This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------181DA948BB743E45AC832E6E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Happy New Year and Happy Hunting for the Year 2000... --------------181DA948BB743E45AC832E6E Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from ancmail02.ancestry.com ([192.216.182.165]) by franklin.lisco.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA16516 for <njennings@lisco.net>; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 20:10:20 -0600 (CST) Received: from anclist001.ancestry.com (208.222.96.74:1555) by ancmail02.ancestry.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <5.0037AED5@ancmail02.ancestry.com>; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 18:10:19 -0800 Message-ID: <19991228090318.L1RDDACF.33115@anclist001.ancestry.com> From: Ancestry Daily News <Ancestry_Daily_News@anclist001.ancestry.com> To: Ancestry Daily News Subscriber <njennings@lisco.net> Subject: Ancestry Daily News, 28 December 1999 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 09:03:18 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: Ancestry_Daily_News@anclist001.ancestry.com Originator: Ancestry_Daily_News@anclist001.ancestry.com X-Mailer: UnityMail X-Mailer-Version: 3.0 X-UnityUser: Ancestry, Inc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Ancestry Daily News Brought to you by the publishers of "The Source" and "Ancestry" Magazine http://www.ancestry.com 28 December 1999 In this issue: - Database of the Day: ----- Nauvoo, Illinois Tax Index, 1842 ----- Emily, Victoria County, Ontario Census Records, 1901 ----- Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920 ----- Portland Press Herald (Maine), Obituaries, 1998-1999 (Update) - Today's Featured Map: ----- Germany and Italy, 1803 - "November in England," by Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA(Scot) - Ancestry Quick Tip - Thought for Today - Product of the Day at the Online Store ----- "Your Scottish Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans," by Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA(Scot) ----- Free Shipping until New Years ________________________________________________________ GENTECH 2000 NATIONAL COMPUTER CONFERENCE The GENTECH 2000 national computer conference will be held in the San Diego Concourse Convention Center on 28-29 January 2000. The San Diego Genealogical Society is the local host society, and is assisted by other participating organizations, including Ancestry. Additional conference details are shown on the GENTECH 2000 Web page: http://www.gentech.org/2000home.htm. GENTECH is the premier genealogy technology event of the year. We hope to see you in sunny San Diego in January! ============================================================ DATABASE OF THE DAY (Free for 10 Days!) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ Nauvoo, Illinois Tax Index, 1842 A weakness of the Illinois State census of 1842 is the lack of information regarding residents surrounding Nauvoo along the Mississippi River. The records in this database can help reconstruct a list of residents in the area. Taken from microfilm records held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, it lists property owners in Hancock County in August of 1842. Each record provides the individual's name, coordinate location of property, and the page of the original record. For researchers of ancestors of western Illinois, this can be a helpful guide to very detailed information. Bibliography: Platt, Lyman. "Nauvoo Tax Records, 1842." [database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4221.htm ________________________________________________________ Emily, Victoria County, Ontario Census Records, 1901 Home to nearly 3,200 residents at the start of the twentieth century, Emily Township is located in southeastern Victoria County. This database is a collection of federal census records from the township in 1901. It also contains records for residents of the village of Bobcaygeon. Compiled from original documents in the National Archives of Canada, it provides each resident's name, birthplace, and relationship to the head of household. Film, division, page, entry, and family numbers are provided to aid researchers obtain the original record, if desired. For those seeking ancestors from rural Ontario, this can be an informative database. Bibliography: Hewitt, Kristina. "Emily Township, Victoria County, Ontario 1901 Census." [database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4222.htm ________________________________________________________ Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920 Sailing to California in 1853, William Pond was the son of a prominent Congregational Church leader in Maine. Originally published by him in 1921, this database is a brief history of the Congregational movement in California between 1833 and 1920. It presents highlights of his career in the west as a "home missionary," including his ministry in the Sierra County mining town of Downieville. Researchers will also find accounts of the founding of the Pacific School of Religion, managing "The Pacific," a Congregationalist-Presbyterian journal, and the creation of Greenwich St. Church in San Francisco. For persons seeking to understand the growth and development of this religion on the West Coast, this database can be a helpful source of information. Bibliography: Library of Congress. "California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years." Vol. 111. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Pond, William Chauncey. "Gospel Pioneering: Reminiscences of Early Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920. Oberlin, OH: News Printing Co., 1921. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4223.htm ________________________________________________________ Portland Press Herald (Maine), Obituaries, 1998-1999 (Update) Bibliography: UMI Company. "Obituaries from the Portland Press Herald, 1998-1999." Orem, UT: Ancestry Inc., 1999. To search this database, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3593.htm ============================================================ TODAY'S FEATURED MAP <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ Today's featured map is: GERMANY AND ITALY, 1803 To view this map, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/reference/maps/FreeImages.asp?ImageID=197 ============================================================ "NOVEMBER IN ENGLAND," by Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA(Scot) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ For the fifth time in ten years I have made a research trip to England in November. I recommend it. There are few tourists, airfare is cheaper, hotel and car hire rates are lower, research facilities are less busy, and it is just possible that archivists and librarians view me more seriously because of the time of year. One other important detail--on three of the trips, this one included, I never used my umbrella. Not much blue sky, I was just lucky dodging the showers. There are difficulties, the principal one being that some archives and libraries choose this month for their annual inventory. The closure may be for one or two weeks. Never go without being sure the places you intend to visit will be open. This is easy to do either following links at http://www.genuki.org.uk or through the principal access points for archives (http://www.hmc.gov.uk--the home of ARCHON, a directory of UK archives), and http://www.earl.org.uk/familia/ for libraries. If you plan to do some sightseeing related to your research, or even for a welcome change from sitting, many attractions will have reduced their hours or closed altogether for the winter months. For example, the last boat from Greenwich to Tower Pier was at 4:10pm, as the service does not operate after dark. Again, check in advance, using the sites mentioned in the next paragraph. A pleasant surprise was to find the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square open in the evenings, and on Wednesdays the café downstairs remains open until 8:30PM. This is a perfect place to fill in some time before the theatre. I book in advance for any stay in one place of three or more nights, or if it is important to be sure of a place, such as the last night before returning home. The Internet is one way of looking for accommodations that range from bed and breakfast to hotel, and at almost any price range. Start your search at http://www.visitbritain.com. Another option is to search for the local council authority that is likely to include access to tourist information (e.g. http://www.essexcc.gov.uk). It is easy to find local authority sites through Yahoo, selecting the UK, and from there, the Regional heading. It is all very well to carefully plan accommodation, visits to archives and historic sites, and entertainment, but it is essential that research objectives be outlined in advance. You also need to be able to make clear requests to staff and to be prepared to put questions in context--What records have been consulted to bring research to this point? What facts are you starting from? What records have been identified as possibly useful? This is equally true whether you take along a laptop computer or carry an armload of files. There will be more time for research, and further savings will come from knowing something of the collections held by the libraries and archives you intend to visit. My first stop on this visit, with no more sleep than perhaps a two-hour nap on the airplane, was to the Corporation of London Record Office (CLRO). It draws me back regularly because of the wide range of interesting material. The CLRO is the archives of the City of London, meaning the heart of the City, or what is sometimes called "the square mile." It is an unassuming place, just a small search room with no more than eight seats on the second floor of the City offices behind the Guildhall Library. There are a number of important resources here, and these reflect not only the administrative business of the City since the thirteenth century, but also its special responsibilities in other parts of Britain. The City has been a landowner of estates in most counties of England, five in Wales, and in Ulster, where twelve City livery companies played a part in the Plantation of Ulster. Resources frequently consulted by genealogists are the City of London freedom archives up to 1940, and the sworn brokers' archives. These are indexed. The CLRO produces two excellent booklets describing these records: "City Freedom Archives," and "Sworn Brokers Archives." Both are by Vivienne Aldous, author of "My Ancestors Were Freemen of the City of London," recently published by the Society of Genealogists (http://www.sog.org.uk). Up until well into the 1800s it was necessary for many traders, retailers, brokers, and journeymen to be "made free." The sworn brokers' archives list those who were licensed to act as agents or middlemen between merchants and traders. Do not confuse the City freedom archives with the records of the London livery companies, which are held by the Guildhall Library (a good selection of published company histories and records is also in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and can be found listed in the Family History Library Catalog TM by looking under England, London - Occupations). Anyone consulting "The Complete Book of Emigrants" (by Peter Coldham, published by GPC, 1992 and on CD-ROM) is, among other things, actually searching for references to entries in three classes of records held by the CLRO. These classes are the "Lord Mayor's Waiting Books, Volumes 13 to 15, 1682-1696/7," the "Register of Indentured Servants, 1718-1733," and the "Mayor's Court Depositions, 1641 - 1736," all of which are indexed in Coldham's books. There is an informative booklet about this collection: "An Introductory Guide to the Corporation of London Record Office," by Hugo Deadman and Elizabeth Scudder, published by the Corporation in 1994. It is, unfortunately, out of print, but you may find a copy in a genealogical library, or for sale, used. Genealogists absorbed in London research would also be wise to consult "My Ancestors Were Londoners" by Cliff Webb (published by the Society of Genealogists) and "Lists of Londoners," by J.S.W. Gibson (published by the Federation of Family History Societies). One is a concise review of essential background information, and the other is an annotated guide to useful indexes and finding aids. ________________________________________________________ Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA(Scot) has been researching her British ancestry for twenty-five years. She began lecturing in 1984, and has operated Interlink Bookshop and Genealogical Services (http://www.pacificcoast.net/~ibgs/) since 1988. She is the author of "Your Scottish Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans" (http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog/product.asp?pf%5Fid=14046&dept%5Fid=10103003--today's product special) and "Your English Ancestry: A Guide for North Americans" (http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog/product.asp?pf%5Fid=13946&dept%5Fid=10203001). ============================================================ ANCESTRY QUICK TIP <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ============================================================ Since the big item in the news is "what will happen when the clock strikes midnight Dec. 31," we probably should be sure to have all our genealogy backed up "to disk." Myself, I really needed that prompt. A disaster scrambled my database about ten years ago. I guess we get too confident of our family history programs. Shirley ________________________________________________________ Thanks to Shirley for today's Quick Tip. 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