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 jennyjresearch@gmail.com  

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes 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. F

Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes 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 jennyjresearch@gmail.com.  

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/ D

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: Videos of PRONI talks www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/proni-on-youtube/your_family_tree_lecture_series.htm. Durham Records Online. http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/  Goad Fire Insurance maps. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/fireinsurancemaps.html Anzac Repatriation records

(Click the play button to start podcast. Note it may take a few seconds to start) Jennyalogy Podcast Show Notes 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 Australian Cemeteries Index http://austcemindex.com Australian Cemeteries http://www.australiancemeteries.com   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:     Essex Ancestors. http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/EssexAncestors.aspx Durham Records Online. http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/  Clare County Library genealogy section.  http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/genealog.htm Rootsireland. http://rootsireland.ie/ South Australian land records. https://www.sailis.sa.gov.au/home/auth/login Tutorial for South Australia

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 National Archives of Australia – contains the digitised service records of all members of the Australian Armed Forces in World War I. http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/NameSearchForm.aspx The Australian War Memorial – look under both People and War History from the top menus.  https://www.awm.gov.au/ Archives of New Zealand – the main catalogue includes WWI service records and wills left by soldiers. http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ Archives of New Zealand also have a page dedicated to WWI. http://archives.govt.nz/world-war-one The Auckland War Memorial Museum's Online Cenotaph. http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph Digital New Zealand – thousands of images of First World war milita

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 ha

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 &