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ARTICLE http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/08/one-more-word-a.html Backups

ARTICLE http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/08/postgraduate-pr.html Postgraduate Programme in Genealogical Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland – AND ONLINE The following announcement was written by Strathclyde University: In 2006 Strathclyde University launched the Postgraduate programme in Genealogical Studies to address the need for an intensive, practitioner-led university-led award in Genealogical Studies. It is intended for those with an existing interest in Genealogy and related subjects who wish to study the subject in more detail and possibly use it in their careers. Now entering its third year, this is the only professional...

ARTICLE http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/New+European+Genetic+Map+Resembles+Modern+Borders.aspx Genetic Map

AUS QLD http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/New+European+Genetic+Map+Resembles+Modern+Borders.aspx For those of you desperate to discover where your families got to in the 1940s, you will be pleased to know that Qld Family History Society have just released the next in their series of CD-ROM versions of the electoral roll for 1949.

CARDRONA Cardrona Descendant? This request appeared in the Queenstown Lakes District Council Newsletter, August 2008. Considering the development up there at the moment it is a highly desirable piece of turf. " Law firm Macalister Todd Phillips on behalf of the council is seeking descendants of the following people: Ah Kim, Ah Hin, Yeong Wah, Wong Sou, Sudy Key, Ah Lem, Columb Dalton, Rebecca Bond, Andrew Tuohy and Rebecca Pearce. These people are the registered proprietors of land titles issued in the late 1970's in the Cardrona Valley, Wanaka. If you believe you are a descendant of any of these people and you have evidence to prove this please contact Samuel Walker at Macalister Todd Phillips, PO Box 653 Queenstown, ph: 03 441 0125, fax: 03 442 8116, email: swalker@mactodd.co.nz."

CHELSEA PENSIONERS Records of Chelsea Pensioners are held by the National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Their records can be searched at: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/search.asp The Department or Series Code to be entered for Chelsea Pension records is WO97 (WO being the code for the War Office) The type of information that you will find - WO 97/1117/9 DANIEL AMOS Born NORWICH, Norfolk Served in Invalids or Supernumerary Invalids; 2nd Royal Veteran Battalion; 32nd Foot Regiment Discharged aged 60 1795-1814

ENG DIVORCE http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp TNA: "Divorce Records After 1858"

ENG LEI For any of you with an interest in Kirby Muxloe, you may like to know that the Leicestershire Villages website has information about the village, including the following: Information held by Leicestershire Record Office: http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/kirbymuxloe/informationheldbytherecordsoffic.html Kirby Muxloe Local History Group (including transcripts from meetings and visits): http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/kirbymuxloe/kirbymuxloelocalhistorygroup.html From the past to the present: http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/kirbymuxloe/fromthepast.html

ENG NATIONAL ARCHIVES Are you heading overseas for your holiday soon? Perhaps you'll be making the same voyage as an adventurous ancestor who crossed the Atlantic 100 years ago. Did you know that you can now trace their footsteps with ancestorsonboard.com? Here you can find details of passengers travelling from all British ports between 1890 and 1960. Search the records now http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searchthearchives/migration.htm and find out whether your ancestor rubbed shoulders with Noel Coward, Alfred Hitchcock or any other famous faces! Or maybe your ancestors travelled for work rather than for pleasure? We've just made even more Royal Navy records http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/adm196.asp available online, making it easier than ever to find a naval ancestor – read on to find out more. Bon voyage! Michael Leydon Editor The National Archives News August 2008

ENG UK ARCHIVES http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a While browsing around the UK Archives site, I went to the advanced search screen and entered in the exact phrase "New Zealand" and narrowed down the years 1840-1900 That brought up quite a few hits, and the articles were quite interesting. One was an excerpt from a diary which said "Charley Adams goes to New Zealand". I thought others might find this interesting to read the articles you can narrow down the dates. so even if you don't find your relative, you can read a little bit about the era New Zealand Hamilton brought up a lot on information including – Information relating to document ref. no. D1240/2/4 Conveyance 1 Tom Farr of 11 Brownswood Road, Finsbury Park, London, schoolmaster 2 Edward Lewis Farr of Wellington Street, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand, railway engineer 3 Alice Melville of Allington Hamilton, Waikato, Auckland, New Zealand, widow 4 Harry Information relating to document ref. no. MS1311/100/3 Copy of a letter to Agnes Crockatt from her second cousin Jessie (Todd) Hamilton in New Zealand regarding Garfield Todd, Prime Minster of Rhodesia. Manuscript but is in Agnes's handwriting. N.d.. Airmail letter from Jessie (Todd) Hamilton to Agnes Crockatt, Source: Access to Archives (A2A): not kept at The National Archives

FINDMYPAST.COM FINDMYPAST.COM EXTENDS ONLINE PARISH RECORDS COLLECTION Online access to millions of nationwide parish marriage records pre- dating the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths UK family history website findmypast.com today announced it has added 3.2 million marriage records to its Parish Records Collection at http://www.findmypast.com/parish-records-collection-search-start.action?redef=0. The new parish records, dating back to 1538, join the 15 million burial records already available to search on the site. The Parish Records Collection brings together in one easy-to-search central place the disparate records from local parishes, which have been collated by local family history societies since 1911, coordinated by the Federation of Family History Societies. The registers are particularly valuable sources of information for people seeking to research their family tree back further than the civil records of birth, marriage and death, which began in 1837, and the nineteenth century censuses. Easy to search Thanks to the cross-database search facility at findmypast.com, you will be able to search for your ancestor by surname across all the parish records on the site without needing to know where in the country they came from, helping people to delve even deeper into their ancestors' pasts. Famous people in the parish marriage records Among the famous names recorded in the parish marriages is writer Charles John Huffam Dickens, whose marriage to Catherine Thomson Hogarth took place in Chelsea on 2 April 1836, just one year prior to civil registration in England and Wales. In the same year, on 5 July, engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel's marriage to Mary Elizabeth Horsley is shown in Kensington. Both records have been contributed by the West Middlesex Family History Society. Debra Chatfield, Marketing Manager at findmypast.com said: "The parish registers are an essential resource for anyone trying to trace their ancestors back to the early sixteenth century. By publishing these records online, findmypast.com is helping to open up new avenues of research for family historians worldwide from the comfort of their own home." Over the coming months findmypast.com will be adding parish baptism records to the website too.

IRISH BOOKS
Irish Agriculture: A Price History by Liam Kennedy and Peter Solar (Hardback; 30 Euro / 40 USD / 20 UK; 206 pages) Prices affect the living conditions of millions of people, hence their importance for an understanding of the past.
In "Irish Agriculture: A Price history", Liam Kennedy and Peter Solar consider what was until relatively recently the principal means of livelihood for the majority of the country's population, shedding light on some major controversies in Irish history: the impact of the French wars, the significance of the Great Famine and the origins of the Land War.Prices and price change offer insights into people's behaviour in the past, and not just their economic behaviour. They help illuminate issues as diverse as production patterns, prosperity and famine, political and agrarian agitation and even such intimate detail as the timing of marriage. As the historian David Fischer has asserted: 'The history of prices is a history of change. 'The underlying data in this work, the product of more than ten years of archival research, are some 20,000 bimonthly price observations from the period 1755-1914 that have been processed into annual price series. The prices and price indices presented here furnish building blocks for historians and historically minded social scientists engaged in writing Ireland's history. This work also opens the way to more systematic comparisons of Irish and European economic experience, be it in terms of price inflation, living costs, market integration or market disintegration. Strangers to Citizens: Irish on the Move 1600-1800 by Mary Ann Lyons and Thomas O’Connor (Large Format Paperback; 20 Euro / 28 USD / 14 UK; 160 pages, with full colour and black-and-white photos throughout) This book explores the formative phase in Irish immigration history, from 1600 to 1800, when continental Europe was the main destination for tens of thousands of Irish migrants. This vast transfer of people, resources and skills, involving individuals of all backgrounds, enriched Europe at a pivotal moment in its long process of political and economic modernisation. It also exposed Irish migrants to new ideas and opportunities, and on their visits back to Ireland these migrants carried home valuable cultural and intellectual baggage. Over two centuries, the ‘outsider’ Irish achieved ‘insider’ status in countries as diverse as Spain and Sweden and came to exercise influence both at home and abroad. Theirs is one of the great human stories of early modern Europe and an emblematic moment in the universal chronicle of peoples on the move. This book offers an insight into their lives and times.

PANDORA’S BOX http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~dchamber/pandorakey.htm "Pandora's Box" is an index of references from various NZ sources compiled by Dawn Chambers. Her page is intended to assist researchers who are using the NZ Society of Genealogists CD-ROM. Please advise if there are any questions regarding entries that require further explanation. Dawn Chambers d.chambers@paradise.net.nz Be sure to use the index at the top of the page – ABCDE…..

RESEARCH http://www.britishancestors.com/research/request/?gclid=CPmC_6j9pZUCFQwZegodU2ZXkA

ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/dataset.asp Data last updated, 2 July 2008 - database contains nearly 446,000 records