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Beginning your family’s Beginning your family’s history in New Zealand history in New Zealand Seonaid (Shona) Libraries with Auckland Lewis, Family History Librarian Family history month 2014 Family history month 2018 Seonaid Lewis BA ILS, DipRIM RLIANZA, family history librarian Central Auckland Research Centre, Auckland Libraries
Genealogy
a study of pedigree
• Names
• Birth date
• Marriage
• Death
• – Relationships
Family History is about the stories
How to guides
Start with what you know
Yourself
Siblings
Parents
Parents siblings
Grandparents
Grandparents siblings
Great-grandparents
Basic principles
• Interview your relatives
• Record women with their maiden names
• Surnames are recorded in CAPS
• Date format: 7 Apr 1876 or c1876 or abt 1876
• Place format: Ellerslie, Auckland, New Zealand or Guildford, Surrey,
England, UK
• Check and double check all information
• View original or official sources
• Cite your sources:
where did you get your
information from?
• Concentrate on one line at a
time – retain focus!
Example from FamilySearch
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Why cite your source? • To remember where the evidence came from • So you know where the item is now • To make your research credible with others • Others can easily refer back to the evidence • To acknowledge other people’s research • If you plan to publish your research
Academic citation standards • American Psychological Association (APA) • Modern Language Association (MLA) • Chicago Or Elizabeth Shown Mills
• Whether you cite “correctly” academically or not – the important thing is to ensure you record where you got that information from and any other details needed, so that people can retrace your steps if necessary
Commencement of Civil Registration
AUSTRALIA TASMANIA Dec 1838
WESTERN AUS Sep 1841
SOUTH AUS Jun 1842
VICTORIA Jul 1853
NSW Mar 1856
QUEENSLAND Mar 1856
N. TERRITORY Aug 1870
A.C.T. Jan 1930
NEW ZEALAND Jan 1848
ENGLAND & WALES Jul 1837
IRELAND 1864 (1845 non RC marriages)
SCOTLAND Jan 1855Civil registration:- birth certificate Civil registration.- birth certificate.- Margaret Donald McKENZIE b 19 Jun 1897, St Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland. The General Register Office, Scotland: 13 June 2002.
Key Strategies
4. Question and verify
a. Every fact/statement
b. Every document
Interrogate the record
• Who wrote it?
• Why did they write it?
• When was it written?
• Where was it written?
• How was it written
(translated/transcribed)?
• What was the source of the
information?
16Key Strategies
5. Check name variations
a. Different spellings of the names
b. Changes in use of first and middle names
c. Cultural naming patterns
d. Nicknames
e. Name changes (informal or by Deed Poll)
f. Multiple marriages
g. Events that can cause a name change
(emigration/immigration)
h. Inability to check what a clerk has written
i. Accent variations that can make it difficult to be
understood
j. Formal use of names: Mr R. Knights/Mrs R. Knights
k. Formal names in a legal situation
17Parish record:- marriage
Parish record.- christening copies from S/S Henry and
Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church, Sheerness, Isle of
Sheppey, Kent, England, UK. Sent via email by George
Daniel CATCHPOLE b1930: March 2013.Parish record:- Newfoundland "Newfoundland, Vital Statistics, 1753-1893." Images. Baptism: Jane HARVEY, b 18 Aug 1808, bp 16 Jan 1822, Methodist, Carbonear, Conception Bay. Department of Public Health and Welfare, St John’s Newfoundland. FamilySearch. https://familysearch.org : accessed 2012.
Civil registration:- BMD index
Civil registration:- births from quarter Apr-May-Jun 1851.
George William BOOTHER, Shoreditch, volume 2 page
453.
Findmypast UK:- Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes for
England & Wales 1837-1983, retrieved 18 Aug 2010.Census records 1841 UK Census: George BOOTHE b1824, Castle Lane, St Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex. Public Records Office HO 107 / 738 / 10 / 31 p15. Retrieved from Findmypast UK Aug 2010.
Immigration:
Immigrat passenger, crew lists
Hedley HARVEY b1898.
Passenger and Crew Lists
of Vessels Arriving at New
York, New York, 1897-1957;
(National Archives Microfilm
Publication T715, 8892
rolls); Records of the
Immigration and
Naturalization Service;
National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
Retrieved from
Ancestry.com. New York,
Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
accessed June 2012.Photographs Photograph: Evelyn Julia HARVEY (nee POTTLE) b1872 and son John William HARVEY b1901, Freshwater, nr Carbonear, Newfoundland (n.d.). Emailed by Selby Harvey PARSONS b1949 Aug 2010.
Remember Good research is identified by • Genealogical standards of proof • Correctly cited sources • Index of names and places
Setting up . . . • Choose a genealogy software program - Legacy, RootsMagic, Family TreeMaker etc http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ • Decide on a filing structure – electronic & physical • Ensure you back up everything!
Historic births, deaths and marriages https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
Births, Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand births,
marriage and deaths
indexes, 1991-1997
databaseDistrict keys
http://www.genuki.org.uk
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton
You may as well make it dance
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