12/5/2013 LostCousins Newsletter

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  • Save 10% on all findmypast.co.uk subscriptions
  • Twin studies reveal connections between Europeans
  • Have you ever met your ‘lost cousins’?
  • Aberystwyth Crew Lists go online
  • Fire at the National Library of Wales
  • Ashes remain unclaimed
  • City of London Cemetery: grave risks for ancestors
  • Brighton burial records disappearing
  • Correcting errors on certificates
  • Ancestry data problems cause confusion
  • Curiouser and curiouser….
  • Have you seen this message?
  • Up to 1 million Facebook accounts at risk
  • Peter’s Tips
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25/4/2013 LostCousins newsletter

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  • Come to our 9th Birthday party
  • Bring your friends and relatives
  • Save on DNA tests ENDS TODAY
  • GRO – the next step?
  • Books online – a new source
  • London Gardens Online
  • Cradle to grave
  • Tracing your ancestors through death records
  • Who will inherit your online accounts?
  • Online archives of the Imperial War Museum
  • War memorial to be corrected after nearly a century
  • Saving $$$ at Ancestry
  • Searching for living relatives
  • Door to door challenge: solution
  • Statistics and genealogy
  • Peter’s Tips
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8/4/13 LostCousins newsletter

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  • Last chance to save at findmypast ENDS THURSDAY
  • GRO still stuck in the 19th century
  • Have you claimed your free LostCousins subscription?
  • Coming soon: a new way to make breakthroughs
  • Facebook clues can reveal your secrets
  • Policemans helmet bears 1897 bloodstain
  • DNA discovery rewrites human history
  • Want to know more about DNA?
  • Railway uncovers 14th century burial ground
  • Emigration to a new world
  • Speeches that were never made
  • Door to Door challenge
  • Peters Tips
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Family History Conference/Workshop

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The ‘Peak District Family History U3A Network’ are holding a Family History Conference/Workshop on Sat 27 April at The Dome in Buxton. The ticket price of £20 includes refreshments, lunch, car parking.

Also, as we are a non-profit making organisation (retired enthusiasts) and have enjoyed generous support from our sponsors, we are providing a Welcome Bag of valuable FH items & discounts and a free raffle (via ticket number) of valuable FH prizes donated by FH companies.

Our venue holds 250 delegates and tickets have sold well to U3A members. As we still have about 70 tickets unsold we thought members of your nearby regional   FH organisation may like to attend too – they do not have to be U3A members.

Interested? Please check out the attached flier and booking form . The booking forms need to be received by us by 6th April. 

 

Peak District FHU3A wkshop advert & booking

29/3/2013 LostCousins newsletter

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  • Free access to the 1901 and 1911 Censuses ENDS MONDAY
  • 2 million East Kent parish records officially released
  • 500,000 Wiltshire marriages online
  • New Irish records
  • 6.5 million newspaper pages now online
  • How to find more cousins
  • Cousins as DNA donors
  • Have they found King Alfred?
  • Manor Park cemetery records complete
  • Confusion as Kent newspaper goes online
  • Get copies of register entries – free!
  • One members guide to self-publishing
  • Scanning documents on the move
  • Forum takes shape
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A true life Story of a Yorkshire family’s migration to a new life, in the country at Gracemere, Queensland

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The “Johnson Story”  gives an excellent account of the journey, of the family, to Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, on the ship “Dacca” in 1887.  It tells of the trials of settling into a new country, pioneering farming.

The story of the family from Londesborough  to its establishment at Gracemere, Rockhampton, os lavishly illustrated with 100s of excellent photos. Mainly from glass plates taken by the son Elmar who acted as local photographer in addition to Pineapple farming.  The photos cover the family, farming, the community and landscape.  And is brought to life through a transcript of Emlar’s diaries spaning a number of decades in the early 1900s supplemented by audio interviews with surviving descendants.

If you have any interest in Australia from that era, you need to spend some time here.

 

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13/3/2013 LostCousins Newsleter

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Sheffield Manorial Records 1424-1624

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Scanning of  T Walter Hall’s Descriptive Catalogue (3rd Vol) of the Sheffield Manorial Records is well under way.  The first 140 odd pages are on-line under the subscription books (Book – 3). That’s the main body, the remainder largely indexes.