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Treasure chest Thursday: New CD Roms to the Central Research Centre

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Our filing cabinets in the Research Centre are real treasure chests, filled with microfiche, microfilm and CDs and DVDs.


Photograph of the 'S S Viti' of the
Tasman Shipping Company Ltd
(Captain Clough Blair)Heritage Images, Sir George Grey Special Collections,
Auckland Libraries, 34-T284
CDs and DVDs contain useful databases on documents in pdf format that are keyword searchable. Parish registers, passenger lists, private hospital registers, memorial inscriptions and cemetery records to name but a few examples of what they contain.

Methodical searching through our almost 4000 CD collection can lead to all sorts of exciting discoveries.

New additions to our CD collections this month:

Australia
2 AUS DIR NSW
NSW Telephone Directory, Section 5, Western Districts, 1958

2 AUS DIR VIC
Melbourne Directory, 1936

2 AUS IMM
Employment & Dispersal Lists, Assisted Passengers Arriving 1848-1854
Arrivals at Moreton Bay, Port Phillip, Sydney and Twofold Bay

2 AUS SHI QLD
Queensland Customs House Shipping, 1852-1885 Passengers and Crew

2 AUS PUB NSW
Index to the register of private hospitals NSW 1910-1928 from State Records NSW
(5/5857) - (5/5860), compiled by Teapot Genealogy, Kaye Vernon and Billie Jacobsen

England
4 ENG BDM ESS
Waltham Abbey Historical Records

4 ENG BDM NTT
Phillimore’s Parish Registers, Nottinghamshire

4 ENG BDM NTT
Seventeenth Century Parish Register Transcripts belonging to the Peculiar of Southwell

4 ENG BDM NTT
Warsop Parish Register Extracts with Notes

4 ENG BDM LNC
Rainford Chapel, 1813-1841

4 ENG BDM SAL
The Parish Registers of Astley, Withington, Stirchley, and Uffington in Shropshire

4 ENG BDM SAL
The Parish Registers of Hughley, Willey, Neen Sollars and Milson in Shropshire

4 ENG BDM YKS
Leeds Chapelries Register – Headingley & Bramley

4 ENG CHR HAM
Memorials of Christchurch -Twynham, Hants

4 ENG DIR WAR
The Post Office Directory of Birmingham and Suburbs, 1879

Scotland
4 SCT CEM AYR
Scottish Monumental Inscriptions, Stevenston, Hawkhill Cemetery

United States
6 USA GAZ
Gazetteer of the United States, 1854


Happy hunting

Seonaid

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

Treasure Chest Thursday: Huguenots

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Do you have Huguenot ancestors? 

Yes? Then you will be interested to know that we added these new 
CD-ROMS to the family history collection this week. 

 1 GEN REL HUG    Huguenot Families Numbers One to Twenty
4 ENG REL HUG   Consistory and Administrative Records c. 1560-1660
4 ENG REL HUG    Reg. of the French Church of Threadneedle St, London
4 ENG REL HUG    Reg. of the French Churches of La Patente & Saint Jean, Spitalfields
4 ENG REL HUG    Reg. of the French Churches of the Cities of London &  Westminster & of Spitalfields

 4 ENG REL HUG    Reg. of the Walloon & Huguenot Churches of Canterbury, Bristol, Plymouth, Southampton & Stonehouse
4 ENG REL HUG    Reg. of the Walloon & Huguenot Churches of Norwich, Colchester, Thorney & Thorpe-le-Soken
4 IRL REL HUG      Reg. of the French Churches in Dublin & Portarlington, Ireland
5 EUR REL HUG    Reg. of the French Churches of Guisnes, Cadzand, Dover & Le Mans
6 AAM REL HUG    Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American Colonies

 To find more resources in the family history collection, type the word 'Huguenot' in the subject search box of the Classic Catalogue and limit the search to 'Heritage & Research' in the drop down menu.

Good luck with your search!

 The Family History Team

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

Treasure Chest Thursday: CD-Rom collection at the Central Auckland Research Centre

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CD-Roms form a very valuable and often under-rated part of the family history collection at the Central Auckland Research Centre. We have 6 sets of 8-drawer cabinets filled with them.

 Typically they hold databases, or they might be published family histories saved as pdfs. Either way they are very searchable and hold a mine of information often not found online or in a book.

 Sometimes these CD-Roms have replaced the microfiche of old.

 Here are a selection of CD-Roms that have recently been added to our collection:


New Zealand

Call number                    Title

You'll note that, as with other New Zealand family history resources, these CD-Roms are also available at our other Research Centres, and also some of our community libraries.

 Non-New Zealand CD-Roms form part of the international family history collection held within the Central Auckland Research Centre at Central City Library:

England

Call number                      Title



 14 directories of Yorkshire (Leeds, Bradford, the Ridings, Hull) including these highlights: 



Ireland

Call number                   Title



South Africa

Call number                   Title

An overview of the Transvaal and the Boer War, including the history of the Boers, and hundreds of photos.

 As well as our catalogue, we also have a pdf index of our CD-Rom collection that is kept regularly updated. Please feel free to download the full list.

 LR

Location: Central City Library, 46 Lorne Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
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