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Tombstone Tuesday: NZ Cemeteries Heritage Week videos now online - reblog

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In the first week of February, Auckland Libraries was delighted to have hosted several events to support New Zealand Cemeteries Heritage Week, which was to celebrate the launch on Ancestry of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG) cemetery microfiche.


The cemetery microfiche was the culmination of almost 50 years' worth of work by volunteers from the NZSG - a painstaking process of recording and transcribing cemetery headstones from 1400 public and private cemeteries nationwide, including Māori urupa from 1800 right up until 2007.

The official launch day was held on Monday, 2 February, 2015, at the New Zealand Society of Genealogists head office in Panmure where current NZSG President Gay Williams discussed the history of their Cemetery Collection and explained the work that was behind it.

The launch made the news on TVNZ.


Auckland Libraries hosted events in support for the following three days. Subjects presented were:

  • S.S.Tararua  - our worst civilian shipwreck, 29 April 1881 - Gay Williams, President, (NZ Society of Genealogists) 
  • The ‘Great Flu’ pandemic, 1918 - Gay Williams
  • Hawkes Bay Earthquake 3 February 1931 - Christine Clement
  • The Tangiwai Railway Disaster, 24 December 1953 - Gay Williams
  • The Air NZ Erebus disaster, 28 November 1979 - Gay Williams
  • Locating your ancestors through NZSG burial records and Ancestry online (NZ cemetery records 1800 – 2007), Diane Wilson and Gay Williams 


You can read more about the week on the New Zealand Society of Genealogists press release page, which also contains presentations and research notes related to each topic.


Happy hunting

Seonaid







Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

New Zealand Cemeteries Heritage Week: 2 - 5 Feb 2015 videos now online

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In the first week of February, Auckland Libraries was delighted to have hosted several events to support New Zealand Cemeteries Heritage Week, which was to celebrate the launch on Ancestry of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG) cemetery microfiche.


The cemetery microfiche was the culmination of almost 50 years' worth of work by volunteers from the NZSG - a painstaking process of recording and transcribing cemetery headstones from 1400 public and private cemeteries nationwide, including Māori urupa from 1800 right up until 2007.

 The official launch day was held on Monday, 2 February, 2015, at the New Zealand Society of Genealogists head office in Panmure where current NZSG President Gay Williams discussed the history of their Cemetery Collection and explained the work that was behind it.

 The launch made the news on TVNZ.
Auckland Libraries hosted events for the following three days:

  • S.S.Tararua  - our worst civilian shipwreck, 29 April 1881 - Gay Williams, President, (NZ Society of Genealogists) 
  • The ‘Great Flu’ pandemic, 1918 - Gay Williams
  • Hawkes Bay Earthquake 3 February 1931 - Christine Clement
  • The Tangiwai Railway Disaster, 24 December 1953 - Gay Williams
  • The Air NZ Erebus disaster, 28 November 1979 - Gay Williams
  • Locating your ancestors through NZSG burial records and Ancestry online (NZ cemetery records 1800 – 2007), Diane Wilson and Gay Williams 


You can read more about the week on the New Zealand Society of Genealogists press release page, which also contains presentations and research notes related to each topic.


Happy hunting

Seonaid








Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

Tech Tuesday: Here & Then - today and yesterday's newspaper app

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DC Thompson Family History, the company that also provides Findmypast, has launched a mobile app called Here & Then that can provide you with articles from the British Newspapers Archive.

On your iPhone, you can view "On this day" articles, humorous stories, and historic topical stories that mirror today's news - free!

If you don't have an iPhone, you can view online. But maybe eventually it will also be available on Android one day?

 Good reading!

Seonaid

Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand

Manuscript Monday: Old Colonials Association Register

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Early this year we blogged about how the Old Colonists Association Register images had been digitised and were now available for viewing online by searching our Manuscripts Online database.

We've now made the images even easier to find by adding them to the entries in Index Auckland. So now, if you find mention of someone in Index Auckland, who belonged to the Old Colonists Association, the image will also be attached there as well!

We have other blogs that tell you more about Index Auckland and our related database the New Zealand Card Index.

Happy hunting

Seonaid

Some recommended social histories

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We are regularly adding to our stock family and local history books in the Central Auckland Research Centre.

Some books you look at the title and think "not my area of interest/thing"; while others just seem to leap off the shelf at you. Two such books arrived recently which I found to be very interesting and thought they may be of interest to some of you.

Ragged London: the life of London's poor

by Michael Fitzgerald
(The History Press, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2011)
Call number: 4 ENG LOC LON

I found Ragged London enlightening as it is easy to view London's landscape as it is today and forget that it wasn't always that way - many houses in inner London were demolished in the Vistorian era for the building of railways and the underground system. Until the latter part of the century, there was no onus on the developers to provide substitute housing for those who were displaced as it was also seen as a way of clearing the slums. St Giles-in-the-Fields is used as an example in many instances, but the circumstances could easily apply to rookeries elsewhere in London. A wide range of subjects are covered such as food and drink, love and marriage, home life, work and employment, philanthropy etc. Much of the detail given could probably also apply to any other over crowded sections of other cities in Great Britain and it is therefore worthwhile having a look at this fascinating book.

 
by Jennifer Newby
(Pen & Sword, Barnsley, Sth Yorkshire, 2011)
Call number: 4 GBR OCC

This book relates to resources to be found in the UK.  It covers domestic service, factory workers, land work, criminals, middle class and aristocracy so virtually all forms of employment for women are covered.  Each chapter gives brief details of the type of work which may be involved and end with sources of relevance to that subject.  There is a good bibliography and a timeline of key events effecting women at the back of the book.  If you are researching any aspect of the life of one of your female ancestors or women in general then this book is well worth reading.

Another title which is borrowable through the library system is:

by Maureen Waller
(Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000)
Call number: 942.106 WAL

While this relates to London many of the subjects discussed could apply to people anywhere (especially those living in cities) eg childbirth, death, disease, the home, fashion to name a few.
If you have an interest in London, there are a number of borrowable books available through the library. 

A couple which come to mind are written by Jerry White titled: London in the eighteenth century and also London in the nineteenth century.

I could go on but do have a look at the catalogue as you never know what treasures are lurking there.

Marie

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