Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2021 i Family Tree UK

ALL ABOUT FAMILY HISTORY FindMyPast share 1921 project update FindMyPast has shared an update on the progress of their project to digitise and publish the 1921 census of England & Wales Despite Covid restrictions impacting various aspects of the project, FindMyPast are still on course to publish the census online in early 2022. FindMyPast state that provided there are no further interruptions to the current rate of digitisation, they are confident that original project timelines will be met. The project team is still hopeful for a January launch although progress has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and timings could change should there be any further developments relating to Coronavirus. In an update provided to Family Tree, FindMyPast said: ‘FindMyPast is committed to providing users with the best possible experience…

ANCESTOR ACHIEVEMENTS Spotlight on… ALL IN A DAY’S (SCHOOL) WORK North Liverpool Academy Family History Club Despite being in existence for less than a year, the North Liverpool Academy family history club has seen its members make discoveries that many long-standing family historians would wish were on their family trees The club was established as a summer school in 2020 by genealogist and member of staff at the Academy, Ian Mooney. Overcoming the challenges of Covid lockdowns, a considerable number of students nevertheless joined the club and began to trace their family trees. Now, nearly one year on, these students, currently studying in year 7 (therefore typically aged 11-12 years) have made impressive progress. Genealogy discoveries One such student was Jacob, who, over the past 10 months has traced an extensive…

UP YOUR GENEALOGY GAME! Putting it into practice Challenge 1 READ, READ, READ Read about the record collections you are searching to discover the details of missing records. On some websites you will find details mentioning gaps in the area or datespan covered. This may be because records weren’t kept in the first place, have been subsequently destroyed, or because the collection is only partially digitised. Challenge 2 KEEP A RESEARCH LOG Keep a research log, recording which collections you searched and when – then if the collection is updated in the future you can repeat your search. The research log will also give you scope to note where you undertook your search (on which website or in which archive, and in which type of records, for instance parish registers…

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SHARING YOUR VIEWS HAVE YOUR SAY Your letters Memories of bygone telephones & more Immobile phones The cover photo of FT March issue brings to my mind the various telephone systems which have been used in our family over the last 80 years or so. When first searching online for my paternal grandfather’s contact details, I found him in a Barnsley telephone list and shown as having the Barnsley number 35. It makes me wonder how many people in Barnsley and surrounding villages now have telephones! It also made me try to recall the different styles of telephones which grandad and my father have had. My paternal grandad, Albert E. Wilkinson was a councillor with Hoyland Nether Urban District Council, and the County Councillor for that District on the West…

BOARDING HOUSES, BUCKETS OF SAND The Victorian & Edwardian Seaside This summer, many of us will be heading to the coast for holidays nearer home – just like the Victorians and Edwardians. Anna Maria Barry takes a trip back in time and explores the seaside excursions of the 1800s In the 19th century, the British seaside experienced an explosion in popularity. From Blackpool to Brighton, Brits flocked to coastal resorts. The rapid expansion of the rail network had made the seaside more accessible, which was convenient as people had more leisure time to fill, particularly after the introduction of bank holidays for workers in 1871. Where to stay? New hotels sprung up along the coast to cater for the influx of tourists, and sometimes these establishments were very opulent indeed.…

How were the camps in Britain organised? The organisational system used to manage POW camps in Britain followed the British Army structure of six Command areas: Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, Scottish and Irish, with London and Aldershot being separate Districts. By early 1915, when the system had bedded down, within each Command a ‘parent’ POW camp was identified which, whilst subservient to Command Headquarters, was not necessarily at the same location. For example, Eastern Command HQ was in Colchester, in Essex, while its parent POW camp was at Pattishall, in Northamptonshire.…

KILLER DISEASES OF HISTORY WHAT CHOLERA MEANT TO OUR ANCESTORS Covid VS Cholera Dr Simon Wills reflects on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and how it will be viewed by posterity, and compares our experiences with those of our ancestors during the rampages of cholera in the 19th century Perhaps like me you have wondered how our descendants will view the Covid-19 pandemic. In the future, people will probably say that it must have been frightening, and they will wonder how on earth we coped. I think that it’s given each of us a more personal insight into how our ancestors must have felt during other pandemics in the past such as the Black Death of 1346–53, and the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–20. Although separated by centuries, we…

UNLOCK THE STORY OF YOUR GENES ENLISTING DNA ON YOUR FAMILY HISTORY QUEST YOUR DNA WORKSHOP Making DNA work FOR YOU Welcome to the DNA Workshop! In every issue DNA adviser Karen Evans will be unpacking a reader case study, and giving step-by-step tips for you to use in your DNA research at home. It’s time to unlock the story of your genes… CAN DNA RESEARCH REVEAL WHO MY FATHER WAS? Reader Pat got in touch with DNA adviser Karen Evans to ask about the possible steps for finding out who her father was PAT: This will be the first time that I have ever divulged my birth to anyone outside my family, husband excluded of course. Facts: • I was illegitimate. • I never knew who my father was.…

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Revealed: names at risk of becoming extinct New research has revealed the names at risk of extinction in the UK and those that are growing fastest in popularity, analysing over 1.5million names across a period of ten years The analysis, conducted by name label manufacturer My Nametags, of a database of over 1.5 million names, found that the use of the names Gemma and Kieran has declined by more than 65 percent over the last decade, with the names at risk of dying out completely if the trend continues. There were just 36 uses of the name Gemma in 2020, and none in 2021, whilst there have been just four Kierans listed so far this year. Joining the list of names most at risk of dying out are Rebecca (-59…

NEWS British Library and FindMyPast announce renewal of long-term partnership FindMyPast and the British Library have announced an extension of their long term partnership; the British Newspaper Archive, along with news that millions more newspaper pages will be digitised over the coming years Originally launched in 2011, the ten-year project has delivered the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen. The British Newspaper Archive has published more than 42 million pages from over 1,000 regional, national and speciality titles covering all corners of the UK, Ireland and beyond. Prior to digitisation, this vast cultural treasure was held entirely in hard copy and microfilm, necessitating travel and hours of painstaking manual research for anyone wishing to use the collection. The announcement will result in the online publication…

Double escape A double recapture that appeals to me is that of combatants Heinrich Schmidt (age 25) and Theodor Jackutla (age 22) who absconded from Rothwell Camp in Northamptonshire on 5 May 1918. News of their flight spread rapidly and 17-year-old Thomas Gibson, who was rabbit shooting nearby early on the following morning, happened to come across them. Pointing his shotgun at them he fearlessly compelled them to march in front of him to the local police station where they were arrested and returned to the POW camp. Young Thomas was rewarded with £2 and having his story reported, with a photograph, in local newspapers. [4] With his parents, 17-year-old Thomas Gibson who ‘captured’ two escapees from Rothwell POW Camp, Northamptonshire…

RESEARCH & REUNION YOUNG LIVES CUT SHORT IF BY CHANCE A sense of genealogical déjà vu led Ann Larkham to take a closer look at the records. On doing so she realised she’d stumbled on a remarkable coincidence in her family tree… The great fascination of family history, for me, are the millions of decisions, circumstances and chance events that occurred during many centuries to make me, me. If just one of those crossroads had been navigated differently, I would not be here. Whether this is chance or destiny, it is a miracle that I am me … and that you are you. This story illustrates just one of the circumstances in my miracle: a story about the discovery of a link between two unrelated four-year-old boys who died in…

UPA YAOSUAR GENEALOGY GAME! BECOME A BETTER FAMILY HISTORY SLEUTH Analyse, assess & Mind the Gaps! Improve your family history search skills with the Family Tree Academy. This issue, David Annal exhorts us to look carefully at the records we find online The Family Tree Academy is here to help you grow your genealogy skills. The aim is to help teach more about the search skills and source know-how needed to step up your family history research. In this issue, Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal discusses some of the problems we may encounter when researching online and exhorts us to take an analytical look at the records, questioning everything, in order to keep our research on track In the beginning I’ve been involved in family history research for long…

DIARY DATES DISCOVER LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO ENJOY FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, PLUS SOME OF THE FIRST ON-SITE EVENTS OF 2021 LEARN ANY TIME, ANYWHERE Online talks & courses ONLINE EVENTS Wedding pictures and bridal fashions, 1830-1960, 23 June In her live presentation for Family Tree, costume historian Jayne Shrimpton will be looking at a timeline of wedding pictures – both family photos and fashion plates – to help us explore the wedding fashions of the day. The dress, head wear, _ oral arrangements, hairstyles and footwear (where visible), from the eminently sensible use of a ‘best dress’, to the full-_ own bridal fantasies that increasingly became the order of the day, taking in the practical restrictions brought about by clothes rationing in and after World War II along the…