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Discovering Your Local History - Put On Your White Gloves

Ruth Gardiner from John Oxley Library, and Saadia Thomson Dwyer from Queensland State Archives, will present a range of treasures from their collections that relate to the Moreton Bay region. 

Participants will have the opportunity to closely view the items on display.

The original Whiteside Diaries will also be on display at this event.

Caboolture Library 07 5433 2000
Redcliffe Library 07 3283 0311

Dates / Times
Caboolture Library, 15 February 2012, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Redcliffe Library, 29 February 2012, 9.30am- 12.30pm

Cost: Free
Bookings: Bookings for this event are recommended.

New digitised newspapers on Trove

The National Library of Australia has announced that the following titles are now available to search on Trove -http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

 Queensland

• Worker (Brisbane, Qld. : 1890 - 1955)
• The  Central Queensland Herald (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1930 - 1939)
• The  Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld : 1875 - 1929

New South Wales

• The  Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1892 - 1901)

Victoria

• Kyabram Union (Vic. : 1886 - 1894)
• Sunbury News (Vic. : 1892)
• Traralgon Record (Traralgon, Vic. : 1886 - 1932)

Western Australia

• Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928)
• Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1948 - 1950)
• Geraldton Guardian and Express (WA : 1929 - 1947)
• The  Inquirer & Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901)
• Inquirer (Perth, WA : 1840 - 1855)

15,000 WWI nursing service records from the UK online

The National Archives in England has recently launched their latest digital collection of over 15,000 World War One nursing service records.

These records provide details such as: 

• date and place of birth
• training prior to and during the war
• references to their suitability as military nurses
• hospitals, field ambulances, casualty clearing stations and other medical units they served in
• confidential reports containing their superiors' assessment of their performance

You can find more information on this collection at the National Archives' website - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/635.htm

New digital collections added to Connected Histories (UK)

Connected Histories has recently added four new digital resources to its collection of historical British records.

• Convict Transportation Registers (originally compiled by the State Library of Queensland - contains details of over 123,000 convicts transported to Australia) 
• John Foxe's The Acts and Monuments Online (martyrology and ecclesiastical histories published between 1563 and 1583) 
• Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets (the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries) 
• Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858 (relates to disputes over matrimony, defamation, tithes, probate, breach of faith by the clergy, and church rights)

http://www.connectedhistories.org/

Irish Prison registers 1790-1924 now on Findmypast.ie

This week Findmypast.ie released "Irish Prison Registers 1790-1924". The original Prison Registers, held at the National Archives of Ireland, cover all types of custodial institutions, from bridewells, to county prisons, to sanatoriums for alcoholics. They contain over 3.5 million entries, spread over 130,000 pages, with most records giving comprehensive details of the prisoner, including: name, address, place of birth, occupation, religion, education, age, physical description, name and address of next of kin, crime committed, sentence, dates of committal and release/decease.

Please note Findmypast.ie is a fee-based website. 

Some of the above text is taken directly from the Findmypast.ie press release. 

Text Queensland : a treasure trove of historical resources

Text Queensland is a unique and dynamic collection of full-text, searchable, digitised sources on Queensland's colonial and state history.

Collections include:

• Books
• Journals
• Theses
• Pugh's Almanac
• Government Gazette
• Hansard

http://www.textqueensland.com.au/

Findmypast launch their "Manchester Collection"

"For the first time ever, findmypast.co.uk has launched a collection of records that relate to an entire city. The Manchester Collection provides an insightful snapshot into what life was like in the city of Manchester.

The records in the collection provide information about apprentices, cemetery records, industrial school registers, parish register transcripts, prison, school and workhouse registers."

For more information on this collection check out the Findmypast blog - http://bit.ly/oqQcJd

The above text is taken from Findmypast blog

Free access to Findmypast.co.uk is available at the State Library of Queensland

3 million UK crime, court and convict records to be digitised

The National Archives (UK) has announced that their extensive collection of crime, court and convict records will be transcribed, digitised and published online.

The records will be searchable by name, alias, date of birth, place, offence and sentence. Content such as judges' reports, prison registers, transfer papers and gaolers' reports will also be included.

Check out the following link for further information:http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/611.htm

National Archives of Fiji - digitization of photographs and film footage

The National Archives of Fiji are currently digitizing thousands of photographs and old film footage which will be made available to the public.  The digitization process will be completed sometime next year.

Read the Fiji Times Online article for more information: http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=176887

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More digitised Australian newspapers coming soon!

The National Library's Australian Digitisation Program has released a list of newspapers to be digiitised for this financial year. These titles will be searchable online athttp://www.trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

 Titles for QLD include:

• The Capricornian (Rockhampton)
• The Central Queensland Herald
• The Worker

For the full listing go to - http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/selected_newspapers/Future_Titles.html

Don't forget the State Library of Queensland holds an extensive range of Queensland newspapers on microfilm.

The British Royals: a Queensland story

Queensland State Archives has launched a new foyer and online exhibition on the British Royals in early June 2011.

Since 1868, there have been around 39 royal visits to Queensland by the British royal family, with HM Queen Elizabeth II the only reigning monarch to have come to Queensland. Her first official trip to Australia took place over 55 years ago, in 1954, the year following her 1953 coronation.In March 2011 HRH Prince William visited Queensland to tour places damaged by floods and Cyclone Yasi.

Queensland State Archives engaged an historian to explore its collection and write an historical essay on the royal visits to Queensland. Read more about the history and see photos of the royals -

http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/royal/default.asp

My address is: 435 Compton Road Runcorn QLD 4113 info@archives.qld.gov.au

My website is: http://www.archives.qld.gov.au

Auckland Star newspaper now on Papers Past

Editions of the "Auckland Star" newspaper (1870 -1903) have been digitised and can be viewed online through Papers Past - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/

"The Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette" (1901-1945) is also another recent addition to the site.

Australian Parliament Hansard online from 1901

The complete Hansard of the Australian Parliament can now be viewed online from the first sitting of Parliament in 1901 to current day.

The project was funded by the Department of Parliamentary Services

http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/intro.htm

Sample of significant speeches:

First substantial speech in the Parliament by William Henry Groom (MP for Darling Downs and former convict) - 21 May 1901 - http://tinyurl.com/3mv33az

First Aboriginal member of parliament Sir Neville Bonner (Liberal, Queensland) sworn into the Senate - 17 August 1971, first speech - http://tinyurl.com/3tl6fe2

Photo: William Henry Groom - Member for Darling Downs 1901 (Source: Picture Queensland)

Koori Mail newspaper - back issues now online

You can now search back issues of the Australia-wide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander newspaper "Koori Mail" online -

http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/koorimail/index.html

This website covers editions from 1991 to 2011.

British History Online - digital library

"British History Online" is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.

Among their collections is a number of resources useful for family historians including:

•  Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714 - which lists all known members of Oxford University.
• Victoria County Histories - local histories of English counties
• Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1857- biographical details of bishops and the senior clergy

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/