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| May 25, 1999 |
- 1881 British Census and National Index on CD-ROM This week I had a chance to use a major new genealogy product: the 1881 British Census and National Index on CD-ROM, produced by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is an impressive product for many reasons: the amount of data contained, the amount of work required to transcribe all the records, the price, and many other things, too. But what is most impressive when you first pick it up is its sheer size: this set has 25 CD-ROM disks in the package! The first CD-ROM disk contains the viewer software and an electronic version of a user’s manual. The next 8 disks hold the index to all the data. The remaining 16 CD-ROM disks contain the census data itself, consisting of census records from England, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and the Royal Navy. While Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom in 1881, there are no records for Ireland on this CD-ROM set. The set does include approximately 30 million names. The transcription and indexing of the 1881 census was a cooperative effort of the Federation of Family History Societies; British Genealogical Record Users Committee; Her Majesty's Stationery Office; The Public Record Office, London; The General Register Office, Scotland; and the Genealogical Society of Utah. According to the documentation on the CD-ROM disks, "…every effort was made to reproduce the information as it was originally recorded by the census taker. Even obvious errors were left to allow researchers to make their own evaluation of the information. Some of these obvious errors created difficulties in producing the index on compact discs (CDs), and where there was a problem it has been noted in the appropriate Help section." The software included with the 1881 British Census and National Index disks requires Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0. There is no Macintosh version available, although I suspect the software will run on a Macintosh equipped with a Windows 95 emulator. The hardware required includes a Pentium processor, 8 megabytes of memory (with 16 megabytes strongly recommended), a CD-ROM drive, 25 megabytes of available hard disk space, and a VGA monitor capable of at least 256 colors. I tested the software on a Windows NT 4.0 system. Software installation was simple: insert the software CD-ROM, double-click on SETUP.EXE and then follow the on-screen instructions. At the end of the software installation the system rebooted. A few minutes later I was looking at the indexes. With 25 CD-ROM disks in the product, you spend a lot of time switching disks. Anyone who has used other CD-ROM disk products at a local Family History Center will feel very comfortable with this: insert Index Disk #1, type in a name, take that disk out, and put in another disk, and so on. Sometimes I felt like I was shuffling cards. Still, it is a lot easier and faster than looking up information on microfilm! One thing to keep in mind is that this set of 25 CD-ROM disks actually contains two separate products (besides the software): the 1881 British Census and the 1881 National Index. The 1881 British Census is the transcribed version of the actual census records. The 1881 National Index is an index to all the names contained within the 1881 British Census. The index lists individuals by last name, first name(s), relationship to head of household, calculated year of birth, census place (the parish where the census was enumerated), and the county and parish of birth, or country if the person was born outside the British Isles. The transcribed census records, however, show the address of the dwelling or building, the location of the house, including the town or parish, county, and country, and the full source citation showing how to find the family in the original census. Each individual's record includes basically the same information; full name, marital status (single, married, widowed, etc.), age at the time of the census, sex, and full birth place, including town or parish, county, and country. The full detail also includes relationship to the head of the house and occupation. If the person has a disability, this is also listed. You always start with the 1881 National Index to find a name, then switch to the 1881 British Census disks to find the actual data. Of course, these are transcribed records, not the originals. While it is convenient to read the transcribed records on a computer screen, conscientious genealogists will still check the microfilm copies of the original documents. I entered the surname Towler, a name that is of interest to me these days. The software quickly informed me that there were 1,344 occurrences of this surname in the 1881 census. That’s too many for me to start with, so I backed up a bit to narrow the search. There are many options for searching. I found that I could enter a first name, a birth year (plus or minus up to five years), birth county or country as well as the county in which the person was enumerated in the 1881 census. I decided to look for all the TOWLER entries listed as living in Nottingham and found exactly five of them. One couple that caught my eye was that of James Towler and his wife Bridgett. They were listed as born in Ireland. Their household also contained James J. Towler, aged 29, listed as born in Nottingham and married. There was no mention of his wife, however. As an example of the data available on the 1881 British Census CD-ROM, here is a cut-and-paste of that record: TOWLER, James Head<1816>Birth: Irel Dublin I never did figure out the occupation of James Towler, all it said is "General …cker." The online Help file says that the three periods indicates "Information on the census is not legible." Apparently the person who transcribed the original record could not read the census enumerator’s handwriting. I hope to obtain the microfilm of the original record so that I can look for myself. Perhaps I can decode it. However, I didn’t have time to do that before writing this article. You can see from the above reference that the microfilm of the original record is available from any of the more than 3,000 Family History Centers by ordering microfilm number #1341803. The British Public Records Office (PRO) has its own cataloging system. Each census has a specific classification number. In this case, RG11 was used as a classification number for the 1881 British Census. As I experimented a bit, I found that all the normal Windows tools were available. Unlike the CD-ROM disks from some commercial producers, the Windows COPY command worked well. I was able to cut-and-paste information into this newsletter or into any other Windows application. I could also print a record or a series of records on any Windows-compatible printer. The program also will save files in RTF format. The 1881 British Census Index allows you to see neighboring families that lived near a given family. The order in which households were listed in the index depended on how the census taker recorded them in his census books. Ok, here’s the summation: 30 million names indexed and with transcribed records from the 1881 British census, along with all needed supporting software, contained on 25 CD-ROM disks for a price of (are you ready for this?) $33.00 U.S. funds. 25 CD-ROM disks for $33.00??? That’s $1.32 per disk. You have to be kidding, right? Wrong! $33.00 it is. I am not sure what the price is when ordered from the supply center in England, but I suspect it is about the same. That would be about 20 GBP. North American residents can order the 1881 British Census and National Index on CD-ROM online from: http://www.familysearch.com. U.K. residents should contact the LDS Church’s Distribution Centre at 399 Garretts Green Lane, Birmingham B33 OUH. The telephone number is: 0121 784 9555 or 0121 789 7666 - RTF Wizard for the 1881 British Census CD-ROM Disks As soon as the LDS Church releases a genealogy product, programmers around the world begin looking for ways to add extra functionality. This week I tried the RTF Wizard for the 1881 British Census CD-ROM Disks and found it to be a very good addition. As I noted earlier in my review of the 1881 British Census CD-ROM Disks, the data from the LDS CD-ROM disks can only be exported in RTF format. That is a great format for use with a word processor, but it isn’t so good if you want to transfer data to a spreadsheet or a database program. Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake has released a new program that adds a great deal of flexibility to the original CD-ROM disks produced by the LDS Church. Quoting from Barney’s website: The LDS Church's release of the full 1881 British census on CD-ROM is a wonderful research tool for all family historians with British ancestry. However, it is not possible to export information directly from the LDS's Resource File Viewer in formats that can be used for data analysis and import into family history databases. RTF Wizard converts the LDS RTF files into suitable formats. (GEDCOM, .DBF, .DB and .TXT CSV) These will be particularly useful for: One-name studies RTF Wizard ships on a CD-ROM disk and installs in the same manner as most Windows programs. Once installed, it was easy to start and operate. RTF Wizard reads the RTF files created by the 1881 British Census and National Index on CD-ROM and then converts that data to any of the following formats: GEDCOM (either version 5.5 or 4.0 format) I experimented a bit with the creation of GEDCOM files. These are not lineage-linked files as normally produced by a genealogy program. Instead, it is a collection of freestanding records. The 3 events that the program creates use the GEDCOM tags for CENS (Census events), BIRT (Birth events calculated by deducting age from 1881), and OCCU (Occupation events). Any of these events can be toggled on or off so that your GEDCOM file contains only the events you need. I was able to easily import those files into The Master Genealogist. It should work the same for most any genealogy program. Using the 1881 British Census CD-ROM Disks and RTF Wizard, I created files for all 858 census entries for the name EASTMAN. I created the files in both .DBF format and .TXT format of. I was then able to import both files into an Excel spreadsheet. Once in Excel, I found it easy to sort and filter the data in many different ways. In short, I found RTF Wizard to be an excellent addition to the 1881 British Census CD-ROM Disks. You might call it "the software that the LDS Church left out." RTF Wizard for the 1881 British Census on CD-ROM is supplied on a single CD-ROM for use with IBM compatible PCs running a 32 bit Windows operating system. The program may be purchased directly from Drake Software for 9.95 UK pounds (roughly $16.00 U.S. funds) including taxes and delivery for both UK and overseas customers. You can order RTF Wizard directly from the author. Full details are available at: http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk/index.htm. However, he is not equipped to accept credit cards. Perhaps an easier method is to order the program online via credit card from the Society of Genealogists’ Online Bookshop at: http://www.sog.org.uk. The Society of Genealogists can handle credit card orders properly on their secure Web server. - FamilySearch.org Official Launch on Monday The LDS Family History Department has been holding a "public beta test" for several weeks of its new online databases. As mentioned in the March 6, 1999 newsletter (available at: http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastmar09-99.htm ) and again in the April 3, 1999 newsletter (at http://www.ancestry.com/columns/eastman/eastapr06-99.htm ), the public test started in late March. The formal launch was expected to be in late spring or early summer. The original plan seems to have held; the LDS Church now plans to make the formal announcement at 10:45 AM on Monday, May 24, at simultaneous press conferences in Salt Lake City and in Washington, D.C. The Washington announcement will be made at the National Press Club. Elder Russell M. Nelson of The Twelve Apostles, and Richard E. Turley Jr., managing director of The Family History Department will make the announcement in Washington. Church President Gordon B. Hinckley is expected to participate live via satellite from Salt Lake City. - Family History Library Seeks Legal Protection of its Data In other news, U.S. Representative Chris Cannon has won changes to a bill he says should provide protection that the LDS Family History Center needs as it begins to share genealogy via the Internet. Cannon’s aides said it should help prevent companies from downloading vast portions of church collections and then repackaging and selling them on their own. Also, it provides an exemption for genealogy libraries from proposals that would require most organizations to obtain permission from all donors of data before offering it over the Internet. Cannon, a Republican from Utah, negotiated these changes on Thursday to a bill that Howard Coble, chairman of House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Properties, is pushing in an effort to tighten rules, making it more difficult for companies to pirate and resell databases. "This bill means that people can access family history information online from all over the world, without the risk of the church losing ownership of the database information," Cannon said. Complete details are available at the Deseret News website at: My thanks to Chad R. Milliner for letting me know about this proposed piece of legislation. - NARA Announces Online Access to New Microfilm Publications Database The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration issued this press release on May 11: NARA Provides online Access to New Microfilm Publications Database Archivist of the United States John Carlin has announced the creation by the National Archives and Records Administration of a new microfilm publications database that genealogists, historians and other researchers can access on their home, office or library computers. Microfilm is one of the NARA’s most highly used resources and is especially important to genealogists. NARA maintains and provides access to microforms that NARA has accessioned from others and has made itself. Included are microfilmed census records, passenger lists, and pension files. These resources are available in NARA research rooms around the country, and many can be purchased and rented. Unfortunately, access to information about the existence and location of microfilm copies has been inaccurate and not easily accessible to either the public or NARA’s staff. Therefore, NARA has created a database that contains brief descriptions for the approximately 3,100 numbered microfilm publications that NARA has. From this database, researchers are able to search and display information by keyword in title, by publication number, by record group number, and/or by NARA facility location. If the microfilm is available for rent or purchase, ordering instructions are available. The microform publication information is available to the public and staff on the web through the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL) at http://www.nara.gov/nara/nail.html "The idea of such a microfilm system evolved from meetings I had with genealogists in Denver in May of 1998," Mr. Carlin said. "I’m pleased that we’ve been able to turn that idea into reality and make the locator available for use. This should greatly facilitate genealogical and many other kinds of research." Any online genealogist researching French-Canadian ancestry will be interested in a new online database hosted on the World Wide Web by the Université de Montréal’s Departement de Démographie. Quoting from the description found at that website: Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique (The Research Program in Historical Demography) Genealogy serving science… In 1966, the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH, Research Programme in Historical Demography) at the Université de Montréal undertook the exhaustive reconstruction of the population of Quebec from the beginnings of French colonization in the seventeenth century. This objective has been realized in the form of a computerized population register, composed of biographical files on all individuals of European ancestry who lived in the St. Lawrence Valley. The file for each individual gives the date and place of birth, marriage(s), and death, as well as family and conjugal ties with other individuals. This basic information is complemented by various socio-demographic characteristics drawn from documents: socio-professional status and occupation, ability to sign his or her name, place of residence, and, for immigrants, place of origin. Over the years, the PRDH register has become an evolutionary and multi-purpose data base, available for queries regarding various human populations in general and that of Quebec in particular. It is a truly interdisciplinary information system. Created to provide demographic data, this remarkable tool has been used for a wide variety of research projects involving scholars from many disciplines – history, medicine, linguistics, anthropology, biology, genetics, and genealogy – as can be seen in the more than 200 titles in the PRDH’s bibliography. The project relies basically on exhaustive gathering of data from the parish registers of old Quebec. By systematic attribution of baptism, marriage, and burial certificates to the respective individuals – a "family reconstitution" made on the basis of names and family ties – people are identified and their biographies established. PRDH’s data base, covering the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thus contains the personal history of the Quebec ancestors of all French-Canadians. In this regard, the genealogical information in the PRDH has long been of interest to a broad public. Sales of various products spun off from its activities have, over the years, provided the PRDH with revenues that have always been reinvested in the project. In fact, the project probably could not have been maintained without these contributions, given the difficulties of funding university research. Now, the project is culminating with the opening of a website offering exhaustive and unprecedented information; the fee charged is very reasonable and should enable the PRDH to continue with its scholarly research. We therefore truly have "Genealogy serving science, and science serving genealogy"! The PRDH has been available previously as a printed 37-volume set of books. These books are now available online although full availability requires a paid subscription. A "first level" search is free: you launch a name search and obtain a list of references to certificates, individuals or families, or marriages. To obtain details about any of these "hits" you need to have a subscription. If you subscribe, you can select a reference in the list posted on the screen. The information corresponding to the selected reference will be displayed. At that point you are in the second search layer reserved for subscribers, and you can navigate from screen to screen performing all searches that interest you. The following example is quoted from the website: Example of a search You are in the Repertory of Couples and Filial Relations. You fill the name fields by typing in the first name and family name of the man (francois dupre) and the first name and family name of the woman (marie allaire). You get a hit: references to all francois dupres/marie allaire couples married between 1621 and 1799 appear on screen. You have reached the first search layer free of charge. A subscription will be necessary to accede to the second search level, such as, for example: Clicking on a reference will take you to a new screen that will give you large amounts of information on the spouses, their parents, their children, and so on. You will also be able to search for the parents’ marriages, and you can follow this line back to the first immigrants. You can also obtain the marriage certificates of the children of each of the couples or access an overall view of the children’s marriages. The subscription fees vary by both how long a subscription you want and where you are located. A Canadian resident may obtain a 24-hour subscription for C$ 9.95 plus tax, while a six-month subscription costs C$99.95 plus tax. There are other rates available for one-month or three-month subscriptions. There are additional fees for large numbers of "hits" although those probably will not concern private individuals. An institution that has many users may incur these extra fees, however. Anyone living outside of Canada pays $11.95 Canadian (about $8.00 in U.S. funds) for a 24-hour subscription and $114.95 Canadian (about $75 U.S.) for a six-month subscription. Again, one-month and three-month subscriptions are also available. The fees seem quite reasonable considering the many thousands of dollars that were expended collecting this data and making it available. An online subscription for a day or a month is certainly much cheaper than buying the 37 volumes in print! Heck, for most people it’s cheaper than the cost of gasoline to drive to the nearest library that has a set of these books. However, I have no idea why the fees are higher for non-Canadians. I would guess that the cost of supplying online data to Outer Mongolia would be the same as supplying the same data to downtown Montreal. In the online world, both users would appear the same to a Web server. The PRDH is available in French at: http://www.genealogy.umontreal.ca/. An English menu is available at: http://www.genealogy.umontreal.ca/en/default.htm My thanks to Wes Plouff for letting me know about the PRDH online. - Ellis Island is Partially in New Jersey I have written earlier about the dispute between New York and New Jersey over who owns Ellis Island. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which gave its ruling this week. According to the ruling, New Jersey has sovereignty over the landfilled areas on immigrant-gateway Ellis Island, while New York has authority over the much smaller original island with the historic buildings. Under the terms of the decree, New York retains sovereignty over 4.6 acres of the island, an irregularly shaped parcel based on the old waterline. New Jersey gets sovereignty over 22.8 acres. The boundary line cuts through the former baggage handling/dormitory building and the bakery/carpentry building but leaves most of the historic areas in New York. Though New York gave the federal government title to the land on the island in 1808, the state always exercised local jurisdiction over it before New Jersey's 1993 challenge. Both sides relied on the Compact of 1834, an agreement to settle a New Jersey suit brought in 1829 in the Supreme Court to define the boundaries between the states. Both states agreed to the compact, and it was ratified by Congress and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. The compact put the boundary between the states in the middle of the Hudson River and New York Bay. Under the agreement, in 1834 all land under the waters on the New Jersey side of the boundary belonged to that state, and the land under the waters on the New York side belonged to that state. The compact also gave New York "jurisdiction" over Ellis Island. Since then, however, the federal government has extended the island through landfill to 27.485 acres, and the dispute between the states focused on those additional acres. The ancestors of about 40 million U.S. citizens entered the country through Ellis Island. - Hemings Family Not Yet an Official Part of the Jefferson Legacy I wrote earlier about the claim that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one child of his slave, Sally Hemings. That claim was printed in newspapers during Jefferson's lifetime, a claim that he never confirmed nor denied. Scientists recently used DNA testing to prove that a documented descendant of Sally Hemings’ youngest son shares DNA with a Jefferson descendant. The tests prove that Hemings’ child was fathered either by Jefferson or by one of his close male relatives. Historians say that Thomas Jefferson, his brother, and two of his nephews are possible candidates as they are all documented as being in the area at the time of conception. All four of these men would have had the proper DNA combination. However, despite the scientific evidence, the white descendents of Thomas Jefferson say the descendents of Sally Hemings cannot join the family organization just yet. Last week the Monticello Association blocked a vote to give Sally Hemings’ descendents honorary membership while a paternity claim is resolved. For now, they are only considered guests. - British Aristocrats More Red-Blooded than Blue Britain's nobles are more red-blooded than blue, according to a new edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage. Almost half are bastards or have cuckoldry in their genes, despite claiming untainted pedigrees stretching back a thousand years. Reuters columnist Will Hardie recently wrote about the 106th edition of Burke's Peerage and Baronetage latest edition, to be released this week. It will list illegitimate lords and ladies for the first time. Editor-in-Chief Charles Moseley said earls and barons could no longer claim the moral high ground. "Such an old-fashioned view of the aristocracy is completely out of touch with reality," he said. "Anyone who has watched a costume drama is used to seeing an 18th-century lord having his way with some young wench." Forty percent of hereditary peers were born out of wedlock, were not sired by their legitimate father, or are descended from bastards, Moseley said. The entire article goes on at some length about the inheritance of titles by illegitimate children. The entire article can be found at: http://webcrawler-news.excite.com/news/r/990517/18/odd-aristocrats - Long-lost Letter Finally Delivered 85 Years Later New Zealand Army Private Thomas Hughes' letter has finally been delivered, although not to his beloved wife, as he had intended. In 1914 Hughes kissed his wife and young daughter goodbye as he boarded a ship in Auckland harbor, enroute to fight in World War I. Hughes’ family never saw him again. Apparently Hughes deposited his last letter into a bottle and tossed it overboard from another ship as he crossed the English Channel from England to the battlefields in France. That bottle kept the letter safe and dry in the English Channel for 85 years until English fisherman Steve Gowan dredged up the green ginger beer bottle with its screw-on rubber stopper as he fished for cod at the mouth of the Thames River in March. After carefully opening the bottle, Gowan found Hughes' letter with a covering note to the finder. "Sir or madam, youth or maid: Would you kindly forward the enclosed letter and earn the blessing of a poor British soldier on his way to the front this ninth day of September, 1914. Signed Private T. Hughes, Second Durham Light Infantry. Third Army Corp Expeditionary Force." The simple love letter to Hughes' wife Elizabeth was short: Dear Wife, I am writing this note on this boat and dropping it into the sea just to see if it will reach you. If it does, sign this envelope on the right hand bottom corner where it says receipt. Put the date and hour of receipt and your name where it says signature and look after it well. Ta ta sweet, for the present. Your Hubby. Two days later Hughes died on the battlefields of France. Fisherman Gowan and his wife Jan personally delivered the bottle and letter this week to Mrs. Emily Crowhurst, the young daughter that the New Zealand soldier left behind. Mr. Gowan and his wife were brought to New Zealand as guests of the New Zealand Post. The letter helped fill a void in her life, said 87-year-old Mrs. Crowhurst, who was only two years old when her father left for war. "I think he would be very proud it had been delivered. He was a very caring man." The following is a list of some of the genealogy-related World Wide Web home pages that have been listed recently on http://www.rootscomputing.com. Some of these sites may charge a fee for their services: The Hispanic Genealogical Society of New York: Discussion board for FREILEY/FRAELEY/FRALEY surnames: Family Tree Maker workshops to be held in Galesburg, IL: Pomona Valley (California) Genealogical Society: The Guild of One-Name Studies - Each of the surnames and variants listed on the Guild Of One Name Studies Site is currently registered by a member of the Guild as the subject of a one-name study. The member is therefore collecting all occurrences of the surname on a world-wide basis. There are over 6,000 names registered at the present time: Hemmingford, Quebec cemetery records online - Over 6,000 records from 20 area cemeteries may be searched or browsed: The Baron "dit" Lafreniere family: Cemetery records of Riverton, Fremont County, Wyoming, including the I.O.O.F. Cemetery 1907 - 1933 and the Mountain View Cemetery 25 May 1923 - 31 Dec 1998: Scottish Emigrants to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia: Harper Heritage: Apathy/Apati family history from Hungary: Genealogy and pictures of Ghering, Chandler, Crawford and Baney families of northwestern Pennsylvania: ARBON family, from Graveley, England to Idaho: Lewallen ancestors: Reed ancestors from Scott County, Tennessee: Genealogy page of the Donnewald and Bochat families: Tom's Genealogy World - 20,000 original genealogical and related links and resources that can be found on the Internet: Lawton Family Reunion Homepage and genealogy site: Clayton Yankee Website - A trace of one branch of the CLAYTON family from 1741. This segment of the charts (only) takes place in Worcester Co. MA, Windham Co. VT, and northeastern NY State: Generations Of Terwilliger Families From Holland To The West Coast – Includes all spelling variants, such as: Teawilliger, Terweilliger, Terwiliger, Terwilligar, Terwilegar, Twilegar, Tewilliager, Terwillegar, Terwilleger, Terwelleger, van der Willigen, Terwilligen, Terwillige, Twillinger, Terwillger: Garner's Genealogy Greats - home of the Garner & Variants WebRing: To submit your home page to this newsletter, enter the necessary information at: http://www.rootscomputing.com/register.htm. Due to the volume of new Web pages submitted, I am not able to list all of them in the newsletter.
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