http://trailstothepast.org
TRAILS TO THE PAST - All U.S. State/County Website
Welcome to Trails To The Past, where all administrators for state and county websites are volunteers that have a passion of genealogy and sharing. We dig into all types of records that may not always be readily available or that genealogists from all states will gain from their experience.
http://chat01.genealogy.com:4080/chat/world/html/index.html
GenForum Chat
GenForum Chat is probably the fastest and most reliable way to get real-time advice and help from other genealogists, whether they are working on your own lines or not. It is also occasionally
possible to find distant cousins who are researching the same lines you are investigating. There is a friendly group of regulars. If you don't see anyone in Chat Room 1 when you first check in, then try again at a different time.
http://www.scottishancestralways.co.uk/ancways_01_014.htm
War Memorials by Scottish Ancestral Ways
As we travelled around the country visiting many cities, towns and villages, it seemed a good idea to photograph the war memorials in detail. Currently the memorials are located in Fife, Scotland, however these will be added to as we go along and may be accessed free of charge. If you need a high resolution copy please email us and a free copy will be sent.
10 Tips for Finding Alternate Surname Spellings & Variations http://genealogy.about.com/od/name_changes/tp/spellings.htm?nl=1
Thinking 'out of the box' is often required when it comes to finding your ancestors in genealogical indexes and records. Many genealogists, both beginner and advanced, fail in the quest for their ancestors because they don't take the time to search for anything other than the obvious spelling variants. Don't let that happen to you! Get inspired when searching for alternative surname spellings with these ten tips.
Family Tree Maker 2010Australian & NZ versions of Family Tree Maker 2010 +upgradeswww.gould.com.au/FamilyTreeMaker
http://genealogy.about.com/od/search_tips/tp/database_search.htm
How many of you have ancestors that you just can't find in a census, newspaper, or other online database when you just know they must be there? Before you assume they were just missed somehow, try these tips for locating stubborn ancestors in a variety of online databases.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/australia/a/australian-gold-rush-immigrants.htm?nl=1
Prior to Edward Hargraves' 1851 discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, Britain regarded the distant colony of Australia as little more than a penal settlement. The promise of gold, however, attracted thousands of "voluntary" settlers in search of their fortune, and ultimately ended Britain's practice of transporting convicts to the colonies.
http://genealogy.about.com/z/js/o.htm?k=australia%20genealogy&d=Australia%20Genealogy&r=http://genealogy.about.com/od/australia/a/australian-gold-rush-immigrants.htm
Sites for Australian Genealogy
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10&su=p284.9.336.ip_p504.3.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.kaelewis.com/
A quartz mine at Shotover, Thames, New Zealand which shows how the miners followed a gold-bearing reef as it plunged towards the centre of the earth. It required a considerable outlay to start a mine like this and the individual miners of the 1800s did not usually have the cash to develop the full potential of their claim. Often they banded together in groups of 4 - 20 men to pool their resources or formed a company to raise finance. Shares in the Gold Mining Companies were traded on the streets of Thames from 1868 onwards.
This webpage was composed and compiled by Kae Lewis in memory of her great great grandparents Edward Hooper and his wife Elizabeth Ann nee Bates. Like everyone whose name appears on this website, they also answered the call of the gold.
Edward Hooper arrived in Otago New Zealand in 1861 as an unmarried 20 year old miner in time for the opening of the goldfield at Gabriel's Gully. Later he returned to Australia where he married Elizabeth Ann Bates in South Australia in 1863. While Edward worked in the copper mines at Burra Burra, South Australia, Elizabeth gave birth to a son in 1864 and a daughter in 1866. Then gold was proclaimed in Thames New Zealand in August 1867. With two toddlers and another on the way, Edward and Elizabeth boarded a ship to New Zealand, landing on the shore at Tapu in the middle of winter, just in time for Elizabeth to give birth to another son in October 1868. Edward set to work immediately, taking out a Miner's Right at Tapu in July 1868 and another in August 1869. In April 1869, he bought a share in a mine named Count of Mont Cristo at Tapu with four other men. Elizabeth gave birth to another son, Herbert George Hooper (the great grandfather of Kae Lewis) at Tapu in August 1869. They now had four children under the age of 5, and against all odds on the goldfields in these days, kept everyone alive and thriving. By 1873, when their 5th child was born, the Hooper family had moved to Gisborne where Edward worked at the Makauri sawmill owned by William King. They lived in Gisborne for the rest of their lives and had 8 children altogether. Elizabeth died in Gisborne in 1894, Edward in 1899.
: https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/
Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records
Search New Zealand Government records for births, deaths and marriages (BDM). Information available includes: * Births that occurred at least 100 years ago; * Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago; * Marriages and eventually Civil Unions that occurred at least 80 years ago; * Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.
From Kimberly Powell, your Guide to Genealogy
If you haven't checked out what FamilySearch is doing lately (and I mean in the last few weeks and months), then you're definitely missing out! Millions of new names are being added to the FREE FamilySearch Record Search site on a monthly basis, from countries all over the world - not just the US, UK, Canada and Australia, but also from countries such as France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Russia, Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Peru, Jamaica, Mexico and even South Africa! These records (comprised of a mix of digital images and indexes) are all completely FREE to access - thanks to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, plus hundreds of thousands of volunteers from around the world who donate a little (or a lot!) of their time to help index the records at FamilySearch Indexing.
http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/cms/
Florence Nightingale Museum
The museum is a facility for research into the history& work of Florence Nightingale, particularly in relation to the first training school for nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital& consequential developments in the nursing profession. ~ Lambeth, London, England.
http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.com/ny-census.htm
Search Free New York Federal, State and Colonial Census Records Online
Search free New York Federal, State and Colonial Census Records online. Specializing in the New York State Census Records conducted 1825, 1835, 1845, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, 1925, and New York Colonial Census Records.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
Census of Ireland 1901 and 1911
The 1901 and 1911 census of all 32 counties in Ireland including digitized images of the original forms available free on the National Archives of Ireland website. The most valuable primary source online for Irish research.
http://hongkongcemetery.blogspot.com
Hong Kong Cemetery
Database of burials at the Hong Kong Cemetery.
