What's New in the A.I.G.S. Library
9th August 2008
Check out
the latest additions
to the Institute Library for the period
1st July to 1st August 2008
A.I.G.S. Diary 15th July - 25th August
15th July 2008
Check out
the Institute Diary
for the period 15th July to 25th August
2008
Alexander Henderson Award for 2007 -
Results
5th June 2008
The Alexander Henderson Award
for the best produced Family History published in Australia in 2007
was presented at the Presentation Dinner held on 30th May 2008.
The First Prize was awarded to David Wilkins - Killara, N.S.W. for:-
From Brecon to Broken Hill: The History of a WILKINS
Family
This book and the other 23 entrants may be viewed at the Library.
Why not enter for the 2008 Award?
Entries close on 30th November 2008.
For further details and judging criteria
Click Here
findmypast.com Adds 1960s
Records to Outward Bound Passenger Lists online at the A.I.G.S.
20th April 2008
Findmypast.com in association with The National Archives
of the UK has published online for the first time another decade of
UK outbound passenger lists covering the years
1940 to 1960 .
Over 86,000 colour images have been added to the site
listing 1,400,614 passengers travelling from
British ports on 11,425 long-distance journeys. The most popular
destinations during this decade were USA, Canada, Africa, India,
Australia , Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand
, Canary Islands and Jamaica.
Following the 2nd. World War, the British wives of Canadian,
American and Australian servicemen can be seen travelling out to join
their new husbands overseas. Described as "dependent of" followed
by the name of their husband, the women's old address in the UK
is given as well as their newaddress overseas
. In many cases, the wives are travelling with their young babies.
The passenger lists at findmypast.com now include 20 million
names within 137,000 passenger lists spanning
1890 to 1960.
findmypast.com is available on
6 dedicated computers at the A.I.G.S. library with free
downloads (normal printing charges apply).
findmypast.com Adds Ten
New Counties to the 1871 Census online at the A.I.G.S.
4th February 2008
Ten more counties have now been
added to the 1871 census of England and Wales on findmypast.com.
These are Cambridgeshire,Cheshire, Derbyshire, Durham,
Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire,
Nottinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Lancashire, Somerset and Essex.
There are now 34 complete Counties
online at findmypast.com. This equates to 90% of the population surveyed
in this census.
Like all the Censuses on findmypast.com,
the new counties can be searched by name of person or
you can choose to search by address, and also by a number of
different fields, such as occupation or age.
All the new records can be searched
using our normal search tools.
findmypast.com is available on
6 dedicated computers at the A.I.G.S. library with free
downloads (normal printing charges apply).
findmypast.com adds the
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY SHAREHOLDERS INDEX to their site
27th January 2008
Findmypast.com has added another major new
acquisition to its existing online collection - the Great
Western Railway Shareholders index .
This new online resource contains the details of
over 290,000 people including 77,000
shareholders in the railway company along with related parties,
such as executors or spouses.
Findmypast.com has been working in partnership
with the Society of Genealogists to publish online the index
to this fascinating set of records held at the Society's London
headquarters. Records date from when the GWR was created in 1835
and the series continues through to 1932. This first online release
covers the ledgers for the period
1835 to 1910 . The indexes to the registers
for the period 1911
to 1932 will follow in due course.
In almost all entries, the name of the shareholder
is given together with an address, the names of the other parties
(executors or legatees for deaths; husbands for marriages) and
dates of death, probate, marriage or other event. Some 90% of the
events recorded are deaths, since the purpose of these registers was
to record change of ownership of the shares, and the death of the original
shareholder was the most likely reason for this to happen.
Visitors to the findmypast website will be able
to search the index to these records by entering the name of their
ancestor, which will produce a free list of results showing the
full name, year and place of the event. Users at the Institute
Library can obtain free downloads from each entry, as below.
findmypast.com is available on 6 dedicated computers
at the A.I.G.S. library with free
downloads (normal printing charges apply).
Tours of the Victorian Archives
Centre 2008
27th January 2008
Public Record Office Victoria offers free behind the
scenes tours of the Victorian Archives Centre for groups and individuals.
Tours, including the Repository and Reading Room, are
led by PROV volunteers and take approximately one hour.
Friday Tours
In 2008 tours will be conducted
every Friday at 10am, 12noon and 2pm (except on Good
Friday on March 21, ANZAC Day on April 25 and on December 19 and
25).
Saturday Tours
Tours will also be conducted
at 11am on those Saturdays when the VAC Reading Room
is open.
Saturday Tours 2008
February: Saturday 9 and 23
March: Saturday
8 and 29
April: Saturday
12 and 26
May:
Saturday 10 and 31
June:
Saturday 14 and 28
July:
Saturday 12 and 26
August:
Saturday 9 and 30
September: Saturday
13 and 27
October: Saturday
11 and 25
November: Saturday
8 and 29
December: Saturday
13
Bookings are essential. Please
contact Reception at VAC on tel: (03) 9348 5600 to reserve
places.
Victorian Archives Centre
2008 Calendar of Events
27th January 2008
January
Jan - Apr 'Out of the Darkness: An Aboriginal Moomba'
City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall. Featuring photographs from PROV's
collection of a performance at the Princess Theatre in 1951 out
of which Moomba began.
February
5-7 Daniel Wilksch, Manager, Online Projects presents
a paper on digitising wills and probates at the VALA 2008 Biennial Conference
& Exhibition, Melbourne
21 Seminar Series 'A Picture Says a Thousand Words:
Researching Photographs in the PROV Collection', 1.30pm to 3.30pm,
VAC
25 Sebastian Gurciullo, Archivist Online Exhibitions
and Publications, PROV, speaks about Conservation, 2pm to 3.00pm,
Glenroy Library
March
2 PROV stall at Bendigo Family & Local History
Expo, Kangaroo Flat
8 Archival Support Program, 'Introduction to Archives',
9.30am to 4.00pm, VAC
13 Seminar Series 'Women in the Archives: Women with
a Mission', 2.00pm to 4.00pm, VAC
March- May PROV display, walks and activities highlighting
Centenary Celebrations of the Victorian Women's Vote, VAC
findmypast.com adds the National Burial
Index and Civil Service Evidence of Age Index to their site
1st December 2007
The National Burial Index is a finding aid for burials
that took place in England or Wales between the years 1538
and 2005. As such, it pre-dates the civil registration of deaths
in England and Wales, which only came into effect on 1 July 1837.
The details of over 10 million burials are contained in the database.
The burial data brings together in one easy-to-search
central place the disparate records from local parishes,
which members of local family history societies have been compiling
since 1994, under the guidance and encouragement of the Federation
of Family History Societies (FFHS). It includes records from parish
registers, non-conformist registers, Roman Catholic, Jewish and
other registers as well as cemetery and cremation records.
Civil Service Evidence of Age Index. This new online
resource contains the dates of birth or baptism for some 64,300 people
born between 1752 and 1948 many of whose births do not appear
in the central birth registers for England and Wales. "This is great
news for anyone who has hit a brick wall in their family history research.
All the people included in the index are there because their birth
was not recorded centrally, making them near impossible to find until
now."
findmypast.com is available on 6
dedicated computers at the A.I.G.S. library with free downloads
(normal printing charges apply).
London's Great Ormond Street
Children's Hospital
14th November 2007
London's Great Ormond Street children's
hospital has launched a Web site containing more than 50
years' worth of patient records. The new site covers over 84,000
child patients who were treated between 1852 and 1914.
It can be searched at:-
http://www.smallandspecial.org/
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