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Genealogy events, news and links Edmonton Historical & Doors Open July 2-8, 2018 http://www.historicedmonton.ca/what-we-do/historic-festival/overview/ Past Genealogy events, news and links October 27 & 28, 2017 Genealogy in the Park presents Dave Obee, Canada's Genealogist, Journalist and Author. Dave brings four of his latest presentations on Saturday Oct 28, 2017
Edmonton Branch of the AGS Tracing Your Family Tree Course November 4, 2017 ____________________________________________________________________________ Edmonton & District Historical Society Historical Festival & Doors Open http://www.historicedmonton.ca/what-we-do/historic-festival/schedule/ Provincial Archives of Alberta ends June 17, 2017 Let Justice Be Done: The Alberta Provincial Police, 1917-1932 http://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/whats-new/exhibits/Default.aspx Keep informed with what's happening in the Genealogy world, follow Pat Ryan's blog patryangenealogy.blogspot.ca/ Genealogy Workshops / Conferences Harness the Power of the New and the Old Kelowna BC September 16, 2017 Featuring Dave Obee and Pat Ryan drive.google.com/file/d/0B-y11N671NC2aVhfd0MtUnZuNEk/view Calgary Alberta Family Histories Society - Calgary September 23, 2017 www.afhs.ab.ca/familyroots/ for all other Genealogy Conferences across Canada see Dave Obee's page http://www.cangenealogy.com/ Genealogist In The House - Drop In - One-on-one help Strathcona County Library Resumes in September IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT CENSUS RECORDS All Canadians need to be aware ..... 2016 census will be a severely flawed record By Bill Waiser & Ian E. Wilson http://www.cangenealogy.com/optin.html Join the fight to preserve the census By Dave Obee http://www.cangenealogy.com/optin2.html 2016 Canadian Census long form questions https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2016/ref/questionnaires/questions-eng.cfm 2016 Canadian Census short form questions https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/questionnaires/questions-eng.cfm Irish Genealogy - registers now available for viewing https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-search.jsp |
Old News but still of interest/importance...................
Interesting Websites
Newspapers: Finding Current and Historical Newspapers: Historical Newspaper Databases
Bowling Green University has compiled a very helpful list of links to online newspapers worldwide!
http://libguides.bgsu.edu/c.php?g=227265&p=1506372
Our sincere thanks to Dave Obee for his webinar presentation at our last Family Tree Trackers meeting.
Dave's list of websites: http://www.cangenealogy.com/
Dave's speaking schedule, topics and more! http://daveobee.com/
Bremen Passenger Lists
Source: Bundesarchiv Koblenz. Deutsches Ausland-Institut (Stuttgart); Bundesarchiv (Koblenz)
OCLC Number: 866618243
Index cards, arranged alphabetically by province and then by surname, of German emigrants, based upon the Bremen Passenger Lists. Includes marital status, occupation, passenger number, ship name, place of last residence, and destination. For some countries, such as Austria, the arrangement is chronological by departure date, with names grouped alphabetically by ship name for that date. Many cards are not in sequence. Includes index cards for Jewish emigrants.
Archiv Serie R 57:12/1-16. Description: auf 10 Mikrofilmrollen ; 35 mm.
From Facebook page "Genealogy & Historical Databases"
http://immigrants.byu.edu/search/by_collection/90
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Genealogy Software
Not sure what family tree softward to buy?
Top 10 Genealogy Software Reviews
http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
Library and Archives Canada
- Underwater Canada: A Researcher’s Brief Guide to Shipwrecks
- New finding aids available online
~Military Bounty Land Warrants, Riel Rebellion
~Department of Militia and Defence Pre-Confederation Records – Adjutant General’s Office, United Canada Correspondence.
~Department of Militia and Defence – Adjutant General’s Office, United Canada Correspondence
http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/05/15/new-finding-aids-available-online/
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My thanks to group members who email me with the links they find so they can be shared with all of you............
Derbyshire and Staffordshire Memorial Inscription Collection
Derbyshire http://places.wishful-thinking.org.uk/DBY/MIs.html
Staffordshire http://places.wishful-thinking.org.uk/STS/MIs.html
IRISH
Newsletter of the Irish Family History Foundation
https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/71043/327168/pub/document.pdf
From Genealogy Bank.......Early Irish Vital Records Were Published in U.S. Newspapers
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CANADA First World War Service Files, Naturalization Records, new digitized content and PEI newspapers
(Thanks to Melva for sending these along)
First World War Service Files, Naturalization Records, new digitized content and PEI newspapers
Library and Archives Canada to Digitize 640,000 First World War Service Files
http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/01/28/library-and-archives-canada-to-digitize-640000-first-world-war-service-files/
New version of the Naturalization Records, 1915-1951 database
http://thediscoverblog.com/2013/12/30/new-version-of-the-naturalization-records-1915-1951-database/
Fruits of the Library and Archives Canada and Canadiana.org partnership starting to appear online
Perhaps the new digitized collection may be relevant to your family history
http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/01/28/fruits-of-the-library-and-archives-canada-and-canadiana-org-partnership-starting-to-appear-online/
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - UPEI/Robertson Library will launch a new version of the IslandNewspapers.ca site, which features a new interface and all of The Charlottetown Guardian issues from 1892-1957.
You can get a sneak peek at http://islandnewspapers.ca/
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ENGLAND
Unit War Diaries are in the works of getting digitized. First batch available for viewing.... Unit War Diaries
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IRELAND
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter http://blog.eogn.com/ is always full of interesting and helpful genealogical news...
Good News about Forthcoming Online Service for Birth, Marriage & Death Records from Northern Ireland
The North of Ireland Family History Society's Facebook page has some good news for anyone researching ancestors in what is now Northern Ireland. The GRONI (the General Register Office for Northern Ireland) spent about 3 years and a lot of money digitising their records. Those records are now expected to be available online within one or two months.
You can read the full article at http://goo.gl/zxxZFS.
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SCOTLAND
Scotlands People (pay for use site) (Thanks to Simon for letting us know about this news)
Release of the New Year BMD images on ScotlandPeople and some highlights from these new records
Happy New Year! After 'seeing in the bells' at Hogmanay and New Year, we added the New Year BMD images to the ScotlandsPeople website. So you can now view the images of records for births in 1913, marriages in 1938 and deaths in 1963. http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=546&2153
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WALES
Welsh Newspapers Online http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home 100 historic papers 1804-1919