A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress

A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 1148
Release: 2012-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806316680

Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors
Author: Brian Elliott
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1848842392

In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today _ many of us have a coalmining ancestor. ??Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott's concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. ??His overview of the coalmining history _ and the case studies and research tips he provides _ will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain's industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.??As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle.

Whatever it Is, Gently: Quiet Meditations for the Noise of the Pandemic

Whatever it Is, Gently: Quiet Meditations for the Noise of the Pandemic
Author: Devon A. Spier
Publisher: Library and Archives Canada
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-09-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781775380214

Stumbling into words when her body could do barely anything else, poet-theologian and rabbinical student Devon Spier overcame lifelong writer's block in the winter of 2017 and hasn't stopped writing since. An accidental elixir of mistake-ridden tirades punctuating the daily dirges and oh-so-familiar acts of a world wiser and yet laughably, cryingly gone sideways...This collection of short coronavirus-themed meditations un-sanitizes the strange griefs and grandeurs we are individually and in shared, albeit mystical but mundane ways, all currently experiencing during the pandemic. Here, queer and unsurprisingly weird, Devon offers up a shamelessly unknowing meditation, the kind of world-worn oh-whoopsy theology that is in the same breath funny but fearless, hopeful but skeptical, tired, so very tried, tried and always (somehow?) completely true: Anger. Fear. Hurt. Hope. Solace. Surrender and no shortage of grace..."Dear heart, you can just stay." A food and work addict with 30+ years of chronic illnesses, strange symptoms, off-the-beaten-path life experiences and recently, a major life-threatening illness that blew apart her entire life, Devon has learned and constantly relearns to risk it all to honour, care for and recover her true self. With days in the maddening lull of lockdown and nights spent coping with newly surfaced memories of sexual abuse, "Pandemonia" became Devon's salvation but even more, her living, breathing truth. Stopping to thank the masked stranger, yell periodically at G-d and all the while lamenting and celebrating her lack of faith, she impels readers to make out mostly meaning and all the heart-shattering, opening and still-very-much stabbing glass ceilings in this global meltdown/moment. Offering the praise words and more often than not curse words of the urgent and unknown, Devon reminds each of us that we can make a faithful religion of right now. And each day, we can weather the states of our selves and embrace the united states of Pandemonia for hope-making and transformative good.