Difference between United Kingdom and Great Britian

Did you ever wonder the difference between the United Kingdom and Great Britian, watch this and it explains it all.


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10

UK WWI Records online

Taken from the National Archive Blog

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog

Explore our collection of First World War records

We hold the official UK government records of the First World War, including a vast collection of letters, diaries, maps and photographs.
We will be marking the centenary of the war with an extensive programme, spanning a five-year period between 2014 and 2019.
If you want to explore our First World War records and are new to researching at The National Archives, you can start your research here or chat to one of our reader advisors online.

British Women's Emigration Association Databas

          British Women’s Emigration Association Database

Borrowed from Elizabeth Lapointe at Genealogy Canada

 

The British Islands Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) has just written to me about a new database which they have just put on their site - British Women’s Emigration Association Database.

They say that “The Hon. Mrs. Ellen Joyce was the head of the British Women’s Emigration Association (BWEA) from 1901 until 1919. Mrs. Joyce was married to a Church of England clergyman and they resided at St. John’s Croft, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Most of her work appears to have been carried out from this house as the address shows frequently in her correspondence.

The aim of the Association was to encourage middle class women to emigrate to the colonies because of a perceived surplus of women in England and Wales while there was a dearth of British women in the colonies, particularly in Canada and Australia. The 1901 Census revealed that there were a million more women than men in England and Wales.

The young women ranged in age from 14 to mid 40s and the majority went to Ontario or Western Canada, most were single but a few of the older women were widows. All were said to be `of good character’.

Any records in England that contained information on individual women were destroyed in 1964, therefore the records held by Library and Archives Canada have added significance for any persons researching women’s immigration to Canada”.

To view the database, go to http://www.bifhsgo.ca/cstm_mrsJoyce.php

1830s Immigration from South England

The Petworth Emigration Project

The Petworth Emigration Project records ten years' work by a group of researchers in Canada and England who came together for a case study of assisted emigration.
The subject of the study is 1830s emigration and immigration - from Sussex and other counties in the south of England to Ontario in Canada. It will interest historians, genealogists, and everyone who wants to know more about the immigrant experience. Petworth emigrants were part of a larger movement of working-class people from the south of England to Upper Canada (Ontario). In the 1830s, English parishes and landlords tried to solve problems of rural poverty by assisting people to emigrate to Upper Canada.

Read more and check out the indexes at
http://www.petworthemigrations.com/

Uk One Place Studies

Looking to find out about your ancestors place of origin in the UK check out the new web site

One Place Studies

 http://www.register-of-one-place-studies.org.uk.

It's new and growing so keep checking and possibly you have something to add that will interest others. And it's free!

Durham Records Online

 

Looking for ancestors in Northeast England? Durham Records Online provides records from County Durham and Northumberland for genealogists and historians.

http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/

What this site offers:

• transcriptions of baptisms, marriages, and burials from many parish registers in County Durham and nearby parishes in Northumberland & Yorkshire
• transcriptions of all Anglican (Church of England) marriages in County Durham from 1 Jan 1813 to 1 July 1837
• 1841 census transcriptions for all of County Durham
• 1851 through 1891 census transcriptions for many County Durham communities, plus 1901 for Easington district
• filter your search by given name, surname, middle name, birth year, event year, parent & spouse names, census household head, occupation
• optional matching service connects you with other researchers

UK Teachers

One of the perks of having a Value Added SGS Membership is access to Find My Past

 

If your ancestors were teachers be sure to check out the following

 

Teacher's Registration Council Registers 1914-1948
The Teachers' Registrations give details of nearly 100,000 people who taught in England and Wales between 1870 and 1948. More than half of those are women. From 1914, many teachers in England and Wales (and elsewhere) registered with the Teachers Registration Council. The original registration records for the period up to 1948 (after which registration was abandoned) were deposited with the Society of Genealogists. Registration only started in 1914; however, since people who were already teaching registered, the records cover teachers who started their careers from the 1870s onwards.

Teachers' Registrations

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/teachers-registrations?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=fmp_email&utm_term=reg&utm_content=060913&utm_campaign=unearthed-teachers-tip