Each month, Gum Tree Genealogy Ring will feature Genealogy pages for your information. These pages may be member sites, resource sites or other Genealogy related pages.
Take the time to visit them - you never know what you may find there!
| Featured Sites | |||||
| July |
This month's featured site is
Cyndi's List for Australia & New Zealand . This is one of the
best sites around for Genealogical information including Queries and
Surname lists, personal pages, newspaper information, Military
information, Ships and Passenger lists and much much more. | ||||
| August |
I have chosen
Southern Cross Genealogy as this month's Featured site. The chaps at Southern Cross have set up an ISP devoted entirely to genealogy and history. If you don't have a page set up, but are looking for a home base for your genie stuff to live, then it might be worthwhile talking to these guys. John and Max have put in a lot of effort to
get this site going - and they support what we are doing at Gum Tree too. | ||||
| September |
This month's featured site is called Whiskers Hill On-line, an absolutely brilliant site containing information about hundreds of Australian Bushrangers - everyone from the really well known infamous characters like Ned Kelly and Frank Gardner (Francis Christie) to the little know ones like Thomas Williams and Felix Stokes (don't know if he is related yet or not!). I came across this site whilst trying to discover information about how my 3xgreat grandfather who was transported as a convict and came to SA with the Hawdon & Bonney overland expedition in 1838. I have always wanted to know how an ex-convict receiving little of no remuneration for his efforts could suddenly have enough money to set himself up with a large parcel of land and fully stock it, all within weeks of arriving here. There has long been a family story of the mysterious appearance of money - and so bushranging seemed to me to be the logical method of obtaining it. Hence my search for Bushrangers with the surname Stokes! This site is fully searchable too. It is managed by Russell Tibballs and contains the works of renowned Australian history author (especially Bushranging history), Stephen Williams (Popinjay Publications). All the work on this site
is copyright to Stephen Williams and the company that hosts the site. It is designed to assist historians and students in their research - you may copy stuff from the site, but please give them credit for the work if you do. Have a look at the site for yourself - you will love it. There is also and article on this site in the September issue of Gum Nut Papers. | ||||
| October |
No site chosen because Julie was sick. | ||||
| November |
No site chosen because Julie was sick. | ||||
| December |
I have chosen the AustraliaGenWeb Project site this month. Perhaps I am being a little biased here, but I think this is a very worthwhile effort by those concerned. The aim of the project is to gather together as much transcribed, indexed and other information, including lookup services in one place and to make it available to researchers via the internet for FREE. It is interesting to note that most of the co-ordinators of the state projects are also Gum Tree members - Andrew Kemp is the Victorian co-ordinator, Meryl Yost and Maureen Martin are the joint Tassie co-ordinators, Matthew Taylor is the Queensland co-ordinator and yours truly is in for South Australia and is also the Regional Co-ordinator of the National Project. Carol Whyte of PacificGenWeb is responsible for the re-birth of this project. So please pay a visit to the site. If you think you would like to volunteer your time in some small way, then please do so - every little bit helps. | ||||