What's new on Trove

Over the past few months the people at Trove have added over 2 million more newspaper pages to their collection, taking the current total to a whopping 222,868,169 scanned pages online.  Here’s the list the titles they’ve released over the past few months, as well as those that are coming soon.

WHAT’S NEW

NEW SOUTH WALES
The Alfred (Sydney, NSW: 1835)
The Australian Sportsman (Sydney, NSW: 1848)
The Citizen (Sydney, NSW: 1846-1847)
The Currency Lad (Sydney, NSW: 1832-1833)
Hill’s Life in New South Wales (Sydney, NSW: 1832)
Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident (NSW: 1904-1907, 1919)
New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney: 1860-1881)
The Sydney Daily Advertiser (NSW: 1848)
Sydney Punch (NSW: 1864-1888)
The Sydney Times (NSW: 1834-1838)
The Sydney Weekly Transcript (NSW: 1846)
Weekly Observer (Sydney, NSW: 1833)
QUEENSLAND
Toowoomba Chronicle (Qld: 1917-1922)
Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Qld: 1922-1933)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
The Egotist (Adelaide, SA: 1839-1854)
Messenger (Port Adelaide, SA: 1951-1954)
Port Augusta and Stirling Illustrated News (SA: 1871-1873)
Port Lincoln Herald (SA: 1839-1840)
The Portonian (Port Adelaide, SA: 1871-1873
Tribune (SA edition, published in Sydney: 1951-1964
Western People and Tumby Bay Times (SA: 1912)
VICTORIAElmore Standard (Vic: 1882-1905)
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Avon Argus and Cunderdin-Meckering-Tammin Mail (WA: 1925-1954)
Ballidu-Wongan Budget (WA: 1927-1941)
Blackwood Chronicle and South-West Mining News (WA: 1904-1907)
Bridgetown Advocate (WA: 1938 – 1950)
Bulong Bulletin and Mining Register (WA: 1897-1898)
East Murchison News (WA: 1901-1911)
Farmers Observer (Nambeen, WA: 1933-1935)
Geraldton Advertiser (WA: 1893-1905)
Gnowangerup Star (WA: 1942-1954)
Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA: 1906-1912)
The Irwin Index (Mingenew, WA : 1926-1928)
Lake Grace Newdegate Cultivator and Dumbleyung and Kukerin Producer (WA: 1925-1930)
Morgans Courier (Mount Morgan, WA: 1904-1911)
Mount Morgans Mercury (WA: 1906-1909)
Mount Morgans Miner (WA: 1901-1903)
Narembeen Observer (WA: 1928-1933)
Narrogin Advocate and Southern Districts Courier (WA: 1904-1906)
South Western Times (Bunbury, WA: 1932-1954)
South Western Tribune (Bunbury, WA: 1930-1932)
Wiluna Chronicle and East Murchison Advocate (WA: 1924-1931)
Wongan-Ballidu Budget (WA: 1941-1954)
The Wyalkatchem Wheatsheaf and Bencubbin Banner (WA: 1922-1939)
York Chronicle (WA: 1927-1954)
INTERNATIONALBangkok Recorder (Thailand: 1865-1867)

COMING SOON

NEW SOUTH WALESAlbury Banner (1881-1896); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund]
Border Morning Mail (1938-1942); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund
Daily Express (Wagga Wagga: 1919-1929); [Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society]
Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident (1904-1907); [Mosman Historical Society]
QUEENSLAND
Toowoomba Chronicle (Sept. 1917-Sept. 1922); [State Library of Queensland]
Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Oct 1922-Dec 1933); [State Library of Queensland]
SOUTH AUSTRALIAMessenger (1951-1954) [State Library of South Australia]
Port Augusta & Stirling Illustrated News (Feb.-Aug. 1901) [State Library of South Australia]
Portonian (1871-1873) [State Library of South Australia]
VICTORIAElmore Standard (1882-1905);[Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society]
Great Southern Advocate (1907-1913; 1919-1926); [Korumburra & District Historical Society]
Richmond Guardian (1907-1909;1915-1916) [Rhett Bartlett]
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
The Fremantle Advocate (Aug 1926 – Jan 1942); [Fremantle Library]
INTERNATIONALA Voz de Timor (1965-1975) [Canberra Friends of Dili and the National Library of Australia]

New Newspaper Titles Coming to Trove

I always get excited to hear about new resources about to become available on the free Trove site.  Below are some of the upcoming additions.

Newspaper titles are listed by state/territory and then alphabetically by title. These titles have been funded for digitisation by various contributors which are indicated in square brackets after the title name.

NSW

• Albury Banner (1881-1896); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund]
• Border Morning Mail (1938-1942); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund]
• Daily Express (Wagga Wagga: 1919-1929); [Wagga Wagga & District Historical
• Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident (1904-1907); [Mosman Historical Society]

QLD

• Toowoomba Chronicle (Sept. 1917-Sept. 1922); [State Library of Queensland]
• Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Oct 1922-Dec 1933); [State Library of Queensland]

SA

• Messenger (1951-1954) [State Library of South Australia]
• Port Augusta & Stirling Illustrated News (Feb.-Aug. 1901) [State Library of South Australia]
• Portonian (1871-1873) [State Library of South Australia]

VIC

• Elmore Standard (1882-1905);[Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society]
• Great Southern Advocate (1907-1913; 1919-1926); [Korumburra & District Historical Society]
• Richmond Guardian (1907-1909;1915-1916) [Rhett Bartlett]

WA

• The Fremantle Advocate (Aug 1926 - Jan 1942); [Fremantle Library]

International

• A Voz de Timor (1965-1975) [Canberra Friends of Dili and the National Library of Australia]

What's New on Trove

Trove is one of my favourite online genealogy sites, and one that I visit regularly in my research.  While they’re not scanning as quickly as they have in the past, mostly due to budget cuts, they are still finding more newspapers to digitize and the collection continues to grow.

Here’s the list the titles they’ve released over the past few months, as well as those that are coming soon.  These new additions take the current total of old newspapers records to a amazing 220,950,426!

Thanks to the wonderful people at Unlock the Past who highlighted these new additions in their blog.

New Additions

NEW SOUTH WALESThe Spectator (Sydney, NSW: 1846)
The Spectator (Sydney, NSW: 1892)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
The Albany Despatch (WA: 1919-1927)
Chung Wah News (Perth, WA: 1981-1987)
Coolgardie Pioneer (WA: 1895-1901)
Day Dawn Chronicle (WA: 1902 – 1909)
Geraldton Guardian (WA: 1951-1954)
Harvey Murray Times (WA: 1931-1954)
Hellenic Echo (Perth, WA: 1967-1968)
Japanese Perth Times (Subiaco, WA: 1989-1996)
Kookynie Press (WA: 1903-1911)
Manjimup Mail and Jardee-Pemberton-Northcliffe Press (WA: 1927-1950)
Midlands Advocate (Perth, WA: 1930-1954)
Newcastle Herald and Toodyay District Chronicle (WA: 1902-1912)
North-Eastern Wheatbelt Tribune (Wyalkatchem, WA: 1926-1940)
Stampa Italiana = The Italian Press (Perth, WA: 1931-1932)
The Voice of Freedom = Elefthera Phoni (Perth, WA: 1956-1957)
The Western Australian Goldfields Courier (Coolgardie, WA: 1894-1898)
Wheatbelt Tribune and Koorda Record (Wyalkatchem, WA: 1940-1954)

INTERNATIONAL
Guinea Gold (Papua New Guinea: 1942-1945)
Papua New Guinea Post-Courier (Port Moresby : 1969 – 1981)
Papuan Courier (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: 1917-1942)
Papuan Times (Kwato, Papua New Guinea : 1951-1954)
Papuan Times (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: 1911-1916)

Coming soon

NEW SOUTH WALES
Albury Banner (1881-1896); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund]
Border Morning Mail (1938-1942); [Albury & District Historical Society; NSW State Government Regional Cultural Fund]
Daily Express (Wagga Wagga: 1919-1929); [Wagga Wagga & District Historical
Mosman, Neutral and Middle Harbour Resident (1904-1907); [Mosman Historical Society]

QUEENSLANDToowoomba Chronicle (Sept. 1917-Sept. 1922); [State Library of Queensland]
Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette (Oct 1922-Dec 1933); [State Library of Queensland]

SOUTH AUSTRALIAMessenger (1951-1954) [State Library of South Australia]
Port Augusta & Stirling Illustrated News (Feb.-Aug. 1901) [State Library of South Australia]
Portonian (1871-1873) [State Library of South Australia]

VICTORIAElmore Standard (1882-1905);[Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society]
Great Southern Advocate (1907-1913; 1919-1926); [Korumburra & District Historical Society]
Richmond Guardian (1907-1909;1915-1916) [Rhett Bartlett]

WESTERN AUSTRALIA
The Fremantle Advocate (Aug 1926 – Jan 1942); [Fremantle Library]

Trove

Trove has a wonderful new addition, with the Commonwealth of Australia Government Gazette from 1901-1957 now available online and fully text searchable.
The Office of Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) has supplied the content and the National Library of Australia has digitised and made these records machine-readable. Users can correct, tag and annotate the contents just as they can with digitised newspaper articles.  It is anticipated that more issues will be added in the future.
The very first issue of the Gazette, published on 1 January 1901, shows the proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia by Queen Victoria. There were also instructions on a range of protocols, such as directions for appointing the judiciary, what should happen were the Governor-General to become incapacitated, and who would form Her Majesty’s first government.
Each Gazette documents the day-to-day business of governing and administering the Commonwealth. Usually published weekly, they were the principal source of public information on current legislation, and contained notices required by law on decisions made by the various departments and courts.
The subject matter of the Gazette ranges across all kinds of services and authorities, including defence, postal and telegraphic services, taxation and other forms of revenue, immigration, citizenship, trade and foreign affairs, national infrastructure and many others.
Some examples of what you may find in the Gazettes include:

• notices about people becoming naturalised as citizens
• results of public service exams
• details of military service, commissioning, and decorations
• post office and military tenders
• despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies
• patent and treasury statements
• statements of receipt and expenditure for Territories

What's New on Trove

Every few months when the National Library of Australia announce the latest historical newspaper titles that they have digitised and added on to Trove, I dive in to see what's new.  Frequently the new titles mean redoing searches and finding new gems to add to my files. Here’s their latest additions - happy Troving!
New South Wales
– The Australian Workman (Sydney, NSW: 1890-1897)
– The Bird O’ Freedom (Sydney, NSW: 1891-1896)
– The Dead Bird (Sydney, NSW: 1889-1891)
– The Workers’ Weekly (Sydney, NSW: 1923-1939)
Queensland
– Brisbane Telegraph (Qld.: 1948-1954)
– The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld.: 1903-1926)
– The Evening Advocate (Innisfail, Qld.: 1941-1954)
– The Evening Telegraph (Charters Towers, Qld.: 1901-1921)
– Johnstone River Advocate and Innisfail News (Qld.: 1928-1941)
– The Toowoomba Chronicle and Queensland Advertiser (Qld.: 1861-1875)
South Australia
– Border Chronicle (Bordertown, SA: 1908-1950)
– Critic (Adelaide, SA: 1897-1924)
– The Express (Adelaide, SA: 1922-1923)
– The Pennant (Penola, SA: 1946-1954)
– The Terowie Enterprise (SA: 1884-1891)
Tasmania
– The Derwent Star and Van Diemen’s Land Intelligencer (Hobart, Tas.: 1810-1812)
– King Island News (Currie, King Island: 1912-1954)
– The North Coast Standard (Latrobe, Tas.: 1890-1894)
Victoria
– The Colonial Mining Journal, Railway and Share Gazette (Vic.: 1858-1859)
– The Colonial Mining Journal, Railway and Share Gazette and Illustrated Record (Melbourne, Vic.: 1859-1861)
Western Australia
– The Avon Gazette and Kellerberrin News (WA: 1914-1916)
– The Australian (Perth, WA: 1917-1923)
– The Avon Gazette and York Times (WA: 1916-1930)
– The Blackwood Times (Bunbury, WA: 1905-1920; 1945-1954)
– The Leonora Miner (WA: 1910-1928)
– Narrogin Observer (WA: 1952-1954)
– The Northam Advertiser (WA: 1895-1918; 1948-1954)
– The Pingelly Leader (WA: 1906-1925)
– Pingelly-Brookton Leader (WA: 1925-1926)
– The Southern Districts Advocate (Katanning, WA: 1913-1936)
– The Sun (Kalgoorlie, WA: 1898-1919)
– The W.A. Record (Perth, WA: 1888-1922)
– Yilgarn Merredin Times (Southern Cross, WA: 1921-1923)

What's New on Trove

Have you checked back to Trove recently to see what's new?  While we all continue “Troving” (yes, that is now a word), the team who digitise the newspapers for the National Library of Australia have been working hard.
Here’s their list of new newspapers:
NEW SOUTH WALES
- The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser (NSW: 1868-1931)
- The Shoalhaven Telegraph (NSW: 1879-1937)
- The Sydney Stock and Station Journal (NSW: 1896-1924)
- Boorowa News (NSW: 1951-1954)
- The Braidwood Review and District Advocate (NSW: 1915-1954)
- The Clarence River Advocate (NSW: 1898-1949)
- The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural & Mining Advocate (NSW: 1898 – 1928)
- The Hebrew Standard of Australasia (NSW: 1895-1953)
- Intelligence (Bowral, NSW: 1884)
- The International Socialist (Sydney, NSW: 1910-1920)
- The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News (NSW: 1859-1866)
- Referee (Sydney, NSW: 1886-1939)
- The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser (NSW: 1904-1929)
- Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW: 1895-1930)
QUEENSLAND
- Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald & General Advertiser (Qld: 1861-1908)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- Herald (Adelaide, SA: 1899-1910)
- Murray Pioneer (Renmark, SA: 1942-1950)
- Murray Pioneer and Australian River Record (Renmark, SA: 1913-1942)
- News (Adelaide, SA: 1923-1954)
- Petersburg Times (SA: 1887-1919)
- The Times and Northern Advertiser, Peterborough, South Australia (SA: 1919-1950)
- Wallaroo Times (Port Wallaroo, SA: 1882-1888)
- The Wallaroo Times and Mining Journal (Port Wallaroo, SA: 1865-1881)
- Weekly Herald (Adelaide, SA: 1894-1898)
VICTORIA
- Ballan Times (Vic: 1914-1918)
- Clunes Guardian and Gazette (Vic: 1918-1918)
- Cobden Times (Vic: 1918)
- Cobden Times and Heytesbury Advertiser (Vic: 1914-1918)
- Coleraine Albion and Western Advertiser (Vic: 1914-1918)
- Creswick Advertiser (Vic: 1914-1918)
- Daylesford Advocate, Yandoit, Glenlyon and Eganstown Chronicle (Vic: 1914-1918)
- Geelong Advertiser (Vic: 1914-1918)
- Grenville Standard (Vic: 1915 – 1918)
- Hamilton Spectator (Vic: 1914 – 1918)
- Koroit Sentinel and Tower Hill Advocate (Vic : 1914-1918)
- Lang Lang Guardian (Vic : 1914-1918)
- Mount. Alexander Mail (Vic: 1914-1917)
- Penshurst Free Press (Vic: 1914-1918)
- Richmond Australian (Vic: 1914-1916)
- Riponshire Advocate (Vic: 1914 – 1918)
- Rochester Express (Vic: 1914 – 1918)
- Talbot Leader (Vic: 1914 – 1918)
- Weekly News (Yarraville) (Vic: 1914-1918)

The National Library of Australia’s digitised newspapers currently has over 10 million pages from over 500 Australian newspapers online. All of these digitised newspapers are fully text-searchable, and users can enhance the data by subject tagging, text correction and annotations (have you done that?). And of course the newspapers are FREE for everyone to use and browse.

Eliza Pummeroy

This article from The Argus on 9 May 1901 concerns my great grandmother Eliza Pummeroy who was left destitute upon the death of her husband.  I had never known she faced the courts in an application for relief.  Her children did end up in care for a while, until after Eliza remarried.  Not only does this article tell about her struggle but also fills in a lot of the detail on the death of her husband Alfred.

Another great article found on Trove.

Trove

Newspapers that tell Australia’s multicultural stories in their own language are now available online through the National Library of Australia’s Trove service.

Under the National Library’s Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program, selected German, Italian and Estonian community newspapers have now been digitised. These are:
•Adelaider Deutsche Zeitung (1851 and 1860-62)
•Suedaustralische Zeitung/ Südaustralische Zeitung (1850-1851)
•Süd-Australische Zeitung (1860-1874)
•Il Giornale Italiano (1932-1940)
•Meie Kodu (1949-1954) – title funded by Estonian Archives in Australia

Trove

The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce that the following newspaper titles have been added to Digitised newspapers and more on Trove:
Victoria
Oakleigh Leader (North Brighton, Vic. : 1888 - 1902)
Oakleigh Leader and District Record (Brighton, Vic. : 1887 - 1888)
Sunbury News and Bulla and Melton Advertiser (Vic. : 1892 - 1900)
The Benalla Ensign and Farmer's and Squatter's Journal (Vic. : 1869 - 1872)
The Coburg Leader (Vic. : 1890 - 1913)
The Elsternwick Leader (Brighton, Vic. : 1888)
The Elsternwick Leader and Caulfield and Balaclava Guardian (Brighton, Vic. : 1887)
The Elsternwick Leader and District Record (Brighton, Vic. : 1887 - 1888)
Elsternwick Leader and East Brighton, South Brighton, Cheltenham, Mentone, Mordialloc, Oakleigh, Sandringham, Balaclava & Caulfield Record (Vic. : 1887)
The Kerang Times (Vic. : 1889 - 1890)
The Kyabram Union and Rodney Shire Advocate (Vic. : 1894)
Healesville Guardian and Yarra Glen Advocate (Vic. : 1898)
These titles have been funded by the State Library of Victoria
Tasmania
The Observer (Hobart, Tas : 1845-1846)
New South Wales
The Leader (Liverpool, NSW : 1946-1949)
This title has been funded by the Liverpool City Library

Trove

Have you looked at Trove recently?  Trove is an online search engine developed by the National Library of Australia found at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ . The following are a selection of newspaper titles that have been added to the National Library of Australia's Trove since November 2010. The years covered so far for each title are limited, but ofcourse more issues will be added progressively!
Kilmore Free Press and Bourke and Dalhousie Advertiser (Victoria)
Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser and Diamond Creek Valley Advocate (Victoria)
Alexandra and Yea Standard and Yarck, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express (Victoria)
Advertiser (Hurstbridge, Victoria)
Sunday Times (Perth, Western Australia)
The Mail (Adelaide, South Australia)
The Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide, South Australia)
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Queensland)
Rockhampton Bulletin and Central Queensland Advertiser (Queensland)
Morning Post (Cairns, Queensland)
The North Australian and Northern Territory Government Gazette (Darwin, NT)
Northern Standard (Darwin, NT)
North Australian (Darwin, NT)
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW)
A full list of newspapers titles is available at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/titles .

Trove

Trove is an online search engine developed by the National Library of Australia found at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ . At the click of a button, you can access a large and unrivalled repository of Australian material.  Content is from the National Library of Australia, the State and Territory libraries and over 1000 other libraries around Australia.  Trove also features content from other Australian collections including cultural, business and educational organisations, and major international digital collections.  Trove includes book, journals and magazine articles ; pictures and photographs ; Australian newspapers ; diaries, letters and archives ; maps ; music, sound and video ; archived websites ; and people and organisations.