Every article, picture and advertisement from every single edition of the Scotsman newspaper between 1817 and 1950 went online on St Andrew's Day in 2004.
To celebrate its first anniversary, the site will be available for free access between 12pm on 30th November until 11.59am on December 7th. Using the site's search engine you can read accounts of world events - and local news. Maybe members of your family or ancestors made the news in Scotland and their stories are there for you to read.
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I work for the Calgary Public Library and received email today that
these two new resources are available on the _ calgarypubliclibrary.com
_ website. I thought I'd pass them along. They are in the E-library
section and you will have free access with a current public library card
number.
* *The Times of London Digital Archive 1785 - 1985: * Find news
articles on people, major historical events such as the French
Revolution or Falkland War, obituaries, advertising, classifieds,
book reviews, photos, crosswords, parliamentary reporting, and
editorials as written in 200 years of The Times of London newspaper.
* *Toronto Star Pages From the Past: * search the complete text and
images (by date or keyword) in the Toronto Star newspaper 1894 –
1951 covering Canadian and world events, politics, business and
finance, history, births and deaths, advertisements, photos. To
view pages you must have Adobe 5.05 pdf reader.
regards
Lynne Kleingertner
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I will have the t-shirts on Monday night. There has been another charge which I did not know of until yesterday. Times Two had to order our shirts in from B.C., so there is a shipping cost. I did not know that they had to order the shirts from out of province. The extra charge amounts to 58 cents each. The sizes S-XL is now $17.43 and XXXL & XXXXL are now $19.03 I am sorry for the inconvenience. Also there were some people who ordered dark colors and I was told that in order to keep the colors that were ordered, then Darren had to have the imprint on these shirts put on in white. He was able to do this at no extra cost to us. He also had to put in two orders for shirts, as there were a couple of other shirts ordered at the last minute, so he is willing to eat the cost of the other shipping costs. I thanked him very much for doing this for us.
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Birney researcher is one of my contacts who responded to an offer to help
find relatives in the 1911 Calgary census. Does anyone on the mailing list
have connections to these early families?
Fred Birney, a long-time employee of the Alberta Hotel, died in the summer
of 1914 leaving a widow called Minnie and six children. His 4 children from
an earlier marriage to Margaret and Walter (one of Minnie's children) grew
up with relatives in the Calgary-Midnapore area. There are connections to
Bannister, McKevitt, Copas families with known burials at Union, Burnsland
and Midnapore.
Cemetery office does not have a burial record for Minnie (Mary?) Birney or
Clarence Birney so she may have remarried if she stayed in the area. There
are several unconnected Birney names in the Calgary area.
18 22 Barney [Birney] Fred, 213-1St West July 1875 35 Ontario
18 23 Minnie Jun 1883 27 Ireland
18 24 Grace Nov 1900 10 Alberta
18 25 Gordon Dec 1902 8 Alberta
18 26 Cecil Dec 1904 6 Alberta
18 27 Helen Aug? 1906 4 Alberta
18 28 Walter Nov 1910 7 mo? Alberta
18 29 Robertson? Mattie?, domestic 1880 30 Scotland
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The Legacy Users Group, will not meet on the 3rd Wednesday of December,
due to the proximity of Christmas. This was a unanimous decision of the
members. May you all have a Very Special Holiday, and our wishes for a
Healthy and Prosperous New Year.
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This message is to remind you that our Computer SIG Meeting will be held on Saturday December 10. If you are struggling for ideas for last minute gifts, you need to come to this meeting. If you have ideas to share, we need you to come. Mary Arthur will be presenting ideas for "Christmas Goodies". I suspect that many will make good year round gifts as well. Come join us and bring your wish list with you, as well as listen to others' wish lists for more ideas for your own giving.
Bring your questions and problems to our Beginners' Session at 9:30. Our panel of experts will help you with answers to your questions. The main meeting starts at 10:30. Location is at the LDS church on 17th Avenue and 21st Street S.W. Enter on the south side (back of the building). New comers are especially welcome. Bring your computer questions and get answers from the experts. SEE YOU NEXT SATURDAY!!!
This message is to remind you that our Computer SIG Meeting will be held on Saturday December 10. If you are struggling for ideas for last minute gifts, you need to come to this meeting. If you have ideas to share, we need you to come. Mary Arthur will be presenting ideas for "Christmas Goodies". I suspect that many will make good year round gifts as well. Come join us and bring your wish list with you, as well as listen to others' wish lists for more ideas for your own giving.
Bring your questions and problems to our Beginners' Session at 9:30. Our panel of experts will help you with answers to your questions. The main meeting starts at 10:30. Location is at the LDS church on 17th Avenue and 21st Street S.W. Enter on the south side (back of the building). New comers are especially welcome. Bring your computer questions and get answers from the experts. SEE YOU NEXT SATURDAY!!!
Tonight at the AFHS
meeting you will have a chance to purchase our new CD which features
Queen’s Park’s Military Section along with other military
information for the SPECIAL PRICE of $20.00.
This CD has 5000
records and almost as many photos. There is also a list of Albertan
Airman who gave their lives during WW II.
To add substance to
this CD we have included a list of Military Websites to help people with their
research.
You don't say that you have checked anywhere else already, so I assume you have not emailed the local newspaper and asked them if they will look up for you?
Their archives appear not to be online yet, so you could also ask if and when they will archive obits.
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[mailto:arcan-l-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Gebhard, Chris SA Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005
11:37 AM To: arcan-l@... Subject: [Arcan-l] Saskatchewan
Homestead Index goes on line!
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 19, 2005
Saskatchewan
Archives05-924
HOMESTEAD INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE WEB
Saskatchewan Archives is launching a new online
database on October 21 which will allow, for the first time, genealogists and
researchers around the globe to have access to Saskatchewan’s homestead information
via the World Wide Web. The information is available online at www.saskhomesteads.com and may be
purchased as a stand-alone, searchable CD-ROM.
The Saskatchewan Homestead Index database contains
360,000 references to the men and women who, under the terms of The Dominion
Lands Act, took part in the homestead process in the area now known as Saskatchewan from 1872
to 1930.
It includes those who sold or bought North West
Métis or South African veteran scrip or received soldier grants following service
in the First World War.
“The digital index will, for the first time,
allow researchers to gain a better understanding of how Métis scrip became a
commodity for intense speculation during the settlement period,” Culture,
Youth and Recreation Minister Joan Beatty said. “It will also make
it easier for researchers to access the records of women who filed for
homesteads in Saskatchewan.”
“This is only the first step in making the
homestead records more accessible using new technology,” Saskatchewan’s
Provincial Archivist Trevor Powell said. “Each year, members of the
public use some 9,000 homestead files and having the index on-line will mean
that they can locate the files they need and contact the Archives for copies
before ever leaving home. We are very much in the preliminary planning
stages, but we hope that the records themselves will some day be completely
digitized and available to researchers on the World Wide Web.”
The Saskatchewan Genealogical Society and
Saskatchewan Archives Board worked in partnership through an advisory committee
since 2003 to get the homestead index on-line and on CD-ROM.
President of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society,
Rocky Sample of Pangman, commended the committee for its work, noting that
there has long been an avid interest in the homestead records on the part of
local and family historians. “Having easy access via the Internet
to the homestead index will be a real boon to genealogists and others
interested in the history of the settlement period in Saskatchewan,” Sample said.
Completion of the project was made possible through
the support of a number of working partners and sponsors including Information
Services Corporation (ISC), assisted by EDS and ISM Canada; James Richardson
International/Pioneer Grain Company Ltd.; the Métis National Council; the
Saskatchewan Heritage Foundation and the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied
Science and Technology (SIAST). The project took nearly three years to
complete at a cost of more than $200,000 after all direct-dollar and in-kind
contributions and volunteer hours are taken into consideration.
I shall be out of town for the Atlantic SIG meeting on Dec 14th.
Alan Peers is going to chair this meeting and a decision will be required to be made to see if the SIG will continue. We need someone to be Chair of the SIG.
Regards
Gordon Lane Chairman Alberta Family Histories Society 712-16th Ave NW, Calgary, AB, T2W 0J8
Ellen Kinghorn writes that she’s
acquired a book that a number of AFHSers might be interested in… Feel
free to contact Ellen directly if you want her to do a lookup for you (scar.king@...).
Judii
rempel@...
A lifetime ago, I'd talked about getting a copy of
"The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference" book. The
folks that were interested were: Jim Ward, Carol Lee, Heather Jaremko, Helen
Backhouse, Lorna Laughton, Bob Hauswirth and Eva & Roy Kinnear. As
Helen was interested too, the library may have a copy of it by now.
Anyway, I very recently lucked into a copy of my own and have it on my desk.
There is an index, so I can look things up easily. If anyone is
interested in the AFHS, I'd be glad to do some look ups.
For those of you doing military research, you might be interested to know that the Library and Archives of Canada Genealogy Centre's database for those people who enlisted in WW1 does not include navy personnel. (When I read more closely, I realize the key word is soldiers)! However, you can still order the attestation papers for your navy ancestors by calling the Genealogy Reference Desk at 1-866-578-7777 (toll free) or 1-613-996-7458. Should you wish to order the files of navy personnel, the same rules apply as getting the files of the soldiers included in the web site's database.
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Has anyone using Passage Express Standard Edition successfully burned a CD
of their project? The program is really great as far as entering stuff and
getting it made. I just can't get it to open when I put the CD in. If I go
to My Computer, it shows in the Devices with Removable Storage, and if I
right click, then click on Autoplay it opens there. If I go to open, it
shows the files, two of them being autoplay, and RunMe. This is fine for
me, but a hassle for some of our relatives. I have been to the Passage
Express Support Forum where there was a question about this, but it dealt
with the Deluxe Edition. A promise of "looking into" so far has had no
results and Christmas is creeping up. Any help would be appreciated.
Donna Snyder
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Looking just now if I right click on the CD and go to open where the files
show, if I right click on Autorun, which looks like a notepad, there is an
option "install". What does that mean? Do I have to install that after the
CD is burned?
Donna Snyder
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The English/Welsh SIG will be meeting at the AFHS library this coming Tuesday,
December 13th (a change from the scheduled meeting date to accommodate
Christmas). As well as tapping the English/Welsh research experience of the
group we will talk about what our ancestors (and ourselves) ate in England and
how it was cooked. Find out why oatmeal was a common food in Scotland and the
North of England but not in the diet of those who lived in the Midlands or South
of England.
Tea and cookies will be served (contributions to the food will be welcome) and,
if the computer co-operates, a fun website demonstrated.
New and old members welcome.
Ann Williams, tel: 286-4095
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Subject: Re: 2005 Holiday Gift Ideas: For the Macintosh-minded
The iRobot Roomba Discovery is nice. It is much better than the first model. I like mine, but I can use all the help I can get. Moreover, having the Roomba is an incentive to minimize the clutter.
This person has too much money, IMHO, but it is a fun site to see.
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I bought this as a gift for my own November 60th birthday and highly recommend it.
My new pet, i-Dog, and I are listening to tunes from my iPod Shuffle. I bought it at Toys r us for $22.99 It comes with a cable to connect to an ipod and listen using its microphone or also attach to earphone the way I am doing in the photo. It has flashing lights keyed to the music. Besides the lights, it moves its ears, shakes its head, barks and makes whirring sounds depending on its mood! For more info about it, see http://laptopmag.com/Review/Hasbro-I-Dog.htm
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Hi there:
This could be an interesting imaging program:
http://www.photofiltre.com/. Needs more documentation.
Thumbnail program recommended by TechTV: http://jalbum.net/. I used it
extensively in my personal website www.hubert.ca.
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Gord Hulbert
www.hulbert.ca
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The New York Times also had the same topic this week.
TECHNOLOGY / CIRCUITS
| December 6, 2005
The Circuits Holiday Buying Guide
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