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ABC podcast: German internees in Australia - WWI

Listen to Phillip Adams' radio interview with Dr Gerard Fisher and Nadine Helmi, authors of the new book "The Enemy at Home: German internees in World War I Australia".

During World War I nearly 7000 so-called ‘enemy aliens’ with German and Austrian heritage were interned in camps in New South Wales. Among the internees was Paul Dubotzki who documented his time in the camp by taking photographs between 1915 to 1919.

ABC podcast: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2011/3194446.htm

An exhibition of these photographs will be held at the Museum of Sydney from 7 May to 11 September. - http://www.hht.net.au/whats_on/exhibitions/exhibitions/the_enemy_at_home

Capital Punishment Database NSW 1826-1837

The Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History have compiled a database of 1300 people who were sentenced to death between 1826 and 1837. Many of those convicted later had their sentences commuted to transportation and sent to the penal colonies of Norfolk Island or Moreton Bay.

http://research.forbessociety.org.au/

New resources at SLQ: more NSW pioneer registers

The following new titles can be found on Level 3 of the State Library of Queensland:

• Port Macquarie-Hastings pioneer register 1821-1900 FAMHIS 929.3942 2010
• Wyong and district pioneers 1910 - 1930 supplementary information FAMHIS 929.39442 2010
• Wyong and district next generation register 1930-1950 FAMHIS 929.39442 2010
• Parramatta Pioneer Register. Volume 2, Settlement to 1920 FAMHIS 929.39441 2003
• Pioneers & settlers of Lake Macquarie  FAMHIS 994.42 2006
• Fifty early families of Tamworth & district FAMHIS 929.20994 1995
• Pioneer women of Port Macquarie 1821 to 1823FAMHIS 305.409942 2005

Favourite slq family history resources

One of my favourite family history resources at the State Library of Queensland is the CD-ROM for the 1828 Census for NSW.

You can search by 12 different fields including surname, given name and ship.

Once you locate the person or persons you are looking for you can view their individual record.

What's cool is that you can also view a household report and find out who else was living with your person/s at the time of the census.  To me this adds so much more to the family history.

To use the CD-ROM just ask at the family history desk on level 3 of the State Library building.