Lanarkshire Family History Society Parish Register For most family history researchers, parish registers provide the earliest direct source of family information. Unlike many other records, parish registers provide evidence of direct links between one generation and the next (via baptismal registers) and one family and another (via marriage registers). The NLI holds microfilm copies of the registers for most Roman Catholic parishes in Ireland (including the counties of Northern Ireland) up to 1880. The microfilms are available on self-service access in the Genealogy Microfilm Reading Room. Parishes are listed alphabetically by diocese along with the dates of the registers in each parish. Further information on Catholic parish registers is available in our information booklet Family History Research: Sources at the NLI Family History Research Sources at the NLI.pdf (0 MB, Adobe PDF).
Welcome to the Aberdeen & NE Scotland FHS Hebridean Connections Scots Origins Tools for genealogy research Scotlands DNA 1st/5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders Most popular surnames of Great Britain mapped | News A team of geodata experts have created a map of the most popular surnames around the UK. As well as mapping the distribution of names from the electoral roll, Twitter account surnames have been included. The results show a marked difference between the two, with Twitter names diverging from national and regional stereotypes. Who made this interactive?
Naval-History.Net Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was) Between 1892 and 1954, over twelve million people entered the United States through the immigration inspection station at Ellis Island, a small island located in the upper bay off the New Jersey coast. There is a myth that persists in the field of genealogy, or more accurately, in family lore, that family names were changed there. They were not. Numerous blogs, essays, and books have proven this. Yet the myth persists; a story in a recent issue of The New Yorker suggests that it happened. The legend goes that officials at Ellis Island, unfamiliar with the many languages and nationalities of the people arriving at Ellis Island, would change the names of those immigrants that sounded foreign, or unusual. Nearly all [...] name change stories are false. Inspectors did not create records of immigration; rather they checked the names of the people moving through Ellis Island against those recorded in the ship's passenger list, or manifest. Friedman. The advice given in reply: Marian L.
Deutsches U-Boot-Museum Welcome… to the German Uboat-Museum, an institution highly regarded by visitors and international experts. It is composed mainly of the Uboat-Archive and a collection of Uboat exhibits. Started in 1947, the Uboat-Archive compiles all available information, photographs and personal notes by witnesses as well as historians of the history of German submarines, to evaluate those for objective historiography. In 1986 this compilation was reckognized officially as "Uboat Tradition Archive Foundation", using that name furtheron. Second pillar of the foundation is the collection of Uboat exhibits, where objects of all kinds from the history of underwater-operations are on display. In order to maintain and further expand this facility the "Association of Friends of the Uboat Tradition Archive ( FTU)" was founded in 1992.