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FindmyPast to sponsor migration conference

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 08:10 AM PDT

News from the Halsted Trust:

Findmypast.co.uk becomes headline sponsor for major family history conference

The Halsted Trust is delighted to announce that findmypast.co.uk have agreed to sponsor their forthcoming conference on migration, to, from and within the British Isles

"Exodus: Movement of the People" will take place from the 6th to 8th September 2013 at the Hinckley Island Hotel in Leicestershire. This major residential conference will give the genealogy community an opportunity to increase their knowledge on migration and network with other family historians. Full details of the programme will be announced in September.

Alec Tritton, Chairman of the Halsted Trust says "We are delighted to once more bring a residential conference to the genealogy world. After the unparalleled success of our 2009 conference "Open the Door and Here are the People", the last International Conference for family historians, having findmypast.co.uk yet again as a major sponsor will help us deliver an outstanding conference at a reasonable cost to the general public with all the features delegates have come to expect from a residential conference.

Debra Chatfield of findmypast.co.uk says "We are happy to take the opportunity to associate our brand once again with the Halsted Trust. The trustees have a proven track record in organising residential conferences and we are looking forward to a conference on migration. Findmypast.co.uk have many records relating to migration on our website as do our sister brands findmypast.com and findmypast.com.au. This conference is an excellent opportunity for genealogists to learn about the records of migration in a framework ideally suited for the purpose"

Details of the conference can be found on the website www.exodus2013.co.uk together with many stories of migration to, from and within the British Isles

(With thanks to Alec Tritton)

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

JGSGB's Shemot publication wins award

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 07:52 AM PDT

Congratulations to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (www.jgsgb.org.uk):

Shemot wins IAJGS Outstanding Publication Award 2012

Shemot, the journal of the JGSGB (Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain), has won the coveted IAJGS annual award for Outstanding Publication by a Member Organization of IAJGS for the second time. The award was presented at the IAJGS Paris Conference Gala Dinner on Tuesday 17th July and accepted on behalf of JGSGB by Bernard Valman, the Editor of Shemot, who regards it as a tribute to the whole organisation which has supported it, but especially to the authors, proof readers and readers.

The citation for the award reads: "Shemot, the outstanding journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain is published with a distinct theme three times each year. Each issue attracts contributors with expertise in the theme and provides articles with breadth and depth. The content of this relevant, informative and worthwhile journal reflects the skill set of a strong network of member and non-member contributors. Although the high-quality and original articles are primarily of interest to individuals researching British roots and those whose families trans-migrated through Great Britain, they are relevant to all researchers."

Shemot, which means "Names" in Hebrew, owes its pre-eminence to its long-serving editorial team of Bernard Valman and Mike Gordon, not to mention its many interesting, informative and authoritative articles. Some recent themed issues have included Jewish genealogy in South Africa, the East End of London, and Leeds. Shemot was founded in 1992 and is circulated to all JGSGB members, as well as dozens of other Jewish genealogy societies and libraries including the New York Public Library.

(With thanks to James Taylor)

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

Former Keeper speaks out on Catholic archive

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 07:23 AM PDT

A former Keeper of the Records of Scotland, Athol Murray, is the latest to lend his support to a petition condemning plans to split up the holdings of the Scottish Catholic Archive in Edinburgh and redistribute them across the country. Signing the petition he stated:

As Keeper of the Records of Scotland (1985-90) I was not only concerned with the national archives but also with the preservation and recording of records held by other institutions or individuals throughout Scotland. The Scottish Catholic Archives are of international, not just national significance and it is vital that they should be kept intact in the care of a qualified archivist and in a location where they are accessible and freely available to researchers, who are willing to travel from elsewhere in Britain and overseas to consult them. It is sad that the support given by the late Cardinals Gray and Winning to the then archivist Mark Dilworth is not being continued by their successors.

Other signatories have included historian Domhnall Uilleam Stiubhart, Your Family History editor Nick Barratt, members of professional bodies AGRA and ASGRA, and many more. 

To sign the petition please visit www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-roman-catholic-church-in-scotland-keep-the-scottish-catholic-archives-in-edinburgh-2?utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition.

For background to the present situation, visit previous coverage at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/controversy-over-catholic-archive-plans.html and http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/shock-closure-of-scottish-catholic.html

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

More on all new FindmyPast

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:44 AM PDT

A few days ago I blogged about the overseas FindmyPast websites in both the United States and Australasia having now implemented a single global subscription allowing access to the different sites in the US, the UK, Ireland, and Australia & New Zealand. A UK based reader, Cathy, has since posted comments following the blog post at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/all-new-findmypast-in-beta.html, in which she claims to have been able to sign up to the American site's new Pioneer subscription from here in the UK - meaning that she now has an annual subscription to the worldwide based records of FindmyPast for less than £40 a year.

Might be worth having a look into if you're interested! The US based site is at www.findmypast.com

NB: The Australasian site at www.findmypast.com.au is not offering the Pioneer subscription, just a 10% discount.

UPDATE: Because the Search filters are very different on the UK site compared to the US site, it is difficult to do a comparison with searches between the two. However, on the US site, I just did a search for a William Paton between 1880 and 1900 and obtained 68 results under "Births & Baptism" and using the "United Kingdom" filter. The interesting thing is that although most of entries in the list are from the English and Welsh national GRO registers, a small handful, including the first, are in fact from a collection called Derbyshire Registrar's Birth index. The index reference give is GB/G01/037, not a year and quarter as with national records. I was not aware that this collection was on the UK site?



UPDATE: Just worked it out. They are on the UK site - but included in the Parish Registers Collection: Details at  http://www.findmypast.co.uk/records/parish-records/details/B/392079348?fY=1896&tY=1900&sn=PATON&iFnsV=false&fns=WILLIAM&rC=1&route=X&locale=en

Derbyshire Registrar's Birth Index
Coverage
These records comprise information for 218,850 births registered in eighteen locations between 1837 and 1911.
Sub District No. of entries Year range
ALFRETON 7114 1837-1894
ASHOVER 4032 1837-1851
BELPER 21610 1837-1900
BLACKWELL 1507 1837-1850
BOLSOVER 1000 1837-1852
BUXTON 13975 1838-1906
CARBURTON & CLOWNE 1469 1837-1848
CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH 20967 1837-1905
CHESTERFIELD 6998 1837-1850
DRONFIELD 1487 1837-1850
DUFFIELD 12054 1837-1903
ECKINGTON 3522 1837-1848
GLOSSOP 48412 1837-1911
HAYFIELD 23485 1837-1901
HORSLEY 7059 1837-1870
ILKESTON 32120 1837-1886
PLEASLEY 1015 1837-1851
RIPLEY 11024 1837-1866

Total (18) 218850 1837-1911

I don't think I'd have found these on the current UK site if it hadn't been for the new version of the site in the US!

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

MyHeritage discount via FFHS

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 04:38 AM PDT

Thanks to Laurence Harris from MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com) for the following:

MyHeritage genealogical data subscription now available at 46% discount via the free Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) ezine.

To celebrate the launch of SuperSearch, MyHeritage and the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) are delighted to announce a special offer of a 46% discount on a global MyHeritage data subscription. This subscription provides access to more than 4 billion historical records via MyHeritage SuperSearch, the new and most advanced genealogical search engine. This massive discount is being made available to any reader of the latest free FFHS ezine by going to www.ffhs.org.uk/ezine/ezine1207.htm#offer where full details are available. Alternatively you can try SuperSearch by purchasing a package of data credits at a special discount price.

Chris

Check out my Scotland's Greatest Story research service www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx (from June 12th 2012)

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