Workhouses

Did any of your ancestors find themselves in a workhouse?  Want to know more about the conditions and how workhouses operated?  Here are a few sites for information about and records of workhouses.
Workhouses & Institutions - www.institutions.org.uk/
Workhouse records - www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?records/records.shtml
Union Workhouse - www.judandk.force9.co.uk/workhouse.html
C19th American Poorhouses - www.poorhousehistory.com/

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.

New Books

New genealogy books purchased :
1.  Social networking for genealogists by Drew Smith
2.  Grow your own family tree by Alan Stewart
Now available at Campaspe Library

Family History Feast Podcasts

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

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

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

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