The podcast of the annual Family History Feast held on Monday 2 August 2010 is now available on the State Library of Victoria website.
The individual links are:
Joan Hunt: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/2716
Sandra Burt: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/2717
Kim Burrell: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/2718
Peter Gloury: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/2719
Philip Thiel: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/2721
The Don Grant lecture given by Professor Geoffrey Blainey is now live: http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/2715
Monday, August 9, 2010
Thursday, August 5, 2010
New Books
New Genealogy books purchased :
1. How did they get here : arrivals after 1924 by Cora Num
2. Family history for the older and wiser : find your roots with online tools by Susan Fifer.
Now available at Campaspe Library
1. How did they get here : arrivals after 1924 by Cora Num
2. Family history for the older and wiser : find your roots with online tools by Susan Fifer.
Now available at Campaspe Library
Thursday, July 22, 2010
New Australian Databases on Ancestry
Ancestry has announced new Australian content now available through Ancestry Library Edition, which can be accessed FREE using the library public access computers.
Birth Index, 1788-1922
Death Index, 1787-1985
Marriage Index, 1788-1949
Always search the "About" section of any database searched on Ancestry. The following indexes are not complete. They do not cover every state for every year indicated.
Also, Cowra Military Camps Personnel Photo Index, New South Wales, Australia, 1905-1970
Birth Index, 1788-1922
Death Index, 1787-1985
Marriage Index, 1788-1949
Always search the "About" section of any database searched on Ancestry. The following indexes are not complete. They do not cover every state for every year indicated.
Also, Cowra Military Camps Personnel Photo Index, New South Wales, Australia, 1905-1970
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Victorian Wills Online
The Victorian Wills Online is an index to Wills, Probate and Administration Records 1841-1925
You can search this list for names of people whose estates underwent the probate process in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Go to http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=54
You can search this list for names of people whose estates underwent the probate process in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Go to http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes/index_search.asp?searchid=54
Monday, July 5, 2010
Clergy of the Church of England database
The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd) makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century. The site can be found at http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/index.html
The CCEd’s major features include:
Records relating to the major events of clerical careers – ordination, appointments as curates, rectors and lecturers
Information about parishes, chapelries and the many secular institutions and persons with chaplains
Information about patrons, many of them women
Information about schools and schoolteachers
The CCEd’s major features include:
Records relating to the major events of clerical careers – ordination, appointments as curates, rectors and lecturers
Information about parishes, chapelries and the many secular institutions and persons with chaplains
Information about patrons, many of them women
Information about schools and schoolteachers
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Genealogylinks.net
Genealogylinks.net consists of 4,500 pages of more than 50,000 Free Genealogy Links; for US, UK, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand.
This webpage has endeavoured to add sites that either have online genealogy records through which you can search for your ancestors or sites that provide helpful information to aid in your research.
Types of records you can find using Genealogylinks.net include parish registers, censuses, cemeteries, marriages, passenger lists, city directories, military records, obituaries and more. Visit the site at http://www.genealogylinks.net/
This webpage has endeavoured to add sites that either have online genealogy records through which you can search for your ancestors or sites that provide helpful information to aid in your research.
Types of records you can find using Genealogylinks.net include parish registers, censuses, cemeteries, marriages, passenger lists, city directories, military records, obituaries and more. Visit the site at http://www.genealogylinks.net/
Irish Family History Foundation
A great resource for those with Irish ancestry is the Irish Family History Foundation Online Genealogy Databases for Ireland, located at http://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com/
The Irish Family History Foundation is the co-ordinating body for a network of government approved genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and in Northern Ireland which have computerised almost 40 million Irish Ancestral records, primarily Church births (baptisms), marriages and deaths.
This site contains the largest collection of Parish records for the island of Ireland that are searchable online. Search for your ancestor across all counties and research centres or select a particular centre from the map.
The Irish Family History Foundation is the co-ordinating body for a network of government approved genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and in Northern Ireland which have computerised almost 40 million Irish Ancestral records, primarily Church births (baptisms), marriages and deaths.
This site contains the largest collection of Parish records for the island of Ireland that are searchable online. Search for your ancestor across all counties and research centres or select a particular centre from the map.
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