ARTICLE
http://genealogy.about.com/b/2008/08/15/reading-understanding-old-documents.htm
Reading & understanding old
documents.
ARTICLE
http://genealogy.about.com/od/history_research/Historical_Research_Researching_the_Daily_Lives_of_Your_Ancestors.htm Historical Research.
ARTICLE
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/09/familysearch-cl.html
AUS TAS
The hours of opening for the Tasmanian Archives
and Heritage Office, now
found on the 2nd floor, State Library of Tasmania, 91 Murray Street have
been extended:
Monday - Thursday 9.30 am - 6.00 pm
Friday 9.30 am - 8
pm (secure search room open only to 6.00
pm) Saturday 9.30 am - 2.30 pm
The microfilm area has the microfilm records from
AOT on open access (help
your self) and these include bdm's (1803 - 1899), census, church records,
Colonial Secretary's Office, convict records, departures, divorces,
inquests, naturalisations, newspapers, wills - records that the reference
can be gained from searching online.
Address, phone and fax as per http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/new
EASTMAN VIDEO
You can watch his introduction to the 2008
FGS conference on Roots Television at http://rootstelevision.com/players/player_conferences.php?bctid=1780578449
He will be attending 12th
Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry
being hosted by the NZSG at Kings College Auckland from Friday 16 January to Tuesday 20 January 2008.
ENG MAP
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
It shows a map of London in the 19th century
colour coded showing the poverty areas.
Booth started his work in December 1886 and carried on until the summer
of 1890, collecting, recording and analysing data and creating his famous
'Poverty Map' for every street in
London
FAMILY TREE MAKER 2009
http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Family+Tree+Maker+2009+Coming+Soon+08+Users+Can+Upgrade+Free.aspx
FINDMYPAST
1901
CENSUS FOR SURREY GOES LIVE ONLINE ON FINDMYPAST,COM
Findmypast.com today announced that it has added the
county of
Surrey
comprising more than 748,000 records to its new online version of the
1901 census for
England and
Wales. The new records join the counties of
Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, which are already available to search
at
http://www.findmypast.com/CensusPersonStartSearchServlet?censusYear=1901.
More counties are to follow in the coming weeks.
A fresh look at 1901 census
Findmypast.com's brand new version of the 1901 census is being
transcribed from scratch and each image rescanned using the
sophisticated scanning technology available today. The result is clearer
images and more accurate transcriptions than previously seen.
Elaine Collins, Commercial Director at findmypast.com commented: "It's
incredible what the latest advances in scanning have achieved. With
findmypast.com's brand new version of the 1901 England and Wales census,
it really is possible to find ancestors that you haven't previously been
able to find on older online versions, so it's definitely worth taking a
fresh look at this key resource."
Like all the records on findmypast.com, the 1901 census can be searched
for free at http://www.findmypast.com/CensusChooseSearchType.jsp.
Images
and transcripts can be viewed with vouchers, pay-as-you-go credits or a
Discovery or Explorer subscription.
OVER 13,000 OVERSEAS MARRIAGE PARISH RECORDS GO LIVE ON
FINDMYPAST.COM
Findmypast.com has added more than 13,000 marriage records for British
subjects overseas, some dating back to the seventeenth century at
http://www.findmypast.com/parish-records-collection-search-start.action?redef=0&event=M.
The records have been transcribed by Cliff Webb from originals housed at
the Society of Genealogists in
London.
The exotic collection includes Japan Embassy Marriages (1867-1899),
Tobago marriages (1788-1816), India Calcutta marriages from 1713 and
Jacobite Registers from the court of St Germain en Laye dating back to
1690, among others.
GENEALOGY CONFERENCES
http://genealogy.about.com/od/conferences/a/conference_2.htm?nl=1
10 top reasons to attend a genealogy conference.
12th
Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry
Earlybird
Registration closes
30 September 2008
Check out the programme on the website for
more details on the topics and the speakers.
www.affhocongress2009.org
GOOGLE
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/84349,google-launches-digital-index-of-print-newspapers.aspx
Google has launched an ambitious service
which aims to put the all
newspapers online in a free, searchable database. The service allows users
to search an index of print newspapers and view the original pages online.
INDIA
http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/
Use this website to search:
*300,000 births, baptisms, marriages,
deaths and burials in the India
Office Records
*biographical notes from a variety of sources
for mainly British and European people in
India c.1600-1949
*for people in other countries connected with the history of the British in India
About tells you what is and is not
in this index.
Dictionary explains abbreviations,
references and unusual terms
Contact us with your questions and
comments
FIBIS transcriptions added May 2008 – Bonds (IOR: O), Registrar
Marriages (IOR: N/11) and East India Register births, marriages and
deaths. See Sources for details.
IRL
http://www.irelandgenweb.com/
The complete 1864 Ireland Birth Index is
now online at the Ireland GenWeb website.:
IRL
IFHF
http://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com/index.php?&set=yes
The Irish Family History Foundation has launched an online research service
called RootsIreland.
Sign up for a free registration with the site, then use it to search nearly 40
million church records at genealogical research centers in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Results show you basic information from the record; viewing a
record transcription costs 5 Euros (about $7). You’ll also get information on
other records and research services available in your ancestors’ county.
IRL DOW
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Newry/Newry.shtml
http://www.newryjournal.co.uk/content/view/88/31/
http://www.newryjournal.co.uk/content/view/206/31/
The Newry Poor Law Union was established in
1839 and the Workhouse built in 1840. Information about the Workhouse,
its inhabitants and conditions is included in the above.:
IRL DOW
http://www.downcountymuseum.com/prisonersaus.aspx?area=1&aName=Home&textsize=
IRL GRIFFITHS
http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_family_search_form.php
IRL IFHF
In our continued effort to improve our Online
Record Search the IFHF is please to announce the addition of some important new
features:
- The facility to narrow the search by entering the first name and surname of
the father of the birth/baptismal record that you are searching for, which will
reduce the number of records returned in any search.
- When on the individual county sites, you also have the ability to narrow your
search by Parish. The list of available Parishes now also shows the
denomination of the Parish. For a list of the Denominations please see the FAQ.
- The removal of many duplicate records from the system that were caused by
human error in transcribing the records, by records being recorded in more than
one register or by the integration of computer systems.
- All records are now clearly marked to indicate whether they are church or
civil records.
- All the counties’ birth, baptismal death and marriage records online,
including those of Co. Meath, as well as all available census records, are now
available on the all-Ireland Central Search http://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com.
IRL TOWNLANDS
http://www.igp-web.com/down/admin_dist.htm
JEWISH RESEARCH
Jewish Roots
The 28th annual IAJGS International
Conference on Jewish Genealogy took place last month, and Og wanted to
include the special Jewish Roots Tuesday that took place the week of the
Conference. We featured a new interview with journalist Schelly Talalay Dardashti,
author of the Tracing
the Tribe blog. Schelly shared tips about basic Jewish research and talked
about her work as a blogger.
We also showed a video from
last year's IAJGS conference in Salt Lake City, including interviews with Elise Friedman, coordinator for JewishGen DNA Central,
and with Alexander Avraham, director of the Hall of Names at Yad
Vashem in Jerusalem.
You'll enjoy interviews
with Ron Arons, author of The Jews of Sing Sing,
and Joyce Antler, who gives the history of the Jewish mother in
You Never
Call, You Never Write.
And don't forget to check
out our Jewish Roots Channel.
AUDIO: http://rootstelevision.com/players/player_jewishroots.php
NZ AKLD
Auckland City
Libraries has recently redesigned their website. Still at http://aucklandcitylibraries.com
Family history now
has a blog called Kintalk
http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/getdoc/a49b59d6-1199-4a77-a723-01d82d50b93a/kintalkfamilyhistoryblog.aspx
The most current
posting is advertising the up coming Lock in which is happening 19th September.
If you are interested,
it's not too late. There are still places left.
http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/whatson/familyhistory/Family-history-lock-in.aspx
NZ BOOK
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/cyclopediaaucklanda-k.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sooty/cyclopediaaucklandl-z.html
CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND
A list of the
names mentioned in the Cyclopedia of Auckland and Auckland
Province which was printed in 1902. Many libraries
have copies of these books and they are also available on CD from COLONIAL CD BOOKS.
NZ CHCH
Christchurch City Libraries are running a
course called
Researching and documenting your family roots. A 3 part programme which
helps you explore national and international resources and learn useful ways
to record your family history information.
South Learning Centre, Colombo St, Beckenham
Wednesdays 10th - 24th September, 7-9pm
Course fee: $15 (for all 3 sessions).
To book phone the library at 941 7923
Or email wendy.butcher@ccc.govt.nz
NZSG AUCKLAND BRANCH
The Auckland Branch of NZSG will hold its
September meeting at the
Pioneer Women's Hall, Freyberg Place, City, next Tuesday, September 23,
at 9.30am.At
10.30am, Wendy Goldsmith will speak about "Archives New Zealand (Auckland), family history resources".
Suggested donation at the door - $4.
All welcome.
Regards,
Ray Turner
NZSG #1451
Convener
Auckland Branch
PAPERS PAST
It's been one year since the Papers Past website relaunched with new
content and better search options. Response to the site has been
fantastic, and now we're announcing further content to be added in the
next 12 months.
The relaunched Papers Past website celebrated its first birthday last
week. Since its release in September 2007 with the addition of full-text
searching, Papers Past has been visited over 1.8 million times by more
than 500,000 visitors, generating 31 million page views.
The website content has also grown over the period and now features 1.2
million newspaper pages from all around the country, generating around
7,500,000 searchable articles and covering the years 1839 to 1920. A
highlight of the year was the release of the Grey River Argus, a
significant source of early labour history and the first newspaper on
Papers Past to cover the entire First World War.
In the coming year we will be completing the work to make all existing
material searchable as well as adding a further 100,000 newspaper pages
from these publication runs, which will take site coverage through to
1930:
* Ashburton Guardian 1887-1889, 1896, 1898, 1910, 1921
* Ellesmere Guardian 1891-1899, 1904-1906
* NZ Truth 1906-1930
* Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle 1905-1930
* Oxford Observer and Canterbury Democrat 1889-1901
* Victoria Times 1841.
We will shortly be releasing new functionality on the website in
response to user feedback. The changes will make dealing with large sets
of search results easier to navigate.
Response to the website's redevelopment have been overwhelmingly
positive with users writing in with praise for the new version. Chris
Pugsley described it as a 'sheer delight' and it made the top of Iain
Sharp's list of most enjoyed reading in the Sunday Star Times BOOKS:
Best of 2007. The website was also selected as a finalist in the
Education and Government categories at the recent TUANZ awards.
Much of the feedback is coming from history and genealogy researchers
but we’ve also heard some great stories from around the country of how
the next generation is using the site in schools. Local history is the
big area of interest and students are also using it to look at text and
banner designs, advertising, comparing journalism styles through the
years, and developing core online literacy skills.
For more information contact matthew.oliver@natlib.govt.nz
or visit the
website at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
Matthew Oliver
Digital Product Manager
National Library of New
Zealand +64 4 474 3000 ext 8798
PICASSA
http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Picasa+Debuts+NextGeneration+Photo+Tagging.aspx
SCT ARL
Transcriptions of or extracts from 5
documents relating to Tiree (and
to Coll in two cases) - FH Nos. 34, 188, 201, 208 & 241 - have now
been linked to the Tiree and Coll lists of the Argyll & Bute Archives
page at www.tireegenealogy.com/AB
. These are the work of Flo & Andy
Straker, our ambassadors to the Argyll & Bute Council Archives
Department at Lochgilphead, and their transcription assistants, Ian
Phillips and Louise MacDougall. Iain Campbell has recently joined
the team. There are more documents in the pipeline, the originals
mostly hand-written in old English and faded with age, so the
transcribing tasks tend to be long and painstaking. The end result
of this joint project with Mull Genealogy will be an outstanding
collection of document transcriptions, freely available online to
everyone with an interest in Tiree, Coll or Mull genealogy. We are indebted to the team for making it happen, and to the staff of the Archives Department of Argyll & Bute Council for their help along the way.
Document FH 188, "The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation", includes short histories of the original two parishes of Tiree (Soroby and Kirkapol) and the parish of Coll.
THE GENEALOGISTS WHAT'S NEW ONLINE
www.TheGenealogist.co.uk
All of the new data
that has been added into the All-Inclusive subscriptions which cost as little
as £4.66 a month.
Fleet Marriages
These contain nearly
800,000 people from the original records, this has been added to the Non-conformist
records section. These records are fully searchable with linked images of the
original documents.
Overseas BMDs
We have added nearly
175,000 records, with images, to our overseas BMD record set. This transcript
covers the births, marriages and deaths of British Service Personnel throughout
the world from ?. The new data includes:
Marine Births: 1890
- 1940
Army Births: 1896 - 1835
Army Marriages: 1901 - 1940
Army Deaths: 1916 - 1940
Consular Births: 1849 - 1885
Consular Marriages: 1916 - 1935
Consular Deaths: 1849 - 1940
Worcestershire
Parish Record Transcripts - Baptisms/Births: 1622 - 1936
We have added nearly
12,000 records to our transcript for Worcestershire, expanding our coverage and
bringing the total to nearly 110,000 records.
www.TheGenealogist.co.uk
USA ARTICLE
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/09/free-social-sec.html
WORLD SURNAME LIST
http://www...publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx
