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is 01February 2007
Well,
it took them the best part of a year, but the PRO and Quineti-Q finally
got the 1901 Census online 24/7 by October. I, like many others I suspect,
have been waiting for years for the release of the 1901 Census as I had
been stuck with one branch of my research. For well over 10 years I had
been trying to trace my husband’s maternal line without success. I had a
marriage certificate for his maternal grandparents dated 1899 with all the
usual information. However, I had been unable to locate a birth for his
grandfather or great-grandfather. The fact that I had no idea where the
family were from didn’t help. I had been unable to get information from
my mother-in-law as she had Alzheimer’s and passed away in the mid-80s.
My father-in-law could offer little help. So I was reliant on the
information in the marriage certificate. Towards the end of last year I
decided that I must make an attempt at trying to
find the couple in the 1901 Census and so, one Sunday, I took the plunge. Read
more in the newsletter!
Angela Blaydon
Heritage Lottery Fund
This article first appeared in Oral History in the autumn of last
year and was reproduced in the FACHRS Newsletter with permission.
“Rob
Perks reports that: Heritage
Lottery Fund’s new Strategic Plan has just been released and new
"simplified" application packs are now available. the new plan
covers the period 2002-7 and very usefully highlights oral history as a
key objective. There are also some significant changes in the funding
schemes that should benefit oral history applicants:
Read
more in the newsletter!
The
E 179 Project – Taxation Online Clive Leivers
This
has been a joint venture between staff of the Public Record Office and
Cambridge University to review and catalogue electronically the holdings
of lay taxation records in England from the thirteenth to the seventeenth
century. The database of over 24,000 of these documents in the E179 series
is now available on the Internet and this can be accessed by going to the
PRO home page, choosing the catalogues
option,
and then entering E179; or by going straight to www.records.pro.gov.uk/e179
Read
more detail in the newsletter!
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PROJECT
NEWS
With
the Swing Project coming to a conclusion, the Society
is launching a new project with a focus on Pauper Emigration. There is a
further project being formulated on Urbanisation,
and it is hoped this will be ready to launch in
May.
Two
other subjects are under consideration for possible future projects, these
being Forenames and Transport.
If
members have any ideas for subjects you think might be suitable for
research, please submit suggestions via the Members
Community
.
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A
Millenium History - Courtesy of the digital age by
Patricia Harris
For
me, the Open University’s Millennium challenge would turn out to be not
so much in the researching and writing as in the printing and publication
of the book. The Title ‘Against the Odds’ has many connotations for
me, both in the subject matter within the book and the on-going struggle
to find primary resources
and financial security for such a venture.
The
research for the book, ‘Against the Odds: the story of the Hollies’
School’, grew out of an Oral History project I had done that focussed on
the education of three generations of women, grandmothers, mothers and
daughters. The literature available for that project concentrated on the
development of girls’ grammar schools in the 1870s. I was aware that The
Hollies had a much earlier origin and was curious to find the reason. This
led me, in 1999, to the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ),
to France and the French Revolution. The origins of the French teaching
Order of Nuns were marked by conflict both social and ecclesiastical, as
was the history of the school they founded in Manchester in 1852.
A
second Open University project, Women, Evangelicals and Community, fuelled
an interest in the development of the place of women in society and their
perceived role in the moral health of the nation. A past pupil of the
Hollies wrote about her experiences of entering the school buildings on
the day it was due for demolition.
She said "We all, no doubt, have a plethora of special memories of
our youth at The Hollies. What I believe may be common to them all is the
school’s special ethos which made it a unique place in which to lay the
foundations to grow towards adulthood." What was the source of that
ethos? Finding the answer to that question was the goal I set myself when I
undertook the task of researching the history of the school. Read more
in the newsletter!
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