Society of Genealogists | Apr 26, 2024, 11:00 AM
The Genealogy Gazette, Community News: Apr 24
Welcome to the Community News section of The Genealogy Gazette. Find out about the latest record releases, conferences and other family history news here.
Explore Your Genealogy is a new and unique educational website developed by the Family History Federation that relates to every aspect of tracing your family history from the very first steps to more complex research: https://exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
Arctic Convoy Museum are looking for stories and images about the sailors who battled perilous Arctic waters during the Second World War from the veterans themselves and their loved ones. See https://racmp.co.uk/history-learning/convoys-remembered/ for more details.
Hampshire Genealogical Society is celebrating their 50th Anniversary with a Golden Jubilee Event on Saturday 6 July and Sunday 7 July. Earlybird tickets now on sale. The two-day event is open to both HGS members and non-members and takes place at Victoria Halls, West Green Road, Hartley Wintney, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8RQ. Speakers include Dave Annal, Dr Melsia Tomlin-Kraftner, Dr Janet Few, Dr Penny Walters, Paul McNeil, Joe Saunders, Dr Sophie Kay, Jackie Depelle, and Dr Caroline Adams.
The full programme, with timings and details of booking workshops and ‘Ask the Experts’ sessions, is available here.
Glenn Gayle, Project Administrator of the FTDNA Holder DNA Project is looking for members that are male and have the surname Holder in the hope that they would be willing to do Y-DNA testing at FTDNA at our expense. The candidates would need to be from an all male Holder line. They are looking for six candidates from different lines. The project has 251 members in the US. For more information, email Glenn at gg.ftdna@gmail.com.
The London International Palaeography (LIPS) 2024 Summer School has launched. LIPS is a series of intensive courses in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies taught in and around Senate House, University of London.
There are a number of exciting courses open for booking, register here: https://buff.ly/4bDoSXh.
LIPS is also running a range of short courses throughout 2024, including an online course ‘Introduction to Medieval Spanish Palaeography (800-1500)’ – this course links to the in-person LIPS course: Books in Late Medieval Spain: A Palaeographical Introduction.
The British Records Association’s 2024 annual conference Curtain Up! The Practice of Archiving Performance will be held in partnership with APAC (Association of Performing Arts Collections) on Tuesday 29 October 2024 at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ and is an opportunity to share the work of the performing arts archive world.
The theme of this year’s conference will be active archiving, with, through, and for practitioners.
Abstracts of papers (20 minutes) or lightning talks as part of a panel (5 minutes) should be a maximum of 200 words and should be accompanied by a biography of all participants of up to 150 words. Deadline for submission is 5pm on 3 May 2024.
More information and how to submit, see the BRA website.
THE LATEST DIGITAL COLLECTION NEWS
Ancestry has added:
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Police Records, 1818-1948
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland, World War II Related Records, 1940-1945
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland, School Admission Registers, 1852-1927
- United Kingdom, Battle of Jutland Crew Lists, 1916
- Blacksmiths and Related Trades Index, 1720-1940
- London, England, Stanfords London Maps, 1890
Findmypast has added:
- Manchester Rate Books
- Malta, Monumental Inscriptions
- Warwickshire, Coventry, Company Directories and Publications 1908-1966
- Warwickshire, Coventry, Vehicle Registrations 1921-1944
- New pages from Coventry to Canada
- Warwickshire Burials, 1847-1896: Coventry’s London Road Cemetery 1847-1896
- Coventry Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers, 1853-1946
- Coventry Bomb Damage Schedules 1940-1941 and Coventry Blitz, German Air Raids 1940-1941
- Oxfordshire Baptisms
- Oxfordshire Marriages
- Oxfordshire Burials.
New newspaper titles:
- Country Life, 1897-2009
- Daventry and District Weekly Express covering 1986-1988, 1990-1991, 1993, 2001-2002
- Lincoln Leader and County Advertiser covering 1896, 1899-1911, 1913-1929
- Bedworth Times, 1875-1876
- Coventry Graphic, 1912-1921
- Foleshill & Bedworth Express, 1874-1876
- Gainsborough Evening News, 1954-1983, 1987, 1992-1994, 1996
- Matlock Mercury, 1986-1988, 1990, 1992-1994, 1996, 1998, 2000
- Piercy’s Coventry Gazette, 1778
- Deeside Piper covering 1986 and 1988-1994
- Midhurst and Petworth Observer covering 1889, 1893 and 1952
- Pontefract & Castleford Express covering 1889, 1901 and 1911
- Sleaford Standard covering 1961-1963, 1988, 1992-1996 and 1998
Hearth Tax Digital has added data on 30,000 Lancashire householders in 1664 https://gams.uni-graz.at/archive/objects/context:htx/methods/sdef:Context/get?mode=records.
Old Scottish has released a brand-new dataset of Scottish-Australian convict criminal records that connects transportation records of 8,500 individuals convicted in Scotland to their original court documents, now stored at the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh.
The latest release from TheGenealogist contains over 10 million new individuals recorded in directories from the first two decades of the 20th Century. This virtual bookshelf stacked with volumes from the early 1900s to 1929 includes publications from all over the United Kingdom and Ireland.
To celebrate this latest release, TheGenealogist is offering its 12-month Diamond Package for just £98.95 – that’s over 50% off! To find out more and claim the offer, visit: https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/MGBDIR424 Expires on 12th May 2024.
MyHeritage has added:
Australia Newspapers back to 1803
Denmark, Telephone Directories 2001 and 2003
England, Cheshire Parish Marriages from 1538 onwards
England, Cornwall Parish Births and Baptisms 1571-1960
England, Cornwall Parish Burials from 1572 onwards
England, Cornwall Parish Marriages, 1569-1938
England, Lancashire, Manchester Parish Baptisms, 1571-1907
England, Lancashire, Manchester Parish Burials, 1603-1910
England, Lancashire, Manchester Parish Marriages, 1570-1940
Northern Ireland, Wills and Administrations
California, San Francisco Immigration Special Inquiry Detainees, 1910-1941
New York, Passenger List Book Indexes 1906-1942
Wales, Glamorgan Parish Marriages 1802-1858
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