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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIALS

Ex Riverton RSL President Will Clough and his wife Jacqui took 6 years, 36000 kilometers, 3 computers and thousands of hours to gather, research and cross check data

http://www.tributesofhonour.info

LONDON GAZETTE
Peter Watson has written an article “London Gazetee online” for the Practical Family History No. 63 March 2003. This is an interesting article, if you are looking for Army Officers, their appointments, official court and government notices, appointments in the church, medals, peerages, naturalisations, changes of name, bankruptcy, liquidation, this is the site for you at http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk

AUSTRALIAN HERITAGE COMMISSION
Central Heritage website for heritage issues www.heritage.gov.au
Australian Heritage Commission www.ahc.gov.au or www.ea.gov.au/heritage
The Court Service website http://www.courtservice.gov.au/fandl/prob_guidance.htm - information on how to obtain English and

Welsh wills proved from 1858 onwards. Ref: Family Tree Magazine March 2003 V19:5
http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/datebrws.html

NEWSPAPER DEATHS
1840 - 1853 Newspapers from most states of Australia, project ongoing eg 1842 The Dispatch Sydney 1842-1844, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River general advertiser. Maitland NSW 1843-1855 Ref: Time Traveller No. 66 Sept 2002
http://hub.dataline.net.au/~tfoen/meldeath.html
lists deaths in Melbourne Hospital 1867 - 1880

LONDON ARCHIVE USERS FORUM (LAUF)
The British Library has launched its biggest ever digitisation program for an exciting new website call In place.
By 2004 you will be able to see and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from their world renowned collections - online.
The Library’s curators are now carefully selecting the maps, manuscripts and topographical illustrations. There will also be photographs rare sound records and even long forgotten advertisements and music hall songs.
London Metropolitan Archives http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma

AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
Korean War Photographs - Can you help?
The War Memorial would like to know more about the 3500 photos taken of the Army and Navy during the Korean War. They have placed a small selection of these photos on their website. If you are able to help identify a place or person, or know what is happening in the photo they would love to hear from you. http://www.awm.gov.au/korea_image/
Online Encyclopedia
Added to the Encyclopedia this month is a description of the game of two-up, the operations of a drip rifle used at Gallipoli, exploration of the term “ANZAC spirit” and information about the Changi Quilts. These quilts were created by women in the Changi prison and included is a detailed panel by panel description of the designs on one of the quilts in the collection.
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/
Profiles of Australian Military Units
Read about the first 16 battalions of the Australian Imperial Force from the First World War. You will find a short history of the unit, details of its casualties, decorations, battle honours, commanding officers, and, in the case of technical units, the specifications of the equipment it used. You are able to search the Memorial’s collections for items relating to the unit: photographs, works of art, film and sound recordings, personal records, and relics. This is just the start. The War Memorial plan to create profiles for all units of the navy, army and air force that served Australia in times of conflict and more will be progressively added in coming weeks and months. This is a new initiative for their website and they would love some feedback. http://www.awm.gov.au/units/

Boer War Pay Books (Queensland State Archives)
The Runcorn Record Vol 9. No. 2 April 2003 advises that their newest index on their website is the Index to the Boer War Pay Books. http://www.archives.qld.gov.au -

1901 UK CENSUS ON LINE
http://www.census.pro.gov.uk
Access to the1901 Census for England and Wales. 32 million names can be searched free, you get name, age, where born, administrative county, civil parish and occupation.,.
A charge of five pounds applies when chargeable transactions (print request, down load etc) take place.
A Users Guide is available in our Library

TOOWOOMBA DRAYTON CEMETERY
This Internet service allows family history buffs to trace the burial details of certain family members who are buried at Toowoomba and Drayton Cemetery. It gives the name, date of burial, who the person was buried with and a rough guide to the grave’s location. Go to http://www.toowoomba.qld.gov.au and follow the Grave Finder prompts.

Homestead and Western Land Leases - Rusheen Craig has produced a database of Homesteadand Western Lands Leases through to 1909 giving a total of 2,295 records, covering 14 different types of land tenure. You are able to view this at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/NSW/Leases/index.html
Reference: the grapeline December 2002 V2:4

INDIAN RECORDS
http://www.ncb.gov.sp/nhb/raffles/EIC.html - British East India Company
http://www.bl.uk/ - Imperial Army - Army of the Hon. East India Company
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~clday/index.html - UK Family History in India
http://www.bl.uk/collections/oriental/records/overview.html - India Office Records (IOR)
The above India websites reference Western Ancestor December 2002
http://www.ancestors.ballina.net/ - Ballina ancestors
Reference: Time Traveller No. 67 December 2002

ABORIGINAL GENEALOGY
The following link might prove of interest to those researching Aboriginal Genealogy in Queensland and the Northern Territory.
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/users/pmackett/index.html

ARCHIVES - ABORIGINAL ADVISORY GROUP
If you have any questions about how to use the two Archives in the Northern Territory to do your family history research contact the following:-
National Archives of Australia - Phyllis Williams telephone 08 89484633
Northern Territory Archives Service - Cathy Flint telephone 08 89247347
The staff at both archives will be happy to assist you and even if the records in their archives are not what you are after they might be able to suggest other possibilities.
The members of the Aboriginal Advisory Group are the representatives of the Northern Territory Aboriginal Community interested in family history research. They advise the two archives on issues related to access to records in both archives. Both Archive Services have conducted a number of joint workshops that are open to anyone who is planning to undertake Aboriginal family research and/or would like an understanding of the processes involved in doing Aboriginal family research in the Northern Territory.
For anyone with access to the internet the following website address might be of interest:- http://www.archivenet.gov.au/Resources/indigenous_aust.htm.

STATE RECORDS NEW SOUTH WALES
Index to Quarter Sessions cases, 1824 - 1837
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publications/qs/introduction.htm
A new index has been added to the suite of online resurces available on State Records’ website, improving access to the early case papers of the Courts of Quarter Sessions.
The Quarter Sessions case papers are key records from the early colonial period. They usually include the name of the person on trial, date, place, verdict and sentence as well as the indictment, giving a statement of the crime and circumstances. The papers often include depositions - the sworn statements of the accused and any witnesses, given prior to the court hearing. The index contains over 6,000 names of persons tried before court during the period 1824 to 1837.
State Records are grateful to researcher Joan Reese who donated her original index to the case papers, which had previously only been available in paper form in the reading rooms. An index to Quarter Session cases for the period 1839 to 1917 is available on microfilm in the State Records’; reading room.Index to School Files, 1876 - 1979
The School Files (NRS 3829)
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/publications/schools/default.htm
This is another new addition to the website. The School Files (NRS 3829) contain the administrative correspondence sent from schools to the Education Department. The files include informaion on the school’s establishment, its progress and physical provision, including new buildings and repairs. Staff matters such as appointments, transfers and examinations are also included. There is relatively little correspondence on pupils or courses of study.
This is a series assembled by the Department of Education in the 1970’s. The original order of the records has long been lost.
Researchers can browse the online index by name of school to determine which files might be relevant to their research. Any records of interest need to be pre-ordered for further perusal at the Western Sydney Records Centre, where all the School Files are now stored.

University of Sydney
Descent V32:4 December 2002 - The University of Sydney has recently launched its website Alumni Sidneienses which details the names, degrees and dates of conferring for graduates of the university of Sydney from 1857 to 1972 http://www.usyd.edu.au/arms/archives/

Service records for the NSW Fire Brigade
Superintendent P. Stathis AFSM, Professional Standards and Conduct Officer, New South Wales Fire Brigades,
PO Box A249 Sydney South 1232, http://www.nswfb.nsw.gov.au

Australian Newspapers Online - a listing with links at http://www.nla.gov.au/npapers
Times Digital Archive: The Times (London) 1900 -1985 in full text and keyword searchable.

NATIONAL DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF DATASETS (NDAD)
NDAD contains archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies. the system has been available since March 1998 and provides open access to the catalogues of all its holdings and free access to open datasets following a simple registration process.
http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk

OLD BAILEY ONLINE
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
This site went live in March with trials from December 1714 to December 1759. Trials from 1760 to 1799 will be available in the late Spring of 2003, from 1674 to October 1714 in the Autumn of 2003 and 1800 to 1834 in the Spring of 2004.
Compiled by shorthand writers for commercial publication, the Old Bailey Sessions Papers provides accounts (sometimes verbatim) of what was said in court during the trials of thousands of Londoners from the later seventeenth onwards.
they do not simply tell us about crime but provide amazing details about ordinary people, their activities and preoccupations, their neighbourhoods and about the desirability (because of their vulnerability to theft) of different kinds of consumer goods.
They are far more revealing than the official records of the cases heard at the Old Bailey, especially as the survival of the most informative documents (such as pretrial witness statements) is very poor - even if you know where to find them.
Reference LAUF (London Archive Users Forum) Newsletter No. 53 Spring 2003.

CHINESE GENEALOGY
Danny Boey has developed a Chinese genealogy website and Family Tree Software for Chineseroots and is currently working with genealogy institutions across China on the ancestors’ names database. http://www.chineseroots.com
Copied from The Australasian Association of Genealogists and Record Agents Quarterly Newsletter V18:2 July 2002.

Some people might have luck with their convict research
from the Palmer’s Index on-line, an index to the Times Newspaper in London, 1790-1905.
http://history.chadwyck.co.uk/noframes19/search

Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid - a database of over 2 million interments in Ontario http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/,

National Trust, SA, http://www.nationaltrustsa.org.au