----- Original Message ----- From: <gsv-request@rootsweb.com> To: <gsv@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 5:29 PM Subject: GSV Digest, Vol 2, Issue 151 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Times Digital Archive (Lesle Berry) > 2. Ancestors on the 'Moreton Bay'? (Lesle Berry) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:06:52 +1000 > From: Lesle Berry <lesleberry@optusnet.com.au> > Subject: [GSV] Times Digital Archive > To: GSV L <GSV-L@rootsweb.com>, Groups > <AUS-VIC-GEN-GROUPS-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <46B398EC.1030905@optusnet.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > As part of National Family History Week the Times Digital Archive is > available to use for free until 17 August. Details below. Please forward > to anyone you think might be interested. > > Top see what is happening in National Family History week visit the > website > www.familyhistory week.org.au > > Lesle > > > > The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 delivers every page as published > from 200 years of The Times (London). > > The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major > international historical events from the French Revolution to the > Falkland War. For the first time users are able to search the full-text > of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials and advertising. > > Until 17 August 2007 this is available free for National Family History > Week. > > http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/anz_gene?db=TTDA > > The password required is: magnetic > > -- > > > > ******************************************* > :) :) :) Have a 'berry' nice day :) :) :) > > ******************************************* > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:13:32 +1000 > From: Lesle Berry <lesleberry@optusnet.com.au> > Subject: [GSV] Ancestors on the 'Moreton Bay'? > To: GSV L <GSV-L@rootsweb.com>, Groups > <AUS-VIC-GEN-GROUPS-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <46B39A7C.1040600@optusnet.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > Press release for National Family History Week > > > To mark National Family History Week in Australia (4 -12 August 2007), > findmypast.com is running a unique challenge on its website to find the > relatives of the passengers who travelled on the first Australian > government liner, the Moreton Bay. > > > > The first voyage of the Moreton Bay to Australia took place on 6 > December 1921. The liner departed Tilbury in East London, arriving in > Brisbane 43 days later with 762 passengers on board. > > > > A fascinating two minute movie ?Passenger lists: People on the move? > showing the departure from Tilbury can be viewed for free on the home > page of www.findmypast.com. From 4 August until 30 September visitors > registering on the site will also be able to view the transcript and > colour images of the original 20 page passenger list for free too. (They > will need to download a small piece of software called DjVu to view the > image - a link and full instructions are provided online.) > > > > The detailed passenger list gives the names, ages, occupations and the > last address in the UK of each family member travelling - invaluable > information for anyone trying to trace their British roots. > > > > > > Take the challenge > > > > To take part in the challenge, entrants need to match the faces in the > film with the names in the list and prove to us that they?re related to > them by sending us their family tree. They can either do this by > uploading an existing GEDCOM file to the tree builder on > www.findmypast.com or by creating a new tree from scratch using the tree > builder. They then need to send an email to > moretonbaychallenge@findmypast.com telling us their user name. > > > > To help them do this, findmypast has uploaded a gallery of numbered > stills from the movie, and provided a forum for them to debate the > identity of the passengers with family and friends. The company is > hoping that the challenge will capture people?s imaginations and engage > as wide a range of family historians as possible to combine their > efforts in a remarkable social history project. > > > > Elaine Collins, Commercial Director at findmypast.com said: ?This is a > beautiful piece of film, capturing the excitement and anticipation of > the passengers as they embarked on a new, and hopefully better, life on > the other side of the world. At findmypast.com we?re all very excited at > the prospect of matching the faces in the film and the names in the list > with their living relatives. Some babies were travelling too, so it?s > possible they might be in touch themselves!? > > > > The first 50 people to prove a connection to one of the passengers in > the film or in the list will receive a reward of a free 30-day Voyager > subscription usually worth ?25. > > > > In addition to the Moreton Bay voyage, findmypast.com has full colour > images and transcripts of 97,704 passenger lists from all British ports > to long-distance destinations worldwide between 1890 and 1929 including > 6,278 lists for voyages to Australia. Over the coming months lists for > 1930 to 1960 will be added. > > -- > > > > ******************************************* > :) :) :) Have a 'berry' nice day :) :) :) > > ******************************************* > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the GSV list administrator, send an email to > GSV-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the GSV mailing list, send an email to > GSV@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GSV-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of GSV Digest, Vol 2, Issue 151 > *********************************** >