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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

Additions to the South African family history collection

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The Central Auckland Research Centre has 13 new family history eBooks on CD-Rom about South Africa including:


Diaspora to Diorama: The Old Slave Lodge in Cape Town
Brothel, lunatic house and slave lodge – the building at the top of Cape Town’s Adderley Street’s many functions under British and Dutch rule are explored in this eBook. It also includes the register of the slave lodge census of 1714, and the death register of lodge slaves spanning 60 years.
 
The Lonely Island
Tristan da Cunha, a tiny island in the mid-Atlantic - the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world - was annexed by the British Empire in 1816. This eBook gives an account of life on Tristan da Cunha written by the wife of Missionary Priest Henry Martyn Rogers who landed there in 1922.

British Residents at the Cape 1795-1819
This eBook documents British pioneers who made the Cape their home during the first British occupation 1795-1803, and the second occupation beginning in 1806 - after which the country remained a British Colony until the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910.
 
South African Jewish Year Book 1929
This first South African Jewish Year Book includes over 700 biographies as well as documenting many aspects of Jewish life such as The Jewish Gold Pioneers, United Hebrew schools, Jews of Griqualand West and Bloemfontein Jewry.

The beauty of such eBooks, is that they are keyword searchable, so you can search for names and places.


These eBooks come from online publishers Ancestry24, (no connection to Ancestrydotcom) who also have a very large amount of online South African genealogical records.


LR


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