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": J.K. Rowling's French Family Tree Posted by Diane Let our "Who Do You Think You Are? " correspondent Shannon Combs Bennett take you inside last night's episode with J.K. Rowling, author of the famous Harry Potter books (which originally aired as part of the BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are? "). Photo: Andrew Montgomery Sunday’s "Who Do You Think You Are? " Rowling visited stunning places, from the French national archives in Paris to the ancestral village of her second-great-grandmother on France's border with Germany.
Her first stop included a treasure box of family history and helped to set the tone of the show: Sitting in her aunt’s home in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling gathered clues to Louis Volant's life. At the national archives, a bit of Rowling's world seemed to crumble as she realized the Louis Volant who received the Legion d’Honnuer wasn't her Louis.
Records next led to Louis' mother, Salomé Schuch. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. Passengers, Ships, Shipwrecks. CEMETERIES Photographed in TX, OK, NM, AK, the Vietnam War Memorial Wall Replica on Texas, and many more. Burial and Memorial Benefits Home. Earth. BillionGraves. Free Genealogy & Ancestry Search Engine. Data gathering tools (new, to me) As a genealogist that conducts much of his research on the web, good data and image gathering tools are extremely helpful.
As a person who relies heavily on the PC as a genealogical repository and information processor, tools that help me sort and process the information I gather are highly valued (prized). In all fairness, I also ought to restate that I rarely (VERY rarely) work with any software outside of the OpenSource (or Free) realm unless I have a hugely compelling reason to do so. I must, additionally, admit that I am very new to many (read almost all) of these tools. It is also worth knowing that several of these tools are brand new to the world (or perhaps even a little bit newer than new).
Nonetheless, I thought archiving and sharing these pointers might be useful. Having said all that, here are the innovative tools which most recently appeared on my radar screen. Epic online reunification of the descendants of the great Irish clans. A ground-breaking and innovative online project is under way to reconnect all of the descendants of Ireland.
Based on the concept of the Irish Clan name, the Great Irish Online Clan Gathering is seeking to build the international profile of Ireland and its people by connecting to an audience that may never have known of their direct links to Ireland via their surname. The Great Irish Online Clan Gathering (operated by the Irish Clans Network, an organisation funded by charitable donations from anonymous benefactors), is an extraordinary effort to join, connect and engage all those people throughout the world who have an Irish surname themselves OR have an Irish surname within their family tree. Taking the view that people who have, or whose ancestors have had, an Irish last name can in some way trace their heritage back to Ireland – the Great Irish Clan Gathering, launching this Christmas/New Year season, aims to use that special bond of a shared surname as the platform to do so.
What to Search: Topics - Genealogy and Family History. Censuses - Discover the Collection. Census returns are official Government of Canada records that enumerate the country’s population.
They are an invaluable source of information as they often include the age, occupation, ethnic origin, religious denomination and the place of birth for the persons listed. For each census, the records are arranged by province or territory, and then are divided into districts which usually correspond to counties and cities. Districts are typically divided into sub-districts, corresponding to townships, parishes and larger towns. From 1851 to 1901, a census occurred every 10 years in Canada; this was confirmed by the British North America Act (also known as the Constitution Act, 1867). The original purpose of the census was to help determine parliamentary representation based on population. About Genealogy - Learn How to Research Your Family Tree. Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think.
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Beginning Genealogy Research. Sex, lies and civil registration. Okay, the talk today is about “Civil registration and Beyond” and it’s basically what I feel like talking about, really.
It’s not the basics of the births, marriage and deaths and how to do your family history – there are lots of other places where you can find out about that. There are websites, there are books, there is loads and loads of stuff in print. What I am going to cover today is a lot of things that you probably didn’t know, some of it about the background and some of it just about some lesser known facts, things that interest me really. I am self confessed civil registration nerd and I have been picking away at this subject, mainly in the records that are held here in this building in Kew.
I am just finding out really what went on behind the scenes at Somerset House for want of any better subtitle. I am going to give you little bit of the background about why and how civil registration came about in the first place. [Laughter] [Shows image] Neither did this. [Laughter]: The annual Ancestors Lecture: our 17th century ancestors. The National Register of Archives. Scandals in the family. Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search.
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