Sweden – Census and Voter lists

My Heritage Sweden Household Examination Books, 1880 - 1920 Includes images; 46,583,546 records Sweden, Household Examination Books, 1880 - 1920 Includes images 1,045,732 records – this collection was last updated 26 August 2017 Sweden, Selected Indexed Household Clerical Surveys, 1880-1893(in Swedish) 4,446,837 records Ancestry also has a collection in the Birth, Marriage & Death category…

Trove Tuesday – Tobias Jensen

Since I did my 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks post yesterday about Tobias, I decided to do this week’s Trove Tuesday post about him as well. Details about his death appeared in quite a few newspapers.  I am sharing a couple of these. The first article is from The Argus RUN OVER AND KILLED ELMORE,…

52 Ancestors #9 Tobias Jensen

My “ancestor” this week isn’t an ancestor, but was the husband of Johanna Hansen, the sister of my husband’s great grandmother, Elizabeth Hansen.  The relationship to my ex-husband is: Last week, I did a post about the census collections for Norway.  Since Tobias was born in Norway, and I hadn’t yet used Norwegian records, I…

Surname Saturday – Reiss

The first ancestor in my tree with this surname was Maria Philipina Reiss. The relationship to my ex-husband is: Maria Philipina Reiss was born 8 November 1808 in Katzweiler, Pfalz, Germany. She was the daughter of Johann Jacob (or Jakob) Reiss and Maria Barbara Kipp. Maria married Jacob Michael Theisinger on 1 January 1831 at…

Friday Finds 25 Aug 2017

Each Friday, I share the new and updated collections from Ancestry, FindMyPast, FamilySearch, MyHeritage and The Genealogist as well as links to details about other new, and not so new, records and tools.  From this week, I will also be including Newspapers.com and Fold3. The  following are the Recently added and updated collections at ancestry.com.au for the this week.…

Norway – Census and Voter lists

The following are the Census and Voter lists I have found for Norway 1875 Norway Census on My Heritage Images; 293,384 records Norway, Select Census, 1875 on Ancestry Index only; 333,541 records Norway Census, 1875 on FamilySearch Index only; 333,541 records The Norwegian Historical Data Centre Free site - has transcriptions of the 1865, 1875,…

Trove Tuesday – Edward George

I’m running a bit late with my post this week, so I am only sharing the one article, which is the obituary for Edward George. Edward George married Agnes Oliver in 1881. Agnes was the sister of my 2x great grandfather George Oliver.   Background of featured image is a photo from Unsplash - https://unsplash.com/search/photos/nature?photo=gIgciC_WKnY…

52 Ancestors #8 Maria Louisa Doyle

Maria Louisa Doyle was born 17 January 1847, and christened 8 February 1847 at Birmingham St Phillip, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England She came to Australia with her parents on the “Great Britain”, arriving in Victoria in August 1862.  On the 17 April 1865, she married Thomas Henry Russell in Buninyong.  They had 10 children. I found…

Surname Saturday – Punter

Last week, I shared the information I had for Lucy Punter.  This week, I am sharing the information I have found for her parents, and the Punter family from Christian Malford James Punter was christened 20 February 1742 at Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England.  His parents were Thomas and Jane Punter. He married Lucy Hendon on…

Friday Finds 18 August 2017

Each Friday, I share the new and updated collections from Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch, as well as links to details about other new, and not so new, records and tools.  From this week, I will also be including MyHeritage and The Genealogist. The  following are the Recently added and updated collections at ancestry.com.au for the this week.  UPDATED 1891…