On the 12th of December Glasnevin Museum will mark the 97th anniversary of this election with a guided tour to the graves of women who have played their part in the social, cultural and political life of Ireland. Don't miss out. Come along and hear the stories of these ordinary and extraordinary women.
Saturday 12th December 1.30 pm
"The General Election of 1918 (held 14 December) marked the first time that women in Ireland and Britain had the right to vote and stand for election; although this only applied to women over 30 years of age. Countess Markievicz, who is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery, was one of two women who ran in that election in Ireland (the other being nationalist Winifred Carney who was defeated in Belfast’s Victoria Division).
Markievicz won and became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. She did not take her seat in Westminster Parliament however, and chose instead to sit with the First Dáil which met on the 21st of January 1919. Countess Markievicz was made Minister for Labour in that Dáil becoming the first woman in Europe to hold a ministerial position. "
Saturday 12th December 1.30 pm
"The General Election of 1918 (held 14 December) marked the first time that women in Ireland and Britain had the right to vote and stand for election; although this only applied to women over 30 years of age. Countess Markievicz, who is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery, was one of two women who ran in that election in Ireland (the other being nationalist Winifred Carney who was defeated in Belfast’s Victoria Division).
Markievicz won and became the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. She did not take her seat in Westminster Parliament however, and chose instead to sit with the First Dáil which met on the 21st of January 1919. Countess Markievicz was made Minister for Labour in that Dáil becoming the first woman in Europe to hold a ministerial position. "
Ancestry to Retire Family Tree Maker Software
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This is being reported all over the net today, there is even a petition. Family Tree Maker Software will not be sold after 31st Dec 2015 but support will be available through 2016.
Lots of software is going cloud based but there is a bigger issue here.
I think the aim of this is to get all and sundry to enter the family trees directly on to the Ancestry website. If everyone entered their data how much will that data be worth to Ancestry? Their terms state:
“By submitting User Provided Content on any of the Websites, you grant Ancestry and its Group companies a perpetual, transferable, sub-licenseable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to create derivative works of, and otherwise use User Provided Content submitted by you to the Websites, to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered.”
I personally don't use the software so it will have no effect on me, I use a web based package called TNG. Family tree maker was quite reasonably priced at just £40 but before you hand over all your data for nothing to Ancestry, have a look at some alternative packages like Legacy and Family Historian (usually around the $40 mark) or play gently with your family tree maker and you might get a few more years from it, just make sure you have a back up of all your GEDCOM's..............
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This is being reported all over the net today, there is even a petition. Family Tree Maker Software will not be sold after 31st Dec 2015 but support will be available through 2016.
Lots of software is going cloud based but there is a bigger issue here.
I think the aim of this is to get all and sundry to enter the family trees directly on to the Ancestry website. If everyone entered their data how much will that data be worth to Ancestry? Their terms state:
“By submitting User Provided Content on any of the Websites, you grant Ancestry and its Group companies a perpetual, transferable, sub-licenseable, worldwide, royalty-free, license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to create derivative works of, and otherwise use User Provided Content submitted by you to the Websites, to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered.”
I personally don't use the software so it will have no effect on me, I use a web based package called TNG. Family tree maker was quite reasonably priced at just £40 but before you hand over all your data for nothing to Ancestry, have a look at some alternative packages like Legacy and Family Historian (usually around the $40 mark) or play gently with your family tree maker and you might get a few more years from it, just make sure you have a back up of all your GEDCOM's..............
See full details
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