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'GENEALOGY WORLD' NEW ITEMS:
Anglo-Boer War - Muster Roll - Natal Carbineers Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
Robin's Lists - Umvoti County, Jewel of Natal
Natal Nuggets - The Diary of a Settler in South Africa
The 1820 Settlers - Graham’s Town Journal CO53/16 National Archives, Kew, London, 1847
(more 1820 Settler names such as MARSH, SELBY, LLOYD, FORD etc. etc.)
It is particularly rewarding when the appropriate photographs can be matched to the names of people we read about. I am pleased to tell you that 'Genealogy World' has an article which is published by the kind permission of the author, and the Editor of "Assegai", newsletter of The 1879 Group.
'My Elusive Relatives' reads like a detective story! Read Kris Wheatley's Family Quest as she went in search of Caleb Wood and friend, Robert Tongue, who served in the British Army at Rorke's Drift. Click on 'Anglo-Zulu War' (Main Menu).
There is something about finding your ancestor on whichever ship travelled on in bygone days that strikes a particular thrill of its own. Difficult to explain to anyone who has not spent endless hours trying to track down the appropriate date and ship that conveyed previous family members to their new destination.
Rosemary Dixon-Smith 'scores a CENTURY'!
Rosemary is to be congratulated as she adds eight new Passenger Lists to her 'Maritime Pages' - she now has 100 entries on this Page! (See Main Menu). For convenience her Natal Maritime Pages are now in particular categories - as well as all combined in 'Natal Maritime Pages'.
By making Passenger Lists available so rapidly, Rosemary has enabled the finding of elusive people that much easier. Well done, and thank you, Rosemary! Her effort on the behalf of all of us, is much appreciated.
I am sure you will have noticed that the newspaper list does not always include the Steerage Passengers by name. The new 'Dudbrook' entry in the latest Passenger Lists is an example of this - listing Steerage Passengers only by number. [We hope to include the 'Dudbrook' list of steerage passengers in due course.]
I am pleased to say that in future it may be possible for 'Genealogy World' to supply unprecedented maritime material on the site - by supplying the missing Steerage Passengers names. At present, the two 'Nipisiquit' entries is an example of this.
'Umvoti County, Jewel of Natal': another large index of names is now available in 'Robin's Lists' !
Umvoti County includes the areas surrounding Greytown, Muden, Seven Oaks, Hermannsburg, Kranskop, Dalton, New Hanover and Wartburg. The Settlers in this area were mainly from Germany and Britain.
Anyone who requires look-ups should please provide the names and ALL the relevant page numbers in their e-mail to Robin.
Rosemary (who has a Gadsden URL on her Page) has asked me to inform you of the following:
"The GADSDEN pages have been updated to include photos of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of the Gadsden Treaty of 1854 with Mexico, plus information about the event which took place in Mesilla in November 2004.
The town of Mesilla turned it into a nostalgic look at the past, with a re-enactment in period costume of the Flag Raising ceremony which followed the ratification of the Treaty.
I know that most SA people are probably unaware of the Gadsden Purchase or its significance to Mexico and the US, but perhaps some of our overseas site visitors ( and especially any other re-enactors among them) would find the photos (which are excellent) interesting.
Frankly, I doubt if anyone there would have known much about the Purchase and especially about James Gadsden who was responsible for the Treaty. He is not my favourite Gadsden by a long chalk. James walked the corridors of power arm in arm with some of the most famous Americans of his day, but to me he remains essentially a dull man and there are few facts about his personal life - only the soldier and diplomat and railroad entrepreneur are remembered. Personality, as always, is everything!"
That's all for now,
Kind regards,
Delyse Brown
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