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Latest Additions to the A.I.G.S. Library   1st July to 1st August 2008

Institute Diary     15th July - 25th August 2008


Alexander Henderson Award results for 2007

findmypast.com adds 1960s Records to Outbound Passenger Lists

findmypast.com adds ten new Counties to the 1871 Census "on-line" at the A.I.G.S.


findmypast.com adds Great Western Railways Shareholders Index "on-line" at the A.I.G.S.


Tours of the Victorian Archives Centre - February  to  December  2008

Victorian Archives Centre - Calendar of Events January - May 2008

findmypast.com adds the National Burial Index and Civil Service Evidence of Age Index to their site


London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital

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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