Showing posts with label magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magazines. Show all posts

Thursday, July 18, 2013

NewsVault Newspaper Package

Yarra Plenty Regional Library have subscribed to a new e-resource – NewVault Newspaper PackageWe hope that will prove to be another useful resources for family history researchers.
Access via – www.yrl.vic.gov.au -  e-resources - newspapers and/or
E-resources – Family history and/or
E-Resources – Genealogy – Genealogy e-resources
NewsVault Newspaper Package  is a collection of Gale historical newspapers from the UK .  Search over 10 million digitized facsimile pages,  fully text searchable, view entire pages or individual articles and save, bookmark, e-mail and print results.. Access the following collections via this single search platform or via their individual URLS.
The package includes an amalgamation of some British Newspaper collections we have been subscribing to for a while including Times Digital Archive
The package includes 15 collections:
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
19th Century British Newspapers
19th Century UK Periodicals
British Newspapers 1600-1900
Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Picture Post Historical Archive
The Economist Historical Archive
The Financial Times Historical Archive
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
The Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
The Sunday Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Access in the library and on a home computer with your library card.
Use this collection in addition to the very useful British Newspapers Archive.
If you find these resources useful please let us know.  We would love to hear of any knocked down brick walls or long lost relatives found.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Australian Family Tree Connections



Australian Family Tree Connections Feb 2013 is out.  Look for it at Ivanhoe and Diamond Valley Libraries.  This month feature articles include:
The magic of Westbrook by Adrian N Roberts
John Day born 1842-1850 Maitland NSW by Diane Gamble
Contributing to Pioneer Registers by June Parbery
Death certificates by William McGuirk
Are these photographs of the Edgar family?
Richard Hubert Davis convict by Bill McGuirk
John and Thomas Finney by Heather Lemaire
Mary Brady by Val Brennan
Walter Edgar and Bridget Eilen (Maguire) Hoare by Peter Hoare
Digging up my past – Thomas George Davies – Wendy Baker
The Solomons family of Scone by Betty Pinkerton
Coincidences by Ellen (Tierney) Smith
Honorah (Moriarty) Glasgow by Aileen Young

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Recently arrived Genealogy mags

The Following magazines have arrived for your genealogy reading pleasure:

Australian Family Tree Connections : December 2010

Articles include:

The Mysterious heirloom

Ernst Carl Julius Friedrich Rosenthal

Antiques, heirlooms and keepsakes

Mary (Randall) Brown

Avoca, Victora

Bernard McCann

Elizabeth (Marshall) Spalding

40 things to ask your Mum

Robert Findlay

Christmas at the Front 1917

PEP Batteries Ball 1945

Cummings Family of Middlesex

Albert Flynn's 1940s dinner

Getting Started - Looking for Mining Ancestors Part 1

Who Do You Think You Are? - December 2010

Feature articles include:

WW1's unsung heroes

The High Street

A Life without work

War Cemeteries

Georgian Spinsters

Research advice articles include:

Shopkeepers

DNA Testing

Create a Slideshow

Maps, plans and surveys

Settlement records

In Edwardian Times

Check out the Magazine website including the Forum