Showing posts with label family heirlooms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family heirlooms. Show all posts

Friday, July 27, 2018

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 27TH JULY, 2018



FRIDAY FOSSICKING





                                                                  





J. Miller MARSHALL (22 November 1858 - 12-Jun-1935)                           
Dead in Minehead, England.  PUBLIC DOMAIN.



* IRISH CENTRAL

 Interesting facts about the lovely County Clare 

 Stunning photos of the Kingdom that is Kerry

 Putting Ireland's diaspora at the center of our global engagement 

 Hotel construction in Ireland reveals extraordinary ancient castle ruins  

 Galway family's extraordinary tribute to the brother they lost in the Vietnam War  

 Boston woman shocked when bank accidentally deposited $1 MILLION into her account 

 View from Ireland 49 years ago when America landed on the moon 

 Travel through the mysteries of the ancient Boyne Valley 

 Long journey home: 170 years later an American family reconnects with their Irish island roots 

 One wild Irish love story with the world’s most famous conjoined twins 

 Boy George 'sad and proud' to discover his ancestor is famed executed IRA man 

 Spike in hospital visits after dangerous Lion's Mane Jellyfish infest Irish waters 

 Parents of Irish American SEAL hero Michael Murphy forgive teen who destroyed his Long Island memorial  

 Interesting facts about Cork Harbor 

 Remembering the composer of “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” 

 Inside the stunning $115K exhibition celebrating Maureen O’Hara’s life and legacy 

Longest eclipse in 100 years “Blood Moon” will be visible from Ireland this week 

Owen Mac, Ireland’s youngest country music star, has a fantastic new album 

Best ways to spend a summer’s weekend in Dublin 

“Miracle markings” in Co Down aerial photos prompt calls to halt nearby construction 

WATCH: It doesn't get more Irish than this trad session in a Supermac's 

Where the Black Irish really came from and no, it wasn’t the Spanish Armada 

Ireland’s B&Bs - a fantastic resources for adventurous travelers 

The beauty of the Mayo along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way 

Ireland's B&Bs - a fantastic resources for adventurous travelers 

LISTEN: Irish pilot and New York air traffic controller caught in epic argument 

Newlywed groom on his honeymoon confirmed as first Irish casualty in Greek fires 




FOOD&WINE: Ireland's top ten foodie destinations 

FOOD&WINE: Foods you thought were vegetarian that aren't 



 * GENERAL INTEREST

Genealogy Radio Show - Series 3: Episode 5:– Methodolog...

 'Blaze: Working Women, Public Leaders'      Dictionary of Sydney 
"Among the many inspiring women featured in the exhibition is Margaret Harper,
a paediatrician and infant health pioneer in Sydney. There’s also Rosette
Edmunds, our first female professional town planner. Edmunds worked as an
architect from [...]"

 56 Kombi ute 'rustoration' ignites boy's passions ABC News
A nine-year-old boy who restored a 1956 Kombi found abandoned in a paddock is now looking for his next restoration project, and is thrilled a small town helped find the Kombi's original owne

 Underwater graveyard plan for Gold Coast the 'ultimate green burial'  Brisbane Times

FREE FAMILY HISTORY MAGAZINES The Local Historian | British Association For Local History
Free to download, copies older than three years can be downloaded as .pdfs..to read at your leisure. The articles are often still relevant, and many have great old images. They go back as far as 1952, you never know what you’ll come across. This publication began as the Amateur Historian, it is now the Local Historian. 

Britain’s Playing Card Tax  Lonetester

 Should You Send Photos, VHS Tapes, and Home Movies Away for Digitizing . . . Or "Do It Yourself" at Home?  Thomas MacEntee

#OTD in 1933 – The anti-Fianna Fáil Army Comrades Association, which developed into a fascist-inspired group nicknamed the “Blueshirts,” is outlawed.      Stair na hÉireann

I Love Bello Shire  newsletter

 Titanic Captain Edward John Smith Lived Here     Historian Ruby

 Honoring Laura | The Legal Genealogist.. * a special post

 Dayton Celtic Fest adds a lot more Irish flavor   Dayton Daily News

 GeniAus - On Stage In Birmingham   Geniaus

 Legacy News: Using Date Standardization in Genealogy Research

 Prosecutor in girl's 1988 killing hails genealogy databases

 Why does the Mormon Church want state records? And what do they do with them? - ABC News        

wbir.com | Salvaging history: Some abandoned cemeteries can be saved

 With music, movies and food trucks, Twin Cities cemeteries mix sacred and secular - StarTribune.com

 Thousands of Aboriginal people have been buried in unmarked graves in the Northern Territory 

 Spotsylvania Girl Scout builds fence for K-9 cemetery

 Dictionary of Sydney  murder of Constable Joseph Luker

 Wordless Wednesday: Road Trip   Jamie Gates
Did you know how?

 Shortcuts for hashtags  Library Currants          

Create a Family Tree in Microsoft Word for Beginners  One Family

 Adopting an Orphan Photo  Maureen Taylor
Find My Past

Long Lost Family | Trace Living Relatives | Findmypast

Lancashire Baptisms        Lancashire Banns & Marriages        Lancashire Burials

Illinois, Tazewell County, Obituary Card Index From The "Pekin Times" 1914-2007 Image Browse

Queensland, Inquests 1859-1897


 Anglo-Celtic Connections

Surnames Resource    Genealogy moves further online      Canadian BMDs in Irish civil registration

Discover: the Magazine of the National Library of Scotland

Sunday Sundries        The Canadian Merchant Navy War Dead Registry

YouTube: Software & Tools for Genetic Genealogy

MyHeritage Live, in Oslo       BIFHSGO Conference News

Atlas Obscura

Tree-Stump Gravestones Live On         Jupiter's Odd New Moon     Poker Creek, Population: Two

A Curious Cylinder in Iran      Louvre's Sculpture Casting Atelier       France's No Man's Land

A Language Used Just for Nut Harvesting     The Surprising Taste Buds of Tree Shrews  

The Little Ferry That Could       Australia's Edible Sport      The Best Notes Found in Used Books

Don't Go Chasing Chicago's Last Waterfall       Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

This Tree Can Fit 20 People Inside          Mexico's Museum of Masks  

Landmarks Before They Were Finished       Overlapping Indigenous Geographies, Mapped

 Qatar's Mock Arabian Village   New Jersey's Shaky Bridge    L.A.’s Famed Magic Castle Has a Twin

 Romania's Rooftops Stare Down Corruption        Cardiff Castle's Hidden Roman Walls

 The Old Madrasa of Athens          These Medieval Stone Huts Were Built to Last  

The Tea Party That Sparked a Movement    A Colorful Feast in Thailand Honors Monkeys



 Family Search Blog

 The Westward Expansion and American Pioneers—How It Affects Your Family History

 Who Were the Pioneers?

 Three Things the Oregon Trail Game Didn’t Teach You about the Pioneers

Pioneer History and Discovering Your Pioneer Heritage


The National Archives

 > Railways research guide          > Railway employment records 1833-1956, available on Ancestry*

 Latest blogs: 100neHundred: dancing to remember the fight for the vote

 100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth, 18 July 1918          The Home Guard

 Latest Podcasts: The Annual Digital Lecture: Semantic Capital: what it is and how to protect it

Big Ideas Series: Archives and Linked Data             West Africa and the First World War     


Informative

How to Make the Most of Your Family Heirlooms      The Family Curator
records-access-alerts ... of interest to family historians

   Data Transfer Project
The data transfer project (DTP) was formed in 2017 crating an open-space, service- to service data portability platform so that all individuals  across the web could move their data easily between online service provider whenever they wanted.  Typically tech companies compete against each other but now the four largest tech companies are joining forces to allow users to download and transfer data more easily.  The four large tech companies are: Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. In theory, this means a person could transfer their Instagram photos to Flickr, or Google Photos, without having to mass-download and upload their library.

The DTP is still in development and not available to the wider public.   The announcement from the four tech companies follows the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union which requires that all companies offer some kind of data download tool for users.  The DTP is meant for everyone not just the EU residents.

To read more about the Data Transfer Project see: https://datatransferproject.dev/

Reclaim the Records (RtR) wins the New Jersey Death Index 1904-2017*. By using the New Jersey's Open Public Records Act (OPRA) they forced  the New Jersey Department of Health to make a copy of their state death index available to RtR and to the public! Only one year ago they declined a genealogist who requested the same database. This time RtR drafted an OPRA request over the name of a known NJ Attorney and they didn't even have to sue or go to court this time.

The records they were able to get are indexes—not actual death records—of the New Jersey death index for :
About half of 1920-1924, 
All of 1925-1929, 1949-2017. 
Files prior to 2001 are in pdf format each a scanned image of typeset pages and dot-matrix printouts. The files for 2001-2017 are in two spreadsheets (.csv) files exported from the state's own databases and searchable immediately.
The searchable database has over 1.2 million records for 2001-2017 and links to over 500,000 digital images from the not-yet transcribed 1901-2000 data.

The following years of the New Jersey Death index are still missing: 1904-1919 ,half of 1920-1924 and 1930-1948.

Go to: https://www.newjerseydeathindex.com/ to start your search and put in name-surname and given, and year of birth and year of death and age at death.  RtR is trying to retrieve some of the missing records with the help of staff at the New Jersey State archives in Trenton. They are being very helpful.  For years that are missing RtR will order microfilms from the archives and then scan and put the data online. This will not happen for a while. But the 1930-1948 records will still be missing any index. RtR is still trying to see if they force the New Jersey Department of Health to recreate the missing years from their index.

* INTERESTING BLOGS

 Umbrella Man Robbery on East Front Street  & Teacups         Jamie Gates

 Before Bernadette: The Story of Catherine Joy

 The generous Mr Leslie.   & NELLIE BISHOP - THE RELUCTANT PIONEER     Pauline Connolly

 The Magna Carta     historicalragbag

 Family Connections: #52Ancestors - Week 28 - Travel

 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks: Week 27: Independence | Walking The Genes

A family treasure  & Summer in an Irish Country Churchyard – Parched or Burned?  The Silver Voice

Signals at Sea  Shelley

 ‘A decidedly neat speech’ - GSQ Blog  Sue Bell

 Trove Tuesday – Family Weddings & What They Wore | Shauna Hicks History Enterprises

IS THE ART OF HANDWRITING LOST? - Cresting The Hill       Leanne

 book reviews...

 Theresa Smith

 Book Review: Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader

Bingo! Five Years From Now by Paige Toon

Book A Day: The Prophet by Michael Koryta

 Book A Day: Coming Home by Rosamund Pilcher

 Book A Day: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton

New Release Book Review: The Imperial Tea Party by Frances Welch

 New Release Book Review: A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer

The Irish Story

 Book Review: The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland

 Allen & Unwin ... non-fiction

 Teacher  Gabbie Stroud

 Siege  Deborah Snow

 The Barefoot Surgeon  Ali Gripper

 The Missing Man  Peter Rees

 Advice for Future Corpses (and those who love them)  Sallie Tisdale

Allen & Unwin 

 'Scrublands'  Chris Hammer   

"one of the most powerful, compelling and original crime novels to be written in Australia."


 Better Reading

 Believe Me by JP Delaney 

Why Mummy Swears by Gill Sims      

 The Coves by David Whish-Wilson

 His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda

 Podcast: Crime and Passion with Michael Robotham

 Podcast: Double Identity with Sofija Stefanovic
and from my blogs...
That Moment in Time

New Zealand's Only Running Funicular, Facebook rules post child death, FREE genealogy checklist/Abundant Genealogy, Abandoned airport never took off, mail order brides x England?, greater London Burial Index, West Africa & WW1, Old Man & The Sea, arsenic pigments poisoned Victorian Age, What is Epic?, hanging humane execution?, temple celebrates Femininity, genealogy illusion, Scotland Jacobite Histories 1715-1745, google app for scanning photos, Wurlitzer theatre organs & jukeboxes, lots aded to Irish Graves site, book reviews and much more… 
Feel free to share



Irish Graves

Wilberforce, regional NSW thanks to Noelene Harris


Rookwood, metro NSW, thanks to Noelene Harris
Biographies Second Page

 New additions to CEMETERY INDEXES...  These cover all graves, not just Irish.
Headlines of Old

Pearl Pirates, burial poles, Jessie Miller, Sr Anne Gardiner,Tiwi Art, Tiwi Islands, Bathurst & Melville Is.,  Nguiu Catholic church,  Darwin Corroboree, mining, anthropology, “Big Boss”, Dr. Basedow, NASA image, Captain Bremer’s Journal, Circumnavigating Australia's Colonial History - Trove Tuesday 24 July, 2018 Prt. 5, 



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Friday, December 22, 2017

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 22nd December 2017


FRIDAY FOSSICKING



                                                                  




J. Miller MARSHALL (22 November 1858 - 12-Jun-1935)                                                                               
Dead in Minehead, England.  PUBLIC DOMAIN.














* GENERAL INTEREST


How the Os and the Macs came back – John Grenham – Irish Roots





Get to know the new FindaGrave.com – Family History Matters at GSV







I love Bello Shire  lots of Christmas News



West Cork Graveyards – Skibbereen Heritage Centre

 Visual family history hangs on Christmas tree  iosconews.com

 Irish immigrant with proud past and rich family history celebrates his 92nd birthday | SILive.com

 Exploring my Irish roots in the mother land | Columnists | virginiamn.com

 Society of Australian Genealogists

 Renewable Tenure proposal for NSW Cemeteries - submissions close 22 December


Christmas celebrations: the old versus the new

The History of Christmas Traditions

Christmas Traditions Worldwide

Why not subscribe to see the whole newsletters? It is free..

 Queensland State Archives

 Moreton Bay convict settlement

 Waltzing Matilda and the Swagman Inquest


Exploring my Irish roots in the mother land     Mesabi Daily News

 Menin Gate lions return to take pride of place at the Memorial Australian War Memorial

 “From your dead soldier son”: The cruel side of the 1917 conscription campaign Australian War Memorial

Anglo-Celtic Connections

Hunting for lost cousins

CEF Service Files December Update

YouTube: Strangers in a Strange Land? Challenges of Adjustment in the Experiences of Scottish Emigrants and Immigrants in the Twentieth Century.

DNA testing companies and fabricated African ancestry

Ottawa Branch donations 

SCGS Free Webinars 2018 

Visiting the Archives of Ontario just got easier 

Genealogy Courses in Toronto 

Last minute: Judy G. Russell webinar 

Advance Notice: Find Your Ancestors in Church Records 

Revisit the 1939 Register








 records-access alerts  ... of interest to family historians



Nine European press agencies ( including: Agence France Press, Germany's Deutche Press, Britain's Press Association and agencies in  Spain, Italy, Sweden, Belgium , Netherlands and Austria) are calling social media companies such as , Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Twitter, to pay copyright fees for using news content.  This is happening while the European Union is debating a directive to make the Internet giants pay for the news articles they use or link to. The newspapers complain that the social media companies do not pay to gather the news, by having newsrooms, reporters and the like, but collect advertising revenues on their platforms. Newspapers are losing advertising revenues which is driving this fight. There is a concern by some EU Parliament members that the proposed directive may threaten free access to news for Internet users. However, the publishers say Internet users would not be touched, only those who "pocket" a disproportionate part of advertising revenue should share a significant part  of those who actually produce the information.
To read more see: 
https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/facebook-google-european-news-agencies-pay-for-content/

This is not a new fight between publishers and social media platforms. In 2015, the IAJGS Records Access alert reported on Spain legislation for the Spanish newspaper publishers association giving the right to publishers the right to seek payment form any site that linked to their content with a "meaningful" description of the work. But Google removed the Spanish newspapers from news.google.com and within hours of Google removing all Spanish newspapers from the Google news index the Spanish media sites ay their external traffic reduced by double digits.  Germany also tried a similar tax approach with Google. However, when the German publishers saw the dramatic decline in traffic  after Google removed all German newspapers from their google news site, the German publishers rescinded their request deciding that a lot of free traffic was worth more than no traffic. 

If the links are no longer available on search engines, genealogists would find it difficult to do genealogical searches.

Google established a digital news initiative to assist in Europe. Today, that initiative has projects in 26 countries and in the fourth round earlier this month , Google awarded more than €20m. To read more about the Digital News Initiative see: https://tinyurl.com/ychk6x97
Original url: https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/google-awards-20-4-million-euros-to-media-projects-in-europe-as-part-of-the-fourth-round-of-its-digital-news-initiative/s2/a714624/

As reported previously in the IAJGS Records Access Alert, some EU countries are opposed to other EU countries such as Ireland, Malta and Luxembourg which have more favorable tax systems. The finance ministers of ten countries want the Internet firms to pay taxes on their turnovers, rather than profits. This would increase the money paid to countries. Recently, a French Court said that Google was not required to pay over €1.1 billion in taxes made on AdWords as the company had "no permanent establishment in France"—as their European headquarters are in Ireland. 
The EU  Finance Ministers have discussed their desire to tax Internet firms more.

Due to the EU pressure, Facebook has announced it will no longer use Ireland as a means to slash its global tax bills. This week, Facebook announced, "the company will stop rerouting international advertising sales through its Irish-based subsidiary, with an aim to start making the necessary changes in 2018." This may pressure other multinational firms whose EU headquarters are in the tax favorable countries  to follow what Facebook is doing.
To read more see: https://euobserver.com/economic/140268

To access the previous postings about the taxation issues and newspaper publishers argument with the Internet search engines  see the IAJGS Records Access Alert archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts.  You must be registered to access the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts.  You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized. It is required to include your organization affiliation (genealogy organization, etc.).

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee





The IAJGS Records Access Alert has previously reported on the case before the Supreme Court, US v Microsoft. The case involves whether the US may require, with warrants, multi-nationals based in the US to provide data on persons whose data is based outside the U.S.  

Friend of the Court documents were filed  with the U.S. Supreme Court by the European Union, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.  The EU and  previous filing by Ireland said "that companies accessing email stored in the EU may run afoul of the EU’s new privacy regime, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), if they are compelled to turn over data stored in the EU under an Stored Communications Act (SCA)  warrant instead of through established international legal assistance treaties."  Rules under the GDPR limit law enforcement access to data stored in the bloc. GDPR Article 48 states that requests from foreign governments alone aren’t sufficient to justify transfers of personal data outside the EU, according to the EU brief. They asserted other channels be used to make law enforcement data transfer requests. 

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation becomes effective May 25, 2018.

The UK on the other had said a pro-Microsoft ruling could weaken existing law enforcement data sharing agreements with the US.

The EU was not supporting either the US Department of Justice nor Microsoft in its brief.  A ruling in favor for the US government may lead EU countries to adopt more stringent requirements that data be stored within their borders in an effort to limit US law enforcement access.

To read more about this see:
https://biglawbusiness.com/releasing-microsoft-emails-violates-privacy-countries-tell-scotus/
Within this article are links to the various friends of the courts briefs mentioned above.

To access the previous postings about the  Microsoft ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals Second District, Ireland as the home base for majority of  multinationals European headquarters , The EU's General Data Protection Regulation  see the IAJGS Records Access Alert archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts.  You must be registered to access the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts.  You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized. It is required to include your organization affiliation (genealogy organization, etc.).




Genealogists use social media including Facebook and WhatsApp. Many of us have ancestral roots in one or more of the 28 Members Countries that comprise the European Union. For these reasons we are posting this latest action regarding Facebook and WhatsApp.  

The IAJGS Records Access Alert has previously posted about Facebook's What's App being told by the German Data Privacy Regulator ordering Whats App, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Facebook, from sharing German citizens’ data with Facebook.  The order prohibits Facebook from collecting and storing data of German WhatsApp users and further orders all data already forwarded by WhatsApp to its parent Facebook to be deleted.  Earlier this year a German Court refused to scrap the German regulator's order for Facebook to immediately stop collection of user data from WhatsApp.

The Article 29 Working Group, the organization of the 28- EU countries data protection regulators, which is headed by the French data regulator, has also requested information about the data transfer  and asked the company to stop this transfer for targeted advertising purpose.

In May of this year, the European Commission fined Facebook €110 million over providing misleading information about its acquisition of WhatsApp. According to the European Commission, in their check as to whether mergers distort competition. Facebook told them that it was not able to link the accounts of Facebook users and WhatsApp users. However, the EU Commission says that is what happened last year and their investigation into antitrust cases concluded that Facebook misled the EU.  Last year Facebook agreed to suspend its planned used of data from WhatsApp of its users in the United Kingdom. 

Now the French Data Protection Regulator, National Data Protection Commission (CNIL),  issued a formal notice to WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with its parent, Facebook, and asked them to comply with the Data Protection Act within one month. They have asked for samples of the French users' data transferred to Facebook. Facebook replied that as it is located in the United States, it considers itself subject  only to US Legislation and could not supply the sample requested by CNIL. WhatsApp informed CNIL that data of its 10 million French users have never been targeted for advertising purposes.
To read more about this see the CNIL press release at:
https://www.cnil.fr/en/data-transfer-whatsapp-facebook-cnil-publicly-serves-formal-notice-lack-legal-basis   
(This notice  are also available in French if one clicks on this url the reader has the choice of English or French)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/whatsapp-given-1-month-ultimatum-to-stop-facebook-data-transfers

History
Facebook purchased WhatsApp, a mobile messaging service, several years ago. At that time both companies said they would not share data between themselves. On 25 August 2016 WhatsApp announced on its blog that it was coordinating more with Facebook and using end-to-end encryption that subscriber messages were encrypted by default assuring that the subscriber was the only person who could read the message, not WhatsApp, not Facebook or anyone else. Further they stated, they would begin using data from its messaging app to allow advertisers to better target those users on Facebook and Instagram, in addition to allowing businesses to send messages to WhatsApp users directly. 

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Amazon is being threatened with a possible fine of € 10 million, by the Economic Ministry for "abusing its suppliers with a one-sided contract clauses".  The French consider this an alleged abuse of power. The French state Amazon's "platform imposes an balanced relationship on its vendors" and may push them into bankruptcy".  The French also complain that Amazon sellers take responsibility for problems like damaged packages, delivery issues and unfulfilled deadline, and can be kicked off the site if they don't comply. The city of Paris recently complained that Amazon Prime Now could "destabilize" its economy by hurting restaurants and grocery stores.  In the meantime French President Macron recently helped open a new Amazon distribution center in the north of France. To read more see:  https://tinyurl.com/ybmboyp9
Original url:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-france/france-files-complaint-against-amazon-for-abuse-of-dominant-position-paper-idUSKBN1EC0QN
and
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/18/france-investigation-leads-to-official-complaint-of-amazons-massive-power/
 1. Why We Post What We Post on the IAJGS Records Access Alert
     (IAJGS Public Records Access Alert)
We recently received an email from one of the persons who receives the IAJGS Records Access Alert through his genealogical society forwarding of the postings.  His inquiry was why some "general news stories" were of interest to the genealogical society and why some postings are included on the IAJGS Records Access Alert.  I thought my response may be of interest to the subscribers of the Alert as we totally understand that not every posting will be of interest to everyone who receives the Alert.  It is very gratifying to learn that some genealogical societies representatives are forwarding the messages to their members. These representatives may "filter" the postings that they receive and forward selected postings , and that is to be expected as not every posting will be of interest to everyone.

1. Why report on items outside of the United States: The IAJGS Records Access Alert is a service provided by the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS). IAJGS is an umbrella group of 76 Jewish genealogical societies. Over one-third of our members are located outside of the United States. Therefore, it is an IAJGS privilege and responsibility to report on items of interest for all of our members.  The IAJGS Records Access Alert is open to anyone affiliated or member of any genealogical organization, subscriber to any genealogical blogs or newsletters

Unless the person is of Native American origin, we in the United States all have immigrant backgrounds and doing our genealogical research takes us back to the countries where our ancestors originated. Therefore, for genealogical research issues, it is important to know what is happening worldwide. If restrictions are imposed on access to records, or restrictions are imposed on multi-national firms, all of which genealogists rely on for their genealogical activities, are important to report so we all are cognizant of issues that may affect our personal genealogical research.  

When a regulation, law or court decision is posted on their countries' official site and the posting may also be found in a language other than English, we try to also include the information or link that the posting is available in another language. This is for the convenience of the IAJGS non-US based genealogical societies which may be located in a country where English is not their native spoken-language.

2. Global Impact The European Union's rules, regulations and court decisions affect  access, anti-trust, privacy  and taxation. It was the Court of Justice of the European Union 2014 decision on the "right to be forgotten" that has spread globally. Canada's Supreme Court ruled on global determination on "right to be forgotten".  A federal district court in the US has opined that Canada may not impose their rules on Google in the US due to our First Amendment rights. There is a similar case before the Court of Justice of the European Union  brought by France. Issues such as taxation of firms such as Apple, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Google, Microsoft etc. may in turn have tax ramifications in the United States.   We live in a global genealogical world and some rulings have worldwide implications.

3. Privacy  Increasingly privacy is of importance as it may affect our ability to access information important for our genealogical research, while recognizing the importance of personal information on the living to be somewhat protected. This may affect embargo dates on vital records. The IAJGS Records Access Alert tries to include those privacy issues which may affect our ability to access genealogical information.

The IAJGS Records Access Alert tries to cover a myriad of topics, all related to records access. It is not expected that every posting will be of interest to everyone. If the posting is not of interest to you—or your genealogical society—just use the delete key for that posting—hopefully the next postings will be of interest. However, it is also recognized that some "bad" issues of closing or affecting  records access, not in your geographic area, are important to be universally known so that you may watch  for similar restrictions being suggested in your area.  If you learn of any opening or closing of access to genealogical records please share the information with us.  

We welcome comments and questions. Please feel free to write us at recordsaccess@IAJGS.org or pramc@IAJGS.org

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee





* IRISH CENTRAL
































Darina Allen's Irish Christmas chocolate log recipe 



* FIND MY PAST

 New and Improved: Australia Electoral Rolls

Following in my Ancestor’s footsteps.

New additions to the 1939 Register

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Vital Records 1706-1895

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Expenses of the Poor 1817-1838

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Newspaper Abstracts 1776-1800

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Warnings Out 1722-1769

Jersey Wills 1564-2000

SEARCH THE 1939 REGISTER »

Use ’39 for local research




* INTERESTING BLOGS


Lots of great reading to keep you busy...

‘Glen Ashley’ – 1 Chisholm Street  Jenny Coates

 The Worst Accident in the history of Australian Gold Mining and The Nicholas Family - Outback Family History

 Genea-Musings: "I Understand You Do Genealogy Research"

 The origins of the modern Christmas | Traces Magazine

 James Wigley – 2017 Update – Kylie's Genes Blog

 GOLD! I COULD HAVE BEEN RICH. - Pauline Conolly

 Trove Tuesday – The Queenslander Cot Fund | Shauna Hicks History Enterprises

 Last Christmas Cards | A SILVER VOICE FROM IRELAND

 The Snow Came Liv

 Advent Calendar of Medieval Religious Institutions: December 21st: Clonmacnoise  historicalratbag (do check all the series beforehand)

Flowers on the stairs in Zia, Kos Island, Greece wanderlusttwins

 The Heirloom Geneameme Alona

Deck the Halls: 2017 Christmas geneameme cassmob



and from my blogs...
That Moment in Time


Ghost  of King William St, Ancient Celtic Christmas, Lawler's Suicides, MI 5 Files, FREE access Irish newspapers,  ancient manuscripts secrets, FREE ebooks, priceless QLD collection, Kent BMDs, English Cause Papers, geomythology, Preserving historic St. John’s Cemetery - Parramatta, Storify closing, recognise US veterans buried in Ireland, Launceston’s Paterson Barracks, Domesday loan to Lincoln Castle, sorting 1937 Christmas Post (and it’s not Aust post catching up),  History of Convicts Cockatoo Island, QLD State Archives holiday closures, and more than enough to keep you occupied over the holidays…





Headlines of Old

Declarations Re British Nationality - Naturalisation Lists     -- 1947  Trove Tuesday 19th December, 2017 Series 1, Commonwealth Govt. Gazette 1947, names and addresses, treasure TROVE for researchers, 



As They Were




MY CHRISTMAS WISH

More hours in the day
More hours in the week
More photos of graves
For the ancestors I seek..
A much longer lifetime
I need all I can get
There's so much to learn
And I'm not finished yet!

©Crissouli Dec 2017




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