Category: family history
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Ancestry edges closer on full 1911 census index
This week, Ancestry has made more of the 1911 census for England fully searchable. Since the last item on Cutlock & Co on this (1st Dec 2011), the following have been added: Complete counties Bedfordshire Berkshire Cambridgeshire Middlesex Shropshire Surrey Lancs and Notts have moved up from “98%” 98% complete Dorset Hampshire Herefordshire Suffolk Wiltshire Partially searchable Buckinghamshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Military bases The full list can be found on Ancestry.co.uk – Census Records link. Update The 1911 census became fully searchable, across all areas, on » »
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Exploring family history on a Kindle
A couple of self-published family history tales available on Amazon’s Kindle have come my way recently (via Facebook). Oh, aren’t I up with the trendy stuff. These prompted me to think about how such e-book devices make it easy for genealogy folk to release stories based on their researches for a wider public, at low cost. Getting the material known to a wider audience isn’t always so straightforward though, if it is hidden in the depths of the popularity contests of the Kindle Store, for example. » »
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Canadian records freely available on Ancestry
Ancestry has made its Canadian Births, Marriages and Deaths records free to search and access until 20th Feb. Not all of them have images attached i.e. some are just transcriptions (and familysearch.org may have them transcribed in more detail), but I’ve found a few useful ones for the Canadian relations I’ve discovered recently. Maud McTaggart, aunt to Helen May Sharman (the wife of Harry Neal b 1899 Manitoba) marries William Henry Nobes in Toronto at the age of 49, with her name given as Phoebe Maud. » »
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The Welsh experience of WW1 to be digitised
Sourced from Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum: A project led by the National Library of Wales has received funds to digitise primary sources relating to World War One. The project will make available a unique collection revealing the hidden history of World War One as it affected all aspects of Welsh life, language and culture, taking in printed and manuscript sources as well as moving image, audio and photographic material. It starts work this month and is due to go online in June 2013. NLW » »
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Freedom of the city comes with a Price (or two)
I wasn’t expecting to come across any family members in the ‘Freedom of the City of London admission papers’ which appeared on Ancestry recently {1}, but I hadn’t counted on the Price family on the sister-in-laws side. It has to be said that there isn’t complete certainty that this is the right line of the family, however – see The Price is right? section below. The first of the bunch to receive his Freedom of the City is Thomas Price, a Commission Agent at 51 Knightrider Street, » »
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Hitting the hundred
Discovered today, the first centenarian in the family tree. She’s an in-law of my aunt, so I won’t start worrying that I might live that long quite yet. I’d discovered the connection before, but not the various dates. Elizabeth Rosina Fordham, born 13th February 1887 Islington, married Theophilus Richard Farrall {1} 1st August 1914 South Tottenham, latest entry on London Electoral Rolls located so far 1936 at 60 Chesterfield Gardens, Tottenham. Died January 1990 in Ipswich or Felixstowe. So she almost reached 103, outliving her children » »