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Genealogy Notes Archives: April 2003
Saturday,5 April, 2003
The Wagga Wagga and District Family History Society Inc., are undertaking a new project to compile a database of pioneers who lived in, and contributed to, the Wagga Wagga community prior to Federation. According to the Society, the first edition of the Pioneer Register will be published towards the end of 2003 and will be available to family historians, local historians and members of the community with particular interests, such as tourism, local government, etc.
Contributor forms are also available from Wagga Wagga and District Family History Society members, or from Gary Croker, Pioneer Register Project Co-ordinator, WW&DFHS Inc., PO Box 307, Wagga Wagga 2650. Gary can also be contacted by email – gcroker@bigpond.com, or fax (02) 6925 0797. The closing date for submissions is 30 September 2003, but the Committee would appreciate submission of completed forms as soon as possible.
Posted by Greg Harper @ 09:54 PM AEST [Link]
Maitland Mercury newspaper 1848 - Index
Rod and Wendy Gow have recently released the Maitland Mercury 1848 - Index to Births Deaths Marriages Estates Funerals Inquests Insolvencies etc. which contains over 2800 entries, on 66 A4 pages.
The Maitland Mercury should not be dismissed by researchers as a local paper catering solely to the Hunter River district. From it's inception, this was the main provincial newspaper in what is now NSW, and devoted much of its columns to reports from right across Australia, with correspondence from all the main cities and country districts. Anything that was newsworthy, thankfully for today's researchers, got a start in its columns. Whether you are researching ancestors in Adelaide or Aberdeen, Goulburn or Gunning, Mudgee or Moreton Bay, Port Phillip or Parramatta, Sydney or Seymour, the Maitland Mercury featured reports from these and many more localities.
Micro film of this newspaper are available for viewing at many libraries, societies and universities, and are now also available in digitised form, available for down loading on the internet, at the following site ...
The Maitland Mercury .... www.nla.gov.au/ferg/issn/14403676
Armed with the index detailing the date of the edition of the newspaper, the page, and the column, it is a simple task to locate the particular article required, download it, and read it off line. The downloads are read via Acrobat Reader, which is also available free for download on the internet.
If you would like further information on this newspaper index, just log onto the Gow’s web site ....<<www3.ceinternet.com.au/~rgow>
Posted by Greg Harper @ 09:32 PM AEST [Link]
