Archive for the ‘Nation-UK’ Category.
Ancestry announced last week the Scotland Census Collection, 1841-1901. The collection contains over 24 million names. You can see the press release at prnewswire.com, which in addition to providing information on the new collection, also gives us the skinny on five folks of Scottish descent, including Donald Trump, Alexander Graham Bell, and Andrew Carnegie (natch.)
The National Archives of Britain has released a new set of passenger manifests which cover British ports from 1890 to 1899 (with more lists to be added later — eventually the site will cover up to 1960.) You can search through the lists (and sign up for e-mail updates as more materials are added) at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/ .
Search by first and last name, gender, origin or destination port. I did a search for Thomas Murphy. I got 55 results initially, though if I’d done a search for all name variants I would have gotten plenty more results. Search results are shown in a table that includes year of departure as well as destination and departure port.
That information is free. However if you want to view a transcript of the information or an image of the manifest itself, you’ll have to pay. Views/transcripts are purchased with “units”; 5 units to view a transcript and 30 units to view high-resolution color images of the manifests. This sounds like quite a bit until you see that you can buy 50 units for £5. If you purchase units here they’re also work on FindMyPast.com which also has similar genealogy/historical records.
More news and updates about the site at http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/getBlogContent.action .
The National Library of Scotland has launched an online collection of propaganda that was used during World War II. The collection is divided into “white propaganda” (they define as “mostly practical information intended for the Home Front”) and “black propaganda,” which targeted enemy morale.
From http://www.nls.uk/propaganda/index.html, you can read an overview of the collection and select white or black propaganda. Each link selected will give you a more general overview of the topic as well as a thumbnails to propaganda images — not posters, but rather booklets and postcards in the case of white propaganda and leaflets in the case of black propaganda. Clicking on the images brings larger images and detail pages about the item. The content of the item itself is not available online.
The collection is rather small but I found it interesting as most online collections of this type tend to focus on posters.
