- Free access at FindMyPast: For 4 days, from 10am 12 Jan to 11:59pm 15 Jan 2017 (GMT) FindMyPast (my favourite genealogy subscription site) is giving everyone FREE access to billions of birth, marriage, death & census records. You don't need to give credit card details - just register (free). You will be able to see images of many original parish registers! I've had huge success with this for my Yorkshire families in particular.
- Mackay (Qld): FindMyPast now has indexes to Mackay records (funeral directors' records, and funeral notices from Melrose and Fenwick 1955-1984 and from Mackay's Daily Mercury 1984-2012).
- Passport records: FindMyPast also recently added an index to passport registers 1915-1925. Applicants were in Australia, Canada, Papua, Ceylon, Fiji, China, England etc but the records are held in Queensland.
- Victoria: This is a very exciting resource! Images of original Court of Petty Sessions records at the Public Record Office Victoria are now online, with defendants and complainants indexed. There are over 3 million records from 74 courts dealing with minor cases such as drunkenness and theft. Dates range from 1854 to 1985.
- Indexes & Sources: 40 of my favourite genealogy indexes and sources. Which is your favourite, and why?
- Trove Helper: This nifty tool provides a series of clickable links to Trove newspaper search results based on the details you enter in Trove Helper. The results obtained by clicking each of the links is intended to quickly provide a reasonable starting point which can then be further refined on Trove.
- Saturday series: My new 'Saturday series' of family history tips (quite different from last year's series) is now underway at Judy Webster - Queensland Genealogy.
- Boonah (Qld): If you have family history in this area, see Boonah Branches.
- NSW Archives: The State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales is now called State Archives and Records NSW or State Archives NSW.
- Publishing family trees: If you want to publish a family tree, read The Opt In Default.
- Recommended reading: The Truth About Ancestry's Hints.
(This post first appeared on http://updatesgenie.blogspot.com/2017/01/no46-genealogy-news-and-freebies.html.)
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4 comments:
A few new things for my Surname study. Thanks Judy.
You're welcome, Jill. And thanks for mentioning this post on Twitter.
Thanks, Judy, for adding the Trove Helper link (and plenty of other links I want to investigate!)
You're welcome, Shelley. Lately I've been a bit slack about posting in UpdatesGenie, but I'll try to do better in 2017. :-)
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