A great resource to help you in your search for immigrant/emigrant related information.


The aim of the Guild is to provide the best and most up-to-date information available with special emphasis on passenger lists, ships, ship images and descriptions, emigrant and ethnic databases, and resources such as archives, libraries and museums both on-line and off-line. 

There are in depth descriptions of each site that they link to, and some, due to the extensive amount of information, are listed under more than one topic.

The Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild website provides links to sites to research emigration, immigration and naturalization, 100+ passenger list sites, ethnic research, libraries and archives, passenger ship types, descriptions and images, and additional worldwide maritime information available both on-line and off-line

http://immigrantships.net/index.html

Blackpool Museum Project is collecting your memories of holidaying in Blackpool.   

Blackpool Council, with the support of Heritage Lottery Funding, is currently developing a Museum to tell the story of the town as the first working class seaside holiday resort in the world, capturing the entertainment industry which made Blackpool so popular.    

It will tell the extraordinary story of Blackpool in a lively, interactive and fun way, exploring the entertainment history, how the landscape has developed, its pioneering spirit and all things seaside.   



The Project Team say:- '

'As well as telling the big stories about the Tower, Illuminations and its many theatres we would like to feature people’s stories about growing up in and coming to Blackpool on their holidays.  

Have you ridden a rollercoaster, danced on the piers, eaten fish and chips on the promenade? The Museum project team want to collect your memories to help bring these stories to life and begin an archive of holidaymaker’s memories.   

We want to find out:  How you travelled to Blackpool  Where you stayed  The things you did when you were there  

We are interested in hearing from people who have visited Blackpool up until the 1990s, whether you visited every year or have only been once.'    

Email your memories to [email protected]  F.A.O Rachel   

Barry J Ewell of www.genealogybybarry.com has offered some excellent advice on how to get the best out of digital content for family history research.

Barry says “As a genealogist and/or family historian you are ever increasingly faced with the need to better understand how to create, evaluate, manage, organize, and preserve content that include audio, photography, video, film and more. I’ve learned that even the simplest decision like which format to scan an image can have far reaching irreparable consequences if not done correctly'..

In his article at http://genealogybybarry.com/every-genealogist-needs-know-digital-content-100-resources/ he includes links to over 100 resources covering a variety of digital topics you’ll need to jump start and successfully get on your road to developing your digital awareness and skills one project at a time.  


In preparing the articles, slideshows, and video resources, Barry says that he focused on sharing his personal lessons learned from the thousands of hours he has have spent working with digital content as well as best practices from industry experts. 


Some of the topics covered  include:

• Audio and Editing
• Digitizing 101
• Film and Video
• Managing Files
• Photography and Image Editing
• Scanning
• Tapes
• Vinyl LP Records
• Voice Recognition”

All resources can be found at http://genealogybybarry.com/every-genealogist-needs-know-digital-content-100-resources/. Simply click on the desired topic and you will be taken directly to the resource.

Reproduced with the kind permission of Barry J. Ewell, originally published at www.genealogybybarry.com