nzsghamilton newsUsed with permission. ********************* nzsghamilton news No 46 14th November 2004 A Greater London Interest Group Waikato Branch Meeting of the Greater London Interest Group The next meeting will be held on Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 from 10am - 2pm at St Andrews Library Community Room Braid Road, Hamilton There is angle parking available alongside the library and a larger parking area at the back of the shops that can be used. (Please do not park in front of the shops.) The topic for discussion will be open Members are welcome to discuss any of their own London research problems This will be our final meeting for 2004 Please bring a contribution for a shared lunch Tea, Coffee, Fruit Juice provided $2 door fee as usual New Members & visitors most welcome. Inq. Phone Val Wood (07) 8563273 or Lorna Lawrence (07) 8437073 AUS TAS http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/launceston/llocstud.htm The Launceston Reference Library. AUS TAS http://www.users.bigpond.com/ltntasfh/ Launceston Branch Tasmanian Family History Society. CAN http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/020106_e.html Canada Archives Soldiers of the First World war site. It shows original Attestation Papers. MANY of the soldiers gave British addresses for their place of birth. CROATIA http://www.appleby.net/genealogy.html Genealogy in Croatia Find hints and links for researching Croatian ancestors. ENG http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/cce/final/content/reference/ A web site of The Church of England Clergy database 1540-1835 ( but not yet complete) ENG http://www.familyrelatives.org/ Coming soon. Online during November 2004 ENG HAM http://www.hantsphere.org.uk A new website on Hampshire has just been started. HANTSPHERE Hantsphere is an online Hampshire local studies resource. You can explore and learn about Hampshire's heritage by searching the Hantsphere database or following the themes. The themes will continue to expand and new ones added. ENG WWI www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk Families of British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the First World War will be able to trace their relatives' war records through a website launched November 8, 2004. The National Archives site (www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk) lists the records of more than five million men and women of the army and Royal Flying Corps who won service medals during the war. Members of the Royal Navy are not included. Anyone who served in the war received at least one campaign medal. Officials said the website index provided the most comprehensive list of First World War military service. National Archives military historian William Spencer said medal records were useful for family history research, often providing the only account of a soldier's wartime service as many other records were destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. "More people than ever are researching their family history and most want to start online," Spencer said. Searching the index is free. The link to read the whole article is as follows http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/07/nwwi07.xml&s The archive can be found on www.DocumentsOnline.nationalarchives.gov.uk, from Sunday, November 14. IRL NI A short introduction to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) Ulster Ancestry © 2004 What is PRONI? The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland's mission statement: " PRONI exists to identify, preserve and make available Northern Ireland's archival heritage as a unique information source for present and future generations for their enjoyment, information and education" What are Archives? Archives are the records which organisations, families and pri... » Read This Item... IRL NI Emigration to Australia (series 1) Ulster Ancestry © 2004 Emigration to Australia "We are employed in the Governor’s botanic garden.... we can reach almost off our scaffolds to the lemons and oranges, fig trees, peaches etc, and the parrots sitting on the trees beside us in flocks....all very different from our part of the globe." David Fairley, a carpenter from Londonderry who emigrated to Australia in 1835. Australian emigration, as a... » Read This Item... IRL NI Getting help to research your family in Northern Ireland Ulster Ancestry © 2004 Each year many people visit Ireland,the land of their ancestors. For them it is more a homecoming than a holiday. To get the most from this perhaps once in a life time trip it is important to do some preparitary family research. Many find it helpful to get some professional assistance with this. You can read here about the research service Ulster Ancestry provides to many hundreds of overseas clients: » click here to for more... MAGAZINE Several free Web sites store millions of names, submitted by your fellow genealogists, in online pedigree databases. (Remember that nobody officially verifies these family trees, so use them as starting points.) If your search comes up empty, try variant spellings. You never know how your surname might have been spelled (or misspelled), and some sites are better than others at catching variations. . FamilySearch http://www.familysearch.org: FamilySearch boasts 957 million names in its databases. To use the site, click Search for Ancestors, then enter at least a surname. . WorldConnect http://worldconnect.rootsweb. com: At last count, the free database had 340 million names in more than 300,000 GEDCOM files. It's merged with Ancestry.com's Ancestry World Tree; you also can search it for free at www.ancestry.com/trees. Search by entering your surname. If you get too many hits, use the advanced search box at the bottom of the results page to narrow the matches by date, place, parents or spouse. . Ellis Island http://www.ellisisland.org: This site's database contains 22 million names of Ellis Island passenger lists from 1892 to 1924. To locate your ancestor, enter as much information as you know into the basic search fields. Or you can perform a refined search on parts of a name and additional criteria from passenger lists (see the article above for more information). For more surname-searching advice, see the Family Tree Magazine 2005 Genealogy Guidebook, a special issue available Nov. 22 on newsstands or online at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/mags. NZSG CD NZSG CDROM index feature I don’t know how many users out there have discovered that "wild card" searches will work on version3 of the NZSG CDROM index For example Smi* will find all surnames starting with the three letters "Smi" * Montague will find all persons with a christian name of Montague D* A* E* will find all those persons with a surname starting with D and two christian names starting with A and E in that order Now don’t get carried away !! Some searches can take quite a while to churn through - but it does work I understand the version 4 CD will be advertised in the next NZSG magazine. These CDs are available only to members so maybe you might like to join the Society. See New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc. : Home News | About NZSG | Beginning | Services | Resources | Library | Sales | Join NZSG | Site Map. ... Details of the new council ….NZSG Schools Records Project. ... etc. PROGRAM FAMILY HEALTH My Family Health Portrait, a simple computer program that's downloadable for free from http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/ download.html, lets you enter family members' names and medical problems, and then print a chart you can take to your doctor's office. The program runs on Windows 98 or higher. To get a blank health-history chart, call (888) 878-3256, or download the chart as a PDF file from http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/order.html. (To open the file, you'll need the free Adobe Reader, available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html). SCT MLN http://www.bonnyrigglasswadehistory.org.uk/contactus.htm Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Local History Society: SURNAMES http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CampbellsAustralia Campbell's in Australia is a Forum and Network for those who are seeking genealogical and family tree information about the Campbell surname in Australia/New Zealand and their ties and roots to the surname "Campbell" USA ELLIS ISLAND The Ellis Island Web site (http://www.ellisisland.org), home to a free database of 22 million Ellis Island passenger records, has relaunched with a more efficient ancestor search. When the database debuted in April 2001, researchers logged on to the tune of 10 million hits per day. The site's remained popular, though genealogists have noted problems catching variations of their ancestors' names. And some researchers have felt hamstrung by the site's first name/last name/gender search: They could narrow results by characteristics such as ship name and port of origin, but couldn't search on those terms. Ellis Island's new refined search--still in test phase--lets you frame your query around what you actually know about your relative, and effectively narrow or broaden your results. The search offers 11 data fields: * first name (you can enter parts of a name) * last name ("sounds like" and "alternate spellings" options help catch variations) * gender * marital status * approximate year of birth * year range (expands range for year of birth) * approximate year of arrival * year range (expands range for year of arrival) * town or village of origin * name of passenger ship * ethnicity Spelling variations are easier to find, but they won't disappear. Transcribers copied passenger names as they appeared on ships' lists. To preserve the integrity of those historical records, site administrators don't alter correctly transcribed names in the database. But if you believe you've found a transcription error, you can notify Ellis Island staff via an e-mail link on the Passenger Record page. The relaunched Ellis Island Web site also features other improvements, including streamlined navigation; the Genealogy Learning Center; the Ellis Island Society Links Network to connect site visitors with societies specializing in their research areas; and new Ellis Island histories, old photos, famous passenger information and visitor information 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