Ancestorsonboard.com
UK outbound passenger lists 1890 – 1960
Australians with ancestors who emigrated from Britain by ship in the twentieth century now have online passenger lists to search via this website. Details of British migrants who sought new lives between 1890 and 1899 are searchable online in a collaboration between Britain’s National Archives and the ancestral records site, findmypast.com
Plans are to extend to 1960 over time.
Lists include pre-World war 1 peak emigration period between 1890 and 1914 when each year an estimated 125,000 people left the British Isles for the US, 50,000 for Canada and 25,000 for Australia.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Australia's Who's Who on Ancestry
It is always welcome to see Australian content on the Ancestry database. Who’s Who in Australia, 1921-1950 is now available to search.
Ancestry is available at all branches.
Ancestry is available at all branches.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
WA BDMs online
Western Australia has extended its online historical index, births can now be searched 1841 - 1921.
Follow the links from Family History at the Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages
Follow the links from Family History at the Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages
Footscray Cemetery
Footscray Cemetery Headstone transcriptions are available on microfiche now at both Ivanhoe and Diamond Valley libraries.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Family Tree magazine
Diamond Valley library now subscribes to Family Tree Magazine a bi-monthly journal out of the UK.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Scottish Descendants' and Pioneers' Day at Gulf Station
Saturday, 24 March 2007, 10am to 4pm
Gulf Station
1029 Melba Highway
Yarra Glen, 3775 (Melways 267 C11)
Tel: 9730 1286
Do you have Scottish ancestry?
Does your family have links with the Yarra Valley?
Was an ancestor a passenger on the David Clark in 1839*?
Gulf Station's Bell family were Scottish (William Bell arrived on the David Clark) and their daughter Mary was a PLC class-mate of Nellie Mitchell (later Melba). As part of the Yarra Valley's Melba Festival, Gulf Station highlights its Scottish and pioneer heritage with Scottish Descendants' and Pioneers' Day, a special day featuring:
* Genealogical experts from the Scottish Ancestry Group (a service group of the Genealogical Society of Victoria)
* The Yarra Glen Historical Society will exhibit resource materials.
* Demonstrations of pioneer farming and domestic skills
* Musical entertainment: bush and folk, and Scottish (including the Police Pipe Band)
Bring your family tree, family history or local history material: compare notes, try to fill any gaps, make new contacts. Perhaps organise a family reunion with a picnic?
Gulf Station, the historic farm managed by the National Trust, includes the farm house and slab construction farm buildings, together with the breeds farmed by the Bells: Clydesdale horses, Ayrshire cattle, Border Leicester sheep, Berkshire pigs and poultry. All in a picturesque setting.
Normal entry fees apply: Adult $8; Concession $6; Child $5; group discount 10%.
* The barque David Clark sailed from Grennock on 15 June 1839 carrying 230 Scots. Family names on the passenger list include:
Aitkin, Armstrong, Arthur, Barr, Beith, Bell, Borland, Campbell, Cook, Dewar, Dick, Douglas, Duncan, Farquharson, Finlay, Foreman, Grierson, Halliday, Hawkins, Johnston, Joyce, Kennedy, Laurie, Matheson, Maver, McArthur, McDonald, McEwen, McFadden, McFarlane, McIntosh, McIntyre, McKay, McKenzie, McKinley, McLachlan, McLaren, McLean, McMaster, McMillan, McNab, Menzies, Middlemiss, Munsie, Peacock, Renald, Robertson, Rogerson, Shields, Smith, Stewart, Templeton, Thomson, Tucker, Walker, Welsh.
Gulf Station
1029 Melba Highway
Yarra Glen, 3775 (Melways 267 C11)
Tel: 9730 1286
Do you have Scottish ancestry?
Does your family have links with the Yarra Valley?
Was an ancestor a passenger on the David Clark in 1839*?
Gulf Station's Bell family were Scottish (William Bell arrived on the David Clark) and their daughter Mary was a PLC class-mate of Nellie Mitchell (later Melba). As part of the Yarra Valley's Melba Festival, Gulf Station highlights its Scottish and pioneer heritage with Scottish Descendants' and Pioneers' Day, a special day featuring:
* Genealogical experts from the Scottish Ancestry Group (a service group of the Genealogical Society of Victoria)
* The Yarra Glen Historical Society will exhibit resource materials.
* Demonstrations of pioneer farming and domestic skills
* Musical entertainment: bush and folk, and Scottish (including the Police Pipe Band)
Bring your family tree, family history or local history material: compare notes, try to fill any gaps, make new contacts. Perhaps organise a family reunion with a picnic?
Gulf Station, the historic farm managed by the National Trust, includes the farm house and slab construction farm buildings, together with the breeds farmed by the Bells: Clydesdale horses, Ayrshire cattle, Border Leicester sheep, Berkshire pigs and poultry. All in a picturesque setting.
Normal entry fees apply: Adult $8; Concession $6; Child $5; group discount 10%.
* The barque David Clark sailed from Grennock on 15 June 1839 carrying 230 Scots. Family names on the passenger list include:
Aitkin, Armstrong, Arthur, Barr, Beith, Bell, Borland, Campbell, Cook, Dewar, Dick, Douglas, Duncan, Farquharson, Finlay, Foreman, Grierson, Halliday, Hawkins, Johnston, Joyce, Kennedy, Laurie, Matheson, Maver, McArthur, McDonald, McEwen, McFadden, McFarlane, McIntosh, McIntyre, McKay, McKenzie, McKinley, McLachlan, McLaren, McLean, McMaster, McMillan, McNab, Menzies, Middlemiss, Munsie, Peacock, Renald, Robertson, Rogerson, Shields, Smith, Stewart, Templeton, Thomson, Tucker, Walker, Welsh.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
New Index to Outward Passenger lists
Index to Outward passenger lists
On 6 December Public Records Office Victoria (PROV) launched a further instalment (1862-76) in its continually expanding index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ
and Foreign Ports.
The index, which now covers the years 1852-1876, contains the names of all
persons who left Victoria by sea during this period, providing an
invaluable research tool both for historians and for family history
researchers. To date there are just over half a million names listed.
Assembled by a dedicated group of volunteers, PROV's online
immigration/emigration indexes attract an average of 20,000 'hits' a
month, indicating the enormous public interest in these readily accessible
and practical guides to early passenger lists.
To access the index to Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and
Foreign Ports, visit
link to 'Digitised Records and Online Indexes', and scroll down to
'Immigration'.
I was thrilled to find my GOOD family who I knew had gone to New Zealand from Victoria in the 1870s.
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