2. Welcome
• Welcome
• Blog update, have a look at:
• http://rodneysgenealogyblog.blogspot.co.uk/
• Stuff from me,
• Bailey project
• Stuff from you!
3. Origins.net
• Dublin Directories now available on Irish
Origins
• The first 25 of 176 Irish directories, covering
the years 1636-1900, are now available for
searching on www.origins.net.
8. The Genealogist
• Have added over 44,000 individuals to
marriage records for Worcestershire. This
brings the total to over 94,000 individuals,
with years ranging from 1501-1961.
• Have added over 25,000 Malvern individuals
to Parish Record transcripts for
Worcestershire , expanding coverage and
bringing the total to over 1 million records
with years ranging from 1544-1891
9. The Genealogist
Death Transcripts 1970-2005
• Over 8 million records added to Death Transcripts - this brings
the total to over 21 million records!
• These transcripts can be used with a tool that lets you search
across all our Birth, Marriage and Death transcripts, with built
in SmartSearch technology, automatically showing the
partner's full name where available, and enabling you to find
potential parents from a birth, potential children to a
marriage and potential birth records from a death record.
10.
11. Some tips
from “Lost Cousins”
• Since findmypast launched their British Newspaper
collection 10 days ago the site has been much busier than
usual, and whilst searches of other datasets have been
unaffected, members searching the newspaper articles have
reported quite a few problems. Some of these issues appear
to be a result of the high volume of traffic, but others seem
to be the sort of faults that inevitably show up in the first
few days when a completely new type of dataset is
launched.
• Whilst findmypast are no doubt beavering away to fix the
problems, here are some tips that will greatly reduce the
chance that you're affected by them:
12. Some tips
• 1) When you're searching for a named person DON'T enter
their name in Forename and Surname boxes on the Search
form. Instead enter them in the Keywords box, and put
double quotes around them. I know it sounds a strange
thing to do, but it works!
• (2) When you've found an article that you'd like to save,
instead of clicking the Download image link, use the Print
Screen button on your keyboard to copy the preview (having
first enlarged the article so that the text is readily legible).
You can then paste the screen image into a graphics
package.
14. Some tips
• (3) Currently the filtering is lost when you go to the next
results page - it needs to be reselected, which is annoying -
so if you want to limit your search by county it's best to do
that by selecting it on the Search form. Even then you may
have to re-start the search after looking at an article, so
before you do, make a mental note of where you are up to
(using the back button in your browser may avoid this
problem)
19. Find my Past
Australian Records
• Findmypast have added 56 million new
records to their Australia & New Zealand
collection, available either
through findmypast.com.au or - if you have a
World subscription - through their other sites.
• They include electoral rolls from both
countries, births, deaths, and marriages for
South Australia, and a wide range of
directories and other publications.
20. Family Search
• Scottish Censuses
• 1841 1851 1861 1871 are now accessible on
www.familysearch.org You will find them
under the UK and Ireland Category.
21. Recent records for Birmingham
• Ancestry has launched a collection of over 6
million Electoral Register entries from the
Birmingham area covering the period 1832 to
1955
• Lost Cousins author Peter Calver says “I
found my uncle and aunt living in
Handsworth in 1939, and in Edgbaston in
1950.”
22.
23. Names...
• Expect to find different surname systems
working in different countries
• Take a flexible approach to the form and
spelling of a surname
• Pay special attention to surname aliases
• Consider the possibility that what appears to
be an inherited surname may be a name
given to a foundling
24. Names...
• Consider the possibility that a surname might
have been changed in a person’s lifetime
• Don’t be surprised to find your ancestor was
known by a nickname
• Be on the lookout for hereditary nicknames
• Be on the lookout for first name variants
• Consider that a person may have changed his
or her first name
25. Names...
• Look at first names carefully in their own
right
• Don’t assume that a person is male or female
based upon first-name evidence alone
• Be open to the possibility that a number of
siblings may have been given the same first
name
• Be aware that first names, like surnames,
may have been inherited
26. Names...
• Look at middle names very carefully. Do they
offer useful clues to ancestry?
• Look out for an organised pattern of first
names in a family
1st son = father's father
2nd son = mother's father
3rd son = father
4th son = father's oldest brother
5th son = father's 2nd oldest brother or mother's
oldest brother
27. The Bailey project
• Increase our abilities to conduct genealogy
research
• Increase our experience of using the range of
research tools and databases
• Build up our skills at overcoming brick walls
• Going beyond genealogy to family history
• Learning to piece it all together
28. How will we do it?
• Someone to “own” the project”
• Someone for censuses
• Someone for BMDs
• Someone for parish registers.
• Someone to look for tombstones, etc and
burial records.
• Someone for checking out existing family
trees via Genes Reunited, Ancestry, perhaps
Rootsweb Mailing Lists.
29. How will we do it?
• Someone to gather and store information in
their genealogy application, which should do
all of the basics and produce an appropriate
book at the end of the exercise.
• Someone to explore religious background for
various ancestors.
• Someone to explore occupations for various
ancestors.
30. How will we do it?
• Someone to see if there are any wills for any
ancestors.
• Someone to check out emi/immigration for
the various families
• Someone to gather appropriate
photos/images for use in a final document
31. The Bailey Project
• Interview with Joyce and Alan
• BMD and census work
• Legacy family information
• Anything else?
• Joseph James Benbow
• What next?
• Who will do it?
