Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts

Monday, November 18, 2024

Family Tree UK Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree UK magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue :

  • Blenheim Palace WW1 hospital album
  • Dr Simon Wills RIP
  • Balchin Family Society reaches 30 year milestone
  • 1841 Census now on Map Explorer at TheGenealogist
  • Celebrating 10 years of the Green Room
  • Napoleonic War teenage prisoner of war uniform: unique survivor
  • Are we related? Modelling Ancestry and Kinship
  • Discover free online family history books
  • How to keep your DNA findings organised!
  • Making the most of the Court of Chancery Records
  • Family Tree Plus Frequently asked questions
  • November Webinars
  • The life and lies of Ernest William Taylor

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Family Tree US Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree US magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines. 

Inside this month's issue : 

  • Out on a limb
  • 5 questions with: Roberta Estes - Blogger, DNAeXplained
  • NARA Closes New York Branch
  • A new look for Scotland's People
  • 2024: The Year of Genealogy Software
  • The Soundtrack of Our Lives
  • Research Renaissance - Record discoveries inspire a connection to artistic ancestors.
  • First Words • Start your next family history writing project with confidence!
  • Falling into place - Writing about places.
  • Checking the Weather
  • Free for all - Discover record riches on FamilySearch.
  • Can't-miss tool : Full-Text Search
  • Acadian Adventures - Overcome hurdles in Acadian genealogy.
  • Accessing Library and Archives Canada
  • Saving Political Buttons and Memorabilia
  • DNA and Privacy
  • U.S. Census records - Tips for Finding, Analyzing & Using Censuses

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The latest issue of Who Do You Think You Are magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • DNA testing 10 tips on how to get more from your results
  • British Home Children The story of tracing a missing relative
  • Reader story Rachel Chávez’s tree includes scandal, royalty and romance
  • First World War medical records How to trace your ancestors
  • Recorded sound How new technology changed history
  • Around Britain Northamptonshire family history
  • And more...

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Family Tree UK Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree UK magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • What were you doing 40 years ago? Was it family-history related?
  • Celebrating 40 years of Family Tree
  • Heredis 2025: new software out
  • 93 million new Theories of Family Relativity from MyHeritage DNA
  • A.I. grants for library, museum & archive innovation
  • 23andMe board steps down en masse
  • Artificial Intelligence and genealogy
  • Finding your way around  Findmypast
  • Free, frugal & fun : time- & money-saving tips, tools & tactics
  • The life of a 19th Century soldier
  • Digging deeper & decoding the National Register records
  • Your DNA questions answered!
  • Witch-hunts during the Little Ice Age
  • Wartime trauma The life of George Smith, ARP warden...

Friday, October 11, 2024

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The latest issue of Who Do You Think You Are magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • Historic newspapers The best websites for discovering if your family made headlines
  • Transcription Tuesday Join us for our virtual volunteer event
  • Theatrical ancestors Tracing ancestors with a connection to the stage
  • Methodist records The best websites
  • Reader story Katherine Langford's ancestor fought at D-Day
  • Around Britain East Sussex family history
  • And more.....

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The latest issue of Who Do You Think You Are magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue :

  • 10 easy steps to grow your family tree : Expert tips from Who Do You Think You Are? genealogist Laura Berry
  • Blood on the tracks : The shocking accident records of Victorian railway workers
  • Know your place! : How to conduct local history research
  • Boer War ancestors : How to trace them online
  • Reader story : Ash James' grandfather was a secret agent in Egypt in the First World War
  • Around Britain : County Durham research
  • And more...

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Family Tree UK Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree UK magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • Women making medical history : Celebrating 150 years of medical education
  • Researching the social & family history of unrelated cohorts
  • Lives on the ocean waves : Tracing your mariner ancestors before 1914
  • Lives of service : Researching 19th century soldiers
  • Belle of the ball
  • Your 6 step plan to thorough (brick wall-smashing) family history
  • How Ancestry Enhanced Shared Matches can help you
  • Which (DNA) test is right for you?
  • Spotlight on... York and District Family History Society
  • Helping you discover your family story
  • Your questions answered
  • Photo corner
  • Diary Dates
  • And more....

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Family Tree US Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree US magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines. 

Inside this month's issue : 

  • 5 questions with: Steve Little - AI Program Director, NGS
  • 100,000 Digital Books
  • New and improved : Genealogy software
  • Digitized records roundup
  • Guidelines for AI and Genealogy
  • MyHeritage launches new sub
  • Heirloom Hunting
  • Defying the Odds : One woman finds records of her family when she expected none.
  • Family Inheritance : These five tasks will help you turn the boxes of materials you inherited from family into an organized archive.
  • Memento Mori : These death-related heirlooms may seem macabre by modern standards. But they hold details that are valuable to modern genealogists.
  • Treasure the Register : Tap into valuable Standesamtregistern—German civil vital records
  • Flash Back : Handwritten details on the back of a photo suggest an unexpectedly complex immigration story.
  • Cemetery Records
  • Finding Newspapers at Chronicling America
  • DNA Matches Without a Family Tree
  • Obituaries

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The latest issue of Who Do You Think You Are magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • Who Do You Think You Are? 2024 An interview with producer Lucy Swingler about the new series
  • Who Do You Think You Are? at 20 The programme's 20 best moments
  • Taiwan POWs The horrific ordeal of Japanese POWs on Taiwan during the Second World War
  • The history of education How our ancestors gained access to schooling
  • Irish Famine ancestors Tracing your family in one of the most tragic parts of Ireland's history
  • Around Britain Bedfordshire research
  • And more...

Thursday, August 15, 2024

Family Tree UK Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree UK magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue :  

  • What were their lives actually like?
  • Found under the floorboards: 17th century schoolgirls’ treasures
  • New archive: Discover 900 years of Durham history at The Story
  • How to trace a house history
  • A new era in Victorian education
  • The ever-advancing world of Y & MTDNA & how it can help you
  • A history of Pauper burial grounds
  • Getting started with a One-Place Study
  • It's a Fake! - the curious case of a forged marriage certificate
  • Testing out the new Ancestry Match Page
  • The Victoria County History
  • Families in British India Society celebrates 25th Anniversary
  • Passing on the joy...

 

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The latest issue of Who Do You Think You Are magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue :  

  • The best free family history websites - How to research your family tree for free
  • 48 hours in Dublin - Research your Irish ancestry in two days
  • Olympics - The history of the Olympic Games
  • Sporting ancestors - How to trace your sporting ancestors online
  • Around Britain - South Yorkshire
  • Family hero - Beth Freeman discovered her great grandmother's lifelong mourning for her first husband
  • And more...

Friday, July 12, 2024

Famiy Tree UK Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree UK magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue :  

  • Dear Paul - Paul Chiddicks looks at the intriguing anomalies we might come across when examining our ancestors’ marriage records…
  • Transcription Corner - more frustrating and humorous howlers for you to both grimace and smile at.
  • Ancient DNA for Genealogy
  • Garages, Sheds and family treasures
  • Read All About It! - the rich world of newspaper archives
  • Sleuthing the Siblings - Gill Shaw digs into the details of the five adoptive cousins of her relation Catherine Mary
  • Uncover the clues and pass the stories on…
  • Clustering : The secret to unlocking our DNA matches
  • Getting Started with family history
  • The Plague Years
  • Photo-dating study hints
  • The Undesirables : the law that locked away a generatio
  • Voices of our GENERATION • Diane Lindsay muses on the myriad meanings of ‘voice’
  • And more...

Thursday, July 4, 2024

Traces Magazine

Edition 27 of Australian history and genealogy magazine Traces is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue: 

  • Heritage news
  • The Bush Inn, New Norfolk, Tasmania
  • Rescuing the past from the wreckage : the 50th anniversary of Cyclone Tracy
  • How the car changed Australia
  • Wakka Wakka resistance in the Burnett River Basin
  • Newsreels : a record of daily life
  • Do you have a story to share?
  • The name behind the frame
  • Murder or misadventure on the Moana?
  • A long-lost relative found
  • Speaking of Dulcie
  • The wild ways of Adelaide Ironside
  • The flapper
  • A labour of love
  • And more...

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Family Tree US Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree US magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines. 

Inside this month's issue : 

  • 5 questions with: Elizabeth Shown Mills - Citations Expert
  • NARA Digitization Goal • Scanners & Affiliates to Add 500M Images
  • FamilySearch Library to Retire Microfilm, CDs
  • Listen Now : Podcasts on stories and DNA
  • Road Map to Your Roots
  • 101 Best Websites.
  • Ancestry 101 • Get back to the basics of searching genealogy records at Ancestry.com.
  • Find Your U.S. Ancestors
  • On Exhibit • Your heirloom displays
  • Come to your census : Pre-1850 US censuses
  • School Records
  • Preserving Cards and Board Games
  • Tools for Organizing and Analyzing Research
  • Y-DNA Tests
  • Italian Genealogy

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The latest issue of Who Do You Think You Are magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • Baptisms : 10 tips on tracing these crucial records
  • Ruth Goodman : The historian and TV presenter on her new podcast
  • Reader story : Was David Hough visited by his grandfather's ghost?
  • Medieval ancestors : Take your family tree back hundreds of years
  • Beach huts : The history of these seaside icons
  • The Canadian prairies : Tracing ancestors who emigrated overseas
  • And more...

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Family Tree UK Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree UK magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • News : Helen Tovey reports on news from the world of genealogy
  • 10th annual Lifetime Achievement archives and history awards
  • Tips from the Family Tree Plus Club meetings
  • Surnames as false friends with Chris Paton
  • And So To France : Gill Shaw makes a foray into the French records
  • Uncover the clues and pass the stories on…
  • Dreaded Institution : a history of the Workhouse
  • ‘Proof’ or works of Fiction? : Vital Records
  • Reuben Joynes, Weaver & Activist
  • Shape up your Research Skills in 5 steps
  • Making DNA work for you
  • Your questions answered
  • Getting started & keeping organised with Family
  • Photo corner with Costume historian and photo dating expert Jayne Shrimpton
  • Join the Clubs

Friday, June 7, 2024

Ireland's Genealogical Gazette

The June issue of Ireland's Genealogical Gazette,  published free online monthly by the Genealogical Society of Ireland, is out now.

 
In this issue :

  • Genealogy & GDPR
  • Ireland’s Ordnance Survey
  • GSI Board News
  • Irish History with Davy
  • Demographic History
  • Open Meetings Schedule
  • James Scannell Reports..
  • Précis of the May Lecture
  • Military Archives Release
  • Donations to GSI
  • GSI Board Members
Also available online are previous gazettes dating back to 2006 and a range of other resources, so check out their website to see what they have to offer.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Traces Magazine

Edition 26 of Australian history and genealogy magazine Traces is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue: 

  • Heritage news
  • Crown Street Women’s Hospital, Sydney
  • Astrophysicists tap ancient star knowledge
  • The dashed hopes of the Aldershot Smelter
  • The twists and turns of Tiwi history
  • Farewell to HMAS Australia
  • Diving into middies’ journals
  • Forgotten heroes of the Australian Voluntary Hospital
  • How resilience is vital to your research
  • Research tips
  • New traditions for future generations
  • What’s new online?
  • Who was Joe Grey? Investigating an unsolved mystery
  • Convict research tips
  • Louisa Seddon, New Zealand’s secret ‘queen’
  • Broadcasting pronunciation
  • Saving the Blood Bros. Store

Friday, May 24, 2024

Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The latest issue of Who Do You Think You Are magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue :  

  • D-Day remembered 80 years on, the stories of the men who fought in Operation Overlord
  • Surname changes How to identify your ancestors in records
  • Clive Myrie The broadcaster on his Caribbean family history
  • Reader story Samantha Taylor's ancestors emigrated to the USA and Canada
  • Lust in London Prostitution in the capital in the 18th century
  • Derbyshire Our complete guide to tracing your ancestry in the county

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Family Tree UK Magazine

The latest issue of Family Tree UK magazine is now available free online for Campaspe Library members via our subscription to Libby eMagazines.

Inside this month's issue : 

  • What’s on your family history wish list?
  • The Shetland FHS monumental inscription project ‘could not have come soon enough’
  • 6 million Irish Catholic parish register entries at FamilySearch
  • New Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives, Kew
  • Essex Society for Family History celebrates 50th anniversary
  • New Scottish-Australian Convict dataset
  • Marriages & maps - combining parish records and 19th-century maps
  • Crimean Connection
  • Update - Retention of Probate Records
  • Sneaking up on a Brick Wall
  • Top Tips for Interviewing your Relatives
  • Death and Taxes - Using the death duty registers
  • Tracing Ancestors in the British armed forces in WWII