The Christmas and New Year season is over so now is the time to think about holidays. With a newly upgraded archive opening in Yorkshire, there is all the more reason to come on the Yorksgen holiday. At £35 ppn for B&B the racecourse represents very good value for money. Currently BA are advertising a sale on air fares so why not take this unique opportunity to come to Yorkshire. The dates are August 1st - August 14th (13 nights). You can book for as many nights as you like. Yorkshire is a very beautiful county from the coastal areas to the remote fells of the Pennines and all the old industrial areas in between. See the Roman column in York, visit the Yorvik Viking museum in Coppergate, see the famous MInster and the National Railway museum has free entry and that is just York. Visit the towns where your ancestors lived, worked and walked. Find out what was happening locally which could explain why they did what they did. Are you interested? If so please e-mail Lynn on [email protected] Chris

At 18:49 09/01/2015, Ruth wrote: >Can you tell us the name and author of the book? It may be available from >other sources. Hi Everyone The title is (wait for it): "Genealogy of Willoughby and Susannah Wood Micklethwaite (Mickelwait) and their descendants : biographies, photographs" By Keith E Lingenfelter and Claude B Mickelwait Published by Claude Mickelwait in Washington DC. Here's the WorldCat reference: http://www.worldcat.org/title/genealogy-of-willoughby-and-susannah-wood-micklethwaite-mickelwait-and-their-descendants-biographies-photographs/oclc/181355802?ht=edition&referer=br I tried to login to HQO, but it won't let me - I suspect they provide you with an authorised login/password. I asked a librarian in the UK about HQO, but they knew nothing of the site. BTW Willoughby Micklethwaite was landlord of the Bay Horse in Great Heck from where he emigrated to the US in 1831 - Claude Mickelwait is a descendent. Your help is much appreciated. Andy.

Due the migration between coalfields many Yorkshire families may be mentioned in the 200,000+ searchable names in the Mining Durham's Hidden Depths project: http://www.durhamrecordoffice.org.uk/Pages/MiningDurhamsHiddenDepths.aspx Click the browse by name for a full alphabetical list. 8 ADEY's for example. These include indexed compensation claims which may re-occur due to changes in the family. Documentation is held in the Durham Record Office. Best wishes Jackie Mrs Jacqueline G Depelle Family History Tutor, Speaker and Fair Organiser www.yourfairladies.co.uk www.yorksgroup.org.uk Chairman, Yorkshire Group of FHSs

Can you tell us the name and author of the book? It may be available from other sources. Ruth -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Micklethwaite via Sent: 09 January 2015 18:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [YORKSGEN] Heritage Quest Online I have found that a book that I am interested in has been digitised by Heritage Quest Online. This appears to be an American online service to libraries. Does anyone know if there is access to it in England? Andy.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:05:24 +0000 Andy Micklethwaite via <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Andy, >Online. This appears to be an American online service to libraries. >Does anyone know if there is access to it in England? Possibly not (although I've not checked); Copyright Law is complicated and can quite different between here and the USA. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" Bet you thought you knew what I was about Problem - Sex Pistols

I have found that a book that I am interested in has been digitised by Heritage Quest Online. This appears to be an American online service to libraries. Does anyone know if there is access to it in England? Andy. http://andymick.magix.net/public/micklethwaite.htm Sent from VirtualBox running in Linux Mint

Andy....why can't you just sign up to Heritage Quest and download it? http://www.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/index I'm in the US.....if I can help, let me know. mary lou -----Original Message----- From: Andy Micklethwaite via <[email protected]> To: yorksgen <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jan 9, 2015 11:07 am Subject: [YORKSGEN] Heritage Quest Online I have found that a book that I am interested in has been digitised by Heritage Quest Online. This appears to be an American online service to libraries. Does anyone know if there is access to it in England? Andy. http://andymick.magix.net/public/micklethwaite.htm Sent from VirtualBox running in Linux Mint ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi List I have an excellent book A Pictorial Record of Mining in Barnsley written by John Threlkeld pub in 1987 which has lists of men killed in accidents in that area mostly before 1900 with history behind the accident if anyone would anything looking up Judith

You might be interested in this that I posted in a few lists This was circulated by the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in Newcastle upon Tyne. They have produced some Mining history resource guides https://www.mininginstitute.org.uk/about-us/42-resource-guides2 These downloadable guides in PDF format give an annotated overview of resources in the NEIMME Library - and occasionally elsewhere - available to research mining topics. One covers family history https://www.mininginstitute.org.uk/images/pdf/Familyhistory-miningOct14.pdf PS I also posted elsewhere, I quoted Bolton but sure there is just as much for towns on the wrong side of the Pennines. I have been looking through the IWM Collections, I am sure they have been adding new things to it because I have found images in this area that not seen on there previously. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/ I tried Bolton and there are quite a number of items there, many are Media Not Available Online so can only hope that they do appear online later. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=bolton&submit=&items_per_page =10 This is not likely to appear online but might interest some people if they can find a copy Bolton County Grammar School : the wartime years : a collection of anecdotes and memories from people who experience the disruption of their education during the 1939-1945 war (books) Made by: BOLTON COUNTY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. OLD STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (author) 2003 BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945 part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer Italian prisoners re-pack boxes of foodstuffs in a farm house, somewhere in Britain, (probably near Bolton, Lancashire), for dispatch to civilians in Liberated Europe. WOMEN RAILWAY WORKERS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR part of "FIRST WORLD WAR WOMENS WAR WORK COLLECTION" (photographs) 1917-05-15 A female oiler employed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway at work at Bolton station in May 1917. WOMEN AT WAR 1914 - 1918 part of "REAVIL ARTHUR L P" (photographs) Made by: Reavil Arthur L P Post Office Sorter, Bolton, Lancs. THE LEND LEASE PROGRAMME part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer Elizabeth Rothwell of Bolton, Lancashire, sitting on a table drinking from a mug containing orange juice. The orange juice was supplied from America under the Lend Lease Programme from a mug. In the foreground next to her is a bottle of Ministry of... There are lots more and also many recordings of interviews with people to get their memories saved. These are often a couple of hours long. Obviously other place names can be searched as well Martin Briscoe Fort William [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lin via Sent: 08 January 2015 16:30 To: [email protected] Subject: [YORKSGEN] Coal Mining Accidents and Deaths Ancestry have just released the Index for the above covering the years 1700-1950.

Ancestry have just released the Index for the above covering the years 1700-1950. I put in Yorkshire for place of death - there were 7,546 results. The Index gives approx birth year, age, death date, death place, occupation, name of colliery and the owner and notes (cause of death) For those without an Ancestry subscription the same information can be obtained for free from: http://www.cmhrc.co.uk (The Coalmining History Resource Centre) I don't know why but I put in ADEY in the search engine on this site and didn't get a result but put in Thomas ADEY and I did. So worth putting in a first name if you don't get a result. One tragic story concerned Joseph BIRTLEY who was run over by waggons while taking his father's dinner to the works. He was 7 years old. Lin Lin

Dear All, You are receiving this message because you have subscribed to one of Rootsweb's Genealogical Mailing lists. I must point out that I have nothing to do with the administration of any of these Rootsweb lists, I am like you, simply a subscriber. Please do not reply to this message unless you find a problem with the Yorkshire Surnames Interest list (i.e. different to the Rootsweb Mailing lists), and if you do reply, please send the message direct to me ( [email protected] ) and not to this Rootsweb Mailing list. This is hopefully the last message to the list on this subject for a year or two, though there will be surname updates from time to time. I have now completed the checking of bouncing emails for the surnames list, having sent out some 10,000 emails and having received 4045 bounces. This resulted in 7291 lines in the surnames list being flagged as bouncing emails- about one in three! I have also done a major re-write of the software (the first since 2007) and fixed all the "bugs" I could see, but there may be some bugs in it still (and I'm quite good at making new ones :-)) - if you have problems with the pages, please drop me a line direct ( [email protected] ). You will find a list of the 4045 bouncing email addresses at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/BouncedEmails.txt and a list of the user names associated with these email addresses at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/BouncedNames.txt both are in alphabetical order. If you have ever subscribed to the YKS surnames list, please check these two files to see if you are listed, and if you are, then please let me know what I can do to fix the problem(s) by email, ( [email protected] ). I should emphasise that these lists are much longer than the list I produced a couple of weeks ago. I have uploaded the new pages to the YKS surnames list site: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/ and made these pages slightly easier to navigate. If you would like to submit your surnames, please go to: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/submit.htm In the last two weeks there have been over 90 new submissions, these are flagged on the web pages by a "new" graphic: ARMITAGE BAIRSTOW, BARBROOK, BEANLAND, BEDFORD, BEECROFT BERRY, BINNINGTON, BOLTON, BOTTOMLEY, BRACEWELL BRAYSHAW, BRIGGS, BROADLEY, BULMER, BURNS CADE, CHAPEL, CHILD, COLLINSON, COULTAS DANIEL, DARNBROUGH, DAVIES, DEAN, DUCK EAMES(2), ELLIS FARRAR, FELTHAM, FITTON, FORD, FRANKLAND GAUNT, GREEN, GUERIN, GUEST HABERSHAW, HADDOCK, HAIGH, HALLIDAY(2), HANSOM HARE, HARRISON, HEMINGWAY, HOLMES, HOVINGTON HOWSE, HOYLE, HUDSON, HUTCHINSON, HUTTON ILLINGWORTH, INGHAM JACQUES KEIGHLEY, KERSHAW LANTTHROPPE, LAW, LOCKWOOD, LUMB MANNIFIELD, MARRIOTT, MARSDEN, MOUNTAIN OFFICE, ORWYNNE PADGET, PICKARD, PICKERING, PLAYFORTH, POINTING RAISTRICK, RAWSON, READER, REIBLEIN, REYNER RICHARDSON, RILEY, ROBINSON, ROLLING, RUSSELL SAUNDERSON, SELLARS, SELLERS, SENNETT, SHEARMAN SIMONS, SPINK(2), STYAN, SUTCLIFFE THORNTON, TOLL, TUMMON WADDY, WALMSLEY, WELLS, WILCOCK, WILLIAMSON WIMPENIE, WRAY Happy Hunting and thank you for your time. Best wishes, Colin Hinson In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. Webmaster for the Genuki Yorkshire pages: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: http://www.YorkshireCDbooks.com

I have a transcript of the War Diary of the 1/7th West Yorkshire Regt. (Leeds Rifles) if anyone would like any info. Pauline Morley.

The list on the AIF Project is not yet complete. if you know more about a particular soldier you can contact them. If you have a photo of a soldier and the Australian War Memorial does not have the pic, you can arrange to send them the photo, they would like originals as they use a very high quality copier that enhances everything in the photo, eg I sent them one, and in my original the slouch hat shaded the face, but on their web site the soldiers face is very clearly seen. They send everything back to you. some places on line to find WW1 soldiers who served with Australia Red Cross Missing and Wounded Australian War Memorial - Summary of service, also the WW1 nominal roll, WW1 Embarkation list, WW1 Mentioned in Dispatches. Official Histories and War Diaries State Archives, all Aus states. Commonwealth War Graves. National Archives of Australia NAA - each WW1 soldier record is digitised (20-70 pages approx) TROVE (newspaper collection) Irish Anzac project, (University in NSW and DUBLIN joint project) Marg -----Original Message----- From: Caroline Gaden via Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 9:48 AM To: Yorksgen Subject: [YORKSGEN] Australian Defence Force Academy web site for Yorkshire soldiers in WWI Hello Yorkins The Australian Defence Force Academy has a web site listing the Aussies who went to battle in WWI. Many of course were from England and there are 67 who I found just with the search of 'Yorkshire' in the place name.... so if you've 'lost' a lad he may have been enjoying the sun and wide open spaces Down Under before he enlisted.... and no doubt other counties will reveal their sons if you try them... https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/search Good luck Cheers Caroline Here are the first 3 on the list and you can get more details of each one when you get his full details via his name 1112 ALLATT, Arthur Glenroe, Broom Road, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England 22nd Battalion, A Company 938 BANNING, Alec Hawthorn Terrace, Hook Road, Goole, Yorkshire, England 9th Light Horse Regiment, 5th Reinforcement 485 BODEN, George Ernest Ilkley, Yorkshire, England 18th Battalion, B Company ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Yorkins http://www.dva.gov.au/commems_oawg/commemorations/history_research/service_history/Documents/Research%20guide.pdf This is the web site which shows all the things you can access about your WWI soldier who fought with the Aussies....don't dismiss it just because it was an Australian unit, there were plenty of English-born enlisted.... 67 Yorkshire, 66 Lancashire, 37 from Durham, England etc and the Australian War Memorial and others on this spread sheet are very good sites. Good luck Caroline

Hello Yorkins The Australian Defence Force Academy has a web site listing the Aussies who went to battle in WWI. Many of course were from England and there are 67 who I found just with the search of 'Yorkshire' in the place name.... so if you've 'lost' a lad he may have been enjoying the sun and wide open spaces Down Under before he enlisted.... and no doubt other counties will reveal their sons if you try them... https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/search Good luck Cheers Caroline Here are the first 3 on the list and you can get more details of each one when you get his full details via his name 1112 ALLATT, Arthur Glenroe, Broom Road, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England 22nd Battalion, A Company 938 BANNING, Alec Hawthorn Terrace, Hook Road, Goole, Yorkshire, England 9th Light Horse Regiment, 5th Reinforcement 485 BODEN, George Ernest Ilkley, Yorkshire, England 18th Battalion, B Company

In response to Caroline's email - the link didn't work for me, but the following will take you to the nominal rolls search pages. http://www.dva.gov.au/commemorations-memorials-and-war-graves/nominal-rolls Leonie Fretwell Burra SA [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Caroline Gaden via Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2015 9:19 AM To: Yorksgen Subject: [YORKSGEN] More sites to check for Yorkshire lads fighting with the Australians in WWI Hello Yorkins http://www.dva.gov.au/commems_oawg/commemorations/history_research/service_h istory/Documents/Research%20guide.pdf This is the web site which shows all the things you can access about your WWI soldier who fought with the Aussies....don't dismiss it just because it was an Australian unit, there were plenty of English-born enlisted.... 67 Yorkshire, 66 Lancashire, 37 from Durham, England etc and the Australian War Memorial and others on this spread sheet are very good sites. Good luck Caroline ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I don't think it applies to WWI as much but when researching Australian and Canadian (and probably Kiwis), you find that many served in the British forces and often do not show up as Australian or Canadian. I have photographed many Commonwealth war graves for various projects and I used to get requests for someone who had been found serving in RAF mainly so had not been identified previously as being Australian or Canadian. Certainly many who had emigrated before WWI did return home to enlist in British regiments, probably because of family connections. Just complicates matters! I came across a sad story with one name on a war memorial on Harris that had just 'Argentina' under regiment / service column. I made some enquiries and found he was a shepherd or sheep farmer who had emigrated to Patagonia. He was on his way back to the UK to enlist when his ship was sunk in the Bay of Biscay. He is not recorded as a war casualty by the CWGC. Martin Briscoe Fort William [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marg o'leary via Sent: 05 January 2015 23:21 To: Caroline Gaden; Yorksgen Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Australian Defence Force Academy web site for Yorkshire soldiers in WWI

The other missing stat would be the number of soldiers whose parents were born in UK. As someone searching for dna matches for soldiers who were in the mass grave at Fromelles, a great deal of my searching for connections is in the UK. If they came from Ireland it is difficult, becuae of their missing records. Marg ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

L. L. Robson's 1973 article, The origin and character of the first A.I.F., 1914-1918: Some statistical evidence, published in Historical Studies volume 15, indicates approximately 18% of the first AIF was born in Great Britain, with another 3% born in other countries, and 2% unknown. These numbers were drawn from a study of over 2000 First World War service records. It is possible to search for free in the National Library of Australia Archives at http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/places. Where it is requested to put in a Town or Suburb, you can get results by putting in "York", or an English town name. In my main towns of interest alone, for Beverley there are 22 names and 15 addresses, and for Hull very many more, plus surrounding towns. Of course you can also search by name. In most cases, digital copies of the serviceman's record of service can be viewed. In this centenary year of Gallipoli and the origins of the Anzac tradition, to which so many British contributed and for which so many fell, it may be appropriate to see who of your family or district enlisted on the other side of the world from their birthplaces. Of course, no records are 100% complete, or completely accurate. Bill Webster

Forwarded from the Archives-nra list, with Peter Kurilecz's permission. Wendy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: PeterK Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 4:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Historic York archives open in new £2m home Today the York Explore Library Learning Centre opens its new £2.1m flagship service in the city centre including a store and reading room for the archive, as well as a refurbished local history library and family history centre. The building has also undergone essential repairs and conservation to its original parquet floor and slate roof and other works. The city’s internationally-important archive was previously housed in overcrowded and damp rooms at York Art Gallery. The conditions placed historic documents, including the city’s first charter dated 1155 and its letter of condolence after the death of King Richard III, at risk. http://bit.ly/1BqOXmr http://bit.ly/1BqOXmr+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx