Findmypast Friday: Thousands of Modern UK Death Records Added

 I received this information from Findmypast today:

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Thousands of modern UK death records added this Findmypast Friday 

·        200,000 modern death records for 2020-2021 covering Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England 

·        Over 700,000 newspaper pages added 

England & Wales Deaths 2007-2021 

Over 180,000 records have been added to this existing collection, ideal for updating your family tree with more recent detail. You’ll normally see the person’s name, in addition to their residence, postcode district and a full birthday.  

Scotland, Modern And Civil Deaths & Burials 1855-2021 

For Scotland, a further 13,886 records have been added for the same year range as above. You should also find the same information, such as the person’s name and birthday.  

Ireland, Northern Ireland Deaths 1998-2021 

A further 2,052 additions wrap up this week’s record releases, with the same years added as the previous two collections, and typically the same detail available.  

Newspapers 

 A staggering 706,009 pages have been added to the newspaper archive this week, with 11 new titles and many more updated. 

 New titles: 

• Blaydon Courier, 1929 
• Evening Echo (Cork), 1904, 1909, 1914 
• Football Echo (Sunderland),1956 
• Islington News and Hornsey Gazette, 1918 
• Manchester City News,1901-1902, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1914, 1937 
• Southport Guardian, 1901, 1906, 1921 
• Sports Post (Leeds), 1925
• St. Pancras Guardian and Camden and Kentish Towns Reporter, 1881, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1918
• Thomson’s Weekly News, 1933 
• Whitehaven Advertiser and Cleator Moor and Egremont Observer, 1918 
• Yorkshire Evening News,1907, 1914 

Updated titles: 

• Accrington Observer and Times, 1920 
• Aldershot News, 1907, 1909 
• Ashby Mail, 1999 
• Atherstone News and Herald, 1986 
• Axholme Herald, 1993 
• Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 1778 
• Birmingham Daily Post, 1902-1909 
• Birmingham Mail, 1919-1920, 1992 
• Birmingham News, 1999 
• Cambridge Town Crier, 1999 
• Cannock Chase Post, 1999 
• Caterham Mirror, 1999 
• Catholic Times and Catholic Opinion, 1903 
• Cheltenham News, 1999 
• Chertsey & Addlestone Leader, 1999 
• Cheshire Observer, 1863 
• Chester Chronicle (Frodsham & Helsby edition), 1997 
• Coleshill Chronicle, 1981 
• Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser, 1999 
• Dorset County Chronicle, 1929 
• Durham Chronicle, 1916 
• Ealing & Southall Informer, 1999 
• East Kilbride News, 1992 
• East Sussex Focus, 1992 
• Esher News and Mail, 1986-1987, 1989, 1992-1993, 1996-1998 
• Evening Despatch, 1950 
• Evening Herald (Dublin), 1949 
• Faversham Times and Mercury and North-East Kent Journal, 1998 
• Gainsborough Target, 1998-1999 
• Gateshead Post, 1979, 1983, 1990, 1995, 1997-1999 
• Grimsby Daily Telegraph, 1992 
• Harrow Informer, 1999 
• Hertford Mercury and Reformer, 1953 
• Hinckley Times, 1989 
• Horncastle Target, 1998 
• Hounslow & Chiswick Informer, 1983, 1985 
• Huddersfield and Holmfirth Examiner, 1875-1876, 1881, 1884, 1887 
• Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 1875-1876, 1880, 1883-1884, 1887
• Hull Daily Mail, 1974-1977, 1982-1983, 1986, 1990, 1994-1995, 1999 
• Huntingdon Town Crier, 1999 
• Irvine Herald, 1980-1981, 1983-1985 
• Lanark & Carluke Advertiser, 1999 
• Leatherhead Advertiser, 1998-1999 
• Lincoln Target, 1999 
• Lincolnshire Echo, 1951, 1953, 1956-1958, 1960, 1962-1964, 1967-1976, 1978-1983, 1985, 1988-1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997-1998
• Liverpool Daily Post, 1879, 1904 
• Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition), 1979 
• Liverpool Evening Express, 1901 
• Loughborough Echo, 1989 
• Maghull & Aintree Star, 1999 
• Middleton Guardian, 1918 
• Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 1924-1925 
• Northampton Herald & Post, 1999 
• Rhondda Leader, 1991 
• Rhyl, Prestatyn Visitor, 1999 
• Rossendale Free Press, 1999 
• Ruislip & Northwood Gazette, 1999 
• Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, 1999
• Solihull News, 1986 
• South Wales Echo, 1993, 1995-1996 
• St Neots Town Crier, 1999 
• Staines Leader, 1999 
• Stanmore Observer, 1999 
• Stockport Express Advertiser, 1998 
• Stockport Times,1999 
• Sunbury & Shepperton Herald, 1998-1999 
• Surrey Herald, 1999 
• Surrey Mirror, 1961, 1963-1968, 1970, 1997, 1999
• Surrey-Hants Star, 1999 
• Sussex Daily News, 1917 
• Sutton Coldfield Observer, 1999 
• The People, 1999 
• Thetford & Watton Times, 1914-1916 
• Uttoxeter New Era, 1893-1894, 1904, 1907 
• Wellingborough & Rushden Herald & Post, 1999 
• Winsford Chronicle, 1990 
• Worcester Journal, 1907 
• Yorkshire Evening Press, 1905 
• Yorkshire Gazette, 1903 
• Holborn and Finsbury Guardian, 1891 
• Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, 1926, 1958
• Lynn Advertiser, 1978-1979 

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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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RootsTech 2023 Schedule, Speakers and Sessions Announced

 RootsTech 2023 is March 2-4, 2023 - in-person in Salt Lake City ($98 registration fee) and Virtual (Free).  You can register on the RootsTech 2023 website - https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/.

The schedule of speakers and their classes are on this website - https://rootstech2023.mapyourshow.com/8_0/sessions/:

There are three links and a search box on this page:

1)  The "All Classes" link shows all 292 sessions available - some are On-Demand, but most are in-person sessions (with day, time, and session title shown, but not speaker names):  

They show you 50 sessions at a time, with the On Demand sessions at the top of the list.  There are only about 75 sessions on the On Demand list.

2)  The "Speakers" link shows the names of all of the speakers.  You can do a "Find" for a speaker's name, or you will have to scroll down to find the speaker of interest:

Diahan Southard's speaker page looks like this:

On each Speaker's page there will be a description of their current occupation and a brief profile of their experience, plus their social media contacts.  The Sessions for each speaker are on the right side of the screen - it shows that Diahan will have eight sessions, but only two are On Demand.

3)  The "On Demand" link does not show 2023 On Demand sessions yet - they are all from 2022 and earlier:

4)  here is a search box for Keywords on the first screenshot above (https://rootstech2023.mapyourshow.com/8_0/sessions/) at the top of the screen just below the RootsTech menu line.  I put "dna" in the search box:

and the list of 58 sessions for the "dna" keyword appeared:

 It appears that there is only one On Demand session about DNA.  It is Diahan Southard's "Help! My Ancestors were related to each other."  I clicked on the session title and saw the information for this session:

This screen shows information about the session - including "Resources" (syllabus material), short description of the session and the Type of session (On Demand or date/time/location for in-person sessions).

On any of the session lists, the user can access the syllabus, and download it as a PDF file, if there is a syllabus (not every session has one).  Even if a Virtual registrant cannot see and hear the session, they can see and download the syllabus (if available). 

5)  I have found that doing the Keyword search, or finding a specific speaker, is easier to deal with dealing with the list of classes that don't show a speaker, as in 1) above.

6)  I have not found the schedule for the Keynote speakers yet.  Perhaps the list is hiding from me!

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I will be a Virtual registrant this year because of my health problems and age.  I am looking forward to seeing the On Demand sessions on March 2-4, and all year long.  I am a RootsTech 2023 Influencer and am supposed to write blog and social media posts about the conference.

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1670 Marriage of Nathaniel Tomkins and Elizabeth Allen in Newport, Rhode Island

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

The treasure today is the 1670 marriage record of  Nathaniel Tomkins and Elizabeth Allen in Newport, Rhode Island:

The marriage record is the only one in the Tomkins section:

The transcription of this marriage record is:

"TOMKINS Nathaniel, to Elizabeth Allen, Newport, Jan. 15, 1670.""

The source citation for this record is:

 James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, First Series, Births, Marriages and Deaths : a Family Register for the People (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Co., 1891-1912), Volume 7, Rhode Island Friends' Records, Marriages, page 36, Nathaniel Tomkins and Elizabeth Allen marriage entry, 15 January 1670; accessed on "Rhode Island (U.S.) Vital Records Abstracts, 1636-1899," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 January 2023).

This record is a Derivative Source, with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage of Nathaniel Tomkins and Elizabeth Allen. The original record is probably in a Newport, R.I. town record book that is not extant.

Nathaniel Tomkins (1650-1724), the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Goodman) Tomkins, married Elizabeth Allen (1651-1714), the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bacon) Allen, on 15 January 1670/1 in Newport, Rhode Island.  They had 10 children.

Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Allen) Tomkins are my 8th great-grandparents.  I am descended through their daughter Elizabeth Tompkins (1675-1729), who married in 1696 to William Ladd (1665-1729).

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Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 12 to 18 January 2023

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

1)  Upcoming Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech! -- 2–4 March 2023, Virtual and In-Person (Salt Lake City, Utah)

*  Institute For Genetic Genealogy (I4GG) 2023 Conference - 11-12 March 2023, Virtual and In-person (San Diego, Calif)

*  Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS) 2023 Conference - 26-29 April 2023, Virtual and In-Person (Sandusky, Ohio)

*  New England Regional Genealogy Consortium (NERGC) 2023 Conference - 3-6 May 2023, In-Person (Springfield, Mass.)

*  2023 National Genealogical Society (NGS) Family History Conference -- 31 May to 3 June 2023, Virtual and In-Person (Richmond, Virginia).

*  International German Genealogy Partnership 2023 Conference - 9-11 June 2023, Virtual and In-Person (Fort Wayne, Indiana).

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

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar Series

*  MyHeritage 2023 Webinar Series

*  Legacy Family Tree Webinar’s 2023 Mexico Research Series

*  Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree 2023 Webinar Series

*  Utah Genealogical Association Pro Talk Webinar Series

3)  Recent Podcasts/Radio Shows:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 236: Strategies for Overcoming Endogamy

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 445 - Pair Of DeWitt Descendants LITERALLY Dig Up Their Ancestor

*  Family Tree Magazine:  How to Make the Perfect Genealogy Research Plan – An Interview with Lisa Alzo

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems:  Episode 272 15 Freebies for Genealogy

*  Ancestral Findings:  AF-700: Arizona: The State Capitals, Part 3 | Ancestral Findings Podcast

*  Ancestral Findings: AF-701: Arkansas: The State Capitals, Part 4 | Ancestral Findings Podcast 

4)  Recent YouTube and Facebook Videos:

*  Aimee Cross -- Genealogy Hints:  Do you have DNA Surprises in Your Tree like Julia Roberts? (Is she ACTUALLY Julia Roberts?)

*  Ancestry:  Claire Danes Moved to Tears Over a Special Family Connection | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®

*  Ancestry:  How Niecy Nash’s Family Triumphed Despite The Toughest Odds | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®

*  BYU Family History Library:  How to Research Your Genealogy in Archives and Libraries – James Tanner (12 January 2023)

*  BYU Family History Library: Some Basic Genealogical Considerations - James Tanner (16 Jan 2023)

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show: Finding Your Roots Season 9 Episodes 1 & 2. Family Stories.

*  Family History Fanatics:  Do Double First Cousins Have the Same DNA as First Cousins?

*  Family History Fanatics:  6 Ways to Get Your Genealogy Research Groove Back

  

*  Genealogy In Action with Julie Cahill Tar:  Review Your Research, Break Down a Brick Wall

*  Genealogy TV:  Where to Find Records for Family History Research

*  Joe Price:  Helping Grow the Family Tree for a Specific Mission

*  Virtual Genealogical Association:  VGA 2023 Speaker: Melissa Barker

*  WikiTree:  How To Use WikiTree Video Series Hosted by the US Black Heritage Project: Profiles

*  WikiTree:  How To Use WikiTree Video Series Hosted by the US Black Heritage Project: Editing Profiles

*  Write Your Family History:  How to Make My Story Make Sense | Family History Writing Tips

5)   Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy Education Bytes - 5 to 11 January 2023?

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Randy and Linda on a Snorkel Trip in 2007 -- Post 751 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

  I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:

While in Maui in August 2007, we took a tour boat snorkel trip to Monokini, which is a submerged crate off the west coast of Maui and south of Lahaina and Kaanapali.  It is a haven for tropical fish and an excellent snorkeling adventure.  We were in the warm water for almost an hour.  They had a jellyfish warning for all of us to stay away from them if we saw them in the water.  

The photo above shows Linda and I on the tour boat on the way back from Monikini, which is in the background.

This was a fun trip - we had a room with a view of the beach in Kaanipali.  During our stay, we drove up to Haleakala crater, the Yao Valley and Nature Center, several dinners with cousin Joanie and her friend, a Hawaiian luau at the resort, and spent a lot of time relaxing on the beach, with the islands Molokai and Lanai off to the northwest..

This is all part of our family history!  

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Note:  The photo is on the website - click the URL below.  Feedly isn't showing my images now.

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New Resource: World Archives Rebrands as Storied, Launches Next-Generation Family History Platform

 I received this from Storied today:

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World Archives Rebrands as Storied, Launches Next-Generation Family History Platform

• Open beta provides powerful storytelling tools and affordable access to billions of records and newspaper articles from the US and 45 other countries.

• Storied platform built on next-generation technology critical for a new era of personal and family history discovery.

PROVO, Utah—January 18, 2023—World Archives, a global leader for historical newspaper content, has rebranded as Storied—the next chapter in family history. The rebrand coincides with the company’s launch of a next-generation family history platform by the same name. 

Backed by Charles Thayne Capital—and built by former Ancestry.com executives—Storied delivers a modernized approach for casual and serious family history enthusiasts around the globe to connect, discover, and reminisce about the moments that matter, whether recent or in the distant past.

“We are investing heavily in adding historical records to Storied because they are key to making family history discoveries, but they’re painfully incomplete without the vibrant stories that add color and help us see how our ancestors’ lives intersected with those around them,” said Storied CEO Kendall Hulet. “With Storied, that level of rich, inter-connected storytelling is finally possible.”

Historically, family history platforms have been built using architecture that limits relationship connections, with users only able to make discoveries between familial relationships using traditional records in a siloed family tree. Storied is the first family history platform built from the ground up with next-generation architecture that allows for a virtually unlimited number of connection types between people, places, and things. 

“The industry must evolve to provide a richer and more complete lens into the past. That vision can only become a reality with a new set of tools,” said Hulet. “With Storied, we want users to still have the ability to build a family tree, but to go beyond it as well. Everyone defines family differently, so we want to account for connections to a best friend, beloved pet, professional colleague, trusted mentor, or chosen family. Storied’s unique approach unlocks a fuller view of our past.”

Rich, user-generated stories are front and center in the Storied experience. Next-generation family history technology makes those accounts highly interconnected with other user-generated content, allowing for one of the richest family history experiences ever created.

“Storied allows users to leverage user-generated stories to break past previously insurmountable barriers in their research,” said Hulet. “For example, I have an ancestor who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and another who sailed across the Atlantic without her parents as a young child. Traditional records help me learn their names and things like the unit they served in or where they were at certain moments in time, but they aren’t able to provide the rich detail of what those experiences were like. Other people in their military unit or fellow passengers may have shared first-hand accounts that would help me understand what my ancestors experienced. Storied is the first family history platform designed specifically to bring those accounts to the fore by creating connections between people based on shared experiences. 

“When you combine stories like those with the billions of traditional records accessible to Storied users, you have the ingredients to enable a new era of personal and family history discovery. We’re just getting started, but we’re very excited about how Storied can improve the family history experience.”
  

During Storied’s public beta, users can build family trees, create and share stories, and receive hint notifications for free. Paid plans, starting at $4.99 a month, enable users to create private groups and gain access to billions of records and newspaper articles from 46 countries.

To start your next chapter of discovery, visit storied.com.

About Storied

Storied is the next chapter in family history. Backed by Charles Thayne Capital, and built by former Ancestry.com executives and technologists, Storied leverages next-generation family history technology and billions of records to deliver a fresh approach to discovering, capturing, preserving, and sharing stories about the past. To learn more, email press@storied.com or visit storied.com.

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Blast From the Past - Papers, Images, Indexes and Searches

I wrote this 14 years ago on 17 January 2009 after the visit to Ancestry.com.  My guess is I used information for this blog post from that meeting.   Indexing, imaging and search technology has come a long way in 14 years, and there are many more online record collections for us to search for elusive ancestors, but ...this is still pretty much true!

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How often have you heard someone complain about Ancestry.com (or any other genealogy database) that "the Search just doesn't find my people" even though the searcher "knows" that the people are in a certain location at a certain time? I hear this all the time at my society meetings, and in comments on blog posts and in message boards.

How often is the Search engine for the database blamed? Almost always, I think. Is that really fair? I don't think so.

The reality is that there are four elements for a successful search:

1) The original record paper with the desired name was in a record set (e.g., census, military, passenger list, etc.) and available to be imaged.

2) An image of the original record paper with the desired name was made and is available, and the image was digitized for the record database.

3) The indexer that transcribed the name from the digitized image of the original paper was able to accurately transcribe the desired name (and other entries) as it appears on the paper image.

4) The Search engine for the database was able to find the desired name in the database using the searcher's search criteria.

What if:

1) The original paper is not included in the image collection? Obviously, the searcher won't find it. Why would this happen? Were portions of a record set lost, or damaged by handling, before the paper collection was imaged? Just think of how many unreadable names are at the bottom of some census pages!

2) The image of the original paper is so poor (due to faded ink or pencil marks, soiled or torn pages, or extra markings obscure names, etc.) that the names cannot be read. Again, the searcher cannot find it because it is unreadable.

3) The indexer cannot read the name accurately from the digitized image of the original paper, or the name on the original paper was not accurately spelled by the writer of the paper. The searcher might find it using advanced search techniques.

4) The Search algorithm is so limited that it does not use wild cards, soundex/metaphone systems, or other search criteria (location, birthplace, age or birth year, keywords, etc.) to find the desired name. The searcher might find it using advanced search techniques.

Is it any wonder that even experienced and expert researchers cannot find persons in record databases even when they know that the person should be there?

It is evident to me that the "missing names" numbers pile up rather quickly - they may be as high as 15% to 20% missing names for a census records search (see my Seaver surname study here). I found that I was missing about 15% of my known Seaver families in census records, and was able to find about 33% of the missing families using advanced search techniques (i.e., 5% of the missing 15%, and I never could find the other 10% of known families). Other surnames may have more or fewer problems. Other databases may have different problems due to their peculiarities.

I spent months looking for Robert Leroy Thompson (1880 TN -1965 NC) and his family in the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 census (see The Ultimate "Dodging the Census" Puzzle). I still haven't found him, even though the odds are really high that he was in at least one of those four censuses (99.2% chance that he's in one of them if the miss rate for each census is 20%).

A researcher often doesn't know what s/he doesn't know. How does s/he know that "all" of the original papers were available to be imaged? How does s/he know that "all" of the images of the original paper were digitized? How does s/he know that "all" of the entries on a set of digitized images were indexed? The answer is that "s/he doesn't know for sure." S/he has to rely on the word of the repositories that hold the original paper, the digitized images, and the indexes. And that's where quality control - at all of the steps from paper to Search engine, come into play.

The ideal for the genealogy industry is that:

1. The record repository that has the original papers provides everything that it has to the people that image the collection, with some sort of quality assurance provision that assures all involved that all available original papers are provided.

2. The image people create digital images for every paper in the collection, even those that are badly damaged or unreadable, and even use advanced imaging techniques to bring out the best image possible. Again, some sort of quality assurance provision needs to be used to ensure that all original papers were imaged.

3. The indexing people use a double check quality assurance system that ensures the best possible index entries for every name on a record set.

4. The Search engine is versatile enough that many entries with significant problems can be found using advanced searching techniques.

My point in all of the above is this: It is not the sole fault of the Search engine or search algorithm when it cannot find your person of interest in a database. The problem is probably in one of the other categories. A large database provider like Ancestry.com, which often works from microfilms of paper records, usually does not control access to the original papers or the images of the original papers. It does control the digitizing of the image, indexing the records and the search engine, of course, and should have standardized quality control procedures in place for those steps.

Has anybody else done extensive investigations into records missing from specific databases, compared different databases for the same record set, or done a surname study that identifies persons missing from the records? If so, please let me know about it, with a link to, or the source of, the study if possible.

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Frankly, I think the number of digitized image and/or indexed online records is genea-mazing!  There are billions more pieces of genealogy-related paper in archives and libraries to be digitized.  I hope that the record providers keep finding them, digitize them, and index them for researchers to find.

I would add that the database and indexed record be sourced using Evidence Explained (or similar) standards.  FamilySearch and Find A Grave are the only record providers that do a good job on sourcing - not Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast, and many others.

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