Thursday 20 June 2013

MORE UK INFORMATION ADDED

WELSH NEWSPAPERS ON LINE

Pat is sure many researchers know about the initiative by the National Library of Wales to put Welsh newspapers on line for FREE. However see:


It is still in experimental (Beta) stage but if you search "REYNISH" you will find 215 entries. Pat suggests you use the inverted commas when searching. The main discovery (Pat didn't know this but perhaps our NZ cousins did) is that James - possibly George's brother died from an accident while he was building in Quay St., Haverfordwest. This happened in August 1860. George was found in 1861 census on board "Jane Glassin".  This is not the James who was George's father as he and Mary (DAVIES) are in the 1861 census in Haverfordwest. It says that James' home was in Portfield and this is where Mary is living as a widow in later censuses so Pat feels there must be a link.

Thanks mainly to FIND MY PAST providing many Welsh records to their site.......
Pat is pleased to say that she has added quite a bit of information (after 1837) to her GoONS website. This is NOT complete-you will see many gaps. The Goons archive is free to search and if you want more details about anything or anyone please contact her on reynish@one-name.org
look at:

http://www.one-name.org/archives/reynish.html

PLEASE always pan to the extreme right to get "Details" about the individual people and further information. I have tried not to use abbreviations but Chapman Codes are used for counties eg: PEM for Pembrokeshire, GLA for Glamorganshire. For a full list just Google "Chapman's Codes". Remember that it is possible do a "General Search" of all the records available. Try typing Reynish as a forename - there are a few and hopefully more to come.

A summary of what is now added to the basic information of Surname, Forename, Year, Quarter in which the event was registered, Registration District and reference  is below:

Civil Births in England & Wales -1837 to 2006
added (where known) is the date of birth, location, baptism date, names of parents, address, Occupation of father, Miscellaneous information and source of information.
Please note that some children's births were not registered and every effort is being made to find their baptisms or other birth records between these dates.

Civil Marriages in England & Wales - 1837-2006
added (where known) is the spouse's surname  and forename, location of marriage, age, status, occupations, Fathers and their occ., witnesses, by licence or banns and source.

Civil Deaths in England & Wales-1837 to 2006
added (where known) is age at death, date of birth and death, location of burial and address, burial date, name of spouse and parents and miscellaneous information and source.

There has been no change (as yet) to the Probate Records (1858 to 1996), Adoption records (1927-1969) or any of the censuses (1841 to 1911)

Now Pat is collecting pre-1837 data - that'll be fun! As usual if you can help out with any additional information it will be added to the lists for future researchers.

Pat has changed to Roots Magic as a database. This gives a website facility that she can put online hopefully at the end of 2013. Unfortunately her personal circumstances have not changed so no reunion is planned in the foreseeable future - sorry!

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