Mother's Day in the United Kingdom and Ireland

England was the first country in the world to dedicate a day for mothers as early as 1600s. They called this day for mothers as 'Mothering Sunday'. Many of the poor lived and worked as servants for the wealthy, far away from their homes and families. On Mothering Sunday, servants were given the day off to return home and spend the day with their mothers. The time decided for the annual visit to home was middle Sunday of the fasting period of Lent (which lasts from Ash Wednesday to Easter).

The tradition of Mothering Sunday stopped with the advent of Industrial Revolution in England when the working conditions and life pattern changed. Over the period of time one Sunday - 4th Sunday in Lent was reserved in the honor of mothers.

The original meaning of Mothering Sunday has been lost and has taken the form and name of Mothers Day in US.

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Scotland Genealogy

The Scotland section of Looking 4 Kin is now updated

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ScotlandsPeople

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Customers can now access, online, records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1906, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1931, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1956. Almost 100,000 new index and corresponding image entries have been added to the site, amounting to six gigabytes of data. This is now available at http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

A "must use" site for anyone with ancestors from Scotland.

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Glasgow, Scotland - Old Pictures at Virtual Mitchell

Information from the site ......

Researching your family history? Fancy a trip down memory lane? This site will bring Glasgow's past to life for you.

Virtual Mitchell

The photographs feature Glasgow's buildings and streets as well as people going about their daily lives. They will be of great interest to local historians, people researching their family history and anyone who would like a glimpse of Glasgow in days gone by. Most of the photographs are from Archives and Special Collections housed in the Mitchell Library. There are also images from Glasgow Museums and some have been kindly lent by private owners.

You can search by area, street, subject or browse through all the photographs

The Scotsman Newspaper - Digital Archive

The Scotsman is primarily a pay site but various parts can be accessed by free registration

View the first ever edition of The Scotsman for free

You can view articles illustrating key dates from the archive via the Scotsman Timeline

In recognition of the links between Scotland and North America and in celebration of Tartan Week 2007, The Scotsman has identified and made available a variety of articles from the archive

You can also search the Archive for free by using the search function at the top of the homepage - but this shows you the article headlines only

In its free form, The Scotsman is probably more of a 'history' rather than a 'family history' site but - if like me - you want to know what the world was like when your ancestors were alive, then you will find the site interesting

About Knapdale (Argyllshire, Scotland)

Every so often you come across a really well presented site which has been prepared to tell the story of an area and provide loads of genealogical information.

I came across such a site at Knapdale People. It is packed full of information about the history of the area and the characters who lived there. It also has a large section devoted to Cemetery Transcriptions.

If you have ancestors in this part of Argyllshire the site will be very helpful.

The Scottish Emigration Database

The Scottish Emigration Database

The Scottish Emigration Database currently contains the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960.

It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and was based at the University of Aberdeen's AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies.

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The National Archives - Documents on Line

Normally free resource sites are reviewed here, but there is such a wealth of information for the UK researcher on the Documents on Line section of the National Archives site (especially comparatively recent stuff), it would be a shame not to bring it to everyones attention - and the cost is very reasonable.

DocumentsOnline allows you access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. Searching the index is free, and costs £3.50 to download an image.

Get an overview of Documents on Line - then move further into the site to see what content is available.

Alternatively, you can just wade in, browse the categories and search.

Free Access ScotlandsPeople

The Scottish Sunday Mail is giving away to their readers 20 free credits for the ScotlandsPeople site. These are worth £4 or roughly $9.00 CDN.

Just click on the link and follow the instructions. The Scottish Sunday Mail

On the voucher page simply type in sundaymail.

Your 20 FREE credits voucher must be redeemed before 1 pm on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Your 20 FREE credits will then be valid for 90 days after you redeem the voucher.

Among the records:

Statutory Registers
» Births 1855-1906
» Marriages 1855-1931
» Deaths 1855-1956

Old Parish Registers
» Births & Baptisms 1553-1854
» Banns & Marriages 1553-1854

Census Records
» 1841
» 1851
» 1861
» 1871
» 1881
» 1891
» 1901

Other Records
» Wills & Testaments Search 1513-1901 (Free)

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