NEWSLETTER - 16 July 2004
Contents:
1 WELCOME
2 WHAT’S IN THE NEWSLETTER
3 NEW CANADIAN RELEASES
4 COMING SOON
5 NEW RELEASES FROM OTHER PARTNERS
5a Census of Great Britain
5b British New Releases
6 FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY AND OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
7 NEWS & GOSSIP
8 PREVIOUSLY RELEASED BOOKS
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1 WELCOME:
This is the third newsletter from Archive CD Books Canada. This newsletter will be published whenever we have enough information to make it worth your while reading but we expect that will mean there will be about one a month.
Remember this Newsletter is published for you so if you think we’re missing something important drop me a line to malcolm@archivecdbooks.ca .
Newsletters work best when they get a good circulation. We’re doing our best to let people know about it but you could help us along by mentioning it to your genealogy buddies and generally spreading the word.
2 WHAT’S IN THE NEWSLETTER:
The last newsletter seemed to go on for ever so this is an attempt to keep it a little more focused. All the same “departments” are here but the new releases have been moved to the front (we like to think you are eager to hear all about our new books :-))
There’s a long list of new British Census releases.
3 NEW CANADIAN RELEASES:
(To find a book on our web site http://www.archivecdbooks.ca take a note of the catalogue number - or use the “copy” function - go to the web site, click on the “Search Page” link and enter, or “paste,” the number into the “Product Number” box. Hit “Search” and then “More” and you will be in a position to reread the description or to place your order. There is frequently more information about the books available on the web site.)
Only two new Canadian books this month but what they lack in quantity they more than make up for in quality.
* Gazetteer and Business Directory, Canada 1930
Product No. CA0035 : $45.00
A wonderful book with a truly misleading original title. Of the almost 2000 pages in this book the gazetteer takes up 70 while the rest are devoted to a wonderfully complete directory of Canadian businesses and professional people and their advertising. This is a great resource in a Country where early directories are so scarce.
Both the gazetteer and the Business Directory are indexed by Province but the Business Directory is also sub-indexed by trade or profession. So, if you are looking for someone who was a Grocer in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan you can go straight to the alphabetized list of 71 candidates, most of who were trading under their own name rather than under a company name. In fact the vast majority of the businesses listed were named for the owner including, of course, the professional listings for Physicians, Veterinarians, Barristers, Insurance Agents, etc.
* The Reverend Richard Bradford (Family History)
Product No. CA0070 : $13.00 SPECIAL PRICE - TIME LIMITED OFFER (Regular price $19.00)
Here is a great family history for anyone related to the Bradford family. The book is written as a record of the Rev. Richard Bradford (1752 - 1817) it also provides a very complete family tree descending through 3 generations. There is a wealth of information about Richard's life and times.
Probably his main claim to fame was his appointment as the first resident Protestant clergyman in the Ottawa Valley and much of the book is devoted to the time he spent in this office. After entering N. America with a stay in the Catskill's in New York State, he took up his position in Lower Canada which involved a great deal of traveling. Most of his ministry took place in and around Chatham (in the County of York) on the Ottawa River, to the West of Montreal. There is, however, a record of a period during which he ministered to the soldiers and residents of William Henry (Sorel), on the St. Lawrence between Quebec City and Montreal. There is a lot of history of the Rev. Richard's works in the area so that many of the births, marriages and deaths at which he officiated are also recorded. There is an example from the book and an index of all the names in the book, taken from his church's registered, listed in the "More Information" window for this book in the catalogue on our web site.
4 COMING SOON:
Yes, they are still on their way!
* Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Lambton, Ontario, 1906
CA0048
A wealth of information for researchers.
* Stodard's Lectures, 1911 – Supplementary Volume 2
CA0037-X2
Not anywhere near as ‘stodgy’ as it sounds! This is a great set of 15 volumes of Victorian travelogues, profusely illustrated and well written. An invaluable source of background on all the countries explored by John Stodard. This one contains “lectures’ about Canada (2 lectures), Gibralta and Malta. We will offer each volume separately for now and release regional sets as we work our way through the series.
5 NEW RELEASES FROM OTHER PARTNERS:
5a Census of Great Britain New Releases:
* 1871 Census London St. Pancras (part 1)
C1871LON12: $25.10
RG10 /199-229
* 1871 Census London St. Pancras (part 2)
C1871LON13: $21.90
RG10 /230-250
* 1871 Census London Islington
C1871LON14: $31.60
RG10/251-308 - 5 CD set
* 1871 Census London Hackney
C1871LON15: $21.90
RG10/309-336
* 1871 Census London St.Giles
C1871LON16: $21.90
RG10/337-352
* 1871 Census London Strand
C1871LON17: $18.70
RG10/353-368
* 1871 Census London Holborn part 1
C1871LON18: $21.90
RG10/369-378
* 1871 Census London Holborn part 2 (Clerkenwell)
C1871LON19: $21.90
RG10/379-395
* 1871 Census London Holborn part 3
C1871LON20: $25.10
RG10/396-411
* 1871 Census London City
C1871LON21: $25.10
RG10/412-436
* 1871 Census London Shoreditch part 1
C1871LON22: $21.90
RG10/437-460
* 1871 Census London Shoreditch part 2
C1871LON23: $21.90
RG10/461-473
* 1871 Census London Bethnal Green
C1871LON24: $25.10
RG10/474-502
* 1871 Census London Whitechapel
C1871LON25: $21.90
RG10/503-527
* 1871 Census London St. George in the East
C1871LON26: $21.90
RG10/528-543
* 1871 Census London Stepney
C1871LON27: $21.90
RG10/544-553
* 1871 Census London Mile End Old Town
C1871LON28: $25.10
RG10/554-568
* 1871 Census London Poplar part 1 (Bromley. Bow)
C1871LON29: $21.90
RG10/569-579
* 1871 Census London Poplar part 2 (Poplar & Shipping)
C1871LON30: $25.10
RG10/580-591
* Dorset 1871 Census Registration Districts
C1871DOR: $72.90
RG10/1967-2030
7b British New Releases:
* The Registers Of Ulverston Parish Church; 1545-1812
GB1156 $27.80
A transcript of the parish baptism, marriage and burial registers. Fully indexed. A huge book of over 800 pages. Transcribed and edited by C.W. Bardsley & L.R. Eyre, and published in 1886
* Civil and Ecclesiastical History of Exeter, 1841
GB1197 $27.80
A different viewpoint of the city's history from Roman times to the 1800's. This focuses more on the religious and civil progress. Excellent descriptions of the churches and important buildings. Interestingly it describes places in and around the city, so you can experience the streets your ancestors would've walked for yourselves.
* White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Norfolk, 1864
GB1213 $16.30
Contains a general survey of each place in the county including it's historical, statistical and topographical descriptions. Thoroughly indexed so easy to use. This directory, like other White's directories is incredibly comprehensive. Most important of all for family historians this book has hundreds of pages listing people in the county along with their address and profession.
* Three Oxfordshire Parishes; A History of Kidlington, Yarnton and Begbroke.
GB1214 $27.80
Written in 1893 and printed for the Oxford Historical Society, this book gives the general history of these places with thought to their connection to National events. It also gives the pedigrees of important families, histories of the churches, colleges and manors of each area. For each there are also pages of extracts from the Hundred Rolls. If your ancestors lived in these parishes this book has lots of information that will tell you what life was like for them.
* Rugby School Register (1675 - 1857)
GB1226 $27.80
This register for Rugby School is very detailed, containing the age of the boys, names of parents, dates they entered school and often what they got up to after they had left. It also tells you their dates of birth, baptism and death, some entries may contain more details than others.
Not only are the boys registered in the book but also the trustees and Headmasters of the school. It also contains a useful 29-page index
* Gore's Liverpool Directory 182
GB1229 $21.90
Another very early directory listing the merchants, trades people and principal inhabitants of the town in 1821. As the 1796 directory above, this has a great deal of information to put the meat on the bones of your family history research.
* Slaters 1846 Directory of Lancashire
GB1230 $27.80
This very large early directory contains an alphabetical list of all trades people, their names, trades and addresses. Also has a description of each town and village in the county.
* Pigots 1834 Directory of Cheshire
GB1231 $21.90
See below for description
* Pigot's 1834 Directory of Cumberland & Westmoreland
GB1232 $21.90
See below for description
* Pigots 1834 Directory of Lancashire
GB1234 $21.90
See below for description
* Pigot's 1834 Directory of Yorkshire
GB1236 $21.90
See below for description
These are early directories containing descriptions of the larger towns and villages in the county. They contains the names and trades of residents, listing everyone from Bricklayers to Bankers. Set out in alphabetical order and fully searchable this is an easy way to find ancestors and to discover more about their lives.
* Pigot's 1818, 1819 and 1820
GB1238 $27.80
This commercial directory for 1819-20 contains the names, trades and situations of the merchants, manufacturers and tradesmen in the the industrial midlands of England.
It also has a list of London, Country and Irish bankers, a table of coins from 28 countries with their relative value in British money in 1818 and an embellished map of England and Wales.
* The Old Engravers of England 48 illustrations.
GB1240 $16.10
Malcolm C Salaman traces the art of copper plate engraving through the most interesting period of its history, from its introduction in the middle of the sixteenth century to its climax at the end of the eighteenth.
* Circuit Journeys, By the late Lord Cockburn
GB1243 $16.10
Places well indexed and fully searchable.
Lord Cockburn, a Criminal Judge, as part of his work, rode around Scotland in "circuits", he began to note down cases of particular interest in diary form and this forms the basis of the CD. As well as details of the cases it gives you a good insight into the habits and thoughts of Judges in the early 1800s.
* The Annals of Yorkshire from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Published 1874 - Compiled by John Mayhall
GB1250 $18.70
THE MOST INTERESTING AND USEFUL YORKSHIRE RESOURCE THAT WE HAVE PUBLISHED TO DATE
A most fascinating every day history of the people of Yorkshire with accounts of the events relating to the "ordinary" people of the county.
These three large volumes are fully indexed, with names, events and places. In addition, the CD is fully searchable for any word or phrase within the text.
6 FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY AND OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
From: "Peter Sim" < petersim@igrin.co.nz >
Anyone who's not a subscriber to the SAG (Society of Australian Genealogists) excellent free electronic newsletter may be interested in the following item from the June edition.
Archive CD Books Australia : SAG's collections contain good copies of books that are now hard to find or in poor condition. Recently we have been happy to work with Archive CD Books Australia to provide facsimile copies of a number of our volumes on CD-ROM.
....
From: Alan Phillips Archive CD Books Australia
To add to Peter Sim's notice of The Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) and Archive CD Books Australia (ACDBA).
SAG was the first of a number of leading Australian genealogy societies to actively join with ACDBA as lenders of books to scan. Some are also resellers - at least CDs of the books they lend to the project.
We have recently done or currently have on hand books from
- Society of Australian Genealogists
- Genealogy Society of Victoria
- South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society
- Library of Australian History
- State Library of Tasmania
All other state societies in Australia have expressed interest in the ACDB project, as have two other state libraries, three of the oldest historical societies as well as other regional societies, libraries and private lenders.
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From: Muriel M. Davidson, muriel_davidson@sympatico.ca ,
Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee, Brampton, Ontario L6W 2R8
FREE THE CENSUS !
Residents of Canada, assisted by many living beyond the boundaries of Canada, are hoping for the release of the Canadian 1911 Census Records. These records contain names and information of many ancestors, plus names of those who served for Canada in World War One. The goal is to have the records transferred to Library and Archives Canada away from the control of the present Chief Statistician.
An ad-hoc committee, all volunteers, formed the Canada Census committee in March 1999. Since that date, several census bills have been presented, but to date, finalization of their work is not yet complete.
Canadians and people from all parts of the world are signing petitions http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/ - (in English and French.)complete with addresses.
Also, the questions we propose to the elected politicians are to be seen at
http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index6.htm -- House of Commons – and
http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Senscore1.htm -- Senate.
The two scoreboards show which politicians are in favour of release.
In addition to http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/ there is a great deal of information at a "coast-to-coast-to-coast" site
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~downhome/post1901census.htm It is our goal to be able to add 1911 to
http://automatedgenealogy.com / along with the 1901 (all of Canada) and 1906, released Jan. 24, 2003 of three provinces, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The committee invites many to sign petitions to assist us in reaching our goal on behalf of all researchers and family members.
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From: Lindsay Teesdale, Public Relations Unit,
BRITISH GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE
Applications for certificates from the General Register Office have reached record levels in recent months and we are processing over 30,000 certificates every week.
Currently many customers send their requests for certificates in the form of a letter. Transcribing all the information onto an application form is very time consuming and we would therefore prefer customers to complete their own application forms. This would not only be advantageous to this office but would be more beneficial to the customer as often important information, which is essential for a successful application, is omitted from their correspondence.
The General Register Office is committed to improving our service to customers and would therefore request your assistance in forwarding this email to all Family History Societies, to make their members aware of the benefits of completing an application form for their certificates. It will ensure that their request is processed more swiftly and because the details pertaining to the entry have been comprehensively completed on the form, the application is more likely to be successful.
Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated and if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
7 NEWS & GOSSIP:
BOOK PRODUCTION:
New book production has been slow this month.. Both of this month’s releases have taken a lot of time to scan and process but we think the results are worth it.
The Gazetteer and Directory is about 2000 pages and all of them are printed in close packed small print. This meant we had to take even greater care with the scanning so the OCR program would have a fighting chance at “reading” it. In fact we had to rescan some sections three times.
We have been working at obtaining permission to publish Grace McGibbon’s “The Reverend Richard Bradford” (fully titled Glimpses of the Life and work of the Reverend Richard Bradford as Scholar, School Principal, Chaplain Priest of the Church of England and S. P. G. Missionary) for some time. Unfortunately Grace has passed away and it took us a while to trace her children. We thank them for granting us a license to republish this book which is of such value not only to the “Bradfords” but to all those who have ancestors who lived along the Ottawa (or Grand) river and who are mentioned in the extensive extracts from his church’s records. See the web site for a full list of family names mentioned in the book.
FREE BMD:
In order to add to the service that we already provide to the genealogical community, Free BMD has made its scanned images of the GRO index (previously available only to transcribers) available to the general public. Prior to this move, viewing the indexes was only possible at libraries or on pay-per-view internet sites.
Whilst FreeBMD doesn't yet have a complete set of images, the nearly 700,000 images that we do have represent a good proportion of the indexes from 1837 to 1910, and we hope that people will find the facility useful. The initial interface is somewhat crude, but further enhancements to this new area of the site are planned, and we will announce them as they happen."
http://images.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl
COMMENTS FROM CUSTOMERS:
“I just found your website yesterday and I think it's an invaluable genealogy resource! It's GREAT!” -Beth
“I appreciate the opportunity of receiving a free introductory bonus of my choice of the two books described on your website.” - Joan
“I for one am glad Archive Books now has a Canadian branch . . . much more convenient.
<snip> Thanks again, and I shall definitely be placing more orders with you.” Jennifer
8 PREVIOUSLY RELEASED BOOKS:
Archives of this newsletter showing all the previous release announcements are available in the newsletter archive which can be reached through,
<http:/archivecdbooks.ca/NewsletterArchive.html >
Archive CD Books Canada Inc.
Attn: Malcolm Moody - President
P.O. Box 11,
Manotick, Ontario, K4M 1A2, Canada.
e-mail: malcolm@archivecdbooks.ca
Canadian web site: http://www.archivecdbooks.ca