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The Best of 2016 - the new PapersPast

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Bridget tells us one of her highlights for 2016 - the new format for that indispensible family history aid, Papers Past.

One of the highlights for me was the new format for PapersPast that was introduced by the National Library.
PapersPast has always been intuitive to use but the way it's set up now makes it even more so. Also, the loveliest thing is having on the same site access to the databases Magazines and Journals, Letters and Diaries and the Parliamentary Papers. The way it has been formatted makes it easier to see more of the Māori content in newspapers and magazines. It also means that if you were unaware of these other resources, they are there on the home page, easy to click on and explore.
Te Ao Hou/The New World, Maori Affairs Department, 1952-1975
The Newspaper section contains digitised NZ and Pacific newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. If you are wishing to make a specific search, you will have a more rewarding experience if you use Search Articles using the different sections to limit your search.

The Magazines and Journals section contains digitised New Zealand journal publications. Each magazine and journal has its own page containing information about the publication, including the date range available online. Well worth exploring if you haven't visited lately.

Bridget - Central Research

On-line magazine goodness

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The joy of going on-line to read, is the instant access to so many great publications via Auckland Library e-resources such as Press Reader. Press Reader, available on our digital library (but also on your own device at home if you’re a library member) is a way to look through not only hundreds of local and international current newspapers, but dozens of magazines. For those of you keen on family history, there are several of interest.
If you're all about things Scots, take a look at Scots Heritage.  It’s a quarterly publication, the ‘official magazine of the Standing Council of Scottish Clan Chiefs,” and it runs regular features on the clans, genealogy, Scottish history, and culture. The current issue has a feature on the reformer, John Knox, and a fascinating true life story about a Scots girl, shipwrecked off the Queensland coast, who was found living with an Aboriginal tribe. 
Then there’s Canada’s History (formerly titled The Beaver) which has a history just of itself.  Back in the 1990s,  the Hudson's Bay Company donated their corporate archives and museum collection to public institutions for research. The Hudson's Bay Company History Foundation was formed and provides funding for the Canada's History magazine. The latest issue includes a feature on the Ottawa Trek of the Great Depression, and takes a look at the author John Buchan, not only the author of The 39 Steps but also Governor-General to Canada.
There are a couple of British history magazines - History Revealed, with lots of pictures and trivia, and the BBC History Magazine - apparently  one of Britain's biggest selling history magazines. And of course, there's a family history title, Your Family History, a monthly UK genealogy magazine. In the August issue, there's a nice story on seaside resorts and their popularity back in the day as the "medical tourism industry," along with an article on the Lancashire famine. Lancashire had been the leading producer of cotton goods in the world but a blockade on cotton coming out of  America in 1861, saw extreme poverty and starvation strike the area as jobs dried up. Twelve months later, an estimated half a million people were starving.
You need your library membership to access Press Reader if you’re not in the library – but well worth signing up, Aucklanders, for that alone!
Joanne - Central Research

Treasure Chest Thursday: On-line Family History mags

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Auckland Libraries’ has a fabulous new on-line magazine collection, Zinio, for those of us who just love our magazines. The mags are free to read on your laptop, tablet, phone or PC, there’s no waiting list, and while some of us might be just desperate to get our hands on the latest Runner’s World, Yoga for Beginners or Train like an Olympian (or – let’s be real here – Best Cookies Ever, Christmas Baking, and Woman’s Day Comfort Foods), there are a couple of publications that the family history enthusiast might like to take a look at.

First up is the very stylish Australian magazine, Inside History. As the blurb says, “Inside History is for people passionate about Australian and New Zealand genealogy, history and heritage.” It’s published every two months, with “insightful, interesting and practical features… packed with advice, articles and expert tips on genealogy, and stories on our varied history.”


The second magazine you can borrow from Zinio is the UK magazine, Your Family Tree (not to be confused with Family Tree) with “… practical advice, written by experts, on all areas of family history research.”  Their aim is to make family history accessible to all.

You can read both of these on iPad, Blackberry, iPhone, Android, Win 8, PC/MAC and some back issues are available. You’ll need to be a library member to create accounts but then you’ll be away.

Here’s the link to Zinio – or if you prefer, the URL is:

 http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/collections/eMagazines/ziniogettingstarted/Pages/ziniogettingstarted.aspx

… which is worth a browse just to see what else you can read – especially in the Food and Cooking section!

Joanne Graves
Central Auckland Research Centre

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