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- Qld BDMs - major changes: On 16 Oct 2013 there were major changes to the Qld Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Web site. Read my tips on how to benefit from the changes. I've already heard several success stories.
- FamilySearch & FindMyPast: 13 million genealogy records from FamilySearch.org (including major collections of births, deaths and marriages for Australia, Ireland and America) were added to FindMyPast this week. About 600 additional collections (millions of records) will follow. We now have the convenience of searching treasures from FamilySearch at the same time as existing collections at FindMyPast.
- Genealogy mini-guides: The first two to be made available are 'Researching Illegitimate Children' and 'Researching Queensland Mental Asylum Patients'.
- NSW Deceased Estates: Index to NSW Deceased Estate Files 1923-1958 (new on Ancestry).
- Toowoomba Chronicle: Toowoomba Chronicle newspaper index 1921-1925 (births, marriages, deaths, accidents and other events such as maintenance cases, transfers, lost, missing etc.)
- England/Wales probate indexes: The probate search facility at High Holborn (London) is moving to the Strand.
- Alcohol? Do terms on death certificates really suggest that it was alcohol-related?
- Digitised newspapers: 8 Ways to Overcome OCR Errors when Searching Newspapers.
- Does time matter? Yes! Many 'dead ends' in research can be overcome if you think about your family in the context of local, national and world events.
- Green: 17 things our grandparents did when green was just a colour.
- Hospital records: I have found more hospital admission registers to index!
- ChangeDetection: I can see from the statistics that very few of you updated your ChangeDetection settings when my Web site moved. Many pages (including What's New, Indexes, Tips, Hospitals and Publications) have a 'Receive email' bar (an image is below). Don't worry - you will only receive an email when there is a significant change to the page!
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