New Books for Family History Research

The following new titles have been added to the collection at Yarra Plenty Regional Library:

Australia in the Great War

The Basic Genealogy Checklist

Brisbane Diseased

Brisbane: Squatters, Settlers and Surveyors

DNA for Genealogists

Family History on the Cheap

Genealogy Basics in 30 Minutes

Harnessing the Facebook Generation

Help! Historical and Genealogical Truth

Historical Research Using British Newspapers

Irish Libraries

Prisoners of the Past

Researching Armagh Ancestors

ScotlandsPeople

Troubleshooter's Guide to Do-it-yourself Genealogy

Tracing your Ancestors Through Death Records

Tracing your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings

Trace your Boer War Ancestors

Tracing your British and Irish Ancestors

Tracing your Kent Ancestors

Australians in Peril

Understanding Australian Military Speak

Unofficial Ancestry.com Workbook

Writing Interesting Family Histories

New Genealogy Unlock the Past Guides

Family History Researchers may like to review recent acquisitions to the collection which include:

Where Do I Start?

Discover English Parish Registers

Migration to New Zealand

How to Write your Family History

War on the Veldt

Discover your Sporting Ancestors

Pinning your Family History

Preserving your Family's Oral History and Stories

500 Best Genealogy & Family History Tips

Researching in German Civil and Church Records

ScotlandsPeople

Down and Out in Scotland

So You Are Totally New to Family Tree Maker

Nurses & Midwives in Australian History

British and Irish Newspapers

'Til Death Us Do Part

Guide to Baptist Historical Resources in Australia

Buried Treasure

My Ancestor Was in An Asylum

Tracing Mining Ancestors

Place a hold today!

New Family History Books

In the lead up to Family History Month in August when we will host a wide range of programs and events the following new titles have been added to the collection:

How to Trace your Family Tree

Troubleshooter's Guide to Do-it-yourself Genealogy

Grandad Did A Dastardly Deed

War Memorials (UK)

Adelaide Remember When

NextGen Genealogy

The Workhouse Encyclopedia

The Great Irish Potato Famine

The Trench

Genealogy Standards

Guide to Wolfram/Alpha for Genealogy and Family History Research

Putting your Ancestors in Their Place

A Guide to Tracing your Kildare Ancestors

How Our Ancestors Died

Genetic Genealogy

Sustainable Genealogy

Writing your Family History

Tracing your Scottish Ancestors

Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com

Photo: Pizzey Family Home, Diamond Creek Nillumbik Local History Digitisation Project Yarra Plenty Regional Library in partnership with Nillumbik Historical Society

New genealogy titles

As we prepare for National Family History Month in August and our own contributions to the program check out the recently acquired titles to our collections:

Tracing your Second World War Ancestors Writing A Non Boring Family History John Batman

Tracing your East End Ancestors

Internet Family History

Family History on the Net 2013/24

 Tracing your Liverpool Ancestors

Trace your Roots

Tracing your Criminal Ancestors Tracing your Criminal Ancestors

For a list of these and other titles check out New Genealogy titles for July 2013 and New Genealogy Books June 2013.  These books are now available for loan or place a hold today.

New Books for family history

The following titles have been added to the collection and may be of interest to family history researchers:
Subterranean City by Antony Clayton
Including an update on underground development in the past ten years, this book includes old and new illustrations, offering a comprehensive account of the features beneath the city – railways, tunnels, security bases, cables, utility supplies, pneumatic tubes, crypts and wells.

Workhouse by Simon Fowler
Notorious for harsh regimes and brutal masters, workhouses were created to relieve poverty in the United Kingdom but were universally loathed by the Victorian poor. This compelling account reveals the institution in all its contradictions, exploring the staff and buildings, rules and routines, how the “house changed over time, and all the dramatic experiences of the men, women and children who lived behind closed doors.

Female Occupations by Margaret Ward
This English guide is an A-Z arrangement covering over 100 years of occupations carried out by women from actress to wool spinner.

Hard to Go Bung by Rosalind Smallwood

The First World War soldier settlement schemes placed settlers on unviable, over–capitalised holdings ultimately forcing a high percentage to walk off their blocks. When the second world war broke out the Victorian Returned Services League set about helping to frame a settlement scheme which would avoid the mistakes of the past. It is a record of an outstanding and successful scheme which reflects credit upon its administration and the ex-service settlers who made the most of the opportunities presented them.

Remember Them by Katrina Hedditch


Tracing your Irish Ancestors by John Grenham
This new 4^thedition embraces online research as an essential part of any Irish family history project.

British and Commonwealth War Cemeteries by Julie Summers
In 1917 an organisation was formed known as the Imperial War Graves Commission, now known as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the organisation commemorates all lives of the Commonwealth lost in war. This book is beautifully illustrated with old and contemporary photographs.


Tracing your Scottish Ancestors by Tristram Clarke (6^th edition)
With 5 million people in Scotland, and over 30 million of Scottish descent scattered throughout the world, it is not surprising that research into Scottish family history is so popular.


Tracing your Ancestors by Simon Fowler
An accessible well organised easy to use beginners’ guide to the world of family history – although with a UK bias

Book Review: Private journal of A voyage to Australia 1838-39 by James Bell

Private Journal of A Voyage to Australia
For those of us with pioneer ancestors to Australia in our family tree many generations back, we often admire and wonder at the tenacity of our forebears to board a sailing ship for weeks at sea to an unknown land. Not many personal accounts survive from ordinary people who did just that, but in recent years a journal has seen the light of day, and thankfully purchased by the State Library of South Australia. It has been transcribed and edited by Richard Walsh , with an introduction and epilogue by Anthony Laube.
For all intents and purposes I planned to only skim this book but was immediately engaged by the narrator and his day to day activities and observations aboard ship.
From the State Library South Australia media release: - "James Bell, a free settler migrating to Adelaide on the good ship Planter in 1838, discovered in a London street market and then auctioned through Bonham’s, sold for $22,000 to the State Library of South Australia, provides a unique insight into the experience of sailing to Australia.
On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide. His intentions were to begin a new life in the infant colony, not yet two years old, half a world away. He left behind family, good friends and the mysterious ‘C.P.’, a young woman with whom he hoped one day to be reunited.
The journey usually took 130 days, but due to the incompetence of the captain and the many misadventures encountered it took the Planter almost six months to reach its destination. Along the way it lost a crew member, several passengers and much livestock; it gained new crew and at least one extra passenger. The drunken brawls and licentious couplings horrified James Bell who, to while away the time, penned a detailed account of all the comings and goings for the eyes of ‘C.P.’ only, sternly advising her that ‘it must never be read by a third party’.
Sustained by his sense of adventure, his love of poetry, his faith in his Presbyterian God, his nostalgic memories of rural Scotland and, particularly, by his affection for ‘C.P.’, James Bell maintained a vivid and astute record of his historic journey. His voice travels down to us, more than a century and a half later, and reminds us of the dangers and joys of such an adventurous leap into the unknown."
Extract: 20 February 1839, Wednesday
This morning it is calm, but with such a swell as I have never seen. The Ship rolls very heavily indeed, and we have had such a morning with casks, coops &c &c rolling about to the great danger of breaking legs, necks &c &c before they could be secured, and cockery of every description was crashing in every Part of the Ship. Therese were at least secured, but the rolling increased towards evening and became so exceedlingly great that it was with much difficulty I could make myself believe that the Laws of gravitation ensured the Ship from capsizing.
For more about this book visit ABC Blog

New Genealogy Books

New Books of interest to the family history researcher in the collection include:

Free Passage: the reunion of Irish convicts and their families in Australia 1788-1852by Perry McIntyre

In search of a better life: British and Irish migration edited by Graham Davis

The Parish Chest by W.E. Tate

Family History on the net by Colin Waters

Tracing your rural ancestors: a guide for family historians by Jonathan Brown

My Ancestor was an agricultural labourer by Ian H Waller

My Ancestor was a merchant seaman by Christopher T & Michael J Watts

English place-names explained by Charles Whynne-Hammond

The Oral History Workshop: collect and celebrate the life stories of your family and friends by Cynthia Hart and Lisa Samson

Raids on Australia: 1942 and Japan’s plans for Australia by Pam Oliver

Double Gold: 1870s mining and farming dairies with a history of Mt Franklin and District by Janet MacDonald and Garry Powell

The fine homes of Essendon and Flemington 1846-1880 Edited by Lenore Frost

Deaths at Eureka by Dorothy Wickham

The Examiner Index: obituaries and funerals 1941-1950 (Genealogical Society of Tasmania Inc. (Launceston Branch).

Getting the most out of Find my past.com.au by Rosemary Kopittke & Alan Phillips

It’s not all online: a guide to genealogy sources offline by Shauna Hicks

Locating your German ancestor’s place of origin by Eric Kopittke

Death certificates and archaic medical terms by Helen V. Smith

AIF Unit Histories of the Great War 1914-1918 by Ron Austin

New books for Family History Researchers

New books for family history researchers have been added to the collection. Place a hold via the catalogue on our website:

Questions to bring you closer to Grandma and Grandpa
Conserving, preserving and restoring your heritage
Writing interesting family histories
Tracing your family history on the internet
Search your middle Eastern & European Genealogy
Family Reunions: everything you need to know to plan unforgettable get-togethers
Monumental Inscriptions Australian Capital Territory including Jervis Bay
Family History for Kids
The Kids Family Tree Book
The Art of the Family Tree
Scrapbooking Family Heritage
Scrapbooking your family history: the ultimate workbook
Family History scrapbooking

More New Books

More new titles for family history researchers. Place a reservation on our website

Social media for family historians by Carole Riley
Sewerage records an untapped magnificent resource by Susie Zada
Irish Ancestors: a pocket guide to your family history by John Grenham
A History of Ireland by Richard Killeen
A timeline of Irish History by Richard Killeen
Oxford Companion to Irish History edited by S J Connolly
In their own words: the famine in North Connacht 1845-1849 by Liam Swords
The Victorian Cemetery by Sarah Rutherford
Graveyard London: lost and forever burial grounds by Robert Bard
A History of Britain 1776-2000 The fate of empire by Simon Schama
The Great War Handbook: a guide for family historians & students of the conflict by Geoff Bridger
Remembering Fromelle: a new cemetery for a new century compiled by Julie Summers
How to get the best from the 1911 census by John Hanson
Tracing your Scottish ancestors: a guide for family historians by Ian Maxwell
Pioneer Medicine in Australia edited by John Pearn
Gold tailings: forgotten histories of family and community on the central Victorian goldfields by Charles Fahey & Alan Mayne
Kilmore 1837-1937: the tale of a century by J A Maher
Exiled: the Port Arthur convict photographs by Edwin Barnard
Picture Postcards by C W Hill
How to get the most from family pictures by Jayne Shrimpton
Write your life story: how to organise and record your memories for family and friends to enjoy by Michael Oke

New Books

Family History researchers may be interested in the following new titles recently added to the collection at Yarra Plenty Regional Library:

Which Genealogy program? By Kerry Farmer and Rosemary Kopittke
Family and Local History Resource Directory for Victoria by Shauna Hicks
My Ancestors were… Londoners by Cliff Webb
Writing a non-boring family history by Hazel Edwards
Tracing your Northern Irish Ancestors: a guide for family historians by Ian Maxwell
Second stages in researching Welsh ancestry edited by John & Sheila Rowlands
Children of the Dead End by Patrick MacGil
Heritage of Ireland by Peter Zoller
The Concise History of Ireland by Sean Duff
Keeping Family Treasures by Elizabeth Masters and Ian Batterham
The Champion of the Seas by Rod Fraser
Genealogy online by Elizabeth Powell Crowe
Faces of America DVD

More new books

The following titles have been added to the collection. You may place a hold for any title via the catalogue

Introducing family history by Stuart A Raymond
The Hidden thread: Huguenot families in Australia published by the Huguenot Society of Australia edited by Robert Nash
Hw 2*t u Fmly Hstry by Jane Starkie (Great for kids)
The Family Tree Detective: a manual for tracing your ancestors in England and Wales by Colin D Rogers
Old Pubs: inns, taversn & grog house on the Victorian Gold diggings
Journeys in family history: The National Archives to exploring your past – finding your ancestors
Times of our Lives: the essential companion to writing your own life story
The everything guide to online genealogy: a complete resource for using the web to trace your family history by Kimberly Powell
Tracing your German Ancestors by Peter Towey
A dictionary of medical & related terms for the family historian by Joan E Grundy
Organising a family reunion by Lesle Berry
What was the voyage really like? : a brief guide to researching convict and immigrant voyages to Australia and NZ by Shauna Hicks
Discovering surnames: their origins and meanings by J W Freeman
Your Irish ancestors: a guide for family historians by Ian Maxwell
First steps in family history: guided by Eve McLaughlin
Tracing births, deaths and marriages at sea by Christopher T and Michael J Watts
Starting your family history by Margaret Ward
Victorian Cartes-de-Visite by Robin and Carol Wichard
Tracing your Jewish ancestors: a guide for family historians by Rosemary Wenzerul
The British Soldier of the First World War by Peter Doyle
Are we related? How to find your famous ancestors by Eve McLaughlin
Parsih registers: A history and guide by Stuart A Raymond
Bulla Bulla: an illustrated history of the Shire of Bulla (Sunbury) by I.W. Sy

New Genealogy Books part 1

The following titles have been added to the collection recently:
The surnames of Scotland
The clans, septs & regiments of the Scottish highlands
Nick Barrett’s Guide to your ancestors lives
How to trace your family tree in England, Ireland, Soctland and Wales by Kathy Chater
Family photographs 1860-1945 by Robert Pols
Fair Game: Australia’s first immigrant women Elizabeth Rushen & Perry McIntyre
Social networking for genealogists by Drew Smith
Family history on the cheap by Shauna Hicks
Dictionary of old trades, titles and occupations by Colin Waters
How did they get here? Arrivals after 1924 by Cora Num
The census 1801-1911: a guide for the internet era by Stuart A Raymond
New cousins: how to trace living descendants of your ancestors by Karen Bali
1,001 life story questions by Bob Mitchell
How to publish your own book: secrets for the inside by Stewart Ferris
The Merhcant’s women by Elizabeth Rushen and Perry McIntyre
The family history project: great stories fro the nation’s family tree
The family and Local history handbook 12 (UK)
The silent city: a history of the Ballarat General Cemeteries
Easy Family history by David Annal
Family history on the move by Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall
The Greatest Genealogy tips in the world by Maureen Vincent-Northam
The Oxford Guide to Heraldry by Thomas Woodcock and John Martin Robinson
Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders 1803-1875 Volume 2 The Middle Years 1821-1836
Modern Memory Keeper: a new approach to scrapbooking your family legacy by Ronee Parsons
Tracing your family history: how to get started
Creating cards with scrapbook embellishments by Maryjo McGraw
Starting out in family History (The National Archives)
Oral History Handbook by Beth M Robertson
Family History for beginners and beyond (The Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra)
The Floating brothel by Sian Rees
Reuniting relatives, finding friends: a practical guide to finding people when you’ve lost touch
A Dictionary of old trades, titles and occupations by Colin Waters

New resources

The following items have been added to the collection:
Books
South Australian History Sources
Deaths from the South Australian Government Gazettes 1845-1941
PROV Lands Guide
Your genealogy affects your health
Tracing your Baltic, Scandinavian, eastern European and Middle Eastern Ancestry online
At home with your Ancestors.com
Evidence Explained
Digital restoration from start to finish
Introduction to family history research (with reference to SA research)
Writing interesting familiy histories
How to trace your Italian ancestors for Australians and New Zealanders
Dating Nineteenth century photographs
Ships from Scotland to Australasia 1820-1860
Cite your sources
Your living family tree
Family History for Beginners and beyond
In the pink –letters from William Johnson Williams Prisoner of War Europe WW2
CD-Roms
South Australian Gold seekers 1851 – 1853
Marriage index of WA 1915- 1933
WA Baptisms up to 1999
Genealogical database of Australia’s Travelling show people
Australian pastoral directory
Recent discovery of gold in Australia 1852
South Australian newspaper obituaries 1836-1900
Australian shipping – arrivals and departures 1788- 1968

Items can be searched via the catalogue from where you can also place a hold.

New Genealogy titles

New titles of interest to family history researchers into the collection include

Scottish Genealogy by Bruce Durie
Back cover - "Scottish genealogy is assumed to be far easier to research online than that of other parts of the British Isles, mainly because so many of the key resources are readily available. Yet Dr. Durie compellingly argues that you can go much further, describing records and resources that will help you unearth the rich social history surrounding your ancestral background" - Nick Barratt

Britannia's Children: emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland since 1600 by Eric Richards

Tracing your Royal Marine ancestors: a guide for family historians by Richard Brooks & Matthew Little

Tracing your Air Force Ancestors by Phil Tomaselli

The official guide to Ancestry.com by George G. Morgan

In Search of your German Roots: a complete guide to tracing your ancsestors in the Germanic areas of Europe by Angus Baxter

The surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght

Succeeding in Family History: helpful hints and time-saving tips by John Titford

Convict Lives : women at Cascades Female Factory

1,001 life story questions by Bob Mitchell

Google is your friend

Some recent developments from Search engine Google include new ways to find the image you want in an Images search. There are now a number of ways to get a more specific search - a face search, which lets you limit your search results to only images containing faces, photo search, which limits results to images that contain photographic elements, and clip art and line drawings.

Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ 19-12-08

Google books are now including magazine articles as part of the search results.

Google news to digitise newspaper archives

Google Books is a great online resource for family history researchers. Google have recently announced that their Google News search will make millions of pages of archived newspaper content available for free. The new scheme will see Google linking up with a series of major newspaper and magazine publishers to digitise their print archives. To read more about this recent announcement by Google visit The Guardian.

August is Family history month at YPRL

Yarra Plenty Regional Library invites you to embark on a journey of discovery with a range of engaging family history activities during the month of August.

To coincide with National Family History Week 2nd - 10th August, activities early in the month include:

An introduction to researching your women ancestors
Eltham Library
Wednesday 6 August
10.30 am - 11.30 am

Preserving your family history
Lalor Library
Wednesday 6 August
7.00 pm - 8.00 pm

New books for family history researchers include the following:
Caledonia Australis by Don Watson
Family History research in the central goldfields of Victoria by Dorothy Wickham
Writing up your family history : a do it yourself guide by John Titford
Family History on the web by Stuart A Raymond
A dictionary of old trades, titles and occupations by Colin Waters
DNA and Family history by Chri Pomery
Tracing your Scottish ancestry by Kathleeen B Cory
Family photographs and how to date them by Jayne Shrimpton
Dating twentieth century photogrphs by Robert Pols
Abbreviations for Australian genelaogists collected and compled by Elizabeth Ellen Marks
Finding your German ancestors by Kevan M Hansen
The great Irish potato famine by James S Donnelly Jnr.
Emigrants and expats: a guide to UK emigration and residents overseas by Roger Kershaw
Single and free: female migration to Australia, 1833-1837 by Elizabeth Rushen
Early modern genealogy: researching your family history 1600-1838 by Paul Chambers
By the hand of death: inquests held for Geelong and District Vol 1 1837-1850
Footprints: the journey of Lucy and Percy Pepper
Preserving the past and present for the future: papers from the Sixth Victorian Family History state conference
Mt Alexander District Directory of Old Settlers and residents 1837-1856
Ballarat and District Pioneers and Old Residents Directory 1837-1855
West Gippsland Pioneers and Settlers Pre 1900
West Gippsland Early Settlers 1900-1925
Family history for beginners and beyond
Roots for kids
Occupational records in Australia by Cora Num
By the visitation of God: inquests held for Geelong & District Vol 2 1851-1859

CD- Roms
Sydney Morning Herald birth marriage death and funeral notices 1831-1853
Census of NSW 1828

Roots by Alex Haley

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage... Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning no matter what our attainments in life". - Arthur Haley

The 30th anniversary edition of Roots by Alex Haley has just arrived at Yarra Plenty Regional Library. This book was first published in 1977 and is partly responsible in the upsurge of people researching their family history - which with the advent of the Internet still grows in popularity today.

Roots was also one of the first television mini-series. The story captured the imagination of people all over the world. It follows the life and descendants of Kunte Kinte who is brought to the shores of America as a slave from Africa.

The book went on to receive a Pulitzer Prize .

Place a hold on this book from our catalogue. It has been described as "one of the most important and influential books of our time".

New items at Ivanhoe

New items in the genealogy collection include:

CD-Roms
Ballarat Petitions 1860-1866

South Australian deaths 1842-1915

South Australia Pre-Civil Registration marriages
South Australia Pre-Civil Registration births
South Australia Pre-Civil Registration deaths

Bound for South Australia - births and deaths on government assisted immigrant ships 1848-1885

Books
Local Census Listings
Netting your ancestors : tracing family history on the internet by Stuart A. Raymond
The Genealogist's internet: the bestselling guide by Peter Christian (3rd expanded edition)

You may place a hold on the catalogue and collect at your branch library of choice.

New items to the collection

The following items have been recently added to the genealogy collection:

Books:
Making use of the census by Susan Lamas.

This book refers to the UK census and is an excellent tool to use when looking at the census on the Ancestry database (available at all branches).

Tracing your Irish ancestors: the complete guide by John Grenham 3rd edition
A major reference for researching your Irish family history

CD-Roms
South Australian Births 1907-1928
Baltic medal Roll 1854-1855

Microfiche (available at Ivanhoe library)
Index to Aliens 1914-1918
Listing of people mentioned in the Index and registers of Victoria Police correspondence, covering foreign born people who were obliged to register under the Aliens Act. The listing also includes people who wrote complaints about Aliens, or report suspicious happennings. The index includes a location and nationality cross reference.