Friday, May 9, 2025

Findmypast Friday: Remembering Wartime Stories With New Records This VE Day

  I received this information from Findmypast today:

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Discover new global military records this Findmypast Friday.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, we've added Commonwealth grave records from Poland and Italy, as well as War Office and Royal Air Force lists spanning both world wars.

Are your family's wartime experiences documented in these ----- new additions? From battlefield sacrifice to home front struggles, uncover their experiences of these momentous years this VE Day.

The War Office List

This week's biggest update comprises 51,764 new images and transcriptions which document the stories of Second World War personnel.

Italy and Poland, Commonwealth War Graves and Monumental Inscriptions

We've also added two new sets of grave and monumental inscription records from Italy and Poland - these 3,579 additions span 1914 to 1945.

Royal Air Force Lists 1919-1945

If your ancestor served in the Royal Air Force between 1919 and 1945, their name may appear within this new record collection.

New titles from Barrow to Bolton

125,548 new pages joined our newspaper collection this week.
Altrincham Chronicle, 31 October 1890.

Altrincham Chronicle, 31 October 1890.

We've added five new titles and updated 18 existing publications.

New titles

  • Altrincham Chronicle, 1889-1890
  • Barrow News, 1888, 1890-1895, 1897-1898, 1906, 1908-1922, 1925-1934, 1939-1944, 1948-1961, 1963
  • Barrow Times, 1876-1877, 1880-1881
  • Hastings & St. Leonards Advertiser, 1862, 1873, 1891, 1894-1895, 1897-1900, 1913-1914
  • Laisterdyke & Bowling News, 1895-1896, 1899-1911

Updated titles

  • Banffshire Journal, 1979
  • Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser, 1894, 1905–1907, 1909
  • Bolton Evening News, 1914–1918
  • Cannock Chase Chronicle, 1996
  • Crowle Advertiser and Isle of Axholme News, 1877, 1884–1886
  • Drogheda Advertiser, 1900–1901, 1903, 1907, 1925–1926, 1928
  • Forres Elgin and Nairn Gazette, Northern Review and Advertiser, 1993
  • Hebden Bridge Times, 1986
  • Howdenshire Chronicle, 1893–1894, 1911, 1927
  • Lytham Times, 1895, 1910–1911, 1914, 1917–1918, 1931
  • Oxford Journal, 1913, 1917, 1919
  • Peterborough Evening Telegraph, 1969
  • Pudsey & Stanningley News, 1950
  • To-day, 1900–1904
  • Walsall Chronicle, 1986
  • Warrington Guardian, 1914, 1917
  • Whitehaven News, 1881, 1883–1885, 1900–1901
  • Wigan Examiner, 1853, 1900–1909, 1911–1913
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Disclosure: I have a complimentary subscription to Findmypast, and have accepted meals and services from Findmypast, as a Findmypast Ambassador. This has not affected my objectivity relative to Findmypast and its products.

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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - 2 to 8 May 2025

   The following Record Collections were ADDED to or updated in the MyHeritage Collections Catalog during the week of 2 to 8 May 2025:


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 (There are 4 ADDED record collections this past week, and MyHeritage now has a total of  7,477 record collections (an increase of 3 collections from last week), with 33,792,572,772 total entries (a decrease of about 855 thousand entries from last week).  

The family tree collections number of entries are the same for the last three weeks.

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products. I am a paid subscriber to Family Tree Webinars and love it.

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Thursday Fun - Are You Related To WikiTree Guest Stars?

 Recently, I was on a Zoom meeting with Pat Richley-Erickson and we knew that we were cousins, but did not know the common ancestors or the relationship.

I recalled that WikiTree, a free-to-use collaborative family tree, had Pat as a "guest star" some time ago, and I wanted to see if WikiTree could figure out our possible relationship.

I found the WikiTree Connections page, and noted that they had a sub-category for "WikiTree Challenge Guerst Stars."  Here is the list of the "guest stars" to date:

There are a number of notable genealogists and genealogy bloggers on this list!  Even me, your humble amanuensis (I am profile Seaver-15 on WikiTree).

And there is my friend in genealogy, Pat (Player) Richley (she is profile Player-10 on WikiTree),  also known as DearMYRTLE.  I clicked on her name, and then on the "Find" button and on the "Relationships" item and entered Pat's WikiTree profile ID into the field:


 Here is the closest relationship found by WikiTree based on the information available in WikiTree.

We are 11th cousins, with the closest common ancestors being our 10th great-grandmother Grace (Eastwood) Stansfield (and also her husband, Gideon Stansfield).

Further down this same page, there is a box that says "Explore more: 176 common ancestors were found bewtween Randy and Pat.  To view relationship trails, select the common ancestor here:".  I did, and saw the top of the list of common ancestors, all more distant than our 10th great-grandmother Grace (Eastwood) Stansfield.  


This list goes down to common ancestors 30 generations back (Robert Malet (1088-1135)!  All of the persons on our common relationships list were born in England.   

Note that the Relationship Finder page indicates that since Pat and Randy have "unknown confidence levels" in our WikiTree trails, that there is "unknown confidence" in our 11th cousin relationship.

I have been looking at other WikiTree "guest stars."  I will report what I find in occasional posts.

Is your profile in the WikiTree collaborative tree?  If not, you could add your ancestral lines to Wiki Tree and find connections to other WikiTreers?  

If you are in WikiTree, are you and I related?  Just go to the Relationship Finder and put "Seaver-15" in the search field and see.  Please leave a comment to this blog post (or send me an email) if you are related. 

I keep finding ways to have "genealogy fun" and getting into "good trouble."

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Treasure Chest Thursday: 1720 Death Record for Sarah Samborn (1667-1720) in Hampton, New Hampshire Colony

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - an opportunity to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history research and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the 1720 death record for Sarah Samborn in the Hampton, New Hampshire  vital records:

The extracted information for this death record for Sarah Samborn:

Name:  Sarah Samborn
Date of Death:  29'th of January 1720
Age:  54 years

Clerk's Name:  Horace M. Lane
Clerk of:  Hampton
Date:  May 14, 1906

The source citation for the Sarah Worcester birth record is:

"New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSL5-GPT : accessed 7 May 2025); Hampton, death entry for Sarah Samborn, died 29 January 1720, age 54.

Sarah Worcester (1667-1720) was born 15 Augudst 1667 in Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the daughter of Timothy and Susana (--?--) Worcester.  She died 29 January 1720/1 in Hampton, New Hampshire Colony.  Sarah Worcester married Benjamin Samborn (1668-1740) on 23 December 1690 in Hampton, and they had 11 children.  

Benjamin and Sarah (Worcester) Samborn are my 8th great-grandparents, through their daughter Mary Samborn (1690-ca1790) who married William Healey (1688-1772) in 1716.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 1 to 7 May 2025

   Welcome to Genealogy Education Bytes, posted on Wednesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight some of the most important genealogy and family history education items that came across my desktop since the last issue.


1) Upcoming Conferences and  Institutes 

* Conference Keeper Calendar - has many links to register for  and/or view conferences and institutes.

*  NGS 2025 Family History Conference "Tales & Trails" ($$) - 23 to 25 May 2025 - In-Person (Louisville, Ky.)

*  2025 International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP) Conference ($$) - 12 to 15 June 2025 - In-Person and Virtual (Columbus, Ohio)

2 ) Upcoming Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

* Conference Keeper Calendar - has many links to register for and/or view webinars and classes.

*  FamilySearch Library Classes and Webinars (Free)

*  Family Tree Webinars (free for a week) - Wednesday, 7 May, 11 a.m.:  Unscrambling Haplogroups: A Beginners Guide to DNA Haplogroups by Donna Rutherford.

*  Family Tree Webinars (free for a week) - Friday, 9 May, 11 a.m.:  Researching your Essex and East London Ancestors by Kelly Cornwell.

*  Family Tree Webinars (free for a week) - Tuesday, 13 May, 11 a.m.:  Finding and Fixing Tree Inconsistencies by Wayne Shepheard.

*  Family Tree Webinars (free for a week) - Wednesday, 14 May, 11 a.m.:  See How it Works: Shared DNA Matches Find Ancestors by Diahan Southard.

*  Family Tree Webinars (free for a week) - Friday, 15 May, 5 p.m.:  21 Million Reasons to Research at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Katy Bodenhorn Barnes.

3) Recent Podcasts:




*  Keepsake Chronicles:  Robins Documents



4) Recent YouTube Videos

*  Aimee Cross - Genealogy Hints:   Discovering Your Ancestor's Stories

*  Allen County Public Library:  Verifying Your Genealogical Tree with DNA Results
*  Allen County Public Library:  IGG: A DNA Tool Solving the Unsolvable


*  Be Smarter: Gen-AI, Genealogy, and Guidance:  Your Personal ChatGPT Assistant – Built in Under 2 Minutes


*  Carole McCullough Geneablogger:  Unlocking the Past: AI in Genealogy Masterclass
*  Carole McCullough Geneablogger:  Memorial: Cecil Henry Allery 1900-1985





*  Ellen Thompson-Jennings - Family History Hound:  Crista Cowan talks about Ancestry 1890 and A Tip on What Not To Do
*  Ellen Thompson-Jennings - Family History Hound:  Crista Cowan Talks About Ancestry Facial Recognition





*  Genealogy Assistant:  Supercharge the Ancestry image viewer!


*  GeneaVlogger:  Building YOUR Family Tree!

*  Int'l Institute of Genealogical Studies:  Analysis and Skills General Overview

*  Italian Roots and Genealogy:  What Really Happened in Naples During WWII?








*  Write Your Family History With Devon Noel Lee:  3 FREE AI Tools to Kickstart Your Family History Writing

5) Did you miss the last post in this series - Genealogy Education Bytes -  Week of 24 to 30 April 2025?   Read past Genealogy Education Bytes here.

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NOTE:  If  I missed something important in this time period, please let me know in a comment or an email. 

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