Issue :	#39
Date :	November 2006
Publisher :	Delyse Brown
e-Mail :	editor@genealogyworld.net
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'GENEALOGY WORLD' - NEW ITEMS :
            Index on right hand side of page.

As the below offer expires at the end of November, this Newsletter is going out to subscribers earlier in the month than usual.

Ancestry.com Offers Free Access to Immigration Collection
New announcement by Ancestry.com describing the company's new online Immigration Collection database.
To commemorate the launch of the collection, Ancestry.com is offering complete access (at no cost) to its entire Immigration Collection until the end of November.
Keep in mind that the free access is only to the new Immigration Collection but that certainly is a great offer.
The Immigration Collection is available at http://www.ancestry.com
These are all American immigration records.

ROBIN'S LISTS:
Recently added are the following lists:
German Legion Mercenaries who migrated from England to the E Cape in 1856 and 1857 who married English women either in England or aboard ship,
Continental Immigrants who migrated to the Eastern Cape
Robin states: I have amalgamated the German Vinedressers and the Continental Immigrants into one group with an indication of when and where they came from in the last two columns. In some cases they were families of men who had come out on their own and sent for their wives and/or children once settled.

PUBLICATIONS:
LEGACY: Heroes of Rorke's Drift' Volume 2 by Kris Wheatley has just been published.
Kris has further exciting discoveries (previously unknown and unpublished stories/photos of the Defenders of Rorke's Drift) included in this second volume.

Also on the Publications Page two forthcoming articles by Rosemary Dixon-Smith are mentioned:
Christmas in Ladysmith:
Events in Ladysmith during the Siege, Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, with suggested sources for finding ancestors who were among the besieged. Family Tree Magazine February 2007 (to be published in December 2006).
Questions & Answers in South African Research
Family Tree Magazine March and April 2007 (to be published in January and February 2007)

MISSING PERSONS and
BRICK WALL:
Please see if you are able to help find the people mentioned on these Pages.

THE 1820 SETTLERS:
Settler Correspondence
S, W, and Y have now been transcribed by Sue Mackay and her team.
What a marvellous achievement. Well done, and thank you to all!

Sue recently stated: "On this project I have been working especially closely with two people; Rowena Wattrus (whose willingness to go to Kew and take thousands of photographs for me has speeded up the project by months) and Delyse Brown, who is the webmistress of genealogyworld.net and who has been hosting the completed transcriptions. Both Rowena and Delyse, if I am not mistaken, descend directly from Samuel JAMES. I hope our forebears worked together as well as we appear to do!"

ANGLO-BOER WAR:
Hertford Volunteers
You might like to see the photograph taken by Rosemary Baker of the Plaque showing names of volunteers from Hertford, England, who took part in the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

Boer War Service Records

The following Boer War service records have recently been transcribed by Rowena Wattrus:
Extracts from National Archives Ref WO 126/1 for the Boer War service records for selected names starting between M and Z for the ASHBURNER'S LIGHT HORSE
Extracts from National Archives Ref WO 126/1 for the Boer War service records for selected names starting between A and Z for the BECHUANALAND RIFLES
Extracts from National Archives Ref WO 126/167 for the Boer War service records for selected names starting with M for the WESTERN PROVINCE MOUNTED RIFLES

Rosemary has asked me to point out that the Verulam Baptisms and Valiant Harvest are not one and the same thing!

Should anyone like to call in and see it, the Durban LDS Family History Centre now has a copy of a rather large family tree.
This links the following 1820 Settler families:
Freemantle Fincham Van De Linde Cawood/Hartley Goulding/Tucker Trollip Broster Bennett/Impey Penny Powel Thornton Archer Cormack

The Marwick Family Tree is now also available at the Durban FHC.

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