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JUNE 2008 NEWSLETTER
Updates to the Adamthwaite Archive website
New details added to
- the
ORANGE family story in the Miscellany section – what else will
this family get up to?
- photos added
to the
BLUE family line, we are still hoping for some photos for the
LIGHT GREEN line, and a few more for the YELLOW line would be
welcome!
- all BMD and
census spreadsheets updated with latest info provided by mailing
list members, as well as further info included on the USA and CANADA
BMD and census spreadsheets
- And a new
section of the ‘Adamthwaites in Uniform’ section, with
Recollections of the War
where Bob has submitted a great article about his uncle
who was a Japanese Prisoner of War. If you have any stories to
add to this section, they would be most welcome.
- Some more
entries found for the
passenger lists – quite a few of which I have not
been able to identify. If you know that any members of your family
emigrated, please could you take a look at the migration pages to
check that all known information is shown.
- Now that I
have subscribed to worldwide Ancestry, I have managed to find a few
more Adamthwaites in the US censuses – however the transcriptions of
the surname are even more imaginative that for the UK censuses! So
if you know that one of your ancestors emigrated, let me know and
I’ll have a go at finding them. Remember the US censuses go up to
1930.
Your help needed
I have gone through all the birth spreadsheets, trying to make sure that
I have entered known death and marriage info for each individual, and
have also attempted to find each individual in as many censuses as
possible, but there are still many Adamthwaites (particularly daughters
who may have married) where we have no idea what happened to them.
There are also still quite a few families that I have not managed to
find in all the censuses where I would expect them to be alive … please
could you check through the census sheets for your own families and see
if there is any information that you have found that is not shown on the
website.
Also, do you know of any more death or burial information than is
already shown on the site? Death records pre-1837 are particularly hard
to find unless you know exactly which parish to search. If you can help
by providing more information, our Death records would be much more
complete.
Some more useful websites
Westminster Poll Books 1749
You may or not have had any ancestors living in London in 1749, but
this site demonstrates just how useful the internet can be.
http://www.hamersleyfamily.com/westminsterpollbook1749.htm
Lancashire BMD
– didn’t find any Adamthwaites on there, but a very handy site if you
have any other ancestors in Lancashire
http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/
UK BMD
is a site where you can access records transcribed directly from the
locally held copies of registered births, marriages and deaths. As it
is thought that there are errors and omissions in the main GRO index, it
may well be worth checking out the country records held at this site:
http://www.ukbmd.org
Family Search
– updated site. Take a look at the latest developments on the
Family Search site at
http://labs.familysearch.org/ where you can try out their
future plans for the site – it includes British Vital Records and many
more searches than previously available.
Images of England
You can view many old photographic
images of historic places in England at the English Heritage site at
http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/
and a further collections of images is available at
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1506
Old Bailey on-line You can now read transcripts of all
cases held at the Old Bailey between 1674 and 1913 (including a couple
of Adamthwaites!)
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
Causes of Death If you don’t’ recognise the medical terms
for cause of death on some of your old death certificates, try looking
at this site http://tinyurl.com/43gvvr
And if you are interested in where your ancestors lived, why not hunt
for an aerial photo at
www.oldaerialphotos.com and you may find an image of your ancestor’s
home in the 1940’s. Pretty expensive, but if you are absolutely SURE of
their address, it may be worthwhile.
Newspaper collections
Richard Heaton has been busy transcribing old newspapers and you can
find his transcriptions on his site at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/index.html.
Even if you can’t find any references to your own ancestors, there are
fascinating articles that really give a flavour of life in the 17th
century
The Times
thanks to a post by Stephanie Jenkins on
the Oxfordshire list, take a look at
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/
where The Times is offering access to 200 years of its scanned & OCR'd
archive as a free introductory offer. In the next few months, they'll
be adding The Times post-1985, as well as The Sunday Times from its
launch in 1822.
You need to register on the site, if you haven't already done so, but
that's all.
I understand that the above service is not as good as the Thomson
Gale one which you may still be able to register for access as part
of a free trial at
http:access.gale.com.gdctrial.login.html, but the former site is
more widely accessible. I have found loads of Adamthwaites on this
site!
Searchable scans of New Zealand Papers at <http://www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home&e=-->
And finally … are you thinking about a
FAMILY REUNION?
The BBC are looking for people
fascinated by family history who are keen to hold a big family
get-together, to feature in a major new documentary.
Their hope is to explore the unique past
and present that every British family has at its core and to discover
the importance and strength of family bonds in modern Britain.
Call Anna on 020 7267 4260 or email
allewellyn@blastfilms.co.uk
I can’t wait to see you on the telly!!
sue
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