Huge Thanks!! To Pat for the display she made of a collection of old Hyde photographs and newspapers articles which we used at our stand at the Tameside Independence Days (Retirement Shows) on Monday and Tuesday this week at Hyde Town Hall. Also to Pat, Doris, Anita and Pam for helping out on the days. We were kept busy, but mostly by other stall holders who were amazed how easy it was to find their grannies on the 1911 Census and BMD’s etc. We seem to have really sparked an interest and our next Family History Trail will be extremely busy.
Society Trip in July:
I have arranged a visit and guided tour to the newly refurbished People’s History Museum Manchester 2.00pm . The cost will be £3 per person, but I might be able to arrange a bit of a discount for Society members. The Museum is very easy to get to. Train from either Stalybridge or Ashton to Victoria
There is a good café and terrace where we could have lunch before the tour. I am going to need numbers fairly soon for both the tour and the café.
Please let me have numbers for both the visit and if you want to meet beforehand to eat in the café. There is a separate sheet to sign this evening.
History Alive – Tameside:
Tameside History Forum’s 10th Anniversary Magazine is now out. More articles than ever this year. Tameside History Forum now has 30 member groups and several individual members it has grown from very small beginnings, but now has a voice on various planning, conservation and heritage committees of Tameside MB
Copies of the magazine are available from Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre or downloadable from the forum’s website:
Baby Brother - from the files of the Hampshire Chronicle dated 1901
A witness, a very old man, was asked in court whether he had any brothers or sisters. He gave the amazing reply that he had one brother, who had died 150 years ago. A murmur of incredulity traversed the whole court, which was changed to stupefaction when documentary evidence was brought in proof of the old man’s words. His father had married at the age of 19 and had a son who died the same year. He married again at the age of 75 and had another son, the witness, who was 94 years old when he gave his evidence. Thanks very much to Marion Marshall for giving me this cutting.
News from the WEB:
History Pin - http://www.google.com/landing/historypin/ a new development for Google maps and Street View. Pin your History to the World
Historypin invites you to dig out, upload and pin your old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the Historypin map. Uniquely, the site allows you to layer your old images onto modern Street View scenes, revealing a series of windows into the past.
Irish 1901 Census
News from the Irish National Archives: www.nationalarchives.ie/ All thirty-two counties for 1901 were launched last Friday 3rd June. All thirty-two counties for 1911 have been available on this site for some time now. Click on search census and then there is a drop down menu for which ever year you want to search. Both are totally free to search. I’ve found my granddad at last as a little drummer boy at the barracks in Armagh, sadly though it now looks like he wasn’t great granny’s child and I can’t find a birth registration for him anywhere on the Record Search Pilot site.
British Newspaper Library
A New 10 Year Project being undertaken by Bright Solid the parent company of FindMyPast.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8690919.stm looks as though these will eventually end up on FindMyPast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8690919.stm looks as though these will eventually end up on FindMyPast
Other News from FindMyPast
Since last month they have released two new batches of Chelsea Pensioner’s records:
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Date range
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Approx
records |
Approx
images |
When available
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WO97 1873-1882
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97,515
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540,423
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Now
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WO97 1883-1900
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312,909
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2,218,606
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Now
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WO97 1855-1872
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65,000
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400,000
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By June 2010
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WO97 1760-1854
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184,000
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1.2 million
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By July 2010
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WO97 1901-1913
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303,000
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2.1 million
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By August 2010
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WO96 1806-1915
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500,000
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3.5 million
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By Sept 2011
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The Royal Marine Medal Roll 1914-1920 is now on findmypast.co.uk
You can now find the complete World War I Campaign Medal Rolls for the Royal Marines on findmypast.co.uk The database contains the names of over 75,000 Royal Marine Officers, NCOs and other ranks, and provides a complete listing of all Royal Marines who served in WW1. Added to the transcripts of these records are service details for a large number of men, particularly those killed in action or died of wounds during WW1 and in many cases post-war deaths and WW2 deaths are noted. The medals covered by the rolls are: the 1914 Star, the Clasp to the 1914 Star, the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Lancashire On-line Parish Clerks have added two new lots of data for Tameside. The burials at Denton St Lawrence Church
Family Search Record Search Pilot have just started a new indexing project – Manchester Parish Registers 1813-1925 – this is a long-term project which will be interesting to see how it develops.
Jamaican Family History - Doris asked me for information as to how to research Jamaican family history. This site seems to be pretty comprehensive, it’s a pay site, but not too dear – a kind of mini Ancestry for Jamaica
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Programme for 2009-10
14 July – Trip to the People’s History Museum in Manchester
8 September – Our AGM plus I will be demonstrating all the new features and developments of the Family Search Pilot site
Meetings are held in the Old Chapel schoolrooms, Old Road 7.00 pm. £1.50 for members and £2.00 for non members, tea and coffee on arrival.
