Ancestry

From time to time, this blog will participate in the Family History through the alphabet challenge which geneabloggers  all over the world are participating in.

So this week  A is for Ancestry!  Did you know that Yarra Plenty Regional Library and most Victorian Public Libraries subscribe to Ancestry Library Edition? A version of the Ancestry.com subscription website which gives a huge range of Australian and international  resources for family historians.  Along with other e-resources  'Ancestry'  can be accessed for free in on any PC in every branch library via our website - Research - Genealogy - e-resources.  The site grows all the time.  Highlights include:

            ·                              Searchable English census records 1841 - 1911 with images of the    actual  census

•                    Birth, marriage and death records, including the England and Wales birth, marriage and death indexes 1837 -2004

•                    Records of immigration into the US and of emigration from the UK

•                    Military records, for example 'Great Britain Army War List January 1893

•                    Directories and membership lists, including British telephone directories 1880 -   1984, being added in batches

•                    Australian Electoral Rolls 1903-1980

•                    Australian birth, death and marriage indexes

•                    Convict and passengers lists
•                    Learning Centre and more