SESSION 5

1. Review of last week
2. Any news?
3. DIARY DATE - Remember - meeting at CEREDIGION ARCHIVES - MONDAY NOVEMBER 10th - 10.30am
   Please try to be punctual !
4. Family Bible – an example found in a Car Boot Sale
5. Other Family History items found thrown on a local road
6. Review of Census Forms - 1841 - 1901 and a look at 1911
7. Course forms for Jenny Thomas
8. Certificates
9. Questions
10. Personal Research
    
    OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION - read at your leisure !
    
    LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICTS

• ecclesiastical parish
  http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/types/type_page.jsp?unit_type=ECC_PAR
  http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/types/status_page.jsp?unit_status=EP
• electoral division
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wards_of_the_United_Kingdom
• manor    see these Google definitions !
  http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+manor&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB
• poor law union - WORTH READING THE WHOLE PAGE
  http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/unions.htm
• census district
  http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/unions.htm
  see under CENSUS
  
  
  GOOD ARCHIVES SITES
• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/house_01.shtml
  
  TIME LINE for specific years... if you type in (say) 1801 you are presented with interesting events of that era
  in 1801 William Pitt the Younger resigned, the Battle of Copenhagen took place, and the first British Census was held. In 1940 during the first wave of the Blitz which started on August 23rd and finished in December more than 23,000 people died.
  http://www.history.uk.com/timeline/index.php
  
• http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/
• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
• http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
• http://www.francisfrith.com/   http://www.francisfrith.com/search/wales/
  and many many more links here
• http://www.hiddenhousehistory.co.uk/links/
  
• RESTORE old Family Photographs - some hints here
  Look at "How to restore old genealogy photographs at http://www.scantips.com/restore.html
  
  WALES
  Historic landscapes in Wales
  http://www.cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/histland/histland.htm
  http://www.britannia.com/wales/whist.html
  South Wales coalfield collection
  http://www.swan.ac.uk/swcc/
  http://www.data-wales.co.uk/
  The historic churches survey database [part of an all Wales survey of medieval parish churches]
  http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/idxall.htm
  ALL THE WALES URLS ABOVE were found via
  http://www.intute.ac.uk/
  Also works searching for (say) Essex, which found equally interesting sites. Choose your own area.
  
  
  

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