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World War 1 Genealogy Books (Updated April 2021)

Military genealogy books in our library catalogue (updated 28 Apr 2021)

Military research : getting the most out of your digger's military records / by Lieutenant Colonel Neil Smith (2018)

 

My proper name is Fred Arthur Taverner : an Anzac story / by Lois Taverner. (2019)

 

Leane times : one family's transformation from Cornish farmers to Australian fighters / Wendy Frew (2018)

 

Finding Joseph George Lodwick Gilbert : boundary rider and Australian light horseman / Glenda Couch-Keen (2018)

 

The war to end war : tracing your Great War Australian military ancestors / Lieutenant Colonel Neil C Smith, AM. (2015)

 

That elusive digger : tracing your Australian military ancestors / Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith, AM. (2013)

 

Army service records of the First World War / William Spencer. (2001)

 

A soldier in the family : a source book for Australian Military Genealogy /Box, Allan (1994)

How to trace your military ancestors in Australia and New Zealand / R.H. Montague (1989)

What's in a name : aliases of the Australian Military Forces 1914-1919 / Neil C. Smith.

Digging for diggers : a guide to researching an Australian soldier of the Great War, 1914-1918 / Graeme Hosken. (2002)

Anzacs and Ireland Kildea, Jeff

 Alphabetical index to photographic portraits of South Australian soldiers, sailors and nurses who took part in World War I [microfiche]

Researching South Australian military ancestors / Graham Jaunay. (2004)

 

My ancestor was in the British Army : how can I find out more about him? / by Michael J. Watts & Christopher T. Watts. (2009)

Finding the family redcoat : tracing your British military ancestors in Australia / Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith, AM. (2013)

Tracing your service women ancestors : a guide for family historians / Mary Ingham. (2012)

Tracing your First World War ancestors Fowler, Simon. (2003)

 World War I army ancestry / Norman Holding ; revised and updated by Iain Swinnerton.

Travel on the Internet

Search tips & travel websites

Search Engines allow you to type in keywords to find things. Search Engines search by matching the keywords that you type in their search box. They then return the results in a search list.

Search Engines:

Google at: www.google.com.au

Bing at: www.bing.com

Yahoo at: www.yahoo.com.au

DuckDuckGo at: www.duckduckgo.com

Yippy at: www.yippy.com

Search Tips:

Tip No1: Use Quotation Marks

When searching for a topic of more than one word ie, a phrase, use quotation marks “ “

“port douglas”

sydney accommodation apartments ”6 people”

Tip No2: Search in a specific field on a webpage & identify your keywords.

Some search engines allow you to search in a specific field of a web page. In Google you can search

intitle:”Port Douglas” accommodation “self contained”

intitle:”port elliot” “south australia” accommodation “3 bedrooms”

How to search the Internet using a Subject Directory

Subject Directories classify the Internet into various categories.  Most will have a general Category for Travel.  This general category is then broken down into sub-categories. For example:

Travel>Destinations>Oceania>Australia>Queensland>By Locality>Port Douglas>Accommodation

Subject Directories:

·         Yahoo Directory at: http://au.dir.yahoo.com

·         Yahoo Travel at: http://au.dir.yahoo.com/recreation/travel/

·         DMOZ at: www.dmoz.org

·         Webwombat at: http://www.webwombat.com.au/travel/

Recommended Travel websites

·         Lonely Planet at www.lonelyplanet.com

·         Rough Guide at: www.roughguides.com

·         Frommers at: http://www.frommers.com/

·         Fodors at: www.fodors.com

·         Pilot Guides at: www.pilotguides.com

Specific Australian Travel websites

·         Zuji at: www.zuji.com.au

·         CitySearch at: http://adelaide.citysearch.com.au

·         Expedia at: www.expedia.com.au

·         Trip advisor at: www.tripadvisor.com.au

·         RAA at: http://www.raa.net/holidays

·         Totaltravel.com at: www.totaltravel.com.au

·         Getaway at: ninemsn.com.au/getaway

·         Peregrine Adventures at:  http://www.peregrineadventures.com/

·         Backpackers World at: www.backpackersworld.com.au

Airline & Rail websites

·         Qantas at: www.qantas.com.au

• Virgin at: www.virginblue.com.au
• Jetstar at: www.jetstar.com.au
• Webjet at: www.webjet.com.au
• Flight Centre at : www.flightcentre.com.au
• I want that flight at: www.iwantthatflight.com.au
• Airfares Flights at: http://airfaresflights.com.au
• Rail Australia at www.railaustralia.com.au
• Eurail at: www.eurail.com

Accommodation wesites

• Wotif at www.wotif.com
• Stayz.com.au at: www.stayz.com.au
• Trivago at: http://www.trivago.com.au
• Expedia at: www.expedia.com.au
• Hotels Combined at: http://www.hotelscombined.com.au/
• Booking at: www.booking.com
• Accommodation online at: http://www.accommodationonline.com.au/
• Roam Free at: http://www.roamfree.com.au/
• Travel mate at: www.travelmate.com.au
• Need It Now at: www.needitnow.com.au
• Rates to go at: www.ratestogo.com.au
• Best rates at: www.bestrates.com.au
• Holiday with kids at: www.holidayswithkids.com.au
• Rome2Rio at: http://www.rome2rio.com/

Tourism Commissions

• Australian Tourism Commission at: www.australia.com
• South Australian Shorts at: www.shorts.com.au
• Victoria Tourism at: www.visitvictoria.com.au
• New South Wales Tourism at: www.visitnsw.com.au
• Queensland Tourism at: http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/
• Northern Territory Tourism at: http://en.travelnt.com/
• Tasmania – Discover Tasmania at: http://www.discovertasmania.com.au/
• Western Australia Tourism at: www.westernaustralia.com
• Australian Capital Territory at www.canberratourism.com.au

Overseas travel

• Smart Traveller at: http://www.smarttraveller.gov.au/
• Currency Exchange at : www.xe.com
• Oanda.com at: www.oanda.com/convert/cheatsheet
• Travel Doctor at: www.traveldoctor.com.au

How search works

Google Search

How does Google search work?

What is the Knowledge Graph?

Google Reunion - video showing the power of Google search

Photo Imaging and sharing websites

Photo Editing website

GIMP at: www.gimp.org

GIMP Downloads at: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

GIMP Documentation at: http://www.gimp.org/docs/

Photo sharing websites

Flickr at: www.flickr.com
Photobucket at: www.photobucket.com

Google Web Albums at: http://picasaweb.google.com

Smugmug at: www.smugmug.com

Picasa Web albums at: http://picasaweb.google.com

Digital effects - Add peoples faces to photographs & animations
Photofunia: www.photofunia.com
Dumpr at: www.dumpr.net

Searching for images (by colour)

Idee Multicolr Search Labs at: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/
Idee Visual search at: http://labs.ideeinc.com/visual
Chromatik at: http://chromatik.labs.exalead.com/

Other Photo Editing Software

Picasa at: http://picasa.google.com
A video worth watching that explains the features of Picasa 3 can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rskC6c_5L1M

 

Pre-done language searches in Enterprise

Below is a list of the pre-done canned search codes used to search for new language items added into the Enterprise catalogue. These codes can be typed directly into Enterprise to find newly added language materials added in the last 90 days to 12 months.
The TOP 9 languages in the list have 3 different searches, an ALL category search, a DVD search and a book search.
The search results from these searches can also be refined by using the facets on the LHS of Enterprise, once a search has been done. The searches below can be clicked on.

Language	ALL in search (New items last 12 months)	DVD search (New items last 90 days)	Book Search (New items last 12 months)
Top 9 Searches
Vietnamese	“NEWVIET”	“NEWVIETDVD”	“NEWVIETBK”
Hindi	“NEWHIND”	“NEWHINDDVD”	“NEWHINDBK”
Chinese	“NEWCHIN”	“NEWCHINDVD”	“NEWCHINBK”
Malayalam	“NEWMYLM”	“NEWMYLMDVD”	“NEWMALMBK”
Tamil	“NEWTAMI”	“NEWTAMIDVD”	“NEWTAMIBK”
Korean	“NEWKORE”	“NEWKOREDVD”	“NEWKOREBK”
Russian	“NEWRUSS”	“NEWRUSSDVD”	“NEWRUSSBK”
Telugu	“NEWTEL”	“NEWTELDVD”	“NEWTELBK”
Thai	“NEWTHAI”	“NEWTHAIDVD”	“NEWTHAIBK”
Other language searches
Arabic	“NEWARAB”
Bengali	“NEWBENG”
Croatian	“NEWCROA”
Dutch	“NEWDUTC”
Farsi	“NEWPERS”
French	“NEWFREN”
German	“NEWGERM”
Greek	“NEWGREE”
Gujarati	“NEWGUJA”
Indonesian	“NEWINDO”
Italian	“NEWITAL”
Japanese	“NEWJPN”
Kannada	“NEWKANN”
Malay	“NEWMALA”
Marathi	“NEWMARA”
Polish	“NEWPOL”
Punjabi	“NEWPUNJ”
Serbian	“NEWSERB”
Sinhala	“NEWSINH”
Spanish	“NEWSPAN”
Tagalog	“NEWTAGA”
Ukrainian	“NEWUKR”
Urdu	“NEWURDU”