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


Family History Month @ Auckland Libraries

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Family history month at Auckland Libraries is shaping up wonderfully.

At Central, we have weekly lunchtime sessions each Wednesday, instead of the usual fortnightly ones.  We're hopeful that we have something for everyone:

  • Genealogy in the Pacific Islands with Christine Liava’a, 
  • Introduction to the New Zealand Society of Genealogists with Christine Hurst, 
  • Local Knowledge with Lisa Truttman, 
  • Researching the NZ Land Wars with John Binsley, 
  • Anō te rakau manga rau / A heavily branched tree provides shelter with Margaret Ngaropo


We also have hands on workshops in the Akozone Learning Centre on Level 1, on Wednesdays, from 2-3pm - so you have time to listen to a lunchtime session, grab some lunch or do some research; then attend one of our workshops.

These sessions are designed to help you get the best out of our online resources and subscription websites:

  • Using Auckland Libraries eResources with Seonaid Lewis
  • Using Ancestry at Auckland Libraries with Marie Hickey
  • Using FindMyPast UK with Seonaid Lewis
  • Using FindMyPast Ireland with Marie Hickey
  • Using FindMyPast Australasia with Seonaid Lewis
Places are limited for these workshops, so you need to book quick to make sure you can get a seat!

We're currently putting the finishing touches to our family history programme that we are delivering out at our other research centres and community libraries in the Auckland Libraries group - so keep an eye out on our website, or ask your local library.

Seonaid


Do you have an English mariner or lighthouse keeper in your family tree?

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Image from FindMyPast UK

If so, the TRINITY HOUSE PETITIONS may be a useful source for you. We hold on microfilm the years 1787 to 1854. Trinity House Corporation, in addition to being responsible for lighthouses around England, acted as a charitable body for mariners and their families. Those applying for aid had to give a detailed account of their circumstances and the records of those petitions provide a wealth of family information.

The Society of Genealogists [in London] produced “Trinity House petitions; a calendar of the records…” which provides a name index of those listed on the microfilms. It is available in the Central Auckland Research Centre ( 4 GBR OCC) and may be found on top of the cabinets containing the films of the petitions themselves.

As well as being available on microfilm in the Research Centre, the Trinity House calendars, petitions etc are also name searchable on FindMyPast UK's website - which is available to use for free in any of the 55 Auckland Libraries.

Janelle

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