Spotlight - Online Libraries and Archives: British Columbia, Canada The British Columbia Archives (http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/general.genealog.htm) has made some of its resources available online for genealogical research. These resources can be accessed from the site's main genealogy page. Vital Events Indexes The Vital Events indexes are the featured online resource of the British Columbia (BC) Archives. Vital statistic registrations did not begin until 1872, when British Columbia became a province of Canada. Some vital events that took place before 1872 and were registered after that date do appear in the indexes. The Vital Events indexes include births from 1872 to 1903, marriages from 1872 to 1929, and deaths from 1872 to 1984. You will also find an index to Colonial Marriages for the period from 1859 to 1872. The search results will provide you with summary information about the vital event. You can search one index at a time or all genealogy indexes together. With the Basic Search function you can search by surname, given names, place, and year. The Advanced Search function allows you to search by all text, surname, given names, gender, place, full date, year, month, day, and record type. You can specify sort order of the results by using the dropdown list on the search screen. The summary vital information resulting from a search of any of the indexes includes the full name(s), complete date, and location where the event took place. For the Colonial Marriage index the location information includes not only name of the city or town in which the marriage took place but also the name of the church. All results also include the event's registration number and microfilm reel number for records that have been filmed. Digital images of the records are available for purchase. Additional items that may be of interest to someone researching his or her family history in British Columbia are: Visual Records - Photographs, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints A number of unique collections are represented in the Visual Records holdings of the British Columbia Archives. Special subject collections include the Bordertown Collection of historic railway photographs and the F. V. Longstaff Collection, which documents military and social history of the province in the early twentieth century. The searchable database includes over 130,000 text descriptions of items in the documentary art collection, with more than 80,000 images available for viewing online. The index can be browsed by title, subject, photographer or artist, and by geographic region. You can also execute a basic search of the index by name, keyword or phrase, or an advanced search by a combination of criteria. Cartographic Records - Maps, Plans, Architectural Drawings and Charts The BC Archives Cartographic Records on-site collection contains over 63,000 maps, atlases, and architectural drawings related to the province of British Columbia. Seven hundred of these maps are found in the full-text searchable Cartographic Records Index. There are also approximately forty maps currently available online in digital format. These maps may only be access by clicking on the individual map links found on the Cartographic Records homepage. Check out the British Columbia Archives at http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/general.genealog.htm if your search for ancestors takes you to western Canada. Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "Save the Earth, it's the only planet with Chocolate!" List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

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Celtic Britain (The Iron Age) c. 600 BC - 50 AD Who were they? The Iron Age is the age of the "Celt" in Britain. Over the 500 or so years leading up to the first Roman invasion a Celtic culture established itself throughout the British Isles. Who were these Celts? For a start, the concept of a "Celtic" people is a modern and somewhat romantic reinterpretation of history. The "Celts" were warring tribes who certainly wouldn't have seen themselves as one people at the time. The "Celts" as we traditionally regard them exist largely in the magnificence of their art and the words of the Romans who fought them. The trouble with the reports of the Romans is that they were a mix of reportage and political propaganda. It was politically expedient for the Celtic peoples to be coloured as barbarians and the Romans as a great civilizing force. And history written by the winners is always suspect. Where did they come from? What we do know is that the people we call Celts gradually infiltrated Britain over the course of the centuries between about 500 and 100 B.C. There was probably never an organized Celtic invasion; for one thing the Celts were so fragmented and given to fighting among themselves that the idea of a concerted invasion would have been ludicrous. The Celts were a group of peoples loosely tied by similar language, religion, and cultural expression. They were not centrally governed, and quite as happy to fight each other as any non-Celt. They were warriors, living for the glories of battle and plunder. They were also the people who brought iron working to the British Isles. The advent of iron. The use of iron had amazing repercussions. First, it changed trade and fostered local independence. Trade was essential during the Bronze Age, for not every area was naturally endowed with the necessary ores to make bronze. Iron, on the other hand, was relatively cheap and available almost everywhere. Hill forts. The time of the "Celtic conversion" of Britain saw a huge growth in the number of hill forts throughout the region. These were often small ditch and bank combinations encircling defensible hilltops. Some are small enough that they were of no practical use for more than an individual family, though over time many larger forts were built. The curious thing is that we don't know if the hill forts were built by the native Britons to defend themselves from the encroaching Celts, or by the Celts as they moved their way into hostile territory. Usually these forts contained no source of water, so their use as long term settlements is doubtful, though they may have been useful indeed for withstanding a short term siege. Many of the hill forts were built on top of earlier causewayed camps. Celtic family life. The basic unit of Celtic life was the clan, a sort of extended family. The term "family" is a bit misleading, for by all accounts the Celts practiced a peculiar form of child rearing; they didn't rear them, they farmed them out. Children were actually raised by foster parents. The foster father was often the brother of the birth-mother. Got it? Clans were bound together very loosely with other clans into tribes, each of which had its own social structure and customs, and possibly its own local gods. Housing. The Celts lived in huts of arched timber with walls of wicker and roofs of thatch. The huts were generally gathered in loose hamlets. In several places each tribe had its own coinage system. Farming. The Celts were farmers when they weren't fighting. One of the interesting innovations that they brought to Britain was the iron plough. Earlier ploughs had been awkward affairs, basically a stick with a pointed end harnessed behind two oxen. They were suitable only for ploughing the light upland soils. The heavier iron ploughs constituted an agricultural revolution all by themselves, for they made it possible for the first time to cultivate the rich valley and lowland soils. They came with a price, though. It generally required a team of eight oxen to pull the plough, so to avoid the difficulty of turning that large a team, Celtic fields tended to be long and narrow, a pattern that can still be seen in some parts of the country today. The lot of women. Celtic lands were owned communally, and wealth seems to have been based largely on the size of cattle herd owned. The lot of women was a good deal better than in most societies of that time. They were technically equal to men, owned property, and could choose their own husbands. They could also be war leaders, as Boudicca (Boadicea) later proved. Language. There was a written Celtic language, but it developed well into Christian times, so for much of Celtic history they relied on oral transmission of culture, primarily through the efforts of bards and poets. These arts were tremendously important to the Celts, and much of what we know of their traditions comes to us today through the old tales and poems that were handed down for generations before eventually being written down. Druids. Another area where oral traditions were important was in the training of Druids. There has been a lot of nonsense written about Druids, but they were a curious lot; a sort of super-class of priests, political advisors, teachers, healers, and arbitrators. They had their own universities, where traditional knowledge was passed on by rote. They had the right to speak ahead of the king in council, and may have held more authority than the king. They acted as ambassadors in time of war, they composed verse and upheld the law. They were a sort of glue holding together Celtic culture. Religion. From what we know of the Celts from Roman commentators, who are, remember, witnesses with an axe to grind, they held many of their religious ceremonies in woodland groves and near sacred water, such as wells and springs. The Romans speak of human sacrifice as being a part of Celtic religion. One thing we do know, the Celts revered human heads. Celtic warriors would cut off the heads of their enemies in battle and display them as trophies. They mounted heads in doorposts and hung them from their belts. This might seem barbaric to us, but to the Celt the seat of spiritual power was the head, so by taking the head of a vanquished foe they were appropriating that power for themselves. It was a kind of bloody religious observance. The Iron Age is when we first find cemeteries of ordinary people's burials (in hole-in-the-ground graves) as opposed to the elaborate barrows of the elite few that provide our main records of burials in earlier periods. The Celts at War. The Celts loved war. If one wasn't happening they'd be sure to start one. They were scrappers from the word go. They arrayed themselves as fiercely as possible, sometimes charging into battle fully naked, dyed blue from head to toe, and screaming like banshees to terrify their enemies. They took tremendous pride in their appearance in battle, if we can judge by the elaborately embellished weapons and paraphernalia they used. Golden shields and breastplates shared pride of place with ornamented helmets and trumpets. The Celts were great users of light chariots in warfare. From this chariot, drawn by two horses, they would throw spears at an enemy before dismounting to have a go with heavy slashing swords. They also had a habit of dragging families and baggage along to their battles, forming a great milling mass of encumbrances, which sometimes cost them a victory, as Queen Boudicca would later discover to her dismay. As mentioned, they beheaded their opponents in battle and it was considered a sign of prowess and social standing to have a goodly number of heads to display. The main problem with the Celts was that they couldn't stop fighting among themselves long enough to put up a unified front. Each tribe was out for itself, and in the long run this cost them control of Britain. (Note: The terms "England", "Scotland", and "Wales" are used purely to indicate geographic location relative to modern boundaries - at this time period, these individual countries did not exist). Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "Save the Earth, it's the only planet with Chocolate!" 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On Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital's General Post Office. Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland and by the next morning were in control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Pearse and 14 other nationalist leaders were executed for their participation in the Easter Rebellion and were held up as martyrs by many in Ireland. Armed protest continued, and in 1922 most of Ireland won independence with the declaration of the Irish Free State. Six northern counties of the island remained part of the United Kingdom, and some nationalists reorganized themselves into the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to continue their struggle for full Irish independence. Sally Rolls Pavia <mailto:sallypavia2001@yahoo.com> sallypavia2001@yahoo.com "Those who dislike the cat . were in a former life, a rat." List Owner: <mailto:GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com> GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: <http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

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