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Computree - Summer 2013
Lorraine's Computree column from the Summer 2013 edition of Connections is now
available in the Members' section. All the addresses are live links for your convience.
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The Sinking of the Empress of Ireland exhibit will tour Canada, hoping to track down descendants of immigrants who came to Canada aboard the Empress of Ireland.
Is your last name Clark, Johnson or Smith? Do you know if your ancestors came to Canada onboard the Empress of Ireland? Would you like to know more about this Canadian Pacific Railway Company's ship?
For a week, starting on May 27, at the Salvation Army's Canada and Bermuda Territorial Headquarters in Toronto, visitors will learn about the fascinating but tragic story of the great ship that disappeared in 14 minutes on May 29, 1914 at 1:55 am in the frigid waters of the St. Lawrence River near Rimouski, Quebec. On board were 1,477 people; 1,012 of them died. This disaster, overshadowed by the outbreak of the First World War, remains to this day the largest maritime disaster in Canadian waters.
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A display showing the ship in all its 1914 glory will showcase many pictures of the ship's interiors as well as a reconstruction of the disaster and rarely seen video footage of the underwater wreckage. Documents on display will include the passenger lists from 1906 to 1914, a log book, and a calendar of all remembrance activities to be organized. This unique exhibit will visit more than ten cities across Canada.
In 1914, the Salvation Army shared in the national tragedy of the sinking of The Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence. On board were more than 150 members of the Canadian Salvation Army, bound for a major international gathering in London, England. Most of them, including the national commander and members of the Canadian Staff Band, drowned.
As the exhibit travels across Canada, project manager Pascale St-Amand will be on hand to answer questions from all visitors interested in this important part of Canadian history. Ms. St-Amand will also keep a record of all the information and details visitors share with her regarding the hundreds of stories from immigrants who adopted this country at the beginning of the 20th century. Tell them your story! News release and contact info.
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Glasgow West-end Addresses
Here's a fun site if you're researching Glasgow between 1836 and 1915. It will tell you all about who lived in the address that you are interested in, whether it is the house you live in, the house next door, or part of a street or district you're researching.This site is still a work in progress, but will, in time, inform you of the occupants of the house, who they were, what they did, how long they stayed at the address, and even where they worked.
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Census of Canada 1871
Library and Archives Canada has released a new version of the Census of Canada, 1871 database. This first general census covered the four provinces that were then part of Confederation: Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The new version includes suggestions for corrections received from users as well as revised district and sub-district information.
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St Patrick's Society of Richmond & Vicinity
The St. Patrick’s Society of Richmond & Vicinity is celebrating its 135th anniversary with the publication of a book on local Irish history called Irish Settlement and National Identity in the Lower St. Francis Valley, written by Peter Southam, a retired history professor from University of Sherbrooke.
The book describes 200 years of Irish presence in the Lower St-Francis Valley, a section of Quebec’s Eastern Townships that surrounds the Town of Richmond. Much of the information was provided by local families. Part I deals with Irish rural settlements and Part II focuses on the Richmond’s St-Patrick’s Society.
Books are available at Townshippers’ Association (819-566-5717), Black Cat Books in Lennoxville, and Papeterie 2000 or Loretta at 819-826-2658 in Richmond. Visit http://www.richmondstpats.org/ for information on the society and the book. Thanks to Elizabeth Lapointe’s Genealogy Canada blog for the item.
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Researching in Newfoundland?
Take a look at Memorial University's Digital Archives Initiative, a wonderful online collection of books and maps, photographs, periodicals, video and audio. DAI hosts a variety of collections which together reinforce the importance, past and present, of Newfoundland and Labrador's history and culture.
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Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2013 speakers handouts
Some of the Society of Genealogists speaker's handouts or slides presented at Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2013 have been published as pdfs and available online. Click here to download.
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Drouin Institute launches online collecction
The Drouin Institute now offers six great collections on a pay site, Quebec Records. These collections are among the most popular reference tools for the Quebec genealogical community. You can search by collection and family, then view the original pages.
The Drouin collection is also available at the Quebec Family History Society's Heritage Centre and Library, free for members and daily visitors.
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Searching on Ancestry
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UK curators' 100 websites
Blogger and QFHS member John D. Reid posted a link to the UK curators' 100 websites judged to be essential reading for future generations researching our life and times in 2013.
To mark the start of a cooperative project "to archive the entire UK web, along with e-journals, e-books and other formats," curators and other experts from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library and Trinity College Dublin were involved.
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RootsTech 2013 free web streaming schedule
For those of you not able to attend RootsTech 2013 in Salt Lake City, some of the most popular conference sessions were streamed online for free. Learn how to find,organize, preserve and share your family's connections and history.
Click on a session to jump to the previously broadcast videos.
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Welsh newspapers online
The Welsh Newspapers Online site, from the National Library of Wales, is now up and running. The site is free to access with some 2.5 million articles available to search from 1844-1910. Thanks to British GENES for the update.
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Mapping the Mosaic
The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network has launched an ambitious project entitled Mapping the Mosaic.
Mapping the Mosaic is an easy-to-use, community-driven site designed to chart the collected memories of English-speaking communities in the Greater Montreal Area. Users of all interests can share experiences and expertise of where their history happened by pinning favourite stories, photos or video to an interactive map of neighbourhoods throughout Montreal, Laval and off-island suburbs.
This “people’s history” will encompass both personal and factual history stories. A series of March workshops has been scheduled to introduce this initiative.
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The Word on the Street
Before newspapers and news channels, the Scottish public relied on street literature to find out what was going on. The most popular form for nearly 300 years was broadsides – one page newspapers which were the tabloids of their day. The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what the word on the street was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions - all these and more are here.
Each broadside comes with a detailed commentary and most have a full transcription of the text. They are fully searchable and can be downloaded in PDF format.
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Valuation Rolls in Scotland
ScotlandsPeople has just released the 1905 Valuation Rolls with over 2.4 million indexed names and 74,000 digital images, covering every kind of building, structure or property in Scotland which was assessed as having a rateable value in 1905. Fully searchable both by name and address, they record the names of owners, tenants and occupiers of each property.
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Tour Maison St Gabriel
Purchased by Marguerite Bourgeoys in 1668, Maison St Gabriel was both the site where the King's Wards were housed and the farmhouse for the Congrégation de Notre Dame. Today it is a national historic site of Canada, bringing the history of New France back to life.
2146, place Dublin, Pointe-Saint-Charles
Montreal
514.935.8136
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