Jennyalogy Podcast

Jennyalogy Podcast 

March 2017

This edition of the Jennyalogy Podcast focuses on the recent RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City.

CeCe Moore's blog can be accessed here.

Videos of some of the RootsTech sessions are available here.

Jennyalogy Podcast, September 2016

All about the recent conference at Camden and the new Irish resources online

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes

November 2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is Pitfalls and Possibilities in Family History Research by Pauline M. Litton.

Website of the Month

This month's web site is FamilySearch http://familysearch.org/ 

Flip-pal StoryScans

Find more about Talking Photos from Flip-pal here. The web site also includes a little video about how to use this feature.

Victorian BDMs now free to search online

Search for births, deaths and marriages in Victoria, Australia, here. Once you find an entry of interest you can download a non-certified copy for AUD$24.

Feel free to contact me at [email protected]

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October2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is The Family Historian's Pocket Dictionary compiled by Stuart A. Raymond.

Kent Archaeological Society - Research section

The research section on the Kent Archaeological Society's website contains a wealth of valuable information for those interested in Kent research.  The information varies from Monumental Inscriptions, to Wills and past editions of their journal, Archaeologica Cantiana. It can be accessed at http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/research.htm 

1939 Register

The 1939 Register can be accessed at http://www.findmypast.co.uk/1939register from 2 Nov. Further information about the register can be found here.   The video below gives some further information.

Early Irish Death Index

The free surname search of the Early Irish Death Index can be searched here.

Clare County Library

Access to their parish information, which includes parish register transcriptions, is available from here.

Forces War Records

Forces War Records, a subscription site, has added WWI Hospital Admission and Discharge Registers.

If you have any questions or comments you can contact me at [email protected].

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September 2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is Tracing Your Irish Ancestors by John Grenham. 

Hawkesbury on the Net

The website Hawkesbury on the net contains all sorts of gems about the Hawkesbury region of NSW. It can be accessed at http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/ 

If you have any questions or comments you can contact me at [email protected].

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes

August 2015

Firstly, let me apologize for not getting a podcast out last month, but I hope this month's special edition makes up for it.

The only new resource I am talking about is the Roman Catholic parish registers for Ireland, which have been put online for free by the National Library of Ireland at http://registers.nli.ie/. As these registers contain a little Latin, you might find this link helps with the sorts of words you might find if you are not used to looking at Latin.

In this issue I talk about the recent Unlock the Past Baltic Cruise and if it wets your appetite for genealogy cruising, you can find details about the future cruises here.

One of the speakers I mention, Janet Few, has written a book covering the lifestyles of our 17th century ancestors, full of information she no doubt learnt from Master Christopher and Mistress Agnes. Janet has two websites https://thehistoryinterpreter.wordpress.com/ and

https://swordsandspindles.wordpress.com/

During the cruise I interview Alan Phillips and Cyndi Ingle. Cyndi is the creator of Cyndi's List, which is a fantastic genealogy portal to help you find online genealogy resources.

If you have any questions or comments you can contact me at [email protected].

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes

June 2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is Log of Logs : a catalogue of logs, journals, shipboard diaries, letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788 to 1988, for Australia and New Zealand, and surrounding oceans by Ian Nicholson. Available online at http://zenodo.org/record/6901#.VYy-rPmqpBc

NAI Genealogy Web site

The National Archives of Ireland’s genealogy web site can be found at http://www.genealogy.nationalarchives.ie/. The main National Archives of Ireland web site is http://www.nationalarchives.ie/

New Releases

As well as new releases on the subscription sites Ancestry.com and findmypast, there are also the following new releases:

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May 2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers by Cecil R. Humphrey-Smith

Cemetery web sites

Here are the two featured web sites on Australian Cemeteries

New Releases

As well as new releases on the subscription sites Ancestry.com, findmypast, and TheGenealogist and the free website FamilySearch, there are also the following new releases:

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes

April 2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is Words from Wills and other probate records, by Stuart A Raymond

Anzac Web Sites

Here are the web sites that I recommend you use to search for an Australian or New Zealand soldier from World War I

New Releases

As well as new releases on the subscription sites Ancestry.com, findmypast, FamilySearch and TheGenealogist, there are also the following new releases:

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes

March 2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is How to get the most from Family Pictures by Jayne Shrimpton. It is available from many online bookshops.

Featured Website

This month we are looking at the Dusty Docs website, located at www.dustydocs.com. This website contains links to free online transcriptions of parish registers (and other material) for parishes all over the British Isles.

Genetic Map of the British Isles

A report was published in Nature this month with the results of a project to produce a genetic map of the UK. 

Genetic Map of the UK

Image courtesy of Nature

The results are interesting, showing there is no unique Celtic identity, and that the people of Cornwall and Dorset are genetically distinct from the others of Great Britain, and also distinct from each other. Full results are available here, or alternatively there are some press articles here and here.

Biographical Database of Australia

Over 400,000 new records have been added to the Biographical Database of Australia. Full details are available here.

Irish Anzacs Database

This free web site, which aims to record all Irish-born members of the Australian forces in World War I can be accessed at repository.arts.unsw.edu.au

Coming up

WYDTYA Live – Birmingham 16-18 April

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.com/

NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies Conference, Port Macquarie 11-13 September

http://www.nswactfhs.org/conference/index.html