nzsghamilton newsUsed with permission. ********************* nzsghamilton news No 47 21st November 2004 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) 8563 273 or Lorna Lawrence (07) 8437 073 AUS http://www.australianfunerals.com Australian Funerals Online Lists all funeral homes and funeral directors in Australia AUS TAS http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~robtan/TasNames.html Old place names. ENG http://www.sog.org.uk/vg/vgukmap.htm Vicar-General Marriage Licence Index ENG http://www.oldhousebooks.co.uk/baedekers1890.html Baedeker's Great Britain 1890 The ultimate guidebook for the Victorian Tourist. Seventy two tours of Great Britain from Scilly to Shetland described in meticulous detail for visitors at the end of the nineteenth century. There are coloured maps, street plans and fold out maps of the entire railway network. ENG http://harrogatepeopleandplaces.info Harrogate People and Places Massive collection of family personal notices extracted from the Harrogate newspapers from 1847 onwards. Also thousands of Wills from the Harrogate area. Property Deeds concerning Harrogate will be added at a later date. This is an on-going project which currently has over 5,700 pages uploaded and is increasing on a daily basis. ENG http://www.looking4kin.com/eng.htm England Genealogy Links & Chat ENG LEI http://members.lycos.co.uk/larpindex/ Searchable Leicester and Rutland website. Great for family history ENG HAM http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages They feature Shedfield on their site with photos and the history of the church. By the way Shedfield is not a town but a village. And most of it is modern housing with a few farms and smallholdings scattered around. Chris and Caroline ENG MILITARY http://hometown.aol.co.uk/kevinasplin/home.html Military History. ENG MILITARY www.regiment.org very informative and it leads to another great site for anyone searching for ancestors in the British Army going back to the 18th century. The site is http://www.the-dicksons.org/army_ancestors.htm This leads to the records office at Kew. www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk ENG MINING Mines Websites:- Mines in Flintshire. http://www.tidza.demon.co.uk/1896-77.htm Mines Website http://www.archiesplace.com/mining/ Mining History http://www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm#New%20Material Mining Site http://www.cmhrc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm Mining website http://www.ap.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/bmd/bmd.htm ENG RUT http://members.lycos.co.uk/larpindex/ Searchable Leicester and Rutland website. Great for family history ENG WAR www.warwickshire.gov.uk The Warwickshire BMD. Accessed from the main county council website: ENG WILLS http://wills4all.netfirms.com/entry.htm A nice site, with transcriptions of wills on it. Full transcriptions are provided. OK, there are not that many on the site at the moment, but you never know how the site will grow, and in the meantime it deserves our support. Easy to navigate, and the information is provided in an easily understandable format, this is a great little site, and there are not enough sites with probate information on them! Well indexed, the only reservation is that some of the fonts found were small, and could be a problem for some people. IRL http://www.looking4kin.com/ire.htm Ireland & Northern Ireland Genealogy Links &Chat Genealogy links to each county in Ireland and NI plus a genealogy chat room. IRL http://www.resi.ie/library Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Within the webpage of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, in the area dealing with the library, there is a section on the Rare Books and Archives. This is very much a work in progress, but in time it is planned to have the main archival collections of the RCSI listed there. The starting point to discovering the archival holdings of an institution, and the whereabouts of the records of various institutions, is the Directory of Irish Archives, edited by Helfrey and Refausse, now in its third edition since 1999. Relevant entries for tracing medical ancestors here are the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, the Apothecaries' Hall and the National University of Ireland, which holds the records of the former Queen's College. The matter of where the person obtained their medical qualifications, and the qualification itself must be first established. The number of Irish doctors attending the Royal College of surgeons of Edinburgh in the 1700s and the 1800s is something of a demographic phenomenon. IRL DOW http://seanruad.com/ IreAtlas Townland Database IRL DOW http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/PLACENAMES/Afront%20page. htm Places of County Down IRL DOW http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/ MAPS http://www.borderart.com Border Art Superb genealogy maps of Ireland, Scotland and England. NZ CBY http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nzbound/nzbound/images/holytrinity. jpg SCT http://www.scran.ac.uk/ SCRAN is the award winning learning image website with access to quality images, sounds, movies and learning resources. There are over 300,000 images from museums, galleries and archives. SCT http://hometown.aol.co.uk/russellalb/index.html Alb's Guide to the city of Edinburgh Parish Boundaries. SCT http://www.housepricescotland.com Historical property ownership in Scotland At Housepricescotland.com they research the Register of Sasines - the records of land and property ownership across Scotland. With just a surname, we can provide copies of the Register entries detailing the properties owned, when purchased, price paid, when sold, professions held, extent of the properties and copies of the deeds. They can also provide copies of the supporting archived contracts often containing signatures and other information essential to genealogists and researchers. This is essential information to anyone researching their Scottish origins and will provide an invaluable insight to what your ancestors owned and where SCT SHIPPING to AUSTRALIA & N.Z. Can you help author David Dobson? One of his current projects is attempting to identify the ships that sailed directly from Scotland to N.Z. & Australia during the 19th century. Most of the Scots bound for N.Z. seem to have gone via England, especially London. If you have details of any ships sailing from Scotland, please let him know at lds.dobson@btinternet.com SHIPPING AUS/NZ - LOG of LOGS http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/mariner9.htm This site has listings for Volume 1 Log of Logs with Volume 2 under construction. Logs of Logs, the equivalent to ships dairies/voyages, were published in 3 Volumes, covering details of all vessels sailing into Australia & N.Z. Some ship entries can be found updated in all 3 volumes There are some great links on this site also. http://ruby.ils.unc.edu/maritime/home/html Another maritime site worth viewing. SHIPPING ENG/WALES http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/engwales.htm The Global Gazette-OnLine Family History Magazine. Looking for a Ship's crew member? Try this site for records that include details of Crew Agreement Lists etc. Records could lead you to sailings from/to Scandanavia, N.Z. and other worldwide ports. 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