GENEALOGY

October 25, 2011 - Share your favorite website:

Ontario Genealogy Society - www.elginogs.ca
Ontario Cemetary Finding Aid - OFCA
BC History - www.bcarchives.com
Manitoba - http://manitobia.ca
http://newspaperarchive.com
British - www.britishgenealogy.com
German research - www.blacksea.gr.org

February 2011 - British Record Society Probate Record Collection live on the National Wills Index.
PLUS new Marriage records on British Origins:
•         Surrey Marriage Index
•         York Marriage Bonds and Allegations Index
NEW!  Major collection of probate records on the National Wills Index: 1320-1858
Origins.net introduces the British Record Society (BRS) Probate Collection to its National Wills Index!
Covering over 500 years, this new, growing collection makes it much easier to find your ancestors wills.
The BRS probate indexes show the names and dates of several million wills and other probate documents. Most of this data is unavailable anywhere else online.
This collection provides exclusive online access to BRS indexes and other probate collections via a ‘Google-like’ search. From the search results you can view images of the original indexes to find all the information you need to locate the original documents in record offices.
Over time, as the BRS volumes are indexed individually on the National Wills Index, users will be able to order hard copies of the wills online, and eventually be able to access the documents themselves.
NEW!  Surrey and York Marriage records on British Origins: These two new marriage indexes are only available online on British Origins.
Surrey Marriage Records: 1500–1846
This index, kindly made available by West Surrey Family History Society, covers nearly 270,000 marriages - ie 540,000 brides and grooms - for the whole of rural Surrey, portions of Metropolitan Surrey, some Middlesex parishes, and strays from all over the UK, especially London, Middlesex and Sussex.
The Index is complete for Surrey up to 1837 except some Metropolitan parishes – it contains all the parishes of West and rural East Surrey. There are also a substantial number (43,000) of entries from Middlesex parishes for the period 1813-1837 derived from a slip index created by Cliff Webb for this period.
York Marriage Bonds & Allegations Index: 1613–1839
This Index to The Dean and Chapter of York's Marriage Bonds and Allegations (Applications for marriage without Banns), covers over 150,000 marriage licences (over 300,000 names).
The Archbishop of York granted marriage licences for the Diocese of York and the remainder of the Northern province when more than one jurisdiction was involved.
Information in the marriage bonds includes the couple's names and the date on which the bond was taken out. Originally the bonds were completed in Latin and English. After 1753, when the use of English was enforced for all legal documents, a printed form was introduced for marriage allegations, which shows ages, parishes and the church named for the ceremony. Bonds were no longer taken out after 1823 but allegations were kept.
You can order copies of the original documents online, at British Origins.

January 2011-“Family history is anecdotes and nostalgia that generate facts and eventually crystallise in a desire to discover the past.”*
“Oak trees don’t grow without care.  Family trees don’t grow without dedication and care.  It began with a cast of one and when we take our time and follow through it will end as a cast of thousands.”
Family life is:
 

• A collection of real stories and anecdotes that happened to real people
• A kaleidoscope of genuine mind pictures
• Extraordinary memories linked to the read but ordinary people who helped make them

Genealogy research is facts, a sort of cardboard flat-pack of names, places and dates.
For 100% success in the research field, there has to be a marriage of research and the elements that make up family life.  They need to be joined and become as one.
We need to avoid being like our ancestors who didn’t consider us at all, and left no trails to follow.  They never gave a thought to becoming ancestors with anxious descendants searching for them.  But we are different.  We are ‘Proper Descendants’ thinking about becoming ‘Proper Ancestors.’  We will make it easy for our descendants to know us as 3D people and not as cardboard flat packs.  We are not average people, because we know how to prepare to become ancestors.
We ask ourselves these questions:
How researchable am I?
Will I make the kind of ancestor I wish I had for myself?
Personally, I’m totally dedicated to leaving a trail a child could follow.  I’m a prospective ancestor any descendant would die for, if you’ll excuse the pun.
My descendants may not want the journals, diaries, holiday accounts, annotated photo albums, boxed and dated negatives, filed certificates, floppy discs of this and that, but they’re ready, and they satisfy a need in me to be available for my descendants, to be ‘there’ when they need me.  I don’t want to be a gap on a page or a ‘circa birth date’ person.
REMEMBER THIS.  You are the future ancestor of you unborn descendants.
History is made through the dignity given to the quiet tales of ordinary life.  They become extraordinary in the telling.  And so I encourage you to become the ancestor your descendants long to have.
 
*unidentified source
The rest of the text here came from www.britishancestors.com

June 2010 - Natural Resources Canada has a Web site with many maps, including today’s political divisions, ecology, rivers, population, agriculture, mining, climate change, and pre-Confederation maps, namely 1740 and 1823. This will attract Genealogists to the Map Archives.

MAPS When you first see a map, it typically shows all of present-day Canada. Using the mouse, you can click on points in the map to zoom in and out or pan to the east, west, north or south.

One can zoom in until small areas of just a few miles across are displayed.
The 1823 map also shows the locations of all Hudson’s Bay Company Posts and King’s Posts Company locations and other traders’ locations and all significant European settlements.
C CENSUS COLUMN HEADINGS ON CANADIAN GENEALOGY CENTER PAGES

Transcriptions of census column headings for all census from 1851 to 1916 are now available for our users. It was very difficult to read those headings even if you enlarge the census images. Now it will be easier for our users to associate content of columns with the proper headings.
To consult these new items
Visit: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy

SEARCH ENGINES FOR GENEALOGY : Going Beyond Google

Whereas Google respons to a particular keywords with suggestions for relevant websites,
Wolfram Alpha - simply answers a direct question..
Blinks - is for streaming media such as video and audio content by recognition to match speech.
Boardreader - if a great tool to find out what people are talking about online.
Collecta -- is for live date search and query.

FAMILY SEARCH

Will be opening a new Library on June 21, 2010, Riverton Family Search Library.
The library replaces 24 smaller libraries athat have been operating in Latter-Day Saints stake centers in southern Salt Lake Valley. Once fully stocked the new library will be the home to 50.000 microfilms of most interest to researchers in the area.

FACEBOOK
We have joined Facebook, we hope this will be a very helpful tool for our Genealogy Group.
A New Genealogy email has been set up milletlibrary@yahoo.ca
Facebook name is: Genealogy Millet

Contact the Library for your password.