Sheffield & Family History - by Eric Youle

12/5/2013 LostCousins Newsletter

eyoule — Sun, 12 May 2013 22:33:57 +0000

Save 10% on all findmypast.co.uk subscriptions
Twin studies reveal connections between Europeans
Have you ever met your ‘lost cousins’?
Aberystwyth Crew Lists go online
Fire at the National Library of Wales
Ashes remain unclaimed
City of London Cemetery: grave risks for ancestors
Brighton burial records disappearing
Correcting errors on certificates
Ancestry data problems cause confusion
Curiouser and curiouser….
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25/4/2013 LostCousins newsletter

eyoule — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:52:24 +0000

Come to our 9th Birthday party
Bring your friends and relatives
Save on DNA tests ENDS TODAY
GRO – the next step?
Books online – a new source
London Gardens Online
Cradle to grave
Tracing your ancestors through death records
Who will inherit your online accounts?
Online archives of the Imperial War Museum
War memorial to be corrected after nearly a century
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Door to door challenge: solution
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8/4/13 LostCousins newsletter

eyoule — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:41:38 +0000

Last chance to save at findmypast ENDS THURSDAY
GRO still stuck in the 19th century
Have you claimed your free LostCousins subscription?
Coming soon: a new way to make breakthroughs
Facebook clues can reveal your secrets
Policemans helmet bears 1897 bloodstain
DNA discovery rewrites human history
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Railway uncovers 14th century burial ground
Emigration to a new world
Speeches that were never made
Door to Door challenge
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Family History Conference/Workshop

eyoule — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:42:16 +0000

The ‘Peak District Family History U3A Network’ are holding a Family History Conference/Workshop on Sat 27 April at The Dome in Buxton. The ticket price of £20 includes refreshments, lunch, car parking.

Also, as we are a non-profit making organisation (retired enthusiasts) and have enjoyed generous support from our sponsors, we are providing a Welcome Bag of valuable FH items & discounts and a free raffle (via ticket number) of valuable FH prizes donated by FH companies.

Our venue holds 250 delegates and tickets have sold well to U3A members. As we still have about 70 tickets unsold we thought members of your nearby regional FH organisation may like to attend too – they do not have to be U3A members.

Interested? Please check out the attached flier and booking form . The booking forms need to be received by us by 6th April.

Peak District FHU3A wkshop advert & booking

29/3/2013 LostCousins newsletter

eyoule — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:37:30 +0000

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Free access to the 1901 and 1911 Censuses ENDS MONDAY
2 million East Kent parish records officially released
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New Irish records
6.5 million newspaper pages now online
How to find more cousins
Cousins as DNA donors
Have they found King Alfred?
Manor Park cemetery records complete
Confusion as Kent newspaper goes online
Get copies of register entries – free!
One members guide to self-publishing
Scanning documents on the move
Forum takes shape
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A true life Story of a Yorkshire family’s migration to a new life, in the country at Gracemere, Queensland

eyoule — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:05:52 +0000

The “Johnson Story” gives an excellent account of the journey, of the family, to Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, on the ship “Dacca” in 1887. It tells of the trials of settling into a new country, pioneering farming.

The story of the family from Londesborough to its establishment at Gracemere, Rockhampton, os lavishly illustrated with 100s of excellent photos. Mainly from glass plates taken by the son Elmar who acted as local photographer in addition to Pineapple farming. The photos cover the family, farming, the community and landscape. And is brought to life through a transcript of Emlar’s diaries spaning a number of decades in the early 1900s supplemented by audio interviews with surviving descendants.

If you have any interest in Australia from that era, you need to spend some time here.

Enjoy

13/3/2013 LostCousins Newsleter

eyoule — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:08:53 +0000

Is DNA testing of any value to genealogists?
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3/3/2013 LostCousins newsletter

eyoule — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:11:09 +0000

The numbers are looking good
New Zealand census finally goes ahead
Kent registers indexed at findmypast
Irish records online
A million more London Poor Law records at Ancestry
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Hillingdon Archives closing for 9 months at least
More details on Yorkshire records
Devon quarter sessions
Digging into the crime records
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23/2/2013 LostCousins newsletter

eyoule — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:53:42 +0000

Show report:
Who Do You Think You Are?
LiveCrime records online now at findmypast
DNA tests for £30! ENDS THURSDAY
Genes Reunited offers 15% discount ENDS THURSDAY
National Library of Wales to digitise newspapers
Yorkshire records to be digitised
Hertfordshire parish registers online at last
Visiting the graves of my ancestors
Manor Park Cemetery over-run by brambles
Wild boy Peter commemorated
Were your ancestors miners?
Second source for information on entertainers
Birthday Book challenge goes online
Car crash reveals time capsule
Palaeography: the study of old handwriting
Forum launch getting closer
Ancestry change cancellation procedure
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Sheffield Manorial Records 1424-1624

eyoule — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:02:54 +0000

Scanning of T Walter Hall’s Descriptive Catalogue (3rd Vol) of the Sheffield Manorial Records is well under way. The first 140 odd pages are on-line under the subscription books (Book – 3).

That’s the main body, the remainder largely indexes.