After exploring English Parish records over on FindMyPast I discovered that there were some
really great english records over on Ancestry that I didn't even knew existed. Today I'm going to
share with you some cool finds that I found over on ancestry. And if you have found any of your
ancestors in these collections leave a link to them in the comments section. So we can all find
your ancestors in these cool collections. Howdy I'm Devon Noel Lee with Family History Fanatics.
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those cool UK collections on Ancestry. Alright. Alright. The people keep asking me
what do you mean by the UK. Well I mean England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. One cool collection
that I didn't know the ancestry had is something that answers the question who left the islands.
So there is a collection called the UK and Ireland outward passenger list 1890 to 1960. And I'm gonna
have a link to all of these cool collections in the description. Remember you have to have
a subscription to ancestry to access most of these collections. But I really like this because this
tells you who was leaving England. And here is an example. There's Lizzie McCaffrey. She's nine
and she departed on the 15th of May 1891 from Liverpool. And she went to Montreal, Canada. And
her ships named Oregon. And I really like their on the search you can actually click search for the
Organ in the passenger ships and images database. So then you can go learn more about this ship.
And there's just great stuff. And then you can click view to see who else was traveling with
her. And any other person information that was included in this document. So this is really
nice to see if your ancestors left. So how many of you have found your ancestors in this collection?
Now the next one is who cast a vote? now in America, we do have voter registration list
and so it was really nice to see that England had electoral registers as well. And this date is from
1832 to 1896 and was provided by the Bedfordshire archives. So way to go partnership with Ancestry.
If you click through on here you can see that Peter Creek Bunting was registered to vote from
1841 to 1842. And we can go ahead and click into the document. And when you can't find the name I
always open up this little in index. So you see the image numbers here you click on the people
icon next to it and then you get a rough idea of where he could be. Perish a Bedfordshire.
And right there staring me in the face is this entry for Peter Creek Bunting and then I have
Yelder Beds. And there's another Bunting. Reverend John. And he's in Yeldon Beds. And
there's some numbers beside him. And if we go up we see that it says the parish of Ricely. And
that's the place of abode. Now we have a lot more great details if this was your ancestor.
So the next one comes from wales. And wells has a collection about people that needed assistance.
And they were called the Pauper papers. And this one comes from Swansea. And you can just type in
the name of the person you're looking for. You can also browse the collection over there on the
right. So here we have Catherine David she's 80. And she's residing at Woodfield street.
Her weekly relief is listed there and her reason for requiring the relief old age and in facility
for a grand total that amount there, 4 pounds, 11 shillings. So in these Pauper papers have you
found any of your ancestors? and what are some of the interesting reasons that they were requiring
some relief? this one you can see debility, idiotic old age, medical order lame, investility,
debility asthmatic. Hey they got some assistance because they were agismatic, bedridden,
blind, dramatic support of wife. And there are some other great things there. I really like
this record collection. I don't know that I found many of these for some of the locations that I've
been researching in the U.S. So yay wealth. All right city directories are available in the United
Kingdom. And here is an example. This one comes from manchester. And it looks very much like you
would expect a city directory to look like, you've got the last names the first names the location.
City directories are great. As with all city directories, you never know how much information
they're going to give you. And the best ones always give you more than you were expecting.
Now here is a directory from Ireland and you can see Nicholas Caffrey with James and John
Wholesale, silk merchants and trimming warehouse three ushers quay. And then there's an N.R.
Caffrey Rutland mills, dolphins, barn. Yay lots of city directories around the world.
This next collection reminds me a little bit of Oprah Winfrey. You get a medal. You get a medal.
You get a medal. So in this collection make sure you read the description. Actually with
every collection that you find on Ancestry you should read this description. This one was most
particularly beneficial for someone who's isn't familiar with this record collection but it tells
you the different types of metals that people can earn and lead you to a lot of background
information. So I highly recommend you read the description. This collection is for World War one
and the metal recipients and what metals they receive. So it looks a lot like. This is for
another Caffrey. And he is receiving the you can see there on the right there's a victory medal.
There is a British medal. And then there's a start and there's a lot of other information. There
it says the theater of war and the qualifying date in order to get those metals and
that's what those metals look like. So if you have these metals in your archive in your treasure
chest at home or in the homes of your relatives now you know that there might have your
ancestor listed in that UK record collection on Ancestry. And you can go look and see the details
behind them. Yay. So this next collection talks about the kiddos over in Scotland.
So the fight the thief Scotland school administ admissions and discharge 1867-1916.
And this is what some of the entries look like. From what I saw in this collection it's
year by year. You can see what the children are doing. The date of administration. The
name of the child the name of the parent the address. And then you can also see some other
details about their participation in the school. You can see when they start and when they leave
and sometimes why. So really neat school records. I wish every place had such things. All right.
How many of you have your fur babies? And how many of you wish you had Ireland
to document your fur babies? Because in Ireland they have dog license registrations. And if you
have an ancestor who had dogs who lived in Ireland you're going to want to check this
out. And if you do find your ancestors listed in this collection in the comments I want you
to give us the details about your ancestors. So here there is an Amy J Chandler. She has a serger.
It looks like Mormon but I know it's not Mormon. It tells us where the town she's from and that she
has a black dog who is a greyhound. And you can see what type of animals these people are favoring
greyhounds, fox terriers, sheeps cauli. I'm guessing that's well a steady.
I gotta learn my dog for each and read some of these really small handwritings on the screen but
really fun stuff so what ancestors did you find? Where did they live?
And what animals did they have? Let me know. I can't wait to find out what you find. I looked up
what it means. How to stay in slang, going to jail. Often the slammer. Those types of things.
And I was told this is the correct slang for going to prison in England. If it's not
let me know in the comments. If there's other slang for Ireland and Wales and Scotland for
you know a euphemism. Saying that person went to prison let me know. But in the nick, records are
available on ancestry not for all locations but in West Yorkshire. If you have some ancestors
you might have been in the clink, or in the nick, then you can check out this record. Now some of
the reasons are kind of funny. I picked this one because the person stole some beef. And then there
was another person who stole trousers. So George White needed some trousers and went ahead and
stole them. So that was kind of funny speaking of the criminals in our mists during our tree Ireland
had some similar records. So this one is from Ireland called the petty session court registers.
And it goes from 1818 to 1919. I believe I have that date right. And if you zoom in a little bit
you can see that this person got in trouble because they carried off a quantity of stones.
Now I can relate. In New Mexico where we have a lot of people with stone yards. And a lot
of people who have really not-so-great yards. And so I can understand people stealing stones
in order to make their yards look better. I don't think that's what they were doing. That
was kind of funny. If they're, if I shouldn't be laughing. If there's like a serious thing
about stones in Ireland let me know. But if you find your ancestors in the petty session court
registered in Ireland let me know what they did. It would be kind of fun to share what we discover
about our ancestors. In the United States, we were taught about the Salem Witch Trials.
And apparently Scotland had their own with witches. And they have a collection identifying
the witches. Now this is from 1658. So the records look a lot like this. I didn't necessarily see
identifying details about the witches. So that I could actually say oh I know who this is. But it
did see some names and some of the charges brought against them. So do you have any witches on your
Scottish family tree? So how are we gonna find these great collections? The cool collections in
our own location? Around the world? We're gonna do what Krista Cowan always says. Go to the card
catalog. And if you want to learn more about the card catalog be sure to check out this video right
up there. And if you're ready for something new check out our latest video that's right there.