Ancestry has made a new database available though the World Archive Project, entitled New South Wales, Australia, Entrance Books for the Vernon and the Sobraon, 1867-1911.
From the site:
This is a database of records for destitute children and vagrants that were sent to the public industrial schools, the Vernon and Sobraon, between 1867-1911. The Vernon and Sobraon were ships that served as all-boy public industrial schools. The Vernon was replaced by the Sobraon in 1892 and both were moored in Sydney Harbour during their use from 1867-1911.
The records involve children who were sent to these schools. Boys under the age of 16 were sent to these schools by Justices of the Peace. The children would remain there until they were apprenticed out after the age of 12, discharged, or reached 18 years of age. The schools included religious instruction, moral, industrial, and nautical training, as well as elementary schooling.
The records include:
Name
Birth year
Birthplace
Date received
Ship
Father’s name
Mother’s name
You can access the database at http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1849
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Wednesday, 2 March 2011
English & Welsh BMDs - the public to the rescue?
A group seeking to implement a new "Big Society" solution to what it sees as the re-privitisation of public genealogical records is getting underway with a campaign to finish off the project that the British Government has recently spectacularly failed twice to do so itself - the new English and Welsh GRO index to births, marriages and deaths.
As part of the Open Rights Group, the new group is styling itself the Open Genealogy Alliance, and you can read more on its new blog at http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/launching-open-genealogy.
(With thanks to Rosemary Morgan via Twitter)
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As part of the Open Rights Group, the new group is styling itself the Open Genealogy Alliance, and you can read more on its new blog at http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/launching-open-genealogy.
(With thanks to Rosemary Morgan via Twitter)
Chris
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India Office records and UK electoral registers to be digitised
From the British Library, the following is an abridged press release with more detail on something announced at WDYTYA Live:
British Library and findmypast.co.uk to digitise 5 million pages of family history records
Selections from the India Office Records and a century of electoral registers will be made available online
The British Library and family history website findmypast.co.uk are to digitise a treasure trove of family history resources held by the Library, making them available online and fully searchable for the first time.
The project will involve the scanning of UK electoral registers covering the century that followed the Reform Act of 1832, along with records of baptisms, marriages and burials drawn from the archives of the India Office.
When available online, these collections will enable historians, genealogists and family history researchers to make connections and track down details of ancestors and others at the click of a mouse – work that would previously have necessitated visits to the Library’s Reading Rooms and many hours of laborious manual searching.
The British Library holds the national collection of electoral registers covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The registers contain a vast range of names, addresses and other genealogical information.
The other holdings included in the large-scale digitisation are drawn from the archives of the East India Company and the India Office. These records relate to Britons living and working in the Indian sub-continent during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, up to Independence in 1948. They include over 1,000 volumes of ecclesiastical returns of births, marriages and burials, together with applications for civil and military service, and details of pension payments to individuals.
The partnership between the British Library and findmypast.co.uk followed a competitive tender process and will see five million pages of UK electoral registers and India Office records digitised over the next year. The resources will become available via findmypast.co.uk and in the British Library’s Reading Rooms from early 2012; online access will be available to findmypast.co.uk subscribers and pay-as-you-go customers – access to users in the British Library Reading Rooms will be free.
Chris
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British Library and findmypast.co.uk to digitise 5 million pages of family history records
Selections from the India Office Records and a century of electoral registers will be made available online
The British Library and family history website findmypast.co.uk are to digitise a treasure trove of family history resources held by the Library, making them available online and fully searchable for the first time.
The project will involve the scanning of UK electoral registers covering the century that followed the Reform Act of 1832, along with records of baptisms, marriages and burials drawn from the archives of the India Office.
When available online, these collections will enable historians, genealogists and family history researchers to make connections and track down details of ancestors and others at the click of a mouse – work that would previously have necessitated visits to the Library’s Reading Rooms and many hours of laborious manual searching.
The British Library holds the national collection of electoral registers covering the whole of the United Kingdom. The registers contain a vast range of names, addresses and other genealogical information.
The other holdings included in the large-scale digitisation are drawn from the archives of the East India Company and the India Office. These records relate to Britons living and working in the Indian sub-continent during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, up to Independence in 1948. They include over 1,000 volumes of ecclesiastical returns of births, marriages and burials, together with applications for civil and military service, and details of pension payments to individuals.
The partnership between the British Library and findmypast.co.uk followed a competitive tender process and will see five million pages of UK electoral registers and India Office records digitised over the next year. The resources will become available via findmypast.co.uk and in the British Library’s Reading Rooms from early 2012; online access will be available to findmypast.co.uk subscribers and pay-as-you-go customers – access to users in the British Library Reading Rooms will be free.
Chris
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Tuesday, 1 March 2011
Scottish Research Online course
The next Pharos course, Scottish Research Online, taught by yours truly, starts on Monday 7th March, but there are still a few spaces available. Here's the blurb...!
Scotland was first to have major records digitised and offer indexes and images online. It has also been a leader in placing resource information on the World Wide Web. This course describes the major sites, the types of information and data that they offer, the forms in which databases are presented and how to analyze results. You will learn to lay the foundations for searching a family, how to select best resources and what to do next either online or in libraries and archives.
Instructor: Chris Paton
•Scotlands People, Family Search, Ancestry, FreeCen: content, comparison, assessment
•Essential Maps and Gazetteers
•Civil Registration and Census Research Online
•Searching in Church of Scotland Registers Online
•Scottish Wills and Inventories Online
•Take It From Here
Note: it is recommended but not required that students in this course sign up for the basic search option, 30 units/seven days, at ScotlandsPeople (cost is six pounds)
Each lesson includes exercises and activities; a minimum of 1 one-hour chat.
STUDENTS SAID: "I particularly liked the fact that the course didn't just focus on the well-known BMD resources available, but on a much wider range of websites, including many which give extremely useful background information on the geography and history of the localities where our ancestors lived." "a very knowledgeable Instructor"
To summarise - there are plenty of sites you may have used - but do you really know how to use them? And what about the other key sites you may never have heard of? This course provides a thorough grounding not only on the basics, but on the best research approaches to your work, to help you truly understand exactly what it is that you are looking at, and what you may still havew to consider.
See you there!
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Instructor: Chris Paton
•Scotlands People, Family Search, Ancestry, FreeCen: content, comparison, assessment
•Essential Maps and Gazetteers
•Civil Registration and Census Research Online
•Searching in Church of Scotland Registers Online
•Scottish Wills and Inventories Online
•Take It From Here
Note: it is recommended but not required that students in this course sign up for the basic search option, 30 units/seven days, at ScotlandsPeople (cost is six pounds)
Each lesson includes exercises and activities; a minimum of 1 one-hour chat.
STUDENTS SAID: "I particularly liked the fact that the course didn't just focus on the well-known BMD resources available, but on a much wider range of websites, including many which give extremely useful background information on the geography and history of the localities where our ancestors lived." "a very knowledgeable Instructor"
To summarise - there are plenty of sites you may have used - but do you really know how to use them? And what about the other key sites you may never have heard of? This course provides a thorough grounding not only on the basics, but on the best research approaches to your work, to help you truly understand exactly what it is that you are looking at, and what you may still havew to consider.
See you there!
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Interview with Nigel Bayley of The Genealogist
And finally, an interview with Nigel Bayley of TheGenealogist.co.uk on the latest offerings from the website, inclusing news of a new war memorials projects.
(With thanks to Nigel)
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
(With thanks to Nigel)
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
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Interview with Valmay Young of FIBIS
I managed to catch a few minutes with Valmay Young, aka @fibiswebmaster on Twitter, who discussed the work of the Families in British India Society (www.fibis.org), and the wearing of funny hats!
(With thanks to Valmay)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
(With thanks to Valmay)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Interview with Pharos Tutors' Sherry Irvine
An interview with Vancouver based Sherry Irvine, a partner in Pharos teaching and Tutoring Ltd, and author of the original versions of the two Scottish courses which I now teach through the company, who was at the WDYTYA?Live show this past weekend.
(With thanks to Sherry)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
(With thanks to Sherry)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Interview with the University of Dundee
I had the great pleasure of catching up with both Patricia Whatley and Caroline Brown of the University of Dundee at Who Do You Think You Are? Live on Saturday. Both teach genealogical courses at different levels, from day courses to the new Masters (MLit) course now underway, which focus on British genealogy in the whole, but with many Scottish core modules, such as Scottish palaeography.
(With grateful thanks to both Patricia and Caroline)
Chris
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Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
(With grateful thanks to both Patricia and Caroline)
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Interview with TNA's Audrey Collins
On Sunday I managed to grab a few words with Audrey Collins from the National Archives at Kew. Although TNA has not exhibited at WDYTYA?Live for a couple of years now, Audrey was visiting on a day off, and so I'm grateful for her time for this chat, in which she discusses the usefulness of TNA for those doing Scots based research.
Audrey's blog, The Family Recorder, can be found at http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.com.
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Audrey's blog, The Family Recorder, can be found at http://thefamilyrecorder.blogspot.com.
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Interview with Robert Blatchford
Bob Blatchford is a friend based in Yorkshire, who as well as running the National Family History Fair in Newcastle each year (previously Gateshead) is also the publisher of the Family and Local History Handbook. I had the pleasure of working with him for three days on his stall at WDYTYA Live to help sell the new edition of the handbook, not yet available in the shops, but which can be ordered at www.genealogical.co.uk. Here's the great man himself, with a brief cameo from his wife Liz!
Thanks to Bob and Liz for another great event!
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
Thanks to Bob and Liz for another great event!
Chris
www.ScotlandsGreatestStory.co.uk
Professional genealogical problem solving and research
http://twitter.com/ChrisMPaton
Researching Scottish Family History (New book)
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (Even newer book!)
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