FRIDAY FOSSICKING MAY 29 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGISTS

* A special day for the Irish amongst us...

        Don't forget on Saturday 11 July we have our Irish Day coming up, featuring three great speakers. This is being held at the NSW Bowlers Club in York Street in the CBD and is a great opportunity to spend a day talking to others with an interest in all things Irish – including nuns and convicts. Details here.

• Saturday 20 June (10.00am - 4.00pm) - Genealogy & Technology Day - Michelle Patient
  A day of immersion in technology with expert genealogist Michelle Patient. Topics covered include: digital indexes & archives, creating digital records, using 
• Evernote & lots of opportunity to ask questions. Full program available on the website or by phone or email. Morning & afternoon tea incl., BYO lunch. 
• Presenter - Michelle Patient. Bookings essential. $40 ($55 non-members).

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• Over 1.1 million new Irish newspaper articles
• Images added to Merchant Navy crew lists from Anglesey and Devon, UK
• Baptisms from North Cray, North West Kent, England
• Burials from North Cray and Swanscombe, North West Kent, England

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Get your June bank holiday weekend off to a great start with this fantastic special offer -

 a Findmypast Ireland subscription for just €1 (usually €9.95). Start discovering your family's 

story with a month's access to all of our Irish records, giving you everything you need to begin growing your family tree.

Get 1 month for €1

Purchase your one month Ireland subscription today - your discount will be applied automatically when you click the link above, but should you have any trouble simply type the code JUNE15 into the promotional code box at the bottom of the payment page and click 'apply'.
THIS OFFER EXPIRES AT 11.59PM ON TUESDAY, 2ND JUNE.

FAMILY SEARCH

FamilySearch has added to its collections more than 1.7 million indexed records and images for Austrailia, China, India, Peru, the Philippines, and the United States. Notable collection updates include 327,195 images from the Peru, Lima, Civil Registration, 1874–1996 collection; 275,449 images from the Peru, Puno, Civil Registration, 1890–2005 collection; and 249,700 images from the Peru, San Martín, Civil Registration, 1850–1999 collection. FamilySearch.org

Details: http://tinyurl.com/nhcw3gn

CHRIS PATON suggests...

Victoria, Australia, Index to Naturalisation Certificates, 1851-1928
// British GENES (British Genealogy News and Events)

Ancestry has released an index to naturalisation certificates for non-British settlers in Victoria, Australia, dating from 1851-1928.

The database is accessible at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60711, with the data sourced from Public Record Office Victoria in North Melbourne. 

AND JUST FOR FUN…. what can you get for a $1?

http://www.cnet.com/news/this-light-bulb-costs-less-than-1-and-fits-in-your-wallet/

FRIDAY FOSSICKING MAY 22ND 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

* QUEENSLAND FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Ireland to Australia

 Presented by Dr. Richard Reid and Mary King June 13th, 2015... see link above for full details..


* FREE ACCESS THROUGH MEMORIAL DAY

Free access to military records up until the end of May 25th


*  NEW MONAGHAN RECORDS

Over 40,000 baptismal, marriage and death records from County Monaghan from Roots Ireland.


*   FIND MY PAST

City of London, haberdashers, apprentices and freemen, 1526-1933

City of London, ironmongers, apprentices and freemen, 1511-1923

British Royal Navy, foreign awards to officers index, 1914-1922

St George The Martyr Mortuary register from Surrey, England

YOU'RE INVITED... HOBBS FAMILY REUNION...Oct 31st 2015

YOUR INVITATION AWAITS...

 DO YOU HAVE ANY LINK TO ROBERT HOBBS AND/OR BRIDGET ESLIN?

 You might be surprised as to how many do...

 I am one of their 4th great grandchildren and proud to belong to this huge family.

 Little did my mother know when she gave me the second name of Bridget, after her Irish mother, that I have links to that name from over a century ago..

You can read more about Robert and Bridget here...

http://thatmomentintime-crissouli.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/australia-day-2013-blog-challenge.html 

 If you think you may have a connection, by all means leave your details in the comments. If you are interested in going to the reunion, please contact my cousin, Bev Woodman, as per the address in the invitation. I would love to meet you there.

FRIDAY FOSSICKING MAY 15, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

* SOUTH AUSTRALIAN LAND RECORDS - ONLINE AND FREE! | Genealogy & History News

http://www.gouldgenealogy.com/2015/05/south-australian-land-records-online-and-free

Historical Records... Thanks to Gould Genealogy.



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* Exclusive Dublin workhouse registers, 1840-1919

* Exclusive Dublin Poor Law Unions Board of Guardians minute books - search or browse

* Over 2.2 million new British newspaper articles

* Over 19,000 additional baptism and burials from Nottinghamshire, England

* The May/June edition (29^th issue) of Irish Lives Remembered Genealogy e-Magazine is now live and can be read/downloaded FREE of charge via www.irishlivesremembered.com  or directly at http://bit.ly/1FbYal1  





* The latest version of CLANN is now available... you can download from here...
https://flipflashpages.uniflip.com/2/71043/351046/pub/

rootsireland.ie   Irish Family History Foundation

* QUEENSLAND STATE ARCHIVES  

Queensland State Archives (QSA) has released a new index to help researchers with finding digitised  First World War records in our collection. This index is available on the Queensland Government data  website and covers digitised records added to our Image Queensland catalogue up to 16 February 2015.  These digitised records relate to the outbreak of First World War (1914-1918) and the ensuing years,  including post-war settlement and commemoration activities. The index is not a complete list of all First  World War records held by QSA. While this information was already available in Image Queensland, making the data available in this  form makes it easier for researchers to search and browse the full selection of digitised First World War  material. Visit our First World War webpage to find out more about the types of records we hold on this research  topic. * TROVE Stop the press! Federal Parliamentary Press releases are  now in Trove! "The Trove Team has continued to expand Australian political history coverage in Trove with the inclusion of over 200,000 press releases from members of the Australian Federal Parliament,  thanks to the Australian Parliamentary Library.  For many years the Parliamentary Library has been collecting and digitising press releases issued by federal politicians. The Library has agreed to Trove harvesting this information from its  databases. The majority of press releases date from the 1990s to today, with a smattering of  earlier documents from 1889 onwards. You can start with Sir Henry Parkes’s Tenterfield address  that focuses on those all-important topics that drove Federation like standardisation of railway  gauges. Read Robert Menzies recounting a trip to Europe, interrupted by the announcement that  Hitler would re-militarise Germany in 1935. Follow the story of the Oberon class submarine from  it's christening by Princess Alexandra in Scotland in 1968 to its decommissioning and plans to make  a historical tourist attraction in 2008. Go all the way up to the recent announcement of the  National Ice Taskforce. Interested in the radio personalities politicians are talking to? You will also find the Parliamentary Library’s transcripts of more than 13,000 radio broadcasts in the Music, Sound and Video zone,  including a 1975 ABC AM interview with Gough Whitlam and Vincent Lingiari on the handover of  part of Wave Hill Cattle Station. Every hot button political topic from the last two and a half decades will have press releases from your Federal Members of Parliament in this collection. If you’d like to limit your search to the  Australian Parliamentary Library’s Press Releases database, go to the Advanced Search and search  for ‘Press Releases’ in the library name, or add nuc:"APAR:PR" to your search These records are updated in Trove three times per week so you can stay in touch with today’s history. If you want to explore our political life further in Trove why not explore the work of our representatives in federal parliament through their biographies?  If you’re interested in Senators we have a growing collection of biographies from the Senate Biographical Dictionary.  And if you’re interested in local government why not check out Sydney’s Aldermen?"

FRIDAY FOSSICKING MAY 8TH 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

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INTERNET ARCHIVE...  Free *

is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music and more


This takes you to just one category, related to Ireland..

https://archive.org/details/microfilm?&and[]=%20Ireland

* This suggests free images, but always read carefully and adhere to copyright and or terms of use.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=images%20free



IRISH FAMILY HISTORY FOUNDATION

New Records Online for Counties Antrim and Down

over 27,000 new Church of Ireland records 
These new baptism, marriage and burial records are from 24 parishes across Antrim and Down and were transcribed by our Emeritus Research Director, Dr Brian Trainor.

 Details included..

Name of Church	County	Type of record	Years covered	No. of entries

These new records contain a wealth of information of use to both the family and local historian and the burial registers, in particular, are full of interesting entries.
For example in Ardkeen CI there was noted the burial entry of Henry Cleland, aged around four months old, in 1823 with a note by the minister that stated that he was “found dead in a field with a letter mentioning his name. Perished from cold and hunger; Coroner's inquest wilful murder.”

Irish Family History Foundation

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The Death Duty Registers 1796 to 1903

 Ireland Deaths 1864-1870

U.S. Veteran’s Gravesites

The Purewa Cemetary burials and cremations

Dublin Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers, 1840–1919

Over 408,000 England Billion Graves Cemetery Index records 

Over 55,000 Scotland BillionGraves Cemetery Index records

Over 48,000 Wales BillionGraves Cemetery Index records

Over 4,000 Ireland BillionGraves Cemetery Index records

Over 877,000 Australia BillionGraves Cemetery Index records

Over 88,000 New Zealand BillionGraves Cemetery Index records

Britain, Country Apprentices 1710-1808

Victoria Parliamentary Papers 1852-1899




JOHN OXLEY LIBRARY .. STATE LIBRARY QUEENSLAND ...Free

For your reading pleasure.. http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/

FRIDAY FOSSICKING - MAY 2ND 2015 UPDATE

FRIDAY FOSSICKING

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

FIND MY PAST

• English and Welsh Quaker births, marriages and burials, 1578-1841
• Workhouse records from Southwark, Surrey, England
• Over 45,000 wills from Queensland, Australia
• A range of soldier records from New South Wales, Australia

FRIDAY FOSSICKING MAY 1ST, 2015

FRIDAY FOSSICKING 

Walter Withers

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

* Thanks to Ireland Family History....

Almost 9,000 Catholic Baptismal Records added to Ulster Historical Foundation
bit.ly/NewRCRecords

* Thanks to Genealogy's Star (Richard Tanner) for this very interesting blog onThe Library of Congress.. and for the guide to using it... If, like me, you have looked there before and given up, I think you'll find this is a great help.

* COPYRIGHT.. can be a very frustrating thing to work around/with.

 I'm sure you respect other's work as you want them to respect yours.

 I won't go into all the various restrictions here, you can check those for yourself, as it differs in various countries. Just look for advice now and then, as it can alter a little. What you may not realise is that there are a number of sites that allow you to use Images free of copyright, but you should always give credit where credit is due... and check the usage right of each image  e.g.   These are but a few useful sites...

 Pixabay

Wikimedia Commons

The Old Design Shop

Shopify

NB.. Shopify has a list of sites, not all of which I have tried.. be careful and read the full terms. Some allow so many free images per week, some are outright free to use.


* Plus, just in case you have had your eyes shut for the last few days... 

📢  NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND will be releasing over 40,000 images of Catholic Parish registers on July 8th...I don't think I will even try to look on that date...  📢

http://www.nli.ie/en/parish-register.aspx