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You May Only Have Half of Your British Ancestor’s Immigration Story
If you have found the passenger list for your British ancestor in the Ellis Island database, you’ve only gotten your hands on part of the story. There are outgoing passenger lists from the UK to the US available and www.Findmypast.com has added them to their offerings.
Findmypast has announced the expansion of its U.S. records to include World War I Draft cards and outgoing passenger lists from the UK to United States, among others.
Findmypast.com has also made news recently with the announcement of a new partnership with Federation of Genealogical Societies to preserve and digitize local U.S. records from genealogical societies around the country including newspapers and obituaries, bible records, cemetery records and birth, marriage and death records.
New records that have been added or will be added during 2012 include:
· World War I Draft Cards
· Outbound UK Passenger Lists (BT27)
· Genealogical society materials
· 1940 Census records
The new records join nearly 1,000 existing unique and international record collections including:
· England Royal Household Records
· Most complete England, Wales and Scotland census collection available online
· British Army service records
· Unique Irish prison and court records
· Irish military and rebellion records
· Millions more records and specialist records that cannot be found anywhere else and many sets dating back to 1200 AD
25 Ancestry Genealogy Databases Searchable for Free for a Limited Time
As you know, the 1940 Census is available for free on Ancestry.com through 2013. The good news is that now through September 3, 
2012, Ancestry is opening up 25 more databases to allow everyone access to Ancestry’s 713 million U.S. Federal can i buy medication from canada Census Records. Below you’ll see a list of the 25 databases that are now searchable for free at Ancestry.com/census.
- 1790-1940 United States Federal Census collections
- 1850 U.S. Federal Census – Slave Schedules
- 1860 U.S. Federal Census – Slave Schedules
- 1890 Veterans Schedules
- Non-Population Schedules 1850-1880
- U.S. Enumeration District Maps and Descriptions, 1940
- U.S. Federal Census – 1880 Schedules of Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes
- U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885
- U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918
- U.S., Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940
Part of our celebration includes what we are calling The Ancestry.com Time Machine. This interactive experience allows you to see what a typical day would be like back in 1940. You can customize the experience by inputting a few of your interests, and it will create a video of what you may have experienced back in 1940. You can then share that video with your friends and family. Show your love of family history by sharing a video you created at Ancestry.com/TimeMachine.
Texting fave OMG! has Roots Back to World War I
If you have teens in your family then chances are you have heard the phrase OMG which stands for oh my God. But have you ever
wondered who started it? You may have thought it was Alicia Silverstone in the 1995 movie Clueless, but actually you have to dig much further back in history to find its origins. All the way back to 1917 in fact.
George Mason’s University’s History News Network website says that the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary discovered a use of “OMG” from 1917. It comes in a letter by British Admiral John”Jacky” Fisher, who wrote and I quote:
“I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)—Shower it on the Admiralty!”
According to the site “Fisher was famous for being the driving force behind the creation of the HMS Dreadnought, an advanced capital ship which, when it was launched in 1906, seemed revolutionary. This, the world navies agreed, made all other capital ships obsolete, but, distressingly to the British, destroyed their long-standing lead in naval power, if temporarily. The result was an enormously expensive Anglo-German naval race, which did much to bring on World War I.”
The letter was published in his book Memories, published in 1919 (below in Google Books. Enter OMG into the search box to see it for yourself)
