ARTICLE
http://genealogy.about.com/b/2008/10/25/dealing-in-historical-documents.htm?nl=1
AUS QLD
http://www.qfhs.org.au/letters.html
"Queensland Unclaimed Letters Index 1860-1874 was compiled by the
Queensland Family History Society Inc. between 1997 and 2003. It provides an
index to all 202,472 names in the monthly lists of Unclaimed Letters published
in the Queensland Government Gazette between 1860 and 1874.
The index is a valuable aid for locating early colonists in Queensland
Knowing where our ancestors were is often not easy to determine,
particularly if no significant event occurred which left a paper trail. Many
of them moved frequently, either seeking employment or chasing gold. As a
result letters were often not able to be delivered - the last address was no
longer applicable. The addresses given in this index will assist tracing
just where that ancestor was, even if he or she was no longer there by the
time these letters were due for delivery!
Searching the indexes by name, year and other details is made easy using the
popular searching and sorting capabilities of our very own developed
QFHSdatasearch interface. Features include field oriented and keyword
searches, Boolean selection, sorting and wildcard searches."
AUS QLD CEM
http://bucc.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/city-services/cemetery
BLOG
http://genealogy.about.com/?once=true&nl=1
CANADA
http://genealogy.about.com/od/canada/tp/top_databases.--l1.htm
CANADA
http://www.canadianrootsuk.org
Canadian Roots UK
Website for Canadian War Children of WW2, trying to trace their fathers. And
Canadian fathers/family tracing a child that may of been fathered in the UK.
ENG CONFERENCE
http://www.openthedoor.org.uk
Open the Door and Here are the People
The website of the 2009 International Family History Conference in England -
Open the Door and Here are the People.
ENG KEN WILLS
http://vulpeculox.net/history/kwills.htm
Kent Wills to 1650.
ENG SFK
From the Suffolk Mailing List
Folks,this will advise that although British censuses are normally released to the
public domain 100 years after they were first recorded, the British Information
Commissioner has announced that the 1911 census for England
and Wales will be launched three years early.Scotland
does not plan to release the information until 2011.
Some of the individual data will not be released early because it is considered
personally sensitive. The full information will be available in 2011/2012. The
interim version will be available in 2009 through http://www.findmypast.com .This will
provide an online service enabling researchers anywhere in the world to search
and download digitial scans of images from the census. It will be both address-
and name-searchable.
Complete information can be found at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/1911census/
Peter
List Admin.
ENG WAR
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/
DEEC2EB9DB9499B780256A330054CA30
The Warwickshire Tithe Apportionments have been indexed by volunteers and put on line by Warwick Record Office.
Scroll down the page and click on the tithe section; it is there for you to explore. You can search by parish, by occupier or by owner. Loads to delve into!
ENGLAND
http://genealogy.about.com/od/uk_databases/tp/top_databases.htm
FAMILYRELATIONS
http://www.familyrelatives.com/information/info_detail.php?id=117
NEW COLLECTIONS
The Artists Rifles Roll of Honour, the Anzac
Roll of Honour and the
New Zealand Roll of Honour as well as the Waterloo Roll call,
Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy 1660-1815 and the
British Naval Biographical Dictionary 1849, all form part of the new
collection.
The Artists Rifles was formed in 1859 as part of
the great Volunteer Corps. It comprised various professional painters,
sculptors, engravers, musicians,
architects and actors raised to defend the British Isles
from a French invasion.
The regiment became part of the Corps of the Rifle Brigade which was
subsequently transformed into the famous 21 Special Air Service Regiment
S.A.S (Artists Reserve).
In the 20th century the Artists Rifles was a
popular unit with volunteers and
attracted recruits from public schools and universities. Over fifteen thousand
men passed through the battalion during the war, more than ten thousand of
them becoming officers and served in almost every unit of the British Army.
The battalion fought in France in the Great War, its battle honours include
Passchendaele, the Somme 1918, Cambrai 1918, Pursuit to Mons, and
suffered higher casualties than those of any other battalion. Members of
the Regiment won eight Victoria Crosses,
fifty-six Distinguished Service
Orders and over a thousand other awards for gallantry and honour.
The Artist Rifles Roll of Honour provides the
name of the Artist, rank,
regiment, date and where they died. A list of honours, decorations and
commissions are among the records
provided.
Prominent members of the unit included Noel Coward, and Sir Barnes Wallis, CBE, FRS and the war poets Siegfried Loraine Sassoon and Wilfred Edward Owen who was killed in action on 4 November 1918, only one week before the end of the war.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/213.htm
Catch up with the latest
podcasts as we continue to honour all those touched by the First World War.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/214.htm
Did your ancestors move to the UK in the last 100 years? Or would you like to
find out if anyone in your family took a holiday outside the UK and Europe? Our partner, ancestry.co.uk, has made the passenger
lists of ships arriving in theUK between 1878 and 1960 available online.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/214.htm
Search
the records now to track down your wandering relatives. They may even
have travelled on the same ship as Lewis Hamilton's ancestor or Winston
Churchill.
NEWSPAPERS
http://www.newspaperindex.com
Newspaper Index
Newspaper index presents links to the most important newspapers in every
country in the world. The site is maintained by two journalist and all
newspapers are free to read online.
PODCASTS
New Podcast
For Genealogists
A new
podcast was recently launched for genealogists called Family History: Genealogy Made Easy.
The podcast is geared to beginning genealogists, and yet includes motivational
interviews for the more experienced researchers. Lisa Louise Cooke is the
author of the
podcast, and her hope is that this podcast will reach out to the
non-genealogist
and show them that discovering their family history is possible and easier than
ever with all the Internet advances. Getting started is the hardest part, and
following along with this weekly serial
podcast will make it easier than ever
to get started and reap rewards.
The
audio player
can be downloaded here: Genealogy Gems News Blog.
Just click the GET
button on the player. It not only plays the new show, but also
The Genealogy Gems Podcast,
The Family Tree Magazine Podcast,
The Family History Expos Podcast
and Digital Photography Life. You can also subscribe
free to the show in iTunes.
RESEARCH
http://www.siriusgenealogy.com/
UK NAVAL RECORDS
There are lots of research guides on the
National Archives under Royal Navy
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp?j=1
Or
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/navy/default.
htm?homepage=mh-navy
Which leads to
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/military/navy/rnstep1.htm
USA
http://birth.searchmyrecords.com/
USA IOWA
http://www.genealogy.com/users/f/o/r/Sherry-Foresman-Urbandale/
IOWA GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH Will Research all Available County Records for any Iowa County/Counties.
WORLDVITALRECORDS
Electoral
Rolls, Police Gazettes, and Unclaimed Letters From Australia
This
week's major collection at WorldVitalRecords.com includes Australian content
from three different databases.
1. Queensland
2. Queensland
3. Queensland
A electoral roll contains a list of the names of all
people registered to vote in a particular area. The earliest electoral rolls in
Australia
http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/news/Volume3Issue6/?page=major&cpn
=wvrnewsletter6&offer=1
"He travels best that knows when to return"
Thomas More UK
From NATIONAL ARCHIVES
