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From: "Rob Thompson" <>
Subject: Family History News 49
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 21:44:58 +0100


Family History News
No 49

8th April 2001

Hi Everyone, and welcome to this weeks, 49th Family History news. I hope
there will be something for you in this weeks issue

New Books
Family History: A guide and troubleshooter, by Stella Colwell has recently
been published by Sutton publishing in their Sutton History Handbooks
series. Stella Colwell has been known as an author in the genealogy world
for some time, and has previously written quite a number of good titles for
beginners & intermediate level family historians. The ISBN of this title is
0 7509 1187 5, and the price 14.99 UKP

I have received news of three new CD’s from TWR computing
(http://www.twrcomputing.co.uk).

They are: Family Tree Maker Single CD version 8.0 £25
This much requested new product is one CD containing the latest version 8.0
of Family Tree Maker, and nothing else. The cheapest way to purchase the
latest version of the world's most popular family history program.

CD22 English Settlers in Barbados £24
This new CD in the Genealogy.com range contains details of baptisms,
marriages and wills of English Settlers in Barbados 1637-1800.CD364

American Source Records in England 1600s-1800s £29
This new CD from Genealogy.com contains the fully indexed images/pages of
twelve books including English will abstracts, church records and passenger
lists. I have attached an HTML file that provides a full description of this
CD. We have been pleasantly surprised by the quantity of early English
information on this CD.

Webpage reviews
http://www.onthe.net.au/cornell/index.htm
A fairly basic website dedicated to the Cornell family, originating from
Cambridgeshire. There are eight generations of family tree, nicely laid
outbut seemingly breaking the cardinal rule of not including persons
stillalive! I did like the layout though. The introduction gives a brief
outlineof the name and some details on the family - although not enough for
myliking. This website could do with some personality - some background,
someinteresting events. There is some of this in with the family tree pages
but I would like to have seen a couple of page outside the tree on where
people lived and what they did. The saving grace is really the layout of the
tree which is easy to navigate and read.

http://www.gloscc.gov.uk/pubserv/gcc/corpserv/archives/genealogy.htm
Gloucestershire Record Office Genealogy Database A great resource for anyone
with ancestors in Gloucestershire, this is a database of wills proved at
Gloucester between 1541 and 1858, the Gaol register of prisoners held at the
county gaol between 1815 and 1879 and baptisms at local nonconformist
churches. The results show basic details – names and dates but provide the
ability to apply to the record office for copies, or allows you to save a
lot of time at the record office itself by pinpointing which records to look
at. The search mechanism is easy to understand, easy to use and provides
quick results, I suspect a good amount of thought went into exactly how to
provide the search, and this pays off with it being easy to use. All in all
a great resource.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
I suspect there are a lot of pages on the internet guiding people on how to
start their family history research, but this is the best one I have come
across. Written by Roy Stockdill, who will be well known to many mailing
list members, and also on the UK lecture circuit, the page is well written
and explains in simple language how to start your research in to British
family history. This is definitely a page to be recommended to anyone
starting out on their research


Upcoming Events
Gloucestershire Family History Society will be holding their Open Day this
year at THE KINGSHILL SCHOOL, CIRENCESTER, on SATURDAY 28th APRIL from 10 am
to 4 pm. Admission is FREE.
Many neighbouring Family History Societies will attend, including those of:
Wiltshire;
Bristol & Avon;
Oxfordshire;
Herefordshire and
Birmingham and Midlands.

Gloucestershire Library and Archives Services will be there plus
representatives from Cirencester Museum and Cirencester Local History
Society.

Organisations such as Picture Past Church Postcards; Wiltshire Indexes,
Back to Roots, Oakwood Books and RS Designs will be among the commercial
companies attending.

And their brand new 1851 Gloucestershire census on CD-ROM will be on sale!

Kingshill School is on the edge of the town just off the A417 Cirencester to
Lechlade road.

New on GENUKI
There have been quite a few recent changes to the GENUKI pages, but this
week I have only included the Glamorgan changes, as you will see, there are
plenty of them!

Here they are: Glamorgan Record Office; Familia - Bridgend; Familia -
Caerphilly; Familia - Cardiff; Familia - Merthyr Tydfil; Familia - Neath;
Familia - Port Talbot; Familia - Rhondda; Familia - Swansea; Familia - Vale
of Glamorgan; A list of Libraries; Index to "History and Antiquities of
Glamorganshire and its families"; Index to "The vale of Glamorgan in Old
Photographs"; Index to "The History of Methodists in West Glamorgan"; Name
Index for Several Glamorgan Ceneteries; List of Parish Register Copies at
the SoG Library; Data Browse; Glamorgan Gen-Web Pages; South Wales Evening
Post; Cowbridge Gem; Barry Gem; Llantwit Major Gem; Index to "Collieries of
Wales [Engineering and Architecture]"; Police Casualties; V@le; University
of Wales (Cardiff); University of Wales (Swansea); University of Glamorgan
(Pontypridd); Photographs of some Glamorgan Schools; [Aberdare] Aberdare
Central Library; [Aberdare] List of Accomodation; [Aberdare] Aberdare
Online; [Aberdare] Aberdare Girls' School; [Aberdare] Cwmbach Library;
[Aberdare] Hirwaun Library; [Baglan] Images and History; [Barry] St. David's
Methodist Church; [Barry] Bethel Baptist Church; [Barry] Cardiff Christian
Heritage; [Barry] List of Accomodation; [Bettws] The History of the Llynfi
Valley; [Bettws] Ogmore, Llynfi & Garw Valleys in Old Photographs; [Bettws]
Ogmore Valley Colliery Fatalities; [Bonvilston] Cardiff Christian Heritage;
[Briton Ferry] Old Neath & District in Pictures; [Briton Ferry] Villages of
the Neath Valley, and their burial grounds; [Briton Ferry] Images and
History; [Cadoxton-juxta-Barry] St. Cadoc and St. Mary;
[Cadoxton-juxta-Neath] The History of the Vale of Neath;
[Cadoxton-juxta-Neath] Images and History; [Cadoxton-juxta-Neath] Images of
Neath and District; [Cadoxton-juxta-Neath] Images and History;
[Cadoxton-juxta-Neath] Neath Valley and the Neath Canal;
[Cadoxton-juxta-Neath] Listing of Employees; [Cadoxton-juxta-Neath] St.
John's Church, Skewen; [Caerau] Parish Church of St. Mary; [Cardiff] Bethany
Baptist Church; [Cardiff] The City Temple; [Cardiff] City United Reformed
Church; [Cardiff] Cardiff Central; [Cardiff] Cardiff Bay; [Cardiff] List of
Accomodation; [Cardiff] The Methodist Church; [Cardiff] Woodville Baptist
Church; [Cardiff] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Cilybebyll] Old Characters of
Gellinudd; [Cogan] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Colwinston Flemingston] Vale
Christian Heritage; [Cowbridge] Holy Cross Church; [Cowbridge] Vale
Christian Heritage; [Cowbridge] List of Accomodation; [Eglwys Brewis] Vale
Christian Heritage; [Eglwysilan] list of accomodation; [Eglwysilan]
Cilfynydd Library; [Eglwysilan] Rhydyfelin Library; [Eglwysilan] Taffs Well
Library; [Eglwysilan] Glyncoch; [Eglwysilan] Glyncoch Library; [Ewenny]
Ewenny Church; [Ewenny] Vale Christian Heritage; [Ewenny] Corntown;
[Flemingston] Flemingston Church; [Gileston] Vale Christian Heritage;
[Ilston] Ilston with Pennard; [Laleston] Vale Christian Heritage; [Lisvane
Llanishen] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Llanbleddian] Llanblethian Church;
[Llanbleddian] Vale Christian Heritage; [Llancarfan] Vale Christian
Heritage; [Llandaff] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Llandaff] Cardiff
Christian Heritage; [Llandaff] Parish Church of St. John; [Llandaff] Archer
Road Baptist Church; [Llandaff] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Llandaff]
Fairwater Parish Church; [Llandaff] Parish Church of St. Marks; [Llandaff]
Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Llandaff] The Presbyterian Church;
[Llandough-juxta-Cowbridge] Llandough Church; [Llanedeyrn] Christchurch
Baptist; [Llanedeyrn] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Llangan] Vale Christian
Heritage; [Llangan] Treoes; [Llangeinor] The Ogmore Valley; [Llangiwg]
History of y Gwrhyd by; [Llangiwg] Hen Gymeriadau Cwmgors a'r Waun o'r
flwyddyn 1840; [Llangiwg] Annibynwyr Gwauncaegurwen; [Llangiwg] The History
of Pontardawe and District; [Llangiwg] Hanes Eglwys Cwmllynfell; [Llangiwg]
Index of Photographs; [Llangiwg] The History of Pontardawe; [Llangiwg]
Around Pontardawe; [Llangiwg] Growing up in a Welsh Valley; [Llangiwg]
Around Pontardawe - The second selection; [Llangyfelach] Morriston's
Pictorial Past; [Llanharry] Llanharry Community/School Library;
[Llanilltern] "Annals of St. Fagan's with Llanillterne - An Ancient
Glamorgan Parish"; [Llanishen] The Parish Church of St. Isan; [Llanmaes]
Churches in the Benefice of Llantwit Major; [Llansamlet] Llansamlet;
[Llansannor] Llansannor Church; [Llantrisant] Llantrisant Library;
[Llantrisant] All our yesterdays - A pictorial history of Llantrisant and
Pontyclun; [Llantrisant] Talbot Green; [Llantrisant] Talbot Green Library;
[Llantrisant] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Llantrisant] Soriana;
[Llantrisant] Pontyclun Library; [Llantrisant] list of accomodation;
[Llantrisant] Beddau Library; [Llantrisant] Tonyrefail Library; [Llantwit
Fadre] Church Village Library; [Llantwit Fadre] Pontypridd Library;
[Llantwit Fadre] The Old Photographs Series, Pontypridd; [Llantwit Fadre]
The Official Pontypridd online directory; [Llantwit Fadre] list of
accomodation; [Llantwit Fadre] Pontypridd and Rhondda Branch;
[Llantwit-juxta-Neath] Some monumental inscriptions; [Llantwit-juxta-Neath]
plan of the churchyard; [Llantwit-juxta-Neath] Images and History;
[Llantwit-juxta-Neath] Neath and Llantwit; [Llantwit Major] Llantwit Major,
A History and Guide; [Llantwit Major] Llantwit Major; [Llanwonno] Mountain
Ash and Penrhiwceiber remembered in Pictures; [Llanwonno] Abercynon Library;
[Llanwonno] Mountain Ash Library; [Llanwonno] Providence - United Reformed
Church [Formerly English Congregational] 1869 - 1987; [Llanwonno]
Penrhiwceiber Library; [Llanwonno] Porth Library; [Llanwonno] Ynysybwl
Library; [Marcross] Vale Christian Heritage; [Margam] A History of Taibach
to 1972; [Margam] Margam Abbey; [Margam] Images of Neath & Port Talbot;
[Margam] list of accomodation; [Merthyr Tydfil] Images of Pant Cemetery;
[Merthyr Tydfil] List of Accomodation; [Merthyr Tydfil] Merthyr Tydfil
on-line; [Merthyr Tydfil] A historical guide; [Merthyr Tydfil] Merthyr
Tydfil Borough Council; [Michaelston-le-Pit] Cardiff Christian Heritage;
[Michaelston-super-avon] Pontrhydyfen; [Michaelston-super-avon] Description,
with Images, of Pontrydyfen; [Michaelston super Ely] Cardiff Christian
Heritage; [Neath] Neath's Wicked World; [Neath] Images and History; [Neath]
List of Accomodation; [Neath] The Town of Neath; [Neath] Gnoll Estate;
[Newcastle] Old Bridgend in Photographs; [Newcastle] list of accomodation;
[Newton Nottage] list of accomodation; [Oystermouth] A history of All
Saints' Church, Oystermouth; [Oystermouth] Black Pill; [Oystermouth] Once
upon a village; [Oystermouth] Inklemakers; [Oystermouth] The Men of the
Mumbles Head; [Oystermouth] The story of the village of Mumbles;
[Oystermouth] Of Swansea West : Mumbles Past and Present; [Oystermouth]
Llwynderw Parish Churches; [Penarth] List of Accomodation; [Penllyn] Penllyn
Church; [Penllyn] Craig & Penllyn; [Penllyn] Llanfrynach Churchyard;
[Penllyn] Llanfrynach Church; [Penllyn] Llanfrynach Church; [Penmark]
Fontygary; [Pentrych] Gwaelod-y-Garth; [Pyle & Kenfig] Vale Christian
Heritage; [Radyr] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Roath] St. Edwards; [Roath]
Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Roath] Adamsdown; [Roath] Cardiff Christian
Heritage; [Roath] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [St Andrews Major] Glimpses of
old Dinas Powys; [St Bride's Major] St. Brides Major, Southerndown & Ogmore
by Sea; [St Bride's Major] List of Names; [St Bride's Major] St. Brides
Major Church; [St Bride's Major] Some history; [St Hilary] St. Hilary, a
History of the Place and its People; [St Hilary] St. Hilary Church; [St
Lythan's] Wenvoe and St. Lythans; [St. Mary Church] St Mary Church
Churchyard; [St. Mary Church] St. Mary, at St. Mary Church; [St. Nicholas]
St. Nicholas; [Swansea] Swansea - Reflections in Black and White; [Swansea]
Jubilee Swansea - A town in the 1890's; [Swansea] Jubilee Swansea II;
[Swansea] Extracts from the 1871 census; [Swansea] The Quaker Church;
[Swansea] Swansea and the Gower; [Swansea] List of Accomodation; [Swansea]
Swansea History Web; [Swansea] Killay; [Swansea] Mount Pleasant Baptist
Church; [Whitchurch] Bethel Baptist Church; [Whitchurch] Parish Church of
St. Mary, Whitchurch; [Whitchurch] Cardiff Christian Heritage; [Ystradowen]
Ystradowen Church; [Ystradyfodwg] Ferndale Library; [Ystradyfodwg] Maerdy
Library; [Ystradyfodwg] Penygraig Library; [Ystradyfodwg] Ton Pentre
Library; [Ystradyfodwg] Tonypandy Library; [Ystradyfodwg] Treherbert
Library; [Ystradyfodwg] Online guide; [Ystradyfodwg] Tylorstown Library;
[Ystradyfodwg] Ynyshir Library.

GENUKI's Home Page - http://www.genuki.org.uk/
GENUKI's Listings of:Family history Societies -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/Societies/ Genealogy Mailing Lists-
http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/MailingLists.html Surname Lists -
http://www.genuki.org.uk/indexes/SurnamesLists.html
GENUKI's Frequently Asked Questions File -
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/faq.html

And finally…
Well, that’s all for this week, please keep all your information/Webpage
recommendations coming in

Have a good week

Rob

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