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Purpose: To let the members know about anything related to History or Genealogy that is newsworthy...

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REGIONAL SECTIONS:

1 -- UPGRADING our VARIOUS RESOURCE PAGE(S)....  Check them out !!! 

• AFRICA  --  Completed IGI Batch#S... all assigned are done
• CENTRAL AMERICA  --  Completed IGI Batch#S... all assigned are done
• ENGLAND --  Completed IGI Batch#S --Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Channel Islands, Cheshire, Cornwall & YORK (city) are completed...
• EUROPA -- Completed IGI Batch#S -- Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Portugal, The Netherlands and Switzerland are completed...
• MEXICO -- Completed IGI Batch#S -- States of: Baja, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas & Tlaxcala are completed...
• PACIFICA --  Completed IGI Batch#S -- Australia, New Zealand, etc.  are completed...

(Non-Specific): Latest finds:

• The Worldwide Genealogy Websites Top 100

• Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols

• Jewish Genealogy Web Index

• yuzukler home page

-- Africa --

-- Asia & Pacifica --

Australia/New Zealand resources Latest finds:

• Tasmania Convicts Resources & DBs
• Assisted Immigrant Ships to Victoria, 1836-1879
• Australian Archive of 19th-century Racial Images: Australian types; Aborigines; The Chinese; The Irish; South Sea Islanders
• Australian Family History and Genealogy on the Internet
• Australian Heritage Directory Databases and Lists
• Australian Indigenous Index - INFOKOORI
• Australian National Historic Shipwreck Database
• Australian Periodical Publications (Full Text), 1840-1845 {NLA, pdf files on-line)
• Chinese Naturalisation Database, NSW 1857-1887
• Convicts to Australia
• Divorce Index, Victoria 1861-1900
• Gazetteer of Australia : Place Name Search
• Genseek Genealogy (Australia)
• Immigrant Index Moreton Bay, 1848-59
• Immigrant Index Port Phillip, 1839-51
• Immigrant Ships to New Zealand Index, 1835-1910
• Index of Naturalisation Applications, 1835-1905
• Index to Census Records
• Index to Certificates of Freedom, 1823-69
• Index to Convict Applications for Permission to Marry
• Index to the 1841 Census
• Indexes to Assisted Immigrants, 1839-96
• Ireland-Australia Transportation Records Database
• Irish Convicts to New South Wales, 1791 - 1820
• Picture Australia
• Tasmanian Wills & Letters Index, 1824-1989

-- British & Irish Isles --

BRITISH DEATH DUTY REGISTERS, 1796-1811. These records hold details of wills and bequests for estates of England and Wales liable to death duties (from courts other than the Prerogative Court of Canterbury). http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/death-duty.asp

National Register of Archives (mainly British & Irish Isles, but more)  Do a Place (i.e. County or Shire) Search -- GREAT

England: ENGLAND + Channel islands (<== GGs Resource Center)

Latest finds:

• Search For The West Country England Passengers of the Mary & John 1630

• ENGLAND GENEALOGY

• England (Cambridgeshire + Kent) Probate Jurisdiction info...  Pre-1858.   3-16-06

Scotland: SCOTLAND (<== GGs Resource Center)

Latest finds:

• Ardchattan Parish, by Oban Argyll Scotland .. AYRSHIRE Genealogy Organisation

• BREAKING NEWS --  SCOTLAND IGI Batch#s extraction Project is now completed... (A YEAR IN THE PROCESS) -- check it out ...

Ireland: IRELAND (<== GGs Resource Center)

Latest finds:

• IRISH MANUSCRIPT COMMISSION Holdings  -- a new GG website. 1-31-06

• CIR, Donated Materials from the Center For Immigration Research, Balch Institute, Temple University.
  • Famine Irish Entry Project, 1846-1851. (see our 'IRELAND' page on EMIG./IMMIG. for link and details...)  One of the neat tricks is to modify the search form to inc. Location of Embarkation, then get the code for that location.  Then insert it into the embarkation box, and get those passengers who left from there..  -neat option..

  IRELAND Ports of Embarkation (Codes):  CO. ANTRIM-- BELFAST: 18 // 018. //  CO. ARMAGH/DOWN:   NEWRY -- 53 // 053.  //  CO. CORK:  CARDIFF & CORK -- 273.  CORK -- 46.  GLASGOW & CORK -- 259.  LIVERPOOL & CORK -- 194.  QUEENSTOWN -- 5 // 005.  YOUGHAL -- 176.  //  CO. DERRY:  L'DERRY -- 3 // 003.  LIVERPOOL & L'DERRY -- 125.  //  CO. DONEGAL:  DONEGAL -- 187.  //  CO. DUBLIN:  DUBLIN, GALWAY & HALIFAX -- 279.  DUBLIN -- 59 // 059.  LIVERPOOL & DUBLIN -- 283.  //  CO. GALWAY:  DUBLIN, GALWAY & HALIFAX -- 279.  GALWAY -- 35 // 035.  LIVERPOOL & GALWAY -- 207.  //  CO. KERRY:  TRALEE -- 158.  //  CO. LIMERICK:  LIMERICK -- 134.  LIVERPOOL & LIMERICK -- 296.  //  CO. LOUTH:  DROGHEDA -- 132.  //  CO. MAYO:  WESTPORT -- 292.  //  CO. SLIGO:  SLIGO -- 106.  //  CO. WATERFORD:  WATERFORD -- 50 // 050.  //  CO. WEXFORD:  KILLIBEGS -- 246.  NEW ROSS -- 166.  WEXFORD -- 232.  //  UNKNOWN CO?:  KILRUSH -- 165.  NEWCASTLE -- 171.

Wales: WALES (<== GGs Resource Center)

Latest finds: (Nothing at this time...)

-- Central America & the Carribbean --

-- Europa -

Europa: Europa (<== GGs Resource Center)

• Genealogische Databank

• Incipit - Archives, history & genealogy in Italy .. Incipit - Archives, history & genealogy in Tuscany

• Belarus [Belarusian] Genealogy Resources

Germany: Latest finds:

• GERMANY GENEALOGY LINKS

-- Middle East --

-- Nordic --

Nordic: Nordic (<== GGs Resource Center)

Norway: Latest finds:

• NORWAY GENEALOGY LINKS

Sweden: Latest finds:

• Swedish roots

-- North America --

Canada: CANADA  (<== GGs Resource Center)

• Saskatchewan Cemeteries - Transcribed or Photographed

• Reference Sources for Canadian Genealogy (Compiled by Mary Bond, for the NLC) -- {.pdf file}

USA:

• New GG Web Page: U.S. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PROJECT

Latest finds:

• New York's Immigration Stations - Ellis Island, Castle Garden & the Barge Office
• Civil War Pension & Service Records - Tips for Finding Them
• Laurie's Indiana Cemeteries
• Pioneer Families of South Australia and the Ohio Valley, USA
• The Portuguese in New England
• Mount Pleasant and Titus County, TX Cemetery Search
• Veterans from Barber County, Kansas
• Hope Cemetery (also known as Cornish/Harrington Cemetery), Barber County, KS
• Biographies, Obituaries & Family Histories, Comanche County, Kansas
• World War II Casualties from Comanche County, Kansas
• Marriage Notices from Comanche County, Kansas
• Death Notices from Comanche County, Kansas
• Wilmore, Comanche County, Kansas
• Birth Notices from Comanche County, Kansas
• Cemeteries in Comanche County, Kansas
• List of Veterans from Comanche County, Kansas
• African American Genealogy - West Virginia
• Arkansas Genealogy and History Guide

• Greene County, Arkansas

• Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Veterans Affairs Adds to its Cemeteries Database

  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has added 1.9 million burial listings to its cemeteries database. These are for military veterans buried in mostly private cemeteries, who have VA grave markers. The database already included more than 3 million graves in national cemeteries, bringing the total in the database to about 5 million graves. VA has also added maps to show many of the grave locations for those buried in VA national cemeteries, in state veterans cemeteries, and Arlington National Cemetery. The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to add approximately 1,000 new records to the database every day. The database is online at... Veterans Affairs Military Burials Locator For more helpful military databases see... Online Military Indexes, Records and Rosters of Soldiers..

• NOTE TO RESEARCHERS: Please be aware that a formerly "lost" rule for calculating Soundex codes has been rediscovered.
  This rediscovered rule is called the "Ashcraft" or "H & W" Rule. In addition to the existing Soundex calculation rules, add:
  • If "H" or "W" separate two consonants with the same soundex number, the "H" or "W" is disregarded, and the second consonant is not coded...
  • The Soundex Indexing System web page on the National Archives site has been updated to include this previously "lost" rule. Not all of the links below include this extra rule. Use the National Archive's Soundex page as your definitive source.

-- South America --

      LDS (MORMON) RESOURCE LINKS:

     Utah -- Locating your Mormon Pioneers and related resources done....  AND  Utah Census, 1850-1880 Search Engine ....  check it out, great....

Happy Hunting....

HISTORY SUBJECTS:

-- Location Specific --

• The History and People of Connecticut
• The History of Massachusetts
• The History of New Jersey
• The History of Iowa: Early Native Americans through WWII
• The History of Rhode Island

• Historic photos: Grand Hotel, Medicine Lodge, Kansas

-- World-wide (History-Related) Resources --

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