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From: "Rob Thompson" <>
Subject: Family History News 30
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 16:10:02 -0000
Family History News
No 30
Hi, welcome to this 30th Family History News.
Now back in the country after three weeks working overseas theres plenty to
catch up on.
There have been plenty of new subscribers over the last three weeks, my
apologies to you for this gap! Usually this newsletter comes out weekly but
sometimes I am away with work and unable to get the newsletter out. Anyway I
am back now, slightly jet lagged but hopefully still making sense!
In Family History News 29 I asked about cleaning a gravestone for one of our
subscribers, thanks to everyone who replied, and especially thanks to Jim
Fisher who recommended Rod Neeps website at
http://www.neep.demon.co.uk/mis/ which contains more information than I
could ever reproduce here!
The Essex Society for Family History has changed is web address. The new URL
for this Society is now http://www.esfh.org.uk
The Strict Baptist Historical Society has moved to a new website at
http://www.strictbaptisthistory.org.uk/ with a greatly increased content
about Strict Baptists in the UK.
Press Release from Genfair
We received the Following press release from Genfair recently. It seems they
have hit the figure of ten thousand items for sale. This is a truly
significant achievement making GENfair the best online bookshop for
Genealogical materials. It is a real shame that this service of offering
small societies a place to exhibit their goods has not been achieved by the
obvious candidates, either the Federation of Family History Societies, or
the SoG who offer some but not have not developed this service. However we
must congratulate Mike Spathaky for doing this, and for putting in the hard
work involved. The beauty of this service is that it is offering not only
the books that you can find in a bookshop, on Amazon or on the SoG or FFHS
sites but also many many more that are not. For instance local publications
of MIs and Census information and much more.
In case any of you are wondering I have no connection whatsoever with
Genfair! I just think it is a job well done! Well here is the press release:
GENfair tops 10,000 items for sale.
News
Less than two years after its launch in January 1999, GENfair, the online
family history fair and genealogy bookstore, now has over ten thousand
purchasable items on its website at www.genfair.com.There are now over
eighty separate "stands" at GENfair which is an e-commerce version of the
traditional family history fair. Over fifty family history and local history
societies are represented along with nearly thirty other suppliers.A sister
website, GENfair OZ, has recently been launched at www.genfair.com/oz to
sell the products of Australian Societies.
Background history
GENfair was launched in January 1999 filling a need for UK Genealogy
Societies to reach a wider, international market for their vast range of
publications. Starting with just ten societies it rapidly established a
reputation as an easy-to-use webshop and a business that gave fast,
efficient delivery with excellent customer service. It is now a major focus
website for the Internet genealogy community.The support of UK Family
History Societies from the start was a key factor in generating customer
confidence. Many societies promoted GENfair through their own websites, the
relevant county genealogy mailing lists and their own Journals, often
recommending their members to pay subscriptions through GENfair. A further
boost was given by the granting of Which?Web Trader status by the Consumers
Association in recognition of GENfair's fair trading and privacy policies.
Through GENfair, family history enthusiasts around the world have discovered
the wealth of publications available from UK family history societies, and
have found a convenient way to buy them, with a fast, friendly service and
no currency conversion hurdles.
New Books
I received my copy of Novembers Family History Monthly this week. November
issue contains articles on the Boer War, Victorian Sanitation, War
Memorials, Lincolnshire, Nannies, Caithness FHS, The Surnames Strang &
Strong and much more information including news and reviews.
Keith Giles, who works at Auckland Public Library in New Zealand has
published a interesting sounding book Missing! From the 1881 British
Census: British and non-British crewmen arriving at Sydney 1 January 30
June 1881 Volume 1 This volume contains arrivals 1 January to 31 March 1881
and is compiled from the crewlists. Information given includes name, age or
year of birth and shipboard occupation, given also is place of birth, but
this can vary from a city to a country. This book will provide a useful
source of information to missing individuals, not captured on the census
because they were halfway round the world at the time. The book is available
from Keith Giles, PO Box 5269, Wellesley Street, Auckland, New Zealand for
NZ$10 plus NZ$1 postage (within NZ). Cheques need to be in NZ$ drawn on a NZ
bank and made payable to Keith R Giles. If anyone knows of anywhere this
book is available elsewhere in the world please let me know!!
1855 Fife Deaths Index CD Rom is now available, for further details and
ordering information please see
http://www.fifefhs.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/deathindexcdrom.htm
On offer from Felixstowe Family History Society are Walton (St Mary the
Virgin) Baptisms and Burials 1657-1756, £9.75 (UK), £11.50 (overseas surface
mail) and Walton Baptist Chapel: List of Members 1808-1900, £4.65 (UK),
£5.65 (overseas surface mail). They can be obtained from Mr M J Woollan,
The Pines, Manor Road, Trimley St Mary, Felixstowe IP11 0TU.
The third edition of Cameron Genealogies is now complete and ready for
distribution. It consists of 1,300 pages with over 200 major Cameron family
histories. The CD is available from Robert S Cameron, 256 Leura Mall,
Leura, NSW 2780, Australia, for a cost of $40, post free within Australia,
with an additional $5 for overseas postage.
The Hampshire Genealogical Society has recently produced the following
monumental inscriptions: East Boldre - St Paul; East Woodhay - St Woodhay;
East Worldham - St Mary; Ecchinswell - Congregational, Old Cemetery and St
Lawrence; Goodworth Clatford - St Peter; Grateley - St Leonard and Cemetery;
Greatham - St John the Evangelist (disused); Greatham - St John the Baptist;
Greywell - St Mary; Hamble-Le-Rice - St Andrew; Hatherden - Christchurch;
Herriard - St Mary; Hinton Ampner - All Saints and Cemetery; Netley -
Military Hospital Cemetery and Nursling - St Boniface. The fiche are £1.50
each plus 19p (1-3 fiche) UK, or £1.20 (1-5 fiche) airmail. Please make
cheques payable to the society and send orders to Mrs V Casey, 12 Merrivale
Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO2 0TJ.
Boothferry Family and Local History Group has issued Volumes 1 and 2 of Gode
Cemetery MIs, priced £1.20 (UK), £1.70 (overseas) each, including postage
and packing. Copies can be obtained from the Secretary at 17 Airmyn Avenue,
Goole, Yorkshire DN14 6PF. Please make cheques payable to Boothferry Family
and Local History Group.
Webpage reviews
http://freespace.virgin.net/donald.brown1/durnfords/
Website of the Durnford family originating in the small Wiltshire village of
All Cannings. From here though the roots spread far and wide and the website
reflects this fact well. There is a written family history, excel
spreadsheets of the records of Borth, Marriage and Death (for this you will
need to be using Internet Explorer) as well as a personal research diary
which adds more interest. The basic bones of the family history are added to
well with a personal touch and additional information. A very well compiled
website
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/square/vg12/
Wealth of information on the City and County of Armagh in the North of
Ireland. Very useful extracts from Lewis' Topography, and various guides &
directories, there is also a collection of views of Armagh. This will be a
very useful site for anyone with ancestors in this area, really putting the
flesh on your skeleton of research. The site is framed, but for once this is
very useful, as the site is set up in a way that would be very difficult to
navigate without the frames
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wlscfhs/llanindex.htm
Llanelly Historical Society page Interesting collection of information on
Llanelly, including files of burials, marriages & baptisms as well as lots
of other information on the area & lists. Attractively presented site,
although the main problem is that most of the files are in PDF format,
meaning you will need either to have Adobe, or to download it, which is
relatively easy to do anyway.
New on Genfair
The Good Web Guide to Genealogy You can now buy The Good Web Guide
Genealogy at GENfair - and at a Special Introductory Offer price for a
limited period. This book lists, describes and gives star ratings to most
major websites concerned with UK genealogy.[6th October 2000]
Chess Valley Archaeological and Historical Society Are the latest Local
History Society to be added to GENfair. It's the Chess Valley Archaeological
and Historical Society. But don't be deceived by the name - their
publications include parish register transcripts for Chesham (Bucks.)[6th
October 2000]
Oldham Local History Publications are selling well at GENfair and the latest
is timely - it's called Haunted Sites of Oldham and includes a number of
ghost stories of Oldham. It's a must for any ghost enthusiast and a bargain
at £3.99 [21st October 2000]
The latest issues of Railway Ancestors Information Journals are now
available at the RAFHS stand together with the long awaited Albert Weston -
His Story [21st October 2000]
Hampshire Genealogical Society have added a new MI fiche set covering Romsey
Abbey, Botley Road Cemetery and Woodley Cemetery. See page 23. Also a new
book in the Memories of... series called Memories of Milton . [21 October
2000]
Family History Indexes has made a major update to its stand, adding items in
current series, listing 65 volumes of a new series covering the
eighteenth-century militia in England & Wales on microfiche and diskette,
and offering CD-ROMs of the Criminal Register Indexes for the first time.
[19th October 2000]
Newly added to Stuart Raymond's Internet Genealogical Bookshop are:
Immigrants & Aliens - a guide to sources on UK immigration and citizenship
by Roger Kershaw & Mark Pearsall (in the PRO Publications section) and The
Jewish Victorian: Genealogical Information from Jewish Newspapers,
1871-1880. This is a massive and truly astonishing compilation of birth
marriage and death notices, obituaries, etc., from the Jewish Chronicle,
Jewish Record, and Jewish World edited by Doreen Berger. [19th October 2000]
Calderdale FHS have published a new fiche in their monumental inscriptions
series covering Sowerby St. Peter. [19th October 2000]
Upcoming Events
18 November sees two lectures at the Essex Ro from Essex FHS. One is on PAF
v4 given by Kevin Cole, the Second is entitled Family Tree- Preserve you
Familys History
Norwich Family History Fair at St Andrews Hall, St Andrews Plain, takes
place on Sunday November 19th. This fair includes stalls from the SoG, East
of London FHS, Felixstowe FHS, Mid Norfolk FHS, and Nottinghamshire FHS
November 1st sees the beginning of a six week course on how to research your
Family History at Westminster City Archives. This course is an evening
course, and costs 40 pounds, or 32 pounds for concessions. For further
details you can contact Dr Jill Barber on 020 7641 5180
November 3rd-5th sees Cornwall FHS AGM and conference at the Atlantic Hotel
in Newquay.
West Surrey FHS Open Day at Woking Leisure Centre takes place on 4th
November, from 10 am until 4.30pm
The Public Records Office is holding free tours on 10th November at 1pm. For
this wonderful opportunity to see behind the scenes at the PRO there is no
need to book, just assemble in the Foyer.
New on GENUKI
A Close inspection of the whats new pages on Genuki since I have been away
have shown that they have not been updated. However now is a good time to
remind old subscribers & new of these important pages on Genuki:
GENUKI's Home Page - http://www.genuki.org.uk/
GENUKI's Listings of:Family history Societies -
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/Societies/
Genealogy Mailing Lists -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/MailingLists.html Surname Lists -
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/SurnamesList/
GENUKI's Frequently Asked Questions File -
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/faq.html
And finally
I hope youve enjoyed this weeks newsletter, there seems to be plenty going
on!
Dont forget if you know of anything happening of interest to UK genealogy,
books, events, websites etc please let me know at
Have a good week
Rob
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