FHF REALLY USEFUL Family History Show - Final Program Listing

 

FHF REALLY USEFUL Family History Show

Saturday 10 April 2021.

The final program is now set for the REALLY USEFUL Family History Show sponsored by the Family History Federation. Here is the list of great talks.

My own presentation is set for 3:30 pm UK time which is 8:30 am where I live. No worries, though. Once premiered the talk recordings will be viewable on the website for up to 7 days (availability may vary after 48 hours) finally ending at Midnight on 17 April 2021

Talks will premiere throughout the day and will not be available for viewing before the published times.

Where possible speakers will be available at the end of their talks for live questions & answers but participants will be able to leave a message on the chat on the day for a response by e-mail if the speaker is not available at the designated time.

It’s not too late to register. Go to the show website at https://www.fhf-reallyuseful.com/events/fhf-really-useful-family-history-show/

RELEASE SCHEDULE (All times are UK DST)

10.15am

·         Beginning your family history research – Steve Manning

·         Missing from home – David Eniffer

·         Mind mapping and its place in organising and guiding your genealogical research – Linda Hammond

·         Researching British India family history for free using online sources – Valmay Young and Beverley Hallam

11.00am     

·         Muck and muscle: canal & railway navvies – Ian Waller

·         The real Mr Selfridge: History of shopping – Ian Porter

·         From Victorians to Elizabethans: Some sources for tracing our English ancestors from 1901-1952 – Janet Few

11.45am     

·         Wartime volunteer medics – Ian Waller

·         Searching for ancestors when you are adopted – Penny Walters

·         The MyHeritage photo world – Daniel Horowitz

12.30pm     

·         Using Irish wills and testamentary records – Natalie Bodle

·         DNA for dummies – Linda Hammond

·         Pauper prisons, pauper palaces: Life in the workhouse – Gillian Draper

1.15pm       

·         Wills pre-1858 – Les Mitchinson

·         Coram’s children: The history of the Foundling Hospital – Jane King

·         The family detective. A forensic look at the history of family photography – Stephen Gill

2.00pm       

·         Searching for Irish Ancestors – Penny Walters

·         The art of criminal conversation: Divorce – Claire Moores

·         Deaths at sea – Ian Waller

2.45pm       

·         The Commonwealth War Graves Commission – Ian Everest

·         Researching women of the Caribbean – Sharon Tomlin

·         Give you research the WDYTYA? treatment – Sarah Williams

3.30pm      

·         Jewish Immigration to the UK from re-admission to WW2 – Jeanette Rosenburg

·         Using parish & other records to determine how natural phenomena affected people and communities – Wayne Shepheard

·         Engaging young people in family history – Merrill White

Living with a pandemic 49

 A Third Wave

While the timing of development of vaccines against Covid-19 have surpassed expectations, the distribution and deployment in many parts of the world has not kept up with the spread of infections. Much of the gap can be attributed to individuals and groups not adhering to social distancing recommendations. Many of us would call it disregard!

The result is that a third wave is upon us. We are well above the numbers that induced the changes to socialization, shopping and travel a year ago. With the latest rise, plans to open the economy have been delayed.

Adding to the problem is the increase in rapidly spreading variants of the original virus. They were rare several months ago. Now, they represent a growing proportion of cases. In Alberta, where I live, 979 of the 6,176 active cases (15.9%) have been identified as “variants of concern.”

In total there have been 1,711 people with variant cases identified of which 715 of them have recovered and 17 died.

When combining all the elements, we are seeing increasing numbers of hospitalized people, lately more every day for the past week. Of the current 280 people in hospital, 48 are in intensive care. Now almost half of them are under the age of 60.

Vaccines will help, of course. Again, here in Alberta 487,493 doses have been administered to date, with 93,414 Albertans fully immunized with two doses. The proportion of our population that has received at least one dose is still small – only 11% of the total – although most of the elderly have now had their first shot, as well as those who care for them in long term facilities. That is good news. My wife and I have had our first shot and are booked for our second in April.

It is difficult to see that the world is close to an end of this pandemic. New cases are still much higher than they were at the start a year ago. In several regions that third wave is rising and much of it has to do with the variants. Unfortunately, in countries where the population should know better, compliance to health guidelines is still an issue.

At least among the older people, vaccines have made a significant difference. Perhaps the younger ones will eventually take note.

Living with a pandemic 48

 Are we on the cusp of a new treatment for Covid-19? Trials of a new drug in Israel are showing much promise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA56LCCeuMc

See also reports here:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-israeli-drug-cured-moderate-to-serious-covid-cases-within-days-hospital/

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/israeli-drug-holds-promise-of-stopping-fatal-covid-19-immune-response-1.1165647