nzsghamilton newsUsed with permission. ********************* nzsghamilton news No 42 17th October 2004 NZSG Hamilton Branch Monday October 18th 9.30 a.m. Chartwell church Centre, Comries Road, Chartwell Medieval Genealogy Warwick Kellaway will discuss researching beyond 1600. IRISH INTEREST GROUP (WAIKATO) Last meeting for this year to be held Thursday 28th October 10am - 3pm. Venue: Residence of Margaret Johnston, 15 Cranbrook Place, Hamilton. Door fee $2. Bring your lunch. Refreshments provided. New resources available, plus maps, folders and other related Irish material will be available, including computer for CD lookups. Bring along your queries for discussion and assistance. For further details contact Margaret at 854-0866 nzsgirishwko@actrix.co.nz or Geraldene 827-5521 alandene@xtra.co.nz NZSoG - Waikato Computer Group NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Don't forget Monday 25 October 2004 (Labour Day), at the usual place Comries Road, Chartwell, Hamilton, in the Church Hall Lounge. The Annual General Meeting is to be held at 7.30 pm, followed by the monthly meeting. The meeting topic is: Location data entry fields in PAF Ancestoral Author - .PDF files Copy in the NetGuide CD September 2004 AUS http://www.ozgenonline.com/aust_cemeteries/vic/index.htm A handy site to bookmark, lists all contact addresses for cemeteries in Australia and includes links to email them, & to those with online data. Melbourne General isn't online as yet, but the people there respond nicely to email enquiries. AUS VIC http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/access/online.htm Online Indexes The final section of the British and Foreign Inwards Immigration Index (1912-1923) has been released and is available on the PROV website. This concludes publication of the British and Foreign Index which now encompasses 1852 - 1923. To view this and other online indexes. AUS VIC The June-July issue of the newsletter of the Avoca and District Historical Society has been uploaded in both PDF and HTML formats at: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~adhs/ADHSMain.htm This Sunday (17 October) there will be the launch of a book published by the Society "Postcards from Avoca" edited by Margaret Wills, plus the launch of the Society's 2005 calendar. They would make excellent Christmas gifts. An order form may be downloaded from the ADHS website. The launch will take place at 2 p.m. in the Avoca Senior Citizens Club Rooms, 186 High St, Avoca. CD Colonial CD Books Newsletter for October 4th 2004 Early History of Wanganui, 1847 and 1856 & Early Days in Wanganui 1840 - 1850 Two small books on 1 cd. Interesting chapters From the Early History of Wanganui, 1847 and Wanganui in 1856. An interesting little book that tells of the early history of Wanganui and the early settlers that instigated the building of a town. The battles that were fought against the Maori, the descriptions of the violent dealings during these times have been recorded from the survivors that were resident at the time. Early Days in Wanganui (1840 - 1850) This is also and interesting little book, from the churches point of view it tells of the early missionaries dealings in Wanganui and their dealings with the local Maori and early settlers. $10 plus $2.40 p&p. Please refer to website; www.colonialcdbooks.com for a more detailed description of the books mentioned. contact@colonialcdbooks.com ENG http://groups.msn.com/familyhistoryinplymouthandsurroundingareas Family History in Plymouth and Surrounding Areas Trying to link all families from Plymouth, Stoke Damerel, Morice Town, Devonport, E.Stonehouse, Eggbuckland, Plympton,& Plymstock, Devon, UK. ENG http://tinyurl.com/52dvf On the National Archives web site, a very interesting section: "Family History: Victorian Prisoners Photograph Albums ENG The Overseas & Military BMD indexes are now all on line at www.1837online.com. ENG The 1837 Online site now offers a free search for everyone to try out - no catches. Criteria - Birth Registrations, England & Wales, July-Sept 1868 Birth, Marriage & Deaths, Overseas, whole of 1870 Death Registrations, England & Wales, January 1984 Worth a go on www.1837online.com ENG CON http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/con-census.html The 1871 Census for Cornwall has just been released on CD ...... and is available either as a full set of CDs which covers all of Cornwall ...... or on single CDs covering smaller areas for those who do not need all of Cornwall IRL www.nationalarchives.ie/willsandadmin.html An introduction to Irish Wills IRL www.proni.nics.gov.uk/records/wills/htm For an outline of the probate records held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. IRL www.rootsweb.com/~bifhsusa/resire.html Probate Records. A useful guide to Irish Wills. IRL www.ulsterancestry.com Some new free pages of Irish genealogical records for different Parishes have been added. NEW SEARCH ENGINE www.clusty.com There is a new search engine out called "Clusty" because it clusters or groups its hits for you. This is going to save a lot of time if they can match some of their big brothers in files searched. NZ - New Zealand Cemeteries Database Launched The following article was posted to the daily edition of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter on October 8, 2004. The following is a press release from the Christchurch City Council: Genealogists received an early present for the Carter Group Heritage Week with the recent launch of the Christchurch City Council cemeteries database at Christchurch City Libraries. The Heritage Week theme this year of People, Places and Pursuits, aligns well with the new cemeteries database. Instead of hours spent looking through endless microfilms of transcripts of hand-written interment registers, people can now use the cemeteries database through any Council library computer. You simply enter a surname to find out immediately where people of that name are buried across all Council cemeteries. Information starting from the first plots of some of the city’s oldest cemeteries, long since closed, are recorded. This includes Addington and Sydenham cemeteries. Interments at Addington, Avonhead Park, Belfast, Bromley, Linwood, Memorial Park, Ruru Lawn, Sydenham, Waimairi, Woolston, and Yaldhurst cemeteries are part of the database. Information technology librarian Paul Sutherland says the database is updated fortnightly so it includes the names of people that may have died two weeks ago. The Council has made the database available through Christchurch City Libraries because Council staff were fielding increasing numbers of genealogy requests, when it was not their core business, Mr Sutherland says. During the next few years, the Christchurch City Council will eventually make the information available on the internet. For now, however, people can only access the site by visiting City Libraries. Inquiries from outside the region will have to be made through library staff, which is free for the first 15 minutes after which, a research fee will apply. This is the case for any research inquiry, Mr Sutherland says. NZ www.pete.co.nz then click Aerial... wonderful photographs of New Zealand NZ CBY http://www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/cyclopedianz.htm South Canterbury Pioneers. NZ CBY The Christchurch Regional Office of Archives New Zealand is pleased to announce the launch of its new virtual exhibition centre, called simply 'Christchurch Online'. It is available from http://www.archives.govt.nz/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/chch/index.html, and currently hosts two exhibitions. The first, called Past Caring, has been designed to showcase some of the types of records held in Christchurch, and to provide a taste of the different themes, topics and concepts covered in our holdings. The second exhibition coincides with the Carter Group Heritage Week programme, and illustrates some of the issues that early settlers faced in establishing the basic rudiments of a colonial life, and town, from scratch. We hope to be able to develop other exhibitions on other themes over time. To assist us with this, we would appreciate any feedback visitors provide; simply follow the link at the bottom of each page and complete the form. Tom Norcliffe Archivist On behalf of: Archives New Zealand, Te Rua Mahara O Te Kawanatanga Christchurch Regional Office, P O Box 642, CHRISTCHURCH Phone: (03) 371 6661 christchurch@archives.govt.nz RESEARCH http://hometown.aol.com/daepowell/myhomepage/article/mistakes.htm Avoid Genealogy Good tips to prevent chasing the wrong people as ancestors and really messing up your family tree. RESEARCH http://www.genealogyandhow.com/lib/census/records.htm Making the Most of Census Records Learn how to get the most information out of census records when researching your genealogy. New Zealand Society of Genealogists – Hamilton Branch http://www.nzsghamilton.co.nz Contact address for subscribing to nzsghamilton news nzsghamiltonnews@ihug.co.nz Bryan A Curran Hamilton, New Zealand