Thursday, May 01, 2008

old latin

for example Archaic Medical Terms English List P

Phthisis Pulmonalis. Consumption of the lungs; strictly applied to the tuberculous variety. [Cleaveland1886]. Pulmonary consumption. Pulmonary tuberculosis. ...

www.antiquusmorbus.com/

"
Antiquus Morbus is a collection of archaic medical terms and their old and modern definitions. The primary focus of this web site is to help decipher the Causes of Death found on Mortality Lists, Certificates of Death and Church Death Records from the 19th century and earlier. This web site will be updated often and as new information is received. My intention is to collect and record old medical terms in all European languages. The English and German lists are the most extensive to date."

MULL Scotland

MULL FAMILIES - Linking Past to Present "has been created to assist those persons in the research of ancestors with a connection to the Isle of Mull.

Your webmaster has a genuine passion, not only in his own research - but in helping others also.

The information within this site has been gathered from various sources - the vast majority of it coming from GROS Edinburgh [Scotlandspeople].

I welcome any corrections, omissions, or additions to the databases. Please let me know of any broken links. [at present, many links will be broken until all databases are uploaded]

The contents of this site can be used in any way in relation to helping research. It can be copied and used on another website, but acknowledgement would be appreciated. Any pictures however cannot be used elsewhere - at least not without the express permission of the owner of that material."

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Gwent Family History Society

Gwent Family History Society: "Gwent FHS Open Day 14th June 2008, County Hall, Cwmbran. 10am to 3pm" for my diary and yours

Society of Genealogists - Calendar of Events -- Society of Genealogists - Outreach Programme

FamilySearch Record Search

FamilySearch Record Search Maintenance - The System is Currently Down for Maintenance: "FamilySearch Record Search Maintenance

Record Search is currently being upgraded with new features. We hope to have the site available by Wednesday, 2:00 PM MDT.

A few of the highlights of this release:

* Search for christening and burial events
* Search at the county and city level
* You can now do different kinds of searches including exact
* In-context view of record details and images. This provides a new summary view of all the results next to the details and image views
* Name of person featured more prominently in the record
* Common actions grouped together at the top of record details

Visit the FamilySearch Labs blog to see details on this and other FamilySearch projects"

FamilySearch Indexing: Preserving Our Heritage: "In 30 minutes you can help people find their ancestors!"

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Old Bailey Online

Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court: "The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

What's New

Changes to the Old Bailey website in April 2008

The addition of the 100,000 trial accounts published between 1834 and 1913 represents the single biggest change to this website. We have, however, taken advantage of the opportunity to update many of the technical and historical features of the website and to introduce a new, improved overall design. Some features which can no longer be maintained have been discontinued. We hope users will find these improvements beneficial, but if you encounter any difficulties please contact us.

The old website, last updated in November 2007, will remain available at a separate URL until December 2008, when it will be withdrawn.

"

about old photographs

Picturing the family - LearningSpace - OpenLearn - The Open University: "Most of us today take photographs for our family albums. The lucky ones among us have also inherited family photographs from the past. These photographs provide another type of record that can offer insights..."

Dick Eastman will be in London this weekend

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: On the Road Again, This Time to London: "I expect to be wandering the exhibit hall quite a bit, along with a cameraman from Roots Television. Together, we hope to find out 'what's happening at the show' and to capture some of that for later publication in this newsletter and on RootsTelevision.com. If you cannot attend WDYTYAL in person, we hope that you will enjoy our later video insights.

When not wandering the exhibit hall, I will probably be occupying a comfortable chair in the Roots Television booth. If you are at WDYTYAL, please stop by and say 'Hello.' I'd love to meet you there.

For more information about Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE!, look at http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.co.uk.

As always, travel is high risk for an online junkie like myself. I will be traveling with a laptop computer, a wireless modem and a digital camera. I hope to post newsletter articles and perhaps a few pictures while at the event. However, the computer gods do not always smile favorably on such efforts. There certainly is a risk of no new articles being posted to this newsletter while I am in London. If that happens, you know that either my Internet access has failed or else the local pubs are as good as ever."

I will be there for all three days on the "Ask the Experts" stand as a specialist in Danish genealogy and I look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new

Dick Eastman will be in London this weekend

Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter: On the Road Again, This Time to London: "I expect to be wandering the exhibit hall quite a bit, along with a cameraman from Roots Television. Together, we hope to find out 'what's happening at the show' and to capture some of that for later publication in this newsletter and on RootsTelevision.com. If you cannot attend WDYTYAL in person, we hope that you will enjoy our later video insights.

When not wandering the exhibit hall, I will probably be occupying a comfortable chair in the Roots Television booth. If you are at WDYTYAL, please stop by and say 'Hello.' I'd love to meet you there.

For more information about Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE!, look at http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.co.uk.

As always, travel is high risk for an online junkie like myself. I will be traveling with a laptop computer, a wireless modem and a digital camera. I hope to post newsletter articles and perhaps a few pictures while at the event. However, the computer gods do not always smile favorably on such efforts. There certainly is a risk of no new articles being posted to this newsletter while I am in London. If that happens, you know that either my Internet access has failed or else the local pubs are as good as ever."

I will be there for all three days on the "Ask the Experts" stand as a specialist in Danish genealogy and I look forward to seeing old friends and meeting new

Monday, April 28, 2008

FFHS Federation of Family History Societies

FFHS - About the FFHS - What is the Federation: "The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) is an educational charity formed in 1974 and granted charitable status in 1982. Over the years, membership has grown to over 200 societies throughout the world, including national, regional and one-name groups. The principal aims of the Federation are:

* to co-ordinate and assist the work of societies or other bodies interested in family history, genealogy and heraldry
* to foster mutual co-operation and regional projects in these subjects
* to represent the interests of its member societies, and family historians in general, on numerous national and regional bodies"

Statement of Intent
by David HOLMAN
Incoming Chairman
Federation of Family History Societies

This statement is my personal view on what I would like to achieve in my time as Chairman of
FFHS.

I am making it prior to the General Meeting as some of what I have to say will be relevant to what happens during the meeting and at subsequent meetings.

Firstly may I say that there are three courses open to FFHS

• We stay as we are.
• We move forward
• We cease to exist

I am confident that we share the same aim; I know I have an outright favourite but it is up to you and your own Committees where you want me to take the Federation. I can achieve any of them with your help and agreement.

Please just think about the three options and keep thinking of them throughout my statement, at the General Meeting and please take these options back to your societies.

I intend to pursue a policy of open governance within FFHS.

This will be achieved initially by a change in the way the Executive Meetings are run.

At the start of every meeting there will be an open session where representatives of our members may be in attendance and they will have an opportunity to ask questions.

If an immediate answer is required it would be useful if a copy can be sent to the Administrators in advance so that the relevant officer can investigate and prepare an answer. This is not a requirement but will make an immediate answer more likely

Where possible the questions will be answered directly at the meeting but in the event that the
Executive Committee are unable to do so, the representative will be sent an acknowledgement of the question and a copy of any answer if given within 24 hours. If the committee are unable to answer within 24 hours they will report back within seven days of the initial acknowledgement.This will continue until an answer has been given.

The answer will be from the FFHS Executive and hopefully will be to the satisfaction of the
representative and their society, but this cannot be guaranteed.

After the open forum, the representative is welcome to attend the remainder of the meeting except where it is deemed necessary to close certain parts of that meeting.

Expenses for travel to the meeting will be borne by the society being represented and that society should approve such representation and as a matter of courtesy let the Joint Administrators know who is attending. Where a large number of attendees is forecast a change of venue may be needed.

From time to time the Executive Committee may invite a society representative or other person with special knowledge to a meeting. In this case costs will be borne by the FFHS.

In all cases after the open forum the representative may not take further active part or contribute to discussion except by invitation from the chair of the meeting.

This has been agreed in principle by the Executive and will be placed into our rules and procedures for meetings. The first meeting where this will be in place is the Executive meeting on 19 April 2008 at the Sekforde Arms in Clerkenwell, London.

It is also hoped that minutes of meetings subject to approval will be placed in a new ‘Members’
Only’ section of the website but as yet this has not been formally approved.

As your Chairman I intend to improve communications between the FFHS and its members

Communication is a two way process it involves talking and listening.

I would ask everyone to listen to what is said either at meetings or in emails, policies, statements etc and comment back immediately if you have questions or things that you do not understand, please do not wait until a GM to raise them, there are 363 other days in the year when we can listen and where necessary take the appropriate action.

It is, I consider, a fundamental responsibility, that Trustees of this Charity take responsibility for their decisions and actions and explain them to the Member Societies of the FFHS.

I want the FFHS Executive to set an example of ‘Best Practice’ in their work and will undertake to improve and streamline our meetings and our own internal communications. This will give our member societies a ‘Benefit of Membership’ in that our own (volunteer) time will be better spent to greater effect.

On the subject of Benefits of Membership I wish to state that this is a major priority for me over the coming year and I hope that we can better explain and justify how the Federation can be an increased benefit to societies.

I stood up at an open meeting in London in 2006 and questioned these very things, as a result I am here before you now. Please if you have questions or special skills that can help improve what we do, let me know, there are still vacancies on the Executive Committee but I expect them to fill fairly quickly.

You will see from the reports that have been circulated that the FFHS have had an eventful year and many of the things promised have been achieved. This is still not good enough for me and I would like to meet all of our promises and ensure that future promises are achievable within the time allotted to them. I have personally been involved in a couple of these achievements, as FFHS Education Officer, and I hope you will see this as an example of my commitment to the Federation and its aims

When I took over as Chairman of Cornwall FHS some years ago I found myself in a similar
position vis a vis a new online service. I want this service to work and to be a benefit to our
members and family historians. This benefit will be both financial and enjoyable in that revenue will be raised for the Federation and its members and family historians will be better able to expand their family trees.

On the subject of revenue and funding I wish you to note that the subject of increased subscriptions is an item on the agenda for this meeting. As someone who is a member of a number of large societies, I know how much this has caused comment.

Another area where we have been remiss in the realisation of a promise is the subject of the
Business Plan. I understand that this matter will be raised during the meeting and again welcome discussion at that point.

I have produced a simple plan under the title ‘Business Plan’; this is in no way a full and formal
plan, simply a statement of what we have done and where we are going. I promise to you now that there will be a full and formal business plan with full, accurate and budgeted financial details. I also hope that we can continue updating the plan with your help.

You will see form my CV that I am from a military background and indeed still serve as an officer with the reserve forces, this is in fact the basis of my full time work. I have to juggle my FFHS commitments with work and three other hobbies that I am also passionate about. This is no mean feat but rest assured that my heart is with the Federation and I will fully support it and you.

Finally on the good military premise that after any presentation or speech only the last three facts will be remembered I leave you with these three pieces of information and ask you to write them all down now.

Chairman’s contact details

1. Chairman@FFHS.org.uk or David@DavidHOLMAN.co.uk

2. Telephone: 01726 64267 – Home I am also on Skype at david_c_holman

3. Address:
David HOLMAN
38 Polyear Close
Polgooth
ST AUSTELL
Cornwall PL26 7BH

Sunday, April 27, 2008

About Ufindmypast

About Us - The place to start tracing your family history
new url http://familyhistory.telegraph.co.uk
or http://www.findmypast.com/

the link About Telegraph Media Group Limited does not help very much
and this footer
The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) plans to close its existing website at FamilyHistoryOnline and distribute its members’ data in association with findmypast.com. The Society of Genealogists is an educational charity the purpose of which is to “promote, encourage and foster the study, science and knowledge of genealogy". The Society’s premises in Central London house the largest family history research library in the UK. The Society of Genealogists’ Library is open to members and paying non-members.The NBI gives universal access to the content of parish burial records held by local repositories and family history societies who have participated in the project, and has opened up these crucial resources to a far wider audience of genealogists.

The project of creating the National Burial Index began in 1994 and was first published in 2001, containing 5.4 million records. A second edition followed in 2004 containing over 13 million names.

Whilst not all of the 13 million records from the second edition are available here, millions of them are, alongside many thousands which do not appear on the CD.

Family history societies and individual transcribers chose the parishes and time intervals they transcribed. While most began with the period 1813 to 1850, there are a significant amount of data available either side of these dates.

A partnership between General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon enabled by Scotland Online.
see "Scotland Online" - Google Search

Scotland Online - Home: "has been one of Scotland's leading Internet services companies since it was founded in 1995.

It has developed a first class reputation for delivering and managing, high-profile, business-critical applications and supporting infrastructures for a wide range of Scotland's public and private sector organisations."

Scotland Online has a range of customers throughout all sectors. They include:

Corporates

  • Standard Life
  • Scottish Widows
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Conoco Ltd
  • McClure Naismith Solicitors
  • Macrae and Dick
  • DC Thomson & Co Ltd
  • ScottishPower
  • Cairn Energy
  • Vianet

Public Sector

  • Scottish Government
  • Dundee City Council
  • Argyll & Bute Council
  • Glasgow City Council
  • Angus Council
  • Clackmannanshire Council
  • West Dunbartonshire Council
  • National Museum of Scotland
  • Tayside Police
  • National Library of Scotland
  • General Register of Scotland
  • Lothian & Borders Police
  • Fife Police
  • Scottish Qualifications Authority
  • Dumfries & Galloway Police
  • Communities Scotland

Not Elsewhere Specified

from my email:-

A very long time ago a wise old archivist advised me about keeping
files on my native medicine work. He said that however complete I
thought my filing scheme was, I should have one file labelled N.E.S
and it would be the most important file which would repay regular
inspection. I hadn't a clue what he meant. He then explained N.E.S
stands for Not Elsewhere Specified. However clever I thought my
record-keeping was, the diversity of human activity would ensure there
was always something which didn't fit the system at the time. Bung it
in N.E.S. Over time that is where you'll find the design for a system
Mark 2. Which should have an N.E.S from which in de course the next
advance will emerge. Some 55 years on I still have a N.E.S and have
lost count of how many generations of N.E.S preceded it.

That old archivist had seen from looking backwards the futility of
trying to make people and their activities fit any system. Systems
have to be adjusted to fit people. And because he was a learned man he
was apt to say that was very old knowledge and would mention
Procrustes as an example of what not to do with people. He would drily
remark that attribution of ancestry to Adam was quite wrong. From the
capacity of each of us to muck up a simple chemical experiment he
could only conclude we were all descendants of Sod.

my thanks to Don

"Don Moody" genealogy - Google Search - "Don Moody" genealogy - Google Groups