This week’s “around the web” has some interesting sites and information.
Find My Past
There are two new record sets at Find My Past that may help you find more information about your Scottish and Irish ancestors. Please note, however, that you do need to be subscribed to FindMyPast to search these records.
(You can search FindMyPast free at your local Family History Centre or for members of Qualicum Beach Family History Centre there is a 50% discount to subscribe to FindMyPast)
Tracing Scottish Ancestors
Find My Past has a must-read article on how to trace Scottish Ancestors. According to the statistics on their website, they have 53 million records, 38 million newspaper articles and 14 million life events for Scotland research.
https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/how-to-trace-scottish-ancestors-2104865677.html
Find My Past – Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records 1816-1922
Learn about your ancestor’s career in the Royal Irish Constabulary with various records from the National Archives at Kew, England, including general registers, disbandment registers, nominal returns, and more.
Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary Service Records 1816-1922
Ireland, Royal Irish Constabulary History & Directories
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Did you have family who were early settlers in the Canadian Prairie provinces?
In the 20th century the Prairie provinces encouraged their residents to write the history of the area including biographies of pioneer families and other early settlers. As many of these books are now out of print, they are being digitized and made available for you to read online.
Alberta – Go to Alberta Local History Books and Alberta History and Genealogy Books for a list of the local history books and also check out the surname index at the bottom of the webpage to find where your ancestors may be listed.
Saskatchewan – Go to http://spldatabase.saskatoonlibrary.ca/internet/ComHisQuery.htm
Manitoba – http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/finding/localhistory/
You can also keyword search the local place name and surnames at Canada’s Local Histories Online. This is also where you will find local history books for other areas of Canada.
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Ontario’s Changing Border Since 1774
A series of colourful maps on the Archives of Ontario website shows how the borders of Ontario evolved from 1774 to 1912. Published for the Government of Ontario in 1969, these maps can help genealogists better pinpoint where their ancestors may have lived during a particular period of time.
Source Genealogy à la carte
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New Blogger on the Block – Finding your Canadian Story
Candice McDonald has started a blog, “Finding Your Canadian Story” covering the subjects of both Canadian history and genealogy. But you don’t need to only research Canadian history, it should be of interest to every genealogist and historian. Candice states that, “You really can’t have an interest in one without the other”. Take a moment to go through her first few posts to gain an idea of how helpful and interesting this site will be.
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Ten years of FamilySearch Indexing
You go online to FamilySearch. You type an ancestor’s name. You instantly find your ancestor in any number of 5.5 billion historical records in the free online database. You are elated at how easy it was as you fill in another missing piece of your family tree puzzle. That successful experience was brought to you by a phenomenon called indexing. And most likely, you were the recipient of a free gift empowered by the efforts of many online indexing volunteers. To read more and learn about the IHEART free graphic download, please click here.
That’s it for this week. Happy researching!