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OF SA MARITIME INTEREST:
Read Sue Patterson's interesting account as she reminds us of the following anniversary:
RMS TITANIC - THE LEGACY - 98 YEARS LATER.
1820 SETTLERS:
Sue Mackay transcribes an item from CO53/10 at the National Archives, Kew, London:
1852 Extracts from South African Commercial Advertiser.
Ancestry.co.uk:
The Deaths Index Transcription
One of our subscribers informs us he is making a great deal of use of the above. This will no doubt be of interest to those of you who have subscriptions to this website.
Rosemary Dixon-Smith informs us:
Ancestors magazine produces its last ever edition in April.
Extract from the Your Family History
NEW UK GENEALOGY MAGAZINE LAUNCHED
www.your-familyhistory.com/
"Your Family History is different from other titles you might have seen in
two important respects. Firstly, we've assembled a team of leading experts,
researchers and historians to show you not only how to discover who your
ancestors were, but also guide you into the rich local and social history
that brings context to their lives. We will be featuring a range of topics
each issue, linking your personal research with local and national heritage
themes through our connections with English Heritage, National Trust and the
world of archives.
However, what makes us unique is that we want to feature
YOUR stories, YOUR discoveries, YOUR mysteries and YOUR documents. To allow
us to do this, you can contribute to the articles we're writing, or suggest
areas you would like us to cover in future editions.
You can join debates, submit your problems for our team to tackle, or add
your own contribution to many of the topics featured in these pages. Many of
our regular features will rely heavily on YOUR suggestions! We're also
creating an online gallery of family history resources for our subscribers
to use."
Edition 2 of the magazine will be in UK bookstores on 20 May 2010.
NEWS FROM IHGS:
yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Have you used the [UK] National Archive’s wiki? Like all wikis, the information is edited by the public and is not verified. However this should not be a concern for family historians who are used to double-checking all sources. A particularly useful part is the Historical Streets Project, which combines the street indexes from the censuses (1841 and 1851 so far) with submitted historical accounts. Articles are sourced and cross-linked as usual but with added information on the holdings at the Archives.
URLs OF INTEREST:
Keith Rust tells us of an article he wrote re James McCord
http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/keithru/mccord.html
Please note the following change of URL:
The South African Military History Society site
offers various articles on the Anglo-Boer War topic; search on
http://samilitaryhistory.org/
BRICK WALL and MISSING PERSONS:
A reminder to check these pages from time to time in case you are able to help other researchers.
SPOTLIGHT:
NATAL MARRIAGE INDEX PROJECT:
Adrian Rowe writes:
"I am very pleased to report that we have now reached 306,119 names on our Index. Many thanks to those team members (Adrian, Dawn and Matthys, Elaine, Lorna, Lyn, Robin and Sue) who have submitted packets during the last month. Without you, the NMIP would not move forward.
On 20 August 2009 I was informed by Isebelle Krauss of Genealogical Society of Utah, that "Phase one will be rolled out in 2010! To the General Public! ..... so your [team's] good work will definitely not be in vain". On 1 March 2010 Isabelle informed me "Your work will appear on the new.Familysearch, that is a fact, it will be free, that is a condition of all of our agreements with the custodians".
One of our transcribers sent me an extract of a posting on Eastern Cape Rootsweb site, in which Isebelle was looking for Indexers for Cape DRC records. She said that "all indexers get points as they do this work that entitles them to access even other digital images from our affilliate paying websites ....." Until I received this e-mail I was unaware of the above and after querying this with Isebelle she commented as follows: "I will enquire about the various transcribers for your project, at present the DRC Church is online, and Indexers are receiving points for their efforts, ranging from the most difficult getting more points to even the easiest ... The points are to be used on our affiliate commercial sites, in lieu of payment by the Indexers to access the material."
I have started a table keeping records of each transcribers productivity, so that I will know who deserves more than one pat on the back!!
Sadly since the project began many transcribers have fallen by the wayside for one reason or another, and it has been extremely difficult recruiting new transcribers owing to the restrictions placed on me by GSU. Thanks to Genealogy World, I do periodically receive offers of assistance from people from various parts of the World. Unfortunately because of the slowness of our Internet connections I am unable to send the packets of images by email and therefore have to rely on assistance from people within easy reach of Durban.
Three new transcribers have joined our team and I wish to welcome Lara Capell, Merryl Reardon and Barbara Scott, and look forward, in due course, to receiving transcriptions to add to the database."
If you would like to volunteer to assist in transcribing, and live in the greater Durban area, please contact Adrian on 031-7644721 or at roweam@telkomsa.net.
Although all GENEALOGY WORLD information is easily accessible from the MAIN MENU - from time to time - we notice researchers being unaware of information we have available. Therefore please study the MAIN MENU carefully.
Kind regards,
Delyse Brown
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GENEALOGY WORLD
Index of New Items:
OF SA MARITIME INTEREST:
Titanic
1820 SETTLERS:
1852 SACA
URLs of interest:
McCord
Change of URL
South African
Military History Society
BRICK WALL and MISSING PERSONS:
Several new enquiries
SPOTLIGHT:
NMIP
Search Here
Natal Passenger Lists
1820 Settlers Handbook
Anglo-Zulu War
Anglo-Boer War
Robin's Lists
Transcriptions by Ellen
Cape Marriages
Natal Marriages
Missionaries
Gifts - Shop Online
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