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From: "Rob Thompson" <>
Subject: Family History News 50
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 21:39:47 +0100


Family History News
No 50

15th April 2001

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 50th issue of Family History News. I have
some big news this week, which I hope will be interesting to all our
subscribers.

Firstly I would like to thank everyone who has subscribed, or contributed to
Family History News over the last year and a bit. To be honest when I
started this up I never thought I would get to 50 issues, or indeed to 1600+
subscribers, it is probably 1500 more than I thought the newsletter would
get! Over the past year we have built up a reputation for unbiased news, and
for bringing snippets of information about UK genealogy to a wider audience,
which I am very pleased about. I must also thank everyone who has dropped me
a line of support, each week I get thank you emails and I read, and enjoy
every single one

… and now the news! I will be away on one of my periodic works trips for the
next two weeks, so there will be no Family History News for two Sundays.
When it returns it will look slightly different. We have got together with
GENUKI, the worlds best website for UK Family History to make the newsletter
the GENUKI UK FAMILY HISTORY NEWS.

This holds many advantages for all of us! Firstly the main emphasis of the
newsletter will not change. We will still be aiming to bring news on UK
genealogy from everywhere, still unbiased as GENUKI is not commercially
driven and the style and content will not change. We will be though able to
bring more news, and hopefully more articles, with the help of GENUKI
Maintainers and others. We will still need all your regular contributions of
news and events though!

GENUKI will be hosting the archive of the newsletters from Number 51
onwards – giving a full archive, rather than my very small archive on my
website, with good links and easy access to the main GENUKI site.

I am personally very pleased to announce this co-operation and feel this is
the best way to take the newsletter forward, and look forward to a bigger
and better next 50 issues (at least)

Some information form a press release from the Worcestershire Record Office:
Worcestershire Record Office [England] is on the move in accordance with the
following timetable:-

1. St Helens branch, Fish Street, Worcester will be closed to the public
after Thursday 12 April 2001 in preparation for the move of its entire
contents to Worcester HQ branch, County Hall, Spetchley Road, Worcester WR5
2NP.

2. HQ branch will also be closed to the public after 12 April 2001 until
early Autumn in preparation to receive the contents of the St Helens branch,
but also to enable the contents of its search room to be moved to the new
Worcestershire Library and Family History Centre.

3. The new Worcestershire Library and Family History Centre at the Trinity,
Worcester will open its doors on Monday 30 April 2001. The new Centre will
hold all the microform family history resources currently held at the HQ
branch together with Local Studies books from Worcester City Library.

4. Anyone planning to visit Worcestershire Record Office in the next few
months is advised to telephone the office in advance for details of the
progress of the move and the availability of records, particularly original
documents.

5. As the move proceeds we will endeavour to issue updates as quickly as
possible and apologise for any inconvenience which may be caused during this
period, we will endeavour to open at County Hall as quickly as we can.

Telephone contact 01905 766351 or 01905 765922
email

New Books
Flicking through this months Family Tree Magazine I found a review of Air
Force Records for Family Historians by William Spence. This book, published
by the PRO, us available fro 9.99 UKP and would be extremely useful for
anyone interested in tracing ancestors who served in this branch of the
armed services.

Webpage reviews
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6222/sbn/index.htm
Stoke Bruerne & Shutlanger Records This site contains records from the
baptisms, marriages and burials from the parish records as well as
information from the censuses between 1841 and 1891. A Very interesting
site, with an easy to use index and good information about the individuals
in it, with sources quoted. This could be very useful for anyone with
ancestors in this area, or who could have passed through, particularly in
the nineteenth century with the census records. On browsing I found a few
strays so it will be worth a look if your family came from this area of
Northamptonshire or close by as it may just have that vital information for
you

http://www.hmc.gov.uk/artists/
A searchable database of where to find records of ancestors who were
artists. Are you looking for the history or more information on a painter,
potter or photographer? This could well be the place to find it. The
database combines what is in many archives holding records pertaining to
these professions and makes it easily searchable, by name, by profession, by
date, and by location of archive. There are literally hundreds of archives
covered, and although it may only be a small chance of it being worthwhile
to a family historian a lot of the stored records are personal
correspondence. Only a small percentage of the artists & craftsmen covered
are famous so if your ancestor was in this filed it is well worth having a
search through - you might get lucky. The drawback to the site is the frames
and the rather unattractive design, but the site is functional and does not
take too long to learn how to use

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/epislive/libpages.nsf/437194deb01c293b802564d60
047624b/2330548cf50ac2e18025663d0028e4fe?OpenDocument
This extremely long URL is the home of the family and local history section
of the Birmingham archives webpage. This site contains information on how to
use the archives in your family history research, including basic listings
of available records, and details of ways in which the archive can help you,
including workshops and seminars. A useful way to find out about the records
of the archive before you visit, or to see whether it is worth a visit

Upcoming Events
The Society of Genealogists Family History Fair is again being held at the
Royal Horticultural Society New Hall on 5th & 6th May. This is the biggest
family history fair in the UK, and well worth a visit, especially if you
have not been before. It is now too late to buy advance tickets if you have
not already done so. Tickets on the door though cost 6UKP. I will be there
on the Sunday, spending much of my time on, or around the GENUKI stand, so
if you are around come up and say hello!

The South West Group of Family History Societies are holding their Family
History Fair on Saturday 7th July from 10am to 4pm at The Winter Gardens in
Weston Super Mare. Exhibitors include most of the Family History Societies
from the South West and also from Glamorgan, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Isle of
Wight, as well as the London Metropolitan Archives, Somerset Record Office
and many more. Admission on the day is 1.50 UKP.

The University of Glasgow is holding a summer school in Tracing your
Scottish Ancestors. There are two dates for this – “5th-30th June and 2nd –
6th July. The course fee is 152 UKP and further details can be obtained from
0141 330 4394.

The Shropshire FHS is holding an open day on Saturday 2nd June at the
Shirehall in Shrewsbury. The day starts at 10am and finishes at 4pm.

The Dorset Record Office is holding an open day (10.30am to 3.30pm) on
Saturday 28th April, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the building, ion
Bridport Road in Dorchester.

The Lancashire Record Office is offering Getting to Know the Lancashire
Record Office sessions on Thursday 26th April (6.30pm), Wednesday 2nd May
(6.30pm) and Monday 14 May (7pm). Sessions are aimed at new, or recent
beginners in using the record office.

New on GENUKI
New in the Bedfordshire section: Material available to Genealogists;
Business Records; Churches in Bedfordshire; Bedfordshire Family History
Society; Anglican Parish Registers; Non-Anglican Registers; Bedfordshire's
villages; Genweb Bedfordshire pages; War Memorials for Bedfordshire; Links
and Information; Bedford Record Office Holdings of Newspapers; Workhouse and
Lunatic Asylum Birth and Death Registers; Poor Law Unions; Workhouses for
Bedfordshire; School Records; Bedfordshire Historical Record Society;
Register of Electors; Ampthill; [Ampthill] Ampthill & District
Archaeological & Local History Society; [Ampthill] Ampthill History
Forum;Arlesey; Aspley Guise; Astwick; Barton in the Clay; Battlesden;
Bedford;[Bedford] Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898 - Bedford;
[Bedford]Bedford Archaeological & Local History Society; [Bedford] St
Cuthbert;[Bedford] St John; [Bedford] St Mary; [Bedford] St Paul; [Bedford]
St Peter;Biddenham; Biggleswade; Billington; Bletsoe; Bolnhurst; Bromham;
Caddington;Campton; Cardington; Carlton; [Eaton Socon] Map of the area;
[Eaton Socon]Genweb - Eaton Socon; [Eaton Socon] Old maps of the parish of
Eaton Socon;[Eaton Socon] Eatons Community Association (ESCA); [Swineshead]
Map of the area; [Swineshead] St Nicholas; [Swineshead] Genweb - Swineshead;
[Tilbrook]Map of the area; [Tilbrook] War Memorial.

New in the UK & Ireland section: The Archives Hub; Consignia Heritage
Collection (Post Office Archives); Barry Ruck's Mini FAQ; Church, Circuit
and District Websites; The Methodist Church; Parish Finder; Complete Newgate
Calendar; FFHS Publications; DNA & the Family Historian; Background on DNA
Testing and Genetics; 10 Ancient Groups of Forefathers; 29,000-Year-Old Bone
Material;60,000 Year-Old "Mungo Man"; Alan Savin's; American Association for
the Advancement of Science; Announced Plans in January 2001; Apeman Portal;
BBcReport; Beringia; Brigham Young University Global Database; Burns;
Celera;Cilento; Civil War Remains; Cuni; Encyclopedia of Life; Evolutionary
Fate ofthe Neanderthals; Gene Code at a Glance; Gene Testing; Genetic Codes
Unraveled: New Clues to Human History; Genetic Divide; Georgia; Giuseppe
Passarino Et Al; Glossary of Terms; Hereditary Disease Foundation; His
Website; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Howery; Human Genome Diversity
Project; Juliette Saillard Et Al; Kevin Duerinck's; Leiden University
Page;Lemba; Liberty; Little Gene Flow; Migrating Humans; Migration Patterns
in Siberia, the Americas & Central Asia; Mitotyping Technologies; Mumma;
Nature Genetics; Nord Website; Office of Rare Diseases; Own Website; Oxford
Ancestors; Oxford Genetic Atlas of the UK; Paleo.net; Philip Dance;
Pomeroy;Primer on Molecular Genetics; Protein Studies; Prove His Identity
With 99% Certainty; Report on the DNA Test Attempt; Research; Roper; Sanger
Centre; Science; Science Functional Genomics; Scientific Testimony.;
Sequencing Process; Seven Women; Sharing a Maternal Ancestor; Solving the
Mystery: DnaTests for Your Research; Stidham; Swedish Study; The Centre for
Genetic Anthropology; The Results; The Y Chromosome In The Study Of Human
Evolution, Migration And Prehistory; Three Frozen Mummies; Timeline of
Evolution; Tonga; Toole; Treasure Troves of Science; UC Berkeley; US News &
World Report; Welcome to the Cradle of Humankind; Wells; Y Chromosomes of
Jewish Priests; PRO - Virtual Museum; Birth, Marriage & Death; Crime &
Punishment; Empire; Famous Names; Invention, Fashion & Design; Kings &
Queens; The Wider World; War & Defence; Extracts from Various Late 19th &
Early 20th Century Newspapers; Bodleian Library Map Room; The Historical
Maritime Society; World War I Military History List; World War I Document
Archive; Officers Died; Crimean War Research Society; Nicknames and Naming
Traditions; Regional Press Database; Newspaper Society; Consignia Heritage
Collection(Post Office Archives); Coal Mines History Resource Centre;
British Methodism and the Poor 1739-1999; Taxes in force in 1837.

Links/pages added/amended in the Huntingdonshire pages : Baptist Ministers
in Huntingdonshire 1811 to 1831; [Alwalton] Alwalton Manor in AD 1279;
[Great Paxton] Great Paxton - Genweb Page; [Hemingford Grey] War Memorial;
[Huntingdon] Huntingdon Team Ministry; [Molesworth] Map of the area;
[Ramsey] Website - St. Mary; [St Ives] St Ives - A Personal View; [St Neots]
Church of St Mary; [Sapley] Map of the area; [Sapley] Sapley; [Sawtry] War
Memorial; [Somersham] War Memorial; [Somersham] Somersham - GenWeb Page.

Links/pages added/amended to the Wales Pages : The Royal Commission on the
Ancient & Historical Monuments of Wales; All Wales Lookup Exchange;
Graveyard Welsh; Census Strays Pages for England and Wales; Plans to Make
the 1901 Census Available on the WWW; Wales - A Brief Timeline; National
Library of Wales; Nonconformist Records; Description and Travel - Links and
Information; The West and Wales Web; Facts and figures about Wales; Review;
UK Villages; Index to "Victorian and Edwardian Wales from Old Photographs";
All Wales Lookup Exchange; South/West Wales Lookup Exchange; The Welsh in
Oneida County, New York; Gareth's Help Page; The Welsh and Slavery in
America; Princes of Wales; Welsh Family and Local History; Pedigrees and
Coats of Arms in Wales; One Name Database Lookup Exchange; History - Links
and Information; Review; Chronological Documentary Evidence; Early Medieval
Wales; Medieval Welsh Warriors and Warfare; Norman Castles in Wales; Mott
and Bailey Castles and Ringworks; The Castles of Wales and the Civil War;
Kingdom of Deheubarth; Gerald of Wales; Llewelyn the Great; Hywel Dda; Owain
Gwynedd; Lord Rhys; The Last Campaign of Prince Rhys ap Gruffydd
ofDeheubarth; Llywelyn ap Gruffydd; Owain Glyndwr; Cymdeithas Owain
Glyndwr;South/West Wales Lookup Exchange; Manorial Database; Architecture in
Wales; Landmark - Old OS Maps; Merchant Marine - Links and Information;
MARINERS; Index to "Welsh Sail"; Index to "Welsh Shipping"; Index to The
Welsh Guards; The Welch Regiment Museum (41 st/69th Foot) of The Royal
Regiment of Wales; Welsh Names and Surnames; Common Welsh Surnames; A Simple
Guide to Constructing 13th Century Welsh Names; Newspaper Library Catalogue;
Occupations - Links and Information; The Welsh Slate Industry; General
History of Welsh Mining; Links to Web Pages; Bibliography of Mining
Publications on Welsh Mines; Index to "Welsh Cattle Drovers"; All Wales
Lookup Exchange; Workhouses in Wales; Religion and Religious Life - Links
and Information; School Photographs; Social Life and Customs - Links and
Information; This Spectred Isle; The Welsh Flag; The leek and
daffodil -emblems of Wales.; The Red Dragon; Who were the Celts ?; Index
to"PoblGwaith".

GENUKI's Home Page - http://www.genuki.org.uk/
GENUKI's Listings of:Family history Societies -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/Societies/ Genealogy Mailing Lists -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/MailingLists.html Surname Lists -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html
GENUKI's Frequently Asked Questions File -
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/faq.html

And finally…
That’s all for this week, and as I mentioned earlier, there will be no news
for the next couple of weeks, and then we are back with the new GENUKI UK
FAMILY HISTORY NEWS.

Have a good couple of weeks

Rob

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