Learn New Skills - Scottish Research

I've written about this site before, but it's worth mentioning again as there has been another update. My Irish grandfather, who moved to Scotland as a young man, had 5 paternal uncles and one paternal aunt. I've been able to trace them all, except one who just refused to appear anywhere following the 1901 census in Ayrshire Scotland. Lo and behold, there he is in the Scottish Indexes, named in the Sheriff Court Paternity Cases - in two consecutive years [gulp] by two different ladies [shoot]. Wow!

So after learning what would have happened to him, this 'could' be a reason for him to have left Scotland which 'could' be why I've not been able to track him. Hmmmmmm. Always be prepared for what sad or nasty things we learn ... and often we are without having any of the details. In this case there are lots of details, none of which make me proud. Anwyay, I digress. Here is the site, but PLEASE read through the Search Help and the Learning Zone https://www.scottishindexes.com/default.aspx

I will say again, the Scots have the BEST records!



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Pat

Citing Sources Without Stressing Out

Thanks to Amy Johnson Crow for this one https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/citing-sources/


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Pat

Jewish Headstones - Czech, Poland, Ukraine

I was just going through some pictures I took on our month visit to Germany, Austria and Czech Republic. In Prague we visited this cemetery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Jewish_Cemetery,_Prague. Revisiting my pictures reminded me of the sadness I felt that day in 2006. So this story is a bit of a tie in http://rohatynjewishheritage.org/en/projects/headstone-recovery/ and this https://forgottengalicia.com/jewish-traces-in-lviv-mezuzah-scars/



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Pat

Forgotten Galicia

This one is about the railroad, but look around as there are more links. http://forgottengalicia.com/the-galician-railway/


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Pat

FREE Video British Home Children

TVO documentary regarding the children sent from Scotland, Ireland and England from mid 1865 - 1932. 11% of Canada's population are descendants of these Home Children. This is a very moving video with living and descendants of the original 'home children' which will NOT play on my phone, but will on my laptop. https://tvo.org/video/documentaries/forgotten

More info and a free database at https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/Pages/home-children.aspx

Seldom did these folks, as adults, talk about their stories. Some had good lives in Canada or Australia. Sadly many did not. So these records are definately worth a look.


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Pat

History of Every World

No kidding! Every world is there, so chose and read. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/listhistories1.asp?gtrack=mtop1

Well there goes the rest of the day! haha


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Pat

Secret Codes in Ukrainian Embroidery

http://euromaidanpress.com/2016/05/19/secret-ancestral-codes-12-main-symbols-in-ukrainian-embroidery/


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Pat

Genealogy Webinars

https://familytreewebinars.com/archived_webinars_bydates.php

So I did this by date, but you can change the parameters to subject, presenter, under the Browse the Library title.


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Pat

44 Sibings and Counting

How donor sperm is creating enormous genetic families around the world. Wow! Do you think this is from poor or non-existant planning? And what are individual countries doing about this - Canada, for instance?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/health/44-donor-siblings-and-counting/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a79e29ef9e73


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Pat

A Mother's Love in 56 Words

This is too poignant for words. Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers, students, and friends.

http://archive.kuow.org/post/slave-mothers-love-56-carefully-stitched-words


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Pat

More DNA Info From Ancestry

https://familyhistorydaily.com/genealogy-help-and-how-to/learn-from-dna-test-ancestry/


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Pat

New Brunswick Provincial Archives

Wow, these guys are kickin butt when it comes to digitizing and making available, FREE, online records. What they are working on now is the Anglican registers from Fredericton diocese dataing back to 1790s. Congratulations!! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/provincial-archives-digitizing-records-1.4839231


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Pat

1926 Census of Canadian Prairies

So it appears this long awaited census should soon be available to us!!! The Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1926 (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) was transferred to Library and Archives Canada on June 1, 2018. LAC then turned this census over to the great volunteers through familysearch.org

I heard, through the grapevine, that the initial indexing is complete so it should become available to us 'soon', whatever 'soon' means it's never 'soon' enough for us! haha I also checked and there are no indexing projects for Canada over at familysearch.org so it's gotta be true! WooHoo!!


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Pat

8,000 Irish Books in Phoenix AZ

This is quite a story. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/how-8-000-irish-books-found-a-home-in-the-arizona-desert-1.3643758


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Pat

Mobile Genealogy Apps

Not sure about you, but I certainly spend way more time on my cell phone than I do on my laptop. Here's a useful list of genealogy apps for mobile devices https://ancestralfindings.com/genealogy-apps-to-help-you-with-on-the-road-research/


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Pat

The Mennonite Story

http://mennonitemuseum.org/


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Pat

British Home Children

About 11% of Canada's population are descendants of these Home Children. Ever heard of the Bernardo Boys? But there is MUCH more to learn. There is an article here https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/british-home-children-farms-abuse-1.4314384

LAC has more detailed information, plus a searchable FREE database AND links to the organizations who hold the original records. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/immigration-records/Pages/immigration-records.aspx#a



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Pat