GSC Notes and News General
Australia
Australasian Genealogical Computer Indexes
Norfolk Island
Colonial era Cemetery of Norfolk Island
Headstones from Norfolk Island cemetery 2003
New South Wales
Alectown (Dern); Alstonville (Dern); Amaroo; Angledale;
Ardlethan (Dern); Ashford (Dern); Attunga (Dern);
Badgerys Creek; Baldry (Dern); Ballina - Fenwick Park
Pioneer Wall (Dern); Baradine (Dern); Barellan (Dern);
Barringun (Dern); Baryulgil, Bathurst;
Bedgerabong (Dern); Bedgerebong; Beechwood;
Bellata (Dern); Bellata; Ben Lomond (Dern); Bena (Dern);
Bena; Benboka; Bendemeer (Dern); Bendolba;
Beresford; Bermagui; Bexhill (Dern); Bimbi (Dern);
Binalong (Dern); Binnaway (Dern); Bishop's Bridge;
Black Mountain (Dern); Black Springs (Dern); Blackman
Flat (Dern); Blackwell (Dern); Bogan Gate (Dern); Bogan
Gate; Boggabilla (Dern); Boggabri; “Bomera” (Dern);
Bonalbo (Dern); Bonalbo, Bonshaw (Dern);
Bookham (Dern); Boomey Creek; Boorowa;
Bourke (Dern); Bowenfels South (Dern); Bowling Alley
Point (Was Dungowan) (Dern); Bowning (Dern);
Braidwood; Breadalbane (Dern); Breeza (Dern);
Brewarrina (Dern); Broke (Dern); Brungle (Dern);
Brunswick Heads; Bugaldie (Dern); Bulga (Dern);
Bumberry; Bundarra (Dern); Bungonia District;
Bunnan (Dern); Burraga (Dern); Burren Junction (Dern);
Byng (Dern); Byrock (Dern);
Cadow; Camberwell (Dern); Candelo; Canonba (Dern);
Capertee (Dern); Caragabal (Dern); Caragbal; Carcoar;
Cargo (Dern); Carinda (Dern); Caroona (Dern); Carrington;
Carroll (Dern); Cassilis (Dern); Cherry Tree Hill (Dern);
Chinamans Bend (Dern); Clarence Town; Clunes (Dern);
Cobayo; Cobbora (Dern); Collarenebri (Dern);
Collie (Dern); Collie; Colly Blue (Dern); Comboyne;
Come By Chance (Dern); Cookamidgera (Dern);
Cookamidgera; Coolabah (Dern); Coolac (Dern);
Coolah (Dern); Coolatai (Dern); Coonabarabran (Dern);
Coonabarabran; Coonamble (Dern);
Copmanhurst (Dern); Coraki (Dern); Coramba (Dern);
Corridgeree; Coutts Crossing (Dern); Cowra; Crookwell &
District; Cross Roads; Crudine (Dern); Cudal (Dern); Cudal;
Cudegong; Cudgegong (Dern); Culcairn; Cullen Bullen (Dern);
Cumnock (Dern); Curlewis (Dern); Curra Creek (Dern);
Currabubula (Dern);
Dalton (Dern); Darbys Falls (Dern); Dark Corner (Dern);
Deepwater (Dern); Delungra (Dern); Denham; Deniliquin;
Denison Town (Dern); Dinton Vale (Dern); Dorrigo (Dern);
Drake (Dern); Drake; Dubbo - Butlers Falls (Dern); Dubbo;
Dundee (Dern); Dunedoo (Dern); Dungog; Dungowan (Dern);
Dunoon (Dern);
East Guyong (Dern); Ebor (Dern); Eden; Ellenborough; Elong
Elong (Dern); Elsmore (Dern); Emmaville (Formerly Vegetable
Creek) (Dern); Enngonia (Dern); Euabalong (Dern);
Euchareena (Dern); Eugowra (Dern); Eugowra;
Fairbridge Farm School; Fifield (Dern); Finley; Forbes -
Pioneer (Dern); Forbes; Frederickton; Freemantle -
“Killonbutta” (Dern); Frogmore;
Galong (Dern); Garra (Dern); Georges Plains (Dern);
Geurie (Dern); Giants Creek (Dern); Gilgandra (Dern); Gilwarra,
Gin Gin - “Wambool” (Dern); Girilambone (Dern);
Glencoe (Dern); Glenmore, Glenreagh (Dern);
Glenridding (Dern); Goangra (Dern); Goobang (Dern);
Goodooga (Dern); Goolgowi (Dern); Gooloogong (Dern);
Gooloogong; Gosford; Graman (Dern); Greendale;
Greengrove; Greenthorpe (Dern); Gulargambone (Dern);
Gulgong, Gum Flat (Dern); Gunbar (Dern); Gundaroo (Dern);
Gunning (Dern); Gwabegar (Dern);
Haddon Rig; Hallsville (Dern); Hanging Rock (Dern)
Hargraves (Dern); Hartley (Dern); Hawkesbury;
Hazelgrove (Dern); Hermidale (Dern); Herons Creek;
Hill End (Dern); Hillgrove (Dern); Hillston (Dern);
Hobby’s Yards (Dern); Hovell's Creek;
Iluka; Isabella (Dern);
Jerrys Plains (Dern); Jugiong (Dern);
Kameruka; Kelso; Kempsey; Kendall; Kenmore; Kiah;
Kingstown (Dern); Kirkconnell (Dern); Kyogle (Dern);
Lake Cargelligo (Dern); Langs Creek (Dern); Laurieton;
Lawrence (Dern); Leadville (Dern); Legume (Dern)
Lightning Ridge (Dern); Lismore - Barnham St (Dern);
Little Plain (Dern); Liverpool; Lower Bucca (Dern);
Lowther (Dern); Luddenham; Lue (Dern); Lue; Lyndhurst;
Maclean; Macquarie Park; Macquarie Plains (Dern);
Maitland; Manildra (Dern); Manilla (Dern); Manly;
March (Dern); Marra (Dern); Marsden; Mayfield; Meadow
Flat (Dern); Mendooran (Dern); Merrigal; Merriwa (Dern);
Merriwagga (Dern); Millthorpe (Dern); Molong (Dern);
Molong; Monaro; Moonbi (Dern); Moorilda (Dern);
Morongla (Dern); Mt. Lambie (Dern); Mt. Thorley (Dern);
Mt. Wilson (Dern); Mt. York (Dern); Mudgee; Mudgee -
“Grattai” (Dern); Mulgoa; Murga; Murringo (Dern);
Murwillumbah - Banner St (Dern); Mutton Falls (Dern);
Mylneford (Dern);
Nangus (Dern); Narrabri-Wee Waa Rd - Lone
Grave (Dern); Narromine (Dern); Nevertire (Dern);
Nevertire; Neville; Newbridge (Dern); Nimbin (Dern);
North Waratah; Nullamanna (Dern); Nundle (Dern);
Nymboida (Dern); Nyngan (Dern); Nyrang Ck (Dern);
O’connell (Dern); Oberon (Dern); Obley (Dern);
Ophir - Goldfield (Dern); Owens Gap (Dern);
Pambula; Parkesbourne (Dern); Peak Hill (Dern);
Peel (Dern); Peelwood (Dern); Penrith; Perthville (Dern);
Pilliga (Dern); Pilliga; Pipers Flat (Dern); Point Clare; Port
Macquarie; Porters Retreat (Dern); Portland Head;
Portland; Prospect; Pyramul (Dern);
Quaama; Quambone (Dern); Quart Pot; Quipolly (Dern);
Ramornie Works (Dern); Rankins Springs (Dern);
Rawsonville (Dern); Red Range (Dern); Reedy Creek;
Regentville; Reid's Flat; Rockley (Dern); Rocky; Rollands
Plains; Rookwood; Rossmore; Rous Mill (Dern); Rugby;
Running Stream (Dern); Rylestone; Rydal (Dern); Rye;
Sallys Flat (Dern); Sandy Hills; Shooters Hill (Dern);
Sodwalls (Dern); Sofala (Dern); Sth Bowenfels (Dern);
South Creek; South Gundurimbah - Lismore Memorial
Park (Dern); Spicers Creek (Dern); Spring Hill (Dern);
FAMILY SEARCH.ORG AND FAMILY SEARCH LABS....
As mentioned at our Saturday meeting, here are the links to the Family Search sites...
There are major changes afoot with the LDS sites of www.familysearch.org
and their new development Family Search Labs.
This is the link to Record Search which is the beginning of the digitisation project for the collection of microfilms held in Utah.
http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start
The link below will take you the page for indexers - obviously with so many microfilms to digitise, these are just images to browse. With volunteers indexing these records, it makes access so much quicker and more reliable. If you can spare a few hours to work from home, consider volunteering to help the many thousands of people now involved in this project worldwide.
http://indexing.familysearch.org/newuser/nuhome.jsf
There is a lot of information available on the site regarding the project, with videos showing behind the scenes in the vault in Granite Mountain, Utah.
Remember that you can order many of these microfilms from the LDS Church Genealogy Centres in Nambour, Kawana and Caboolture... so if you can't wait for the digitisation process, order a film now and research it locally.
A LIST OF TOP GENEALOGY SITES - we have not checked them all, but may be worth a look!
http://blog.myheritage.com/myheritage-coms-top-100-genealogy-sites-2010/
Yorkshire
Time to revisit http://sites.google.com/site/harrogatenamesdatabase/ as I've just uploaded a further 5,000 names. 60,000 names for you now to check-out ! Maybe one of them is "yours".
Earliest entry is 1086.
Freecen Update
Thought I would give you an update on the progress of Freecen in the last year as a whole.
We have put 65 pieces on line during the year, which means that there is now a total of over 600,000 entries for the 1861 online and FREELY searchable at http://freecen.rootsweb.com/
Many thanks to all the transcribers and checkers who have helped this project, hopefully we will get nearer our goal of finishing the 1861 in the coming year.
From lancgen email list on Rootsweb
Welcome to Google Alerts
Time Zone Converter
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
Doing Genealogy Research with a Learning Disability
by Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, MA, CG
just a few jottings from the article
""Where did you get lost?" It was my math teacher; he had asked me to stay after class. Math was not my subject, something that was an extra burden because my father was a nationally known mathematician and one of his former students was my instructor. It was 1965 and I was in the last weeks of junior high (middle) school. Everyone in 8th grade was excited about ....
. I confessed that I had gotten lost "at fractions" (that would be about 3rd grade). How had it happened that I was passed from grade to grade if I had been confused by fraction five years earlier? Simple: my father was not only a mathematician and professor in a Chicago university, ......
But my math teacher blew my cover, which I kept with my silence in class, and he called my father (who had just completed his term on the school board and decided to quit that activity). Dad was shocked and talked to me about it... how did it happen? Why didn't I come to him? Did I have any idea how hard high school was going to be with no basic math foundation? And so we set up a plan and for the rest of the school year and he worked with me every night on math. When I went to high school, we continued the practice and I got pretty good at math. History and science continued to baffle me. ......
I think that training was part of what gave me the sense of accomplishment and the courage I needed to return to school (I had graduated high school but had dropped out of college after only one semester). .......
I didn't learn that I was dyslexic (I knew I was "something," I just didn't know what it was) until I was a college senior, age 36, approaching graduation .....
First, we need to define "learning disability. .....
There are three of these that involve the scrambling, omission, or addition of letters and/or numbers:
Dyslexia – A disability involving written material (particularly related to reading); e.g., seeing letters or words backwards, inverted, exchanged, or similarly incorrect
Dysgraphia – A disability involving written material (particularly related to writing); e.g., misspelling words, writing letters or words backwards or in incorrect order, etc.
Dyscalcula – A disability involving numbers and mathematics; e.g., having problems doing calculations, writing numbers incorrectly, inverting numbers, etc.......
Working with, instead of against, your disability can lead to success. That, in turn, gives a person confidence, an asset to anyone, genealogist or not. The learning disability experts agree that these problems can be managed and controlled, though they will probably never disappear. Is it worth it, to take the necessary time and efforts to be accurate? That is a personal decision. I will add here that, once I discovered that my problem had nothing to do with intelligence, I gained self-confidence and an inner drive to continue towards achieving my masters and then doctoral degrees, which, of course, have been a source of pride and accomplishment. And the discovery of, and reports about, many, many ancestors, some of which probably were dyslexic, too. "