Jennyalogy Podcast

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes

February 2015

Book of the Month

This month's featured book is A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland, Brian Mitchell (2nd edition). It is available from many online bookshops.

Papers Past

Papers Past is the newspaper site of the National Library of Ireland, with access to over 45 million newspaper articles from 93 different New Zealand newspapers, and more are being added all the time. It is located at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast 

RootsTech

Some of the RootsTech sessions were recorded and can be watched online.

Bedlam Burials

The Bedlam Burial Ground register, developed as the result of the discovery of 3000 skeletons during the construction of the London Crossrail can be found here.

Irish birth and marriage indexes

The Early Irish Birth Index and Early Irish Marriage index can be found on the website of the Irish Genealogical Research Society. Choose the "Resources" tab at www.irishancestors.ie then choose "Unique Resources".

Cork births, marriages & deaths

The McDonnell's Index of Births, Marriages and Deaths, which includes bmd announcements published in The Constitution and Cork Advertiser newspaper from 1828 to 1830 on http://CorkPastAndPresent.ie The Cork Constitution is not currently included in any of the big online newspaper databases.

New Copy of Magna Carta Found

The full story of the new copy of the Magna Carta that has been found can be read here.

Spain planned to invade Australia

The full article about how Spain had planned to invade Australia in the 1790s is available here. 

Coming up

14th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry in Canberra  26-30 March

http://www.congress2015.org.au/

WYDTYA – 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