The below from Family History Magazines I have read recently:
Were your ancestors Ship Owners??
If so it might be worth you accessing the Registers on
http://books.google.com.
Volumes of Lloyd’s Registers can be accessed online via Google Books for 1770, 1780, 1789, 1799, 1801, 1803-1813, 1815, 1818-1869. Type ‘Lloyd’s Register of Shipping’ in the search box, select ‘Full view only’ from the right hand menu options, then click the grey ‘More editions’ option beneath the first item entitled ‘Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Editions of the Register are displayed in approximate date order. Click on any title to open it. Many of the editions will allow you to search for text within the Register using the ‘Search in this book’ option (eg the name of a captain, owner, port etc). However note that this facility depends upon character recognition software and is not always reliable for old documents like this.
(I must at this point add that I have often found records well worth looking at on google books
).
More Irish Church Records go online.
Hot on the heels of the complete release of the 1901 Irish Census, hundreds of thousands of Irish church records have now been put online for free.
www.irishgenealogy.ie run by Ireland’s Ministry for Tourism, Culture and Sport, has just completed its second phase, which sees more than 2 million records for Carlow, Cork, Dublin and Kerry become available. The most recent additions are pre-1900 Church of Ireland birth, marriage and death records from the city of Dublin (adding to existing data on the site) and the dioceses of Ardfert and Leighlin. The new releases also include some of the Roman Catholic church registers from the Diocese of Cork and Ross. You can view digital images of the original church records at the site. The remaining Catholic records for Dublin and the Diocese of Cork and Ross, are expected to go up by the end of this year, including the city of Cork and all the parishes in West Cork. You can search the records by name, location and the date of the vital event, and also browse them by location.
Just to finish off
Unusual names:
Carrying on from my ‘Silly names’ posting a few months ago:
Baptism on 12 August 1654 at Potterne in Wiltshire of:
Heaster Bunnye.
