Launched in 2001, our database of genealogical events provides a quick and easy way to locate family reunions for your surname(s), school and military reunions, local society seminars, workshops and meetings, as well as, regional fairs and national conferences. To access the calendar, click below… for more click here
British Association for Adoption and Fostering
The voyage through the twists and turns of ancestral roots has brought moments of joy and pain for a local group of women tracing their African-American story from the present into a distant and sometimes unimaginable past.
Some have trekked for nearly a decade through centuries of family history, in a pursuit becoming more and more popular among black Americans. for more click here
Ancestry.co.uk in partnership with The National Archives has launched online the first phase of the War Office (WO) service and pension records collections for approximately 2.5 million British soldiers who served from 1914 through to 1920.
Known as the WO 363 British Army Service Records and WO 364 British Army Pension Records, the collections will be released in a number of phases, starting with the early pension records. The online resource will provide vital details for family history researchers, military enthusiasts and family members wishing to learn more about the military service and experience of their ancestors. for more click here
A Yorkshire aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago could help the global fight against bird flu, experts say.
A court has authorised the exhumation of the body of Sir Mark Sykes, the owner of the historic Sledmere House near Driffield. for more click here
Here at GROS we hold all the records for all Scotland and from 1855 on it was a statutory requirement to register events, so if your ancestors were born , married or died in Scotland they will be here somewhere. The Scotlands People site also has these records but only up to the cut off dates of 100, 75 and 50 years ago for bmd respectively. Although obviously there must be some people who did slip through the net ( particularly in earlier years and in large expanding cities), the most common reason for not finding someone would be a name variation which does not show up either with the soundex or wildcard. The fact that someone or their family had come originally from Ireland would have no bearing at all on the requirement to register an event or be counted in a census. What could happen tho’ is that different accents could lead to different interpretations of names etc by the Registrar or Enumerator hence leading to a version of a name which you might not think to search!
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
An Indentured Servant (or in the U.S. bonded labourer) is a labourer under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time, usually seven to eight years, to pay off a passage to a new country or home. Typically the employers provided little if any monetary pay, but was responsible for accommodation, food, other essentials, and training. Upon completion of the term of the contract the labourer sometimes received a lump sum payment such as a parcel of land and was free to farm or take up trade of his own.
The term comes from the medieval English “indenture of retainer” — a contract written in duplicate on the same sheet, with the copies separated by cutting along a jagged (toothed, hence the term “indenture”) line so that the teeth of the two parts could later be refitted to confirm authenticity. for more click here
Colonial Virginia was always intended to be a piece of England translated to the Chesapeake Bay. King James I expected his three kingdoms—Scotland and Ireland being the other two—to develop their own American colonies. By 1640, however, the surviving overseas plantations were all English, and neither Scots nor Irish were especially welcome. Nevertheless, many a Scot still made his way to Virginia, though not always under circumstances that commended the journey. for more click here
This database of indenture contracts includes over 15,000 indentured servants contracts from the London, Middlesex, and Bristol Registers. The contracts indicate not only the servant’s name and length of indenture, but also the name of the servant’s parents and owner, their home province and city, occupation, destination, and ship of embarkation. These records provide a detailed composition of indentured servants in the 17th century Atlantic World. for more click here
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