married a Catherine Edwards. Possibly coincidental but perhaps the families were friendly or connected in some way. The Royal Academy of Arts book “A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904” shows a W H Edwards exhibiting from 1783 to 1848 with paintings of various floral subjects. The addresses given range from Kensington Gore; Clapham Rise, Surrey and later Hammersmith. The Victoria & Albert Museum has a book in their collection “A young artists guide to flower drawer and painting in watercolours” by William Henry Edwards” published in 1820. It seems most unlikely that this William Henry was publishing a book when still a child and clearly he could not have exhibited in 1783 some 25 years before his birth. This suggests there were at least two William Henry Edwards. Perhaps Robert Edwards had a brother William Henry? Or could William Henry be the father of Robert and Grandfather of William Henry Foreman?

Robert Edwards circa. 1780? - ? Known facts: Robert Edwards married to Mary shows up in St.Paul’s Hammersmith parish register with various baptisms including William Henry Foreman born 14 July 1808 and baptized August 14 of that year. The father is shown as an artist. Other children of the artist Robert and his wife Mary included Robert Charles Augustus, Elizabeth Wilmot, Jenetta Marriot and John Heelas. A marriage is recorded between Robert Edwards and Mary Heelas in St.Marylebone in 1799. No record of his birth has yet been found in Hammersmith. A preliminary search of the large number of Robert Edwards’s in the census of 1841 and 1851 has not yet turned up his birth. The Royal Academy of Arts book “A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904” shows him as a painter exhibiting a painting of ‘Landscape and cattle’ in 1820. At the time he was living at 31, Brownlow Street (in Clerkenwell). Interestingly another artist S.R.W Edwards also a painter of the same address exhibited in 1818 and 1822. Possibly his wife? The Allgemeinse Lexikon der Bildeden Kunstler mentions a R Edwards as a copper engraver on a work in 1795 and goes on to say that this artist may be the same as a copper engraver whose mark “RE.1784” and “Edwards 1788” might be the same artist. The Edwards’s seem to have moved around but never straying far. from Clapham Rise (presumably near today’s Clapham just south of the Thames adjacent to Battersea) to Clerkenwell just north of the present City of London to nearby St.Marylebone then Kensington and just further west in Hammersmith. There is also a brief period in Turnham Green a bit further west from Hammersmith. There was a famous artist and copper engraver William Camden Edwards (1777 – 1855) active at this time but it seems he neither married nor had children. Nor is there information to suggest he had siblings who were artists.

Is there any concern with this part of my tree to date?
Can anyone suggest further research, in particular where to look for Robert Edwards?

Films received in the 7 days ending 22 February 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 22 March 2007.


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Kingston St Mary RC pr	1298763
CAN ON Ottawa Notre Dame RC pr	1301761
CAN ON Richmond Lutheran pr	0376935
ENG LAN Ashton-Makerfield bur 1745-	1885662
ENG SAL Oswestry BT 1778-1827	0501462
ENG SAL Oswestry BT 1827-1853	0501463
ENG SAL Trefonen BT 1821-1855	0503514
ENG YKS Scruton PR	1849407
IOM Kirk Braddan PR 1849-1883	0106186
POL Krasnik Jewish B D 1866-1875	1496889
POL Krasnik Jewish Births 1850-1865	0715441
RUS BES Kishinev Lutheran B 1900-09	2161880
USA IL Will Co. Probate Records	0873529
USA WI Grant Co. Marriages 1842-1850	1266982

Were you aware……………… United Kingdom. Documents on Line. The UK National Archives site continues to increase the number of documents that are available for downloading on-line all at a standard charge of £3.50 (about $8.00) regardless of the number of pages. However, one can obtain quite a lot of information completely free of charge just by consulting the indexes. To access these documents go www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ . Here are the records that are available and likely to be of most interest to family researchers.Wills. Over 1 million wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury from 1384 to 1858. The free of charge index will give you the full name, the date the will was proved and the occupation of the decedent.Death Duties. Over 71,000 wills and letters of administration proved in the “country courts” i.e. not the PCC or PCY from 1796 to 1811. The index shows full name, occupation and date of probate.World War 1 Campaign Medals. Over 5,460,000 entries. Since virtually everybody who served overseas in World War 1 received at least one medal this is the most complete record of the names of the people involved in this war. The index gives the person’s name (often with a second given name or initial) the regiment and the regimental number.Royal Navy Seamen. Over 500,000 entries for men who joined the Royal Navy between 1873 and 1923. The index shows date and place of birth against each entry. The on-line document provides the seaman’s service record.Royal Navy Division. There were more men in the navy during WW1 than there were ships requiring them and so the Royal Navy Division, which was in effect a part of the army was formed. The service records of over 50,000 officers and men are available on-line with the index showing the full name, rank and service number and date (but not place) of birth.Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The service records of over 7,000 women who joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps between 1917 and 1918, later Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps between 1918 and 1920 are available on-line. The index shows date and place of birth.World War 2 Merchant Seamen’s Medals. Over 108,000 entries of medals awarded to Merchant Seamen from 1946 to 2002. Each entry gives details of the seaman’s name, discharge book number and medals awarded. Index, for the most part, shows full name and date of birth. And, if you are really lucky(?)Victorian Prisoners Photograph Albums. If your ancestor happened to be in Wandsworth Prison between 1872 and 1873 you can get on-line a photograph of them together with details of their crime. Even the index shows their age, place of birth, their offence and their sentence.

United Kingdom. First World War British Army WO 364 Soldiers' Papers

James Thomson writes: “Ancestry.com has been working with The National Archives (TNA) (at Kew) to digitise British Army First World War soldiers' papers, including those in series WO 364 (the "unburnt documents"). The contents of this series and other First World War soldiers' papers are described in the TNA Research Guide at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=18 (it may be necessary to click twice on this hyperlink to get the correct Research Guide to load). Note that both WO 364 and the larger series WO 363 (known as the "burnt documents") contain the papers of non-commissioned officers and "other ranks" only; the records of commissioned officers are not included in these series.

Ancestry has just uploaded an initial group of records, from the series WO 364 only, to their new British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 collection. The database as it currently stands is described at http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1114, and consists of nominal indexes linked to digital images of WO 364 records for soldiers whose surnames began with the letters A or B. Coverage of the rest of the alphabet is promised for the next release. Ancestry's description of this collection is well worth reading (as is the TNA Research Guide, above), to get a sense of what is included and to obtain an understanding of some important caveats which must be borne in mind when looking for First World War soldiers' papers in WO 364 and elsewhere. (Note that I believe that there is an error in the sentence in Ancestry's description which includes the statement "all surviving service and pension records were digitised by The National Archives"; for "digitised" read "microfilmed".) The database can be accessed both through the Ancestry subscriptions at the Family History Centres (including Don Mills) and through the Toronto Public Library's subscription to AncestryLibraryEdition.

If one finds an index entry of interest, the digital image to which one is taken when one clicks on “View original image” should be the front of the first form in the set of records for that soldier; to see the next image, click on the “Next” icon (a right-pointing arrow) immediately above the displayed image. To see the entire set of images for the soldier, continue doing this; the end of the set of papers relating to that soldier is indicated by an image of a card reading “Next File”. Don't be surprised if the soldier's papers contain what appear to be duplicate copies of the same form; there may be some subtle differences between them. The estimates of the number of soldiers (NCOs and "other ranks") in the British Army in the First World War range up to 7 million (or more), and there are said to be records for about 750,000 of these in WO 364 and records for about 2 million in WO 363; in consequence, it is generally said that there are extant soldiers' papers for about 40% of those who served (papers for the other 60% having been destroyed by fire as a result of bombing in the Second World War). It is worth noting that records of those who served in (or, to be more precise, whose service ended with) the Household Cavalry are not in WO 363 or WO 364, but rather are in TNA series WO 400. Further, the records of those who served with the Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, or Scots, Irish or Welsh Guards remain with the headquarters of the Foot Guards regiments and hence do not comprise any series at TNA. This is important for me, for instance, as the Coldstream Guards are one of the regiments in which my family members served. The records of the Household Cavalry should all be available, while the records of the Foot Guards did suffer some losses in the Second World War. Also not included in either WO 363 or WO 364 are the records of soldiers who remained in the British Army after 1920; such records are with the Ministry of Defence.

The records that have just been uploaded by Ancestry will give a taste of the varied and illuminating records which may be found among the British Army First World War soldiers' papers. The availability online for the first time of a comprehensive nominal index to extant records in WO 364 (even if only, for the time being, for surnames beginning with A or B), linked to digital images of the records themselves, is a splendid advance.”

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Back to normal this week with lots of films arriving and more additions to our permanent collections. But we could do with some more questions for The Forum so please, send us details of that brick wall.

In this Bulletin

You never know, you might have a Mormon ancestor. There were more Mormons in Britain at one time in the 19th Century than there were in the USA. See The Mormons in Britain in the Were you aware........... section.
Also in the Were you aware......... section, we describe the usefulness of the Land Tax Assessments in UK genealogical research.

Announcements

The Friends of the Archives of Ontario is offering another set of visits to specialized archives in Toronto. The tours will be held five consecutive Tuesdays, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., starting February 27. February 27 - Women’s College Hospital ArchivesMarch 6 – The National Ballet of Canada ArchivesMarch 13 – The Royal Canadian Military Institute ArchivesMarch 20 – The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto ArchivesMarch 27 – The Law Society of Upper Canada Archives These archives have records and memorabilia of great interest to historians and genealogists.

All proceeds from the tours will be used to support the Friends’ program of grants to small archives in Ontario. The cost of the tours is $100 for the series or $25 for each archive visited. Registration forms have been mailed to all members of the Friends, and are also available at any Branch of the Toronto Public Library or by contacting Joan Beckley (jbeckley@sympatico.ca)
Canada. We hear that the Drouin Collection, considered to be the best resource for French Canadian genealogical research containing the names of 37 million people from the late 1600's to the 1940's is shortly to become available on Ancestry.com (available free of charge in the Toronto Family History Centre). We will make a further announcement when this database is up and running.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England, Nottinghamshire. We have received another CD of the Phillimore's Marriage series, this time for parishes in Nottinghamshire:

Annesley 1599-1812

Bulwell 1635 – 1812 Bunny 1556 – 1818 Hucknall Torkard 1559 – 1812 Langar 1596 – 1812 Radford 1563 – 1812

England, Northamptonshire, Daventry. Baptisms 1813-1831 (Fiche 6127204) and Baptisms 1831-1846 (Fiche 6127205)
Netherlands. Alphabetical list of communities and the jurisdictions of the Civil Registration Offices (Fiche 6001586).

The Forum New QuestionQ1/07/2007. Scotland/Canada/USA

My great grandfather George Porter was born in Glamis, Scotland c1849 the son of John Porter and Margaret Gray.

In the 1870's George emigrated to Canada together with his parents and most of his siblings and settled in the Chapman Township area, Parry Sound District. George returned to Scotland, briefly it seems, to marry Mary Anne Williamson in 1881. George and Mary Anne are on the 1891 Census for Chapman Township together with their two daughters, but by the 1901 Census Mary Anne is shown as a widow. However, an 1895 land assessment record shows the owner as "Mrs G. Porter, Seattle, Washington Territory, USA". I can't find a death record for George in Ontario so maybe he died in Washington. I understand that civil registration did not begin in Washington until 1907 so how do I find a death record for him? Two brothers of George, James and David also disappeared around the same time so maybe they went to Washington too.

Films received in the 7 days ending 15 February 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 15 March 2007


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Dundas County 1851 Census	0349202
CAN ON Dundas County 1861 Census	0349255
CAN ON Matilda/Wills'burg 1871 Cen	0349187
CAN ON Mount'n/Winchester 1871 Cen	0349188
DEU Gen Handbook of Nobility	0492077
DEU PRE Lauschied PR 1756-1939	1336849
DEU PRE Osche BMD 1878-1881	1417576
DEU PRE Tilsit marriages 1853-1874	1813539
DEU PRE Wasleben BMD 1878-1883	1733800
ENG DEV Throwleigh PR/BT 1606-1837	0917539
ENG DOR Yetminster BTs 1579-1880	1239263
ENG GLS Bitton PRs	1595499
ENG HRT Pirton PR 1560-1914	1040655
ENG HRT Pirton PR M 1837-1909	1040816
ENG KEN Minster in Sheppey PR	2228363
ENG MDX St Martin in Fields PR 1653-	0560370
ENG WOR Kidderminster bap mar 1820-	0435267
ENG YRK Huddersfield pr 1793-1819	0990694
IND Bengal Baptisms 1873 July/Sept.	0499051
ITA Gerace Births 1842-1858	1518214
PHL Meycauagan Bulacan Bapt 1911-	1128524
POL RZ Surochów Gr Cath marr 1785-	2380083
SCT SUT Farr PR 1790-1854	0990562
UKR Burgthal BMD 1787-1833	2328822
USA NY NY Bride Card Index 1889W-1893 Dy	1379090

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USA/Scotland/England. The Mormons in Britain. In the News from the Trenches section of Bulletins 04/2007 and 06/2006 Linda Reid reported that to her surprise she had discovered that she had Mormon connections in her family and her delight in finding further details from a film that she had ordered in. As a result of that she was contacted by another reader of the Bulletin, Katherine McCook, who drew to her attention an article by Ian Waller that appeared in the December 2006 edition of Genealogists’ Magazine the journal of the Society of Genealogists.

Mr. Waller describes how the Mormon church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, having been established in America in 1830 began sending missionaries to England in 1837. Such was their success that there was a period in the next decade when there were more members of the Church in Britain than there were in America. The British members were encouraged to emigrate to America and the Church set up an office in Liverpool to assist them. The peak period was between 1851 and 1860 when 37,215 people converted to the Mormon Church and 12,972 members emigrated to America. In 1848 the Church had decided to set up its headquarters in Salt Lake City and this is where most of the emigrants headed generally sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans. The journey was arduous to say the least. The trip across the Atlantic usually took 4 to 6 weeks. This was followed by a 1,300 mile steamboat journey up the Mississippi, an 800 mile journey on the Missouri followed by 1,030 miles by wagon or by pulling a hand cart to Salt Lake City. From Liverpool to Salt Lake averaged a 5 month journey but by the mid-1860’s with the advent of the steamship and the railways the journey time was cut to 3 or 4 weeks. By 1894 the Church was encouraging their British members to remain at home and build up the church in Britain so that in the first decade of the 20^th Century LDS emigrants to America totaled only 3,615. We have in the Toronto Family History Centre a CD, The Mormon Immigration Index, containing details of 93,000 LDS emigrants from Europe, mostly British. Also given on this CD are details of their journey and personal accounts. Even if, like Linda, you have no knowledge of a Mormon ancestor it can only take a few minutes to check out this CD. The records of the Mormon church in Britain are amazingly detailed. The following is an extract from the film that Linda ordered in – and remember, this event pre-dates civil registration in Scotland:From Glasgow Conference LDS List of members that have died in the Glasgow Branch. "Died of cholera at the house of Elder Thomas Stewart, 44 Thistle Street Gorbals Glasgow on Thursday 16^th January 1849. Sister Elizabeth Murray after an illness of 11.5 hours aged 17 years 3 months 10days and Sister Mary Murray after an illness of 10 hours and much beloved by a large circle of the Stake for their faithfulness and their affection for each other. They loved each other in their lives and in their deaths were not divided. They were both laid in the grave in Lair No. 333 Gorbals churchyard where they received assurance of a glorious resurrection. Age of Sister Mary 20 years 8 months and 24 days".

England. Land Tax Assessments. We have in the Toronto Family History Centre an excellent booklet, one of the Gibson guides, Land and Window Tax Assessments. But what were these taxes and how can they help in genealogical research? Land Tax commenced in the late 17th Century and continued until 1963. (Awfully easy to introduce a tax, awfully difficult to repeal it). Based on the assessment principle, the total amount of tax the government wished to raise was divided up into counties and it was then left to the counties to divide the total up among the parishes. Variations in parish quotas were rare, so once determined they tended to remain. After 1798 printed forms were used to set out the assessments, the forms having columns to show the name of the proprietor of the land or building and the name of the occupier. The occupier shown was usually the head of the household - but sometimes only the surname is given - so in effect you have a year by year census of heads of households. Unfortunately the Land Tax Records do not exist for every parish for every year but if you are fortunate you can glean from them some very useful data. The LDS have filmed a number of these records. To see if there is a film for the town or village in which you are interested search the Family History Library Catalog under the county (not the town or village) and then search under Land and Property. The Gibson guide sets out county by county what records are available including those that are not available on LDS films.

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A rather different Bulletin this week - no films have arrived, no new questions have been sent in for The Forum, we've finished listing all the Phillimore's Parish records and we have very little to report under Additions to our Permanent Collections and in News from the trenches. Nonetheless we have plenty to tell you

In this Bulletin

All in Were you aware...................

Shot at dawn. The horrific story of Canadian soldiers executed in WW1.
Up before the beak. What you can expect to find in Petty Sessions, Quarter Sessions and Assize records.
Scotland's People. New material on this invaluable website.
UK Outbound Passengers. A huge expansion of the data available.

Additions to our Permanent Collections.

England, Lancashire, Bolton. We extend our grateful thanks to Al Haslett who has donated a beautiful old book The Registers of the Parish Church of Bolton published in 1913 by the Lancashire Parish Register Society. It covers Baptisms for 1573-4 and 1590-1660, Marriages for 1573 and 1587-1660 and Burials for 1573-4 and 1587-1660. Al spotted the book being used as a display item in a furniture store and the owner willingly agreed to give it to him.

News from the Trenches.

Paul Branson writes confessing that he is an incorrigible rat pack and tells us "Then one day around the end of January 2007 some of my lead turned to gold. I had spent two hours in the FHC last November recording births for a surname matching a remote branch of my family not knowing whether these were relatives or not. I pencilled in five years of pre WW1 info year by year, quarter by quarter, and then thinking my time wasted, I dutifully deposited it in the "file of last resort". At that time I started corresponding with a member of that family who had been desperately looking for the birth of a child who may have died in infancy. Yes, I had heard of a baby boy named Edward. Yes, it was around 1915. Yes the mothers maiden name was Tyler, and since I had the page and volume number it was a short five days later that the certificate arrived from the GRO confirming the event. It did satisfy the families need to know, and I was a Pack Rat Hero"
And Linda Reid writes concerning her new-found Mormon ancestor " In the 1851 census in Glasgow Mary Methven was age 52, born in Dundee. In the register of LDS members for the Glasgow Conference in 1852 (on a film I have from the FHL) she was listed as born 15 September 1797 in Arbroath. There is an extracted entry on the IGI for that (Mary Gowans)". (In next week's Bulletin we will be including a piece on the Mormons in Britain in the 1800's - their numbers exceeded the Mormons in Utah).

Were you aware...................

Canada. Shot at Dawn. During WW1 the penalty for a soldier found guilty by court martial of desertion was death. 90% of soldiers accused were found guilty. Usually they had no choice but to represent themselves and the court martial, on average, took just 20 minutes. The sentence of death had to be confirmed by the Commander in Chief, Sir Douglas Haig that, it seems he invariably did. Much has been written suggesting that most of the soldiers executed were suffering from shell shock but while this must have been true in many cases an examination of the records indicates that many of those who suffered the death penalty had gone absent or deserted on more than one occasion. The condemned man was executed at dawn by a firing squad made up from men of his own regiment. All but one of the rifles were loaded with blank bullets the firing squad not knowing which rifle contained the live bullet until they were fired. 306 Commonwealth soldiers were executed in this manner during WW1, 25 of them Canadians. Of the 25 there were 22 executed for desertion, 1 for cowardice and 2 for murder. Here is the list, with their age and date of execution.For DesertionSgt. William Alexander (37), 18 October 1917.L/Bbdr. Frederick Arnold (26), 25 July, 1916.Pte. Fortunat Auger (25), 26 March 1916.Pte. Harold Carter (23), 20 April, 1917.Pte. Gustav Comte (22), 3 July, 1917.Pte. Arthur Dagasse (33), 15 March 1918.Pte. Leopold Delisle (25), 21 May, 1918.Pte. Edward Fairburn (23), 2 March, 1918.Pte. Stephen Fowles (?), 19 June, 1918,Pte. John Maurice Higgins (24), 7 December, 1916.Pte. Henry Hesey Kerr (?), 21 November, 1916.Pte. Joseph LaLancette (25), 20, October, 1918.Pte. Come Laliberte (25), 4 August, 1916.Pte,. Norman Ling (22) 12 August, 1918.Pte. Harold Lodge (20), 13 March, 1918.Pte. Thomas Moles (28), 22 October, 1917.Pte. Eugene Perry (21), 11 April, 1917.Pte. Edward James Reynolds (?), 23 August, 1916.Pte. John William Roberts (20), 30 July, 1916.Pte. Charles Welsh (20), 6 March, 1918.Pte. James Wilson (37), 9 July, 1916.Pte. Elsworth Young (19), 29 October, 1916. For CowardicePte. Dimitro Sinizki (22), 9 October, 1917. For MurderTrooper Alexander Butler (28), 2 July, 1916.

Pte. Benjamin De Fehr (27), 25 August, 1916

British Isles. Up before the beak. For those of you unfamiliar with this expression it means an appearance before a court, or rather before a Magistrate or Judge. The system of justice in England, Wales and Ireland remained more or less unchanged for centuries, the major change coming in 1971 with the abolition of the Quarter Sessions and the Assize Courts and their replacement with the Crown Courts. A person accused of any crime would normally appear initially before a Petty Sessions Court or Magistrates Court. These courts would be presided over by two or more magistrates who would decide whether they could deal with the matter summarily i.e. the crime was of a minor nature the penalty for which would be less than 2 years imprisonment or they would refer the case to a higher court - the Quarter Sessions or the Assize Court. If the crime of which the prisoner was accused could carry a penalty of death or life imprisonment then it would be referred to the Assize Court. Both the Quarter Session Court and the Assize Courts were made up of two or more Justices of the Peace presided over by a Chairman , who sat with a jury. But your ancestor did not have to be a criminal to appear before the beak. The Quarter Sessions dealt with many matters such as the registration of boats and barges, apprenticeship agreements and disputes thereto, licencing of public houses, maintenance and settlement orders, registration of Roman Catholics, Jews and the French. And the records of Quarter Sessions and the Assizes for many areas are available on LDS films. For example, there are 9 films giving details of prisoners in Liverpool covering the years 1844 to 1876. For Somerset there are 61 films giving, amongst other things details of prisoners from 1810 to 1879 and there are films for many other counties, including Irish counties. To find the film that interests you go to the Family History Library Catalog and perform a "Place" search for the county and then look under "Court Records" .
Scotland's People The Scotland's People website www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk now has on-line images of the Old Parish Registers for births and baptisms, banns and marriages for Church of Scotland registers prior to civil registration in 1855. In addition images of birth certificates are now available from 1855 to 1906, for marriages from 1855 to 1931 and for deaths from 1855 to 1956. The session time limit has been extended from 7 days to 90 days.
UK Outbound Passenger Lists. The Ancestors on board site www.ancestorsonboard.com has now extended its database so that it now covers the years 1890 to 1909 to a total of 7.5 million names.
Old UK Photos. You might find a postcard/photograph of the place where your ancestor lived on www.oldukphotos.com

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We could do with some new questions for The Forum - please send in your queries.

In this Bulletin

Saint, Sinner, Slattern or Stiff. Let's face it, everyone fits into one or more of those categories either during their lifetime or shortly thereafter and the chances are that your 19th & 20th Century UK ancestors got their names in the newspapers. See Were you aware................
30 June 1922. A day of infamy - but not as bad as some would have it. See Were you aware...............
Montreal directories. See Answers to Previous Questions in The Forum.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England. The final listing of the Phiilimore's Parish Records full details of which were given in Bulletin 01/2007.

ENG SAL Battlefield Baptisms 1663-1812

ENG SAL Battlefield Burials 1663-1812

ENG SAL Battlefield Marriages 1663-1812

ENG SFK Capel St. Mary Marriages 1588-1837

ENG SFK Combs Marriages 1568-1837

ENG SFK Exning Marriages 1558-1812

ENG SFK Great Wenham Marriages 1670-1837

ENG SFK Little Wenham Marriages 1567-1812

ENG SFK Martlesham Marriages 1653-1837

ENG SFK Thrandeston Marriages 1559-1812

ENG SOM Aller Marriages 1560-1812

ENG SOM Charlton Adam Marriages 1707-1812

ENG SOM Charlton Mackrell Marriages 1575-1812

ENG SOM High Ham Marriages1569-1812

ENG SOM Huish Episcopi Marriages 1698-1812

ENG SOM Kingsdon Marriages 1540-1812

ENG SOM Langport Marriages 1728-1812

ENG SOM Long Sutton Marriages 1559-1812

ENG SOM Muchelney Marriages1703-1812

ENG SOM Northover Marriages 1531-1812

ENG SOM Taunton, St. Mary Magdalene 1558-1728

ENG SRY Richmond Baptisms 1583-1720

ENG SRY Richmond Burials 1583-1720

ENG SRY Richmond Marriages 1583-1720

ENG WIL Alderton Marriages 1606-1812

ENG WIL Grittleton Marriages 1573-1812

ENG WIL Kingston Deverill Marriages 1706-1812

ENG WIL Leigh Delamere Marriages1735-1812

ENG WIL Mere Marriages 1561-1812

ENG WIL Monkton Deverill Marriages 1749-1812

ENG WIL Salisbury St. Martin Marriages 1559-1812

ENG WIL Sherston Magna Marriages1653-1812

ENG WIL Sopworth Marriages1698-1812

ENG YKS Rotherham Marriages 1540-1798

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions.

Q1/04/2007 England (appeared incorrectly as Q1/04/2006). Henry Leamy died in 1939 in Westminster his death certificate describing him as a playwright's agent. Are there pre-war theatre/stage records/directories or other sources that may have records of his activities? Terry Russell writes:- "The Toronto Reference Library, Arts Section, does have a good collection of theatre/musical directories and various theatrical biographical and obituary references, as well as other sources. Most particularly, your enquirer should scour the annual issues of (a) John Parker's 'Who's Who in the Theatre', and (b) 'ERA Almanack', which
variously contain BMDs, advertisements for theatrical agents and services, etc., and titles, plots, managers, casts and itineraries for London productions and provincial touring companies. It's long odds, but, as in my own case, once you can get the first sighting one can usually go on."

Q2/04/2007 Canada (appeared incorrectly as Q2/04/2006). The Montreal Gazette for Friday 6 January 1899 shows an advertisement for "Emblem Bros., Bill Discounters, 41 St. Francois Xavier St. Montreal". How can I find out who was involved in this business?. Your editor writes: As this was not an Incorporated business there is not likely to be any record of its formation. Nevertheless I was able to discover by referring to various Montreal city directories that the Emblems involved in the business (there could have been other people with different surnames) were Alfred and Joseph Emblem and a G. Emblem. The business was described as Real Estate, Financial and General Agents. By 1910 the business seemed to no longer exist but at this time there was a Tom Emblem operating as a Real Estate Agent and an Arthur Emblem as an accountant. Earlier, in 1894-1897 there was a confectionery business operated by a J.C. Emblem. One can search Montreal directories for the period 1842 to 1992 on-line at http://bibnum2.bnquebec.ca/bna/lovell/index.html

Films received in the 7 days ending 1 February 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 1 March 2007


Film Content	Film No
DEU Budwethen East Prussia pr	1813544
DEU PRE Schirotzken BMD 1876-1881	1194903
ENG KEN Ospinge PR 1561-1862	1836248
ENG KEN Ospinge PR 1754-1916	1836273
ENG military burnt records WWI	2300827
ENG WW1 Burnt Recs 'Hooker'	2302203
ENG YKS Heptonstall C.Rec 1716-1807	1701997
ENG YKS Heptonstall C.Rec 1784-1815	1736216
ENG YKS Langfield Ch Rec 1707-1826	1736269
ENG YKS Langfield Ch Rec 1826-1870	1736270
ENG YKS Sowerby Ch Rec. 1727-1862	1701727
FRA Alsace Tables de Cannales 1813-62	0777208
PHL Meycauayan PR M 1874-1894	1128527
PHL Meycauayan PR M 1894-1934	1128528
SCT ARG Killean OPR 1762-1855	1041070
UKR L'viv RC Met Bks Indx 1600-1948	2187416
USA NY Erie Co. Deeds 1846 - 1847	0590051

Were you aware..................

UK and Ireland (mainly) - The British Newspaper Library. Almost every town, even quite small towns, in the British Isles has its own weekly newspaper faithfully recording the births, marriages and deaths and the misdemeanours of its community and this has been the situation in lots of cases for the past 200 years. The town newspaper would also report the events occurring in the villages around it. Thus these newspapers provide a veritable treasure trove of genealogical information going far beyond the raw data that can be extracted from birth, marriage and death certificates. The British Newspaper Library, located at Colindale in North West London (only steps from Colindale Tube Station if you propose to go there) houses a huge collection of newpapers and periodicals. Their catalogue includes entries for over 52,000 titles. All UK national daily and Sunday papers from 1801 onwards are held and most provincial UK and Ireland newpapers, some going back to the early 18th Century, are also housed there. You can access the catalogue at www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers/welcome.asp Just enter the name of the town and you will be presented with all the relevant holdings. The Library also provides a search service but it's not cheap. There is a fixed charge of £50 (approx. $120) for a search around a specified date for which they will search up to four newspapers for birth, marriage and death notices, reports of weddings and funerals, of crime and court proceedings and miscellaneous news items. For this sum they will provide a report listing the newspapers that have been searched, the articles found and a list of articles they can supply with instructions for ordering copies. To get details of this service go to www.bl.uk/services/information/familyhs.html
Ireland. 30 June 1922, The Dublin Record Office Fire. Most of you will have heard about this fire which is often put forward as the reason for the dearth of Irish genealogical material, but what are the facts? The Anglo-Irish Treaty signed on 6 December 1921 which had been negotiated by Michael Collins, the de facto leader of the Irish Republican Army and the British government and narrowly ratified by the Irish Parliament in January 1922, created the Irish Free State, a self governing country within the Commonwealth. But a large part of the IRA leadership rejected the terms of the agreement leading to the Irish Civil War. In April 1922 a group of about heavily armed 200 IRA men occupied a complex of government buildings in Dublin known as the Four Courts. Faced with this situation the new provisional government had little choice but to put down this rebellion which was not an easy task. However, the British government provided the newly formed Irish army with some heavy artillery and on 28 June 1922 after all negotiations had failed the bombardment of the Four Courts commenced. The rebels had stockpiled a lot of ammunition and mines in the part of the buildings occupied by the Record Office and on 30 June it suffered a direct hit from a shell. There was a huge explosion such that some documents from the Record Office were found floating in the River Liffey, 3 miles away. The fire that followed effectively destroyed all the documents that were housed there. But what exactly was lost? Well certainly copies of every will probated in Ireland from the 16th Century on and no doubt a lot of other material besides. But the Irish Civil Registration certificates of births, marriages and deaths from 1864 onwards (and Protestant marriages from 1845) were not involved in the conflagration and neither were, contrary to popular belief, the Census records. The records of the 1841, 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses were destroyed sometime prior to 1896, the Records Office having sought and received the approval of the London authorities to do so. It is thought that the bureaucrat who gave the go-ahead was under the misapprehension that copies of the census records existed in Enumeration Books (as they did for the England and Wales censuses) and he was agreeing to the destruction of the household returns which for England and Wales had already been done. However, for the Irish bureaucrats the precedent had been set and so unbelievably, in 1918, the 1881 and 1891 censuses were also destroyed. And so none of the census records were destroyed in the 1922 Four Courts fire.

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It was our pleasure to welcome to the Family History Centre last Saturday afternoon a large number of people interested in Ukrainian genealogy. Many were first-time visitors and we very much look forward to seeing them again.

In this Bulletin

Got an English lunatic ancestor? Then this Bulletin is for you - see News from the trenches and Were you aware.........

Announcements

We hear that S&N Genealogy Supplies are offering a free trial access to their databases for a limited time see www.TheGenealogist.co.uk/freesub
For a one week period you can obtain a copy of Ryan Taylor's The Canadian Genealogical Sourcebook normally priced at $56.00 for $19.00. This book is great for anyone wanting to find Canadian genealogical source information quickly. Go to www.genealogystore.com

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Russia. The Lutherans of Russia. Parish Index to the church books of the Evangelical Consistory of St. Petersburg 1833-1885 (Fiche No. 6001716)
USA. Some descendants of Hans Adam Moser who came to Philadelphia in 1728 (Fiche No.6018835).
Ireland. The O'Sullivan Book. (Fiche No. 6036295)
England. A further listing of the Phillimore's Parish Records full details of which were given in Bulletin 01/2007.

ENG MDX Acton Marriages 1566-1812

ENG MDX Greenford Marriages 1539-1812

ENG MDX Hanwell Marriages 1570-1812

ENG MDX Harlington Marriages 1540-1812

ENG MDX Heston Marriages1559-1812

ENG NFK Acle Marriages 1664-1812

ENG NFK Braydeston Marriages 1623-1812

ENG NFK Brundall Marriages 1563-1812

ENG NFK Burlingham St. Andrew Marriages 1540-1812

ENG NFK Burlingham St. Peter Marriages 1560-1812

ENG NFK Calthorpe Marriages 1558-1812

ENG NFK Castle Rising Marriages 1537-1837

ENG NFK Castleacre Marriages 1710-1812

ENG NFK Congham Marriages1581-1837

ENG NFK East Lexham Marriages 1541-1812

ENG NFK Flitcham Marriages 1755-1837

ENG NFK Gaywood Marriages 1658-1837

ENG NFK Grimston Marriages 1552-1837

ENG NFK Hemblington Marriages 1564-1812

ENG NFK Hillington Marriages 1695-1837

ENG NFK Ingworth Marriages 1559-1812

ENG NFK Langley Marriages 1695-1812

ENG NFK Narborough Marriages 1558-1812

ENG NFK North Wootton Marriages 1655-1837

ENG NFK Roydon Marriages 1721-1837

ENG NFK South Wootton Marriages1586-1837

ENG NFK Southacre Marriages 1576-1812

ENG NFK Strumpshaw Marriages 1562-1812

ENG NFK Upton Marriages 1558-1812

ENG NFK Witton by Blofield Marriages 1582-1812

ENG NTT Bingham Marriages 1598-1812

ENG NTT Carcelston Marriages 1570-1812

ENG NTT East Bridgford Marriages 1614-1812

ENG NTT Elton on the Hill Marriages 1593-1812

ENG NTT Flintham Marriages 1629-1812

ENG NTT Granby Marriages 1567-1812

ENG NTT Hawkesworth Marriages 1569-1812

ENG NTT Kneeton Marriages 1592-1812

ENG NTT Orston Marriages 1590-1812

ENG NTT Scarrington Marriages 1571-1812

ENG NTT Screveton Marriages 1640-1812

ENG NTT Thoroton Marriages 1583-1812

ENG NTT Whatton Marriages 1538-1812

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Answers to Previous Questions.

Q2/03/2007. England. (Seeking Marriage of John WRIGHT born c 1808 North Weald, Essex and Alice LINES born 1805 Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire. First child, Alice Elizabeth born 1832 in Epping,Essex, others born 1837 onwards in Kentish Town, London. Have already checked Epping marriages, including Quaker, as well as Chipping Warden). We think it would be worthwhile checking the North Weald marriages as well. The parish of North Weald Bassett lies only three miles from Epping so there must be a distinct possibility that that was where they were married. Unfortunately the parish records for the period in question are not available from the LDS but they are in the Essex County Record Office www.essexcc.gov.uk/ero/ and marriages for North Weald Bassett for the period 1813-1837 have been indexed and are available from them on microfiche at a cost of £1.90 per fiche. You can email them with regard to the microfiche on ero.reprographic@essexcc.gov.uk

Q3/03/2007. England/Poland. (My uncle, Antoni Slawinski (1917-1973), in addition of being a Polish Army lieutenant, at some point during the WWII was seconded to the British Army and ended the war in the rank of the British Army captain (I have his picture in the uniform). He served in Africa, and emigrated from South Africa to Canada in 1954. I have very little information to go by. Other than his vital records (birth/death/+parents), I know nothing nor do I have any documents about his army days. But, I was told that judging from his uniform he was in the British Infantry. What steps should I take, where and to whom should I write to get more information about his service in the British Army? ). The military records of Polish Army Officers who served with the British Army are still held by the U.K. Ministry of Defence see http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/service_records/non_uk.html You should be able to get a copy of your uncles record by filling out the SAR form (Subject Access Request) form in a sensible manner and sending it to the address below:

Polish Records.
Royal Navy and Army:
Polish Correspondence Section
Room 28B
RAF Northolt
West End Road
Ruislip
Middlesex
HA4 6NG
Email: polishastdisoff@northolt.raf.mod.uk

New Questions

Q1/04/2006. England. My great uncle Henry Leamy was born in 1871 in Gloucester. In 1881 he was living in Salford, Lancs and in 1901 in West Kirby, Lancs where he shown as single, a masseur and male hospital nurse. He died in 1939 in Westminster, London his death certificate describing him as a playwright's agent. This fits with the family tradition that he was an actor manager. The informant on his death certificate was "Y.C.E. Yates" which means nothing to me. I have not been able to find a marriage registration for him. Are there pre-war theatre/stage records/directories or other sources that may have records of his activities?

Q2/04/2006. Canada. The Montreal Gazette for Friday 6 January 1899 shows an advertisement for "Emblem Bros., Bill Discounters, 41 St. Francois Xavier St. Montreal". How can I find out who was involved in this business?

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CAN ON Simcoe Co Deaths 1934	1838189

Linda Reid tells us that an ancestor, David Methven, left Glasgow in 1853 with other members of his family for New Orleans. In 1856 they crossed the plains as Mormon Pioneers from Florence (now Omaha, Nebraska) to Utah Territory. In the 1860 Census he is in Placerville, California, still single and in 1870 he is still in Placerville but married with an 11 month old child. Natural assumption - he had married in California. Wrong. By sheer chance Linda spotted an 1866 marriage for him in the IGI but in Glasgow, Scotland. The certificate proved undoubtedly that it was the same David. So having gone through all the hardship of crossing the plains he travelled back to Scotland, married, and returned to California. Was he sent on a mission back to Scotland? Perhaps some of our Mormon readers can throw some light on this one.
And now your editor has a story to tell. Many years ago I found my great grandfather, Charles Goddard, in the 1881 Census as an inmate in the Middlesex District lunatic asylum at Hanwell, Middlesex. His wife was shown as married living with her 6 children in Paddington. In 1891 she is still shown as married and when she died in 1895 she was described as the wife of Charles Goddard. However, I could never find the death of Charles. I knew that in 1890 a number of male patients were transferred from Hanwell to South Weald, Essex but there were no deaths that could account for him in either district. So I assumed that he had been discharged at some time and died elsewhere but there were too many possibilities. Recently I discovered that the patient records of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum were held in the London Metropolitan Archives so I called in a favour and got them searched. Charles Goddard was admitted to the asylum in 1878 having suffered from melancholia for two years. He died there in 1896 having spent 18 years of his life in the asylum. Just to add a little poignancy, Charles was born in 1839 in Winchester, Hants. In 1843 his mother died and his father, seemingly abandoned his family and moved to London, Charles ending up in the workhouse. His youngest child was born in 1878, 3 weeks after Charles was taken into the asylum. Not exactly a happy life.

Were you aware...............

England, Lunatic Asylums and Hospital Records. The first public insane asylum in England was the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Bishopsgate, London which was admitting mentally ill patients in 1377. It became infamous for the brutal treatment of its patients who were put up as public spectacles. Visitors were granted free admission on the first Tuesday of each month and were allowed to bring long sticks to prod and enrage the patients. In 1814 there were 96,000 visitors. Up until the early 19^th Century a patient would normally be chained up or confined in a straight jacketBy the 18^th Century there were 7 other public asylums supplemented by many private mad-houses but it was not until 1808 that Parliament agreed to public funding for the public asylums which previously had relied on the parish or charity for support. In 1845 the Lunacy and County Asylums Act required local authorities to provide public asylums for pauper lunatics. It didn’t take much to be declared a lunatic which frequently became the fate of people suffering from psychosis, post-natal depression, syphilis, epilepsy or even just learning difficulties.It is usually fairly easy to identify an ancestor confined as a lunatic in the censuses up until 1881 but after that the inmates of asylums were described only by their initials, supplemented in some cases by their birthplace and/or their occupation. If your ancestor was a lunatic there is an excellent website which has details of all the asylums in England at http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4Asylums.htmThe records of the asylums seem to show little more than admission and discharge details of the patient but even so can be of great interest to the researcher.On the National Archives website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp you can discover what records exist for asylums and hospitals generally. You can search by the name of the hospital or by the name of the town In some cases the records are held in major repositories such as the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) while others are held by Local Health Authorities in archives set up to house them. The general rule is that patient’s records are closed for 100 years and such a rule would be rigidly applied by the likes of the LMA but I have managed to sweet-talk an archivist holding the record of the birth of a child born in 1946 who was subsequently adopted to give me the details. She came up with the date the mother entered the hospital and the details she gave of herself, the time she went into labour, the time the baby was born together with its weight, length and sex, and when the mother and baby were discharged.

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Our thanks to those readers who have sent in questions for The Forum. These appear below but we still need to keep them coming in.

In this Bulletin

A tremendous leap forward for those of you with German and Eastern European roots with the arrival on-line at Ancestry.com of new German databases including The Hamburg Passenger Lists - over 5 million records containing a wealth of information - and Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire. Details in Were you aware..........

Announcements

Our open house for people with Ukrainian ancestry takes place on Saturday, 20 January, between 2 and 4 p.m. (and note the timely arrival of The Hamburg Passenger Lists, of particular relevance to East European researchers)
The Ontario Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists advise us that the registration date for their Double Header Event for Serious Genealogists which takes place on Saturday, 17 February (see Bulletin 01/2007) has been extended to 9 February.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England, Lancashire, Todmorden. Parish Records. Baptisms 1670-1780, Marriages 1669-1780, Burials 1666-1780. Fiche No. 6142715
England, Phillimore's Parish Records. Further listing (detailed description in Bulletin 01/2007).

ENG HAM Bentley Marriages 1541-1812

ENG HAM Bramley Marriages 1580-1812

ENG HAM Bullington Marriages 1755-1812

ENG HAM Cliddesden Marriages 1636-1812

ENG HAM Deane Marriages 1679-1812

ENG HAM Dummer Marriages 1541-1812

ENG HAM East Woodhay Marriages 1618-1812

ENG HAM Hartley Wespall Marriages 1558-1812

ENG HAM Hunton Marriages 1575-1812

ENG HAM Hurstbourne Priors Marriages 1604-1812

ENG HAM Hurstbourne Tarrant Marriages 1546-1812

ENG HAM Knight’s Enham Marriages 1683-1812

ENG HAM Laverstoke Marriages 1657-1811

ENG HAM Linkenholt Marriages 1579-1812

ENG HAM Maple Durwell Marriages 1629-1812

ENG HAM Monxton Marriages 1716-1812

ENG HAM Penton Mewsey Marriages 1649-1812

ENG HAM Popham Marriages 1628-1812

ENG HAM Preston Candover Marriages 1584-1812

ENG HAM Sherfield upon Loddon Marriages 1574-1812

ENG HAM St. Mary Bourne Marriages 1663-1812

ENG HAM Steventon Marriages 1604-1812

ENG HAM Stoke Charity Marriages 1542-1812

ENG HAM Tufton Marriages 1754-1812

ENG HAM Wonston Marriages 1570-1812

ENG HAM Woodmancote Marriages 1772-1812

ENG HAM Wootton St. Lawrence Marriages1560-1812

ENG HRT Aldbury Marriages 1694-1812

ENG HRT Barley Marriages 1566-1812

ENG HRT Eastwick Marriages 1556-1812

ENG HRT Great Berkhamsted Marriages 1538-1812

ENG HRT Kensworth Marriages 1615-1812

ENG HRT Letchworth Marriages 1696-1805

ENG HRT Offley Marriages 1654-1812

ENG LEI Bottesford Marriages 1563-1812

ENG LEI Congerston Marriages 1756-1812

ENG LEI Gaddesby Marriages 1563-1812

ENG LEI Muston Marriages 1561-1812

ENG LEI Ratby Marriages 1695-1812

ENG LEI Scraptoft Marriages 1539-1812

ENG LEI Sibson Marriages 1569-1812

ENG LEI Twyford cum Thorpe Satchville Marriages 1562-1812

ENG LIN Spalding Marriages 1550-1812

ENG LND St. James’ Dukes Place Marriages 1664-1683

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New Questions

Q1/03/2007. Scotland. Both my great-great grandparents on my mother's side are from Scotland. David Geikie (now spelled Giggie) was born around 1813 in Dumfries-shire (possibly Perth), Scotland, and arrived in Canada in 1831 (according to the 1851 census). Jessie Johnston Harvey was born in 1817 in County Dumfries, Scotland, and entered Canada in 1820. They were married on November 5, 1835, in Newcastle, Northumberland County, New Brunswick. I have a fairly complete family tree extending back to 1835, but have been unable to trace either of their families in Scotland. I have searched Scotland's People and all the links that they provided, with no results. I have also tried (unsuccessfully) to find passenger ship lists around those times. Do you have any suggestions where else I might look?
Q2/03/2007. England. Seeking Marriage of John WRIGHT born c 1808 North Weald, Essex and Alice LINES born 1805 Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire. First child, Alice Elizabeth born 1832 in Epping,Essex, others born 1837 onwards in Kentish Town, London. Have already checked Epping marriages, including Quaker, as well as Chipping Warden. No trace in "VICAR GENERAL ERO T/Z392/1, 1828 to March 1832, or FACULTY OFFICE EROT/Z393/2 for same period.
Q3/03/2007. England/Poland. My uncle, Antoni Slawinski (1917-1973), in addition of being a Polish Army lieutenant, at some point during the WWII was seconded to the British Army and ended the war in the rank of the British Army captain (I have his picture in the uniform). He served in Africa, and emigrated from South Africa to Canada in 1954. I have very little information to go by. Other than his vital records (birth/death/+parents), I know nothing nor do I have any documents about his army days. But, I was told that judging from his uniform he was in the British Infantry. What steps should I take, where and to whom should I write to get more information about his service in the British Army? I'd appreciate any suggestion and direction.

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Films received in the 7 days ending 18 January 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 15 February 2007


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Waterloo Co Marriages 1924	2393915
CAN PQ Montreal 84 Reg Church Rec	2027717
CAN PQ Montreal Christ Church 1766-	1430779
CAN PQ Montreal Garr. Church 1760-	2021269
CAN PQ Montreal St. Gabriels 1779-	1430811
ENG LAN Ringley PR 1719-1841	2356506
ENG LEI Leicester bap 1868-96	0870055
GRD Land & Probate Recs 1913-1918	1563488
ITL Udine Pasiano CivReg 1871-1910	2163264
PHL Binalonan Pangasinan Bapt 1901	1213784
PRT Coimbra Lousa PR Bapt 1621-1743	1446439
PRT Coimbra Lousa PR Dths 1577-1810	1446442
PRT Lisbon Sacramento PR 1638-1725	1529352
SCT LKS Glasgow LDS Recs 1840-54	0104152
USA NY Germantown Luth 1746-1877	0017449
USA NY New York St Pauls 1790-1875	0017443
USA NY New York St Thomas 1705-	0017448

Were you aware.................. Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934

James Thomson writes: “I have been enjoying investigating the 1850-1934 Hamburg Passenger Lists in Ancestry's new German collection, and have been interested to read Ancestry's description of this new database. One learns that the lists contain “approximately 5 million records of individuals, approximately 80% of whom were destined for the United States... [and about] 214,000 to Canada... Most of the lists include the last place of residence and often the place of birth as well [emphasis added]. This makes them an enormously valuable source for family history research. Approximately one third of the passengers who departed Hamburg were from Germany, while nearly two thirds came from Eastern Europe, especially in the period from 1880-1914. Among these were approximately 1.2 million people from Russia, Austria-Hungary, Romania, and other countries of southeastern Europe. The records also include about 750,000 Jewish immigrants from Russia, who sailed at this time from Hamburg to the United States.” The database as it stands contains digital images of the extant lists from 1850 to 1934 (there are no lists for the first six months of 1853, or for the war years 1915-1919), and a nominal index with respect to the years 1890-1913. With regard to years not covered by this index, I note that there is a very useful Resource Guide to The Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 on the FamilySearch.org site: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/Hamburg_Pass_List.ASP(click on each of the hyperlinks in the Table of Contents in turn, or download the PDF version http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/images/34047_Hamburg_Pass_List.pdf). The Resource Guide describes other available indexes. I imagine also that current indexes to North American immigration records may also help in locating an individual in Hamburg passenger lists for years other than 1890-1913 (the attraction of consulting the Hamburg lists as well perhaps lying in the fact that more information about last residence and place of birth (see above) may be forthcoming). Both Ancestry and the FamilySearch Resource Guide provide highly interesting additional information about the Hamburg lists, as do webpages such as http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/hamburg.html and http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/emig/ham_pass.html. The Resource Guide indicates that “Nearly one-third of the people who emigrated from central and eastern Europe [between 1850 and 1934] are included on these lists.” I wonder whether they may be of help to some of the attendees at this Saturday's Open House at the Family History Centre? Another of the databases in Ancestry's German collection is Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire. There is a helpful FamilySearch Resource Guide called How to Use the Meyers Gazetteer at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/RG/guide/GER_T4_-_HowtoUsetheMeyersGazetteer.ASP

The Hamburg Passenger Lists and the Meyers Gazetteer, as well as Ancestry's other new German databases, are also available through the Toronto Public Library's subscription to AncestryLibraryEdition.”

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Can I just remind everyone that we still require questions in order to keep The Forum running. Do not be shy and certainly don't think you are the only one that doesn't know the answer to your problem. In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to the release of indexed passenger lists for vessels leaving the British Isles for overseas ports 1890-1899 in Were you aware.......... News relating to the 1911 Census of England and Wales in Were you aware...........
Interesting tales of success - and failure - in News from the trenches

Announcements

We remind you once again of the open-house at the Family History Centre for people with Ukrainian ancestry on Saturday, 20 January 2007 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England, Northamptonshire. Adstone, baptisms 1682-1821, marriages 1697-1835, burials 1678-1821 (Fiche 6126561); Crick, baptisms 1793-1812, burials 1793-1821 (Fiche 6127166); Kilsby, baptisms and burials 1785-1812 (Fiche 6127925); Kilsby, baptisms 1813-1865 (Fiche 6127926); Kilsby, marriages 1754-1812 (Fiche 6127928); Kilsby, burials 1813-1866 (Fiche 6127930); Stowe-Nine-Churches marriages 1755-1790 (Fiche 6128976).
England, further parishes now listed (detailed description in Bulletin 01/2007).

ENG DBY Allestree Marriages 1595-1812

ENG DBY Boulton Marriages 1756-1812

ENG DBY Breaston Marriages 1719-1810

ENG DBY Church Broughton Marriages 1538-1812

ENG DBY Dale Abbey Marriages 1667-1813

ENG DBY Hault Hucknall Marriages 1660-1812

ENG DBY Heath or Lownd Marriages1632-1812

ENG DBY Mackworthy Marriages 1603-1812

ENG DBY Ockbrook Marriages 1631-1812

ENG DBY Risley Marriages 1720-1812

ENG DBY Sandiacre Marriages 1581-1812

ENG DBY Stanley Marriages 1754-1812

ENG DBY Stanton-by-Dale 1605-1812

ENG DEV Countisbury Marriages 1676-1757

ENG DEV Ipplepen Marriages 1612-1813

ENG DEV Kings Kerswell Marriages 1752-1837

ENG DEV Martinhoe Marriages 1633-1812

ENG DEV Trentishoe Marriages 1697-1812

ENG DEV Uffculme Marriages 1538-1837

ENG DEV Werrington Marriages 1654-1812

ENG DOR Beaminster Marriages 1686-1812

ENG DOR Bothenhampton Marriages1636-1812

ENG DOR Bradpole Marriages 1695-1812

ENG DOR Cattistock Marriages 1558-1812

ENG DOR Chilfrome Marriages 1709-1812

ENG DOR Mapperton Marriages 1669-1812

ENG DOR Milton Abbey Marriages1559-1812

ENG DOR North Poorton Marriages 1761-1812

ENG DOR Powerstock & West Milton Marriages 1568-1812

ENG DOR Walditch Marriages 1738-1812

ENG ESS Ashdon Marriages 1557-1812

ENG ESS Boxted Marriages 1559-1837

ENG ESS Great Horkesley Marriages 1538-1836

ENG ESS Little Horkesley Marriages 1568-1835

ENG ESS Navestock Marriages 1538-1812

ENG ESS Wormingford Marriages 1559-1837

ENG GLS Forthampton Marriages 1697-1812

ENG GLS Kings Stanley Marriages 1573-1812

ENG GLS Kingswood Marriages 1598-1812

ENG GLS Michel Dean Marriages 1680-1812

ENG GLS Nimpsfield Marriages 1679-1812

ENG GLS Old Sodbury Marriages 1684-1812

ENG GLS Owlpen Marriages 1687-1895

ENG GLS Quedgeley Marriages 1559-1830

ENG GLS Rendcombe Marriages 1566-1812

ENG GLS Shipton Moyne Marriages 1587-1812

ENG GLS Slimbridge Marriages 1635-1812

ENG GLS Swindon Marriages 1638-1837

ENG GLS Winchcombe Marriages 1589-1812

The Forum Answers to Previous QuestionsQ4/51/2006. Gustav Richard Rudolph Haag, born London, England 1868, appears in 1881 Census as Augustine Haag in orphanage in Birmingham, England, married Margaret Jane Scott in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1893. Thought to have come to Canada shortly after 1881 Census and at one time lived in Eardley, Quebec. How do I find him in the 1891 Census and when exactly did he come to Canada? The short answer to the first part of the question is that unless you know where he was living in 1891 finding him in that Census is going to be very difficult as there is no comprehensive index. If you wish to pursue this then looking at the area in and around Winnipeg and Eardley would be obvious starting point. The answer to the second part of the question should be "easy, just look in the 1901 Census which gives the year they entered Canada" However, there can be problems as indicated below. Gwen Armstrong did some sleuthing and came up with the following (note the name differences and the clearly incorrect date of immigration) "You can find your family in the 1901 Census in Winnipeg (City), Ward 5, dist 12, sub dist E-15:

Agustine Hague / b. 15 Feb 1868, England / came to Canada 1870 (clearly incorrect) Margaret / b. 4 Nov 1870, Ireland

and children Albert E., Florence, Gladis, Agustine

In the 1906 Census:Margaret is a widow, and is listed as Mrs. Hauye with children, Albert, Florence, Gladys, Augustin, Sidney and Oliver. They are living in Portage La Prairie - Townships 11 IN Ranges 14, 15, 16 West, sub dist 3, page 5. There are a couple of Scott families on the same page, and as Margaret's maiden name was Scott, perhaps she went to live with her family after her husband's death. The 1906 Western Canada Census also gives the year of immigration, unfortunately Gustav/Augustin appears to be deceased and we cannot use it to verify when he came to Canada. I know that on Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC death certificates they ask how long a person has been in Canada and also in the province. I haven't seen a Manitoba one, but it might also give those dates". However, we have carried out an extensive search of the Manitoba death records where Augustine should appear if he died in Manitoba but despite using every combination of his surname and searching just by the first name of Augustine in its various forms we have failed to find him. Our thoughts therefore are that either Margaret was not a widow in 1906 or that her husband died outside the province. We regret we must now hand this back to the questioner with still much work remaining to be done. Films received in the 7 days ending 11 January 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 8 February 2007.


Film Content	Film No
ENG Bonner Family of Kent 1720-1790	1545093
ENG YRK Otley BTs 1774-1826	0918401
ENG YRK Otley BTs 1848-1897	1849387
IND Bengal transcripts v.9-10	0498610
UK Bonner Family	0994071
UK Royal Artillery Recs 1830-1860 'J'	0861870
USA MI Wayne Co Marr's 1836 - 1937	1377631

Wendy Frew gives us a very interesting story:

"RAF WW II

I have found quite a bit of information on my mother's cousin, Maurice William Barrington-Taylor whose Wellington Bomber was shot down on Dec. 18th 1939.1. I initially used the Commonwealth War Graves web site (www.cwgc.org) where I obtained his date of death, squadron number and service number

2. I then went to the 37 Squadron's web site for information on their history. (Most squadrons have a web site)3. I wrote for his RAF Service Record. It cost 30 GBP The address is:

Royal Air Force, Personnel Management Agency, Royal Air Force, Innsworth, Gloucester, GL3 1EZ . You must fill in The Declaration By Next of Kin before you can obtain the record.

4. The best piece of information came from the

Air Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, Building 266, Royal Air Force Bentley Priory, Stanmore Middlesex, HA7 3HH

I wrote them with the name, date of death and squadron number. They sent me details of the mission, where the plane was shot down, the names of the crew, the fact that one crew member survived and died in a prison camp and even the name of the German pilot who shot them down. I was amazed at the detail.

RN WW I

I have also been searching for information on my mother's uncle, John Yeadon, of HMS Vindictive, who was killed at the Battle of Zeebrugge on April 23 1918.

1. Once again I started with the Commonwealth War Graves from where I obtained his date of death and service number.

2. I then went to the National Archives (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/) where they have the Service Records of all R.N. enlisted men from 1873-1923 and downloaded his record.3. As I wanted to learn more about the ships on which he served I wrote to

Royal Naval Museum,HM Naval Base (PP66), Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3NH They sent me information sheets on each ship.

4. Naval Records are also held by:

Fleet Air Arm Museum Box Number D6 RNAS Yeovilton Somerset BA22 8HT. I obtained some information from them. They are a charity and do appreciate a small donation.

5. The most amazing source of all was The Great War Forum. You can find it by Googling The Great War Forum or using the web address:

( http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums)

This is a free forum for those who have an interest in WW I. I found a discussion group on Zeebrugge and posted a question. I was amazed at the information I received from members of the Forum. They were incredibly generous with their expertise and personal research.

My mother had always believed her uncle's body was never recovered. A book I read on Zeebrugge also listed him as missing. However, one of the Forum participants sent me a picture of his grave in Dover Cemetery. He is buried in a double grave with a Royal Marine . Apparently this is done when they have two unidentifiable bodies.

One of the participants in the Forum is writing a book on Zeebrugge and shared information he found in the National Archives. This included:

- a testimony from one of John Yeadon’s shipmates ‘I saw Yeadon just before we landed from the Vindictive, but I never saw him on the Mole and can give no information as to his….. fate.’

-a letter from the Accountant General to John Yeadon’s mother on August 15th 1918 .'I have to inform you that among the unidentified bodies landed at Dover following the operations against Zeebrugge, was one, the clothing of which was marked E. Basten. As the result, however, of an examination and documents found on this body, there would appear to be now little doubt that it is your son. Further a report has been received from another member of the crew of HMS Renown who took part in the action, to the effect that he is almost certain that he saw your son lying on the midship ramp of HMS Vindictive with a shrapnel wound through his head. In these circumstances, the Admiralty is regretfully constrained to presume that your son was killed in action on the 23rd April last. I have to add that the deceased , together with other Officers and men who lost their lives in the expedition was accorded a public funeral with full Naval honours in the St. Jame’s Cemetery, Dover, on the 27th April.’

I exchanged several e-mails with the man who is researching the Zeebrugge raid for a book and as a result he is including a section on the many mothers whose letters seeking word on the fate of their sons he found in the National Archives. He is including a picture I sent him. and will be using the epitaph on my great uncle’s grave 'HE SLEEPS WITH BRITISH HEROES IN THE WATCHFUL CARE OF GOD,' to open his chapter on men from the Zeebrugge raid who are buried at Dover, St, James's Cemetery.

So, there it is. Hope you find the information of interest and of some use." Thank you Wendy.

And Linda Reid writes to report that having ordered on-line from England a death certificate on 4 January she received it on 9 January. On the other hand she is still waiting for the Ontario death certificate she ordered last April and has now asked for her MPP's assistance.

Were you aware.............. James Thomson writes on two topics, as follows: "(A) BT 27: Board of Trade Passenger Lists, Outwards, 1890-1960I contributed a piece to Bulletin 43/2006, of last October 26, about the indexing and digital imaging of the record series held at The National Archives (TNA) at Kew as BT 27: Board of Trade Passenger Lists, Outwards, 1890-1960. This series consists of passenger lists for ships leaving the UK (and, for 1890-1922, ports now in the Republic of Ireland) for final destinations outside Europe (or the Mediterranean). The project is being undertaken by FindMyPast.com (formerly 1836Online.com), and the results are to be accessible through www.ancestorsonboard.com. It is anticipated that the project will be completed, and the entire seventy year range available, by early 2008 (and perhaps substantially earlier).

The results for the first decade, 1890-1899, are available now. Searches in the index may be made by name, year (or year range), departure port, and/or destination country or port; in future, it will also be possible to search by ship name. Index searches are free, but if an entry of interest is found, units have to be purchased to view a transcript of the passenger list entry or digital image of the passenger list page in which the entry was recorded. The information given in a transcript or image for the currently-available decade will normally include age, occupation and marital status (as well as information about the ship); the image shows everyone on the same page of the passenger list, and hence may include details of family members. Currently, transcripts are 5 units each and digital images are 30 units each; the site provides information about how to purchase units (each unit costs between 5p and 8p, depending on the number purchased).In addition to passengers embarking for ports in North America, the BT 27 Passenger Lists include those embarking for ports around the world, not least those in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Indeed, the lists may be of even broader interest than one might assume, in that they include not only emigrants, but also those travelling for any other reason, as well as many non-UK residents whose voyage overseas departed from the British Isles.

(B) RG 14: 1911 Census of England and WalesIt had been anticipated that TNA would release the 1911 Census on January 3, 2012, having kept it confidential for 100 years in line with previous practice. However, a successful appeal to the Information Commissioner by a complainant who had been denied information from the 1911 census has had two consequences:

(i) A project to index and digitise the 1911 Census is being accelerated, and TNA hopes that it will be possible to launch an online search facility early in 2009 (rather than at the beginning of 2012) - only sensitive information (such as an infirmity) will be withheld until 2012.

(ii) It is anticipated that, starting next Wednesday (January 17, 2007), TNA will respond to requests for lookups in the 1911 Census, but only for an address specified by the enquirer, and only upon payment of a fee of 45 Pounds per search (non-refundable whether the household sought was at that address at the time of the census (April 2, 1911) or not).

For details, see the TNA webpages http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/1911census/?homepage=news and http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help/1911census/ (when on the latter page, also click on the links on the left side of the page for more information). Among the interesting aspects of the 1911 Census are that the information is recorded on returns which were completed by the households being enumerated (rather than on enumerators' schedules); that they contain columns for the number of years married and the number of children born to the present marriage; and that they are available for some army units overseas (and some ships at sea). The information in the 1911 Census will be particularly valuable since it serves as a finding aid for marriages and births between 1901 and 1911; from 1912, spouse names are included in marriage indexes and mothers' maiden names are included in birth indexes".

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Our thanks go to those readers who sent us Christmas and New Year greetings and expressed their appreciation of the Bulletin.

In this Bulletin

The marriage records of over 200 English parishes added. See Additions to our Permanent Collections.
We draw your attention to the valuable information that can be obtained from Marriage Licences, Allegations and Bonds in Were you aware.................

Announcements

The Ontario Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists are presenting "A Double-Header Event for Serious Genealogists" - John Green: Whose Father was He? and Genealogy Software Programs: Are they for the professional? to be held on Saturday 17 February at the North York Central Library from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $30 for non-OCAPG members. Further details are on the Notice Board at the Family History Centre.
A reminder of the open-house at the Family History Centre for people with Ukrainian ancestry on Saturday, 20 January from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Burma. Another film to augment our Indian sub-continent collection. Film No. 0527436, Burma Ecclesiastical Returns, Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1937 to 1953.
USA Pennsylvania. Allegheny County. Various cemetery records. Fiche No. 6017811
England, Devon. Biographical Indexes, Devonshire leaders, 1894 and 1907. Fiche No. 6085449 and 6028146.
England/New Zealand. Hole and Harris descendants, 1730-1890. Fiche No. 6036267.
England. A collection of 28 CDs containing Phillimore's Parish - mainly marriage - records of over 200 parishes. Although many of the entries appear on the IGI, these records show far greater detail e.g. marital status and in some cases name the person giving away the bride, usually of course her father. In addition, if the marriage was by licence this too is shown pointing the way to further research as described in the article below in Were you aware....... Listing in excess of 200 parishes would take up too much room in this Bulletin so we plan to spread the listing over several weeks. The 28 CDs contain parishes in the following counties: Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, Somerset, Surrey, Wiltshire, Yorkshire. The parish listing for the first four counties is shown below:

Parish

ENG BKM Cheddington Marriages 1552-1812

ENG BKM Cholesbury Marriages 1576-1812

ENG BKM Edlesborough Marriages 1562-1812

ENG BKM Hawridge Marriages 1600-1812

ENG BKM Masworth Marriages 1591-1812

ENG BKM Mentmore Marriages 1575-1812

ENG BKM Pitstone Marriages 1576-1812

ENG BKM Slapton Marriages 1653-1812

ENG BKM Soulbury Marriages 1575-1812

ENG CAM Cambridge St. Edward’s Marriages 1558-1812

ENG CAM Fen Drayton Marriages 1580-1812

ENG CAM Knapwell Marriages 1598-1812

ENG CHS Christleton Marriages 1697-1812

ENG CHS Disley Marriages 1591-1738

ENG CHS Gawsworth Marriages 1557-1812

ENG CHS Lymm Marriages 1568-1812

ENG CHS Marple Marriages 1656-1754

ENG CHS Taxal Marriages 1611-1812

ENG CON Davidstow Marriages 1676-1811

ENG CON Dovent Marriages 1676-1801

ENG CON Forrabury Marriages 1676-1812

ENG CON Lanteglos by Camelford Marriages 1558-1812

ENG CON Lesnewth Marriages 1569-1812

ENG CON Michaelstow Marriages 1548-1812

ENG CON Minster Marriages 1676-1812

ENG CON Otterham Marriages 1687-1811

ENG CON St. Breward Marriages 1558-1812

ENG CON St. Clether Marriages 1640-1811

ENG CON St. Hilary Marriages 1692-1812

ENG CON St. Juliot Marriages 1656-1812

ENG CON St. Teath Marriages 1558-1812

ENG CON St. Uly-Lelant Marriages 1679-1812

ENG CON Trevalga Marriages 1539-1812

ENG CON Zennor Marriages 1617-1812

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/51/2006. Joseph McBrady buried in St. John's Norway Cemetery died April 19, 1906 but cannot find the death registration.

Gwen Armstrong found it, listed under Joseph Brady.

Joseph Brady died: 5 Apr 1906, Toronto, Yorkage 57living at cor[ner] King & NiagaraHotel Porterregistered: 7 Apr 1906.(We think that April 19 date may be the burial date).

Q4/51/2006. Gustav Richard Rudolph Haag. Considerable progress has been made with this query and we hope to publish results in next week's Bulletin. Films received in the 7 days ending 4 January 2007, due for return (unless renewed) 8 February 2007.


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Morrisburg Cath PR 1856-1920	2046904
CAN ON Norfolk mar 1923	0266928
CAN PQ Aylmer PR 1841-1852	1031890
DEU WUE Kirchensall CR 1607-1840	1340215
ENG BKM Hawridge BT 1600-1820	1999322
ENG KEN Herne Wkhse Recs 1883-92	1655814
ENG YKS Ossett PR 1792-1914	1542281
ENG YKS Sowerby BTs 1664-1837	0990617
ENG YKS Sowerby Ch.Rec 1707-1896	1736656
MMR Burma BMD Index 1937-1953	0527436
NLD Almelo Reformed PR 1691-1795	0116411
POL Lwow St Marii Magdaleny pr	2034927
PSE Bethlehem St Catherine RC B	1356993
USA NY Albany St Peters PR 1756-	0533492

England & Wales. Marriage Licences, Allegations and Bonds. The Marriage Act of 1753, often referred to as Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act, sought to put a stop to clandestine marriages which had become rife and which hitherto had been performed without banns having been called, often officiated by defrocked ministers. The Act, which did not apply to Scotland, the Channel Islands or to Quakers or Jews (but did apply to Catholics and Non-Conformists) required that all marriages must be solemnized in church after banns had been called or, failing banns, for which a licence had been issued. The marriage had to be recorded in the Parish Register. The bride had to be over the age of 12 and the groom over the age of 14; the consent of the father was required for either party under the age of 21. The Act came into effect on 25 March 1754 and from there on any marriage that did not meet these requirements would be null and void and any children born to such a marriage would be considered illegitimate and have no rights of succession. As a result of this Act most marriages were performed in churches after the publication of Banns but about 2% of all marriages were solemnized after the issuance of a licence and it is these marriages that are of most interest to genealogists. Since there was a cost involved, why would anyone want to get married by licence? Almost invariably the reason would have been to avoid publicizing the fact that the marriage was about to take place. Thus a father might insist that the man who had impregnated his daughter marry her, he could be less keen to have his friends and neighbours know that she was marrying beneath her social class. If the birth of a child was imminent the avoidance of the calling of Banns (which had to be called on three successive Sundays), by obtaining a licence, the couple who had jumped the gun, so to speak, could be rushed to the altar before anyone had the chance to change their mind or to disappear. To obtain a licence to marry, an application had to be made (usually made by the groom) to the Archdeacon of the diocese in which both parties resided. If they did not live in the same diocese the application had to be made to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The applicant had to allege (the allegation ) that the parties were free to marry i.e. they were not already married or that by reason of relationship were barred from marrying, and up until 1823, had to put up a bond which would be forfeited if the allegation proved to be untrue. The bond was substantial - £200 was commonplace – to deter frivolous applications. If either party to the marriage was a minor, i.e. under 21, the consent of the father, or in the event of his decease, the consent of the mother or guardian was required. The applicant had to name at least one church, but often named more than one, in which the marriage could take place. Since many licence applications involved minors and thus showed father’s names and other details they can be valuable in establishing parentage. Most of these licence applications have been filmed and are available through the Family History Centre. Canterbury allegations are contained in 217 films; London in 279 films to give but two examples but films are available for many other jurisdictions. And if I had an ancestor who was married by licence I’d sure want to see his application. (If you have difficulty in deciding in which archdeaconry the application would have been made, let us know and we will try to sort it out).

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This is the final Bulletin for 2006. We have enjoyed producing it each week and have been encouraged by so many of you who have taken the trouble to write in to tell us how much they liked receiving it. May we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Apparently the Toronto Family History Centre was featured in last night's episode of Ancestors in the Attic. Although I didn't see the show I am told that it was the best episode to date.

In this Bulletin

We summarize the (hopefully) informative articles that have appeared during the course of the year. Looking through the list makes us very much aware of how Anglo-Centric we are but, in our defence we would say that we reflect the questions we get asked and are quite willing to publish any informative piece on other countries that readers would like to submit.
Several puzzles that everybody can work on during the holidays in The Forum

Announcements

Special announcement - please note. Due to staffing difficulties we will not be open for the 6.30 to 9.30 p.m. evening session on Wednesday, 3 January 2007.
Christmas holiday. We will be open tomorrow, Friday 22 December but closed then until we reopen on Tuesday 2 January, 2007.
Open House - Ukrainian Genealogy. We are pleased to be hosting an open house for people with Ukrainian ancestry sponsored by the Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group on Saturday afternoon, 20 January 2007, 2 to 4 p.m. Everyone with a Ukrainian background is welcome.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

We now have all 125 CDs of the Pedigree Resource File. These contain lineage-linked pedigrees that have been submitted to the Family and Church History Department of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. These pedigrees contain unedited notes and sources.

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New Questions

Q1/51/2006. Canada, Ontario. My great grandfather Joseph McBrady is buried in St John's Norway Cemetery, Kingston Road, Toronto. From information I have obtained from the cemetery I am told that he was a Porter and died from a heart attack on April 19, 1906 at the age of 57. The funeral home was McCabe's of 222 Queen Street who by 1936 were located at 192 Westminster Avenue but disappear after that. My questions are 1) Why can't I find a death registration for him in Ontario Vital Records, and 2) what happens to a funeral company's records when they close down?

Q2/51/2006. England/Belgium. An ancestor, Margaret Burke who was born in Manchester on 28 June 1878. In the 1891 Census she is shown as age 12 in St Ann's Industrial School, Formby, Lancashire. I believe that shortly after that she was sent to Belgium, probably as a domestic. About 1912 she visited England and by all accounts appeared to be prosperous. How can I find out what happened to her after that?

Q3/51/2006. U.S.A./Scotland. Several members my extended Swankie family emigrated to the U.S.A. from Scotland in the 1920's and '30's. I have been able to find them on the Ellis Island records and the immigration records on Ancestry.com. Some of these relatives returned to Scotland either permanently or for extended stays. How can I find details of those return trips?

Q4/51/2006. England/Canada. Gustav Richard Rudolph Haag was born in London, England in 1868. In the 1881 Census he appears as Augustine Haag in St Phillip's Orphanage, Birmingham and shortly after that was sent to Canada destined for the Ottawa area. Sometime in the 1880's or early 90's his brother in England filled out a form giving his address as McGee's Farm, Eardley, Quebec but there is no sign of him there in the 1891 Census. In 1893 Augustin Richard Hague married Margaret Jane Scott in Winnipeg. My questions are 1) How do I find him in the 1891 Census and 2) When exactly did he come to Canada?

Films received in the 7 days ending 21 December 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 1 February 2007.


Film Content	Film No
CRO Sv Ivanac na Rasom Dths 1848-12	2099954
DEU Immigrant Repat 1939-1945 'R'	2098097
DEU PRE Tilsit PR index 1908-1944	1186479
ENG CHS Chester St John PR 1559-	2045920
ENG CHS Chester St John PR 1754	2045950
ENG ESS Wethersfield Marr 1837-1985	1526987
ENG GLS Tetbury PR 1631-1837	0856949
ENG Ind to death duty reg 1884 S to Z	1937736
ENG KEN Eastling PR 1558-1953	1836242
ENG LEI Leicester marr 1853-1874	0870051
ENG LND Rec Copy Will 1897 'B'	1867418
ENG Mil Rec R.Artillery WO97 'J'	0916493
ENG SFS Upper Arley PR 1564-1812	0415136
ITL Udine Pasiano CivReg 1871-1910	2163263
ITL Udine Pasiano CivReg 1871-1911	2163262
NDL Strijen Census 1830-1846	1050679
NDL Strijen Marriage Lic. 1909	1748841
POL LU Urzedow RC PR 1690-1825	0996790

2006 Bulletins - Summary of Informative Articles

We thought it would be useful, particularly for those people who have joined the mailing list during the course of the year, to list articles that we have published. If anybody wants a copy of a particular article just let us know.

02/2006. British Isles. Quaker family history research.

04/2006. England & Wales. Using the Death Duty Indexes.

05/2006. United Kingdom. World War 1 Military Records - the "Burnt" and "Unburnt" documents.

06/2006. United Kingdom. The Deceased Wife's Sisters and the Deceased Brother's Widows Acts.

07/2006. United Kingdom. Divorce history.

08/2006. England & Wales. Obtaining copies of wills.

08/2006. U.S.A Immigration. Castle Gardens immigration records 1830-1892.

09/2006. The Commonwealth. War deaths.

10/2006. United Kingdom. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps records.

12/2006. England & Wales. Voting qualifications.

15/2006. Ireland. Probate and Inland Revenue films.

17/2006. United Kingdom. Seaman's Records.

18/2006. England & Wales. Hints on using the 1841 Census.

19/2006. Netherlands. Guides for genealogical sources.

19/2006. Genealogy generally. Use of digital cameras.

20/2006. Canada. 1851 Census.

21/2006. United Kingdom. Improvements in the National Archives site.

22/2006. England. Merchant Seamen, Naturalization and Divorce Records.

23/2006. Scotland. Probate Records.

24/2006. Scotland. City Directories.

25/2006. Ireland. Land Transfer Records.

28/2006. U.S.A, Canada, British Isles. Criminal records.

28/2006. England. Lancashire wills.

29/2006. England. Boyd's Marriage Index.

30/2006. Australia. Overseas passengers arriving Victoria 1852-1923

30/2006. Poland. Genealogy sources.

32/2006. England & Wales. Identifying merchant seamen in censuses.

32/2006. England & Wales. National Burial Index.

32/2006. Canada. Passenger arrivals.

33/2006. Scotland. Free Church records.

34/2006. England & Wales. Coroner's Inquests.

34/2006. British Isles. British Biographical Archive and British and Irish Biographies.

37/2006. Ireland. Obtaining Irish wills.

41/2006. United Kingdom. Soldier's Documents 1760-1854.

42/2006. British India. Baptismal, Marriage and Burial indexes.

42/2006. Great Britain. Royal Navy Seaman's Records

43/2006. Italy. Availability of records.

43/2006. Canada. 1851/2 Census.

44/2006. Genealogy. Pros and cons of various software programmes.

44/2006. Canada. Sources for Ontario genealogical data.

45/2006. Canada. Sources for Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia genealogical data.

46/2006. U.S.A. Passengers arriving at U.S. ports.

46/2006. Germany, Poland, Baltic countries. The "repatriated" Germans.

47/2006. Scotland. How to obtain birth, marriage and death data.

48/2006. England & Wales. Researching manorial documents.

49/2006. Poland, Eastern Europe. The Geographic Dictionary of the former Kingdom of Poland.

49/2006. British Isles. The British Vital Records Index.

50/2006. South Africa. South African (Boer) War records.

50/2006. Canada. City Directories.

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Readers of this Bulletin will note that there is no The Forum section. Several readers have been good enough to email their appreciation of this section and we would like to continue it. Problem is that nobody has sent in any questions. So, please, send us your questions.

In this Bulletin

We talk about Boer War records and Directories in the Were you aware............ section

Announcements

Christmas Closing. Our last day will be Friday 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January 2007. (Films ordered by patrons that are affected by the Christmas closing are being extended by an appropriate time period).

Films received in the 7 days ending 14 December 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 25 January 2007.


Film Content	Film No
CAN PQ Stanstead Baptist PRs 1838	1430772
CAN The Warren Family	0924903
DEU PRE Wischwill PR Bapt 1781-1872	0490427
DEU WUE Kirchensall CR 1840-1890	1340216
ENG BKM Hawridge PR 1785-1848	0919231
ENG DEV South Tawton PR 1540-1738	0917531
ENG SOM Batheaston PR 1634-1885	1526372
ENG SOM Batheaston PR 1850-1935	1849633
ENG WOR Newbold on Stour PR 1838-	0557295
GER BAD Emigration Index 1866 A-Dr	1180096
GER Handbook of Nobility 1900	0492046
IND Bengal BMD Oct-Dec 1904	0527526
IND Bengal BMD Vol 87-88 1855	0498993
IND Bengal bur v.433 1918	0527555
IND Bengal transcripts v.9-10	0498610
IRL ARM Various Parishes Misc Recs	1279329
IRL ARM Various Parishes Misc Recs	1279356
IRL ARM Various Parishes Misc Recs	1279357
ITL Calabria Agnana - Stilo Births 1888	1800866
POL Kalisz RC PR	1898134
POL Przasnysz RC PR	0702883
SCT ARL Lochgoilhead PR 1692-1855	1041073
SCT INV Kilmorack PR 1674-1854	0990709
UKR Kuty RC PRs 1780 - 1945	2328875
UKR L'viv Greek Catholic Priest Recs	1764234

Were you aware………………..

South Africa/England/Canada/Australia/New Zealand. The South African (Boer) Wars. The first Boer War started on December 16, 1880 when the Boers declared the independence from Britain of the Transvaal. Although there were British garrisons in the Transvaal the 1,800 men were far out-numbered by 7,000 Boer soldiers who were familiar with the terrain and expert marksmen who had no difficulty in picking off the red uniformed British soldiers. Realising the hopelessness of their position Prime Minister William Gladstone signed a truce on March 6, 1881 and a peace treaty on March 23, 1881 giving the Boers self government of the Transvaal. About 700 British soldiers died in this 3 month war.

The second Boer war started on 11 October 1899 and did not finish until 31 May 1902. In this war the British were supported by volunteer troops from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Figures for the numbers of troops involved on the British side vary from 250,000 to 500,000 but by the end of this war 22,000 had died, 7,792 in battle and the remainder from disease.

The 1901 Census of the United Kingdom and for Canada took place during the course of this war with the result that a large number of men, normally resident in these countries, were not counted. So far as the U.K. is concerned filling the gaps is no easy task as there are no easily accessible, comprehensive database of the men who served in the second Boer War. There are a few regimental databases and one very good one http://hometown.aol.co.uk/kevinasplin/home.html . This database gives the name, rank, service number and regiment of the men of the Imperial Yeomanry, the Lovat’s Scouts and the Scottish Horse – a total of 39,800 men. The National Archives have the attestation and discharge papers of the men (not the officers) of the Imperial Yeomanry in WO128. A more comprehensive list of the men who served in the second Boer war is probably contained in the records of the recipients of the Queen’s South Africa Medal listed in WO 100/120-130, WO 100/356-357 as this medal was awarded to nearly 200,000 men. Again, although the records exist they can only be accessed by visiting the National Archives at Kew. Perhaps we should offer to index them.

If you know the regiment that your ancestor served in you could try contacting the regimental organisation (if one exists) who might be able to give you details of any medals awarded but usually nothing else. A record of the military deaths that occurred is contained in a set of microfiche we have in the FHC entitled GRO Natal & S.African Forces Deaths 1899-1902. These are highly unsatisfactory insofar that they give only the surname and the initial letter of the first forename and the regiment in which they served - no mention of the date or place of death or the service number.

However, the military records of the Canadians who served in the second Boer War are available on www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/south-african-war A roll of the Australians who served is on http://members.pcug.org.au/~croe/ozb/oz_boer.cgi

If any reader knows of better sources for these records perhaps they would let me know.

Canada - Directories. Paul Branson writes:

"If you are a rookie researcher ( like me ), who needs an easy place to start piecing together family locations and movements, I have found old directories to be of great value. These were issued yearly, and do not give phone numbers, ( there weren't many), but list families alphabetically by surname with their address, and in another section each street is listed alphabetically with the name of who lives at each number on the street. These were produced and sold, I presume as marketing tools to companies for advertising purposes. I have found useful information in Mights Toronto City Directory (a copy cost $12.50 in 1917) and Vernon's Town of Brockville Directory ( one costed $2.50 in 1913 ). There is a great selection of Mights directories at the North York Central Library (6th Floor) all on microfilm, and at the Ontario Archives. In smaller towns they are rarer and likely only exist as hard copies in the reference section of the local library where you will have to ask nicely, and conduct your research under the watchful gaze of the person in charge, as they were often printed on newsprint and are very frail. These are also interesting historical documents in their own right, as they contain advertisements for companies, and Industries that no longer exist, and there is always a section in front that extolls the industrial development, points of interest, schools and service clubs in the area. There are pitfalls to watch for when locating people in these books. They often only list the head of the family, and adult boarders at the address. You also have to be aware, especially in Toronto that the city boundaries were a lot smaller than they are now, and a family that lived "just outside the city limits" may not get listed. The next time you are tossing out an old phone book, pause for a moment and consider how valuable it may be in 100 years ! "

Toronto Family History Centre Current Opening Hours:-

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We are still requiring questions for The Forum, submissions to the Were you aware........section and we still need an experienced Microsoft Access programmer to help us with our database management.

In this Bulletin

Of enormous value to our Eastern Europe researchers are the new arrivals in the Additions to our Permanent Collections section.
A description of the British Vital Records Index, a peek into Dr Williams' Library and news of on-line Scottish censuses in the Were you aware..........section

Announcements

Christmas Closing. Our last day will be Friday 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January, 2007. (For the benefit of new subscribers to the Bulletin this announcement will continue to appear each week).

A Musical Celebration of Christmas will be held in the Church on Sunday, 10 December commencing at 7.00 p.m. when the Toronto Stake Choir will be singing traditional and not so well known Christmas carols, the congregation being invited to join in the singing of some of them.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Poland/Eastern Europe. We are pleased to announce the arrival of 16 films - the Geographic Dictionary of the Former Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic Lands. This gazetteer was published between 1880 to 1902 under the direction of Filip Sulimierski. It is an excellent gazetteer for locating places in the areas of Poland, both present and past. Coverage includes all localities in the former Polish provinces of Russia, most localities in the former Austrian province of Galicia (now divided between Poland and the Ukraine), Belorussian provinces of the Russian Empire (now in the Republic of Belarus) and also contains significant localities in other Slavic and eastern European nations; Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic,Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. While the information is a bit less comprehensive, localities from the provinces of Poznan, West Prussia, East Prussia, Silesia, and Pomerania are also covered. It is an extremely valuable gazetteer in that it indicates the parish for most of the villages. The parish is the most productive place to search for vital records.

Localities are listed alphabetically. Slownik Geograficzny follows the normal Polish alphabetical order except that the o and o are alphabetized as one letter. Also other pairs (c,c), (n,n), (s,s), and the group (z, z, z) are in some cases not alphabetized separately.

If there are several localities with the same name they are numbered. Places in the Kingdom of Poland are listed first, followed by places in Galicia, Ukraine, Byelorussia (Belarus), Prussia and other states. If the locality had a foreign name or alternate spelling it is indicated in italics after the entry. Some entries will refer you to another entry with the abbreviation ob. meaning "see".

(My thanks to Sonia van Heerden for putting the above description together).

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Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/48/2006. Genealogy. Where can I find (preferably on the Web) a Latin dictionary for old occupations and for causes of death?

Steve Kressler writes: "At the LDS website, if you search under Research Guidance you will find a Latin genealogical word list which has, under general words, a fairly extensive selection of occupations listed. There are also a certain number of diseases indicated. A decent site for archaic medical terms in general (many of which may have been derived from Latin) is: http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm

Also, you could check “Diseases & Medical Terms” on Cyndi’s List for several other on-line listings".

Films received in the 7 days ending 7 December 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 18 January 2007


Film Content	Film No
CRO Sv Ivanac na Rasom Bths 1848-90	2099953
DEU Immigrant Repat 1939-1945 'W-V'	2098522
DEU PRE Schwelm PR 1676-1814	0575076
DEU PRE Tilsit PR 1819-1838	1813522
ENG DEV Belstone PR 1552-1837	0916809
ENG ESS Epping PR 1539-1896	1472222
ENG GLS Tetbury BTs 1578-1812	0427788
ENG KEN Newington PR	1473716
ENG KEN Throwley PR 1557-1837	1850187
ENG WOR Kidderminster PR 1802-20	0435265
ENG WOR Kings Areley PR 1539-1941	0994247
NDL Strijen Births 1843-1850	0237698
NDL Strijen Births 1871-1882	0237703
USA MI Detroit Church Recs 1825-1899	0959144
USA NJ Births Atlantic-Hudson V.BY 1870	0494166
USA NJ Births Camden-Hudson V.C1 1875	0494177
USA NJ Deaths Atlantic-Warren 1871	0584591
USA NJ Jersey City 1855 Census Dist.4	0888621

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British Isles, Vital Records. The Second Edition of the British Isles Vital Records Index was produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and released in 2003 but it remains a little known and very much under used resource. The data is not available on-line. The BVRI, as the index is known, is on 16 CD’s and can be purchased, as a set, for US$20.00 but is available for use, free of charge, at the Toronto Family History Centre. The index contains the birth/christening and marriage records for 12.3 million people who lived in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man between 1538 and 1906.

Breakdown by country ('000's of records)

Births/Christenings Marriages

England (incl. IOM) 6,702 1,710

Ireland 1,133 99

Scotland 2,453 41

Wales

18 4

Coverage of individual counties and parishes vary enormously. For example, for Lancashire there are 825,657 birth/christening entries and 287,538 marriages but for London including Middlesex there are only 181,123 births/christenings and 17,793 marriages. On the other hand, Wiltshire, with its relatively small population, has 526,143 births/christenings and 122,800 marriages. A parish by parish description of the coverage is on www.genoot.com/downloads/BVRI2

Many of the entries are far more detailed than you generally find in indexed material. The marriage of my grandfather is recorded thus:-

GODDARD, Reginald, Age: 22

Wife: Mary Ellen ALLSEP, Age: 29

Marriage Date: 10 Jun 1894. Recorded in: Westminster, London, England.

Collection: Soho, St Anne

Husband's Father: Charles GODDARD

Wife's Father: John ALLSEP

Source: FHL Film 1468921. Dates: 1879-1906.

The only additional information that I could reasonably expect from the certificate (a copy of which would be on the film) would be the occupations of the two fathers and the marital status of the bride and groom.

Also, tucked away inside the BVRI are the birth records of Dr Williams’ Library. Dr Daniel Williams (1643-1716) a Presbyterian Minister bequeathed in his will a sum sufficient to set up a library as a repository for Non-Conformist Records. The library opened in London in 1729 and continues to this day. In 1743 a group of dissenting ministers, Baptist, Congregational and Presbyterian started to collect the birth records of children of dissenters. Some of the records went back as 1716 and by the time Civil Registration started in England in July 1837 the birth records of 49,000 children had been collected. The collection of these births ceased at that time and the records were passed over to the General Register Office. The records were filmed by the LDS and are now included in the BVRI but are all listed under London, that being where the records were kept. So if you know that your ancestors were Non-Conformist and have had difficulty in finding their birth details, the BVRI is certainly worth consulting.

Come and take a look!

Scotland. Indexed versions of the 1851 and 1861 Scottish censuses are now available on-line at Ancestry.com, available free of charge at the Toronto Family History Centre. While it is possible to call up complete families from the index patrons should note that at the moment scanned copies of the actual enumeration pages are not available.

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Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

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Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

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Our grateful thanks to the three readers of the Bulletin who came forward to donate computers following the request in last week's Bulletin. We will be assembling them and giving instruction to the patrons of the FHC who do not have computers before passing them on.

We are still seeking new questions for The Forum and you are invited to send us contributions to Were you aware......section of the Bulletin on items of interest to you, similar to Joan Read's article appearing this week.

Do you have experience in Microsoft Access programming? We need to be able to produce some additional reports drawn from our film/fiche order database. Contact your editor at pgoddard@interlog.com if you can help.

In this Bulletin

If your ancestor was an ag. lab in England - (is there someone who doesn't have an ag lab ancestor?) - then there is a good chance that Manorial Records will be useful to you. See Joan Read's piece in Were you aware............

Announcements

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Netherlands. Once again we have Christina Scott to thank for donating a DVD (yes a DVD) containing the Parish Records of no less than 60 parishes. This is the fourth disk so we now have a substantial collection of these parish records.

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New Question

Q1/48/2006. Genealogy. Where can I find (preferably on the Web) a Latin dictionary for old occupations and for causes of death?

Films received in the 7 days ending 30 November 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 11 January 2007.


Film Content	Film No
CAN NS Halifax Marriages 1866-1871	1318115
CAN ON Brant County Marriages 1923	2266888
CAN ON York County Marriages 1923	2266943
CRO Zminj RC Births D'ths 1716-1884	2099977
ENG IOM Douglas BMs 1884-1911	0454979
ENG IOM Peel Birth Regs 1850-1901	0454963
ENG IOM Peel Births 1849-1964	0454956
ENG IOM Peel BMD 1884-1964	0454952
ENG IOM Peel Death Index 1877-1964	0454958
IRL Royal Irish Constabulary	0852094
ITL Udine San Querino Marr 1871-1910	2163739
NLD AmsterdamNoorderkerkBap1601-34	0113132
POL Kurowice rc vitals 1859-1901	2395744
POL Kurowice rc vitals 1859-1901	2395107

Ireland, Armagh. Last week we drew your attention in Additions to our Permanent Collections to a fiche showing the holdings of the Armagh County Museum, the records of which had been filmed by the LDS. Two patrons have viewed the fiche this week, both seasoned Armagh researchers, and have been thrilled with what they found. As a result of this one patron ordered three films - so watch the Films Received section in about 3 weeks time for news of their arrival.
USA. Linda Reid, who is not a Mormon, tells me that she recently discovered an ancestor in the new Ancestry.com Passenger List database, arriving at the port of New Orleans. Knowing that this was a port favoured by Mormons arriving from England she checked the Mormon Immigration Index and, sure enough, found her. Sue Gest, a Mormon volunteer, suggested that Linda should look for her on www.lds.org for an account of her journey across the plains and again she struck gold, finding an account of the journey in 1856. To find these records go to this site, select "Church History" and then "Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel 1847-1868".

Were you aware................ England & Wales. Manorial Records. For centuries, the Lords of the Manors owned vast tracts of countryside in England largely divided up into farms and containing the houses in which the farm workers lived. Particularly in the first half of the 20th Century, Death Duties forced a lot of these landowners to sell off their holdings so that most of them now own only the land immediately surrounding the Manor House. The house in which my son now lives in Datchworth, Hertfordshire was built in 1580 and owned by the Earl of Knebworth and it was not until 1923 that ownership was relinquished. The house is about 5 miles from Knebworth House and the Earl owned all the land between and a lot more besides. (The Earl now supplements his income by holding an annual outdoor pop-concert in the park). Joan Read writes to draw our attention to the value of the Manorial Records.

"Manorial Records Manorial documents are among the earliest records to chronicle events in the lives of ordinary rural tenants. They include minute books, accounts and maps, but the most relevant documents for the genealogist are Court rolls, rentals and surveys. Not all our ancestors lived within the jurisdiction of a manor, but for those who did, the records can supplement, and in some cases predate, parish registers. The Court rolls of the Court Baron verify changes in tenancy on the death of a tenant, particularly copyhold tenants. They identify the new heir, and may state the relationship to the previous tenant, making it possible to pinpoint an ancestor on a tract of land. Court rolls also provide lists of jurymen, chosen from the estate tenants, manorial officials, and persons absent from Court. Presentments name those convicted of minor crimes. Rentals, and sometimes surveys, are especially useful as they list all the tenants of a manor, some of whom may sublet the land and live elsewhere. Often the rentals provide information about the lives of our ancestors: the property they lived on, amount of rent paid, the extent and type of land, crops grown, and services due to the lord. The most useful aid for locating the name of the manor, if one knows the parish, is the Victoria County History series. These volumes, some of which are in the Baldwin Room on the 4^th floor of the Toronto Reference Library, provide detailed manorial information. Several editions are online at British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ Look under Local History. A Victoria County History: lists of contents and place index, can be found online at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/vch/index.shtml As well, the LDS Church has filmed some volumes, and the films can be ordered from Salt Lake City. Click on: library – catalogue – keyword – Victoria History. Scroll down to the relevant sites. Once the manor has been found, the next step is to locate the documents. Because these records are private rather than public, they are kept in various repositories, frequently far from the original manor. A good starting point is to consult the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.mdr/ The MDR contains information about the nature and location of surviving documents. It does not contain the documents themselves. The record locations of some counties are searchable online: Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Middlesex, Norfolk, Surrey, the three Ridings of Yorkshire, all of Wales, with Cumberland, Westmorland and part of Lancashire added in November 2006. If the name of the manor is not known, one can search the MDR by parish or county, or use the contact form to email an enquiry. The site has a research guide link. The LDS church has filmed some manorial records. Go to www.familysearch.org click on: library, library catalogue – place search – land/property or manors. About half of all manors have extant records from 1700 to 1900. Some earlier ones exist also. Until 1733 most records were in Latin. The Medieval Genealogy site at http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/guide/man.shtml has useful information and links".

Toronto Family History Centre Current Opening Hours:- Monday 9.30 a.m to 4 p.m. Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Wednesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon. Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this bulletin, return this email with the word "Delete" in the subject line.

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Can I ask once again for questions for The Forum?

In this Bulletin

The search for Margaret Logan is described in The Forum
A cheaper way to get the details from more recent Scottish Birth Marriage and Death Certificates in Were you aware............

Announcements

We have a few, generally elderly, patrons that do not have computers and fearing that they might not be able to use them properly, do not go out and buy one. They do not need a sophisticated machine, just something capable of handling email and internet and possibly one of the free genealogical software programmes but it would probably need an operating system not earlier than Windows 98 Second Edition. It occurs to us that a reader might have something answering this description gathering dust and might be happy to donate it. We will handle any set-up and basic training that might be required.

A reader has 2005 and 2006 issues of Powys, Montgomeryshire and Clwyd Family History Society periodicals to give away. Anybody interested email the reader direct on berwyn@pathcom.com

Additions to our Permanent Collection

Ireland, Armagh Armagh County Museum Records, produced by the Northern Ireland Family History Society on one microfiche, kindly donated by Elayne Lockhart. This fiche describes in detail the holdings of the museum that have been filmed by the LDS and demonstrates what an incredible goldmine of data is available. An absolute must see for any Armagh researcher. (Filed in miscellaneous unnumbered fiche).

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Answers to Previous Questions

Q 1/46/2006. Ireland. How do I find the birth details of my grandmother and that of any siblings she might have had? Her name was Margaret Logan who was born In Belfast c. 1892 and her parents were William Logan and Mary Jane Conn. She married Thomas Armstrong Atkinson on September 24, 1918 in Guelph, Ontario.

Three staff members, myself, Joe Mounsey and Gwen Armstrong each had input to the answer to this question. The easy answer would be to say "look in the Irish Civil Registration Birth Index films in the Family History Centre" but we went somewhat beyond that. In the 1911 Census of Canada, lodging at 275 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto is a Margaret Logan born February 1896, living with her father William John Logan her mother Jane and siblings Mary, Jane and William. If this is "your" Margaret then her birth would seem to have been registered as "Maggie" in the March Qtr. of 1896 in Belfast, Vol. 1, Page 190. We appreciate that the age shown in the census for this Margaret differs by 4 years from that shown on the marriage certificate for "your" Margaret. Furthermore, "your" Margaret gives her mother's name as Mary Jane Conn on her marriage certificate whereas when we look at the marriage certificates of the census siblings they give their mother's name as Jane Leith. There is a marriage in Belfast in 1877 between William Logan and Mary Jane Conn which certainly looks like the parents of your Margaret but we cannot find another Margaret Logan Ontario marriage with a father William that might account for the census Margaret. We do note, however, that there is a 13 year age difference between Margaret and Thomas Armstrong Atkinson as shown on the marriage certificate so if this Margaret was born later than 1892 she might have had a reason to shrinking the age difference between them. There is the possibility that the 1911 Census family we found has no connection with your family or that William Logan was married a second time.

As for your future research into this you might like to try to locate Margaret's death and any obituary that might have been published in the hope that names of siblings are shown. Does her age at death tie up with the age given when she married? The census William John Logan seems to have died in 1922 and was buried in Prospect Cemetery - does this ring any bells in your family? We have also noted the births of other Margaret Logans in the Belfast area between 1892 and 1896. The 1911 Census shows the family referred to above as having arrived in Canada in 1910. Irish birth certificates for the period in question have been filmed by the LDS; ordering in the appropriate film is the cheapest way of obtaining an Irish birth certificate. Contact us again if you need further guidance.

Films received in the 7 days ending 23 November 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 21 December 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN BC Deaths 1927	1952311
CAN NS Halifax Births 1871-1874	1318355
CRO Barban RC BMD 1816-1889	2099602
ENG LAN Parr PR 1846-1908	1849640
ENG Mil. Rec. 20th Reg. 1760-1854	0872361
ITL Udine San Querino Bths 1871-1910	2163738
NDL Hellevoetsluis Birth 1851 Marr 1878-	1340006
SCT FIF Ferryport on Craig oprs	1040337
SCT LKS New Monkland PR 1820-	1066601
UKR Horodnica Births 1852 - 1889	2193632
UKR L'viv Swirz RC Dths Marr1766-1855	2329180
USA PA Jefferson Presbyterian PR	1671250

News from the trenches

Paul Branson writes to enclose a generous donation and to tell us that following a visit to us and from the information we were able to glean regarding the Hooker side of his family and then look-ups of potential relatives on a recent Electoral Roll he was able to contact a relative in England. "Your going the extra mile on this endeavour has made an elderly man in England and a middle aged guy in Canada, very grateful".

Were you aware..............

Scotland. The Civil Registration of Births, Marriage and Deaths in Scotland commenced in 1855. In the Toronto Family History Centre we have the index films covering from 1855 to 1955 for births and to 1956 for marriages and deaths. After 1929 the indexes show the mother's maiden surname for births and the spouse's surname for marriages.

The Scotland's People website http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ is a pay-to-view site with a minimum charge of £6 which buys 30 page credits. Entering a name to search for, shall we say, a marriage, will cost 1 credit and then from the list provided if one is able to isolate the marriage required a further 5 credits will bring up an image of the certificate. Used sensibly and planned so that you are looking for several events - and perhaps with a little bit of luck thrown in - will get you a copy of a certificate for a cost of £1.20.

But although in New Register House in Edinburgh it is possible to obtain a copy of a certificate of an event which took place as recently as 2004 there are restrictions on what is available from the Scotland's People site. Births are available only up to 1905, marriages to 1930 and deaths to 1955. If you want to discover details of an event outside these years you can apply to the Scottish GRO who will search a five year period for £5 and then, if an appropriate entry is found, will provide a certified copy of the certificate for a further charge of £8 - so £13 in all. (£13 is around $29 at today's exchange rate)

There is, however, a cheaper way for readers of this Bulletin. Your editor has made arrangements with an Edinburgh researcher who will look up, transcribe and email the details shown on any certificate where you have identified the event on the index films for a standard charge of $10. This charge will also apply to events outside the years covered by the index films which are easily identifiable but a greater charge might apply if a long period of years are going to have to be searched for a common name. You can email your requirements to pgoddard@interlog.com or to Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca You will be told in advance if a charge greater than $10 is going to apply.

Toronto Family History Centre Current Opening Hours:-

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Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

Wednesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.

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In this Bulletin

The remaining British India films arrive - Additions to our Permanent Collections
News of the arrival on Ancestry.com of a huge passenger list database in Were you aware...........
Although, from a genealogical point of view the Baltic Germans might be relevant to only a small number of the readers of this Bulletin, from a historical and sociological standpoint I would encourage everybody to read this piece in Were you aware............
Something of interest to any reader who ever served in the UK Armed Forces - Army, Navy or Air Force in Were you aware...........

Announcements

Christmas Closing. Our last day will be Friday 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January, 2007. (For the benefit of new subscribers to the Bulletin this announcement will continue to appear each week).
James Thomson notes that The Dominion Institute has initiated an online petition in support of offering a state funeral for the last veteran of the First World War resident in Canada: http://www.dominion.ca/petition/

Additions to our Permanent Collections

British India. The last batch of these films complementing our existing collection have now arrived. The details of these films were described in Bulletin 42/2006.


Film Content	Film No
IND Bengal Bapt Indx 1841-1850	0498513
IND Bengal Bapt Indx 1851-1859	0498514
IND Bengal Bapt Indx 1896-1904 M-Z	0498522
IND Madras Burials Indx 1851-1859	0498596

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Answers to Previous Questions.

Q1/37/2006. Ukraine. Information on Catholic priests in the Ukraine. Sonia van Heerden writes to advise us that Directories of Greek Catholic Priests in the Ukraine for the years 1848, 1885 and 1900 are on LDS Film No. 1764234.

New Questions.

Q2/46/2006. Canada. (Related to the question above). Can I find out when my relatives came to Canada? My grandparents(above) were here in 1918 and was probably here in 1910 with his mother Mary Poole Atkinson Phipps, stepfather Thomas Phipps and half-sister Mary Annie Gibson Phipps who married John Fox in Toronto on November 16, 1910.

Films received in the 7 days ending 16 November 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 14 December, 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Peterborough Marr 1923	2266929
CAN ON Toronto Marriages 1923	2266884
DEU POM Greifenberg BMD 1795-1826	1273264
DEU POM Greifenberg BMD 1827-1853	1273265
ENG LND Rec Copy Will 1898 'B'	1885308
IND Bengal PR Vol 534-535 Jul-Sep1931	0526449
ITL Regio di Calabria Ardore B 1831-59	1448852
ITL Regio di Calabria Benestare B 1889	1800909
JAM Westmorland D 1878-1995	1523603
PHI Bulacan Meycauayan bap 1883-93	1128521
PHI Bulacan Meycauayan bap 1894-	1128522
PHI Bulacan Meycauayan bap 1903-11	1128523
PHI Ilocos Sur Santa Lucia mar 1853-94	1210392
PHI Ilocos Sur Tagudin bap 1858-1871	1214471
PHI Pangasinan Binalonan bap 1845-62	1209457
PHI Pangasinan Binalonan bap 1863-82	1209458
POL Belezyce RC PR 1695-1809	0937472
POL Przasnysz RC PR Births 1891-00	2084388
UKR Horodnica Births 1872 - 1909	2193633
UKR L'viv Swirz RC births 1784-1857	0766104
UKR L'viv Swirz RC births 1784-1858	0766103
UKR L'viv Swirz RC Dths Marr1766-1891	2329181
UKR Stanislau Grk Cath birth 1879-90	2395672
USA IL Livingston Co Births 1880-1882	1392966
USA TN Maury Co Estate Recs "W"	2251603

News from the trenches

Linda Gilpin writes:

"I am a novice in genealogy of less than one year. My father, John Horace Gilpin died on October 26, 2006 at age 97. On the day of his funeral, I received from a family member a copy of a letter written in 1982 from his niece in British Columbia asking for information on the family. Because of that letter I have spoken in the past 3 days to 4 family members in B.C. for the first time, 2 of whom are keenly interested in genealogy. In fact, one new-found cousin of mine had recently visited Ontario and had gone to Lefroy to find my grandfather Gilpin's general store and found it is being renovated into a cafe. There is a 1902 picture of the store in the 1984 historical review of the town of Innisfil. Anyway, we are all excited to have found each other."

Were you aware.................

U.S.A. Ancestry.com have recently uploaded the details of 70 million passengers and crew of ships arriving at U.S. ports making the total number of names on this particular database now exceeding 100 million. For the period 1819 to 1893 passenger lists would show the passengers port of embarkation, name, age and occcupation. For the period 1893 to 1906 this was supplemented by details of marital status, last place of residence and final destination in the U.S. and then after 1906 they would also show the passenger's height, complexion, hair colour and birthplace. This database is available free of charge at the Toronto Family History Centre but the great thing is that up to 30 November it is also available free of charge on your home computer.
Germany, Poland, Baltic and other European Countries. In Bulletin 38/2006 a question was asked as to where one could obtain birth, marriage and death details of people who were “repatriated” to Germany from the Baltic countries in WW2. A reply was posted in Bulletin 40/2006 but we now find, thanks to information provided by Leona Gislason, that our answer was not comprehensive. In August 1939 Hitler and Stalin agreed on a plan to carve up Europe with the Baltic countries – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – falling under the Soviet sphere. On September 1, 1939 German forces invaded Poland and by the end of that month brought it under direct German control. Poland was divided between the Warthegau (Posen, Lodz) to the west and the General Government (Warsaw, Krakow) to the east. Just a few days later on October 4, 1939 Hitler made a speech in the Reichstag laying out his plans for the resettlement of Europe along ethnic lines. There were substantial populations of people of German origin in all the Baltic countries, many of whom had been there for generations. Pointing out that he could not offer any protection to them in the event that they were attacked by the indigenous populations Hitler “invited” them to return to their homeland. Caught between a rock and a hard place over 500,000 people accepted the Fuhrer’s invitation. The plan can only be described as diabolically brilliant. The returning Baltic Germans were to be resettled in the General Government. To make room for them the indigenous Polish population and the Jewish population was to be moved out with their property confiscated and handed over to the returning Germans in compensation for the property they had left behind in the Baltic countries. Most of the Jewish population were sent to concentration camps while the Poles were to be used as slave labour in Germany. The returning Germans of military age were available for conscription into the German army, the Poles that were moved out were not available for any resistance movement that might spring up in occupied Poland while the Germans outside military age having been resettled in Poland could be counted on for loyalty to Germany rather than to Poland. At the same time a large labour force was made available in Germany to replace the German men who had been called up for military service. But first of all the returning Germans had to satisfy the authorities that they were ethnically pure Germans and to this end everybody over the age of 15 was to be interviewed and had to provide evidence of their place of birth, their parents and grandparents dates and places of birth and marriage together with details of property they owned and places where they had lived in the Baltic countries. As the war progressed ethnic Germans living in France, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Ukraine were also “repatriated” to Germany, many of them to the Warthegau. And this veritable treasure trove of genealogical information is available to researchers in the form of records of 2.1 million people, a lot of it being on LDS films. To get at this information is a 2-step process. The first stage is to consult the alphabetical card index known as the E/G Kartei which are contained on 1,964 microfilms. To find the film containing details of your ancestor perform a Film/Fiche search in the Family History Library Catalog on www.familysearch.org inserting the number 1797322. However, the index is phonetical so a surname beginning with 'W' might be found under 'V'. This film will provide you with details such as date and place of birth but perhaps more importantly it will give you the file number for the Stammblatter series where you can expect to find a full family pedigree. These files are on 750 microfilms commencing with film number 1796579. A very good description of this period of history together with details of the information you can expect to find on both series of films is on www.volhynia.com/EWZmain
U.K. Veterans Badge. Diana Davies has drawn to my attention that anyone who served in the U.K. Armed Forces before and during WW2 and at any time up to 31 December 1969 is entitled to a Veterans Lapel Badge. The badge is very handsome in gold and enamel and comes in a nice presentation box. You can apply online for the badge details of which are on http://www.veteransagency.mod.uk/vets_badge/vets_badge.htm I am not an habitual badge wearer but, you never know, you might see me yet with my badge.

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We are still requiring questions for The Forum. And it would be nice to hear of a bizarre entry, a research breakthrough, a strange coincidence, a stroke of luck for News from the trenches.

In this Bulletin

More British India Films in Additions to our Permanent Collections
We draw your attention to online resources for research in British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Were you aware........
A give-away in Announcements

Announcements

Christmas Closing. Our last day will be Friday 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January 2007. (For the benefit of new subscribers to the Bulletin this announcement will continue to appear each week).
The 4th Line Theatre Company which has an excellent reputation for producing first class plays with a local historic interest is holding a reading from a new play "The Right Road to Pontypool" at 2 p.m. on Sunday 12 November at Peterborough Centennial Musuem & Archives, 300 Hunter Street. Admission is free. ‘The Right Road to Pontypool’ is based on the Toronto Jewish community’s summer resort experience in Pontypool during the first half of the 20^th century. In the midst of this quiet farming community, the largest Jewish vacation resort in Canada was established. Thousands of people arrived to enjoy the pleasures of the pond and the fresh country air. For over fifty years they came, but there remains almost no evidence of the thousands of lives that passed through this out-of-the-way corner of Ontario.
A generous patron has a 4-drawer, letter size filing cabinet to give away. First come first served but you have to pick up the cabinet from Thornhill.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

USA, NY, Duchess Co. The Nine Partners Patent. The story of a land grant to "the Nine Partners" of 145,000 acres including a 4 mile frontage to the Hudson River which it seems was acquired at the end of the 17th Century from the Indians in exchange for a few hatchets and guns. On 9 microfiche no. 6088543.

British India. A further set of films have arrived to complement our existing collection the details of which were described in Bulletin 42/2006. These are:


Film Content	Film No
IND Bengal Bapt Indx 1860-1867	0498515
IND Bengal Bapt Indx 1868-1875 A-K	0498516
IND Bengal Bapt Indx 1876-1884	0498518
IND Bengal Bapt Indx 1935-1942	0498530
IND Bengal Bths Marr Bur 1835	0498572
IND Bengal Bur Indx 1908-1918	0498553
IND Bengal Bur Indx 1933-1945	0498555
IND Bombay Bapt Indx 1871-1885	0498559
IND Bombay Bapt Indx 1886-1898	0498560
IND Bombay Marr Indx 1709-1859	0498563
IND Madras Bapt Indx 1698-1820	0498574
IND Madras Marr Indx 1851-1870	0498587

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Answers to Previous Questions

Q2/43/2006. Genealogy Generally. This is a further comment on the merits, and otherwise, of various genealogy software programmes. Eve Zuber writes:-

"From the software list included in the bulletin, only PAF5.2 supports multilingual character sets. Only in PAF5.2 you can have all the names/places and notes entered on one page/screen in multiple languages with all proper accents and diactrical marks. Very important feature, if one has the ancestors from different, non-English speaking, countries. Other software packages do not support this feature".

Films received in the 7 days ending 9 November 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 7 December 2006.


Film Content	Film No

CAN ON Marriages 1923	2266883
CAN ON Wellington-Wentworth Marr 1923	2266941
ENG KEN Sheerness Dockyard PR	1818341
ENG GLS Bristol St James M 1785-1812	1596537
ENG KEN Brenchley PR 1560-1858	0992456
ENG KEN Brenchley PR 1754-1876	0992457
ENG KEN Minster Parish Chest	1751961
ENG LAN Colton BTs 1676 - 1825	1040301
ENG LND Rec Copy Will 1905 Oct. C-T	1885845
ENG NTT SuttonUponTrent BT 1813-38	0504538
IND Bengal Bapt 1873 Jul-Sep	0499051
Isle of Man Will Index 1659-1949	0106366
JAM Death Index 1900-1916	1563514
NLD Strijen M 1795-1811	0120814
POL Belezyce RC PR 1605-1698	0937471
POL Ciechanow RC PR Births 1891-6	2084384
POL Przasnysz RC PR Births 1890-95	2101694
SCT ROX Crailing OPR 1708-1819	1067933
USA IL Livingston Co Births 1878-1880	1392965
USA TN Marshall Co. Prob. Rec 1839-	0976372
USA TN Maury Co Wills 1808-1825	0024765

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Ontario. Further to the piece in last week's Bulletin regarding Ontario records, Linda Reid writes to point out that there is an excellent collection of Tombstone Inscriptions (TI's) available in the Canadiana Room of the North York Central Library. These represent the transcriptions made by various Ontario Genealogical Society branches for the cemeteries in their areas.

And we draw to your attention on-line sites available if you are searching for genealogical data relating to:

British Columbia. http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm

Baptisms Index 1836-1885 (one has to go to the original church record to obtain the full details). Civil Registration indexes: Births 1872-1903, Marriages 1872-1930, Deaths 1872-1985. The index shows the GSU (LDS) film number which will contain the actual certificate. These films can be ordered at the Toronto Family History Centre.

Manitoba. http://web2.gov.mb.ca/cca/vital/Query.php

Births more than 100 years ago
Marriages more than 80 years ago
Deaths more than 70 years ago

Birth Index gives name, date and place of birth and parents names. Marriage Index gives name of spouse, date and place of marriage. Death Index gives name, date and place of death and age at death. Usually women were indexed under married name only. Copies must be ordered from the Manitoba government. Once you select a name, you can print off an application form. Copies can be ordered by mail or fax and cost $12.00 each.Saskatchewan. http://vsgs.health.gov.sk.ca/vsgs_srch.aspIndex is not completed yet – only births more than 100 years ago online. Deaths (more than 70 years ago) and marriages (more than 75 years ago) are not yet available but coming on line soon. Index gives name, date and place of birth and parents names. Certificates must be ordered from the Saskatchewan government. Once you select a name, you can print off an application form. Certificates can be ordered by mail or fax and cost $50.00 each.

It is important to note that Saskatchewan did not become a province until 1905. Registrations were sketchy up until the 1920’s. Especially for people living in rural locations and immigrants who did not speak English.

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Lots of email this week from our readers but no new questions have been posed. We still require more questions for The Forum.

In this Bulletin

A lengthy discussion of the merits, and otherwise, of various genealogical software programmes in The Forum
We draw your attention to the increasing amount of Ontario genealogical information that is available in Toronto in Were you aware...............

Announcements

Christmas Closing. Our last day will be Friday 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January 2007. (For the benefit of new subscribers to the Bulletin this announcement will continue to appear each week).

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/43/2006. England Information on a Frank Hines, a policeman in Sunderland in the 1960's. As you have no knowledge of his birth, his parents, his marriage or whether he is dead or alive - and the only Frank Hines of Sunderland who died between 1984 and 2004 proved not to be the correct Frank Hines - the only suggestion we can make is that you contact the police authorities in Sunderland to see if they can help you.

Q2/43/2006. Genealogy Generally 1. The material that you can download from your website - is there any way you can print it out so that it all connects? Although there are ways, in some cases, that you could link data it is not a course we would recommend - each entry should be checked for the data source to ensure that you are not repeating an error in the data. 2. If not, what software are researchers particularly satisfied with? Many readers of the Bulletin were good enough to let us have their opinions which we have sorted out under the various software programmes and repeat below.

Personal Ancestral File (PAF)

"PAF works well but it is not a simple process as there are multi-steps involved. I have used PAF 5.2 to merge IGI records, downloaded from The Family History site, into my existing PAF tree. Once the files are match/merged and linked you can then print PAF reports which show how things are connected. The PAF Help facility gives good guidelines, see the chapters on "Importing GEDCOM files" & "Managing .paf files" - "How to combine .paf files""

Another comment on PAF

+ free

+ comes in many languages

+ great for LDS church members doing church genealogy

- pedigree charts are OK but not great

- need to purchase a separate program to get better charts

- entering sources can be a bit tricky

"Legacy

"I particularly like Legacy which is free for the basic programme. I had Family Tree Maker but find Legacy better. You can download Legacy 5.0 free by going into Legacy on the internet. One is able to put pictures in very easily. There are various reports that can be printed. If you want the Deluxe edition it can be downloaded quickly too for a small amount of money."
"+ very easy to learn and use

+ good for LDS church members doing church genealogy".

The Master Genealogist (TMG)

"We use TMG and like it very much. But it is expensive because it has to be updated to a new version about every year. (I think that a new version is about to be released.) It can be made as complicated and detailed as you like but it can also be used very simply. It has strong report writing features. We have also set up a databse of all the films we have viewed and what we found in general terms on a TMG database. This idea came from one of their users. They have a strong user group and we have found their email help to be good - they reply within 24 - 48 hours."
"-not a beginners program it was developed for professional genealogists and is not easy to learn or use

+ ability to include many different types of records"

Brother's Keeper

"I started using Brother’s Keeper back in the days of DOS (pre Windows). Of the 20 – 30 programs I looked at back then, including some of the big name programs of the day, it was the most user friendly. I entered about 500 names, and did other routines, without the use of a manual or help. The reports and charts will match any of the major genealogy programs, including pictures in many of them. I actually prefer the register book from BK rather than the other programs. Brother’s Keeper is a shareware program, costing $45.00 USD, and once you have registered, you can download all subsequent updates at no additional charge. Also, once you register, if you have a problem, I have had my email answered usually within a day. One nice advantage with the program is that you can download (www.bkwin.com) it for free and try it out. Some things do not work unless you register, but you can get a good look at the program free of charge. The only drawback that I know of is that BK will not run on Mac."
"+prints nice charts

+ easy to learn and use"

Family Tree Maker

"+ not as easy as Legacy but not difficult to use

+ nice charts, can be as simple or as detailed as you like

- found entering sources a bit tricky"

and

A website where 10 different genealogical software programmes are reviewed http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/?ttreng=1&ttrkey=family+tree+maker .

and

Editor's Comment: I fear that the questioner might now be more confused than ever. My suggestion is that you start off with one of the free download programmes and as you gain experience you could always change to another programme later.

Films received in the 7 days ending 2 November 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 30 November 2006.

Film Content Film No

CAN NS Halifax Co Births 1874-1877 1318356

CAN NS Halifax Co Marriages 1864-75 1318116

CAN PQ St Ignace PR 1833-1848 1031508

CAN PQ St Ignace PR 1849-1862 1031509

CAN PQ St Ignace PR 1863-1876 1031510

DEU BAD Karlsruhe Evang PR 1806- 1189240

ENG DEV Bow PR 1598-1836 0916819

ENG KEN Sheldwich BT 1603-1813 1737007

GBR Military records WO97 0861705

GRENADA Index Probate 1908-1927 1563253

GRENADA Index Probate 1918-1922 1563489

IND Bengal PR Apr-Jun 1920 0527919

ITL Regio di Calabria Agnana BMD 1895 1801703

NLD Watergraafsmeer CivilReg 1652-1811 0114957

PHI Bulacan Meycauayan bap 1872-83 1128457

PHI La Union San Juan bap 1898-1903 1209825

PHI Pangasinan Binalonan mar 1899- 1209736

PHI Pangasinan Binalonan mar 1915-35 1209737

POL Opinogora RC PR 1866-1892 1895421

UKR Stanislau Grk Catholic inventory 2390034

USA NJ Vit Rec Indx B'ths P-S 1848-78 0493690

USA NJ Vit Rec Indx D'ths G-Z 1868-78 0493701

USA NY Utica Pres pr 1813-1852 0534223

USA OH Union County History 1000347

USA WI Neillsville Luth PR 1886-1936 1401775

Film Content	Film No
CAN NS Halifax Co Births 1874-1877	1318356
CAN NS Halifax Co Marriages 1864-75	1318116
CAN PQ St Ignace PR 1833-1848	1031508
CAN PQ St Ignace PR 1849-1862	1031509
CAN PQ St Ignace PR 1863-1876	1031510
DEU BAD Karlsruhe Evang PR 1806-	1189240
ENG DEV Bow PR 1598-1836	0916819
ENG KEN Sheldwich BT 1603-1813	1737007
GBR Military records WO97	0861705
GRENADA Index Probate 1908-1927	1563253
GRENADA Index Probate 1918-1922	1563489
IND Bengal PR Apr-Jun 1920	0527919
ITL Regio di Calabria Agnana BMD 1895	1801703
NLD Watergraafsmeer CivilReg 1652-1811	0114957
PHI Bulacan Meycauayan bap 1872-83	1128457
PHI La Union San Juan bap 1898-1903	1209825
PHI Pangasinan Binalonan mar 1899-	1209736
PHI Pangasinan Binalonan mar 1915-35	1209737
POL Opinogora RC PR 1866-1892	1895421
UKR Stanislau Grk Catholic inventory	2390034
USA NJ Vit Rec Indx B'ths P-S 1848-78	0493690
USA NJ Vit Rec Indx D'ths G-Z 1868-78	0493701
USA NY Utica Pres pr 1813-1852	0534223
USA OH Union County History	1000347
USA WI Neillsville Luth PR 1886-1936	1401775

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An increasing amount of Ontario genealogical data is becoming readily available. Mary Crandall has kindly provided me with the following information:-

The finding of a vital statistic registration (i.e. births, deaths & marriages) is a two step process. First, you need consult an index film to find the registration number & year of the event that you are interested in; then you can find the registration on one of the many films that contain the registrations themselves. The index films are available at both the North York library (Yonge & Empress) & the Ontario Archives, but only the Ontario Archives have the films of the registrations themselves.

Civil registration began in Ontario on 1 July 1869.   At the moment birth records to 1909 are publicly available as are marriage records to 1924 and death records to 1934.
Ancestry.ca (available on only one computer at the Toronto Family History Centre) has the bulk of these registrations online (births to 1907, marriages to 1922 & deaths to 1932), but if you are interested in the subsequent two years, a trip to the Ontario Archives is the quickest way to get a copy of the document (or you can order the film through your library or LDS center)

For records prior to 1869 - what the records that have survived are not complete. They are mostly church records. Birth & death records from prior to 1869 are especially scarce

There is a collection of County Registers for (some of ) the marriages that occurred between 1858 and July 1869.   These have been published by globalgenealogy and are widely available in libraries. If you want to find the marriages on microfilm, they are the MS 248 series of films, available at the Ontario Archives. These are not on ancestry.ca but some transcriptions are available online at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/thisisit.htm (some of the 1923 marriage records are also here)

For marriages between 1801 and 1858, there are District Marriage registers.    For a complete listing of the District marriage registers that have survived, see
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/v-mdistrict-t.htm

Censuses. See Bulletin 43/2006 for a description of the 1851/2 Census. The 1901 Census (freely available on www.automatedgenealogy.com shows the date of birth (not just the age) against each entry. The 1911 Census (on the same site) is partially indexed.

Passenger Lists. See Bulletin 43/2006 for details.

Probate records
The Ontario Archives has a large collection of Probate and Surrogate court records dating from 1793 to 1963. Records after 1963 are available only through the courthouse the County or District where the will was probated or the estate administered.
details: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/c-efile.htm

Newspapers
There are least 3 good sources of newspapers (on microfilm) in Toronto.
The Ontario Archives have older newspapers (especiallyy pre-1930) and almost exclusively from Ontario. The Canadiana Room at the North York library has a good collection of Toronto and Winnipeg newspapers. Lastly, in the basement of the Toronto Reference Library is a large collection of more recent newspapers from a number of Canadian towns & cities.

Online newspapers:
Paper of Record at http://www.paperofrecord.com contains images of many papers from around the world, 52 from Ontario alone with dates ranging from 1833 to 2003.
This site does require a subscription but it is searchable.

Cemetery records
The best collection of tombstone inscription transcriptions is at the Toronto Reference library - in their genealogy section on the 4th floor. These are in book format.
The Ontario Archives has some on microfilm but not nearly as many as the library.

Holdings of the Toronto library system can be searched online at http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/

Ontario Archives
home - http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/index.html
vital stats - http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/vsmain.htm

The Archives of Ontario's Main Reading Room is located at 77 Grenville Street, Toronto. This room is open 8:15 am to 10:30 pm Monday to Friday and 10:00 am to 8:00 pm on Saturday. Reference staff are available to assist you from 8:15 am to 5:00 pm on weekdays. Take photo ID with you as you will need to register to get in.

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Questions are still required for future Bulletins.

In this Bulletin

More questions and answers on diverse subjects in The Forum
News respecting passenger lists and the 1851/2 Census of Canada, (Were you aware........)

Announcements

Christmas Closing. Our last day will be Friday, 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January, 2007. (For the benefit of new subscribers to the Bulletin this announcement will continue to appear each week).

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England, Northamptonshire, Crick. Baptisms 1813-1874, Marriages 1754-1812, Burials 1813-1900 (contained on microfiche nos: 6127168, 6127171, 6127172, 6127176).

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q2/42/2006. England. How do I find the birth record of someone who was born in Devonport, Devon around 1830 since no church records for this place seem to be in the LDS catalogue?

Several readers were kind enough to respond to this question.

Devonport did not have a parish church at the time of your ancestor’s birth but was within the parish of Stoke Damerel. Unfortunately films of this Parish Register are not available through the Family History Library neither have the baptism records been transcribed in the on-going Parish Clerk project. However the Devon Family Society has transcribed the baptism records from 1813 to 1839 and you can purchase copies of their Baptism Books from them on www.devonfhs.org.uk/publications.htm There is a book for each year for Stoke Damerel at a cost of £3 each including overseas airmail. (You should perhaps note that East Stonehouse is an adjoining parish and the parish church could possibly have been closer to your ancestor in Devonport than the church at Stoke Damerel. If you draw a blank with Stoke Damerel it might be worth trying East Stonehouse - with the same record problems as described for Stoke Damerel).

Q3/42/2006. Italy/U.S.A. 1) and 2) How far back are birth/marriage/death records available for Italy and are these records available from the LDS?

One cannot lay down hard and fast rules as to the availability of records for Italy. There are no national registration records for Births, Marriages and Deaths but nevertheless a huge amount of data is available within each province and, so far as Civil Registration is concerned, usually recorded in the major city. A search of the Family History Library Catalog reveals that for Palermo, Civil Registration records of Births, Marriages and Death are available from 1820 to 1908, contained on 1,590 microfilms. Again in Palermo, for example, the church register of San Giacomo alla Marina (just one of many churches) covers the period 1392-1868 on 52 films. For Milano the Civil Registration records cover the period 1866 to 1929 on 936 films. However for Firenze there does not appear to be any Civil Registration records available through the LDS but some church records are available such as the church of Santa Maria del Fiore where the records cover the period 1450 to 1900 on 81 films.

3) Tracing the new name of an immigrant to America who changed his name in the 1920's or '30's.

Although each state makes provision for the legal change of one's name we have been unable to find published records of name changes. However we have come across numerous instances where an immigrant has arrived in his new country with a different name to what he possessed in his country of birth. There are, no doubt, many reasons for doing this - escaping the law, fleeing from creditors, bigamy etc but the most common reason must be, in the case of immigrants to North America, the wish to Anglicize the name - both given and surname - to make life simpler. In some cases an Anglicized phonetic version of the original name is adopted and in other cases an approximate translation into English of the original name is employed. For example the common Italian name Pescatore becomes Fisher. Another method of discovering the new name, provided that your subject was in the USA by 1930 is to employ a search on Ancestry.com of this Census using as much information as you have (such as age, country of birth, forename of spouse, the state in which he resided) but leaving, for example, the surname blank. Good luck!

New Questions

Q1/43/2006. England. A relative, Frank Hines (he may have spelt his name differently - perhaps Hinds or Hind) was a policeman in Sunderland, Co. Durham, in the 1960s. I'm trying to trace his leg of my tree but haven't been able to locate him (he's probably deceased). Where can I obtain information about his police service and, hopefully, address info. and next of kin in the 1960s? I don't know when he was born or the name of any wife or children he might have had.

Q2/43/2006. Genealogy Generally. The Family Tree material that you can download from your website, is there any way you can print it out so that everything connects? If not, what geneology software are researchers particularly satisfied with? (Note from Editor - I would very much appreciate comments from users of free downloadable software such as PAF as well as users of commercial software such as Master Genealogist and Family Tree Maker).

Films received in the 7 days ending 26 October 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 23 November 2006.


Film Content	Film No
	1340006
CAN Br. Forces in Canada 1757-1899'G'	1711654
CAN ON Bruce Co Marrs 1924	1838202
CAN ON Huron Co Marrs 1923	2266895
CAN ON Leeds Marrs 1923	2266925
DEU PRE Tilsit Bapt 1862-1874	1813538
ENG Mil. Rec. 20th Reg. 1760-1854	0872361
ENG WAR Monumental Inscriptions	0476975
NLD Amst'dam Noorderkerk Bapt 1641-	0113157
NLD Amsterdam Death Indx 1553-1650	0540396
PHL Meycauan Bapt 1845-1872	1128456
PHL Santa Cruz Register 1852-1858	1213859
PHL Santa Cruz Register 1852-1858	1213860
PHL Santa Lucia Bapt 1860-1872	1210387
POL Brieg Evangelische Kirche	0879606
POL LU Chodel RC PR 1591-1758	0937488
POL Seilec Gk. Cath. Pr 1841	0766089
RUS BES Albota bapt 1880-1940 LS	1198658
RUS BES Albota bapt 1880-1940 RS	1198657
SCT ANG Arbroath Burials 1825-1854	0993333
USA MI Wayne Co. birth 1880-1882	1377660
USA MI Wayne Co. birth 1895-1896	1377673
USA MI Wayne Co. birth 1896-1897	1377674
USA MI Wayne Co. marr 1873-1880	1377623
USA MI Wayne Co. marr 1878-1884	1377624

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Passenger Lists and Canadian Census Records. James Thomson writes: "With apologies to those of you who have received notes of these things from me on earlier occasions, here are three recent or pending developments which may be of considerable interest to many readers of the Bulletin:

Passenger Lists

(a) Library and Archives Canada has uploaded digital images of a great number of its passenger lists for vessels arriving in Canadian ports between 1865 and 1922; others will follow shortly. There is an introduction to these records at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/passenger/index-e.html ; this page also provides links to a more detailed Online Help page and a Search screen. Although one can search by ship name, shipping line, port of arrival or departure, and year or date of arrival or departure, it is not possible to search in this database by passenger name; however, some nominal indexes to passengers (for various ports of arrival and various date ranges) do exist or are in preparation, and these are surveyed at http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-908.003-e.html It will be interesting to see whether Ancestry.ca considers these lists to be good candidates for indexing; I have no knowledge of this one way or the other.

(b) 1837Online.com (soon to have a new name) has now started digitizing and indexing The National Archives (at Kew, in England) record series BT 27: Board of Trade Passenger Lists, Outwards, 1890-1960. These are passenger lists for ships leaving the UK (and, for 1890-1922, ports now in the Republic of Ireland) for final destinations outside Europe (or the Mediterranean) - hence they will include not only those going to North America, but also those bound for Australia, New Zealand and South Africa etc. Indeed, the lists may be of even broader interest than one might assume, in that they include not only emigrants, but also those travelling for any other reason, as well as many non-UK residents whose voyage overseas departed from the British Isles. What a prospectively huge boon for those whose family members made an overseas trip between 1890 and 1960! The data will be made available through the pay-to-view site www.ancestorsonboard.com ; see the site for more information, and to have one's name added to a mailing list.

1851/2 Census of Canada

Ancestry.ca's nominal index to the extant parts of the 1851/52 census (of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia), linked to images, has now launched: http://content.ancestry.ca/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1061 At this point in time, Ancestry is providing free access to this database, upon registration, as a promotion. Here are some small suggestions about using this database:

(i) If you find an interesting entry in a Personal Schedule and/or Agricultural Schedule from the 1851/52 census for Ontario or Quebec, remember that the digital image linked to the index entry only contains the first few columns of information recorded by the enumerator. To access images of such additional information as may be available, click on the "Next" icon (containing a right-pointing arrow) immediately above the first image; if all columns of either type of schedule are available in this way, one may need to do this more than once to access anything recorded in the final columns. This may be well worth doing - I have been looking at one entry in an Agricultural Schedule for which the final, "Remarks" column contains the enumerator's note "The Indian Corn Crops destroyed by squirrels in this section"! Before moving forward from the first image, make a note of the row number to the left of an entry of interest, as this will help identify the correct row in the following images.

(ii) Another item of great interest just above the image is, naturally, the zoom setting (which is a box containing a % - perhaps about 15% when the image first loads). By clicking on the down arrow key just to the right of the box, and choosing a much greater % zoom setting, one can of course dramatically increase the magnification.

(iii) Finally, don't count on the Personal Schedule and the Agricultural Schedule relating to the same individual being indexed under the same spellings of first name or last name; I have already come across more than one instance of variant spellings in a limited amount of searching. At the very least, it may be useful to do Soundex searches (in the search screen, click on "Exact Matches Only", and then change the selection in the "Spelling" box to Soundex). Agricultural Schedules, where available, will only be indexed under the name of the head of the household, and the index entries for them will not contain any information about Estimated Birth Year or Birthplace (as this information was only recorded in the Personal Schedules)."

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In this Bulletin

A description of the British India films that we announced recently in Additions to our Permanent Collections
More questions in The Forum
A story of an incredible stroke of luck in News from the trenches
We draw your attention to another huge database that has become available in Were you aware...............

Announcements

Christmas Closing. Our last day will be Friday, 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday, 2 January, 2007. (For the benefit of new subscribers to the Bulletin this announcement will continue to appear each week).

Additions to our Permanent Collections

British India

James Thomson writes “The arrival at the Toronto Family History Centre this year of more than 70 films of indexes to copies of baptismal, marriage and burial registers from British India represents a significant addition to the substantial range of British India research resources available in Toronto. The indexes (and the registers in turn) are arranged by administrative areas called Presidencies, and so it is helpful, if possible, to have a sense of which Presidency (Bengal, Bombay or Madras) one would like to start with. If one believes a family to have been connected with a particular place, but doesn‘t know the Presidency in which that place was found, try the finding aid at http://www.bl.uk/collections/oiocfamilyhistory/familyindiamap.html.

The index films acquired generally bear film numbers between 0498574 and 0498600 (for Madras); or between 0498511 and 0498556 (for Bengal) ; or between 0498557 and 0498573 (for Bombay). For the contents of individual films, search on any film number in one of the above ranges using a Film/Fiche search in the Family History Library Catalog at www.familysearch.org.

To this point, only about 68 of the 90 films have been acquired; vital event indexes for date ranges not represented in the films obtained to date are, in whole or part, available online. I am developing a guide, to be lodged at the staff desk at the Centre, giving the web addresses of such (partial or complete) online indexes; this guide will be updated as and when any more index films are acquired. If a reference is found in a film or online index, a copy of the (baptismal, marriage or burial) entry itself will generally be available on film from Salt Lake City ; the guide also will assist with the ordering process.

The collection as it stands also includes the following:

(a) Films 0498602, 0498603 and 0527435, all of which are described on Cathy Day’s splendid site at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/non_pres.htm

(b) Film 2046671 (containing probate indexes, as described in the Family History Library Catalog)

Finally, the British India collection is complemented by two films of Catholic registers from Goa, in Portuguese India; these are films 1357994 and 1507974.”

Note. In November, James Thomson and Marian Press will be giving a new course on British India Family History Research, as described at http://www.torontofamilyhistory.org/courses.html. As at this date, there are still some places available.

The Forum

Answer to Previous Question

Q1/37/2006. Ukraine. Information on priests ordained in the Catholic Church in Ukraine. Sonia van Heerden writes:

"Re: Information on Priests in Galicia. The following is the Galician site. Your correspondent could go down to the Archives section for the month of September for more information.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Galicia_Poland-Ukraine/
or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Galicia_Poland-
Ukraine/message/11230
The queries are from September 16th to September 18th, under the subject heading "The Clergy Records"."

New Questions

Q1/42/2006. England. Some months ago you were asking people to come forward who could do translations. I am wondering if anyone came forward for Old English script of about 1560. I believe that the page in the Bishop’s Transcript was written in English because I can read some of the words but I cannot read them all and I have about given up!! The entire page seems to be about one of my ancestors which makes it very frustrating that I cannot read this. Is there someone you know of that might be able to help me? (Editors Note. We cannot expect anyone to come forward to translate an entire document but perhaps someone might be willing to tackle some essential parts).

Q2/42/2006. England. .- Is there any good way to go about searching for someone (and/or their parents and siblings,etc) who was born in county Devon in England around 1830? Background to the question: Based on the 1861 British census,my great grandmother (Ann Walford) was born in 1830 in Devonport. Her parents emigrated to Montreal, apparently shortly after her birth. She married John Thompson, who was serving in the Royal Artillery in Montreal or vicinity, around 1850. While he was still in the military, they returned to England around 1850 or 1851, since their first known child was born in Woolwich in 1851. He stayed in the military until after the 1861 census, but then they emigrated to Ontario in 1862. Her birth was before civil registration started, and the LDS records do not seem to contain any church birth records (her family was almost certainly C of E) for the area of Devonport, or Plymouth, larger and nearby. According to some family notes by my mother, now deceased, Ann Walford had 3 named brothers and one named sister, but no indication of birth order, and no indication of parents’ names.

Q3/42/2006. Italy/U.S.A.

1) How far back are birth/death/marriage records from Italy available on microfilm?

2) Does the Church have all these microfilms available?

3) How can I trace the new name of an immigrant to America who changed his name in the 1920's or '30's?

Films received in the 7 days ending 19 October 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 16 November 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Haliburton Marrs 1923	2266894
CAN PQ Roxton Falls PRs 1850-1879	1689493
DEU PRE Budwethen Bapt 1858-1870	1813520
DEU PRE Budwethen Bapt 1858-1870	1813519
DEU PRE Tilsit Bapt 1850-1874	1857700
DEU PRE Tilsit Prs 1642-1944	0072922
ENG HRT East Barnet PRs	1951786
ENG LAN Colton BTs 1826-1870	1040302
ENG LAN Parr Bapt 1845-1908	1849649
ENG NFK Sprowston St Marys Prs 1673-1915	1526137
ENG NFK Thorpe-Nxt-Norwich PRs 1642-1814	0887916
ENG NFK Thorpe-Nxt-Norwich PRs 1642-1906	1565275
ENG SRY Newington PRs 1707 - 1816	2232070
ENG SRY Rotherhithe PRs 1838 - 1854	0355650
ENG SRY Rotherhithe PRs 1839 - 1841	0254538
ENG WAR Birmingham Gen Cem M.I	0994072
ENG WAR Parish Registers	0229106
ENG WAR PRs Marrs 1853-1913	0097315
ENG WOR Upton-on-Severn PR 1546-	0942933
ENG YKS Lastingham BTs 1600-1876	0990903
NDL Rotterdam Mass 2 Jan - 31 Dec 1869	0297096
NDL Rotterdam Mass 3 Jan - 27 Dec 1844	0297070
NDL Strijen Bapt 1655-1825	0120813
PHL La Union Bangar bap 1848-62	1210621
PHL Pangasinan Santa Barbara bap	1128950
PHL Santa Lucia Bapt 1819-1840	1210385
PHL Santa Lucia Bapt 1840-1860	1210386
POL Gostynin RC PR 1580-1799	1496792
POL LU Chodel RC PR 1721-1809	0937489
POL LU Urzedow RC PR 1690-1825	0996790
POL Przasmysk PR	2044184
SCT ARG Killean OPR 1762-1855	1041070
UKR Tlymacz Greek Catholic pr	2395668
USA MO Tilsit PRs 1892-1973	1510195
USA OH Cuyahoga Co Marr 1854-1860	0877914
USA OH Cuyahoga Co Marr 1859-1866	0877915

News from the trenches

Frances Radford writes " At the Home page on Ancestry.com I entered one of my people - Francis HOLE. On reviewing the long list of databases that had this man I noticed one called Cambridge University Alumni 1261 - 1900. When I went to look at this I found all kinds of useful information about this man. Then I searched this database for the name HOLE and found 33 of them, most of them mine. For one of them - Humphrey Aram HOLE, I found that he was chaplain to the Prince Regent and was "an accomplished musician, excelling as a player of the cello, despite the fact that he had lost the forefinger of his left hand""
Ab Tapper tells us that he posted a note on the Rootsweb Surrey Forum seeking information on his grandmother
Charlotte Johnson, born in Battersea in 1872 who performed as Mademoiselle Sylvia in the "baths" in London with "the Professor."
She was able to stay under water for a lengthy period while performing tricks like eating, smoking, and swimming through the rungs of a chair. All the while, her long hair trailed behind.
As a teenager, she was reportedly taken to Europe by Barnum to be in the Freak Show and perform her specialty. Krao Farini, the apewoman, was one of her friends.
Ab received an email responding to his post from someone who had spotted in the 1891 Census for Glasgow, Scotland an entry for a Charlotte Cooper who was described as aged 19 and a "Water Tank Performer"

You've guessed it. Charlotte Cooper was her maiden name. Ab has found his grandmother. And the chance of getting an answer like that from the Rootsweb Surrey Forum is......?

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Great Britain. Royal Navy Seamen's Records. Another big leap forward has been made with the availability on-line of the Service Records of over 500,000 seamen who joined the Royal Navy between 1873 and 1923. The free of charge search at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ will give you the name and the date (the actual date, not just the age) and place of birth of the seaman. In addition to this for £3.50 you can view the service record of the sailor which will give his physical characteristics, the ships on which he served and the dates he was on them. 255 Goddards are listed - all with their dates and places of birth.

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Urgent - we need more questions for The Forum. Would really appreciate submissions in the course of the next few days.

In this Bulletin

A nice tribute to Allan Dutton - and a giveaway in Announcements
A sequel to the earlier certificate story and a most unusual marriage in News from the trenches
A way to find a military record and Save your money in Were you aware.................

Announcements

Christmas closing. Our last day will be Friday, 22 December and we will reopen on Tuesday 2 January 2007.
Allan Dutton. Mavis Powell has written the following tribute: "Alan always sat at the next film reader to me and often I could not figure out whether he was telling me something, asking me something or just talking to his ancestors! I really enjoyed knowing him and listening to his reactions to his ancestors' weaknesses and strengths, hearing his loud conversations with Linda and trying to do my own research while listening to his. A good man to have known."
Give away. We have a Northwest Microfilm fiche reader in full working order to give away. First come, first served.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Isle of Man. On microfiche published by the Isle of Man Family History Society and kindly donated by Joan Challis:

Kirk Michael Burial Registers 1610-1981 and Kirk Lonan Burial Register 1718-1996.

The Forum

We regret that we do not have, at the moment, any questions or answers ready for publication.

Films received in the 7 days ending 12 October 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 9 November 2006


Film Content	Film No
DEU BAD Rust PR 1652-1900	0891220
DEU PRE Prokuls PR marr 1764-1862	0072514
ENG BKM North Crawley BTs	1999419
ENG British Troops embarked for India	2030021
ENG GLS Bristol St James PR 1797-	1596534
ENG KEN Faversham Union Workhouse 1850+	1656024
ENG MDX Southgate PRs	2214228
ENG STS Court of quarter sessions	1469288
LTU Maryampol orthodox pe	1923021
PHL Mabalacat PR Bapt 1911-1916	1126929
PHL Mabalacat PR Marr 1903-1950	1126932
POL LU Belzyce RC PR 1605-1810	0937473
RUS Yurborg PR marr 1878-1940	2010347
RUS Yurbourg PR birth 1883-1904	2161830
USA AL marriages 1895-1923	1033481
USA GA Columbus city directory	1759663
USA IL Livingston co births 1876-1900	1392963
USA NY Albany Co Census 1855	0521922
USA NY Albany Episc PR 1756-1883	0533492
USA OH Cleveland Trinity Ch 1816-1953	1870657

News from the trenches

From the patron who had been waiting for the Ontario birth certificate - "Just thought I would let you know that I finally received my mother's Canadian birth certificate after ordering it 15 months ago from the Ontario Registrar General and 1 month after contacting my MPP".
And now a most extraordinary story. I suppose my Aunt Lil, who married a man a lot older than herself and subsequently regretted it, was not the only woman who has longed for the day when she could deposit her husband in the graveyard. But how about this one, discovered by Christina Scott:- In the marriage register of the De Zaaier R.C. Church in Amsterdam, an entry for 18 October 1699 "Albert Strijdt, qui Obiit and Anna Janz". Qui Obiit translates to "who is deceased". Not much of a wedding I would have thought. Apparently it was possible with special dispensation from the Roman Catholic church for a woman to marry a man posthumously if he was thought to be responsible for her pregnancy and had been killed in battle. Footnote: My Aunt Lil predeceased her husband.

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United Kingdom. Military records can be a rich source of genealogical data particularly if they pre-date civil registration. A soldier's service documents would usually contain particulars of his age, his birthplace and trade or occupation at the time of his enlistment and his record of service will often show names of his next-of-kin, details of his marriage and births of his children, his decorations and the reason for his discharge to pension. And remember, just because you don't know currently that you had an ancestor who was a soldier, doesn't mean that he or his brother wasn't one - it's worth checking and it doesn't cost a cent.

One is often told that you need to know the regiment in which a soldier served in order to pursue this line of research. This is not necessarily the case. The UK National Archives has on-line a free of charge searchable index of soldiers documents contained in their WO97 series. This relates to soldiers who were discharged to pension mainly between the years 1760 and 1854 although some entries go outside these dates.

Unfortunately the National Archives site is not the easiest to negotiate and, once having found a reference to a soldier of interest, in order to obtain the complete record one has to apply for a quotation and if acceptable the documents are airmailed to you. This is not exactly cheap - you can reckon on around $25 depending on the number of pages - although, to be fair, the copies are usually of excellent quality, fit for framing.

On the plus side the LDS have filmed all the documents in the WO97 series and thus one can obtain the soldier's documents for the cost of ordering in one film, so Why not save your money? Locating the correct LDS film tho' is not a piece of cake and so I have devised a regime that will take you, step by step, through the process of locating the soldier on the National Archives site through to locating and ordering the LDS film.

1. Call up the National Archives site on http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp?j=1 This URL will take you direct to the dialog box. In the "Word of Phrase" box enter the soldier's name (just the surname will do in most cases). In the "Department or Series Code" box enter WO97 (Note that is the letter O, not a zero). Having clicked on "Search" up will come a list of names that meet your criteria, showing his place of birth, the years in which he served and his age at discharge. Against each name will be a number starting off with WO97 and succeeded by two other groups of numbers. For example WO97/172/65. It is the middle set of numbers - this is the volume number (172 in the case above) that you are going to need to be able to locate the LDS Film Number.

2. If your Volume Number is between 1 and 1182 the film that you will require is part of a large series of films starting with Film No. 0868535. To find this film call up the Family History Library Catalog on www.familysearch.org which you will find in the Library section of the site. Click on "Film/Fiche Search" and enter the film number - 0868535 - and then click on "Film Notes". Up will come a list of films which cover Volume Nos 1 to 99. If your Volume No. is greater than 99, go to the foot of the page and in the box "Get Film Notes from" enter the number indicated in the Film Note No. column in the table below.

Volume No.            Film Note No (from)

1-99                        1

100-208                    101

209-308                    201

309-409                    301

410-509                    401

510-609                    501

610-708                    601

709-812                    701

813-912                    801

913-1001                  901

1002-1084                1001

1085-1154                1101

1155-1182                1201

If your Volume No. is greater than 1182, then proceed as before but instead of entering Film No. 0868535 enter the Film No. indicated below and your Volume No. should appear on the Film Notes page alongside the Film Number. (Remember, the film you require is not necessarily the film shown below - you must look on the Film Notes page to ascertain the correct film number).

Volume No.            Film Number

1183                        0916354

1184A                      0916355

1184B&C                 0916356

1185                              ?

1186-1194                0916360

1195-1198                0861902

1199                        0861912

1200-1202                0861913

1203-1205                0861866

1206-1208                0861869

1209-1267                0861872 (Film Notes 1-100)

1268-1279                0861872 (Film Notes 101-125)

I know this sounds all rather complicated but if you print this off, follow the instructions and order the appropriate film I believe you will feel it was well worth the effort.

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In this Bulletin

A sad notice under Announcements
A great new acquisition in Additions to our Permanent Collections
Another question and an answer in The Forum
Another certificate story in News from the trenches
More interesting stuff in Were you aware...........

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for Thanksgiving on Saturday 7 October and Monday 9 October.

We regret to report the sudden death at the age of 74 of a long-time patron of the Toronto Family History Centre, Alan Symes Dutton. The cathedral calm of the Centre was always shattered when Dutton, as we affectionately referred to him, arrived. Not that anyone minded as he laughed uproariously when he found an impropriety in his family or cursed roundly when he discovered that he had ordered a dud certificate. Dutton was what we call a high maintenance patron but we always suspected that when he called for help it was not that he particularly required it but that it gave him the opportunity to open a discussion on a quite unrelated subject. Alan had suffered from arthritis for many years and at one time used an extendable cane which clicked as it touched the ground. As a result his workmates nicknamed him Blind Pew after the blind beggar in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island whose approach could always be heard by the tapping of his stick. Typical of Alan, he incorporated Blind Pew into his email address.

So goodbye Blind Pew, we enjoyed knowing you. Rest, assured that we will talk fondly of you for many years to come.

The Waterdown-East Flamborough Heritage Society announce a seminar Care of Historic Photographs & Old Documents led by Therese Charbonneau, Conservator, City of Hamilton to commence at 11 a.m. on Saturday 18 November. Admission is free but space is limited so register by email Inicholson5@cogeco.ca

Additions to our permanent collections

The Netherlands. Christina Scott has kindly donated to the Toronto Family History Centre three DVDs (yes, DVDs) containing Church and Civil Records of over 100 Dutch parishes. She writes:- The "Van Papier Naar Digitaal" DVDs contain Dutch and some Belgian Parish records. These records have been processed with digital cameras by volunteers in the Netherlands, who have started the digital project. Some of the Parishes no longer exist, and perhaps never been filmed by the Latter Day Saints. Not all records are complete, and regular updates are to be made, which I will download and burn on a DVD. The records require a Adobe Acrobat reader. The DVDs cannot be sold, but can be copied, or those who are interested can download the files from the web site at: http://www.denbraber.nl/digiproject/statuspagina.html. The PDF files contain church and civil records up to 1811.
Russia. Fiche 6309584 and 6309664 - Parish registers for Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia).

The Forum Answer to a Previous Question Q2/38/2006. Baltic Countries/Poland. BMD records of "The Baltic Germans" who were "repatriated" to Poland in 1939.Eve Zuber writes:"The records could be in either or all of the three places in Poland: 1) the local archives 2) the local parish or 3) the local Civil Registrar Office (Urzad Stanu Cywilnego). The general rules where to look are as follows: if the event (BMD) occurred less than 100 years ago, the records are in the parish church or at the Local Civil Registrar Office in town where the ancestors lived. If the event is more than 100 years old, it is held in the Provincial/City Archives closest to the place of your ancestors’ town. The Polish State Archive has a wonderful website with the on-line search of all the holdings in all state/provincial and city archives in Poland. Go here:- http://baza.archiwa.gov.pl/sezam/pradziad.eng.php enter the village/town name and see what comes up. You can also contact them (in English) asking for help to locate the records. If the records are in the parish or the local Civil Registrar, it is a bit more complicated. You have to know exactly which parish/town is involved and contact the office directly. Once you know the parish/town name you can Google it and find out if they have a website – most do. Then write or email them. Or you might be in total luck, and find all you need in the FHC catalog!"

New Question Q1/40/2006. Scotland. George McHattie (McHatty, McHackie) was born in Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland, Middle Church parish, about 1807 according to his Army Attestation Papers, marriage and census records. His death record in
Paisley in 1879 lists his father as William McHatti, Stationer's salesman. No mother is listed.There is a marriage for William McHattie to Agnes Hill listed on the IGI and a son, William listed. I can find no birth record for George. The 1841 census of Paisley lists a William McHattie,age 88, living with Jane McHattie, age 75 and Agnes McHattie, age 50. I suspect that William married Agnes Hill, had at least two children, William and Agnes, then married Jane who gave birth to George. Is there any way I can find a birth record for George or a marriage record for William and Jane?

Films received in the 7 days ending 5 October 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 2 November 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Huron marr 1923	2266924
CAN ON Wellington marr 1923	2266940
CAN ONT Marriages Simcoe 1923	2266932
CAN ONT Marriages Stormont 1923	2266933
DEU Hessen, Darmstadt PRs 1575-1875	1190503
ENG CHS Banbury marr 1813-1837	2093575
ENG ESS Little Clacton PR 1538-1963	1565719
ENG NTT Ollerton BTs 1627-1854	0504527
ENG STS Bilston RC PR 1834-1938	1966924
ENG WOR Upton-on-Severn PR 1837-	0942935
ENG YKS Reg of Topcliffe & Morley	0897361
FRA Bas-Rhin,Bolsenheim PRs 1685-1792	0721658
FRA Pruille PR 1612-1792	1766824
IND Bengal Presidency BMD 1878-91	0512366
ITL Fondo BMDs 1857 - 1923	1388683
PHL La Union Bangar bap 1862-86	1210622
PRT Azores Porto Judeu BM 1643-1839	1518058
UKR L'viv CRs 1607-1945 V.6340-6347	2377677
UKR L'viv CRs 1607-1945 V.6347-6353	2377678

News from the trenches

You will remember a couple of weeks ago I reported that I had received a certificate from England 7 days after ordering while somebody else wanted to know when he might expect an Ontario certificate that he had ordered in January. Another reader reports that she ordered a marriage certificate on the GRO Ireland and although she had to send a downloaded order form together with her credit card details by mail which she did on 30 August, she received the certificate in the mail on 11 September. On the other hand we hear that a reader has now been waiting a year for an Ontario certificate, although he promptly submitted all the additional information they required (such as proof of death and affiliation). He has now appealed to his MP for assistance to obtain the certificate. The MP promised immediate action and would call back. Three weeks later he is still waiting.
Not exactly a genealogy matter but probably of interest to a lot of Canadians and aeroplane enthusiasts. One of our readers has been actively involved in the construction of the Avro Arrow replica having worked on the actual plane some 50 years ago. The roll-out of the replica took place at the Toronto Aerospace Museum on 28 September. Go to www.thestar.com to see a video of the roll-out.

Were you aware.................

I draw your particular attention to news of the future development of the LDS website on http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650194998,00.html
The 1901 Census of Canada (fully indexed) and the 1911 Census (partially indexed) can be viewed free of charge on www.automatedgenealogy.com

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Due to your editor's vacation this Bulletin is an abbreviated edition. Normal Bulletins will resume next week.

Films received in the 7 days ending 28 September 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 26 October 2006


Film Content	Film No
ARG La Paz bap 1893-1900	1368610
ARG La Paz bap 1900-1909	1368611
CAN BC Deaths 1921	1927296
CAN BC Deaths 1976	2050530
CAN PQ St Ignace Mariages 1833-1972	0272348
DEU PRE Tilsit bap 1850-1866	0072923
DEU PRE Tilsit mar bap 1833-1874	1810954
DEU Tilsit PRs 1848 - 1857	1197964
DEU Tilsit PRs 1858 - 1874	1197965
ENG DEV Exeter Wills H 1812-1857	1278959
ENG KEN Eashing PR	1836242
ENG KEN Faversham workhouse	1656028
ENG KEN Ruckinge BTs 1603-1812	1737003
ENG SSX Newick PRs Transcript 1558-1837	1364163
IND BEN burials 1923	0527568
IND Bengal Presidency BMD 1861	0499003
IND Bengal Presidency BMD 1861	0499002
IND Bengal Presidency BMD 1940	0533204
IRE GAL Loorha School Reg 1886-1925	2356396
IRE WIC Wicklow 1911 census	2104654
NLD Ams'dam de Brouwersgracht RC	0113463
NLD Ams'dam de Zaaier RC Recs 1685-	0113459
NLD Leiden Baptism Index 1620-1700	0536543
NLD Leiden Baptism Index 1700-1811	0536850
NLD Rotterdam B 1823-1835	0120817
NLD Rotterdam B Apr-Dec 1844	0296976
NLD Rotterdam B Jan-Aug 1847	0296980
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1826-1828	0719131
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1852-1857	0719136
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1858-1860	0719137
POL Przasmysk PR	1809629
PRT Azores S.Cruz Bapt 1760-1866	1547251
PRT Azores S.Cruz BMD 1672-1873	1547342
UKR L'viv CRs 1607-1945 V.857-868	2010591
UKR L'viv CRs 1607-1945 V.868-877	2011698

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Another week has gone by and not a single film ordered by patrons has been received. We are not sure whether the problem is in Salt Lake or whether it is a distribution problem. Films are shipped from Salt Lake to Windsor, Ontario and sent out from there by Canada Post.

In this Bulletin

Interesting story of 2 certificates in News from the trenches
We report that historic British Telecom directories are now on-line in Were you aware.........
A site for looking up an Irish Townland in Were you aware............
More questions - but a dearth of answers - in The Forum

Announcements

Due to your editor being in California on new grandchild inspection duty, next week's Bulletin will be an abbreviated version
Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society tell us that at their meeting on Monday, 25 September in the 2nd Floor auditorium at the North York Central Library, Elizabeth Kaegi will be speaking on "Are you my father? Using DNA to establish paternity" and Sue de Groot will be making a short presentation entitled "My Ancestors are Dutch!"

The Forum

Although answers to several questions are, we know, being researched, we have no answers to publish this week on previously posed questions.

New Questions

Q1/38/2006 England. The 1861 Census shows, living in Newcastle, Theodore Haag (36) his wife Mary (22) and two sons. The 1871 Census shows Theodore as married and with 3 more children but Mary and the second eldest, Louis, are missing. Birth certificates have established that the mother of these children is Mary Margaret, maiden surname Reynolds. In 1872 Theodore marries a Sarah Underwood describing himself as "the divorced husband of Mary Margaret Reynolds, spinster" and in 1874 he dies. I can't find Mary Margaret or the son Louis in any census after 1861 or in any other record for that matter. Any suggestions?

Q2/38/2006 Baltic Countries/Poland. The Baltic Germans who were "repatriated" in 1939 and ended up in Poland (Lodz, Poznan), where would records of their births and deaths be located now?

Q3/38/2006 Panama. There are many resources for people whose relatives were involved in work on the Panama Canal, especially those who were U.S. citizens. But how does one search for relatives who had nothing to do with the Canal?

Films received in the 7 days ending 21 September, 2006

No films have been received in this period.

News from the trenches

I ordered a marriage certificate on-line with the GRO at Southport, England on 13 September and received it by airmail on 20 September.
A patron enquired when we thought he might receive an Ontario birth certificate which he had ordered in January.

Were you aware...........

Ancestry.com have now made available on-line British telephone directories from 1880-1984. It is by no means easy to navigate this part of the site and some of the area indexing e.g. London Surnames A-K Aug, London Surnames A-K Feb, London Surnames A-K Nov, is nothing short of bizarre, but with a little patience - not my strong suit - I was able to confirm that the various numbers that I knew existed were actually listed. Ancestry.com is not available on your home computer (unless you are a subscriber) but is available, free of charge, at the Toronto Family History Centre.
www.seanruad.com provides a searchable database whereby you can enter the name of an Irish Townland (which can be as small as 2 acres) and find the associated parish and Poor Law Union.

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This week is a fast (as opposed to feast) week. Not one single film has been received, the first time I can remember this happening.

We are running low on questions for The Forum. Please, send us some questions this coming week.

In this Bulletin

More interesting questions and answers in The Forum and I tell you about my reprobate friend Daley.
Fascinating snippets in News from the trenches

New Additions to our Permanent Collections.

Fiche No. 6039326. Genealogical Research Problems in the Netherlands & Germany; Emigration from Switzerland to the U.S.; Tracing genealogies of Pennslyvanian Germans.
Fiche No. 6110839. U.S.A. Illinois Zion Lutheran Church Burial Records 1837-1988.
Fiche No. 6127173. England, Northants, Crick, Marriages 1813-1837
Fiche No. 6127167. England, Northants, Crick, Baptisms & Burials 1711-1793, Marriages 1711-1753.
Film No. 1696581. Ireland, Ulster. 1900 Directory. This is a name and street directory for the present 6 Counties of Northern Ireland plus Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. Covers Belfast and the other major towns. This film could in some cases be used as a substitute for the 1901 Census or could in combination with the Belfast Street Index we have for the 1901 Census help in identifying a census film

The Forum

Answers to Previous Questions

Q4/35/2006. England. The strange case of Rotherfield, Sussex where the IGI entries show only females and the Family History Library Catalog does not show any Church Records Indexes. James Thomson writes: “Although this provides no immediate insight into how these problems arose (they seem to have been of long standing, pre-dating the Web versions of the FHL Catalog and IGI), I note that the British Isles Vital Records Index (2^nd edition) (“VRI“), on CDs at the Toronto FHC and elsewhere, goes some distance to remedying things. Here is a selection of indexes, all including males as well as females, available for Rotherfield:

Baptisms pre-1813 (partial coverage only) (from film 1067279): VRI
Baptisms 1813-1881 (indexing film 1067280): VRI
Baptisms 1881-1886 (indexing Bishop’s Transcripts - film 1468915): VRI
Baptist Church births/baptisms 1748-1836 (indexing film 0825421): IGI (batch C092991)
Marriages 1539-1837: Sussex Marriage Index (www.sfhg.org.uk/marriageindex.html)
Marriages 1754-1837 (indexing film 1067280): VRI
Marriages 1837-1881 (indexing film 1067281): IGI (batch M148353)
Burials 1539-1738: www.familyhistoryonline.net/database/SFHGBurials.shtml

The FHL Catalog entry for Rotherfield - Church Records also refers to the Challen transcripts (respecting events in the 1600s). Challen’s series of transcripts, which has a particular emphasis on Sussex parishes, is already in Toronto, held at the Toronto Reference Library on microfilm.”

Q1/36/2006. Ireland. How do I get a copy of an Irish will, probated in 1828, for Peter McMinis or McMinnis of Edinordnay?The chances of you getting a copy of this will are extremely remote since virtually all pre-1900 wills were destroyed in the Dublin fire of 1922. However, some 10,000 wills, mainly 19th Century wills were deposited with the Irish Land Commission in order to establish ownership of land following the implementation of the Land Purchase Act which subsidized the purchase of smallholdings by the occupier and if you are extremely lucky Peter's will might be among them. Details of this are on http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/records/wills/land.htm . Another avenue you could try is the Irish Estate Duty Wills. The calendar covering the years 1812-1857 is on Film No. 0942224 (which perhaps we should consider acquiring to become part of our permanent collection) and if you are lucky then you could see the will on Film No. 0942229. It occurs to me though that since Peter McMinnis left a will he probably owned property. This being the case the "of Edinordnay" becomes extremely important. You have probably searched and failed to find a place of this name. I believe this to be a corruption of the townland called Edenordinary which is in the Diocese of Dromore in County Down which is a townland of 452 acres. The Tithe Applotment Records Index (which we have on CD in the Toronto Family History Centre) show that in 1834 an occupier in Edenordinary was a John McMinis. (Additional suggestions may follow in a future Bulletin.)

Q2/36/2006. England. Why can't I find the Civil Registration marriage of Henry Scatcherd to Louisa Pritchard who are on the 1861 Census for Eckington, Derbyshire together with their young children?We too have searched long and hard, using all sorts of spelling variations and going back to the original, hand written indexes, and have failed to find this marriage. Yet it seems unlikely that Louise who would have been about 21 at the time of the birth of her first child (if we are to believe her age on the 1861 Census) and Henry who would have been about 25 would have had any encumbrance that would have prevented them marrying. But there is no doubt that numerous marriages that were solemnized failed to reach the Civil Registration Indexes. The alternative, I am afraid, is to start searching for the marriage in the Parish Registers. Louisa, I note from various censuses was born in Leeds and she appears to be living with her parents there, in the "new" Parish of St. Andrew in the 1851 Census. However, I can find no parish church of St. Andrew for this time period. I suggest you start by eliminating any Leeds parishes that appear on the IGI or in the British Vital Records Index covering the 1850's and then bring in the films for any parishes not covered.Louisa, it seems, suffered from age erosion. In the 1861 Census she is 26, in 1871 she is 33 and in 1881 she is 40. Maybe she was trying to conform with Daley's Law. Daley (he was always called that, I never knew him by any other name) was an old friend of mine who maintained that the age of a man's girlfriend should be no more half his own age plus 7 years. Thus if he was 30 then his girlfriend ("wife" was not a word that was within Daley's vocabulary) should not be more than 22 (15 + 7). Daley was always immaculately dressed and possessed an Irish charm (tho' he came from Newcastle) and, if the rumours are to be believed, other assets that seemed to attract women to him. For a good number of years by regularly changing partners, he stuck rigidly to his Law. In later years he appeared to have abandoned it completely or even put it into reverse as the sine qua non was their wealth and the absolute requirement that they were already married. Daley was averse to gainful employment and needed considerable support to maintain his expensive life style. He disappeared in the 70's - maybe an irate husband caught up with him.

New Questions Q1/37/2006 Ukraine.The Ukrainian Catholic Church recorded basic parish data (eg baptisms) for the parishioners - but what information was recorded for the priests? I have an ancestor who was ordained as a priest and should like to find information on his career. What information would have been recorded or preserved? If some exists, which place should I contact to find it?

Q2/37/2006 England. How can I prove that the Aaron Emblen born in 1739 in Highworth, Wiltshire is the same Aaron Emblen who married Hannah White in Reading, Berkshire in 1767? What resources would be available? Did everyone have to register when they moved into a new parish?

Q3/37/2006 India. Alexander Bowie moved to India to a bank job about 1900 (he was in the 1891 Census in Glenlivit, Scotland). In December 1904 he married Minnie Raggett in St. Andrew's Church Calcutta. Minnie apparently moved to India after 1903 and taught at the University of Madras. How can I find out how they got to India?

Films received in the 7 days ending 14 September, 2006. No films have been received in this period. News from the trenches

Linda Reid writes to tell us that the cause of death shown on the death certificate of a James Luty who died in Scarcroft, Yorkshire, England was "Pneumonia caught by sleeping in Hedge bottoms ending in Tuberculosis, Hereditary, Certified".
A Goddard Association member asked for my help in finding the birth registration of his mother and her sister. The sister, it turns out, was born in 1920 but her birth was not registered until 1936. The mother was born in 1922 but not registered until 1982! 60 years without a birth certificate.

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We feast and fast. Last week we reported the arrival of just 1 film. This week we have received 35, the details of which take up quite a chunk of this Bulletin.

In this Bulletin

More interesting questions and answers in The Forum
We direct you to websites where you might determine what horrible disease your ancestor died from and where you might be able to put a date on that fading photograph - Were you aware..............

The Forum

The response to my appeal for readers to step up to answer some of The Forum questions was not exactly overwhelming. OK, I get the message, I am going to have to direct certain questions to people who I think would be willing and able to answer them.

Answers to Previous Questions

Q5/32/2006. Harry Nash was in the 1901 Census and when his wife died in 1908 she was described as a wife, not a widow. When his son enlisted in 1916 he said his father was deceased but there is no trace of his death in Civil Registration. Sorry, we can't provide a definitive answer to this question but there are several possibilities. His son might for reasons unknown not have wanted to name him as next-of-kin and hence Harry's death could have occurred any time after 1916. Another possibility is that, like one of my own ancestors, he was born as Harry, married as Harry but died as Henry presumably because his widow (in my case) thought this was more dignified.

Q2/34/2006. Records of a death in Kharkov, Ukraine post-1978 and other records for that area. Sonia Van Heerden writes:

"The Mormons have not yet microfilmed any documents in Kharkov Oblast (Province), Ukraine. You could try writing to the RATS Office (similar to our Registry Office) in Kharkivska Oblast, or try to obtain information via the Ukrainian Consulate in Canadausing an Anketa (a document which you could obtain from theUkrainian Consulate). It may very well be that they will not give you information from 1978. You may have to prove your relationship to your Great Aunt to obtain the information.From that far east in Ukraine, you would have to write to them in Ukrainian".

Another correspondent, while agreeing with the above, has suggested that steering some money in the right direction, if you get my drift, is usually a quicker and surer way of producing results.

Q2/35/2006. Problem of finding descendants of people in the 1901 Census where all the names are very common, in this case John, Elizabeth Jane and William Andrew Robson. Of these names, the least common is William Andrew but, unfortunately for most of the applicable period this would have appeared as William A. Robson, of which there are many. William Andrew's birth was registered in the June Qtr. of 1890 but taking the period 1889 to 1891 the births of no less than 7 William A. Robsons were registered (although the "A" initial is shown in full for this period). Finding William Andrew's death is likely to prove the most fruitful since we know when he was born - finding a marriage is a hopeless task without knowing his wife's name. For the period post 1969 the second name of the decedent is shown, as it was up to 1911 and taking these period into account we are able to eliminate two of the seven. So I am afraid you are still left with 5 possibilities and although the cost of certificates to establish who was the William Andrew is not going to amount to hundreds of pounds it could, if you are unlucky, come to £35.

Q4/35/2006. The strange case of the Rotherfield, Sussex IGI baptism entries which are all females. If not a complete answer we have a work-around solution, full details of which will appear next week.

New Questions

Q1/36/2006. On Ancestry.com, in the Index to Irish Wills, I find a will dated 1828 for Peter McMinis or McMinnis of Edinordnay. How do I get a copy of the will?

Q2/36/2006. On the 1861 Census for North Street, Eckington, Derbyshire is a Henry Scatcherd, wife Louisa, son John F. (5), George (3) and Edward (7 mos). The birth certificate of a later son, Samuel, born in 1871 shows his parents as Henry Scott Scatcherd and Louisa Pritchard. Why can't I find the marriage of these two?

(We still have some questions in hand but please, keep sending them in).

Films received in the 7 days ending 7 September, 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 5 October, 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN BC Deaths 1948	2032482
CAN BC Deaths 1962	2033500
CAN ON Carleton Co. Deaths 1933	2358596
CAN ON St Raphael's PRs	0272351
CAN ON St Raphael's PRs 1816-1831	0928967
CAN ON Toronto Marriages 1923	2266880
DEU PRE Prokuls Bapt 1732-1772	0072508
ENG CHS Chester StJohnPR 1735-1829	2045921
ENG CUL Greystoke PR 1559-1789	1471994
ENG KEN Eastling PR 1813-	2354430
ENG KEN Faversham BT 1603-	1736720
ENG KEN Hothfield PR 1570-	1473758
ENG KEN Waltham PR 1538-	2354778
ENG NBL Belford PR 1661-1735	1469093
ENG WIL Longbridge Deverill pr	1279371
ENG WOR Tredington PR 1837-1877	0991480
HUN Szabolcs Kisvarda CivReg 1895-6	2255506
IND BEN baptisms 1894	0512348
IRL Belfast 1900 directory	1696581
IRL KIK Freshford PR 1773-1881	0926192
ITL Palermo Termini Imerese M 1836	1982212
ITL Palermo Termini Imerese M1907-8	2094699
NLD Rotterdam M 1900-1902	1800084
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1822-1830	0719126
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1826-1828	0719125
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1828-1836	0719132
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1837-1843	0719133
POL Opoczno Jewish BMD 1844-1847	0719134
PRT Funchal Canico bap 1895-1910	1156478
PRT Funchal Canico bap/marr 1539-	1103360
PRT Funchal Canico marr 1539-1805	1103367
SCT INV Glenelg PR's	0990665
SCT ROX Jedburgh PRs	1067945
UKR L'viv Gk Cath Recs 1894-1906	2379769
UKR Trembowla GkCath PR 1863-1945	2152030

Were you aware.................... To find out what exactly that horrible disease was that your ancestor died from go to www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm To date that old photograph go to www.rogerco.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm

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Our thanks once again to all those readers of this Bulletin who have sent in more questions for The Forum. Keep them coming - your question will appear. In this Bulletin

Some fine tuning in the way The Forum is conducted - and more interesting questions and answers in The Forum LDS books becoming available on-line (Were you aware..........) All issues of these Bulletins available on-line (Were you aware............)
The Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group's planned tour of Ukraine (Were you aware........)

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will not be open this coming Saturday or Monday, 2 and 4 September, the Labour Day weekend. The Tuesday evening session is reinstated, starting Tuesday 5 September 2006. The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society reminds us of their one-day conference on an English theme taking place at the Toronto Botanical Garden (Leslie and Lawrence East) on Sunday, October 29. Registered before September 15 it will cost you $35 - afterwards $45. Flyers at the Toronto Family History Centre and on-line at www.torontofamilyhistory.org
One of our readers has a new image drum and toner cartridge for an Okidata Laser Printer to give away They fit all OL400/800 printers. Free. First email in to Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca gets them.

The Forum This old curmudgeon now has another beef. Questions are coming in nicely but anwers are not. It occurs to me that this may be because some questions require quite a bit of research to provide the answer and a reader who has the expertise might well think that their efforts are not worthwhile if somebody else is doing it. Could I ask then that if you feel you could probably provide the answer, you email me right away so that I can advise anybody else that it is already in hand. If this doesn't work I propose asking particular readers to tackle problems where I feel that they have the knowledge to provide the answer.

New Questions Q1/35/2006. John Attwood Keays, born in England c1840, emigrated to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada c1860. Parents Charles Keys and Sarah. He named his first child John Attwood Keays. We have been searching for a while to find his birthplace in
England. He brought with him an old English religious book (author John Downame) signed "John Attwood May 25th 1860" followed by illegible words which may be an address. We are hoping someone will be able to give us some clues to the place or leads towards his birthplace.. The inscription in the book can be seen at www.theedge.ca/dhamre/

Q2/35/2006. In the 1901 Census for Westgate, Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a John Robson (36), his wife Elizabeth Jane (37) son William Andrew (10), daughter Elizabeth Jane (5) appear. John was born in Alnwick, Northumberland the others in Newcastle. I want to find out what happened to them. I've combed the marriage and death indexes but the names are very common and I would have to spend hundreds of dollars on certificates to check each one out. Any suggestions?

Q3/35/2006. Anthony Haid emigrated from Sigmaringen, Germany probably in 1846 or 1847. He married in September 1847 in St. Clement's Ontario a lady who had emigrated through the port of Philadelphia with her family in 1838. I want to find Anthony's emigration route. I have tried numerous ship's lists without success.

Q4/35/2006. There is something very strange about the IGI baptism entries for Rotherfield, Sussex. There are hundreds of entries that are all said to be extracted, not submitted, entries but while it says that the source of the data is "Film" it does not give the film number. Furthermore there are no entries under Church Records Indexes in the Family History Library Catalog. But the strangest thing of all is that all the entries are for females - there are no males at all. Why is this?(I will refrain from speculating).

Answers to Previous Questions Q1/34/2006. Military Record of James Stott (b.1813 Stoke Damerel, Devon). The National Archives hold the military record of a James Stott who was born in Stoke Damerel and who served in the Rifle Brigade in the period 1832-1853 and who was discharged at the age of 39. To find this (or any other person) go to the National Archives site http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and then to the "Search the Catalogue". Having entered James Stott I got 16 hits one of which was the above under WO97/1088/42. You will be able to ask for a quotation for the documents on-line and subsequently to order them.

Q3/34/2006. James Criddle age 75 in the 1841 Census for Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, missing from the 1851 Census but can't find death in Civil Registration or in Parish Record. Being 75 and an agricultural labourer it is possible that his family could no longer look after him and he had to be put in the Union Workhouse which was situated at Taunton and would explain his absence from the Lydeard St Lawrence burial records. As for his death not appearing in the Civil Registration Death Indexes this is unlikely. However if you have been searching the typewritten lists for this period that appear on several web-sites including Ancestry.com and which also form the basis of FreeBMD, these are totally unreliable. Printed Civil Registration Indexes did not appear until 1866 - prior to that they were all hand-written but typewritten versions were subsequently made. The trouble is that in preparing the typewritten version any entry that was the slightest bit unclear in the hand-written copy, even just the page number, then the whole entry was ignored. The result is that numerous entries, sometimes entire pages, are missing from the typewritten versions. But if in fact you have gone through the original hand-written versions (which are on film in the Toronto Family History Centre) and still have not managed to find him then there is the possibility that the entry has been mis-transcribed from the original document into the hand-written index. Margaret Taylor has written to point out that in FreeBMD there is the death of a James Creddle in the March Qtr. of 1847 registered in Taunton, Vol. 10, Page 391. Taunton would be the registration district for Lydeard St Lawrence. A search of the National Burial Index failed to reveal this James Criddle but it would always be worthwhile trying in a case like this.

Q2/34/2006. (Death record post 1978 and other records in Ukraine). A reader is working on this problem and will probably have the answer in next week's Bulletin. Film received in the 7 days ending 31 August, 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 28 September 2006


Film Content	Film No
UKR Archival Reg Gp 487, Ser.1	2160023

The LDS Family History Library has announced that it has begun the digitising its entire collection of books and intends (subject to copyright I imagine) to make them all available on-line. Apparently 5000 books are currently available through the Brigham Young University website www.lib.byu.edu/ Back issues of the Toronto Family History Centre Bulletins are available from the Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group website http://www.torugg.org/toronto_family_history_centre_bulletin.html#top
The Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group is planning a Discover your Roots tour of Ukraine June 7 - June 24, 2007. Details on www.torugg.org

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Our special thanks to all those people - and there were a lot of you - who responded so magnificently to our appeal for questions for The Forum. Our cup runneth over! So this week we are posing just three of those questions of a diverse nature and keeping the other questions for future editions of the Bulletin. Don't worry your question will appear.

And a huge thank you to Dr. Raymond Chiu of Whitby who has donated an HP111 printer to the Family History Centre plus two unused cartridges. This printer has been attached to computer # 2 which will speed up the delivery of prints from this computer where hitherto maidens have turned into matrons awaiting the output.

In this Bulletin

Apart from all the interesting stuff in The Forum and in the News from the trenches we talk about the wealth of material available in the British Biographical Indexes available at the Toronto Family History Centre in Were you aware..........

Special Announcement

We regret that due to staff holidays we will be unable to open on time for this coming Monday morning session, August 28. We will definitely be open by 11.30 a.m. Patrons who had made reservations have been notified.

The Forum

New Quesions

Just a small sample of the questions we now have in hand:-

Q1/34/2006. James Stott (b.1813 Stoke Damerel, Devon) served in the garrisons of Montreal, Toronto and Kingston between 1847 and 1852. He returned to England and was a Regimental Sergeant Major of the Militia in Aberystwyth, Wales. How can I obtain further details of his military service?

Q2/34/2006. My grandmother immigrated to Canada in the early 1900's. She had a sister still living in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1978. How can I find details of her death and would there be records available that would identify her parents, her place of birth etc?

Q3/34/2006. My ancestor, James Criddle b. 1766 in West Bagborough, Somerset appears on the 1841 census living in Lydeard St. Lawrence, Somerset. I am sure it is him since two of his children are living next door. He does not appear on the 1851 Census. I can't find his death in the Civil Registration Index. Are there alternatives?

Answers to Previous Questions.

Q1/33/2006. Records of Coroner's Inquests. The definitive guide to the existence and whereabouts of these records is covered by one of the Gibson Guides - Coroner's Records in England and Wales - by Jeremy Gibson and Colin Rogers, available from many genealogical bookshop sources. However, those records that finish up in the National Archives are closed for 75 years. A better way to obtain a report of an inquest is to find a newspaper report in a local newspaper. You will need to know the date of death and the date of the inquest both of which are normally recorded on the death certificate. The British Newspaper Library holds a huge collection of newpapers coming right up to recent times and they will search for any newspaper reports given the above dates. They charge £6 per sheet for the search and copying which includes airmailing in a cardboard tube. Their website is www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html

Still awaiting responses for previously posed questions. We still hope to post an answer to the US officers in India question.

Films received in the 7 days ending 24 August 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 21 September 2006


Film Content	Film No
ENG DEV Kentisbury Marr 1675-1841	0916851
ENG DEV Marwood PR 1602-1812	0916857
ENG DEV Marytavy PR 1560-1837	0916858
ENG DEV Will Transcipts 1600-1800'H	0916874
ENG NFK Norwich St James PR 1556-	0887905
ENG YKS Bramham PR 1745-1845	1068316
ENG YKS Bramham PR 1845-1886	1068317
ENG YKS Slaithwate pr 1864-1883	1542233
POL Przasnysz PR 1879-1889	1809612
UKR Muzylowic Greek Catholic	2382890
UKR Muzylowic Greek Catholic	2332070
UKR Neidelska Greek Catholic	2332159
UKR Neidelska Greek Catholic	2332158
UKR NiedelskaGreek Catholic records	2043499

The Manchester Guardian, Wednesday, April 9, 1851 INCOMPLETENESS OF THE CENSUS RETURNSTo the Editor of the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. Sir, - On the last Saturday in March a census form was left at our house; I filled it up and laid it upon the chimneypiece, to be ready when called for; but, up to the present time it has not been collected. On the following Monday, I was conversing with a Presbyterian minister, who up to that time had not apparently seen a form for his chapel. On Friday last I was at Heywood, when during a conversation upon the census, the difficulty of collecting returns from the factory people, whose houses are often closed during the whole day, was alluded to, and I was told that boys were in some cases employed in collecting the returns, and it was thought likely that where parties were not at once found, no second call would be made. By these remarks, I wish to call the attention of the returning officers in the importance of a comparison of the number of forms issued and returned, and to elicit from the public the fact whether or not mine is a common case.Yours truly, JOHN WATTS 16, Rydal Mount, Waterloo Road. Intrigued, we examined the census returns for Rydal Mount, finding the address indexed on film HO107/2232 folios 311, 312 & 334. Sure enough, John Watts was not listed as a householder at No. 16 on folio 312. However, on folio 334, which appears to be the very last page of the enumerators book, John Watts and his family are recorded living at 16 Rydal Mount, Waterloo Road. Was this a result of John's letter to the paper? Most likely, otherwise he would have been recorded in the enumerator’s book in the correct place.

Moral - When searching for your ancestors on a census film and they are not at the address you expect them to be at, always check the folios that appear at the back of the book. It was fortunate that Manchester has been street indexed for 1851. Many smaller places have not been indexed.

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Many people have told us how much they appreciate The Forum part of the weekly Bulletin. The problem is that we do not have a sufficient number of questions coming in. The question below is the only one that has appeared this week and we have none in reserve. So please come up with some more questions - even if it's a question somebody is asking on a family history notice board elsewhere.

In this Bulletin

We talk about Scottish Church Records in Were you aware..............

The Forum

New Question

Q1/33/2006. Where do I find records of Coroner's Inquests for England & Wales?

Answers to Previous Questions

Q3/32/2006. Accessing census records for Galicia (Austrian Empire). Sonia Van Heerden writes:

I have yet to hear of anyone finding census records for Galicia with genealogical information. Your best bet are the Parish
Registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths on microfilm at the FHL. There are 900 reels of the Greek Catholic parishes available from the Lviv Historical Archives, and some other Oblasts of Ukraine are being filmed and parish names indexed now.

Q2/32/2006. US Army officers serving in India in 1942. Someone is working on this problem and hopes to have an answer for us next week.

Is anyone working on the questions concerning the Swiss hometown and the disappearing Harry Nash of Bethnal Green?

Films received in the 7 days ending 17 August 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 14 September 2006


Film Content	Film No
ARG La Paz Baptisms 1888-1921	1368616
ARG La Paz Marriages 1896-1922	1368618
CAN ON Lincoln Co Marriages 1923	2266926
ENG BKM Ludgershall PR 1573-1883	1042390
ENG Chester wills A-F 1836	0089863
ENG DBY Dronfield PR 1754-1850	1041035
ENG KEN Faversham PR Marr 1789-	1886148
ENG KEN Rodmersham PR 1538-1892	1473707
ENG KEN Rodmersham PR 1754-1950	1473708
ENG LAN Eccleston PR 1839-1887	1849656
ENG LIN Lincoln St Peter PR 1662-	1542062
ENG LND Record Copy Will 1917	1911462
ENG OXF Rec Copy Will W 1912	1849197
ENG STS St Lawrence Dalston…	0426531
ENG STS St Lawrence Dalston…	0426532
IND Bengal BMB Apr/Jun 1866	0499022
IND Bengal BMB Jan/Mar 1920	0463386
IND Bengal BMB Jan/Mar 1921	0527925
IND Bengal BMB Jul/Sept 1886	0510879
IND Bengal BMD 1904	0527526
NLD Rotterdam Births Jan-May 1969	0297032
NLD Rotterdam Births May-Sep 1869	0297030
NLD Strijen Births 1836 - 1842	0120818
NLD Strijen Marrs. 1824 - 1842	0120820
POL Przasynsz RC PR 1866-1870	1808714
SCT ANG Farnell PR 1699-1854	0993428
UKR Archival Reg Gp 485, Ser.1	2125358
UKR Jezierzany PR 1784-1893	2328795
UKR Kociubinczyki GkCath PR	2152033
USA NC Death Certificates 1969	1983396
USA TX El Paso Marriages 1866-1894	0025055

News from the trenches.

Bob Ireland who asked the question concerning Passenger Lists of ships arriving in Canada in 1921 which was answered in last week's Bulletin writes:

"Just wanted to let you know that I found my father's Form 30A and got the information I was looking for. Thanks again for your work on the bulletin and to the person who replied to the question".And Anne Crawford who followed up the note we made in last week's Bulletin concerning Cemetery Records writes:" Many thanks for the link in the latest FHL bulletin...re cemetery listings in some English counties. I found my 2nd great grandparents in the Happisburgh, Norfolk listings and now have another proof of their age at death and interment". Were you aware.................From time to time somebody tells us that although they can find the baptisms of some of the members of their Scottish family in the mid-1800's others are missing. Why is this?Well, the Church of Scotland was between 1750 and 1850 subjected to much discussion and controversy among its members mainly concerning the role of the State in relation to the Church which culminated, in 1843, in what became known as The Disruption. About one-third of the parish churches affilliated to the Church of Scotland - and some say they represented about 50% of the congregation - broke away to form the Free Church of Scotland. So although baptisms might appear in the IGI and in the Scottish Old Parochial Records prior to 1843, if that particular church broke away, their baptisms won't appear in these records post-1843. In many cases, however, the Free Church record has been filmed and can be ordered.So far as I know the break-up was reasonably civilised and nobody was dealt a Glasgow Kiss. If you don't know what that is then you should consult a certain Zinedine Zidane who was filmed recently practicing the art but who has yet to perfect it.

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Questions are coming in for The Forum but we need a constant supply. If you haven't yet submitted a question please give it some thought and see what you can come up with. Something that has been puzzling you has probably given other people headaches.

In this Bulletin

More interesting questions and answers in The Forum
We talk about the dead in Were you aware..............

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that Bro. James Rowan has been appointed as the High Councillor responsible for the Family History Centre. He replaces Bro. Arnold Moore to whom we would like to express our thanks for his support over the years.

The Forum

New Questions.

Q1/32/2006. Sometime shortly after May 1919 my grandparents left Georgetown, Ontario by car and finished up in Powell River, B.C. However, it is thought that they went a circuitous route via Chicago, Route 66, across the Grand Canyon and possibly up the west coast. Presumably there were not all that number of roads capable of taking a motor car at that time so can anyone help me sort out the route they may have taken?

Q2/32/2006. A Capt. Edwards served with the US Army in India from about July 1942 onwards. I know he was raised in Texas and born about 1898. There were not many US Army men in India at that time but how do I find out who they were so I can narrow my search and provide me with a first name?

Q3/32/2006. Where can I access census records for Galicia (Austrian Empire)? I have not found reference to these in the Family History Library Catalog or on Ancestry.com.

Q4/32/2006. How do I find the hometown of someone who emigrated to the USA from Switzerland in 1883?

Q5/32/2006. Harry Nash was born in 1852 in Bethnal Green, London and is on the 1861 Census. He married Emma Bierton in Shoreditch in 1875 and had a son William in 1878 and a daughter Alice in 1879 neither of whom I've found on the 1881 Census. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Smeed in 1884 in West Ham and they had 4 sons. In 1891 and 1901 William and Alice are with Harry's mother in Stepney while Elizabeth and her 4 sons are with her mother in Borstal, Kent. No sign of Harry. Elizabeth's death certificate in 1908 says she was a wife, not a widow but one son's enlistment papers in 1916 says that Harry was deceased. I cannot find Harry's death in the civil registrations or the maritime or consular deaths. How can I find a record of Harry's death?

Answers to Previous Questions

Q1/31/2006. Is there a means to check the whereabouts of merchant seamen in the 1881, 1891, and 1901 censuses? James Thomson writes: “Anyone aboard a merchant vessel in port in the British Isles on census night in 1881 or 1891 or 1901 should have been enumerated in a schedule prepared for that vessel. In addition, various filing requirements applied to vessels which arrived in port within a given period of time after the census; an excellent guide to which vessels were obliged to file schedules in the various census years in question is found in Edward Higgs’ A Clearer Sense of the Census (at the Toronto Reference Library) or Higgs’ more recent Making Sense of the Census Revisited (on order by the Toronto Public Library). Schedules for vessels are found among the schedules for the registration district covering the port. This means that, for a vessel involved in the coasting trade, a schedule might be found in the census records of a different jurisdiction - thus, for instance, it may be advisable to include Scottish census indexes in the search for an English-registered vessel and vice versa. Of course, if a merchant seaman was at home on census night or otherwise not then aboard a vessel, one would not expect him to be found in the schedule for a vessel. There are various techniques for narrowing a census index search to “vessels” generally, or to a particular vessel name, and if the enquirer would like to get in touch with me directly I’d be pleased to offer any suggestions I can with respect to the set of facts of interest to him or her. By way of example, in the Ancestry index search screens try entering “vessels” as the Civil Parish (of residence) and/or entering a known vessel name in the Keyword(s) box at the foot of the screen. Above all, if one has found a vessel schedule of interest, do take the following steps while the image is on the screen in the Ancestry Enhanced Image Viewer:

1. Look in the area above the image for the line which begins “You are here:”

2. Make a note of the vessel name on the far right of this line(ignoring the word "District").

3. Click on the “Vessels” hyperlink immediately to the left of the vessel name.

4. In the list of vessels on the resulting page, locate the vessel of interest and click on “View description of enumeration district” to the right of the vessel name.

At this point, one is taken back to the Enhanced Image Viewer, which is now populated with an image of a description of the vessel. The information found here includes such things as the vessel’s Official Number and Port of Registry, which may be invaluable in helping one access a wide variety of further records relating to merchant vessels and seamen.”

Q2/31/2006. Richard Dockery named as father on 1908 birth certificate but in 1909 mother marries someone else. What happened to Richard? There seems to be no record of a marriage between Richard Dockery and Alice Hannah so it looks as if the birth was illegitimate. There is only one Richard Dockery in the 1901 Census and he was a 79 year old in prison, so he seems to be an unlikely candidate for fatherhood in 1908. All we can suggest here is that you search the marriage indexes for, say, the next 10 years and the death indexes from 1908 onwards in the hope that you can turn up a Richard Dockery. If you are successful you will still have the problem of establishing that this is your Richard Dockery but when, and if, you achieve this step then fire this question at us and we will deal with the next stage.

Q3/31/2006. Finding the date and port of someone who arrived in Canada from Scotland in 1921. From 1919 Canada introduced a Form 30A which was required to be completed by all immigrants and gives all this information and a lot more besides. However, it was not until June 1, 1921 that it was used at every port and it ceased to be used at the end of 1924. These Form 30A's have been filmed and are (roughly) indexed. To find the film relevant to your ancestor go to http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-908.004-e.html. These films are in the North York Central Library. If you are extremely unlucky and he does not appear, you are then faced with the task of going through all the passenger lists of ships arriving in 1921 - a big task.

Films received in the 7 days ending 10 August 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 7 September 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Bruce Co Marriages 1923	2266889
CAN ON Perth Co Marriages 1923	2266930
CAN ON Waterloo marriages 1923	2358410
DEU PRE Sachsen PopReg 1845-7	1539283
ENG IOM Death Registers 1877-1901	0454971
ITL Trento Arsio-Brez deaths 1730-	1388656

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Our thanks to those readers of the Bulletin that, following last week's notice, submitted Forum questions. Just keep 'em coming - we need a constant supply to keep the Forum running. And could we have your views on whether you prefer the questions to be specific, such as the one we answered last week on the whereabouts of Margretta Walters, or more general such as the one on Boyd's Marriage Index, or a mixture of both.

Announcements

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OGS Toronto Branch tell us that their workshop Exploring Irish Ancestry scheduled for Saturday, 19 August, is fully subscribed.

The Forum

Vaughan Lewis, who asked the question about Margretta Walters writes: "The Castle Hotel in Haverfordwest where James Thomson found Margretta was where her future husband was born and raised and where she went back to work following her husband's death. I cannot adequately express my thanks to James"

New Questions

Q1/31/2006. Is there a means to check the whereabouts of merchant seamen in the 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses?

Q2/31/2006. There is something funny about my grandmother's birth, probably she was illegitimate. Her birth certificate gives her name as Gladys, born 4 January 1908 at 22 Markham Square, Chelsea which is the address given for the informant, her mother Alice Gertrude Dockery formerly Hannah. Father is given as Richard Dockery, commercial traveller. Alice Gertrude subsequently married a tea planter, James Parsons Dove in Ceylon, probably in 1909. How can I find out something about Richard Dockery?

Q3/31/2006. My father arrived in Canada from Scotland in 1921. He was from Dundee but I don't know his date of departure, embarkation point and date of arrival or port in Canada. How can I find this out?

Answers to Previous Questions

Q5/28/2006. Authenticating ancestors prior to 1837. We have reluctantly come to the conclusion that we cannot possibly cover all the possible strategies in a couple of paragraphs in a Bulletin. As we pointed out last week whole courses are devoted to this subject and complete books written about it such as Penny Christensen's How do I prove it? She suggests that three independant pieces of evidence are needed for each name that you propose to add to your tree. My experience is that when a name has been added that subsequently proves to be incorrect, a common cause is that the researcher has failed to ascertain the details of the death of that person. So you have people getting married or fathering or giving birth to children after they had died. Come on, own up you people who have people on your tree with no death information.

Q1/30/2006. Bishop's Transcripts - what are they and do I need to check the details on the Parish Register?

Commencing 1598, the clergyman in charge of a parish was required to submit to his bishop a summary of the baptisms, marriages and burials that he had performed in the previous year ending on Lady Day, March 25. Some priests obviously did this by keeping a running summary as they went through the year whilst others left it until the end of the year and did the job at one go. Both techniques led to errors. Sometimes entries that are in the parish register are not included in the Bishop's Transcripts and vice versa. The Parish Register is likely to contain more details, particularly after 1813 when the printed registers came into being but the short answer is that in every case where both records exist it is advisable to consult both records.

Films received in the 7 days ending 3 August 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 31 August 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Cornwall PR 1803-1846	0272348
CAN ON Ingersoll Cath PR 1850-1910	1310849
DEU Elberfeld RefCH Deaths1679-1727	0176332
DEU PRE Sachsen PopReg 1819	1197220
DEU PRE Sachsen PopReg 1850	1197221
DEU Tilsit PRs 1914-1944	0072944
ENG CHS Bunbury PR 1598-1842	2093505
ENG DEV Oswyn Murray wills coll. H	0916903
ENG SSX Frant PR 1543-1881	1067357
ENG WIL Fisherton-de-la-Mere PR	1279448
ENG YKS Holme-Bridge BT 1840-1875	1849339
ENG YKS Holmfirth BT 1813-1865	0990703
ENG YKS Huddersfield 1851 Rel Cen	2206703
IRL CLA Quin PR 1816-1880	0926096
IRL O'Kief, Coshe Mang etc Vol 7	0823804
ITL Miranda Births 1884-1899	1448583
NDL Rotterdam Marriages 1896-1897	1800082
NDL Rotterdam Marriages 1900	1800083
POL Przasnysz RC PR 1808-1902	1809611
SCT ANG Gravestone Inscrip Pre 1855	1559438

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Our thanks once more to those readers of the Bulletin who took the trouble to respond to various questions. But now we have a problem! We have run out of questions for The Forum. This feature has been enthusiastically received - a good number of you have mentioned in when they were in the FHC and others have emailed their favourable comments. If we are to continue with The Forum we need your questions. So what about the brick wall that you hit? Send us the details and the 300 recipients of this Bulletin will get the opportunity of demolishing it!

In this Bulletin

We ask another question and provide some answers to previous questions in The Forum.
We draw your attention to various websites dealing with Australian immigration, New Zealand War Memorials and Polish Genealogy (Were you aware.................)

The Forum

New Question Q1/30/2006. Following your note in last week's Bulletin regarding the IGI, I found a possible ancestor and on checking the source of the data discovered it was extracted from a Bishop's Transcript. What exactly is a Bishop's Transcript and do I need to check the details with the Parish Register?

Answers to previous questions.

Q1/28/2006. The disappearing Margretta Walters of Cardiff (or Llanelly). Several readers offered suggestions as to where she was in the 1891 Census but for one reason or another they were not convincing. (Shown as a daughter but not with the same parents as she had in 1871; shown as a wife but could not be her unless she married a man also named Walters - but she didn't, this Margretta's maiden name was Lewis, others named Margr or Margaret but age did not correspond etc.). James Thomson, however comes up with a most convincing answer. He writes:-

“I offer a candidate for Margretta Walters (of Cardiff in 1881 and 1898) in the 1891 census of Wales. Assuming that all likely name variants had been exhausted in the enquirer’s prior searches, I decided to search in the Ancestry index on three fields only (leaving all other fields, including first name and surname, blank): birth year 1868 +/- 2 years; birthplace (parish or place) Llanelly; and relationship to head of household “servant” (as she was known to have been a hotel servant in 1881 and 1898). The search produced 171 hits, including a person indexed as “Maggie Walkes”, 22 (born Llanelly), servant, Haverfordwest St. Mary (Pembrokeshore). I was very encouraged, when I then examined the image, to find that Maggie was listed as a servant in a hotel (the Castle Hotel, in Haverfordwest), rather than in a private household, and to see that, to my eye (at a high magnification, and comparing letters with other letters on the same page) the surname as written in the schedule seemed substantially more likely to be Walters (lacking only the horizontal stroke of the “t”) than anything else. I myself would not be troubled by the fact that, at census day 1891, Margretta had just turned 23 (it may well be, for instance, that it was not she who provided information to the enumerator), and I am further encouraged by not having noted anyone in the 1871 or 1881 census likely to be the 1891 “Maggie” apart from Margretta. If this candidate is of interest to the enquirer, a Google search on the Castle Hotel will provide various items of information (including a photo from the 1950s, prior to substantial changes in the 1960s, and a favourable review of karaoke Wednesdays!).”

Q5/28/2006. Authenticating ancestors prior to 1837. We have made some progress with this question but we find it impossible to fully cover the subject in a paragraph or two (it is the subject of a 6 week course). Hopefully, next week we will have some space available and will make an attempt at it.

Q6/28/2006. Ancestors in New Zealand. Ebenezer Holland married Sarah Jane Chant in Somerset in 1876 and then does not appear in England censuses. Family folklore says they went to New Zealand. Well, there was indeed an Ebenezer Holland in New Zealand as the New Zealand archives site www.archives.govt.nz does show the will of a person with this name being probated in Auckland in 1938. Unfortunately they do not offer an on-line retrieval service but a copy is available for NZ$20 including up to 40 pages of photocopying. New Zealand was the first country in the world to give the right to vote to all adults (both men and women) over the age of 21, without any property qualification, which they did in 1896. If Ebenezer and Sarah were in New Zealand at this time then their names should appear on the Electoral Rolls. The LDS have filmed these rolls but they are split between North Island and South Island. There are two films that cover the North Island (where Auckland is located) for 1896, 0420048 and 0420049. I would bet on the first one as likely to contain the H's. The films covering 1905-1906 show that the H's are on film 0420066. This should at least ascertain that Ebenezer and Sarah were in New Zealand. We hope in a future Bulletin to give more details for tracing New Zealand ancestors.

Q1/29/2006. The Henry Sharpe from Belfast with the variable birth date. Great progress being made here - see next week's Bulletin for the answer.

Films received in the 7 days ending 27 July 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 24 August 2006


Film Content	Film No
DEU BAD Grosserlach BMD 1854-1961	1195524
DEU PRE Sachsen PopReg 1845-7	1539284
DEU PRE Sachsen PopReg 1845-7	1539285
DEU PRE Sachsen PopReg 1845-7	1539286
ENG LND St Marylebone PR marr1775-	0883849
ENG MDX Hammersmith Marr 1813-47	1966290
FRA ALS Offendorf PR deaths 1727-93	0740073
FRA ALS Rountzenheim Bapt 1763-	0753721
FRA ALS Rountzenheim Deaths 1763-	0753722
FRA ALS Sessenheim PR 1733-1792	0746030
HUN Arva Usztye Census 1828	0622961
HUN Arva Usztye RC PR 1787-1870	2062271
HUN Arva Usztye RC PR 1823-1897	2062272
HUN Jarek Census 1828	0622965
HUN Kisvarda Szabolcs CivReg 1896-	2255507
HUN Kisvarda Szabolcs CivReg 1900-	2255508
IND BEN bmb v.417 Oct-Dec 1916	0527543
IRL LIM Doon PR printout	0883851
IRL O'Kief, Coshe Mang etc Vol 13	0823809
ITL Foggia Alberona births 1850-57	1217503
ITL Trento Arsio-Brez BMD 1554-1923	1388655
NDL Strijen Marriages 1859-1874	0237709
USA WI Rock marr 1886-89	1275533

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In this Bulletin

We pose another question and answer some of those put forward in last week's Bulletin (The Forum)
We give details of another website with details of prisoners (Were you aware...........)
We try to straighten out possible misconceptions concerning the International Gealogical Index (IGI) (Were you aware........).

The Forum

New Question Q1/29/2006. My grandfather, Henry Sharpe, was put into an orphanage in Belfast who shipped him to Canada in 1897. According to the orphanage papers his mother was Emily Sharpe and he was born on Feb. 3, 1887 at 26 Gordon Street, Belfast.

When he enlisted into the Canadian Army he said his birth date was Feb. 19, 1887. There was only Henry Sharpe listed in the 1st Qtr. 1887 Irish births but when I obtained the certificate it showed his birth date as Feb. 17, 1887 his mother being a Sarah Sharpe formerly Lynn and his father as Henry Sharpe a soldier at the Military Barracks and the place of birth as the "Lying in Hospital". The birth was registered on Feb. 28. The 1901 Census lists a Henry Sharpe of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Does the phrase "lying in hospital" mean the birth was in the hospital or does it mean that the mother was in hospital when the birth was registered? Am I entitled to think that the birth certificate I have is that of my grandfather?

Answers to previous questions.

Q1/28/2006. The disappearing Margretta Walters of Cardiff. Nobody has contacted us saying they have located her in the 1891 Census. Does anyone want to have a go at it?

Q2/28/2006. "Strange" middle names, such as Mumm. If there is no record of this name as a maiden name of say a mother or grandmother on either side of the family is there a possibility of the child being illegitimate? It was, and is, common practice for an unmarried mother unable to put the father's name on the birth certificate (he would have had to be present at the birth registration and agreed to it) to "finger" the father by including his surname as the second given name of the child.

Q3/28/2006. Genealogical societies in the Point Claire area of Quebec. The Quebec Family History Society is based at Point Claire but they say their aim is to promote the study of genealogy among the English speaking people of Quebec. Their website is www.qfhs.ca For a listing of all the Quebec genealogical societies go to www.francogene.com/links/societ.php

Q4/28/2006. Authenticating ancestors pre-1837. This is a very complex question and we hope to publish an outline in next week's Bulletin. However, as a primer, refer to the piece about the IGI in Were you aware...........

Q5/28/2006. Boyd's marriage index. How useful? Here is a description.

This incredible database, produced long before the advent of computers, contains over 7 million names (3.5 million marriages), which occurred in England between 1538 and 1837. (Some websites say 1840 but I can find no evidence for this later date).

The index covers all counties in England but by no means all parishes within those counties. Each county is indexed individually, alphabetically (but not strict alphabetical) by both bride and groom’s names. It is estimated that Boyd’s index lists about 15% of all marriages occurring in this period.

That part of the index known as the Main Series, covers the following counties:

Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Durham. Essex, Lancashire, London (City + Middlesex), Norfolk, Northumberland, Shropshire, Somersetshire and Yorkshire.

The Second Series (sometimes called the First Miscellaneous Series) does not cover the years later than 1775. The counties included here (in some cases covering parishes shown in counties in the Main Series) are:

Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Wiltshire and Worcestershire.

The Third Series (sometimes called the Second Miscellaneous Series) consists of about 1.5 million names from all counties but not names included in either of the other two series for the period 1538 to 1837.

I know of no website where you can search the whole of the Index free of charge but all the Main Series films are in the Toronto Family History Centre. There is also a film – 0472000 – that gives a comprehensive description of the index and lists all the parishes covered. The index was compiled largely from Bishop’s Transcripts and other transcribed material so it is always advisable to check the original Parish Register if this is available.

Q6/28/2006. Ancestors in New Zealand. We are promised an anwer to this one shortly.

Films received in the 7 days ending 20 July 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 17 August 2006


Film Content	Film No
ENG HRT Tring PRs Marr 1763-1879	0091767
ENG HRT Tring PRs Marr 1879-1941	0091768
ENG KEN Sheldwich PR 1558-1851	2354740
ENG NFK Norwich St Michael PR 1558-	0993658
ENG NFK Norwich St Michael PR 1754-	0993660
FRA RPA Mizoen PR 1669-1684	1978554
IND BEN bmb v.315 Jan-Mar 1904	0527522
ITL Miranda Births 1866-1883	1448518
NDL Amersfoort Population 1862-1914	0592348
NDL Amsterdam Citizen Bks 1762-1773	0114930
NDL Amsterdam Citizen Bks 1773-1788	0114931
NDL Amsterdam Citizen Bks 1788-1811	0114932
NDL Rotterdam BMD Index 1893-1912	1802170
USA NC Death Certificates 1969	1983397
USA NJ Deeds v.c 1686-1688	0522744

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes. News from the trenches John Flower writes: I've being trying to locate my first cousin, Barry Unwin, for years. I wrote a letter to the Derbyshire Times who published it and it was spotted by his sister who put me in touch with Barry in Australia. I'd had no contact with him since 1957.Linda Reid writes: I couldn't find the Scottish marriage of Michael Welldone Rice and Agnes Boyd Graham which I knew was going to be shortly prior to their first child's birth in 1870 and hence should have been on the IGI. But it wasn't. I tried the Scottish marriage index films and found the marriage in 1869 listed as M.W. Rice and A.B. Graham - and that's how it is listed in the IGI. Were you aware................. Prisoners. Carol Lewis has drawn our attention to www.buckscc.gov.uk/bucks_prisoners/index.htm which gives details of Buckinghamshire prisoners and includes some photographs. The IGI. We want to clear up some misconceptions about this index. Most readers will be aware that the IGI consists of a mixture of submitted entries (mainly by church members) and entries extracted from Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts.In the case of the submitted entries where no reference is made to an original source one must always try to locate an original entry. Let us take the case of the fictional parish of Little Sodbury. Just because their is a baptismal entry for someone in 1805 in this parish and you are looking for someone of that name that should be there for 1808, doesn't mean that the 1805 entry is likely yours. It could be that the extraction for baptisms for this parish stopped at 1805. So, before even thinking about consulting the IGI, first of all check what is going to be in there for the area in which you are interested. It could be, for example that there is more than one parish church within the town and the records for only one have been extracted or that the extracted records cover only a short period or cover marriages but not baptisms. To do this go to the town or village in the Family History Library Catalog and look under Church Records Indexes. If there has been any extraction for this place the extent of the extraction will be shown listed under Computer Printouts.

Toronto Family History CentreChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

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Many thanks to all those people who sent notes of appreciation concerning the Forum announced in last week's Bulletin and to those who sent in questions.

In this Bulletin

We announce slight changes to the format of the Forum from that indicated in last week's Bulletin (Announcement)
We suggest web-sites where you might find details of an ancestor's criminal past (Were you aware.......)
We tell you about a web-site where you might find details of a Lancashire ancestor's pre-1858 will (Were you aware..)

Announcement

In last week's Bulletin we said that we would, in the new Forum section, publish a question each week and hopefully the answer the following week. However, the response seems to indicate that it might be better to publish several questions each week and publish the response whenever it became available. To avoid taking up a lot of space we don't propose to repeat the question in its entirety, just a brief outline, but to give each question a number related to the edition of the Bulletin. Thus the first question below is numbered Q1/28/2006 and the first question next week will be numbered Q1/29/2006. One further slight change, although we will not identify the questioner we will identify the respondent by name if the respondent so requests.

The Forum

Q1/28/2006. Margretta Walters, b Feb 14, 1868 at Llanelly, Carms, appears in the 1871 and 1881 censuses. In 1881 she was taken to Cardiff, Glam to work in the Royal Hotel. I can find no mention of her in the 1891 Census when she was, presumably in Cardiff. She married on Dec. 26 1898 in Cardiff describing herself as a hotel servant in the Alexandra Hotel. I have searched the city and surrounding districts. How do I find her in 1891?
Q2/28/2006. Does any one know of any customs or rules in England around 'middle' names? I have an ancestor who was named Henry Mumm. We are intrigued as this does not appear as a maiden surname nor is there any evidence of a Germanic background.
Q3/28/2006. I am a French Canadian and many of my ancestors come from the surrounding areas in Montreal. I would like to know if there is a genealogy society in the Pointe Claire/Ste Anne de Bellevue area.
Q4/28/2006. How do we authenticate links to ancestors in the UK prior to the start of civil registration in 1837?
Q5/28/2006. What is the coverage of Boyd's marriage index and how useful is it?
Q6/28/2006. Ebenezer Holland born in 1855 in Somerset, married Sarah Jane Chant in 1876 in Yeovil, Somerset. Cannot find them in the 1881 Census. Family folklore says they went to New Zealand. How do I find details of them in New Zealand?

Now everyone, don't assume that somebody else will respond to one or more of these questions. Please, send us in your expert advice.

Films received in the 7 days ending 13 July, 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 10 August 2006.


Film Content	Film No
	1916448
DEU PRE Gilgenburg Tax Lists	0071002
DEU Tilsit PRs 1847-1880	0072922
ENG DEV Zeal-Monachorum PR 1736-	0916962
ENG HRT Tring PRs Chrs 1813-1945	0091769
ENG LIN Keelby PRs 1565 - 1812	1541933
ENG NFK Brooke Deanery Ats A-B	1526786
ENG Rec Copy Will Aug. 1876 'D'	1850872
ENG STS Tamworth PRs 1754-1902	1526132
ENG STS Yoxhall PRs 1754-1900	1517739
FRA ALS Boofzheim PR 1687-1792	0731329
IND BEN bmb v.133 Jly-Sep 1870	0499039
IND BEN bmb v.195-6 Jan-Jun 1886	0510878
IND BEN bmb v293 1901	0527500
IND BEN bmb v336 1906	0527538
IND BEN bmb v376 1911	0528139
ITL Foggia Alberona marr 1825-60	1217508
NDL Veenendaal Population 1841-1908	0574912
NLD Leiden Hooglandshe Bap 1636-52	0118928
NLD Leiden Hooglandshe Bap 1652-66	0118929
NLD Leiden Waalshe Index 1604-1811	0118983
POL Sonsk par Aichanow	1895290
POL Sonsk par Aichanow	1895289
POL Warszawa Przasnysz PR Catholic	1808715
SCO AYR Barr pr	1041333
SCT ANG Craig PR 1657-1854	0993418
USA NJ Deeds v.1 1667-1681	0522742
USA NJ Deeds v.3-4 1682-1686	0522743
USA NJ Walpeck Dutch Reform PR	0599307
USA NY Albany Co, Albany Cens 1875	0521937
USA NY Albany Co, Albany Cens 1875	0521936

If you are looking for the black sheep in your family try http://blacksheepancestors.com which gives on-line resources to prison records, court records, executions etc. Covering mainly the USA, Canada and the British Isles. http://users.bigpond.net.au/convicts/index.html has a list of 21,000 convicts who were transported to Australia. (Thanks to Helen and Barbara Billing for drawing our attention to these sites). The National Archives site www.nationalarchives.gov.uk has recently uploaded HO47 Judges' reports on Criminals 1783-1830. These are details of appeals by prisoners against their convictions or pleas for mercy. (Go to Catalogue and then put in HO47 in the series box). I put in Goddard and got 18 hits.
Maurice Hardman has drawn our attention to a site indexing over 200,000 pre-1858 Lancashire wills. www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/lws.htm

Toronto Family History CentreChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

Email: Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

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In this Bulletin

We announce a proposed Forum - a question and answer section of this Bulletin (Announcement)
We tell you about the rules for weddings in 16th and 17th Century Germany (News from the trenches)
We give you hints on researching your Dutch ancestors (Were you aware...............).

Announcement

No matter how experienced one is, no one person has the answers to all the genealogical problems that the 300-odd recipients of this Bulletin encounter - certainly not without carrying out an amount of research. But taken together those 300 people can muster a tremendous amount of knowledge that could be utilised for the benefit of all.

What we are proposing is that each week, starting next week, we will publish a question raised by a reader and at the same time invite our readers to suggest an answer which we would publish the following week. We have, of course, no idea of how many questions might be submitted - or indeed whether anybody has got the answer - so we can't guarantee to publish every question but we will do our best to deal with them and if we get too much of a backlog we will call a temporary halt until we have caught up.

We will not publish the name of the questioner or the respondent(s).

It is very important in order for us to get this under way for you to submit questions. The question could take many forms - "how do I go about solving this problem..........." "my ancestor John Pettigrew is in the 1881and 1901 Census but missing from the 1891 - how can I find him?" "My ancestor came from the Ukraine but I don't know precisely where" and so on. Absolutely any question. Don't go thinking you are the only person who doesn't know the answer to your question - you certainly will not be. So - over to you - we need your questions. Think about it and send us something. Please.

Films received in the 7 days ending 6 July 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 3 August 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Frontenac marriages 1923	2266893
CAN ON Temiskaming marriages 1923	2266935

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes. News from the trenches Susanne Taylor who is busy researching her German ancestry has provided us with a translation of the rules governing how weddings were to be conducted in 16th and 17th Century in Burg, near Berlin. Now I always knew that the Germans had a reputation for liking things to be properly organised but I didn't know that they ever defined precisely who could, and who could not, attend a wedding. Not only that but the time at which the bride and groom had to arrive at the church and how the groom had to sing for his supper. Well, not exactly sing, and not his supper either. For readers with strong constitutions, read the full translation in the attachment. Were you aware......................... Christina Scott has suggested internet sources for those of our readers researching Dutch ancestry. She writes:- "Genlias is a seach data base which hold a large collection of records and can be found at:

http://genlias.nl/en/page0.jsp

You can either order a copy of the records online via a money order, but less expensive option is to order the film from the Family History Centre.
Further notable sites are http://www.digitalestamboom.nl/en/index.htm however not all the sites and search engines are in English, which of course can be overcome by buying a dictionary or go to the online translator at: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Some archive sites do accept visa as a payment and charge a small administration fee for the first document only. Most Dutch newsgroups are friendly and very helpful and questions will be answered in English".

Email: Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

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Rules regarding marriage in Burg (near Berlin) in the 16 th to mid 17 th century, taken from “Mittheilungen aus der Geschichte Stadt Burg” by Wolter, 1881 (the “Marriage Ordinance”):

As soon as there is an engagement, it must be registered at city hall no later than the following Friday, else there is a 3 Taler fine.
The engagement must be announced at church prior to the wedding ceremony for 3 Sundays. Guests should be invited to the wedding the Thursday before the wedding ceremony is to take place, and they should be invited by 2 Bachelors and 2 unmarried women, else there will be a fine of 3 Taler. The guests must advise immediately as to whether or not they will attend the wedding.
The number of guests permitted at the wedding is as follows:

High ranking families can invite 12 couples from each side of the family (i.e. bride and groom), as well as 12 bachelors and 12 unmarried women from each side of the family
Middle class families can invite10 couples from each side of the family (i.e. bride and groom), as well as 10 bachelors and 10 unmarried women from each side of the family
Working class families can invite 8 couples from each side of the family (i.e. bride and groom), as well as 8 bachelors and 8 unmarried women from each side of the family
Poor families and servants can invite 4 couples from each side of the family (i.e. bride and groom), as well as 4 bachelors and 4 unmarried women from each side of the family

In addition to these individuals, members of the city council, Presidents, parents of the bride and groom and guests who have traveled over 3 miles to attend the wedding are permitted. Children can be brought but are not allowed to be seated at the table.

Weddings are not permitted on Sundays or holidays (3 Taler penalty), preferably they should be held on a Monday or a Tuesday. The bride and groom must be in the church at 9am. Before the midday meal the groom must have bedded the bride and after which the midday meal can take place (else 3 Taler penalty).

On the wedding day (Monday or Tuesday) only 3 meals shall be served to guests and food cannot be sent out of the home to other locations. On the Wednesday the parents of the couple and their friends shall eat together in the city, but they should not use more than 4 tables (for poor people 2 tables) in the restaurant (penalty of 8 Florins) Only the bridal couple and those guiding them to the church shall be given floral wreaths.

The bachelors should not be fed in a special home, but rather, they should be waiters at the wedding and only eat after the guests have eaten.

The dancing should be honest, without either spinning or a lot of running around, at a penalty of 12 Groschen

Costs for the cooks, organizing the wedding, religious personnel etc. will be prescribed

The fathers of the bride and groom need to appear at the city hall the Friday after the wedding and enter an oath that these “wedding rules” were followed

[Note: in 1474 the penalties also included having to wear “special” clothes and being incarcerated in a remote part of the city]

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In this Bulletin

We give news on the up-coming changes to the England & Wales Civil Registration Indexes (Were you aware.....)
We tell you about the wealth of information available from the British naturalization records (News from the trenches)

Announcements

The Family History Centre will be closed on Saturday 1 July 2006and Monday 3 July 2006 for the Canada Day celebration.
There have been one or two occasions recently where despite the fact that reservations have been made, nobody turned up and the volunteer on duty was obliged to stay while there were no patrons present. In future the volunteer may, under these circumstances, close the Centre before the session end time. It would be helpful if patrons would phone to advise us if they are going to be late, or through the summer period phone before arriving without a booking, to ensure that the Centre remains open.
The Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, advise us that they will be running the following courses in Autumn 2006. Basic Genealogy and Family History (Lecturer Jane MacNamara), Heritage Scrapbooking (Diane Clendenan, Bonnie Bell, Dianne Glass), An Overview of the Genealogical Holdings at the Archives of Ontario (James Gorton), British India Family History Research (James Thomson, Marian Press), Introduction to Scottish Family History Research (Jane MacNamara), Publish Before you Perish! (Nancy Conn). Full details will be available on www.torontofamilyhistory.org

Films received in the 7 days ending 29 June 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 27 July 2006


Film Content	Film No
AUT Army Deaths 1812-1813	1454387
DEU BAD Grafenhausen PR 1680-1769	0907202
DEU MEK Parkentin PR BMD 1824-87	0069416
DEU PREWeferlingen PR 1808-1874	1190771
ENG DEV Okehampton PR transcript	0917210
ENG Divorce index 1858-1958	2358047
ENG HAM Farnborough PR 1584-1837	1041722
ENG IOM St Peter's PRs 1665-1782	0106722
ENG IOM Wills V.7-10 179-299 1914	0106582
ENG LAN St Bedes Toxteth Park PR	2147908
ENG MDX Hammersmith PR 1752-1814	1966289
ENG MDX Hammersmith PR 1813-1827	1966217
ENG Naturalization Index 1835-1924	0824515
ENG Naturalization Lists 1509-1910	0824514
ENG NBL Lesbury PR 1690-1858	0991795
ENG NBL Lesbury PR transcription	0962712
ENG WOR Tredington PRs 1873-1981	1067553
ENG YRK Marsden pr 1814-1825	0990855
FRA ALS Offendorf PR 1688-1792	0740071
IRE LON Rosemount school registers	0247460
IRL Register of deeds county index	0100391
ITL Foggia Alberona births 1809-18	1172500
ITL Foggia Alberona births 1818-27	1217501
ITL Foggia Alberona births 1857-65	1217504
ITL Foggia Alberona deaths 1820-40	1217505
ITL Foggia Alberona deaths 1841-44	1217506
ITL Foggia Alberona marr 1861-65	1217509
NLD Leiden PR Indx Bap1620-1700 'S'	0536541
NLD Rotterdam BMD Index 1903-1912	1802171
NLD Rotterdam Marr. 1933-1940	2144112
NLD Rotterdam Marr.1909	1800196
NLD Strijen Births 1871-1882	0237703
POL Lopacin pr	1496593
POL Sonsk pr	0702617
SCT ABD Old Machar PR 1820-1854	0991249
UKR Trembowla GkCath PR 1863-1892	2152027
UKR Trembowla GkCath PR 1892-1907	2152028

The Ancestors in the Attic (the show scheduled to air on the History Channel in the fall) film crew spent 6 hours with us today filming the role we played in locating the daughter of a war time Canadian soldier (see Bulletin 04/2006).
Gwen Armstrong ordered the Naturalization films the arrival of which we report above. She writes:

"I was helping a patron track down her gg-grandfather, Nicholai Philip Popert. I found him on the 1851 census listed as born in Russia. On the 1861 census he is now a Nat. British Sub. A previous FHC bulletin mentioned two naturalization films so I decided to order them to see if he was listed. He was, and the record gave me a certificate number and a naturalization date of 26 Jun 1856. I went online to the National Archives site and found a reference number and I was able to have the images copied and e-mailed to me. The documents were very interesting. They include a petition by Nicholai and affidavits by 3 of his friends/business associates. The information I got from these documents included: -full name -birth place in Russia, including Village and County-occupation-age -wife's full maiden name-marriage date and place, including the name of the Church in London-that they had 5 children - 4 living, 1 deceased-the address he lived at when he applied, how long he had lived there and the address he lived at previously" Were you aware........................

The General Register Office for England & Wales have announced that the digitization of all their birth, marriage and death records is under way. The original paper copies of the certificates are being scanned and from these images new indexes will be constructed so that errors that occurred in the original indexing will not be repeated. Starting at 1837, the new birth indexes will show the mother's maiden name (starts at 1912 in the current index), the death index will show the age at death (currently starts at 1866) and the marriage index will show the spouse's surname (also starts in 1912 currently). The first two forenames will be shown in full, not just the first plus an initial. The whole project is due to be completed in the middle of 2008.
Margaret Taylor has drawn our attention to a very interesting site devoted to Victorian London www.victorianlondon.org/frame-maps.htm Besides some very good maps there are accounts of many goings-on that might surprise you.

Toronto Family History CentreChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

Email: Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

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In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to (Were you aware.............)

The completion of the U.S. censuses on line

The availability of free down-loadable photo editing software

Irish land transfer films

Announcements

The Tuesday evening session is now discontinued until Tuesday 5 September.

Films received in the 7 days ending 22 June 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 20 July 2006


Film Content	Film No
DEU PRE Sachsen Magdeburg Direct.	2387608
ENG HEF Thornbury PRs 1813-1993	2093685
ENG SRY Southwark PRs 1819-24,30-37	2232068
ENG WOR Tredington PRs 1541-1907	0549654
HUN Borsod Szirmabesenyo 1875-1900	2375829
HUN Borsod Szirmabesenyo 1900-1908	2375830
ITL Campobasso CivReg Birth 1880-3	1733189

Ancestry.com announced today that they have completed the indexing and have the images available on-line of all the US censuses from 1790 to 1930. Ancestry.com charges an annual fee of $155.40 to access their US records but there is no charge to access them at the Family History Centre.

Your humble scribe has to confess to never having edited a photograph in his entire life but I am told that the Photoshop programme is the one used by professionals everywhere. But it costs around $600. However, a very good programme for the average user, PhotoPlus 6, is available to download free on-line from http://freeserifsoftware.com . I am told that it is very easy to use and has capabilities to create, manipulate and enhance photographs by, for example, taking out creases and removing extraneous marks. One small word of warning, the programme is 19.4 megabyte download so unless you have a high speed connection that process will take a long time.
I never cease to be surprised by how many large banks of data that are available on film but are tucked away and difficult to find in the Family History Library Catalog. Such is the case with Irish Land Transfer Records that are contained on 2,580 films covering the period 1708-1929. Indexing is by Grantors and by Lands (there is no index of Grantees). Bear in mind that virtually no land belonged to Catholics it having been confiscated by the English and transferred to English and Scottish immigrants and absentees but if your ancestor was a Protestant these records can provide valuable sources of information. Because this collection is so vast, in most cases it will be necessary to first order an index film and then proceed to the film containing the record. The easiest way to find these films is to enter the first film number of the series in the Film/Fiche search facility. The first film number is 0100251.

Email: Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

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In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to (Were you aware............)

The 1841 Census of Scotland, now on-line

The England OnLine Parish Clerks Project

The on-line Scottish City Directories

Announcements

The Tuesday evening session is now discontinued until Tuesday 5 September.

Films received in the 7 days ending 15 June 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 13 July 2006


Film Content		Film No
CAN ON Port Hope St. Mary's RC pr		1305528
DEU Huguenot History		1045442
DEU PRE Sachsen Civ Reg 1716-		1197219
DEU PRE Sachsen Civ Reg 1799-		1552285
DEU PRE Sachsen Huguenots/Walloon		1949481
DEU Steinhauer Family		1036740
ENG Admiralty CountyPaper 1675-1822		0824518
ENG CAM Doddington PRs 1681-1876		1040458
ENG DEV Zeal Monachorum PR		0917561
ENG HEF Thornbury PRs 1538-1952		1040028
ENG MDX Whitechapel Bapts 1832		0094697
ENG MDX Whitechapel Burials 1819		0094714
ENG NFK Berghampton PR		1597077
ENG Seamens Effects Paper 1757-1850		1942132
ITL Campobasso CivReg Birth 1876-9		1733188
ITL Campobasso CivReg Birth 1883-6		1733190
NLD Leiden PR Indx Bap1620-1700 'B'		0536531
NLD Leiden PR Indx Bap1620-1700 'C'		0536532
POL Crechanos/Opreginal		1895421
POL Gazetteer Koninngsberg		0583455
POL Gazetteer Warschau		0804242
POL Przasmysz		1809613
SCT PEE West Linton session minutes		1886482
USA NY Albany Co Census 1865 v.1		0521927
USA NY Albany Co Census 1865 v.2		0521928
USA NY Albany Co Census 1865 v.3		0521930
USA NY Albany Co Census 1865 v.3		0521929
USA NY New York marriage index		1653854
USA WA Seattle Passenger 1915-1916		1454960

A transcribed version of the 1841 Census of Scotland has now been uploaded onto www.ancestry.com access to which is available free of charge at the Toronto Family History Centre. Note that the actual census page images are not available on Ancestry whereas they are accessible on the pay-to-view Scotlands People site www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk . On the other hand the Ancestry site is more flexible than the Scotlands People site allowing, for example, a search by occupation. The England OnLine Parish Clerks (OPCs) are volunteers who are transcribing records from many sources - parish registers, census records, cemetery records, church accounts, land tax records, wills, directories etc for a particular parish of their choosing and then making these records available, free of charge, online. Parishes currently available are in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Sussex, Warwickshire and Wiltshire. Obviously it is going to be a long time before all parishes are available but if you are lucky with a parish that is of interest to you, you can save an awful lot of time. A list of parishes that are available can be found on www.cyndislist.com/volreg.htm#OPCs
www.ancestry.com also carries many Scottish City Directories. There are 6 for Aberdeen covering the years 1824 to 1830, 2 for Angus, 1829 and 1830; Ayr 1830; 6 for Dundee, 1782 to 1820; 37 for Edinburgh 1774 to 1830; 28 for Glasgow 1801 to 1830; 3 for Greenock 1815-1828; 6 for Paisley 1810-1828 and 2 for Renfrewshire 1829 and 1830.

Toronto Family History CentreChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

Email: Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

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In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to the microfiche Calendar of Confirmations for Scotland that are available in the Toronto Family History Centre (Were you aware..............)

Announcements

The mailing list for this bulletin grows every week. For this reason it is necessary to repeat details of upcoming events and changes so that these newcomers are aware of them.

We shall be discontinuing the Tuesday evening session through the summer. The 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. session on Tuesday 13 June will be the last of the Tuesday evening sessions until Tuesday 5 September. At the moment we are planning to continue all other sessions as normal during the summer period; it may be necessary due to staffing difficulties to cancel a particular session but if this occurs it will be announced beforehand.

The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is hosting a conference on an Irish theme at North York Central Library on August 19 and one on English family history research at the Toronto Botanical Garden on October 29. For details on these events visit: www.torontofamilyhistory.org.
The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is holding its final meeting before the summer break on Monday, June 12 at 7:30 pm in the auditorium at the North York Central Library. The main speaker will be Fawne Stratford-Devai on Using Ontario Land Registry Office Records. There will be a short presentation by John Craig on his ancestor "Captain Jarmin". Visitors should sign-in at the registration desk. Contributions to defray costs are welcome ($5 per person suggested).

Films received in the 7 days ending 8 June 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 6 July 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Huron County Marriages 1911	1888057
CAN ON Oxford County Marriages 1911	1888065
DEU BAV Brenner Collection Recs	0542245
DEU BAV Brenner Collection Recs	0542246
DEU MEK Doberan PR Births 1829-81	0069073
DEU PRE Schwetz Deaths 1860-1883	0245583
DEU Wustenrot Familienbuch	1346123
ENG BED Salford PR 1559-1812	0952418
ENG BED Turvey PR 1627-1870	0826451
ENG DBY Chesterfield Wesl Meth PR	2081085
ENG DEV St Giles in the Wood PR	0916930
ENG MDX St Botolph Aldgate 1753-181	0370932
ENG SOM Tolland PR 1706-1900	1526748
ENG SOM W.Bagborough BT 1598-	1278896
ENG WW1 Burnt Records - Davie	2082554
ENG YKS Welwick PR 1653-1892	1702927
ENG YRK Marsden 1801 census	1657340
FRA ALS Stattmatten Deaths	0753733
FRA ALS Stattmatten Marriages	0753732
IRL TYR Donaghenry RC PR	0979709
NLD Amsterdam Waalse PR 1693-1795	0113401
UKR Dolina Bolechow RC Met Bk 1608-	2328794
USA CT Vital Records prior to 1850	0002972
USA WI Green Co marriages 1838-67	1266665
USA WI Green Co marriages 1852-65	1266666
USA WI Green Co marriages 1876-81	1266668
USA WI Jackson Co Marr 1860-1875	1266680

Were you aware................... Scotland Like their counterparts for England and Wales (known as the Probate Calendars), the Scottish Calendar of Confirmations can provide valuable information for researchers with Scottish interests. Taken at random, I quote from the 1905 Calendar:Arneil, Robert, Hairdresser, of 75 North Woodside Road, Glasgow died 16 August 1905 at Glasgow, intestate. Confirmation granted to James Arneil, Hairdresser of 2 Causeyside, Paisley dative qua Factor for Janet Arneil and Elizabeth Arneil residing at 75 North Woodside Road, Glasgow, the minor children and next of kin of the deceased. These records, which are in the Toronto Family History Centre, are held on the following microfiche:-1876 to 1922. Fiche Nos. 6068884 to 6068930.1923 to 1927. Fiche Nos. 6069735 to 60697391928 to 1936. Fiche Nos. 6070135 to 6070143

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Many thanks to those readers of last week's Bulletin who offered their services as translators.

In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to the mass of data that is available for England and Wales researchers on merchant seamen, divorcees and persons acquiring British citizenship by naturalization (Were you aware................)

Announcements

The mailing list for this bulletin grows every week. For this reason it is necessary to repeat details of upcoming events and changes so that these newcomers are aware of them.

We shall be discontinuing the Tuesday evening session through the summer. The 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. session on Tuesday 13 June will be the last of the Tuesday evening sessions until Tuesday 5 September. At the moment we are planning to continue all other sessions as normal during the summer period; it may be necessary due to staffing difficulties to cancel a particular session but if this occurs it will be announced beforehand.

Films received in the 7 days ending 1 June 2006 We have to report that not one film arrived during this period. Were you aware......................... English Records

Merchant Seamen. There can be few English families, even those living inland, that do not have an errant son who "went away to sea". In many cases records of their merchant service exist. Covering the period 1747-1856 agreements, crew lists and muster rolls of British merchant vessels compiled in British sea ports including service records of crew members and in some cases their county of birth, their age and place of death are contained in over 5,000 LDS films. To find the film that interests you, do a place search "England" in the Family History Library Catalog on www.familysearch.org and then look in the Merchant Marine section. Divorcees. Indexes of people applying for divorce covering the period 1858-1958 are available on 16 films, nos. 2358042 to 2358057. Again, consult the Family History Library Catalog with a film number search on 2358042 to find the correct film.
Naturalization. Naturalization is the statutory process whereby a foreign citizen acquires British citizenship. Indexes of individuals applying for naturalization covering the period 1801 to 1924 are on film numbers 0824514 and 0824515. Again, consult the Family History Library Catalog to find the correct film.

And finally Those racy archivists at the UK National Archives site www.nationalarchives.gov.uk have done it again. They are now featuring a new portal of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender records among which is a handbill promoting a dance in a west London hotel organised by a barman named Lady Austin.

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In this Bulletin

We announce a plan to set up a register of volunteers willing to translate documents in various languages into English (Announcements)
Once again we pass on hints on the use of digital cameras in the Family History Centre (News from the trenches)
We report on improvements and expansion of accessibility of records available through the UK National Archives website (Were you aware...............)

Announcements

The mailing list for this bulletin grows every week. For this reason it is necessary to repeat details of upcoming events and changes so that these newcomers are aware of them.

We shall be discontinuing the Tuesday evening session through the summer. The 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. session on Tuesday 13 June will be the last of the Tuesday evening sessions until Tuesday 5 September. At the moment we are planning to continue all other sessions as normal during the summer period; it may be necessary due to staffing difficulties to cancel a particular session but if this occurs it will be announced beforehand.
From time to time we are asked by patrons for help in translating documents in various languages into English. We should stress that we do not feel it is our role to provide an extensive free translation service but, on the other hand, if we can help with the translation of a particular document to assist patrons with their research we would like to be able to do so. Certainly it is not the intention that anybody volunteering would be asked to spend many hours in performing this service. Would any reader of this Bulletin prepared to do this let us know the language or languages they could translate.

Additions to our permanent collections

Netherlands. Church and Civil Records of Amsterdam prior to 1811 (Fiche Nos. 6000355 and 6000356)
Netherlands. Historical background affecting genealogical research in the Netherlands (Fiche No. 6001722).

Films received in the 7 days ending 25 May 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 22 June, 2006.


Film Content	Film No
ENG LAN Tox Pk St Clem's Bs 1890-01	2147910
ENG YRK Marsden pr 1734-1909	1542251
FRA ALS Offendorf PRs 1689-1837	0740072
IRL TYR Brigh Presb.. C 1837-1882	0823750
ITL FOGGIA Alberona Index 1866-95	1803184
POL Mazovia Krasne RC PR 1739-86	1496579

"1) Try not to take pictures holding camera in your hands. The steadier the camera, the better quality of the pictures. For that reason, secure camera to the side or top of the microfilm reader booth with a C-clamp (available from the camera places like Henry’s or for the more crafty easily done at home using some hardware from the hardware store). 2) If you are shopping for a new digital camera – ideally, get the one with a swivel screen and a remote control. The swivel screen allows you to see what area you are photographing even if the camera itself is positioned at a very awkward angle. The remote helps to take more steady and sharp pictures - the idea being the less you handle the camera the better! Not to mention that both of these features allow you to sit rather than stand while photographing the microfilms.3) If your camera does not have a remote – use the self-timer (3 sec is enough). Reason, as above - less handling, better pictures.4) Never use flash! NEVER! (Cannot stress that one enough!)5) You will have to edit the pictures on the computer, anyway. The recommended software for Windows XP (in the order from the best to less so): Adobe Photoshop CS2 (pricey but an undisputed King of the photo editing!), Adobe Photoshop Elements (less pricey but excellent as well), Ulead PhotoImpact, Corel Paint Shop Pro X (formerly Jasc Paint Shop, formerly Paint Shop). Windows Paint, the program that comes with the operating system, while can handle some very rudimentary editing, in general is not suitable for the job".

Were you aware..................

James Thomson has drawn our attention to improvements in the UK National Archives site. He writes:-

"A new search facility, The National Archives Global Search, was added to the website of The National Archives (at Kew) yesterday:http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/115.htm?homelink=news As you will see, it is as a result now possible, in a single step, to search across eleven catalogues on TNA's site, including the Catalogue of TNA itself, DocumentsOnline, Access to Archives (A2A) and the National Register of Archives (NRA). As A2A and the NRA collectively include entries for millions of records held at repositories other than TNA, this stands to be a highly convenient way of searching across a vast number of database and cataloguing entries. I suggest trying searches on both surnames and localities, and repeating them periodically as the included catalogues and databases are under very active development".

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In this Bulletin

We pass on further hints on the use of digital cameras in the Family History Centre (News from the trenches)
We report news of the arrival on-line of the 1851 Canadian census and of the 1841 census of Scotland (Were you aware...........)

Announcements

The mailing list for this bulletin grows every week. For this reason it is necessary to repeat details of upcoming events and changes so that these newcomers are aware of them.

We shall be discontinuing the Tuesday evening session through the summer. The 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. session on Tuesday 13 June will be the last of the Tuesday evening sessions until Tuesday 5 September. At the moment we are planning to continue all other sessions as normal during the summer period; it may be necessary due to staffing difficulties to cancel a particular session but if this occurs it will be announced beforehand.
The Family History Centre will not be open this coming Saturday, 20 May, or on Monday 22 May (Victoria Day).

Films received in the 7 days ending 18 May 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 15 June 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN NF Marriages 1905-1916	2168996
CAN NS Annapolis Co Deeds 1814-17	0814077
CAN ON marriages 1880	1976227
CAN ON Marriages 1907	1871703
CAN ON Marriages 1908	1871864
DEU Hamburg Pass Lists Indx 1864-65	0473072
DEU Hamburg Pass Lists Indx 1865	0472896
DEU Laushied Ch Rec 1704-1919	0469123
DEU Laushied Family Book 1756-1936	1336849
DEU Offenbach PRs 1691-1798 (2)	0466715
DEU Rheinland Cath Marrs 1798 (10)	1224590
DEU Sien Ch Rec 1704-1869	0556072
DEU Tilsit PRs 1847-1880	0072922
DEU Tilsit PRs 1914-1944	0072944
ENG LAN Tox Pk St Clem's Bs 1841-90	2147909
ENG LAN Tox Pk St Clem's Ms 1892-01	2147911
ENG LEI probate 1844	1538012
ENG LEI probate 1844	1538013
ENG WIL Highworth PR's	1279305
ITL FOGGIA Alberona Allegat 1866-78	1803796
ITL FOGGIA Alberona Allegat 1878-89	1803797
ITL FOGGIA Alberona BMD 1866-82	1803167
ITL FOGGIA Alberona BMD 1882-90	1803168
ITL FOGGIA Alberona M.Docs 1840-55	1693257
NLD Amsterdam W'kerk Marr 1584-	0113402
RUS Permska Kotlassloi 1899-1928	2010724
SCT CLK Alloa 1851 Census	1042274
SCT PER Kincardine OPR 1691-1854	1040191
USA NY Albany Cemetery Records	0415537
USA NY Decs of Intent 1856-1864	1301575
USA NY Naturalization 1858-1860	1301791

Digital Cameras. One of our readers, Paul Plesman, has given us further hints on the use of digital cameras for recording images direct from the microfilm reader screen:

1) When using a microfilm reader, avoid those facing exterior windows. You will get the reflection of the window on the screen.2) Do not aim the camera directly at the screen as it will wash out the centre where the lightbulb is.3) Move the portion of the film you wish to photograph either below or above the centre if at all possible and take the picture at an angle while making sure the image is still readable.4) Avoid using microfilm readers that have a yellow bar in the middle. Generally these are units made for typographical data making it easier to know which line you're on. Unfortunately it is a pain when doing research in handwritten books. Unfortunately some archives use this type of unit.5) When you have taken the photo and copied it to your computer, use photo software to convert it from color (generally the screens of mircofilm readers are yellowish) to 256 shades of grey (basically black & white).6) If the microfilm is a negative, use Microsoft Paint to reverse the image from black with white text to white with black text for easier reading.7) If using a camera proves impossible (some archives will not let you use a digital camera even to photograph the microfilm reader!), make a positive print of the image and photograph or scan it later.8) If at all possible, use a high-density camera. 5 Megapixel minimum. They are not that expensive anymore. Thank you Paul.

Military Records. Shirley Sanderson reports her delight with the military record she acquired from the National Archives of an ancestor, George Mallion. George enlisted in the 36th Regiment of Foot on 8 April, 1826, and served in the West Indies from 1830 to 1839. While he was in the West Indies and having been in the regiment for 9 years he was promoted from Private to Corporal and a year later to Sergeant but in 1845 he was busted down to Private again having been found guilty of misappropriating £4 from the Sergeants Mess account. His discharge papers in 1846 record his place and almost precise date of birth together with his personal details.

Were you aware......................

1851 Canadian Census. Linda Reid has passed on the following regarding the 1851 Census of Canada

Library and Archives Canada has just put the
www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/1851/index-e.html

At this point there is no name or street index. However, the images I looked at were excellent, much better than the microfilm.

Toronto researchers should be aware that the returns for Scarborough and the City of Toronto (1851 boundaries) have been lost, but if they are looking for a family that lived north of Bloor Street, or east of the Don River, or west of about Dufferin Street, they should be able to find them in York Township.

All researchers should be aware that the census was taken in January of 1852, although it is often referred to as the 1851 census.

1841 Census of Scotland. The Scotland's People site www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk advises us

"With the recent launch of the 1841 Census for Scotland, ScotlandsPeople is pleased to announce that all available Census indexes are now on line.(Please note that we are currently working through a few remaining outstanding district issues)."

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In this Bulletin

We pass on hints on the use of digital cameras in the Family History Centre (News from the trenches)
We report on a website offering free of charge access to records of interest to those people researching in the Sheffield and Rotherham areas of Yorkshire, England (Were you aware........).

Announcements

The mailing list for this bulletin grows every week. For this reason it is necessary to repeat details of upcoming events and changes so that these newcomers are aware of them.

We shall be discontinuing the Tuesday evening session through the summer. The 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. session on Tuesday 13 June will be the last of the Tuesday evening sessions until Tuesday 5 September. At the moment we are planning to continue all other sessions as normal during the summer period; it may be necessary due to staffing difficulties to cancel a particular session but if this occurs it will be announced beforehand.
We remind you that in order that your descendants can gain access in 2098 to the information you are providing in the 16 May 2006 Canadian Census return it is necessary to check the 'Yes' box. If you do not check either box of answer 'No' the information will not be released.

Additions to our permanent collections.

Netherlands. Guides for genealogical sources in the Netherlands (Fiche 6000039) and in the provinces of Zeeland (6000041), Groningen (6000042), Friesland (6000043), Overijissel (6000044), North Holland (6000046), Utrecht (6000047), Limburg (6000048), North Brabant (6000049), South Holland (6000050), Drenthe (6000051), Gelderland (6001721). Origins of names in the Netherlands (Fiche 6000059). Sources of Church Records in the Netherlands, Dutch Reformed (6000054), Walloon or French Reformed (6000055), Evangelical Lutheran (6000056), Roman Catholic (6000058).

Scotland. Ayrshire, Kilmarnock and Loudoun. Pre-1855 Gravestone Inscriptions (Fiche 6036500)

Films received in the 7 days ending 11 May 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 8 June 2006.


Film Content	Film No
DEU Nicolas Gibbs Homeland (5)	1183677
DEU PRE Schwetz Births 1819-1829	0245570
ENG SRY Albury PRs 1813-1913	0804116
NLD Amsterdam W'kerk Deaths	0113404
NLD Amsterdam W'kerk Marr 1728-	0113403
POL German Teachers College	0908101

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In this Bulletin

Now that everybody seems to have received their 2006 Canadian Census forms we remind you once more to check the provision concerning the future release of information (Announcements)
We pass on some hints concerning access to the data for the 1841 England & Wales on Ancestry.com (Were you aware.....).

Announcements

The mailing list for this bulletin grows every week. For this reason it is necessary to repeat details of upcoming events and changes so that these newcomers are aware of them.

We shall be discontinuing the Tuesday evening session through the summer. The 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. session on Tuesday 13 June will be the last of the Tuesday evening sessions until Tuesday 5 September. At the moment we are planning to continue all other sessions as normal during the summer period; it may be necessary due to staffing difficulties to cancel a particular session but if this occurs it will be announced beforehand.
We remind you that in order that your descendants can gain access in 2098 to the information you are providing in the 16 May 2006 Canadian Census return it is necessary to check the 'Yes' box. If you do not check either box of answer 'No' the information will not be released. May you spin in your grave.

Additions to our permanent collections

All 71 films of the Baptism, Marriage and Burials for India covering approximately 1700 to 1948, the ordering of which we announced in Bulletin 12/2006, have now been received. They are housed in the cabinet in the fiche machine room opposite the desk and have been labelled and are ready for use. In a later bulletin we will suggest ways of using them to the best advantage.

Films received in the 7 days ending 4 May 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 1 June 2006.


Film Content	Film No
ARG Parana 1895 Census	0714396
ARG Parana 1895 Census	0714397
CAN ON Marr 1907	1871705
CAN ON marriages 1913	1869509
CAN ON D-C Marriages 1873	1862890
DEU MEK Hanstorf Kirchenbuch 1661	0069204
DEU PRE Prokuls Bapt 1772-1800	0072509
DEU Tilist PRs 1642-1944	0072943
ENG GLS Frampton-on-Severn PR	0855690
ENG KEN Shoreham PR 1558-1812	0992535
ENG LEI, Leicester St George pr	0870054
ENG WIL Highworth PR's	1279306
ENG WW1 "Burnt" records Beck	2094183
ENG WW1 "Burnt" records Beck	2094181
IRL Deeds Reg 1708-1904	0599270
IRL LEX Aghaboe PR	0979700
IRL ROS Hodson Family	0101011
NLD Olde Hove M 1875-1882	1339295
POL Sonsk PRs 1826-1836	0702616

Several readers of this Bulletin have reported that they obtained disappointing results when searching the 1841 England & Wales Census on Ancestry.com (available free of charge at the Family History Centre). Several things should be borne in mind. The 1841 Census did not record actual place of birth - it was merely necessary for the enumerator to record whether the respondent was born within the county of residence or outside it, or in Scotland, Ireland or 'Foreign Parts'. Because of this if you were searching for a John SMITH residing in Devon but born in Somerset (and you enter these details in the Search box) you will get no results. However, if your John SMITH was born in Ireland or Scotland (and provided that the enumerator followed the instructions) you will get results if you enter Scotland or Ireland in the country of birth box. But, just so that it is not too easy for you, if he was born in 'Foreign Parts' those words have to be entered in the 'Keywords' box. The ages of people in the census are also causing problems. The enumerator was instructed to record the actual age of people over the age of 15 to the nearest 5 years below their age. Thus somebody who was 19 could be recorded as being 15 and somebody aged 44 could be recorded as being 40. I say "could" since in quite a large number of cases the enumerator either ignored or did not understand the instructions and recorded actual ages. Entering an age + or - 5 years would seem to be a good idea.

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Apologies for calling last week's Bulletin No. 16/2005. Somebody has just told me that we are now in 2006.

In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to the wealth of information on the U.K. National Archives website (see the Were you aware........section)

Announcements

We shall be discontinuing the Tuesday evening session through the summer. The 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. session on Tuesday 13 June will be the last of the Tuesday evening sessions until Tuesday 5 September. At the moment we are planning to continue all other sessions as normal during the summer period; it may be necessary due to staffing difficulties to cancel a particular session but if this occurs it will be announced beforehand.

Films received in the 7 days ending 27 April 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 25 May 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Wellington Deaths 1933	2358847
CAN ONT D-C Marriages 1907	1871708
DEU BAV Habkirchen PR 1688-1798	0367418
DEU PRE Schwetz C 1842-1851	0245572
ENG CAM Linton pr	1040537
ENG GLS Wheatenhurst BT 1571-1812	0427804
ENG LAN St Nicholas PRs 1817-1842	0093834
ENG SUF Charsfield pr	1658080
FRA LOR Achen PR 1664-1764	0637092
FRA LOR Bliesbruck PR 1715-1782	1170398
IRL DOW Ballymageogh Census 1911	2094299
POL Duchy of Poland 1815-1915	1573088
SCT PER Blair Atholl PR	0993520
USA NJ East Jersey deeds	0522746
USA NJ East Jersey deeds	0460030
USA NJ East Jersey deeds	0460031
USA NY Brooklyn Deaths 1919-1949	2132074

You might well imagine that the U.K. National Archives website www.nationalarchives.gov.uk could be a bit dreary. On the contrary you will find it to be quite racy. Current featured documents, recently released, include one on "feckless British schoolgirls who solicited American GI's" and another records a Home Secretary's attempt to censor a movie Good Time Girl that launched Diana Dors' career. On a more serious note I found 267 Goddards listed under the Register of Seaman's Services in each case giving the place of birth. This search, like most, was free of charge but to download the actual document would have cost £3.50 for each document (not each page). Similarly, a section of the site, WW1 Campaign Medals which contains hundreds of thousands of entries can also be searched free of charge. In the case of detailed Military Records which cannot be downloaded one has to obtain a quotation for the cost of the document which if the quotation is accepted is then airmailed. There is a £10 charge for the quotation which, if accepted, is put toward the cost of the document. You can reckon that most military records will cost, in Canadian terms, around $25.

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A reminder. We very much welcome contributions to this Bulletin such as news of websites that might have interest to a number of readers or unusual entries that readers have come across. We could also include a question and answer section. We are conscious that many of the items we write about relate to the U.K. but it is up to the non-UK researchers to draw our attention to items that may have interest to these researchers.

In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to exciting developments on both the Ancestry.com and the Scotland's People sites that occurred today. (See the Were you aware.............section)

Announcements

The Ontario Genealogical Society tell us:

Monday, April 24, 2006, 7:30 pm. Meeting of OGS Toronto Branch in the 2nd floor auditorium at North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge Street. The speaker will be Catherine Pepper, a librarian in the Canadiana Department. She will be talking about Ancestry Library Edition. This database is available in the public libraries at North York Central Library, Toronto Reference Library, Cedarbrae Library and Richview Library. It includes the 1911 Canadian Census.Visitors are welcome but are asked to sign in and to make a contribution towards the meeting costs. Films received in the 7 days ending 20 April 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 18 May 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON marriages 1908	1871867
CAN ON marriages 1908	1871869
DEU PRE Mittelreidenbach PR 1755-	0584949
DEU PRE Schwetz K-bcuh Marr 1847-	0245579
DEU PRE Shoemakers Guild 1680-	0519587
ENG BKM Lavendon PR 1796-1881	1042388
ENG CHS Rotherne PR 1594-1919	1941850
ENG DBY Brampton Mt Zion Chapel	2081083
ENG DBY Brampton PR 1880-1934	1752117
ENG DBY Newbold PR 1800-1906	1752116
ENG DOR Wimbourne Minster BT	0990117
ENG DUR Chester-Le-Street PR	1894221
ENG HEF Hampton Bishop pr	1040011
ENG LAN Orig Wills A-Z 1739-1740	0089770
ENG LEI Fleckrey bts	1656081
ENG LEI Wistow pr	0596081
ENG LIN Stainton by Langworth BT	0507101
ENG Royal Artillery records Miller-	0861871
ENG SOM Ashcott pr	1517680
ENG SRY Albury PRs 1559-1911	0804115
ENG WIL Bishopstone PR	1279445
ENG WW1 Burnt Records 'Sayle'	2198940
ENG YKS Holmpton 1841 Census	0464221
ENG YKS Tunstall BTs 1600-1856	0991179
IOM Various PRs	0990228
IRL COR Mallow PR 1776-1839	0596422
NLD Noord-Holland Amsterdam M 1869	0253513
NLD Noord-Holland Amsterdam M 1870	0253579
PHL Pampanga Magalang births 1913-	1720844
PHL Pampanga Masantol bapt 1905-	1128272
POL Niedzieliska Ch Rec 1835-1946	2099591
USA NY Staten Island CRs 1749-1965	0514669

Indexed versions, complete with the images of the enumeration pages, of the 1841 Censuses for both England & Scotland came on-line today. The 1841 Census for Scotland is on the pay-to-view site www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and the 1841 Census for England is on www.ancestry.com which is available free of charge at the Family History Centre. (At the time of writing the England 1841 Census is not listed with the other censuses on the UK Census page but it is accessible by inserting a search on the home page). Note also that with this census the left and right hand pages of the schedules are shown on one image and it is necessary to scroll across to see the complete image.

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In this Bulletin

We draw your attention to the Irish Probate Films we have in our permanent collections and to various web-sites that may be of interest (see the Were you aware...............section)

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for on Good Friday 14 April, Easter Saturday 15 April and Easter Monday 17 April.
The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society are holding a Day Devoted to English Genealogy on Sunday 29 October 2006 from 10.15 a.m to 4.30 p.m. (registration from 9.30 a.m.) at the Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence Avenue East. Dr Christopher Watts who has published a number of books on genealogical subjects is coming over from the UK to give talks on Sources for Family History at The National Archives, Records of Other Ranks in the British Army 1760-1913 and Underused Sources for English Genealogy. Bonnie Bell's talk is entitled Using Pictures in English Family History Research, Michael Fitton's IPMs, Feet of Fines and Other Strange Things deals with researching ancestry prior to 1645, Marian Press talks on What does the Internet Offer for English Genealogy while James Thomson addresses Apprenticeship, Trades and Professions in England. Some of these talks run concurrently. This is an excellent programme and it would be surprising if it were not fully subscribed. Cost is $35 if paid before 15 September, $45 between then and 19 October and $55 at the door, space permitting. Registration Forms are currently available at the FHC and full details are on www.torontofamilyhistory.org

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Netherlands Antilles St Eustatius Parish Register transcripts 1773-1778 (Fiche No.6030542)
England, Northants, Stowe-Nine-Churches. Parish Register Baptisms and Burials 1730-1812, Marriages 1730-1754 and 1789-1811 (Fiche Nos. 6128974 and 6128977).

Films received in the 7 days ending 13 April, 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 11 May 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN BC 1966 Death Recs 8001-10999	2033854
CAN ON marriages 1879	1869504
DEU Tilsit Church Records 1850-1866	0072923
DEU Tilsit Church Records 1866-1886	0072924
DEU Weiebach Church Recs 1775-1798	0530211
ENG BKM Broughton PR	0919225
ENG DOR Compton Abbas BT	1279493
ENG DOR Portisham BT	1239223
ENG KEN Plaxtol PR 1654-1812	1473700
ENG LAN Everton PR 1876-1902	1656012
ENG LAN Toxteth Pk Bapt 1878-1967	1595426
ENG LEI, Leicester St George pr	0585274
ENG probate 1858	1278614
ENG probate 1866	1471122
ENG Royal Artillery Officers 1810-	0950840
ENG STS Lichfield pr 1659-1812	0421567
ENG STS Lichfield pr 1813-1868	0435791
ENG Wills CLARK 1887	1471962
ENG WW1 "Burnt" Records - MAR	2298284
ENG WW1 "Unburnt" records - MAR	1990820
ENG YKS Almondbury BTs 1632-1890	1849260
HUN Szombathely muster 1880-1914	0629876
NLD Oldehove Civ Reg Marr 1843-1854	1339293
POL Bialystok Jewish Recs 1866	1191933
POL Bialystok Jewish Recs 1866-1870	1191934
POL Bialystok Jewish Recs 1870-1873	1191935
POL Bialystok Jewish Recs 1873-1878	1191936
POL Bialystok Jewish Recs 1882-1886	1618510
POL Matrykula Jewish Recs 1826-1934	1191940
SCT ABD Tyrie pr	0993305
WLS MER Aberdyfi PR	0104540

We have in our permanent collection Irish Probate Calendar and Inland Revenue Index Films covering 1828 to 1920 and PC of Armagh Wills Indexes to 1857. A typical entry from the 1901 Calendar reads: "Godsell, Robert, 20 February. Administration of the estate of Robert Godsell late of Careigarostig Killeagh County Cork who died 25 January 1901 granted at Cork to Catherine Godsell the widow. Effects £482. 2s 11d"

The Missouri State Archives now offers the Missouri Death Certificate Database. It's a new online index & images. Currently the index covers from 1910 to 1955 and the images date from 1910 to 1920. It is at:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/
A site claiming to have millions of cemetery records is www.findagrave.com The data seems to be mainly from USA cemeteries plus Commonwealth War Graves entries

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Due to staff vacations this is an abbreviated Bulletin. Normal Bulletins will resume next Thursday, 13 April.

Films received in the 7 days ending 6 April, 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 4 May, 2006


Film Content	Film No
DEU PRE Schwetz Births 1852-1861	0245573
DEU Weiebach Church Recs 1737-1798	0493252
DNK Absolverede 1810-1870	0517563
ENG BKM Hanslope PR	1999275
ENG BKM Iver PR 1605-1827	0919234
ENG BRK Remenham PR 1697-1812	0088386
ENG DEV Plymouth Bapt 1579-1837	0933984
ENG GLS Kingswood Wesleyan 1799-	0595449
ENG SSX Worth Poor Recs 1621-1830	1469376
ENG WOR Newbold Church Rec 1839-	1067535
FRA NOR Roubaix Catholic PR	1142658
NLD Oldehove Civ Reg Marr 1879-1882	0235555
NLD Oldehove Civ Reg Marr 1913-1922	1800939
POL Miastkowo Births 1732-1817	0995610
POL Miastkowo Births 1817-1841	0995611
POL Przemysi Ksiegi 1784-1871	2380050
POL Wolica Ksiegi 1786-1939	2039969
POL Wyznany RC vrs 1816-1881	2205352
POL Wyznany RC vrs 1816-1881	2205351
USA NY Erie Co. Probate Cases	0963045

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Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

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We draw your attention to various directories that are available in the Family History Centre and to others that can be viewed on-line (see the Were you aware.............section).

Announcement

Due to staff vacations, next week's Bulletin will be an abbreviated version containing only the list of films that have been received that week. The normal Bulletin will resume on Thursday, 13 April.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

Scotland Criminal Case Files Index 1870-1980 (Fiche No. 6090388)
Scotland Index to Criminal Lunatics in Perth Prison 1867-1946 (Fiche No. 6090389)
Scotland Index to Criminal Lunatics 1853-1964 (Fiche No. 6090390)
The Warren Family Historian (Fiche No. 6047623)
USA. Revolutionary Soldiers in Kentucky (Fiche No. 6049912)

Films received in the 7 days ending 30 March 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 27 April 2006.


Film Content	Film No
ARG Parana 1895 census	0714394
ARG Parana 1895 census	0714395
CAN NS Annapolis Co Probate 1777-	0819426
CAN NS Annapolis Co Probate 1779-	0817481
CAN ON Marriages 1913	1976229
CAN ON Marriages 1913	1976228
DEU Auenheim CR 1793-1882	0753730
DEU Auenheim CR 1793-1882	0753729
DEU Civil Reistrations 1793-1892	1144328
DEU Friedland PRs 1640 - 1731	0071241
DEU MEK Parkentin pr 1639-1905	0069415
DEU PRE Osche Marriages 1853-1907	0245592
DNK Odense Viby PR 1684-1730	0050491
ENG Death Duty Register 1844 "C"	1485081
ENG KEN Wrotham Burials 1813-1901	1866645
ENG LND Record Copy Will 1872	1850745
ENG NFK Saxlingham P.Chest 1720-	2186287
ENG SSX Worth PR 1558-1837	0919105
ENG WIL Warminster St Denys 1778	1279373
ENG WW1 "Unburnt" Recs - Howis-	2028642
ENG WW1 Records	1990219
IRL WEX Monalee Census 1901	0852483
NLD Haarlem Births 1879-1880	0323428
NLD Haarlem Births 1881	0323429
POL Ciechanow PR 1864-1892	1895290
POL Przemysi Ksiegi 1784-1871	0753059
POL War Crimes Files 1949-1959	1839003
SCT LNK Biggar 1841 Census	1042745
SCT LNK Libberton PRs 1717-1857	1066598
UK Royal Artillery Service	0917038

We have on film and fiche at the FHC various city directories - Liverpool, Glasgow, Buffalo N.Y, Wicklow Ireland, - but an increasing number are now available on-line. Generally speaking these directories cover a particular year and will list trades people by address but by the late 1800's they become more extensive and more inclusive of private citizens. The University of Leicester has done a magnificent job of digitising numerous directories in the UK and these can be accessed, free of charge at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/findbylocation.asp Many others are available on Ancestry.com (free of charge at the Family History Centre). An Australian Cemeteries Index is on-line at www.cemindex.arkangles.com/ You can search by cemetery or by family name. If you can't find a UK telephone number on the British Telecom site (BT now has less than 50% of the market) it might be worthwhile to look at www.ukphonebook.com They seem to have some numbers not listed on BT.
A fairly new site www.lostcousins.com has become available, similar to Genes Reunited which attempts to link people but is free of charge. One enters your name against your ancestors as they appear in the 1881 Census. If somebody else puts their name in the site links you but obtains your agreement before passing on your email address.

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Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

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We report on our plans for future additions to our permanent collections (Additions to our Permanent Collections)
An interesting story in News from the trenches
We summarise the history of enfranchisement in England & Wales (Were you aware.............).

Announcements

Several people have kindly drawn our attention to a provision in the National Census of Canada due to be taken on Tuesday, 16 May 2006. Apparently, if we are agreeable to our personal information being released 92 years hence, we must mark "Yes" on the form. If we mark "No" or if we mark neither then the information will never be released. So if you want your descendants to see in 2098 what you reported in 2006, you had better mark "Yes".
We are told that a completely indexed 1841 Census of England & Wales will be available on-line from Ancestry.com complete with images sometime in April, 2006.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

In last week's Bulletin we solicited your views on what you would like to see added to our permanent collections. We suggested 1) India BMD 2) Ontario BMD 3) English Parish Records 4) Any other suggestions. A large number of you took the trouble to reply, for which many thanks. The front runner by a small margin was the English Parish Records followed by the India BMD. However, having evaluated what would be involved in acquiring the English Parish Records we have, regretfully, come to the conclusion that it would be beyond our means. A sample survey of the county of Norfolk suggests that for this county alone we would need to purchase 150 films so to cover the whole country would probably entail several thousand films which would commit our resources for many years to come. So we have made the decision to proceed with the acquisition of the index films of baptisms, marriages and burials of foreign nationals (mainly British) in India. The Indian records are arranged in three Presidencies - Bengal, Bombay and Madras. When these films arrive they will cover Bengal from 1713 to 1948, Bombay from 1709 to 1948 and Madras from 1698 to 1947/8. My thanks to James Thomson for sorting out which films need not be ordered (because they are currently or may be shortly available on-line) reducing the order from 90 down to 71 films.

Films received in the 7 days ending 23 March 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 20 April, 2006.


Film Content	Film No
DEU Fischbach RC Recs 1756-1791	1336884
ENG CHE Great Budworth pr 1734-1923	2262980
ENG DBY Chesterfield PR 1894-1906	1751991
ENG SFK Wherstead PRs 1683 - 1813	0992004
ENG SOM Castle Cary pr 1564-1891	1526462
ENG SOM Castle Cary pr 1564-1891	1526461
ENG SSX Frant 1841 Census	0464163
ENG WIL Warminster St Denys 1556-	1279363
ENG Wills K-M 1852 V.2 F.253-493	1817562
IND Bombay BMD 1923	0527693
IND Bombay BMD 1923	0527694
IRL LDY Census 1831	0597161
JAM Manchester Marrs 1895 - 1905	1506930
POL Lukawiec RC Recs 1795-1993	2003832
UKR Greek Cath Par Krowinka	2152027
UK Royal Artillery Service	0861869
USA NJ East Jersey Land Deeds 1715-	0460032
USA NJ East Jersey Land Deeds 1719-	0460033
USA NJ East Jersey Land Deeds 1737-	0460034

News from the trenches

Chris Robinson, a researcher with the Ancestors in the Attic History Channel programme writes:

"As I mentioned, I came into the FHC the other day to look at the microfilm containing the unburnt WWI military records for surname "Eaves". Our film crew had already left for England content with the fact that our soldier, Joseph Eaves, was not in the burnt records and therefore we could only use the medal rolls and war diaries to to find out about his military service.

I had ordered the unburnt records just as a precaution so we could strike it off the list of possible sources. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw theonly "Joseph Eaves" on the microfilm and it was our guy. I was stunned! What were the odds? I had to quickly copy the record and send it to our crew so they could make the necessary changes to the script before filming
at the National Archives in England.

My thanks to the Family History Centre!"

Were you aware.........................

The Reform Act of 1832 completely changed the system of electing Members of Parliament in England and Wales (similar legislation was enacted for Scotland). Put in simple terms, with the passing of this Act, males over the age of 21 owning homes with a value of £10 or more were entitled to vote. This enfranchised about 1 in 7 of all adult males. In 1867 a further Reform Act was passed which doubled the electorate by enfranchising all adult males paying rent or lodging over the amount of £10 per annum. It was not until 1918 that all men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30 were entitled to vote and then in 1928 the voting age for women was brought into line with that of men. In 1969 the voting age was reduced to 18.

There are a good number of pre-1900 voting registers available on LDS films but very few post-1900. However most major public libraries in the UK have large collections of the Electoral Registers for their area and I have found that most of them will look up a particular address for a particular year and tell you who was on the roll, free of charge. But bear in mind that the registers are not indexed, they can only look up an address, not a name. And don't push your luck by asking them to look up too many years!

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24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

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Some discussion has been provoked by the item in last week's Bulletin regarding the possibility of acquiring index films of births, marriages and deaths that occurred in respect of British subjects in India. Please read the item Your Views Sought - it is important that we get as many viewpoints as possible.

Announcements

The Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group is organising a 'Discover your Roots' tour to Western Ukraine to take place between May 25 and June 11, 2006. Cost is $3,250 per person based on double occupancy, including airfares from Toronto. Contact Jim Onyschuk for details jodanji@aci.on.ca
Our special thanks to Jim Pascoe who, following last week's notice, has donated a Hewlett Packard 4P Laser Printer to the Family History Centre.

Equipment Give-Away

The Epson Stylus Color 600 Printer is still available.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

A book, Genealogist's International Dictionary kindly donated by Shirley Lancaster. I learn that a Griddler was a street singer; Droit de Seigneur is also defined but I won't go into that.
Films 100895 and 100896. Ireland: indexes to Prerogative Court of Armagh wills, 1811-1857 (an index to pre-1811 wills for the same court is on CD BR 17).
Films 874092 and 1441064. British Isles: various issues of the (Quaker) Annual Monitor for years prior to 1843 (which complement our collection of post-1843 issues - see Bulletin 02/2006 of January 12, 2006).

Your Views Sought

Last week we floated the idea of acquiring the indexes of births, marriages and deaths that occurred among British Subjects in India. A few people emailed supporting this suggestion but other ideas have been put forward. A member of the staff has pointed out that we get far more people enquiring about BMD's for Ontario than we do enquiring about BMD's in India. Our practice has been to direct the Ontario enquirers to the collections held in the Toronto Reference Library, the North York Central Library and the Ontario Archives and we have deliberately avoided building collections that duplicate theirs. Furthermore, the Ontario BMD's are now on Ancestry.com and although our subscription does not currently cover these records (but the Public Libraries do) we can anticipate that sooner or later this problem will be resolved. However, it is appreciated that some researchers prefer to carry out all their research in one location.

Another suggestion is that we build up collections, county by county, of post-1837 English Parish Marriage records. If we had these films it would no longer be necessary for patrons to buy marriage certificates (which cost £7 each) since a copy of the certificate would be contained in the Parish Register. But, it should be borne in mind that by no means all parishes are covered.

So there you have it. For brevities sake 1) India; 2) Ontario; 3)English Parish; 4) Any other suggestions

Please let us know - in order if you like - which you would prefer. Your viewpoint is important. Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

Films received in the 7 days ending 16 March 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 13 April 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN BC Death Registrations 1966	2033853
CAN BC Death Registrations 1980	2051481
CAN ON Marriages 1870	1862475
DEU BAD Berghausen K'buch 1810-	1238170
DEU BAD Weisweil Kirchenbuch 1729-	1189606
DEU BAD Weisweil Kirchenbuch 1869-	1189605
DEU Borchersdorf PRs 1800 - 1815	1814793
DEU WUE Bierllingen Catholic PR	0958269
ENG "Burnt" Mil Recs - Scott	2198127
ENG BKM W Wycombe Bur 1813-1877	0919261
ENG CHE Great Budworth pr 1558-1734	2262979
ENG CHS Mottram in Longendale PR	2107083
ENG CHS Woodford Mon. Inscriptions	0090136
ENG DBY Alvaston PR 1614-1944	1042079
ENG DBY Chesterfield Circ Bap 1886-	1785840
ENG DBY Chesterfield PR 1878-1908	1752143
ENG GLS Gloucester PR 1754-1882	0991285
ENG GLS St Nicholas Marr 1813-1849	0855637
ENG LAN Manchester Cath Marr 1795-	2356676
ENG LDN Rec Copy Will 1875 A-M	1850862
ENG LDN Rec Copy Will 1910 H-Y	1894678
ENG LIN Stainton by Langworth PR	1450405
ENG WW1 "Burnt" records - Flower	2148372
ENG WW1 Mil Missorted Recs	2354470
ENG WW1 Military Records - Eaves	1749079
ENG WW1 Military Records - Mab-	2298114
ENG YKS Thorpe-Salvin 1841 Census	0464283
IRL DON Inver Census 1901	0824868
ITL Palermo Termini Allegati 1893-4	2017334
NLD Oldhove Pop index 1878-1884	0567811
NLD Oldhove Pop index 1878-1884	0567810
POL Gostynin Cath PR 1866-1890	1808576
POL Gwizdow C.R.	0766044
POL Minsk & Warsaw Conf 1882-1952	1793925
SCT ARL Inhabitants 1779	0844784
SCT WWI Records "Burnt" Denham	2094440
SCT WWI Records "Unburnt" Denham	1735922
UKR Greek Cath Par Krowinka	2152028
UKR Chernigov Jewish Births 1880-3	2091574
UKR Chernigov Jewish BMD 1884-1909	2091575
UKR Chernigov Jewish M&D 1885-1905	2091576
UKR Chernigov Jewish Marr 1876-1917	2091573
USA TN Williamson Co. Wills 1800-18	0024871
ZAF Kimberley Marriages 1883 - 1888	1295287
ZAF Kimberley Marriages 1888 - 1894	1295348

Toronto Family History CentreChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

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News on more on-line databases ( see the Were you aware........ section)
Equipment give-away
Yours views sought on future additions to the permanent collections

Announcements

A reminder that due to staff vacations we will not be open for the 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 evening session this coming Wednesday 16 March.

Equipment Give-Away

On a first come, first served basis we have the following equipment to give away

Epson Stylus Color 600 Printer
Hewlett Packard 692C DeskJet Color Printer
Xerox 250 Work Centre (combined Fax Machine, Printer, Copier)

All are believed to be in good working order but will almost certainly need new or refilled toner cartridges.

At the same time, if anybody has an HP111 or HP4 Laser Jet that they no longer require, we could put it to good use.

Your views sought

The British had a very substantial presence in India for over 200 years. Throughout that time a large army was maintained together with a civil service which was responsible for the administrative function. It was the normal practice for men serving in India to have their wives and children with them and consequently many, many births, marriages and deaths occurred there. (In this connection, if you don't already know it, look up one of my favourite poems The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God).

There can be few families with British roots that don't have connections with BMDs that took place in India. The records for these events are recorded under three Presidencies - Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. If there is sufficient interest our aim would be to build up a collection of the index films and fiche which would provide the detail necessary to identify the actual record which may be available on LDS films. We would not acquire films containing data that is available on-line; for instance, James Thomson points out that on-line indexes to 1855-1896 marriages in the Presidency of Bengal are accessible from Cathy Day's excellent site at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/

It is important that as many as people as possible let us know their views. Emails to Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

Films received in the 7 days ending 9 March 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 6 April 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Marriages 1877	1863650
DEU BAD Bruchsal K'buch 1804-1940	1192063
DEU BAD Bruchsal K'buch 1901-1962	1192065
DEU BAD Eichtersheim K'buch 1699-	1189124
DEU BAD Eschelbach K'buch 1616-	1272772
DEU BAD Schluttenbach K'buch 1810-	1237828
DEU BAD Schollbronn K'buch 1810-	1237829
DEU BAD Schollbronn K'buch 1832-	1056249
DEU BAD Wilferdingen K'buch 1816-	1192047
DEU Preuben Hessen-Nassau Floh PR	0806731
ENG ESS Layer-de-la-Hay PR 1755-	1565606
ENG GLS Gloucester PR 1558-1875	0991284
ENG LEI Hallaton PRs	0590780
ENG LEI St Margaret PRs	0811941
ENG MDX Cl'kwell St James Bans 1803	2232015
ENG STS Newcastle-U-L Cens 1841	0474632
ENG WAR Leamington pr 1662-1812	0429005
ENG WAR Leamington pr 1813-1842	0502285
HUN Szerem Ilaca PR	1791994
HUN Szerem Tovarnik PR	1739726
IND Bombay BMD 1929	0462976
IRL WEX Kiltealy Census 1911	2104992
IRL WEX Monalee Census 1911	2104801
NDL Amsterdam Pop Reg Recs 1851-	0440462
NDL Amsterdam Pop Reg Recs 1851-	0440463
POL Kosobudy CR 1785-1947	2003848
POL Kosobudy CR 1785-1953	2003845
RUS Kovna Zhviry Lutheran PR	2010346
USA MA Worcester BMD 1714-1848	0864090
USA NY Erie Co. Ind to Estates R-Sl	0915758
USA NY Erie Co. Ind to Estates Sm-V	0915759

The 1851 Census of Scotland is now available on-line on the pay per view site www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
57,000 women served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in the U.K. between 1917and 1920. Only 7,000 records survived the WW2 air raid but these are now available on the National Archives site www.nationalarchives.gov.uk One can obtain, free of charge, details of the date and place of birth of these women but there is a charge for viewing the full record.

Toronto Family History CentreChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

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More about war deaths (see the Were you aware......... section)

Announcements

Due to staff vacations the Toronto Family History Centre will not be open for the 6.30 - 9.30 evening session on Wednesday 15 March 2006.
Security System. Most of you will be aware that there is a video entry system installed at the south entrance of the Church. When you press the button to gain entrance to the Family History Centre, if we recognise you we let you in immediately. If not we have to question the person to ascertain their business. However, for us to get a clear image it is necessary to stand a couple of feet back from the bell-push - perhaps patrons could bear that in mind.

Films received in the 7 days ending 2 March 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 30 March 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Haliburton Marriages 1913	1928196
DEU MEK Steffenshagen B 1653-1858	0069575
DEU MEK Steffenshagen M 1653-1911	0069576
DEU PRE Osche CR Bapt 1866-1912	0245590
DEU PRE Osche CR Index 1855-1923	0245589
DNK Odense Bjerge Herred 1890 Cen	0263743
ENG "Burnt" WW1 Recs GOD-GOD	2327715
ENG BKM Lathbury PR	1042387
ENG ESS West Hanningfield PRs 1558	0571182
ENG MDX St Botolph Aldgate 1813-35	0380133
ENG Rec Copy Will 1845 - JP Jones	1485223
ENG STS Gnosall PR	1470948
ENG ''Unburnt" WW1 Recs GOA-GOD	1735213
ENG WW1 "Unburnt" records - Flower	1788281
JAM Deaths 1990-1991	1937853
PHL Masantol Pampanga Marr 1895-	1128274
POL Ciechanow Cath PR 1867-890	1808711
POL Kalisz Cath PR 1817-1824	0814722
POL Posen Archives Inventory	1181503
POL Warsaw Cath PR 1867-9, 1877	1257500
POL Warsaw Cath PR 1876-1877	1257464
SCT ABD Rathen PR 1702-1854	0993357
SCT LKS Barony PR 1846-1854	1041480
SCT STI Balfron PR	1041971
UKR Chernigov Jewish B&M 1894-1913	2091577
UKR Chernigov Jewish BMD 1875-1917	2091571
UKR Chernigov Jewish Death 1875-97	2091570
UKR Chernigov Jewish M&D 1875-1917	2091572
USA NY Mount Vernon BMD 1878-1895	1398783

News from the trenches Shirley Lancaster writes regarding the note in last week's Bulletin on the U.S. Castle Garden Immigration records: "I was thrilled to find the sailing information on my 3 X Great Grandfather who came to New York in 1837 and also my G.Grandfather his wife and child 1868 who came to Kansas as Quaker Missionaries?? The child is listed as 4 when in fact he was 4 mos. Many thanks to you and Diana Davies" Were you aware that............................ War Deaths. Most of the readers of this Bulletin will be familiar with the excellent Commonwealth War Graves site www.cwgc.orgwhich attempts to record the grave site or the memorial to all those people who lost their lives in World Wars 1 and 2. I've always thought it rather sad when a person is identified only by their surname and initial letter of their forename, usually accompanied by the notation "age unknown" and no further details given as to who they were related to. It must be said though that these are a minority and for the most part the site records all their given names. A partial remedy is available since the GRO microfiche of the Army, Navy and Air Force war deaths (all in the permanent collection at the FHC) always record the first name of the deceased but, you might have guessed it, only the initial letter of any other given names. It should be noted too, that some deaths that are recorded in the GRO fiche do not appear on the CWG site and conversely, some that are on the CWG site (quite apart from the Commonwealth servicemen) do not appear in the GRO fiche. In this latter case I have found some deaths in the civil records (although they were serving in the forces) but some deaths on the CWG site do not appear in either record. Consulting all the available records seems to be the wisest course when one is dealing with a death that might have occurred in those war periods.

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Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

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News of a great bargain in a pick-up truck!
Ordering a will from the U.K.
Pre-Ellis Island US Immigration records

Announcements

OK, I didn't know where to put this item as we don't usually have vehicles to sell but I thought this was worth bringing to the attention of Bulletin readers. Our Mission Office has a 2001 Chevrolet S10 Pickup Truck with extended cab to sell. It is a V6 4.3 litre, automatic, with tape deck, AM/FM and A/C. It has around 80,000 km on the clock and has been very well looked after. The book retail for such a vehicle is over $10,000 and it is being sold for $7,100. Don't think of haggling, the first serious person to see it will buy it at this price. Call the Mission Office direct on 416 490 6869.
Now, to get back to genealogy.
The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will be holding its regular monthly meeting on Monday, February 27 in the auditorium at North York Central Library at 7:30 pm. The speaker, Bill Gladstone, will talk about Canadian Naturalization Records. Marian Press will give a short presentation on Google Books. Visitors are welcome but are asked to contribute $5 to defray costs of the meeting.

Films received in the 7 days ending 23 February 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 23 March 2006


Film Content	Film No
ARG Parana 1895 Census	0714392
ARG Parana 1895 Census	0714393
DEU MEK Census 1819	0068878
DEU MEK Steffenshagen D 1653-1884	0069577
DNK Odense Kerteminde 1890 Census	0263602
DNK Odense Viby Marr 1830-1868	0050492
ENG BKM Weston Underwood PR	0919259
ENG CHS Little Leigh Bapt 1782-1937	2045911
ENG CHS Little Leigh Marr 1847-1983	1656403
ENG DBY South Normanton BT 1664-	0428940
ENG DEV Culmstock PR & BT	0917187
ENG GLS Bristol St James PR 1797-	1596534
ENG SSX Lindfield PR 1664-1735	0416753
ENG STS Gnosall 1841 Census	0474612
ENG STS Handsworth PR 1825-1834	0426555
ENG WOR Bewdley PR 1763-1931	2355679
ENG YRK Guisborough BMD 1600-1813	0919061
ENG YRK Upleatham BTs 1600-1870	0919062
IND Bombay BMD 1924	0527695
ITL Italian Diocese Yearbook 1951	0780555
ITL Italian Diocese Yearbook 1951	0780556
JAM Manchester Marriages 1906-1915	1506931
NLD Amsterdam Civ Reg E-F	0572302
NLD Amsterdam Civ Reg G	0572303
PHL Pampanga Magalang Marr 1913-93	1720845
USA NJ East Jersey Deeds 1766-1772	0460038
USA NJ East Jersey Deeds 1772-1784	0460039

Were you aware that........................

Obtaining a copy of an English (or Welsh) will

We have in the Toronto Family History Centre films that give details of all grants of probate for wills and grants of administration made between 1858 and 1957 covering the whole of England & Wales. These films are indexes, not the actual wills. A grant is usually made in the year of or the year following death but there is no time limit and I have come across grants made 40 years after the death. But supposing you want to see the actual will (a probated will is a public document in the U.K.).

The LDS have filmed all wills for which probate has been granted from 1858 to 1925. Note It is the year that probate was granted that is material not the year of death. The films are in two series: 1) Wills that were probated in London, sometimes called the Principal Probate Registry and 2) Wills that were probated outside London.

The London wills are on 1,025 films starting with Film No. 1836412. Outside London wills are on 1,173 films starting with Film No. 1239289. You can look up the appropriate film number on-line in the Family History Library Catalogue or in a folder held at the Toronto Family History Centre front desk. The Catalogue entries are a little difficult to follow and, if you are ordering a film it might be a good idea to get the staff to check the number for you.

For grants made after 1925 and before 1958 you should first locate the grant from the probate index films held in the Family History Centre. If you are interested in the will of a person that died in 1958 or later there is no easy or cost-free way of discovering whether in fact a will exists but you should establish the year of death from the GRO death indexes in the FHC. We have these up to the year 2003. Since to obtain the will you are going to need the address of the deceased you may need to obtain the death certificate first.

To obtain then the will of a person where probate was granted after 1925 you must apply in writing to:-

The Postal Searches & Copies Dept.

York Probate Sub-Registry,

1st Floor, Castle Chambers

Clifford Street,

York YO1 9RG

England.

The fee is £5. This will cover a 4 year search from the date of death and includes a copy of the will if there is one. There are no refunds if there is no will. You must give the full name and address and date of death of the deceased. Payment has to be made by cheque on a UK bank or by Money Order made payable to "HMCS" Note, the York Sub-Registry does not deal with probates granted in Scotland or Ireland. Payment cannot be made by credit card.

Pre Ellis Island U.S Immigration Records

Prior to the establishment of the Ellis Island immigration centre in 1892, immigrants to the United States through New York were processed, from 1830 onwards through Castle Gardens. There is now an excellent website, with free access, giving details of 10 million immigrants. This is www.castlegarden.org A tip: If you click on the head of the column showing date of entry the column sorts into entry dates thus bringing the whole family together. (My thanks to Diana Davies for drawing this site to my attention).

Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this bulletin, return this email with the word "Delete" in the subject line.

Toronto Family History Centre

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.

Email: Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

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Our thanks to those readers who emailed expressing their interest in the piece in last week's Bulletin on forbidden marital relationships. This week we give you a note on the history of untying the marital knot (see the Were you aware........ section).

Don't forget to tell us about those items that you think might be of interest to other readers.

Films received in the 7 days ending 16 February 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 16 March 2006


Film Content	Film No
Biography of William Wilkins	1317476
CAN ON Marr Registration 1877 V.A-B	1863648
CAN ON Marr Registration 1877 V.C-E	1863649
CAN PQ Shefford PRs 1864-79	1430755
ENG Army Records 1914-20 - Eaves	2068978
ENG Army Records 1914-20- Coulter	2107445
ENG Army Records 1914-20- Coulter	2107325
ENG Army Records 1914-20- Coulter	2107324
ENG BRK Thatcham PR 1764-1914	1040692
ENG GLS Meyseyhampton BTs	0425462
ENG IOM Kirk-German Marrs 1673-1883	1037089
ENG IOM Kirk-Onchan BTs 1849-1883	0106185
ENG LND Record Copy Wills 1860	1850155
ENG LND Wills1877 Mar W-Z - Apr A-T	1850922
ENG Wills 1875 Jan-Aug Blandf-York	1544707
ENG YKS Holmfirth bts	0990703
IRL DON Inver 1911 Census	2080914
PRT Ribeira Grande, Ponta Delgada	1453016
PRT San Piedro-Ribeirha b 1630-1845	1518059
RUS Aleksandrovskoe Lutheran pr	2008889
RUS Kretinger Lutheran pr	2008466
RUS Yurborg Lutheran pr	2012089
RUS Zhviry Lutheran pr	2038088
SCT INV Abernethy PRs 1730-1854	0101998
SCT INV Duthil 1841 Census	1042637
SCT INV Duthil 1851 Census	1042063
SCT INV Duthil PRs 1766-1854	0102001
USA Indian Wars Pens Indx Tru-Zw	0821621
USA NY Manhattan marriages 1920	1643838
USA NY New York Births 1933-1934	1322473

Toronto Family History CentreChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111.Email:

Toronto_FHC@bellnet.ca

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Just a little reminder that we would very much like to hear from readers of this Bulletin of any items of news that they have across that they feel might be of interest to other readers.

Announcements

OGS Toronto Branch advise us that:

The Introduction to Ontario Family History Research course, due to commence on 16 February, has been cancelled.

The Advanced English Family History Research course, due to commence on 5 April, is full.

All the other courses (see Bulletin 11/05) have space.

We regret that we are unable to offer access to the Canadian databases on Ancestry.com (see Bulletin 03/2006) due to subscription problems. We hope to resolve this shortly.

Films received in the 7 days ending 9 February 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 9 March 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN NF Civil Marr 1891-1901	2168994
CAN ON Birth Registration 1870	1844885
CAN PQ Argent'l Grenvile PR 1831-82	1992751
DEU Schonwalde Church Rec 1805-1874	0072733
DEU Schonwalde Church Rec 1805-1874	0072732
ENG BKM Moulsoe PR	1042392
ENG BKM Moulsoe PR	1042391
ENG DBY Derby St Michaels 1561-1883	1041152
ENG DBY Derby St Werburgh 1754-1837	1041168
ENG ESS Fingringhoe PR	1565524
ENG HAM Winchester Wills 1543-1559	0186866
ENG HAM Winchester Wills 1640 A-K	0186927
ENG HEF HamptonBishop BMD 1813-1932	2355809
ENG HEF Hampton-Bishop BT 1669-1862	0992152
ENG KEN Deptford St Nick PRs1801-19	0254597
ENG KEN Deptford St Paul PRs1809-17	0254584
ENG KEN Wrotham PRs 1756-1812	1866587
ENG SSX Lindfield Ind. CR	1364171
ENG YKS Anston PR 1544-1954	1544931
GER Konigsberg bap 1730-1846	0161883
GER Konigsberg dea 1745-1852	0161887
GER Konigsberg dea 1764-1845	0161886
GER Konigsberg mar 1764-1874	0161885
ITI Calabria births 1852-8	1546533
ITI Calabria births 1858-64	1468239
PRT Ribeira Grande, Ponta Delgada	1453020
SCT BEW Cranshaws Census 1841	1042821
SCT BEW Cranshaws Census 1851	0103663
USA MA Worcester Vital Records	0599245
USA NY Erie Co Indx Deeds 1808-1859	0812646
USA NY Erie Co Indx Deeds 1808-1859	0812739
USA NY Washing' Co Mtg Recs 1773	0475430

Toronto Family History Centre
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111

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In this Bulletin we give you

A guide to finding those elusive films of World War I Military Records (see the Were you aware....... section)

Films received in the 7 days ending 2 February 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 2 March 2006


Film Content	Film No
BRB Parochial Records 1879	1157997
CAN NS Colchester deed index	0571348
CAN NS Cumberland deed index	0496213
CAN NS Cumberland estate file index	1547587
CAN NS Cumberland will books	0589548
DEU BAD Epfenhofen PR 1838-1958	1054203
DEU BAD Futzen PR 1640-1748	0948986
DEU BAD Futzen PR 1748-1837	0957318
DEU BAD Futzen PR 1838-1900	0957320
DEU OPR Warpuhnen - Genealogy	1945912
ENG BKM Wycombe 1841 Census	0241217
ENG CUL Dacre PR	0924744
ENG CUL Penrith PR	0090652
ENG DBY Derby All Saints PR	1041145
ENG DBY Derby St Alkmund PR	1041161
ENG DEV Ashburton Burials 1685-1837	0916803
ENG HEF Canon-Pyon PR	2093479
ENG HEF Canon-Pyon PR	2093493
ENG London Rec Copy Will Sep 1886	1866986
ENG MDX S'ditch St Leo. PR 1827-30	0396237
ENG MDX S'ditch St Leo. PR 1830-33	0396238
ENG MDX Stepney St Mary C 1837-42	0094697
ENG Peterborough Rec Copy Will 1897	1597216
ENG SSX East Grinstead PR	0992230
ENG SSX Lindfield PR 1736-1755	0416757
IRL ANT Carrickfergus Census 1911	1999335
IRL ANT Carrickfergus Census 1911	1999336
IRL KID Thomastown RC pr	0926116
IRL TYR Kildress Census 1901	0855979
IRL TYR Kildress Census 1911	2106309
LVA Riga St Martin's PR Births	1945048
PRT Ribeira Grande, Ponta Delgada	1453019
PRT Ribeira Grande, Ponta Delgada	1453018
PRT Ribeira Grande, Ponta Delgada	1453017
PRT San Piedro-Ribeirha b casamento	1518060
PRT Santa Catarina-Cabo da Praia	1337945
USA CO Montrose St Mary 1906-1957	0002738
USA IL Chicago Polk's dir 1928/9	1759649

World War I Military Records.

Nearly six million men and women served in the British and Commonwealth Armed Forces in World War I. One in eight did not survive. Many of the service records of these people were destroyed in the blitz World War 2 but the records that were not destroyed have been filmed and are available, to order, from the Family History Centre. A military record commonly contains such details as a date and place of birth, date of enlistment, names of parents, names of next-of-kin, medical and disciplinary records, medals awarded and places served. There is a huge amount of material available contained in nearly 35,000 films.There are two series of records, known as the "unburnt records" (5,000 films) which happened to be housed at the Ministry of Pensions at the time and the "burnt records" (30,000 films) i.e. those records that survived the fire. A particular soldier's record might be found in either series. These films do not contain the records of officers. These films are not easy to locate in the Family History Library Catalog as they fall in no less than 12 different series so we have devised a method to easily find the series that might be of interest to you. In the Family History Library Catalog on www.familysearch.org one should carry out a search under Film/Fiche Search, entering the number of the first film in the particular series. In the case of the "unburnt records" all surnames are covered in one series. The first film of the 5,000 is Film No. 2046553. Having entered this number and then going to "Film Notes" you can then move down the record to locate the particular surname of interest. The "burnt records" are contained in 11 different series. Below we show the number of the first film in the series:

Surnames
A-E     2068273      F    1937138            G-I        2327481             J-K            2324394                       L-M      2324214

N,O,Q        1937168        P        2215489         R      2228752       S        2198026        T        2191721        U-Z        1937244

A tip. Unless you are lucky and the surname you are after is near the beginning of the series, use the Get Records facility at the foot of each film notes page to move quickly through the records. We have heard of people who tried to get to the record by scrolling down page by page but rigor mortis set in before they had completed their task.

Soldiers who died in World War 1

www.1837online.com have made available on-line details of the 703,000 soldiers and officers who died in World War 1 and which were first published in 1921 by His Majesty's Stationery Office in 81 volumes entitled Soldiers who died in the Great War. These details often complement those given on the Commonwealth War Graves site e.g. giving a full name or an age in cases where CWG does not show this. Looking up the index is free of charge but getting the full details can cost from 50 pence to £1 per entry.

Toronto Family History Centre
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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In this Bulletin we give you

The latest news on the new Canadian databases on Ancestry.com
A description of the England & Wales Death Duty Index films, the arrival of which we announced in last week's Bulletin.

Additions to our permanent collections

POLAND. On CD Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland & other slavonic countries published by and kindly donated by The Polish Genealogical Society of America.

ENGLAND AND WALES.

(We would like to thank James Thomson for the following description.)

The Centre’s new collection of Death Duty Indexes (DDIs) for England and Wales consists of 98 microfilm reels and covers the years 1796-1857; these records pre-date the Centre’s existing collection of National Probate Calendars for England and Wales, which covers the years 1858-1957. There are very useful online introductions to the DDIs, and the Death Duty Registers they index; excellent starting points include:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=107

http://www.nationalarchivist.com/index02/about.cfm

I perceive the Indexes as being prospectively useful in three ways:

1. In their intended role, as indexes to the Death Duty Registers; as noted in the sites above, these Registers may contain helpful information not found in the wills or grants of administration themselves.2. As a highly useful finding aid in identifying in which of the many pre-1858 ecclesiastical courts a will was probated or administration granted.3. As a complement to the National Burial Index in determining a date of death, particularly though not exclusively prior to the commencement of civil registration in mid-1837.

One might properly ask what percentage of estates attracted Death Duty (and hence would appear in the Index). Here is what Ancestral Trails has to say: " In the years after 1796 the exemptions from death duties were reduced and inflation brought more and more estates above the taxable level. It is estimated that only about 25 per cent of wills and admons were recorded in the registers up to 1805, but the figure was about 75 per cent from 1805 to 1815 and later almost 100 per cent."

One faces three challenges in using the DDIs for the first time: the indexes are arranged in different sequences; the way the indexes are compiled varies; and the information presented in them may be difficult to interpret. Useful assistance in these matters is provided at: http://www.nationalarchivist.com/index02/interpret.cfm

Having read the webpages noted above, you will not be surprised to learn that the 98 films at the Centre are arranged in several sequences, as follows:

A) Films 1-4: Indexes respecting Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) wills and administrations for the period 1796-1811.

B) Films 5-10: Indexes respecting wills and administrations at all other courts (referred to as the “Country Courts”) for the period 1796-1811. For this group only, a very useful alternative index has just been made available online; the latter index is free, is very easy to use, and is linked to pay-per-view images of the Death Duty Register entries themselves. The index and images are described at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/death-duty.asp

(Note that the microfilm indexes at the Centre provide a bit more information than the online index, including the name of the executor or administrator.)

C) Films 11-72: Indexes respecting PCC and Country Court wills for the period 1812-1857.

D) Films 73-86: Indexes respecting PCC administrations for the period 1812-1857.

E) Films 87-98: Indexes respecting Country Court administrations for the period 1812-1857.

If you find an reference of interest in the DDIs, then of course the next step is to look at the full entry in the Death Duty Registers themselves. For entries in the Country Court registers, 1796-1811, one can take advantage of the pay-per-view images on DocumentsOnline (above). In other cases, one option is to consult the microfilmed copies of the Registers which are available from Salt Lake City. A binder containing a guide to locating the correct Register film number is in preparation and will be available at the beginning of next week at the staff desk at the Centre.

If a Death Duty Register microfilm is borrowed from Salt Lake City, one faces the further challenge of interpreting the information which is presented on it. Once again, there is a very useful online guide which will be of great help in this; it is at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=245

Films received in the 7 days ending 26 January 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 23 February 2006


Film Content	Film No
ENG CAM Littleport School Records	2232602

In last week's Bulletin we reported that Ancestry.com had announced that they had just uploaded

Ontario Marriage Index 1858 to 1899 Ontario Birth Index 1869 to 1907 Ontario Death Index 1869 to 1932
1911 Canadian Census

We told you that we were experiencing difficulty with these databases insofar that we were unable to pull up the images. This trouble has persisted all week and turned out to be due to our subscription not covering these items. However, only this evening we have received a report that our subscription is being amended and we will, in future, be able to retrieve this data. As of one hour ago we had not been successful but this may have been due to the databases having been temporarily taken down altogether. News from the trenches

Readers of these Bulletins might have noticed that among the films we reported as having arrived in Bulletin 01/2006 were 4 films of births, marriages, deaths, wills and deeds for TAHITI. These were ordered by a researcher working on a new History Channel programme, Ancestors in the Attic. On Tuesday of this week we were visited by researchers Karen and Chris. Karen was looking for evidence of children thought to have been fathered by a missionary from England in Tahiti. She had already discounted the family legend that he was eaten by cannibals! However, during the course of their visit Karen mentioned that they wanted to find the child of a Canadian soldier who had died towards the end of WW2. It was known who he had married but the name of the child, or even the sex, was not known. We are pleased to report that within 24 hours we had located and spoken to this child - now a lady aged 61. She was delighted that she was going to be put in touch with her long-lost Canadian relatives and the Ancestors in the Attic researchers thrilled that we we able to accomplish this so quickly.

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Firstly, our thanks to all those patrons who have expressed their understanding of our need to increase the charge for the initial order and for the renewal of films. "Still good value" as one person put it.

This bulletin contains only good news.

Announcements

Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto BranchThe next general meeting of the Toronto Branch has been rescheduled from January 23 (the night of the federal election) to January 30. It will be held in the second floor auditorium at North York Central Library (Mel Lastman Square) at 7:30 pm. The main speaker will be Harry van Bommel talking about Canada 150: How to Add Your Family Genealogy and History to the 20-Year Project to Celebrate Canada's 150th Birthday in 2017. Additions to our permanent collections We are very proud to announce the arrival of 98 films containing the Death Duty Indexes from 1796 to 1857 for England and Wales. A full description of these films will be included in next week's Bulletin. These records pre-date our complete collection of the National Probate Calendars for England and Wales which cover the period 1858 to 1957. Films received in the 7 days ending January 19, 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 16 February 2006.


Film Content	Film No
CAN BC Civil Reg Deaths 1919-1920	1927144
CAN ON Corkery PR 1837-1884	1304512
CAN ON La Passe Cath CR 1851-1920	1304812
CAN PQ St Alphonse Cath CR 1899-	2030662
CAN PQ Eardley 1861 Census	0517404
CAN PQ Montcalm 1861 Census	0517398
CAN PQ St Genevieve Berthier 1823-	1293091
CAN PQ St Genevieve Berthier 1835	1293092
CAN PQ Stanstead 1861 Cen	0517428
ENG BKM Drayton Beauchamp 1841 Cens	0241214
ENG BKM Drayton Beauchamp BT	1999281
ENG CUL St. Bee's BT	0090658
ENG GLS Bristol BaptistCR 1787-1837	0825380
ENG GLS Bristol Indep. CR 1714-1837	0593816
ENG GLS Bristol St Philip PR 1777-	1596678
ENG SFK Lowestoft School Records	1657462
ENG SSX Lindfield Census 1841	0464161
ITL Termini Imerese Dths 1851-1854	1714037
ITL Termini Imerese Dths 1855-1859	1714038
ITL Termini Imerese Dths 1860-1861	1714039
ITL Termini Imerese Dths 1862-1870	2014484
ITL Termini Imerese Dths 1870-1890	2014635
SCT ABD Tullynessle PR 1718-1854	0993303
ZAF CP Cape Town Deaths 1914-1918	1670714
ZAF CP Cape Town Deaths 1918-1922	1670715
ZAF CP Cape Town Deaths 1936-1937	1670725

Were you aware that............................

Ancestry.com have added some massive and very useful databases over the past few days. These include:-

England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths 1837 to 1983 including images of the index pages. These are available free of charge. Your TSW had some difficulty with poor indexing that has occurred with the earlier, hand written, years. One can enter a surname and a time period and this results in a screen showing the first and last name on the page that should include the surname. I put in Goddard and 1850 + or - 5 years. One page was said to contain surnames beginning DUC and ending GUX but in fact the last name began DUX. Time prevented me from circumventing this problem.
Ontario Marriage Index 1858 to 1899.
Ontario Birth Index 1869 to 1907.
Ontario Death Index 1869 to 1932.
1911 Canada Census.

With these 4 latter indexes we were unable to pull up the actual images. At this point we are not clear whether this is due to the images still being up-loaded or whether the Family History Centre subscription to Ancestry.com does not cover these databases.

By the time we issue the Bulletin next week we will have resolved this.

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Many thanks to those people who send contributions and suggestions for these Bulletins. They are always welcome.

This Bulletin contains both good news and bad news. First of all the bad news.

Special Announcement - please note

We regret that as from tomorrow morning, 13 January 2006, we are obliged to increase the charge for both the initial order for a film and for each renewal to $7.00. Charges for microfiche remain unchanged at $0.50.

This is entirely due to increased charges being levied by Salt Lake who point out that it is necessary to cover increased costs and that the last increase was in February 1997.

And now for the good news.

Additions to our permanent collections

We have received a large number of microfiche over the past 7 days, some ordered by patrons and some ordered by the Family History Centre which will be paid for from donations by patrons.

British Isles - Two groups of fiche received this week are important additions to the Centre's holdings of items useful for Quaker family history research, as follows: (1) Fiche set 6091122 (6 fiches), being Joseph J. Green's index to death notices in the Annual Monitor for the years 1813 to 1892. Shirley Lancaster has very kindly provided to the Bulletin the following information from 'My Ancestors were Quakers' by Edward H. Milligan and Malcolm J. Thomas, published by the Society of Genealogists 1999: From 1813 to 1919/20 the Annual Monitor carried a substantial list of deaths of Friends (members of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers) in the British Isles. Joseph J Green in Quaker records, 1894, provides an index to over 20,000 names (with ages and place of death) in the Annual monitor 1813-1892. This is supplemented by two typescript indexes at Friends House Library covering 1893-1901 and 1902-1919/20. These indexes are useful not only for specific names but for indicating where a particular family lived. The Annual monitor also carried shorter or longer obituaries of some 3,100 Friends: an index of these is available in Friends House Library. (2) Fiche sets 6027692-6027768 (approximately 200 fiches), being copies of the Annual Monitor itself for the years 1843 to 1920 inclusive. Certain pre-1843 issues are available on FHL microfilms (reels 874092 and 1441064), but these are not currently held at the Centre. For anyone researching British Isles Quaker family history , The Quaker Meeting Houses of Britain... (two volumes) at the Toronto Reference Library (TRL) shouldn't be missed; the TRL also has The Quaker Meeting Houses of Ireland... (one volume) on order. These titles provide extensive physical descriptions of the meeting houses and Quaker burial grounds.

(We would like to thank James Thomson for the descriptions above, and Shirley Lancaster for the extract quoted.)

ENG YKS Tankersley Parish Registers. Fiche 6343925 Baptisms 1598-1812; Fiche 6343927 Baptisms 1813-1838; Fiche 6343937 Burials 1813-1858; Fiche 6343942 Burials 1859-1895.

IRL Dublin Grangegorman. Fiche 6035778. 100 years of life in Grangegorman.

IRL Dublin. Fiche 6035599. The Goldsmiths Company.

IRL County maps showing location of churches. Fiche 6020286 Munster; Fiche 6020301 Ulster; Fiche 6020302 Leinster.

IRL Miscellaneous Parish Records and Monumental Inscriptions. These fiche are too numerous to give detailed descriptions, but many predate civil registration:

6026027 6117218 6117219 6036823 6036834 6036836 6036858 6037049 6037062

6037068

Films received in the 7 days ending 12 January 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 9 February 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON deaths 1933	2358845
CHE AG Zofingen PR 1639-1731	1895107
DEU PRE Gorlitz CR 1834-1942	0071480
DEU PRE Rosenthal CR 1865-1900	1618424
ENG DBY Chesterfield Methodist CR	2081084
ENG DBY Chesterfield Wesleyan CR	2081085
ENG STS Tamworth pr	1526131
IRL ANT Carrickfergus 1901 Census	0807911
IRL DUB Dublin Mt Jerome Bur 1837	0911810
IRL DUB Dublin Mt Jerome Bur 1877-	0911811
ITL Venice Chrch Rec's Bap1564-1899	1037585
ITL Venice Chrch Rec's Bir1871-1931	2141902
ITL Venice Chrch Rec's Bir1871-1931	2141903
ITL Venice Chrch Rec's Bir1871-1931	2141901
ITL Venice Chrch Rec's Dea1871-1931	2141943
ITL Venice Chrch Rec's Mar1871-1931	2141904
USA KY Calloway Wills	1942708
USA NJ East Jersey Deeds 1763-1766	0460037
USA NY Manhattan marriages 1894	1493124
USA TN Marshall Wills	0977502
USA TN Maury Wills	2050902

Your TSW long ago realised that one never stops learning when pursuing our genealogy hobby. Going through some of the English Probate Calendars - what a marvellous source of information these films are - I was puzzled by the description given in a Calendar for around the end of the 1800's as the place of death of someone being Isle of Bute N.B. All became clear when I realised that the compilers of these calendars were going to some lengths to avoid the use of the 'S' word. So an executor residing in Edinburgh and one in Perthshire were described as being in North Britain. Just in case those guys up there had some strange ideas as to their place in the world. Were you aware that............ Ancestry.com have now added a fully indexed USA Federal Census for 1920. Previously only a heads of household index was available. Also now available is the 1930 Census of Merchant Seamen. I entered just a birthplace - England - and got hundreds of hits, likewise for Wales and Canada. Besides the name of the ship and the occupations, the address (and in some cases the name) of the next-of-kin is shown.

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And a Happy New Year to you all!

Announcements

A talk is being given by Dr Margaret Ann Wilkinson of the University of Western Ontario entitled Professional Genealogy and Personal Information Law. She will discuss what professional genealogists and family historians need to know about personal information and privacy legislation. It will be given at the Crest Theatre Green Room, Performing Arts Lodge, 110 The Esplanade, Toronto at 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday 7 February. Cost is $15. Register with Elayne Lockhart. elayne.lockhart@primus.ca
The Ontario Genealogical Society's annual conference will take place in Oshawa from May 26 to 28. Details from www.ogsseminar.org There is a reduced fee for those applying before January 31.

Films received in the 7 days ending 5 January 2006, due for return (unless renewed) 2 February 2006


Film Content	Film No
BRB Parochial Records 1852	1157964
BRB Parochial Records 1858	1157971
BRB Parochial Records 1860	1157973
CAN ON marriages 1875	1862895
CAN ON marriages 1878	1863653
CAN PQ Shefford PR 1823-1871	1430758
ENG NTT Radford BT 1763-1810	0503809
ENG NTT Radford BT 1824-1833	0504530
ENG Probate 1875 - Oxford	1544734
ENG Probate Index 1922 D-G	0251436
ENG SSX Bolney census 1851	0193545
IRL DON Inver Census 1901	0824869
IRL DON Inver Census 1901	0824868
IRL DON Inver Census 1901	0824870
POL Czernice PR 1826-1830	0702659
POL Lubaczow Catholic PR	2002747
POL Lubaczow Catholic PR	2002748
SCT AYR Maybole Free Church PR	1068236
SCT AYR Maybole PR	1041396
TAHITI Births Marr Deaths 1818-1941	1818465
TAHITI Births Marr Deaths 1818-1941	1494359
TAHITI Wills Deeds etc 1840-1893	1818463
TAHITI Wills Deeds etc 1853-1903	1818464
UKR Oleszyce Gk Cath PR 1812-1839	2380083
USA NJ East Jersey Deeds 1746-1750	0460052
USA NJ East Jersey Deeds 1747-1757	0460035
USA NJ East Jersey Deeds 1757-1763	0460036

News from the trenches

Your TSW saw the movie Mrs Henderson Presents during the Christmas holiday. It's the "based on facts" story of a Mrs Laura Henderson (played by Judi Dench) who invested a part of the large fortune she inherited from her husband into purchasing the defunct Windmill Theatre in London. I couldn't resist checking out some of the genealogical details. Laura Henderson (who was married to a Robert Stewart Henderson) did indeed have a son killed in WW1 but he was 27 at the time, not 21. The storyline fits much better with him being 21 but I won't go into why this is. This is, after all, a bulletin issued by a Family History Centre!

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This is the final bulletin for 2005. The next bulletin will be issued on Thursday evening 5 January 2006.

Items for inclusion in future bulletins are always welcomed.

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre is closed for the Christmas holiday from this evening until we reopen at 9.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 3 January 2006.
The members and missionaries of the Don Mills congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would like to extend an invitation to attend services this Christmas Day. The service will begin at 10:30 am. All are welcome.

Additions to our permanent collections

Ireland - Six films received this week extend the Centre's coverage of Quaker vital events into Ireland, as follows:

(1) Four films contain transcriptions of Irish Quaker birth, marriage and death/burial registers from the 1600s to the mid-1800s, arranged by monthly meeting as follows:

Film 571395: Carlow, Cork, Dublin

Film 571396: Dublin (continued), Edenderry, Grange, Limerick, Lisburn, Lurgan, Moate

Film 571397: Mountmellick, Richhill ("Rich Hill")

Film 571398: Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, Youghal

(2) Film 1559454 includes, as Item 10, the "Jones Index" to the four films noted above; this is a surname index, which shows which surnames are found in which registers.

(3) Film 571399 contains transcriptions of the national register of Quaker births, marriage and deaths in Ireland from 1859 to 1949. The birth and marriage entries in this register for the period 1859-1906 are indexed in the British Isles Vital Records Index (2nd edition), which is on CDs at the Centre.

As you may know, the Centre also has thirty-two microfilm reels containing digests of pre-1837 Quaker birth, marriage and burial registers for England, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. The content of these reels is identical to that described at http://www.rootsweb.com/~engqfhs/Research/digest_mcf.htm and they are numbered in the same way.

A future issue of the Bulletin, early in 2006, will contain a description of other Quaker resources at the Centre.

Ireland - Another notable arrival at the Centre this week is Film 0908819. This contains transcriptions of Church of Ireland parish registers published in the parish register section of the Journal of the Irish Memorials Association between 1821 and 1831; this work was undertaken in continuation of the transcribing work previously carried on by the Parish Register Society of Dublin. The registers in Film 0908819 are mostly but not exclusively of parishes in or near Dublin.

(We would like to thank James Thomson for the descriptions of these films given above).

Films received in the 7 days ending 22 December 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 26 January 2006


Film Content	Film No
BRB Parochial Records 1869	1157984
BRB Parochial Records 1879	1157997
CAN NS Colchester Prob Indx 1802-	0573561
CAN NS Colchester Est Papers 1802-	0573573
CAN NS Cumberland Prob 1796-1945	1547585
CAN NS Land Rec Indx 1784-1800	1378554
CAN NS Land Recs 1784-1800 A-G	1378556
CAN PQ Quebec city census 1861	0517340
CAN PQ Quebec city census 1861	0517339
ENG CHS Grt Budsworth BTs 1833-1900	1655826
ENG DEV Stoke-Damerel 1841 Census	0241334
ENG DEV Stoke-Damerel 1841 Census	0241335
ENG DOR Wills 1837-1838	0090777
ENG GLS Upton St. Leonard bts	0427798
ENG IOM Kirk Braddan PRs 1872-1883	0106190
ENG MDX St Clement Danes Bapt.	0574269
ENG MDX St Martin's in Fields Bapt.	0561147
ENG MDX St Pancras Marr. 1824-8	0598183
ENG Principal Probate 1875 Sep-Oct	1850863
ENG Principal Probate 1877 Apr-May	1850923
ENG SFK Bentley PR Transcripts	0993222
ENG SFS Alton pr 1681-1892	1278803
ENG SRY Horsleydown BT	0254543
ENG SSX Cuckfield 1841 Census	0464160
ENG WIL Tisbury 1841 Census	0464195
ENG YKS Craike PR Trans 1558-1812	0098530
ENG YKS Laxton BT 1630-1780	0991070
ENG YKS Morley Old Chapel CR	0828147
ENG YKS Tankersley Wortley Chpl BT	0919371
ENK YKS Morley Marr Indx 1550-1837	1426037
IRL DUB/COR/CAR Quaker BMD 1606-	0571395
IRL Jones Indx Quaker BMD 1606-1872	1559454
IRL KIK Thomastown pr 1833-1881	0926203
IRL LEX/ARM Quaker BMD 1613-1862	0571397
IRL Quaker BMD 1859-1949	0571399
IRL TIP/WAT/WEX Quaker BMD 1618-	0571398
IRL Various PR Marr & Bur 1656-1863	0908819
NLD Groningen Civil Registry1811	0529686
POL Ciechanow PR	1808710
POL Czernice PR 1849-1858	0723617
POL GALICIA Fehlbach	2267603
POL GALICIA Fehlbach	2267604
POL Kalisz St Mikolaj PR	1979533
POL Lomza PR	0995606
POL Warsaw Plonsk PR 1856-1865	0689567
SCT LKS Carnwath PR Bapt 1709-1802	1042970
SCT LKS Libberton PR 1717-1854	1066599
SCT PEE Newlands PR 1677-1854	1067919
UKR Oleszyce Gk Cath PR 1839-1945	2003197
USA CO Telluride PRs 1903-57	0002789
USA CO Telluride PRs 1920-47	0002741
USA Descend's of Capt James Herndon	0854144
USA IL Naturalization 1840-1950 Sdx	1432010
USA KY Calloway Abs. Pension Papers	1035877
USA KY Calloway Co Cemeteries	0873852
USA KY Calloway Co Wills Index	1942709
USA KY Calloway Co. Wills A-C	0321422
USA KY Graves Co Pension Files	0908983
USA KY Marshall Co. Wills 1848-1938	0321352
USA MO St Louis Decs of Intent 1912	1738627
USA NJ Colonial wars	0573334
USA Rev War Pensioners WIL-WIL	0972579
USA TN Wilson Co Wills	0430845
WLS DEN Llanfwrog Baptist CR	0815979

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes. Were you aware that............................ History Television is creating a new series about family history Ancestors in the Attic and is inviting submissions from the public.Full details are on http://www.history.ca/microsites/ancestorssearch/default.asp News from the trenches The Arbroath Saga (chapter 3) (For the benefit of new readers of the Bulletin, one of our readers, Peter Enneson, discovered from an article in The Scotsman that a relative of his ancestor was murdered as a child by certain William Cargill. Another reader suspected that William might have been a brother of their ancestor Robert Cargill). Peter now writes: "William did have a brother Robert, but their parents were James Cargill and Agnes Beattie. Since my note to you about the 1868 Swankie murder incident I have descovered that William Cargill and his wife Mary Cargill had four children (Alexander, William, David & Elizabeth) before the incident, the first out of wedlock. And after his internment in the General Prison for Scotland in Perth, he and Mary had two additional children (Agnes, b. 1873 & James, b. 1875 in St. Andrews, Fife). William died in 1875 by drowning, and Mary married a local fisherman, John Spence 25 years her senior, but returned in 1881 to her native Auchmithie with 4 of her 6 children, the two oldest having become
servants. Mary Cargill / Spence died in Arbroath in 1920".

Toronto Family History Centre

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
24 Ferrand Drive (Don Mills & Eglinton)
Phone: 416 422 5480 Ext. 111

May we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Bulletin 13/05. Suggestions for inclusion in future bulletins are welcomed.

Revised Announcements - Please Note

Contrary to our previous announcements it has been decided that the Family History Centre will not be open on Friday 23 December. Our last day with our normal opening times, prior to Christmas, will be Thursday 22 December. We will reopen on Tuesday, 3 January 2006. Films affected by the closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.
Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society advises that their next meeting has been rescheduled from 23 January 2006 to 30 January 2006 as 23 January is federal election day. The meeting will be held in the usual location, the Library Auditorium at North York Central Library at 7.30 p.m.

Special Purchase

We are pleased to announce that yesterday at the auction of the assets of the bankrupt Regal Gifts & Cards we were the successful bidders on 5 Five-Drawer Steel Cabinets which, while not being purpose-made microfilm cabinets, will do the job admirably. These will house over 1500 microfilms. The existence of these cabinets at this auction was brought to our attention by Matt Laing, a recipient of the Bulletin, who read of our requirement in Bulletin 07/05. Our special thanks to Matt and to those kind patrons whose donations made the purchase possible.

Additions to our Permanent Collections

England, Yorkshire, Kingston-upon-Hull. Microfiche of the computer printouts of various church and chapel and mariner records. Fiche Nos. 6910483-6910493, 6910989-6910994 and 6900185, 31 Fiche in all.

Films received in the 7 days ending 15 December 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 19 January 2006.


Film Content	Film No
AUS NSW Sydney CR 1842-1843	0993954
CAN NF Births 1902-1905	2133376
CAN NF Births 1905-1907	2133377
CAN NF Births 1907-1910	2133378
CAN NF Births 1910-1912	2133379
CAN NF Births 1913-1915	2133617
DEU PRE Korvey RC PR	1056100
ENG KEN Marden PR	1473759
ENG SOM Castle Cary PR 1813-1837	1526461
ENG SOM land tax records	1526841
ENG SSX Lindfield PR	1364161
ENG STS Tamworth pr	1526132
IND Bengal Marriages 1837	0498974
IRL COR Cork St Annes Cens 1911	2046597

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes.

News from the trenches

In last week's Bulletin we told of the case in Arbroath, Scotland of the murder of a young girl, related to one of our patrons, committed by a certain William Cargill who was found guilty but insane. Facetiously I commented that all I wanted now was for another patron to claim Cargill as their relative. Gwen Armstrong writes: "Searching Cargill's in Arbroath. My g-g-grandmothers brother was married to Helen Cargill. Her father was Robert. Perhaps William was Robert's brother. Robert's father was William. The time-line would fit" Don't worry Gwen, I come from a long line of hatters - they all went mad.
Sheila Emblem writes: "I recently completed Marian Press' course on Australia and New Zealand. What a goldmine! Especially for N.Z. They have just opened a new section for their Archives http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz I have chased a particular ancestor, Richard Eagar and his wife Ellen Emblem in Australia to no avail. I had a suspicion that they might have gone to N.Z. Well I found him through 'Archway', both his death certificate and his probate record. On the down side, it seems he died of natural causes while on a ship from Sydney to Wellington. So there is no mention of relatives. I am hoping for more detail in the probate record. Well worth a try if people have New Zealand ancestors".

Please, keep these items coming.

Were you aware that.............?

James Thomson has advised us that the 1901 and 1911 Censuses for Ireland are to be indexed and uploaded for free viewing. Unfortunately we have a while to wait. Full details are on http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051206/tc_afp/irelandcanadahistory

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This is the twelth of our weekly Bulletins. The Bulletin is now going out each week to more than 180 people and more are being added each week. Some items are repeated for the benefit of those that may not have seen them before. Suggestions for items for future bulletins are more than welcome.

Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.
We hear that some of the Ontario Genealogical Society's courses that are due to take place in 2006 (see Bulletin 11/05) are already becoming heavily subscribed. If you want to take part in any of these courses book soon!

Films received in the 7 days ending 8 December, 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 19 January, 2006


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Beaverton Catholic PR	1305883
CAN ON Penetanguishene Cath PR	1305885
ENG DEV Whimple PR	0917553
ENG LEI Leicester StMarg Cens 1841	0438750
ENG LEI Leicester StNich Cens 1841	0438751
ENG SSX Cuckfield BT 1829-1860	2186797
ENG SSX Cuckfield BT 1861-1863	2186969
ENG SSX Cuckfield BT 1864-1908	2186970
ENG SSX Cuckfield PR Trscrpt 1700-	1364153
ENG YKS York Castlegate PR 1626-	0990876
SCT INV Abernethy PR 1730-1854	0101998

Toronto Family History Centre

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
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This is the eleventh of our weekly bulletins. Suggestions for items that you would like included in future bulletins are welcomed. Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.
The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has announced the following courses for 2006 (all at North York Central Library except where otherwise indicated):-

Basic Genealogy and Family History. 4 sessions, Wednesdays 2-4 pm, Jan 25 - Feb 15. $60. Lecturer: Linda Reid. Introduction to Ontario Family History Research. 5 sessions, Thursdays 7-9 pm, Feb 16 - March 16. $75. Lecturer:Jane MacNamara. Using the Internet for British Genealogical Research. 3 sessions, Mondays 6-8 pm, March 6 - 20. $45. Lecturer: Marian Press. At Toronto Reference Library. Multimedia Scrapbooking and Genealogy. 2 sessions, Tuesdays 7-9 pm, March 28 - April 4. $30. Lecturer:Paul McGrath. Advanced English Family History Research. 6 sessions, Wednesdays 7-9 pm, April 5 -May 10. $90. Lecturers:-James Thomson, Peter Goddard, Joan Read. Hands-on Early Ontario Land Records. 3 sessions, Thursdays 2-4 pm, April 20 - May 4. $45. Lecturer: Jane MacNamara.At Archives of Ontario. American Genealogical Research. 2 sessions, Mondays 7-9 pm, May 1 - 8. $30. Lecturer: Ruth Burkholder.

Full details of these courses are on www.torontofamilyhistory.org

New additions to our permanent collections

A microfiche The Rouse Family of Albany County, New York. Fiche No. 6018868.
Netherlands. 8 booklets kindly donated by Christina Scott de Veenmol, the magazine of the Hoogeveine Historical Society.

Films received in the 7 days ending 1 December 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 12 January 2006


Film Content	Film No
USA Mil Recs Pensions 1775-1783	0972581

Were you aware that............ The Scotsman Digital Archive is currently offering free access to its database. You have to register to access the archive. The offer expires midday 7 December. The archive contains digital copies of every issue of The Scotsman from 1817 to 1950 and covers many articles not related to Scotland. I entered 'Goddard' and got more than 50 hits for the period 1817 to 1876. The site is http://archive.scotsman.com (Many thanks to Frances Radford for drawing this to my attention).

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This is the tenth of our weekly bulletins. Suggestions for items that you would like included in future bulletins are welcomed. Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.

New additions to our permanent collections

England & Wales .The fiche that was missing from the initial delivery of the England and Wales Civil Registration Death Indexes for 2003, surnames MEL-NIC (see Bulletin 01/05), has now arrived.
Canada, Ontario, Nottawasaga. A book, "Lets celebrate Nottawasaga's Sesquicentennial". An historical account of this Ontario township, kindly donated by Terry Russell.

Films received in the 7 days ending 24 November 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 22 December 2005.


Film Content	Film No
ARG Parana 1895 Census	0714391
ARG Parana 1895 Census	0714390
AUT Galicia - Colonization	1256477
AUT Galicia - German Inhabitants	1270061
BRB Anglican PRs Vol 100 1889	1158017
CAN ON Marriages 1879	1869505
DEU Brieg Church Military Records	0070821
ENG BKS Newport Pagnell Bapt B&B	0566020
ENG BKS Wycombe marriages	0994107
ENG BRK Ardington PRs 1634-1956	1040391
ENG CAM Ely Littleport Land Tax	0580814
ENG CHS Grt Budsworth BTs 1605-1833	1655825
ENG DOR Froome-St.Quintin BT	1279497
ENG IOM KirkBraddan M 1844-47 Bur's	0106711
ENG LAN Liverpool St. Peters	0093919
ENG LEI Tugby BT	0594975
ENG MDX Hampton Marraiges	0496699
ENG MDX Hampton Marriages	0496706
ENG MDX Westminster Marr 1848-1851	0561169
ENG MDX Westminster Marr 1851-1854	0561170
ENG NBL Hexham PR 1653-1800	0991801
ENG RUT Uppingham BT	1966369
ENG SFK Washbrook PR	0992000
ENG SFS Rowley Regis Bap 1600-1886	1849587
ENG SFS Rowley Regis Mar 1754-1859	1849588
ENG Soldiers Docs S-Y 1760-1854	0886678
ENG SRY Southwark St. George BT	0307690
ENG WES Askham PR 1566-1941	1471640
ENG YKS Craike PRs 1558-1982	2105068
ENG YKS Tunstall Census 1841	0464222
GRENADA Civ Reg 1871-1935	1523408
HUN Szehtes (Csongrad)	0642789
NLD Groningen Civil Registry1811	0529685
POL Lubaczow 1785 - 1851	2002746
POL Lubaczow 1785 - 1851	2003168
SCT PER Dowally Census 1891	0208733
USA KY Wilkins Cemetery Records	0321358
USA MA Shrewsbury VRs 1717-1890	0759526
USA Mil Recs Pensions 1775-1783	0972580
USA NJ West Jersey Deeds 1721-1734	0460049
USA NJ West Jersey Deeds 1734-1744	0460050
USA NJ West Jersey Deeds 1744-1747	0460051
USA NY Washington Argyle CR	0533506
USA NY Washington Deed Recs Indx	0553339
USA NY Will'msville Marrs 1841-1884	1421836
USA NY Will'msville SS Peter & Paul	1292807

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This is the ninth of our weekly bulletins. Suggestions for items that you would like included in future bulletins are welcomed. Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.

New additions to our permanent collections Four excellent books, kindly donated by Joan Edwards:-

Australians from Wales by Lewis Lloyd. 282 pages The Call of Zion by Ronald D. Dennis. The story of the Utah bound first Welsh Mormon emigration in 1849. 243 pages. Bound for Australia by David T. Hawkings. Very detailed and fascinating descriptions of early emigration. 269 pages.
Americans from Wales by Edward George Hartmann. 291 pages.

Films received in the 7 days ending 17 November 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 15 December 2005


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Deaths 1933	2358844
CAN ON Marriages 1869-1870	1862474
DEU PRE Welver Cath CR 1807-1874	1186638
DEU PRE Welver Cath CR 1819-1874	1047683
ENG DEV Littleman 1841 census	0241304
IND Bengal marriage index 1831-59	0498533
POL Acohansin pr	1808713
POL Deicktanews pr	1191915
POL Deicktanews pr	1496788
POL Deicktanews pr	2043222
POL Mlawa pr	1895432
POL Sonisk pr	0702618
POL Tyczyn Cath CR 1786-1855	0765860
POL Tyczyn Cath CR 1868-1880	1417855
UK IOM Kirk Braddan PRs 1851-1883	0106187
UK IOM Kirk Patrick PRs 1714 - 1832	0106738
UK IOM Kirk Patrick PRs 1832 - 1862	0106739
UK IOM Kirk Patrick PRs 1849 - 1883	0106176
UK IOM KirkGerman Bur Rec 1665-1979	1696703
USA NY Ellis Island Pass List 1908	1399773

www.ancestry.com (which can be accessed free of charge at the Family History Centre) has made another great leap forward by putting the records of 24 million men (including 1552 Goddards) living in the USA who completed Draft Registration Cards in 1917 and 1918. Many of these men were born outside the USA. The cards call for: name, age, address, date and place of birth, father's birthplace, citizenship, occupation, employer's name and address, dependant's information and name and address of nearest relative.

"Delete" in the subject line.

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Due to a technical hitch this bulletin was not transmitted on Thursday evening, 10 November. Normal Thursday evening service will resume this week. This is the eighth of our weekly bulletins. Suggestions for items that you would like included in future bulletins are welcomed. Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.

Films received in the 7 days ending 10 November 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 8 December 2005


Film Content	Film No
CAN ON Births 1869-1870	1844883
CAN PQ Quebec St Ruch Cens 1861	0517349
CAN PQ Quebec St Ruch Cens 1861	0517347
CAN PQ Quebec St Ruch Cens 1861	0517348
ENG "Is Your Name Billing?"	1656910
ENG DEV Ashburton PR	0916801
ENG GLS Bristol Calvin Births 1775-	0825381
ENG MDX Holborn St.Andrew PR 1849-	0374361
ENG NFK Kirby Cane AT	1526788
ENG SOM Pitminster PRs 1542-1860	1526710
ENG SSX Horsted Keynes BT	0918472
ENG SSX Horsted Keynes PR	1041585
NDL Eenrum Population 1850-1860	0561633
NDL Haarlem Boedelpapers 1557-1852	0905100
NDL Haarlem Boedelpapers 1572-1852	0902331
NDL Uithuizen Pop Index 1850-1900	0559599
NLD Haarlem M 1721-1755	0115559
RUS BES Arzis Marr 1862-1891 LS	1198689
RUS BES Arzis Marr 1862-1891 RS	1198688
RUS BES Christian Fiess Collection	1476494

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes.

Current Opening Hours:- Monday 9.30 a.m to 4 p.m. Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.to 9.30 p.m. Wednesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon. Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this bulletin, return this email with the word "Delete" in the subject line.

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This is the seventh of our weekly bulletins. Suggestions for items that you would like included in future bulletins are welcomed. Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.

Films received in the 7 days ending 3 November 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 1 December 2005


Film Content	Film No
ARG Parana Census 1895	0714794
ARG Parana Census 1895	0714795
BRB Baptisms B-N 1885-1903	1159614
CAN NF Births 1861-1871	2133023
CAN NF Births 1871-1876	2133024
CAN NF Births 1877-1881	2133025
CAN NF Births 1882-1885	2133026
CAN NF Births 1885-1888	2133027
CAN NF Births 1889-1895	2133028
CAN NF Births 1891-1895	2133029
CAN NF Births 1892-1900	2133030
CAN NF Delayed Births 1891-1915	2133375
CAN NF Delayed Births1840-1915	2132977
DEU Sachsen BMDs 1680-1876	1812931
DEU Sachsen Court Recs 1558-1849	2066268
ENG CHS Bebington PR 1702-1877	2105393
ENG LAN Lpool St Peters Ms 1823-31	0093918
ENG MDX Hanwell census 1841	0438773
ENG SOM Corton Denham PR	1849654
ENG YKS Holmpton BT	0919456
ENG YKS Tunstall PR	1702948
IRL KER Anascoul Census 1911	1936708
ITI Termini Imerese marriages 1885	2014483
POL Warsaw BMD 1808-25 Cyrkut III	0680811
POL Warsaw BMD 1808-25 Cyrkut VIII	0689335
RUS BES Sarata M 1920-1940	1768268
SCT INV Abernethy Census 1861	0103884
SCT INV Abernethy PR 1730-1854	0101998
UKR L'viv Ternovytsya R.C. PR	2380050
USA MA Manchester vitals 1624-1915	0865432
USA MI Detroit St John's Ref pr	0963680
USA MI marriages v 1-3 1831-1867	0974258
USA NY Cert & Rec of Bs 1898-1909	1984652
USA NY New York Marr Indx 1893-1900	1653853
USA NY New York Marr Indx 1901-1905	1653854
USA NY New York Marr Indx 1906-1909	1653855

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes.

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We are on the look-out for a second-hand microfilm cabinet. We bid this week on one that was being sold on eBay by a research centre for magicians in New York City but we were out-bid in the last 10 seconds. If anyone knows where we might find one please let us know.

Thanks to several patrons, we have an ever-growing collection of films of interest to Ukraine researchers. A group has been formed, the Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group (TUGG) and spearheaded by one of our patrons, Jim Onyschuk, they have launched a superb website www.torugg.org Apart from guidance into Ukrainian research the site has some very useful information and links for obtaining information from Passenger Lists, Immigration Records, Naturalization Records, the 1940 National Registration and Homestead Records that would be of interest to Canada researchers generally. And to top it all you can hear a rendition of the Ukrainian National Anthem!

Current Opening Hours:- Monday 9.30 a.m to 4 p.m. Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.to 9.30 p.m. Wednesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon. Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this bulletin, return this email with the word "Delete" in the subject line.

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This is the sixth of our weekly bulletins. Suggestions for items that you would like included in future bulletins are welcomed. Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.
The Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is running two courses in November that still has space for students - "Introduction to English Family History Research" and "Australia/New Zealand Family History Research". Full details are on www.torontofamilyhistory.org

News Two huge steps forward have occurred this week for British Isles researchers -

A fully indexed version of the 1851 Census of England, Wales, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man complete with the images of the original enumeration pages is now available on www.ancestry.com Although this site is only available by subscription, this service is provided free of charge at the Family History Centre. (Also available are the 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses).
A fully indexed version of the 1861 Census of Scotland complete with images is now available at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk This is a pay per view site and, unfortunately, we cannot offer this free of charge.

and for those of you who have criminals lurking somewhere in your family (and who doesn't?) the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1834 are online at www.oldbaileyonline.org New additions to our permanent collections

A collection of 10 microfiche, kindly donated by Frances Radford, "The Devon Family Historian 1987 - 1992"
A collection of 4 Ordnance Survey Maps of Northern Ireland each measuring 42" x 30", 1" = 1 mile, covering Belfast, South Down, Armagh and East Tyrone, kindly donated by Wendy Rowan.

Films received in the 7 days ending 27 October 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 24 November 2005

Film Content Film No

ENG CAM Littleport Land Tax 1750 0580184

ENG CHS Prestbury PR Bur 1813-1855 2093922

ENG SOM Wiveliscombe PR 1558-1850 1526774

ENG SRY HorsleyDownStJohn 1762-1850 2214411

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes.

Current Opening Hours:- Monday 9.30 a.m to 4 p.m. Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.to 9.30 p.m. Wednesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon. Should you decide that you no longer wish to receive this bulletin, return this email with the word "Delete" in the subject line.

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This is the fifth of our weekly bulletins. Suggestions for items that you would like included in future bulletins are welcomed.

Announcements

With immediate effect, the charge for ordering or renewing a film has been reduced to $4.50.
The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed on 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 reopening on Tuesday 3 January 2006. Patron's films that are affected by this closure will be extended, without charge, for an appropriate length of time.

New additions to our permanent collections

A book, Genealogical Research Directory, National & International, 2005, kindly donated by Mary Belford. This book of over 800 pages lists around 100,000 research interests, by surname. In this edition there is a feature article of interest to Irish researchers "Distinguishing between Griffith's Valuation and the 'poor law valuation' ".
Scotland. A CD Index to Burials in The Glasgow High Church 1699 to 1855 compiled by the Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society. Toronto FHC CD # BR29
Germany. A Microfiche, Pedigree Charts of the von Kameke family of Germany. Fiche No. 6000659.

Films received in the 7 days ending 20 October 2005, due for return (unless renewed) 17 November 2005

Film Content Film No

CAN NF Civil Births 1892 1895 2168999

ENG ESS Ashdon PR 1471806

ENG GLS Bristol Wesleyan CR 1597223

ENG LAN Lvpr'l St Nich M 1821-1829 0093841

ENG LAN Lvrp'l St Nich C 1833-1873 0093831

ENG MDX Marylebone PR 1806-1811 0584228

ENG NFK Hilgay PRs 1583-1773 2186544

ENG SRY Clapham Census 1841 0474652

ENG SRY Clapham Census 1851 0174812

ENG SRY Clapham PR Indx 1792-1854 0883836

ENG YKS Halifax bts 0990597

ENG YKS Halifax bts 0990598

ENG YKS Hull poor rates 1894944

POL Ciechanow PR 1702-1808 1194876

POL Ciechanow PR 1867-1890 1808711

POL Ciechanow PR 1883-1890 1808712

POL Kalisz Nobility 1181536

POL Kalisz Nobility 0873839

SCT INV Abernethy Census 1841 1042637

SCT INV Abernethy Census 1851 1042062

SCT INV Abernethy Census 1871 0103996

UKR L'viv Ternovytsya R.C. PR 0765878

USA NY N.Tonawanda CR 1888-1917 1292996

USA NY Pendleton CR 1847-1917 1378518

USA NY Tonawanda CR 1852-1979 1292806

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes.

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Besides the GRO Civil Registration Indexes of Births in England & Wales from 1837 to 2003 we also have in the Centre, on microfiche: Marine Births 1837-1965, Air Births 1947-1965, Army Births 1796-1965, Consular Births 1849-1965, UK High Commission Births 1956-1981, UK Births Abroad 1966-1994 and Regimental Births 1761-1924. We also have some similar indexes for marriages and deaths.
While the Free BMD website http://freebmd.rootsweb.com is an increasingly valuable resource for quickly finding England & Wales births, marriages and deaths it has its limitations. Most people are aware that the indexing is incomplete even prior to 1911 (after 1911 it is hardly indexed at all) but our patron, Maurice Hardman, has pointed out that in some cases it appears that it will never be complete because the version of the index that the entries are being transcribed from is, in itself, incomplete. Whole pages of entries that appear on our filmed version of the index are apparently missing from the version that is being transcribed to Free BMD. The moral is always check our film version if the entry you seek is missing.

Current Opening Hours:- Monday 9.30 a.m to 4 p.m. Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.to 9.30 p.m. Wednesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon.

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This is the fourth of our weekly bulletins. Your suggestions for items that you would like to see in future bulletins are very welcome. Announcements

The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for the Christmas holiday from 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 inclusive, reopening Tuesday 3 January 2006.

Films ordered for patrons received in the 7 days ending 13 October 2005

Film Content Film No

DEU PRE Pommern Stolp PR 0072843

DEU PRE Rhein'dKirk'buch 1839-1923 0584946

DEU PRE Rheinland CathPR 1704-1869 0556072

ENG BRK Shrivenham PR 1041798

ENG CHS Davenham Marrs 1795-1889 2106515

ENG CUL St Bees bts 0090659

ENG DBY Derby St Peter BT 1751- 0422206

ENG DBY Derby St Peter BT 1810- 0498065

ENG GLS Bristol Wesleyan CR 1793- 1597222

ENG MDX Holborn Census 1851 0087847

ENG WAR Birmingham St Phillip PR 0813713

ENG WAR Whatcote PR 1813-1979 1067559

IRL KER Ballynacourty Cens 1911 1936709

IRL KIK Gowran RC PR 1809-1881 0926194

NDL Eenrum Population 1860-1880 Bk2 0561635

NDL Stedum Population 1890-1900 0558221

NDL Haarlem Marriages 1627-1692 0115584

NDL Haarlem Marriages 1692-1774 0115586

NDL Haarlem Marriages 1729-1732 0115585

PRT Azores Prarade Vitoria Bapt 1547098

PRT Azores S.Bento Baptisms 1518164

PRT Azores S.Sebastiao Baptisms 1458746

SCT AYR Maybole Census 1851 1042408

UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR 0766050

USA NY Passenger list Aug27-31 1940 1758231

USA NY Passenger list Jun 7-14 1942 1758371

USA NY Passenger list May20-24 1935 1757384

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We have a large number of CDs in the Family History Centre. Among them are

National Burial Index for England & Wales 2nd Edition. Over 13 million burial records.
Vital Records Index for Scandinavia. 4.6 million records.
Vital Records Index for Western Europe. 12.5 million records.
Vital Records Index for the British Isles. 12.3 million records.

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This is the third of our weekly bulletins. Your suggestions for items that you would like to see in future bulletins are very welcome. Announcements

The Tuesday evening 6.30 to 9.30 session which was discontinued for the summer has now restarted. The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for Thanksgiving on Saturday 8 October and Monday 10 October.
The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for the Christmas holiday from 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 inclusive, reopening Tuesday 3 January 2006.

New Additions to our Permanent Collections

Scotland, Lanarkshire, Govan. A CD, Index to Burials in Govan Parish Church 1817-1855, compiled by the Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society. Pre-dating Civil Registration, of particular interest to researchers of this populous parish. (TFHC CD# BR27). Already in the Centre, also on CD, compiled by the same Family History Society are the indexed 1841 Census data for Glasgow City, Gorbals, Govan and Barony.

Films ordered for patrons received in the 7 days ending 6 October, 2005

Film Content Film No

BRB Bapt Ind B-N 1885-1903 1159615

BRB St Johns Bapt 1805-1848 1157936

BRB St Johns Marr/Bur 1657-1848 1157937

BRB St Philips Bapt 1672-1848 1157934

BRB St Philips Marr/Bur 1672-1848 1157935

DEU PRE Rhein'd Kirk'buch 1801-51 0464891

DEU PRE Rhein'd Kirk'buch1756-1791 0958784

DEU PRE Rhein'd Kirk'buch1756-1925 1336835

DEU PRE Rheinland CathPR 1704-1869 0530527

ENG CHS Altrincham 1841 Census 0241233

ENG DEV Brixham PR 1787-1837 0916760

ENG LAN Blackley PR 0559152

ENG MDX Hanwell Census 1851 0193607

ENG WAR Foleshill Census 1841 0464187

IND Marriage Index 1852-1910 0498604

NDL Stedum Coming/Going 1878-1900 0558223

PRT Azores Prarade Vitoria Marr 1547099

RUS BES Neu Elft Familienbuch 1766617

SCT PEE Newlands PR 1677-1854 1067919

UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR 2003231

UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR 2003198

UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR 2003195

USA MA Manchester Recs 1653-1890 0768158

USA MI Detroit St John's Burials 0963681

USA MI Detroit St John's Confirm's 0963679

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Thursday September 29, 2005

This is the second of what is intended to be a weekly bulletin. Many thanks to everybody who sent in encouraging comments and for making suggestions, some of which have been incorporated into this bulletin. Several patrons have asked that a comprehensive list of all of our holdings be made available on-line. This is not possible at the moment but is under consideration. Announcements

Commencing 4 October 2005, the Tuesday evening 6.30 to 9.30 session which was discontinued for the summer will be reinstated. The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for Thanksgiving on Saturday 8 October and Monday 10 October.
The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for the Christmas holiday from 24 December 2005 through to 2 January 2006 inclusive, reopening Tuesday 3 January 2006.

New additions to our permanent collections

England, Buckinghamshire, Aston Clinton. Marriages 1560 to 1812. Microfiche No. 6909301.
England. An inventory of volumes of Phillimore's Marriages which have been filmed by the LDS, giving the LDS film number, arranged by County. Microfiche No. 6036483.

Films ordered for patrons received in the 7 days ending 29 September 2005

Film Content Film No

ARG S.Jose de Feliciano Cens 1869 0683149

BRB Baptisms 1883-1884 1158005

CAN ON Marriage Registr 1874 1862894

ENG BKM Aston Clinton PR 1967035

ENG BKM Chepping Wycombe PR 0994106

ENG BKM Chepping Wycombe PR 0994108

ENG CAM Ely - Land Tax 1750-1831 0580813

ENG DEV Spreyton Land Tax 1471154

ENG DOR East Stoke pr 1239246

ENG DOR Shaftesbury Wesleyan C.R. 1526063

ENG ESS Plaistow St Andrews PRs 1472640

ENG LAN Liverpool St Peter Mar 1913 0093944

ENG LAN Liverpool St. Nicho 1788- 0093839

ENG MDX Savoy de Spring Garden PR 0928501

ENG NTH St Johns Newcastle/Tyne M 2193369

ENG SSX Bolney PR 0990246

ENG SSX Bolney PR 1068521

ENG SSX Slaugham PR 0918468

ENG WIL Mere Boar St. Ind.Ch. Rec 0816594

FIN Vassa Lapua CR 0067208

FRA ALS Bas-Rhin Leutenheim PRs 0768136

Hist, Geneal&Bio of Molyneux Famils 0982212

IRE LEX Marriage Licence Bonds 0100171

ITL Caserta Caiazzo Civ.Reg 1797939

ITL Cosenza Cosenza Civ. Reg 1607684

NLD Bedum Population 1870-1880 0576749

POL PAR Dzierzgowo RC PRs 1866-1876 1808640

POL PAR Kiernozia RC PRs 1810-1823 0729081

RUS Bess Alt Elft Marr 1892-1940 1198670

RUS Bess Arzis Marr 1884 1895617

SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1841 1042628

SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1851 1042060

UKR L'Viv Chotyniec Grk Cath PR 2373797

USA NY Brooklyn births 1904 1991504

WLS BRE Brecon St David PR 0104459

WLS BRE Brecon St Mary & St John 0104460

WLS GLA Merthyr Tydfil PR 0104886

ZAF Cape Prov Methodist PR 1560874

A patron wishing to view a film ordered by another patron should check first with staff. The patron who ordered the film will always have priority.
Any patron may renew a film ordered by another patron although the original patron's name will continue to appear on the label. The description of the film given above may not be a full description. A film number search in the Family History Library Catalog will reveal the full content of the film. The geographical abbreviations used above are based on the Chapman codes. Current Opening Hours:- Monday 9.30 a.m to 4 p.m. Tuesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Thursday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon.

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Thursday September 22, 2005

This is the first of what is intended shall be a weekly bulletin sent out by email every Thursday evening. Your comments on this bulletin and suggestions for future bulletins are welcomed.

Announcements

Commencing 4 October 2005, the Tuesday evening 6.30 to 9.30 session which was discontinued for the summer will be reinstated.
The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for Thanksgiving on Saturday 8 October and Monday 10 October.
The Toronto Family History Centre will be closed for the Christmas holiday on 24 December 2005 to 2 January 2006 inclusive.

New Additions to our permanent collections

England and Wales. The Civil Registration Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for 2003 on microfiche. (At the moment we are missing the Death Index fiche covering surnames MEL-NIC. This should arrive shortly). Our collection of these indexes (some on film, some on microfiche) now extends from July 1837 to December 2003.
England and Wales. A book, "An Index to the Civil Registration Districts of England & Wales" kindly donated by Shirley Lancaster. For each registration district the volume number is shown for 1837 to 1851, 1852 to 1946, 1946 to 1965, 1965 to 1974 and 1974 to 1989. Also shown are the successor district where a registration district has been abolished.
Ireland. Probate Calendars covering the whole of Ireland from 1858 to 1917 and for the Republic from 1918 to 1920. Since some of these films pre-date Irish Civil Registration it is possible to ascertain a previously unknown death date. In addition to these 46 films we have acquired 6 films of the Ireland Inland Revenue indexes of wills from 1828 to 1861 and of Administrations from 1828 to 1863. These are less informative than the Probate Calendar films.

Films ordered by patrons received in the 7 days ending 22 September 2005

Film ContentFilm No

CAN NF Death Index 1891-1918

2168399

CAN NF Death Index 1915-1922

2168400

CAN NF Death Reg 1891-1897

2168429

CAN NF Death Reg 1896-1906

2168727

CAN NF Death Reg 1902-1914

2168728

CAN NF Death Reg 1911-1922

2168729

CAN NF Marriages 1891-1901

2168994

CAN NF Marriages 1891-1920

2168860

CAN NF Marriages 1905-1916

2168996

CAN NF Marriages 1913-1922

2168997

CAN NF Marriages 1920-1922

2168861

CAN NS Pictou Co. Est Files 1876-7

0584191

CAN NS Pictou Co. Estate Files 1871

0584176

CAN PQ Paspebiac PR

1689535

CAN PQ Paspebiac PR

1029850

CAN PQ Paspebiac pr

1029851

ENG BRK Chaddleworth PR

1849236

ENG WIL Maiden-Bradley BT

1279308

POL PAR Dzierzgowo RC PRs 1866-1888

1808641

SCT ROC Gairloch Cens 1841

1042626

SCT ROC Gairloch PR 1781-1854

0990583

SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1861

0103907

SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1871

0104093

SCT ROC Urquhart PR 1715-1854

0990660

ZAF Cape Prov Robben PR

1295056

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Film Content	Film No
ENG CAM Littleport Land Tax 1750	0580184
ENG CHS Prestbury PR Bur 1813-1855	2093922
ENG SOM Wiveliscombe PR 1558-1850	1526774
ENG SRY HorsleyDownStJohn 1762-1850	2214411

Film Content	Film No
CAN NF Civil Births 1892 1895	2168999
ENG ESS Ashdon PR	1471806
ENG GLS Bristol Wesleyan CR	1597223
ENG LAN Lvpr'l St Nich M 1821-1829	0093841
ENG LAN Lvrp'l St Nich C 1833-1873	0093831
ENG MDX Marylebone PR 1806-1811	0584228
ENG NFK Hilgay PRs 1583-1773	2186544
ENG SRY Clapham Census 1841	0474652
ENG SRY Clapham Census 1851	0174812
ENG SRY Clapham PR Indx 1792-1854	0883836
ENG YKS Halifax bts	0990597
ENG YKS Halifax bts	0990598
ENG YKS Hull poor rates	1894944
POL Ciechanow PR 1702-1808	1194876
POL Ciechanow PR 1867-1890	1808711
POL Ciechanow PR 1883-1890	1808712
POL Kalisz Nobility	1181536
POL Kalisz Nobility	0873839
SCT INV Abernethy Census 1841	1042637
SCT INV Abernethy Census 1851	1042062
SCT INV Abernethy Census 1871	0103996
UKR L'viv Ternovytsya R.C. PR	0765878
USA NY N.Tonawanda CR 1888-1917	1292996
USA NY Pendleton CR 1847-1917	1378518
USA NY Tonawanda CR 1852-1979	1292806

Film Content	Film No
DEU PRE Pommern Stolp PR	0072843
DEU PRE Rhein'dKirk'buch 1839-1923	0584946
DEU PRE Rheinland CathPR 1704-1869	0556072
ENG BRK Shrivenham PR	1041798
ENG CHS Davenham Marrs 1795-1889	2106515
ENG CUL St Bees bts	0090659
ENG DBY Derby St Peter BT 1751-	0422206
ENG DBY Derby St Peter BT 1810-	0498065
ENG GLS Bristol Wesleyan CR 1793-	1597222
ENG MDX Holborn Census 1851	0087847
ENG WAR Birmingham St Phillip PR	0813713
ENG WAR Whatcote PR 1813-1979	1067559
IRL KER Ballynacourty Cens 1911	1936709
IRL KIK Gowran RC PR 1809-1881	0926194
NDL Eenrum Population 1860-1880 Bk2	0561635
NDL Stedum Population 1890-1900	0558221
NDL Haarlem Marriages 1627-1692	0115584
NDL Haarlem Marriages 1692-1774	0115586
NDL Haarlem Marriages 1729-1732	0115585
PRT Azores Prarade Vitoria Bapt	1547098
PRT Azores S.Bento Baptisms	1518164
PRT Azores S.Sebastiao Baptisms	1458746
SCT AYR Maybole Census 1851	1042408
UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR	0766050
USA NY Passenger list Aug27-31 1940	1758231
USA NY Passenger list Jun 7-14 1942	1758371
USA NY Passenger list May20-24 1935	1757384

Film Content	Film No
BRB Bapt Ind B-N 1885-1903	1159615
BRB St Johns Bapt 1805-1848	1157936
BRB St Johns Marr/Bur 1657-1848	1157937
BRB St Philips Bapt 1672-1848	1157934
BRB St Philips Marr/Bur 1672-1848	1157935
DEU PRE Rhein'd Kirk'buch 1801-51	0464891
DEU PRE Rhein'd Kirk'buch1756-1791	0958784
DEU PRE Rhein'd Kirk'buch1756-1925	1336835
DEU PRE Rheinland CathPR 1704-1869	0530527
ENG CHS Altrincham 1841 Census	0241233
ENG DEV Brixham PR 1787-1837	0916760
ENG LAN Blackley PR	0559152
ENG MDX Hanwell Census 1851	0193607
ENG WAR Foleshill Census 1841	0464187
IND Marriage Index 1852-1910	0498604
NDL Stedum Coming/Going 1878-1900	0558223
PRT Azores Prarade Vitoria Marr	1547099
RUS BES Neu Elft Familienbuch	1766617
SCT PEE Newlands PR 1677-1854	1067919
UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR	2003231
UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR	2003198
UKR Stare Siolo Grk Cath PR	2003195
USA MA Manchester Recs 1653-1890	0768158
USA MI Detroit St John's Burials	0963681
USA MI Detroit St John's Confirm's	0963679

Film Content	Film No
ARG S.Jose de Feliciano Cens 1869	0683149
BRB Baptisms 1883-1884	1158005
CAN ON Marriage Registr 1874	1862894
ENG BKM Aston Clinton PR	1967035
ENG BKM Chepping Wycombe PR	0994106
ENG BKM Chepping Wycombe PR	0994108
ENG CAM Ely - Land Tax 1750-1831	0580813
ENG DEV Spreyton Land Tax	1471154
ENG DOR East Stoke pr	1239246
ENG DOR Shaftesbury Wesleyan C.R.	1526063
ENG ESS Plaistow St Andrews PRs	1472640
ENG LAN Liverpool St Peter Mar 1913	0093944
ENG LAN Liverpool St. Nicho 1788-	0093839
ENG MDX Savoy de Spring Garden PR	0928501
ENG NTH St Johns Newcastle/Tyne M	2193369
ENG SSX Bolney PR	0990246
ENG SSX Bolney PR	1068521
ENG SSX Slaugham PR	0918468
ENG WIL Mere Boar St. Ind.Ch. Rec	0816594
FIN Vassa Lapua CR	0067208
FRA ALS Bas-Rhin Leutenheim PRs	0768136
Hist, Geneal&Bio of Molyneux Famils	0982212
IRE LEX Marriage Licence Bonds	0100171
ITL Caserta Caiazzo Civ.Reg	1797939
ITL Cosenza Cosenza Civ. Reg	1607684
NLD Bedum Population 1870-1880	0576749
POL PAR Dzierzgowo RC PRs 1866-1876	1808640
POL PAR Kiernozia RC PRs 1810-1823	0729081
RUS Bess Alt Elft Marr 1892-1940	1198670
RUS Bess Arzis Marr 1884	1895617
SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1841	1042628
SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1851	1042060
UKR L'Viv Chotyniec Grk Cath PR	2373797
USA NY Brooklyn births 1904	1991504
WLS BRE Brecon St David PR	0104459
WLS BRE Brecon St Mary & St John	0104460
WLS GLA Merthyr Tydfil PR	0104886
ZAF Cape Prov Methodist PR	1560874

Film ContentFilm No
CAN NF Death Index 1891-1918	2168399
CAN NF Death Index 1915-1922	2168400
CAN NF Death Reg 1891-1897	2168429
CAN NF Death Reg 1896-1906	2168727
CAN NF Death Reg 1902-1914	2168728
CAN NF Death Reg 1911-1922	2168729
CAN NF Marriages 1891-1901	2168994
CAN NF Marriages 1891-1920	2168860
CAN NF Marriages 1905-1916	2168996
CAN NF Marriages 1913-1922	2168997
CAN NF Marriages 1920-1922	2168861
CAN NS Pictou Co. Est Files 1876-7	0584191
CAN NS Pictou Co. Estate Files 1871	0584176
CAN PQ Paspebiac PR	1689535
CAN PQ Paspebiac PR	1029850
CAN PQ Paspebiac pr	1029851
ENG BRK Chaddleworth PR	1849236
ENG WIL Maiden-Bradley BT	1279308
POL PAR Dzierzgowo RC PRs 1866-1888	1808641
SCT ROC Gairloch Cens 1841	1042626
SCT ROC Gairloch PR 1781-1854	0990583
SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1861	0103907
SCT ROC Urquhart Cens 1871	0104093
SCT ROC Urquhart PR 1715-1854	0990660
ZAF Cape Prov Robben PR	1295056