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New Zealand Completed Requests / England & Wales Birth and Death Indexes now available online
« on: Saturday 10 December 16 02:50 GMT (UK) »
From 4 November 2016 the indexes for England births and deaths became available online at the GRO website - www.gro.gov.uk.
Additional information is now provided for historical births and deaths:
For BIRTHS, mother’s maiden names are recorded on the GRO index (where possible). This can assist in the identification of siblings.
For DEATHS, age at death is available prior to 1865.
You will need to register on the website before searching the indexes.
Thanks to the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Newsletter 0070, December 2016 for the information.
Spades
Additional information is now provided for historical births and deaths:
For BIRTHS, mother’s maiden names are recorded on the GRO index (where possible). This can assist in the identification of siblings.
For DEATHS, age at death is available prior to 1865.
You will need to register on the website before searching the indexes.
Thanks to the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Newsletter 0070, December 2016 for the information.
Spades
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The Common Room / MOVED: Request for local help from Hartlepool and/or City of Durham
« on: Tuesday 06 December 16 20:18 GMT (UK) »76
New Zealand Completed Requests / NOTICE - Look-ups at Archives New Zealand, Wellington office
« on: Monday 14 November 16 07:14 GMT (UK) »
Hi everyone,
Due to personal and work commitments I have not been able to commit much time recently to look-ups.
I plan to answer the outstanding look-up requests over the next three weeks (earthquakes permitting!), but I would ask that any further look-up requests are withheld until the end of January.
I hope everyone is staying safe and getting ready, just in case. Evacuating to high ground at 03:00 pre-sparrow-chirp with most of the rest of the city was exciting but I'd prefer not to have to do it again!
Spades
Due to personal and work commitments I have not been able to commit much time recently to look-ups.
I plan to answer the outstanding look-up requests over the next three weeks (earthquakes permitting!), but I would ask that any further look-up requests are withheld until the end of January.
I hope everyone is staying safe and getting ready, just in case. Evacuating to high ground at 03:00 pre-sparrow-chirp with most of the rest of the city was exciting but I'd prefer not to have to do it again!
Spades
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The Common Room / MOVED: JOSEPH DOUGLAS / LIMAVADY
« on: Friday 16 September 16 04:01 BST (UK) »
This topic has been moved to Derry (Londonderry).
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=755893.0
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=755893.0
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New Zealand Completed Requests / Measuring the ANZAC’s
« on: Tuesday 06 September 16 03:07 BST (UK) »
Begun in September 2015, Measuring the ANZAC’s is an online community effort led by a group of academics and supported by The Zooniverse, the world’s largest citizen science initiative, to transcribe the key documents from World War 1 personnel files downloaded from Archives new Zealand's Archway catalogue https://archway.archives.govt.nz/
The aim is to collect information from Attestations, Military History sheets, Statements of Service, and Death Notifications to further genealogical and academic research.
The project is asking the online community to help with three tasks:
1. Identify what type of document an image is of – is it an attestation, history sheet or death notification?
2. Once the document is identified citizen scientists mark the questions or ‘fields’, e.g., unit, name, next of kin, etc. that need to be transcribed by drawing boxes around them on the interactive website.
3. The marked fields are then available for transcription by the person who drew the box, or by anyone else.
While this sounds complicated, the software does most of the work. You can contribute as much or as little information as you wish, working through a person’s complete file, several fields or just one. The website provides a very helpful Field Guide to help transcribers, with lists of abbreviations which commonly appeared in these personnel files.
I strongly encourage everyone with a family member who served in World War 1 to get involved in this project.
https://www.measuringtheanzacs.org/#/
Spades
The aim is to collect information from Attestations, Military History sheets, Statements of Service, and Death Notifications to further genealogical and academic research.
The project is asking the online community to help with three tasks:
1. Identify what type of document an image is of – is it an attestation, history sheet or death notification?
2. Once the document is identified citizen scientists mark the questions or ‘fields’, e.g., unit, name, next of kin, etc. that need to be transcribed by drawing boxes around them on the interactive website.
3. The marked fields are then available for transcription by the person who drew the box, or by anyone else.
While this sounds complicated, the software does most of the work. You can contribute as much or as little information as you wish, working through a person’s complete file, several fields or just one. The website provides a very helpful Field Guide to help transcribers, with lists of abbreviations which commonly appeared in these personnel files.
I strongly encourage everyone with a family member who served in World War 1 to get involved in this project.
https://www.measuringtheanzacs.org/#/
Spades
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Australia Lookups completed / MOVED: Anoni or Annoni, Trendall, Selby and Simmins - records and descendants
« on: Tuesday 12 January 16 01:05 GMT (UK) »81
Australia / Thomas MURDOCH (born 1848 SCT) in Kalgoorlie WA, 1896
« on: Tuesday 28 July 15 02:12 BST (UK) »
Hi everyone,
Thomas MURDOCH, a carpenter, was born in Scotland in 1848, the son of John Murdoch and Martha FISHER. He emigrated with his parents and siblings to Otago, New Zealand in 1860, married Annie TERNAN there in 1876 and had seven children. In the 1880's he took his family north to the district of Westland and settled in the town of Kumara.
Thomas disappeared after 1896, the last record of him dating to that year’s published electoral roll. His wife and children remained in New Zealand.
I have just found what I believe is a passing reference to Thomas MURDOCH in a letter from Dandarup WA, dated 7 October 1896, published in a Westland, New Zealand newspaper, the Grey River Argus.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fst/
The letter's author discusses a train trip from Perth to the cities of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie and environs, and described a tour of the Great Boulder mine (located at Kalgoorlie). Vitally, the author named quite a number of expatriate New Zealanders he met on his journey. He makes the following statement towards the end of his letter:
…Pat Small of Orwell Creek, Dennis Foley, Stenhouse and T MURDOCK (sic) all late of Kumara are working for wages the two former in the mines, and the latter is carpenter at a water shaft.
Despite the spelling error, the name, occupation and home town all strongly suggest that ‘T MURDOCK’ is my missing Thomas.
So, can anyone find any other record of Thomas in Western Australia, please? And several chocolate fish to anyone who can find a record of his death or burial!
Links to associated topics:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=597502.0
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=476805.0
Regards,
Spades
Thomas MURDOCH, a carpenter, was born in Scotland in 1848, the son of John Murdoch and Martha FISHER. He emigrated with his parents and siblings to Otago, New Zealand in 1860, married Annie TERNAN there in 1876 and had seven children. In the 1880's he took his family north to the district of Westland and settled in the town of Kumara.
Thomas disappeared after 1896, the last record of him dating to that year’s published electoral roll. His wife and children remained in New Zealand.
I have just found what I believe is a passing reference to Thomas MURDOCH in a letter from Dandarup WA, dated 7 October 1896, published in a Westland, New Zealand newspaper, the Grey River Argus.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fst/
The letter's author discusses a train trip from Perth to the cities of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie and environs, and described a tour of the Great Boulder mine (located at Kalgoorlie). Vitally, the author named quite a number of expatriate New Zealanders he met on his journey. He makes the following statement towards the end of his letter:
…Pat Small of Orwell Creek, Dennis Foley, Stenhouse and T MURDOCK (sic) all late of Kumara are working for wages the two former in the mines, and the latter is carpenter at a water shaft.
Despite the spelling error, the name, occupation and home town all strongly suggest that ‘T MURDOCK’ is my missing Thomas.
So, can anyone find any other record of Thomas in Western Australia, please? And several chocolate fish to anyone who can find a record of his death or burial!
Links to associated topics:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=597502.0
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=476805.0
Regards,
Spades