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08 December 2016

Holiday Gifts to You -- Genealogy Style -- 15 Free and (Relatively) New Family History Resources -- Part 2

The holiday season is a period of gift giving. My gift to you is another series of editions of FREE and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, the 2016 Holiday Version ...

Check out Re-cap – 20 Free and (Relatively) New Genealogy and Family History Resources, 2016 Version – 5 parts post (March 2016) where I did a recap of the 2015 and early 2016 editions.

CANADA

1. Canadian National Digital Heritage Index (CNDHI) -- is an index of digitized Canadian heritage collections located at Canadian universities and provincial and territorial libraries

2. Canadian Digital Census Boundary Files (via Scholars GeoPortal)

IRELAND

3. Letters of 1916: A Year in the Life

4. Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Prisoners Books (1905-1918)

NEW ZEALAND

5. Scattered seeds - He Purapura Marara -- Dunedin Public Libraries project to digitize 199,000 index cards from 1851-1993 containing information from newspapers and about community groups

UNITED KINGDOM

6. University of Southhampton Knitting Reference Library

UNITED STATES

7. California’s Old Series Trademarks -- The explosion of commerce after the Gold Rush also led to California’s first-in-the-nation trademark law and a fascinating collection opens new window of product labels and logos registered with the Secretary of State.

8. South Carolina Electronic Records Archive (SCERA) – currently includes Birth Certificates (1915), British and Private Records, Local Records, State Records, Constitutional and Organic Papers, and Map Collection

9. Historic Aerial Photos (Iowa) – historic view of Iowa from the late 1930s.

10. The Daily Pennsylvanian Digital Archives (University of Pennsylvania)

11. Cherokee Language Online Database

12. New Jersey Death Records, June 1878-June 1895

13. North Carolina World War I Service Cards (via FamilySearch in partnership with State Archives of North Carolina)

14. Genealogical Forum of Oregon (many record collections)

WORLDWIDE

15. Sephardic Ancestry – A resource website for researching Sephardic Jewish Lineages.

Editor’s Note: As of today, each of the above links worked. Now, whether the links in any of the identified articles work, I cannot vouch for that. And, armed with the information provided, it should be relatively easy to get to determine where the discussed database currently resides. If you get really stuck, drop me an email and I’ll try to ferret out the recalcitrant link or cross out my entry in the above list!

Editor’s Note: Know of a neat resource that you think might be a hidden gem? Drop an email to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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17 October 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes -- Laws, Cook County (IL) Cemetery, British Currency, New Zealand WWI, Tennessee Bible, OH Death Records, IA Newspapers, NH Maps & Atlases

Welcome to our newest edition of our periodic feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything genealogical!

We hope you found the past editions helpful. Use your favorite search engine with “Upfront with NGS” “Mini Bytes” or use this Google search link.

Do you have questions, suggestions for future posts, or comments? Please post a comment or send an e-mail to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.

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Laws are important. Free access to legal information is great. Check out this great collaboration between the Law Library of Congress and the legal publishing company William S. Hein & Co., Inc. as described by The Legal Genealogist.

Burials for the Cook County Cemetery at Dunning, IL are now online! With over 38,000 burials spanning some seventy years, it served as an institutional cemetery for the Cook County institutions. These consisted of the County Poor house and farm opened 1854, the Insane Asylum opened 1869, the infirmary opened 1882, and the Consumptive hospital (TB), opened 1899 and was the official Cook County potters field serving the poor and indigent of the county. Read the article, Database Remembers Chicagoans Buried, Forgotten in Dunning Cemetery, to learn more.

A research challenge we run into is when currency changes. How do we get a grasp on obsolete currency? The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH) has posted a nice & short summary of Post- and pre-decimalization monetary units (covering British currency).

New Zealand now has more than 140,000 World War 1 service files online. Search the database here. Read more about the project here.

Tennessee research has just gotten easier. More than 1500 bible records are available on the website of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. You can access the project here and read more about it here.

The Ohio History Connection’s State Archives’ online catalog of death records has expanded. On October 1, the Ohio Department of Health transferred nearly two million death certificates from the years 1954 to 1963 to the Ohio History Connection.

Fort Dodge (Iowa) newspaper archive is now online. It covers 56 local and area newspapers and publications for the years 1856-1934.

The University of New Hampshire has some neat Maps & Atlases online with the earliest item a Gazetteer of the state of New Hampshire from 1817.

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24 August 2011

The Guild of One-Name Studies makes Extended Membership Offer to new Joiners at the NZ Family History Fair in Hamilton

Following successful offers made earlier in the year at Family History Fairs in London and York, England, and Colorado, USA, the international Guild of One Name Studies will be making a similar offer at the NZ SoG’s New Zealand Family History Fair in Hamilton on 26-27 August.

Normally, membership of the Guild of One-Name Studies costs either £15 sterling or US$25.00 (or equivalent in NZ$) for 12 months membership. This offer covers membership for 15 months with renewal not due until 1 November 2012.

Visitors to the Fair at Hamilton can call at the Guild of One-Name Studies’ stall where questions about the Guild and this offer will be welcomed.

For those unable to get to Hamilton, the extended membership offer will also be made globally for the whole of August, during Family History Month. Go to the Guild website at: www.one-name.org/nzfhf-offer.html.

Details of all the Guild facilities can be found at: www.one-name.org/guildsvces.html where you can find out:

more about undertaking a one-name study
the benefits of joining the Guild of One-Name Studies, and
the assistance members of the Guild can provide to anyone researching their family history on any of the nearly 8,000 plus names currently being researched

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