nzsghamilton newsUsed with permission. ********************* nzsghamilton news No 16 18 April 2004 SCOTTISH INTEREST GROUP WAIKATO. Coming very soon ... Our next meeting will be a 'Hame Day' at the home of Irene Polkinghorne, 20 Church Road, Te Rapa, Hamilton, on Saturday 1st May 2004. 11 am - 3 pm (or thereabouts). The topic is "Scottish children - at home, at work, at play, at school". Please bring an item of interest you have discovered about Scottish children, or a story about your own family. LATE BREAKING NEWS - we are bringing down the Scottish Interest Group records on AYRSHIRE for the day, so don't forget to bring relevant research materials. There will be a gold coin donation at the door. Refreshments available. Please bring your own lunch. Contact : Antonia : 07 855 3859 or Irene : 07 849 1845 A CD A CD containing the newsletters from 2000 to date (2004) is available for $10 plus stamped addressed envelope. Cheques payable to B A Curran. Post to: B A Curran, 46 Bouverie Crescent, Flagstaff, Hamilton 2001. NZ ARTICLE FreeBMD and Family Research Link for Births, Marriages and Deaths Indexes of England and Wales Please click here for the complete article: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Newsletter/LN03-31-2004.asp#10 AUS TAS http://www.users.bigpond.com/ltntasfh/articles.html AUS TAS The Archives Office of Tasmania have an index to Census Records online at: http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/genealres/census%20index.htm ENG http://www.mts.net/~bydesign/RUS/Guide.htm - it lists a number of useful websites for family historians prepared by family history group in Lancashire but is certainly not exclusive to that area ... ENG http://uk.geocities.com/ancestrallinks AncestralLinks List of website links of interest to those researching their family history in the United Kingdom. Sister site to AncestralPast (http://uk.geocities.com/ancestralpast). ENG NO-FIND NO-FEE OFFER FROM BRITISH ANCESTORS "I never thought I could obtain so much information at so little cost"-- (JB, Connecticut). Our researchers will personally visit archives throughout England and Scotland to find your British ancestors (1813- 1950). Birth, marriage, death, church, census and other records. In most cases we can offer a NO-FIND NO-FEE service -- we find your ancestors or you pay nothing! For a FREE e-mail assessment, visit http://www.britishancestors.com/rwr ENG HRT For anyone researching ancestors in 19th century Therfield, transcripts of the 1841, 1851, & 1861 census at www.therfield.net. ENG LAN http://members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm Tameside Local and Family History For anyone wanting to know more about their roots in Tameside, East of Manchester, England. ENG NTH Northampton Museum. http://www.northampton.gov.uk/Museums/ ENG NTH http://mysite.freeserve.com/rwkfamilyhistory Northampton Village Photos ENG NTH Anyone interested in ABTHORPE may be interested in the following web site www.abthorpechurch.org.uk It contains, amongst much more, transcriptions of the parish registers. LEGACY A new Legacy Users Group has been formed in Kapiti, New Zealand.... For the full context of this article, please point your browser to: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Newsletter/LN03-31-2004.asp#13 NZ http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Resources/History/FamilyHistory/index.asp NZ http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/mb/genefich.shtml NZ http://www.hpl.govt.nz/index.asp?PageID=2145824523 NZ http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/barbgreg/Nzlinks.html NZ http://www.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/prod_serv.nsf/htmldocs/Marriage s+and+Divorces NZ http://marvin.otago.ac.nz/marriages/marriages.php NZ http://www.genealogy.org.nz/services/pre1855m.html NZ http://qualtrough.orcon.net.nz/mar_nz1866-1933.htm NZ http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/pdf/genealogical_internet_sources.pdf NZ http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/ NZ http://www.thameslibrary.co.nz/genealogy.htm NZ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/BDMIndex.htm NZ http://www.genealogy.org.nz/resources/address_nz-bdm.html NZ http://www.genealogylinks.net/newzealand/ NZ http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/nzc/hist.shtml NZ http://www.liswa.wa.gov.au/fhistnz.html NZ http://www.coraweb.com.au/nzsites.htm NZ http://society-culture.nzpages.co.nz/society_and_culture/Genealogy/ NZ http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Births-Deaths-and-Mar riages-Births-Deaths-and-Marriages-Frequently-Asked-Questions?OpenDocument NZ http://www.xroyvision.com.au/genlinks/NZ.html NZ http://www.genealogy.org.nz/resources/addresses.html NZ http://maaori.com/whakapapa/sources.htm NZ http://www.pdc.govt.nz/facilities/library/library_detailed.htm NZ http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6123/dth_names.html Deaths extracted from the `New Zealand Herald' 1993 NZ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ourstuff/Deaths.htm NZ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shipstonz/cemeteries.html NZ http://www.savinggraves.com/nations/nz/ NZ http://www.stmichaels.wellington.net.nz/702-01-Funerals-by-Name.html Funerals by name at St Michaels, Wellington. NZ Names from the headstones at the Te Puke Cemetery http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/TPKCemetery.html NZ The Timaru District Council has made available on line its database of burial records for the Arundel, Geraldine, Pareora West, Pleasant Point, Temuka and Timaru cemeteries at www.timaru.govt.nz/cemetery NZ The Woodbury Cemetery is outline on the South Canterbury NZGenWeb Project site www.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/woodburycemdata.htm NZ MEDALS http://homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz/~todd/ NZ War Medals PAF The Silicon Valley PAF Users Group voted to change the group's name to the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group. The change was made by unanimous vote. The group's new web site URL will be www.svcomputergenealogy.org. For a period of time, the new URL will redirect you to the existing SV-PAF-UG site where all the current services are still available. PROGRAM Digital Imaging for Genealogists (DIG) :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: DIG Review: PhotoMix Collage 5.1 Introduction If a picture is truly worth a thousand words, then the value of a family history photo collage should equal several thousand more. A family collage combining several generations of family groups or individual family members is a great way to compare family features and resemblances, whereas a collage illustrating the growth of a single individual from birth to retirement age can provide a concise overview of that person's life. In this issue of UpFront, they take a look at PhotoMix Collage, one of the many graphic/imaging programs developed by fCoder Group International, http://www.fcoder.com Marketed as shareware and designed for beginners, the main purpose of PhotoMix is to simplify the process of "mixing" images to quickly create an attractive photo collage. Although wary of promotional literature the PhotoMix Web site is not exaggerating when it claims, "You may know nothing of computer image processing and still get stunning 'professional-like' results." http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/041504/web/fig1.jpg http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/041504/web/fig2.jpg http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/041504/web/fig3.jpg http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/041504/web/fig4.jpg http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/041504/web/fig5.jpg http://www.NGSgenealogy.org/upfront/041504/web/fig6.jpg PhotoMix 5.1 is available directly from the developer at http://www.photomix.com or http://www.fcoder.com. It can also be downloaded from most shareware sites. The registration fee is $29 Operating system requirements are: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP RESEARCH http://www.sonic.net/~fredd/cousins.html Cousin Relationships A simple chart to explain cousin relationships SOUTH AFRICA Would it be possible for you to post the following announcement on your list - I do not know if some of your members might be interested in South African Genealogy: Thanks Colin Pretorius *********** It is with great pleasure that we announce the dawning of a new era in South African genealogy. After lengthy discussions involving people interested in promoting South African genealogy, ideas and plans came together to make it possible for the Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA) to open a virtual branch. This branch is known as eGSSA. For many years there have been people who, for various reasons, could not join a regular GSSA branch. Some of these reasons include living too far from a branch or living outside South Africa. These people still have a need to belong to a branch and to enjoy the benefits of GSSA membership, such as receiving GSSA's flagship quarterly journal, Familia. GSSA has been established to meet these needs. We plan for members of eGSSA to be able to hold virtual meetings in the future, either via streaming technology or in a chat room a-la-MSN. . It is also planned that eGSSA will make some of the GSSA products available electronically, and that some databases could be placed on the Internet for search purposes. This all depends on the availability of storage capacity. eGSSA's website is currently hosted at http://www.ggsa.info/eggsa The management eGSSA team is as follows: Branch Chairperson: Colin Pretorius (based in Australia) Secretary: Anne Lehmkuhl (based in Canada) Technical services: Richard Ball (based in the UK) Ex Officio: Martin Zöllner (based in South Africa) Regional representatives: Australia/NZ/Oceania/Asia: André van Rensburg (based in Australia) North & South America: Anne Lehmkuhl (based in Canada) Europe & the UK: Richard Ball (based in the UK) Africa & the Middle East: Daan Hamman (based in South Africa) The membership fees given below include an electronic copy of Familia, the Society's quarterly journal, as well as the virtual branch's own quarterly newsletter/journal, called genesis. Other benefits include discounts on some CD products. South Africa R115 ( R90 per annum GSSA fee & R25 eGSSA fee) . Rest of Africa and Middle East : US $ 22 North and South America US $22 United Kingdom GBP 11 Europe Euro 18 Aus/NZ/Oceania/Asia Aus $ 25 Payments for residents IN South Africa can be done via Absa, while payment for residents OUTSIDE South Africa will be done via Paypal (Australian and NZ prospective subscribers can contact Colin Pretorius for additional options) For those people who are not currently GSSA members, or cannot join a current branch, this is an ideal opportunity to become part of GSSA and to step into this exciting era. The contact email address is eggsa@fmxau.com 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