ORIGINS

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AFFHO CONFERENCE

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/affho-congress-in-new-zealand-draws-to-a-close.html

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/lessons-to-be-learned-from-the-affho-congress.html

 

ARTICLE

http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/news/Volume3Issue17/?page=
news&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=
right%2Bbanner&utm_campaign=Wvr%2BNewsletter&offer=1

 

AUS QUEENSLAND
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/indexes.asp

This is the site of the State Archives of Queensland - Assisted Immigration. 

 

AUS TASMANIA

The "Guide to Resources for Tasmanian Genealogy" has been updated again (sections 6.4 - 6.7, 12.1 and 14.1).  Have a look at
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/resource/mal_index.htm
This mainly reflects more digital and on-line resources being made available by our libraries and archive offices.  If you haven't yet tried the National Library of Australia's site of digitally scanned and searchable colonial newspapers, have a go (see Section 6.6 of the Guide) ... but be imaginative in the words and parts of words you search on, as the conversion of image to text isn't perfect, of course.

Don't forget to have a look around the rest of this List's web site.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/index.html
As ever, reports of broken links and/or new resources are always welcome.

 

CANADIAN CIVIL SERVANTS

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/canadian-civil-servants-lists-of-canada-18721900-now-online.html

 

HIDDEN LIVES

http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/

Hidden Lives Revealed provides an intriguing encounter with children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century Britain.

 

IRELAND

– NEW ADDRESES

New Web Address for "Irish Times" ancestor research.
Check out surname
search engine for Primary Valuation (1848-1864), more:
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/

New Civil Parish data - Click on a county on the Ireland Interactive Map
for more on CP's - discover, the ten most common surnames found in each civil parish at this "Irish Times" newspaper Browse Counties webpage:
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/browse/counties/civilmaps/index.cfm

Check out the Ireland GenWeb website at:  http://www.irelandgenweb.com/
It is a good place to get help with your family research.

IRELAND NEWSPAPERS

URLs for newspapers from Ireland.
http://www.irelandoldnews.com/
 
http://www.immigrantships.net/newsarticles/ireland1700_1819.html
 
http://members.webone.com.au/~nickred/newspaper/index.html
 
http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/
 
 
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/bnl/index.html - Belfast Newsletter index

PHOTOS OF CHURCHES

http://www.photosofchurches.com
Photos of Churches
Thousands of high resolution photos of places of worship the world over. Essential aid to family history.

 

WALES
http://www.swanseamariners.org.uk/
Swansea Mariners A list of mariners registered at the port of Swansea, South Wales.

 

WINDOWS WORM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7832652.stm

 

 

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AFFHO CONFERENCE
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/affho-congress-continued-with-a-remote-lecturer.html

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1911  ENG CENSUS

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/1911+UK+Census
+Goes+Online.aspx

http://genealogy.about.com/b/2009/01/13/1911-uk-census-now-online.htm?nl=1
 

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/england-and-wales-1911-census-goes-online.html

 

AFFHO CONFERENCE

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/kia-ora-from-the-affho-congress.html

 

ARTICLE                               

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Wrapping+Up+Our
+Look+Inside+Ancestrycom.aspx

 

ARTICLE

http://genealogy.about.com/cs/organization/a/focused.htm?nl=1

 

AUS TASMANIA

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~austashs/resource/mal_index.htm

Site has been updated.

 

BRITISH CENSUS

http://genealogy.about.com/od/england/a/census.htm?nl=1

 

FAMILYLINK ON FACEBOOK

FamilyLink Application on Facebook Becomes Fifth Most Popular Application
Connecting with family outpaces playing poker, writing bumper stickers, or posting videos.                                                                                                                                                                                            

Provo, UT,January 8, 2009

--- We're Related, a service developed by FamilyLink.com, Inc. to connect Facebook users to other family members, just became the fifth most popular application on Facebook Platform. The We're Related application surpassed Texas HoldEm Poker, Bumper Sticker, and Video by Facebook as well as more than 52,000 other Facebook applications in terms of active monthly users. "We are thrilled with the momentum of We're Related and are looking forward to future growth and the new functionality we will offer our loyal users," said Paul Allen,

CEO

, FamilyLink.com, Inc. "As the number of We're Related users increases, so does the number of connections people are making to their families."

 

HEADSTONE GENEALOGY.COM

http://www.headstonesgenealogy.com/index.php

 

IRE DONEGAL

http://www.flyleaf.ie/donegal.htm

 

MCKIRDY INDEX OF SCOTTISH DEATHS

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/02/the_mckirdy_ind.html

NA PODCAST SERIES

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheNationalArchivesPodcastSeries

ON LINE SEARCHING

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Online+Searching+Its+Complicated.aspx

PICTURE LIBRARY

http://www.cartes.fsnet.co.uk/date/main.htm

 

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ARTICLE                               

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/From+Paper
+Or+Film+To+The+Web.aspx

ARTICLE

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/familylink-fift.html

ARTICLE

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/half-of-brits-h.html

AUS TASMANIA

http://www.archive.org/details/officialrecordof00launiala
This web page leads you to is the 'Official record of the Tasmanian International Exhibition, held in Launceston 1891- 92 (1893)'

You can search for old out of print books, media etc (Tasmanian or Van Diemen's Land) online.  They can be read online or downloaded (books in PDF format).

AUS/NZ

http://www.ausbdm.org/

Among other things It has people with resources willing to do look ups on the resources that they have.
It also has a section with pictures of churches in both Australia and NZ
It also has photos of headstones in 3 NZ cemeteries namely:
New Te Puke and Old Te Puke both in the Bay of Plenty and Kelvin Grove Cemetery in Palmerston North.

AUSTRALIAN CEMETERIES

http://www.auscem.com/auscemlist.php
Location details/maps for over 4000 Australian cemeteries and graveyards.

 DNA
Post your family tree at these web sites or get your DNA tested:

1.  http://www.myheritage.com    MyHeritage focuses on genealogy community building and networking.
2.  http://www.geneanet.org/   A collection of family trees, community,
and submitted records.
3.  http://www.ancestry.com/search/  Ancestry.com is the leading
genealogical data site, with some articles, instruction, and reference
help
4.  http://familysearch.org/  This is a major data website sponsored by

5.  http://www.tribalpages.com/  Family trees hosting and charting
program.
6.  http://www.familyhistorylink.com/
7.  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/   Rootsweb is a major data site,
with free instruction and reference help.
8.  http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html  This is major data site, with
instruction and reference help.
9.  http://www.onegreatfamily.com/Home.aspx  This is primarily a family
trees sharing and collaboration website.
10.   http://www.geni.com/  Web 2.0 and focuses on genealogy
community building and networking.
11.   http://www.kindredkonnections.com/  Grassroots created data site
with compiled family Trees, and some extracted records.
12.  http://www.saxonyroots.com/
13.  http://www.gencircles.com/
14. http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/home/
home.jsf?pname=homeTab
Volunteers extract family history information from digital images of
historical documents to create searchable indexes that assist everyone in finding their ancestors.
15.  http://www.webgenealogie.de/
16.  AncientFaces.com - Share genealogy research, community pages, family photos & records more for free.
17.  http://foko.genealogy.net  dominant German research database
 

DNA

DNA TESTING WEB SITES:
www.familytreedna.com
http://www.smgf.org/index.jspx
http://oxfordancestors.com/
http://www.geogene.com/
http://www.german-dna.net/ http://www.genetealogy.com/resources/html/cat11.html  
http://www.genetealogy.com/  explains genealogy testing.
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html

ENG BDMREGISTERS
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/240.htm

Baptism, marriage and burial records BMDRegisters.co.uk have added more than 600,000 birth, baptism, marriage and burial records online. These include records from:

• The British Lying-In Hospital, Holborn, 1749 - 1868
  
  
  
• Burial ground registers, including the Victoria Park Cemetery
  
  
  

• The archive of the Russian Orthodox Church in London, 1721-1927
• The Fleet Prison, 1667-1777

ENG LONDON

http://www.parishregister.com/searchpage.asp
Docklands Ancestors - Online Parish Register Search

 

ENG SHEFFIELD INDEXERs

www.sheffieldindexers.com
Sheffield Indexers have recently changed service providers and updated the URL to be easier for people to remember.  For several months we have been running the old site alongside the new site for a while, till people get used to the changeover.
The whole shebang site has now gone and you can now only access the PRs, burials, schools admission re etc. through the new site:

GENEALOGICAL STANDARDS & GUIDELINES

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comstandsharing.cfm
Genealogical Standards & Guidelines : Standards for Sharing Information with Others : Recommended by the National Genealogical Society.

National Genealogical Society's standards regarding the sharing of genealogical research between researchers. It prescribes the importance of privacy of living family members, but also respect of copyright and other people's work. Under Software, Privacy Issues.

IRELAND

http://www.eppi.ac.uk/eppi/digbib/ssearch
Here is a site that maybe will assist you
in your search for the elusive ancestors in Ireland

IRL QUAKERS

Ihttp://www.northernirelandancestry.com/ChurchRecords.htm
Information about the National Register of Quakers, and the Quakers in Ireland.
 

PENINSULAR  ROLL CALL

http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/GreatBritain/Challis/c_ChallisIntro.html
Lionel Challis's 'Peninsula Roll Call'.
A biographical database. Information on over 9,500 British officers who served in the Peninsula War from 1808-1814.

PODCASTS AT NATIONALARCHIVES

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcast/new-files-from-1978.mp3

 

PRIVACY ISSUES

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mistclai/privacy.html

 

TRACEGENI.COM

http://www.tracegenie.com/
Births, deaths, marriages and electoral roll search engine
Over 220 million records including births, marriages, deaths and current and historical electoral roll data. Names, addresses, age and lots of other data returned in the online search results.

 

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AUS ANZACS

Mapping Our Anzacs

The National Archives of Australia have a wonderful new mapping function on their website called Mapping Our Anzacs which lets you see where in Australia soldiers enlisted in WW1.

Starting with the map of

Australia

you can click on a State to view statistics about enlistments from that location. Continue to zoom in on the map to narrow down even further. Information at each location includes the number of Anzacs who were born there and the number who enlisted there. You can also see a full list of individuals for each location and each name links to basic biographical information about the person and includes a link to their WW1 service file. There are also other search options available including search by family name and/or place, lists of specific groups such as Chaplains (whose place of birth was not recorded and so may not appear on the maps) and lists of people from unknown or unprocessed places.

Other site features include a scrapbook where you can add notes and photographs about a service person you'd like to commemorate. You can also build a tribute which is a list of individuals you have selected to commemorate - you can name the list, add a description of who is in it and how they are important to you. Both the scrapbook and tribute functions require you to register (free) and be logged in to the site.

 

BOOLEAN FOR BEGINNERS                                

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/12/boolean-for-beg.html

ENG LONDON MAPS
http://archivemaps.com/mapco/london.htm

There are currently high resolution maps London maps from c1560,
1720, 1756, 1765, 1767, 1795, 1800, 1801, 1814, c1820, 1827, c1828,
1834, 1837, 1841, 1850, 1851, 1861, 1865, 1877, c1883, 1897 and 1925.
In a few weeks there will also be a map from 1775, with a full street
search facility.

FAMILY TREE MAGAZINE BEST SITES

http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/101+Best+Sites+Castle+
Garden+Arrivals+And+Online+Trees.aspx

 

IRL CENSUS 1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie
Go to browse census and you'll see County

Down as well as Antrim, Dublin
and Kerry. I cannot wait to get stuck in. I'm sure I'll be up all night now!

 

NZ EARLY AUCKLAND BIRTHS

http://ouraucklandstuff.freeservers.com/KendallPrefix.HTM

NZ ELETRONIC TEXT CENTRE

http://www.nzetc.org/ Url of the NZ Electronic text centre. 

Amongst it's list of projects, it includes The Cyclopedia of New Zealand
"The Cyclopedia of New Zealand was published in six volumes between 1897 and 1908 by the Cyclopedia Company Ltd. Each volume deals with a region of New Zealand and includes information on local towns and districts, government departments, individuals, businesses, clubs and societies."

 

NZ THE FARTHEST PROMISED LAND

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-ArnFart.html
The website for the Farthest Promised Land by Rollo Arnold is back up.

It has the full text and is easily searchable

 

POLAND
http://surnames.polishorigins.com
PolishOrigins?  Surnames Database
Search for people whose forefathers had the same surnames as your ancestors. Add your own surnames and places of interest, by registering for free or editing your profile, to let others find you and enrich your mutual experience.

 

RSS & NEWS READERS
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/01/rss-and-newsrea.html
Your paperboy just got smarter. This article will tell you how to read more information on the Internet in a shorter period of time. In short, you can use the Internet without all the clutter.

SCOTLANDS PEOPLE
As a result of the positive feedback from the survey we sent you a few months ago about a magazine dedicated to Scottish family history and heritage, we are pleased to announce the launch of Discover My Past Scotland, the first online magazine dedicated to your interests.

The monthly magazine, available exclusively online, can be found at http://www.discovermypast.co.uk. We hope you will enjoy it: please have a look at the sample pages and give us your feedback.

If you are searching for that elusive last-minute gift for a friend or relation, you can purchase a subscription for them simply by entering their e-mail address when you subscribe, as every edition of the magazine is delivered by email. Subscriptions start from just £2.50 and a full year's subscription costs only £25.

As always, look out for our annual new years' data release (1908 birth images, 1933 marriage images and 1958 death images), which will be available on ScotlandsPeople on Jan 1st. We will also be making announcements of other new datasets in the New Year.

USA PA
There is quite a bit of Pennsylvania data that is searchable at these
references:

Illinois Data Library
http://www.genealogybuff.com/il/

User-Contributed Obituaries Forum
http://www.genealogybuff.com/uco/

User-Contributed Data Forum
http://www.genealogybuff.com/ucd/

Pennsylvania Counties
http://www.genealogybuff.com/us_counties/pennsylvania_counties.htm

Pennsylvania Cities
http://www.genealogybuff.com/us_cities/pennsylvania_cities.htm

Pennsylvania Newspapers
http://www.genealogybuff.com/np/pennsylvania_newspapers.htm