Indonesian newspaper available on TROVE

The National Library of Australia has announced that the Embassy of Indonesia in Canberra has funded the digitisation of the Berita Repoeblik Indonesia newspaper, which marked the formation of the newly independent Indonesia in 1945.

 
For more on the story, please visit https://www.nla.gov.au/news/2017/01/17/indonesian-history-preserved. The paper itself is accessible via Trove at http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/1283.

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Beginner's Guide to British and Irish Genealogy, A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

Newspaper additions to Australia's TROVE and NLA

Readers in Australia may beinterested to note that the English language newspaper the Japan Chronicle is now accessible through the National Library of Australia's e-resources, via http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/item/4618. The coverage for the tite is from 1902-1940.

For all readers of The GENES Blog, also available on the NLA website now are the following collections which have been added to TROVE (http://trove.nla.gov.au):

The Southern Queensland Bulletin (Southport, QLD: 1888–1891)
Contributed
by City of Gold Coast Libraries

The Gippsland Farmers’ Journal (Traralgon, Vic: 1893–1896)
Contributed by Latrobe City Libraries

(With thanks to the National Library of Australia)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923, Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

Happy 5th Birthday to TROVE!

Congratulations to the National Library of Australia's TROVE project (http://trove.nla.gov.au), which celebrates five years of online existence today. If you have Australian connections, you'll find free to access newspapers and much more on the site, one of the country's most important online resources.

Happy Birthday TROVE!

Chris

Stuck for a Christmas gift?! I have a series of genealogy books available in the UK, Australia and Canada, on Scottish, Irish and British based subject areas. Further details at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html. Santa approves!

TROVE adds more Oz newspapers

The Australian based TROVE website from the National Library of Australia has added a significant amount of new digitised newspaper titles to its already impressive and free to access database at http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper.

Alona Tester has blogged a list of the new additons at the Gould genealogy blog at www.gouldgenealogy.com/2013/08/trove-adds-more-old-newspapers-online/.

Have fun looking for the rellies!

(With thanks to Alona via @gouldgenealogy)

Chris

My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My Scottish land and church records ebooks are available at http://www.gen-ebooks.com/unlock-the-past.html, whilst my next Pharos Scottish course, Scottish Research Online, starts Sep 4th - see http://pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Time to smash a few brick walls...!

Trove reaches ten million pages

Congratulations to the Oz based NLA Trove team which has now digitised some ten million pages of Australian newspaper content, and within an earshot of one hundred million articles - all available for free at http://trove.nla.gov.au - more details at http://blogs.nla.gov.au/behind-the-scenes/2013/06/21/10-million-newspaper-pages-in-trove/

Chris

My new book, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet, is now available from Pen and Sword. My Scottish land and church records ebooks are available at http://www.gen-ebooks.com/unlock-the-past.html, whilst my next Pharos Scottish course, Scottish Research Online, starts Sep 4th - see http://pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. Time to smash a few brick walls...!