Prison and court records can tell you a lot about your ancestors and their lives. Whether documenting legal battles or criminal activity these records will provide a wide variety of color and detail. We will look at records on everything from petty theft to illegal poaching to declaring someone’s husband dead. The scope includes Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
Everyone has heard the story that all the Irish records were burnt or that you can only research your family if you travel there. However, times have changed and it is possible to do a considerable amount of research online, at home, in your pyjamas. Join Andrea, not in her pjs, as she does an overview of what is available from the comfort of your sofa.
Prison and court records can tell you a lot about your ancestors and their lives. Whether documenting legal battles or criminal activity these records will provide a wide variety of color and detail. We will look at records on everything from petty theft to illegal poaching to declaring someone’s husband dead. The scope includes Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and North America.
The DeWolf family from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, were part of the wave of Planters from New England who settled the lands left vacant by the Acadian Expulsion in the 1760s. Typically, any time a genealogical friend sends me a DeWolf, they link into my tree in some way. However, the DeWolfe Boathouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, proved to be a challenge. Follow my journey as I track the family back from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia through census, vital records, town records, family histories to determine if they are connected to the Nova Scotian DeWolf family.
Every researcher eventually runs into a place, a time period, an occupation or a topic that is unfamiliar. Cyndi's List, a genealogical research portal, and FamilySearch Wikis, an online directory and handbook, are invaluable resources to move your research forward.
Daily, we are bombarded with marketing about Artificial Intelligence (AI) but what is it and how does it work? How is it different from doing a web search? Is it useful for genealogy or is it just the new toy? What should we be concerned about? How do we use it ethically?
Do you have captains, crew, ship-owners, insurers, bread-makers or pirates in your family tree? You might have an ancestor involved in the shipping industry and not realize it. Learn where to look to discover your seafaring ancestors. This talk provides a basic overview of where to look for seafaring ancestors (not those who were in the navy) tailored for British and Canadian research.
Do you want to share your family history in a book or on a website or in YouTube video or social media? Do you want to use photos, maps, text, music, in your book but are not sure what you can use or how to get permission? Join Andrea Lister for this program as she guides you through the various forms of permissions and when they are required.