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Contents
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Funeral
Directors, Emigrants and Other Databases
New to FamNet – Grandma’s Cookery Nook
Uploading
Your Database – New Video
Wexford
Emigrants Joined by Clare Emigrants
The
War Graves Photographic Project
Embarkation
Database – NZ Units in South Africa 1899-1902
ScotlandsPeople
Valuation Rolls
Whangarei Family History Computer Group
The Story of the New Zealand Women’s Suffrage
Petition
National Library of New Zealand
On the Move back to Molesworth
GENUKI genealogy UK and Ireland
Have
Your Say – Letters to the Editor
Editorial
From Sue Greene
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Funeral Directors, Emigrants and Other Databases
Recently we were given permission to add the Funeral Directors records for Dannevirke to FamNet. They are now online and searchable: at the home page click on the “General Resource Database” tab, scroll down to “Other tables”, open “CemeteriesEtc” and select Anderson & Son Dannevirke. Or of course you can just search for a name in the “Burials Etc” table. We hope to add more Funeral Directors’ data to this database over the next few months so watch this space for some exciting news.
Have you checked out the new Emigrants
database yet? There are now 189 entries for County Wexford and 157 for County
Clare migrants to New Zealand and Australia. Are your ancestors there? If not,
and they came from Counties Wexford or Clare, please let Daryl Murphy know and he will add their
details to the Table. Daryl recently set up an Emigrants table for County
Wexford in Ireland and then added County Clare. Would you like to volunteer to
look after other counties in Ireland or in the United Kingdom? Or do you have
other data that you might like to share (see FamNet can host your data). We’re keen to help
you.
Daryl tells us that the role is rewarding and quite straightforward - especially after receiving some initial guidance from Robert Barnes. He says that you don't need in-depth computer skills - he doesn't have them - just keenness and some spare time. If you have ancestors from other counties, and you'd like to have a go, please don't hesitate to let either Sue or Robert know. We will give you any encouragement and help that you might need.
RMS Titanic
100 years ago this month the ship that was unsinkable did the unthinkable. There have been so many documentaries and programmes on this month, it’s been difficult to decide which one to watch; thank goodness for the record button. There are also many websites. A particularly interesting one that I’ve viewed lately is Encyclopedia Titanica which lists the passengers and crew and gives a biography of each person. The site has much, much more - it’s well worth a look.
There is one thing that has puzzled me about the ship: why did the Titanic not list before she went down? I have watched many documentaries about ship disasters or about ships that sank in war time which show a ship will list, even her sister ships listed before they went down yet the Titanic stayed upright and went down bow first followed by the aft section, and when both parts settled on the ocean floor they remained upright. Perhaps it is one of her secrets she wants to hold onto.
Identifying Who You Are
While sorting out photos from FamNet’s “Can You Identify These Photos?” that were new this month and needed to be added to the newsletter I found I could not give a name to some members who had submitted photos. For example the photos in this month’s newsletter have been submitted by user nanboz (see photos below). Certainly you can email him/her, but we would have preferred to give a name as well.
We wanted to make FamNet’s registration process as easy as possible so we made it optional whether you created a user profile or not, but if you want to interact with other users then it is a good idea to do so. Click the About You tab, then Edit your profile. Creating a profile turns you from an email address to a person, and we all prefer to communicate with people rather than unknown emails.
New to FamNet – Grandma’s Cookery Nook
Family history is the story of our families’ lives, not just names and dates but where they lived, and how they lived. Part of “how they lived”: what they cooked. We have created a new topic in the newsletter called Grandma’s Cookery Nook for readers to add those wonderful old recipes that have been handed down through the generations, or a favourite recipe that may have been in the family for years that readers might like to share. The recipes will be put into the newsletters each month. We’ve kicked the topic off with a couple of recipes, hopefully readers contributions will make this topic thrive.
From
the Developer
From Robert Barnes
Uploading
Your Database – New Video
To get the
best value from FamNet you should put your data into it: this allows others to
see it and contact you if they have information to share, as well as providing
a safe repository to eliminate the risk of your hard work being lost.
While I think that it is very
easy to upload your database into FamNet others find it difficult so I have
prepared a new video in the “FamNet Workshop” series about uploading data from
a desktop system like Legacy, Family Tree Maker, and so on. Click here
to see this new video, or you can find it from the General Help and
Videos link at the left of the FamNet page.
It’s up to
you whether you submit all your data in a single database or have several
separate databases, although my preference is that you upload everything as one
database. Remember that FamNet will hide living people so you don’t need to
strip them out of your uploaded GEDCOM.
You can
name your database anything you like – mine is called “Barnes.ged”. However you
should avoid names with dates, like Barnes2012.ged. You might want to submit an
update later, but when you do so you should use the same name. A new name, like “Barnes2013.ged” will be
treated as an entirely new database: your data will be duplicated, and your
scrapbook links will be left with the old data.
Wexford
Emigrants Joined by Clare Emigrants
I have been
delighted to see the way Daryl has developed the “Wexford Project”. He first
approached us asking for our help with publicity for something that he was
planning to do with the Wexford County Library. We were happy to do this, but
as it became clearer that the library’s bureaucracy was moving with the speed
of bureaucracies everywhere we offered to host it for him, an offer which he
accepted. I set the table structure up to allow other counties to be added
later, and we’ve now set up a “Clare” table as well.
For me, it
has been a pleasure to have somebody to work with. As Daryl has come to grips
with the way that FamNet manages these tables he has found a system with much
more power and flexibility than he’d envisaged, but also more complicated than
simply “putting data into Excel”. Between us we’ve had more than one “Oops”
moment when the system didn’t work the way it was supposed to, and I needed to
change the rules or add further features. This is great: my major frustration
is that for much of what I develop I get very little feedback, so I don’t know
if it is what people want or not, or whether they are finding it too difficult.
I love working with somebody who will use what I develop and push it in new
directions. From this interaction comes an improved product for us all.
Other
Table Changes
A number of
other changes have also been made in the general table facilities. The
“Cemeteries” table has become “Cemeteries Etc”, as it now includes Memorials,
Churches, Crematoria, and Funeral Directors as well as Cemeteries (We’ve also
added type “Urupa”, although I don’t think have any yet). We’ve added data for
Anderson and Son, a Dannevirke Funeral Director, and we are hopeful that we’ll
soon have some more data from other funeral directors.
Which leads
me to my next topic:-
FamNet Can Host Your Data
Many
individuals and organizations have some structured data that they want to make
available on their website: lists of emigrants, burials, newspaper notices,
etc. They can of course place a spreadsheet of this data on their own website
but a flexible alternative is to have FamNet host the data for you. Then they
only have to paste a URL on to their own website to get all the advantages of
having their data as searchable database tables with none of the hassles of
managing SQL on their own site. Daryl’s Wexford and Clare databases are run
this way: click
this link and you’ll see his Wexford table directly from this newsletter,
even though you haven’t logged into FamNet. This link could be put on Daryl’s
own website, or the County Wexford Library’s site. As with data in the GDB, the
owner retains control and all rights,
while gaining access to very flexible and powerful data management facilities
that can handle images and documents as well as tabular data in almost any
format.
We can set
up new tables in an hour or so, while new sections of existing tables – for example
another cemetery – can be added in minutes. We can easily add further fields to
existing tables if necessary.
To learn
more about FamNet data hosting, click
here. To see the facilities that FamNet can provide you can read these Help
pages:-
Creating and
Administering General Resource Databases
Searching and Updating
General Resource Databases
Or you can
log into FamNet and explore what is
available under the General Resource Databases tab.
Now,
Anybody Can Form a Group
You may
have noticed that there is a new tab button on the home page, [Groups]:-
So, what
does it do? Click [Groups] and the system will invite you to create a group.
Defaults are set up for a Family Group, which is the type of group that you are
most likely to create:-
Other types
of group that you may create:-
·
School
Group. Can include teachers, pupils, their parents,
grandparents, and other family members.
·
General Groups. This is
intended for family history groups and similar, such as Whangarei Family
History Computer Group and Kapiti Genealogy. General groups may arrange full
access to FamNet or leave it to their members to individually subscribe.
·
Project Groups. This is
intended to define those involved in a project so that FamNet can manage their
access to various files. For example, there is a “Wexford” project group of
people who have authority to update the Wexford Emigrants database.
You also create a family group from the link “Manage your GDB Data” from the home page. Family Groups are the new way in which you can grant permission to others to see all your records (including living people), and possibly to update them.
With a Family Group the membership list is colour-coded showing the access that you have granted:-
You can enter an email and click [Add/Find User] and they will be added to your family group. If they are not already FamNet users then they will be added to FamNet as well. As you add them, you can specify what level of access they will have to your data:-
For friends and family you’d normally set permission “View Any” so that they can see your whole tree, including the living people. In a few cases, such as where you are creating a shared tree in cooperation with a relative, you might grant “Update Any” permission, giving the other person the same update rights as you have.
Why would you bother to add someone to your family group but grant “Public Access Only”? After all, this is the access that general users already have – they don’t need your permission to see your public records. There are two reasons:-
· Firstly, if you have a FamNet subscription, whether because you’ve paid for it or because you’ve got subscription credits by adding your data, then anybody in your family group will be able to open your records even if they don’t have a subscription of their own. Thus you can share your family tree with your family on FamNet without requiring that they subscribe to see it.
· Secondly, you might grant Selective Permissions** to see a particular family, or to update a particular line of ancestry, even if you don’t want them to have full access.
** I’m still testing [Selective Permissions] and so it will remain turned off for a week or so.
I’ll write more about Family Groups next
month. In the meantime, you can learn more by clicking here.
Useful Websites
If you know of websites that you think may be helpful to others please either add them yourself, or email Janice or Sue at –
Military Sites
As April is the month that we salute our heroes who fought in all wars, this month we’ve focussed on some military websites that may help those looking for soldiers or information on battles.
In Flanders Field by John McCrae, May 1915
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In Flanders
fields the poppies blow Between the
crosses, row on row, That mark our
place; and in the sky The larks,
still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the
Dead. Short days ago We lived,
felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and
were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our
quarrel with the foe: To you from
failing hands we throw The torch; be
yours to hold it high. If ye break
faith with us who die We shall not
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The Long, Long Trail
The Long, Long Trail is a personal
website, born in 1996 and developed as a hobby ever since. Every word of it is
written by Chris Baker. Along the way it spawned and then spun off the
incredibly successful Great War Forum, which has brought thousands of family
and military historians together from across the globe.
The original intent was to build
a comprehensive online order of battle for the British Army in the First World
War. It still is: but along the way, mainly because people asked, sections have
been added on how to research a soldier; the battles and battlefields of the
war; and much more.
Commonwealth
War Graves
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission ensures that
1.7 million people who died in the two wars will never be forgotten. They care
for cemeteries and memorials at 23,000 locations, in 150 countries. Their
values and aims, laid out in 1917, are as relevant now as they were almost 100
years ago.
The War
Graves Photographic Project
The original aim of The
War Graves Photographic Project was to photograph
every war grave, individual memorial, Ministry of Defence grave, and family
memorial of serving military personnel from WWI to the present day. However,
due to its popularity they have now extended their remit to cover all
nationalities and military conflicts and make these available within a
searchable database.
Embarkation
Database – NZ Units in South Africa 1899-1902
The Embarkation database
information was sourced from the nominal rolls of the New Zealand Contingents
published in the Appendices to the House of
Representatives. It contains the names, contingents, companies,
registration numbers, ranks, embarkation details, addresses, next of kin and
occupations of every New Zealand soldier who joined the New Zealand contingents
that sailed to the South African War. Note that some New Zealand soldiers
enlisted with British, Australian or South African forces and will therefore
not appear on this database.
Changes to KiwiCelts
From Murray Lynn
There are 176
places with photos added this month. To view the list:
Click here. (Sorry – the name’s a bit cryptic as this is all that
is saved in this data record)
Visit us at KiwiCelts.com
for:
The only comprehensive list and map of New Zealand Cemeteries
(now including many CWGC cemeteries around
the world with NZ service burials)
Interactive Administrative District map
of Ireland
Note that you can also access
KiwiCelts by clicking the link from FamNet’s “Cemeteries Etc” table.
ScotlandsPeople
Valuation Rolls
The ScotlandsPeople Team is
delighted to announce the launch of the Valuation Rolls (VRs) in Scotland for
1915. This is the first time that the rolls have been published online, allowing
genealogists, local historians and other researchers to view images of entries
in the rolls. Fully searchable both by name and address, the Valuation Rolls
provide a fascinating snapshot of Scotland during the First World War, and will
be a valuable resource for family history researchers.
The rolls record the names
of owners, tenants and occupiers of each property, unlike the full lists of
family members to be found in the censuses. Usually the named person is the
head of the household, but sometimes a husband and wife might be listed.
Frequently, the wife is the named tenant of rented property.
The Valuation Rolls were
created so that the authorities could set local rates. The purpose was to
assess property by its annual rental value. This was either the value of the
rent paid by the tenant, or a notional rental value if the owner occupied their
own property. The burgh and county assessors did not list properties
individually that were worth below £4 annual rental value. Click here to go ScotlandsPeople website.
Which Software to buy?
Most people reading this will have a genealogical software program,
but if you don’t and you want to buy a programme where do you go for some help?
How do you decide which one is the best one for you? If you search FamNet’s
Useful WebSites in category “Technical Help” you’ll find sites for about half a
dozen programs, but this is just a sampling and there are many more.
What is important to you? Prepare a list of questions to evaluate the different programmes. Questions such as:-
· How does it handle non-standard names?
· Does it insist in a couple being married?
· How does it handle same sex marriage?
· Can I get the information out in many different ways e.g. male children born in Lancashire between 1700 and 1900? Can I colour different events or people?
· What is the charting programme like?
· How does it handle sources or notes?
· And most important: will it run on my computer? There is no point in buying a Windows-only program if you’re running a Mac. Or vice versa.
The answers to these questions should provide a guide to you as to which programme to buy. I would avoid those websites which ask you to click on your favourite programme. They do not give a true indication of how good a programme is, only how many people can be bothered to answer the questionnaire. As well as the questionnaire make up a three generation family tree and use this as a sample to see how to enter data and make reports and charts. Once entered in one programme you can make a gedcom and then import it into any of the other programmes you want to try
Some software will have a free download version which is a light version of the full version. If you decide to buy the full version your data that is in the light version can be incorporated in the full version.
Legacy Family Tree has a free version as well as a full version which you can buy. Instructions on how to transfer your data to the full version are available on the website if they have been entered into the light version. While at the site have a look at the available free tutorials on the site on all sorts of subjects. This is not only for Legacy Users.
RootsMagic also has a free download. It is called RootsMagic Essentials and contains some of the core features of RootsMagic 5 which is the full commercial version.
FamilyTree Maker 2012 FTM does not have a trial version. It is used by many people making it likely that you will come across someone who has used it or who is using it. If they are willing, use your question list to ask them what it can do. There is also a version for the Mac: FTM for the Mac2 is a more recent addition to Ancestry’s stable of programmes and that too is becoming popular for the Mac.
http://www.whollygenes.com/ or TMG as it is called by users has a mistaken reputation for being hard to learn. As a user I can assure you that it is not hard to learn. It has a free 30 day evaluation trial which can be downloaded. If you decide to buy it just place the given serial number in the space provided and it converts to the full version. You do not lose any material you may have entered.
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ this basic programme which has been around for some time is free. The Church of the Latter Day Saints developed it for its members and it was taken up and used by the genealogical community.
Brothers Keeper written by John Steed it also has been around for a long time. It started out as “shareware”. It is now a commercial programme. The software described above is for use on a PC system. The software also run on a Macintosh if you have software such as Parallels installed on the Mac.
Reunion9 a programme that has been specifically written for the Mac. It has been available for some time and has many satisfied users.
There are many more programmes available. If you know of some that should be added to the list please add them to the database or send or email Janice or Sue at - Janice Cornwell or Sue Greene
To find FamNet’s Useful Websites page: either
· Click the [Community] tab on FamNet’s home page. Click the button [Useful Web Sites]. Or
· Click the [General Resource Databases] tab on FamNet’s home page. Locate “Useful Web Sites” in the list of “Other Tables” and click this link.
Group News
Whangarei Family History Computer Group
Contacts:
Gloria: (09) 435 1217 barry.gloria@orcon.net.nz
Wayne: (09) 437 2881 wayne@bydand.co.nz
Pat: (09) 437 0692 whangareifamilyhistorygroup@gmail.com
The Whangarei Family History Computer Group was formed to help the computer-illiterate learn to make their personal computers work for them and their Family Tree research. We have two get-togethers each month; The 2nd Thursday evening from 7-9.00pm at 269B Kamo Rd and the 3rd Saturday morning in the Whangarei Library, May Bain room.
The latest meeting in the May Bain room at the Whangarei Library included a Skype Q & A session with Robert Barnes for those who are having problems with uploading their information onto FamNet. The session was most successful and more people are feeling confident enough to try for themselves. The bonus news was the new video on FamNet to help with exactly this task. Thank you Robert for your time. We are now looking forward to his visit to Whangarei so we can have a more in-depth lesson on “Creating shared trees”. We felt that this topic required more than a brief Skype session: Skyping using a vodem does have limitations.
The Skype session was followed by a session learning our way around The Genealogist website. One or two members have subscriptions and to help get the most for the money it is great to share ideas on how and where to find the information. It can be so frustrating going around in circles and only ending up with the same information.
One of the volunteers from the new Hukurenui Museum (just north of Whangarei) attended this meeting and so on the agenda is a future visit for the group to the museum, which is right beside the Hukurenui Pub. More details of this visit will be on FamNet and our website as soon as possible.
Wayne Laurence our computer guru will put the information of upcoming lessons and trips etc onto the website so that if someone is looking for a group such as this the information will be available.
Happy researching everyone.
Kapiti Branch
Our guest speaker for April was Robert Barnes. He gave a very
informative talk about FamNet, particularly focussing on all the new FamNet
developments of the last year.
Guest speaker for the May meeting is Howard Chamberlain, who will be talking about WW1 Tunnellers. The date is Tuesday May 22nd starting at 7.30pm. Venue: the Kapiti Community Centre, 15 Ngahina Street (near the Paraparaumu Library)
Our Why You Are You production is well under way with dates, venues
and costs confirmed. We have had a name change. Virtues from the Past, is a
journey through time with Dame Kate Harcourt. Sharing her ancestors, her
family, and her life stories with the audience. For more information go to the
Kapiti branch website at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlsgkb/
News and Views
We invite contributions from FamNet members for this section: please email me (Sue) if you have any material.
The Story of the New Zealand Women’s Suffrage Petition
By
Trish McCormack, Archives New Zealand, April 2012
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A typical page of signatures - Sheet 41 of the Women’s Suffrage Petition LE 1 1893 7a |
Entry in the IA 3 register in the name of Mary Carpenter IA 1 1893 2563 |
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The card index and other finding aids for the Women’s Suffrage Petition, Archives NZ |
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A signature can tell a story – especially
when it is to be found on the 1893 Women’s Suffrage petition. It was this
impressive document that led to
The petition, currently being digitised at Archives New Zealand, is usually on display in the Constitution Room along with the Treaty of Waitangi and other significant nineteenth century documents.
The Women’s Suffrage Petition consists of
hundreds of sheets that were glued together to form a continuous document. This
was then rolled onto a broom handle and dramatically unveiled in Parliament. It
is still on a roll, and is usually displayed so that the front page is visible
– and the signature of Kate Sheppard, the leader of the
It is an iconic document and draws people from all over the world to the reading room of Archives New Zealand in search of the signature of a long-dead ancestor. A lot of work from many different people has made it possible to easily find a facsimile copy of the signature and print it out for the family album.
Many Petitions
The 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition is justly famous and its immediate predecessor, compiled in 1892, is also well known. But there were actually over 30 petitions put together in New Zealand in the nineteenth century regarding women’s franchise. Although the majority of signatories were women an 1884 petition collected 1816 male signatures.
Numbers escalated in the 1890’s. Over 10,000 women signed up in 1891, 18724 in 1892 and 25,519 in 1893. These petitions were organised by the Women’s Christian Temperence Union’s Franchise Society.
Signatures were collected on the 1893
petition in 179 towns and cities throughout
How the Vote was Won
In the 1880’s there had been various attempts to achieve votes for women but the campaign did not gain traction until it found itself allied with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Alcohol abuse was rife and the problems it was causing for families were sufficient to create much concern from people from all walks of life. The WCTU sought to ban alcohol in the belief that societal disorder would then vanish. It was apparent that this could not be achieved without the movement gaining political power and so a franchise and legislative department was established with Kate Sheppard as its leader.
Kate Sheppard (nee Malcolm) quickly
established herself as a force to be reckoned with. Born in Liverpool in 1847
to Scottish parents she was soon recognised as a child of outstanding
intellect. After her father’s death her mother brought her to
As a result of the WCTU’s work, Parliament could no longer ignore the suffragists and the powerful liquor lobby grew increasingly concerned – and vitriolic in their opposition to women getting the vote.
Kate Sheppard had made an ally of politician John Hall and it was he who unrolled the 1893 petition in Parliament. It was in the name of Mary J Carpenter (the very first signatory) and 25,519 others.
Premier Richard John Seddon, a long standing foe to the suffragists, counterattacked, rallying his forces of opposition in the Upper House. The Legislative Council was split and Seddon, in his attempts to manipulate the vote, angered councillors who would have voted against but now voted in favour of women’s suffrage. The New Zealand Herald commented that “it is hardly too much to say that the enfranchisement of women has been accomplished by her enemies.”
On 19 September 1893 Kate Sheppard received a telegram from Seddon informing her that Lord Glasgow had signed the Bill giving women the vote.
The Petition Then and Now
The fortunes of the petition that won women
the vote have varied over the years. It spent many years languishing in the
cellars of
National Archives took over the petition and conservators went to work to repair the damage. It was found that many signatures had been lost when the sheets were glued together and it was carefully taken apart so the names could be revealed. Subsequent microfilming of the entire document made it accessible to the public – albeit in facsimile form – but inevitably the handling caused further damage.
In suffrage centennial year (1993) it was decided that it would receive a comprehensive documentation, treatment, exhibition and storage. The end result was its placement in Archives New Zealand’s Constitution Room. The 1892 petition was also microfilmed but not put on public display.
Finding Your Ancestor
As it is not feasible to display more than a couple of pages, thousands of signatures on the full 546 pages of the petition would have been inaccessible were it not for the work of a dedicated team of indexers. Based in Masterton, the group produced a transcription and card index first of the 1893 petition and then the 1892 one.
This work has made it possible for a researcher to search for a signature, which is indexed with its sheet number. This sheet can quickly be found on the microfilm and a printout made of it. However the quality of the microfilm copy and hence the printout is variable at best. When the digitisation is complete people will be able to access high quality images of their ancestors’ signatures.
New Zealand History Net has the entire 1893 petition available to search online. Although this is only a typescript of the signatures it is an excellent resource. As well as searching by a person’s name, it is possible to search by location to build up a picture of the strength of the women’s suffrage movement in various New Zealand communities.
Further Research
Unfortunately Archives New Zealand holds no contemporary records of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign apart from the petitions themselves and the entries of their lodgement in the Registers of the Department of Internal Affairs [Archives Reference: IA 1 1893/2420 and 1893/2563]
We do hold a scrapbook of newspaper clippings from an overseas trip taken by Premier Richard Seddon in 1902 during which he was showered with praise for coming from such an enlightened country – and hailed as the hero of Women’s Suffrage [Archives reference: Seddon 3 32/34]. One can only imagine what the real suffragists would have made of this.
Women’s Suffrage Centennial year in 1993 generated a wealth of projects and Archives New Zealand has inherited many of the records. One of the stranger commemorations is a dress-the-Kate Sheppard-doll kit. A cardboard effigy of Kate Sheppard is resplendent in her underwear complete with a full set of clip-on clothes! [Archives Reference: ABKH 7357 W4788/13 1365/4/93].
Kapiti Coast Cemeteries
The Kapiti Coast council will soon have photos of headstones of its four main cemeteries online.
They are Awa
Tapu Cemetery: Valley Road, Paraparaumu
Paraparaumu
Beach Cemetery: Kapiti Road, Paraparaumu Beach
Waikanae
Cemetery: Ngarara Road, Waikanae
Otaki
Cemetery: end of Anzac Road, Otaki
Testing will start soon. They hope to have the site up and running some time in May. In the mean-time if you require a photo of a headstone from these cemeteries you can call Kapiti Coast District Council Offices on 0800 486 486 (this is for NZ only), and ask for Lesley O’Hara.
At present on the council’s cemetery site they have PDF files of burials in the four cemeteries.
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Contact Hooked On Genealogy
National Library of New Zealand
On the Move back to Molesworth
The National Library of New
Zealand is moving into its refurbished Molesworth Street building this year.
All the National Library and Alexander Turnbull Library collections will be
available from the refurbished building in early August. The Library will have
new opening hours from 10.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Saturday, giving you more
opportunity to visit.
Moving Collections
To prepare for the opening we
need to move the Alexander Turnbull Library and the Dorothy Neal White
collections, currently available at Archives New Zealand in Mulgrave Street, to
Molesworth Street. This means these collections will be unavailable from late
May. To maintain services the National Library Reading Room at 77 Thorndon Quay
will remain open until the end of July, providing access to National Library
general collections, microfilm and the Alexander Turnbull Library picture
files. Online search and collections will still be available. When the
Molesworth Street Reading Rooms are open in August some building work on the
ground floor will unfortunately continue until later in the year. We are
working with contractors to minimise disruption and noise during Library
opening hours.
The Ancestry Insider
Submitted by Wayne Laurence.
“The unofficial, unauthorized view of Ancestry.com
and FamilySearch.org. The Ancestry Insider reports on, defends, and
constructively criticizes these two websites and associated topics. The author
attempts to fairly and evenly support both.”
“The Ancestry Insider may be biased
by the following factors:
1) The Ancestry Insider accepts products and
services free of charge for review purposes.
2) The author of the Ancestry Insider is employed
by the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, owner and sponsor of FamilySearch.
3) The author is a believing, practicing member of
the same Church.
4) The author is a former stock-holder and employee
of the business now known as Ancestry.com and maintains many friendships
established while employed there.
5) It is the editorial policy of this column to be
generally supportive of Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.
6) The author is an active volunteer for the
National Genealogical Society.”
GENUKI genealogy UK and Ireland
Submitted by Wayne Laurence.
“The Genuki
service is provided by a group of individuals who wish to freely provide
genealogical information. As such different people maintain different sections of
the website (e.g. counties). In order to manage this group of people we have
established a charitable trust with a group of trustees. We have concentrated
in GENUKI on getting information about primary sources into what is in effect a
virtual reference library, rather than on acting as a clearing house for
research.”
Aim and Scope of the Service.
“The aim of GENUKI is to serve as a "virtual
reference library" of genealogical information that is of particular
relevance to the UK & Ireland. It is a non-commercial service, provided by
an ever-growing group of volunteers in cooperation with the Federation of
Family History Societies and a number of its member societies.”
“GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of
genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland”.
TREEPAD
Submitted by Wayne Laurence.
Jan Gow introduced me to this application some
years ago and I have been hooked ever since. There is a lite and free version –
Treepad Lite – and a manual to show you
how it works. It also can run from a flash drive. It can easily be down loaded.
There are more powerful versions that start from US$29.95. The company resides
in the Netherlands. I used the paid product to help run the Waipu Highland Games
as Secretary before I had a stroke and use it extensively for my family
history. But please study the website and try out Treepad Lite. Wayne Laurence,
FSA Scot, Whangarei.
“Our mission is to design, produce and support a
line of high quality, innovative and user-friendly programs in the general area
of Information Management – this includes information storage, handling,
processing and publishing. We are seriously committed with further developing
our range of products, no less committed with meeting our customers
expectations and, as much as possible, exceeding these.”
Genealogy From Wikipedia
Submitted by Wayne Laurence.
“Genealogy (from Greek:
γενεά, genea, "generation"; and
λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the study of
families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral
traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain
information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its
members. The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives.”
This is a fun website to learn something about our
hobby. The blue text is linked to other sites further expanding the subject –
Wayne Laurence, FSA Scot, Whangarei.
Grandma’s Cookery Nook
We all have recipes that have been handed down or a favourite recipe that belonged to Grandma. We have created a slot for you to add these wonderful old favourites and to share with our readers. Recipes will be included in each newsletter. If you have one of Grandma’s recipes you would like to share contact Sue Greene
Here is one that was given to me years ago by a friend’s family. Apparently this dates back to the 1890’s.
Victorian Fudge
3 cups of sugar
3/4 cup of sweet cream
1 cup of coconut
1/4 cup of chopped candied cherries
1/4 cup of butter
1/4 cup of chopped crushed pineapple
1 teaspoon of almond flavouring
1/4 cup of chopped figs
Combine cream, butter and sugar. Boil to a soft ball stage (234 to 238ºF.) Remove from heat. Cool to room temperature. Beat until creamy. Add chopped fruit and coconut. Add flavouring. Pour into well-buttered, shallow pan. Cut into squares.
Ozark Pudding
Submitted by Mary (Nana) Barnes.
This simple apple and nut pudding from the Ozark
Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas is a typical ‘down home’ American Dish. When
the Truman family was in the White House, from 1945 to 1952, it was frequently
served to visitors – including Winston Churchill after he gave his famous ‘Iron
Curtain’ speech in Fulton, Missouri.
Serves 4.
1 large cooking apple, peeled, cored, and chopped.
50 g walnuts, chopped
250 ml double cream, whipped with 3-4 tablespoons
rum
30 g flour
180 g sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
Beat the egg and sugar together until the mixture is
light and creamy. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into the egg mixture
and blend well. Fold in the apple and nuts, and add the vanilla. Pour into a
greased and floured 1 litre backing dish. Bake in a warm oven (160 degrees C)
for about 30 minutes. Cool slightly, then serve with cream whipped with rum.
Recipe from Country Cooking, published Marshall Cavendish Ltd 1978, ISBN 0
85685 450 6.
Book Review
Massacre
at Passchendaele
The New Zealand Story by Glyn Harper. ISBN 1 86950 342
2
Reviewed by Sue Greene
In the annals of military history, the World War One
battle of Passchendaele is recorded as New Zealand’s worst military disaster.
In just a few short hours on a miserable Belgian morning over 1000 New Zealand
soldiers were killed and a further 2000 wounded in an attack on the German
front line. Yet the story of this tragic loss of life has not been told in this
country – until now.
In Massacre at Passchendaele, Glyn Harper brings this
ill-fated battle to life.
The background of the situation facing the Allies in
October 1917 is outlined, and the first assault on Passchendaele is described.
This near-perfect military operation brought the New Zealand soldiers much
acclaim. However, the second attack, on 12 October 1917, was anything but
successful. The rationale of the strategists, the concern of some officers and
the desperation of the fighting man are all recorded here. Judicious use of
diary extracts and recorded interviews transport the reader to the centre of
this harrowing event.
An appendix lists names and details of the New Zealand
soldiers killed at Passchendaele, a tribute to their sacrifice.
The military disaster of Passchendaele was a pivotal
event in New Zealand’s history, and a key influence on our attitudes to war in
the following decades. This book will help ensure that it remains an untold
story no longer.
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