Magazine Indexing
After ancestry.com, familysearch.org, findmypast.com.au, State and Commonwealth Archives, SAG and regional and local family history societies comes Blue Mountains Index to Miscellaneous Journals and Magazines. You cannot afford to ignore this door to tens of thousands of relevant family history articles.
The Society continues to index the main articles in Family History Society and Genealogical Associations' exchange magazines and journals from every state and territory in Australia and also from New Zealand, our own The Explorers' Tree, Australian Family Tree Connection, Family Tree Magazine (UK) and other journals and magazines which are donated to us from time to time.
The 2011 Index has already over 5,000 entries as at 30th June, 2011. When this Index becomes available it will be a must-have resource for every library and Society.
The latest Index to be published is the 2009-2010 and it was made available at the end of March 2011.
Index to Miscellaneous Journals and Magazines 2009 & 2010
The 2009-2010 journal index period was published at the end of March 2011. The time lag is necessary to allow some overseas publications to arrive and those of any family history societies that happen to be running late - as we all do from time to time.
There are some changes from past indices. Some societies have moved to online publications only, and these are no longer indexed. Online is cost saving for the producing societies, but as some have found, excessively expensive for the receiving society to print for members where newsletter information such as rosters, lists of acquisitions, useful websites etc make up a considerable part of the journal. The underlying reason for compiling indices was to make better use of the most under utilised resource - our publications whether they are called newsletters, magazines or journals.
Many journals have ISSN registration. The 2009-2010 entries have # beside all journals with ISSN numbers, so users will know those that have been stored in the National Library of Australia and the relevant State Library. Correspondence via our website link is evidence that they are being used there, presumably by family researchers not in any family history society. In this way information is being disseminated further and over a longer period than when the magazine is newly published.
Local and family history societies can, and do, provide elusive, valuable information about people and locations. The articles on the methods and chances by which brickwalls crumbled, spelling variations, proven errors in a variety of resources etc. provide new leads for readers. These are all too valuable to have been read when current, then stored or thrown away due to lack of space. It resembles a dictionary, atlas or encyclopaedia that remains unused until one needs to dip in for a specific purpose.
It is assumed that each society will retain a copy of each of their issues and can be contacted in the future.
So some journals have dropped out of the index in this two year period, and others have come in, especially The Ancestor and The South Australian Genealogist from Victoria and South Australia respectively. We have contacted Western Australia a couple of times and now have Esperance making the Index truly Australia-wide.
Any local or family history group wanting information or to be notified when the next index is available, please contact BMFHS on xploretree@yahoo.com.au,PO Box 97 Springwood NSW 2777 or via this website http://www.bmfh.org/society. Of course, this Index can be purchased by contacting the Society though those same contacts.
ALREADY PUBLISHED
Index to Miscellaneous Magazine to 2003
Index to Miscellaneous Magazines 2004 to 2006
Index to Miscellaneous Journals and Magazines 2007 & 2008
Index to Miscellaneous Journals and Magazines 2009 & 2010
Post 2003 indexes are in more detail than the original with many items listed twice eg CEMETERY - Mittagong, and under MITTAGONG cemetery. It will still be necessary to do some lateral thinking to find all the material which could be relevant or helpful for your research. All indexes follow the format of the published one - as shown here:
Here is an example:
BUDDIVENT family - Descendants of George. Rootes (Gold Coast) 2000 Dec, p35-36
BUILVAN State School 1922-1923 - Names, enrolments. Relatively Speaking (N. Qld) 2000 Sep, p7
BULL Capt. John Edward Newell - Re Bull’s Camp, family history, photos. Explorers’ Tree (BM) 2002 May,9
BULL Nathaniel George - People of Liverpool, from 1888 History. Timespan (Nepean) 2003 Jun, p5
BULLEN family - Royal Navy, descendants. Cornwall Family History 2003 Mar, p35
BULLER Francis & Susanna - Oxford inhabitants 1660s. Oxfordshire Family Historian 2002 Dec, p147-150
BULLIMORE family home - Description of 9 Spital Row. Practical Family History 1998 Sep, p35-37
BULLUS - St Mary’s, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire - Names, parents 16 & 17th C. Timespan (Nepean) 2000 Mar, p20
BUNDA BUNDA BORE - Report of finding water. Hughenden Magazine 2001 Jun, p9-10
BUCKNALL Gittins & Sarah - 1827-1880 Extracts from letters. Lemon Tree (Port Stephens) 2002 Dec, p7-8
BUDDIVENT family - Descendants of George. Rootes (Gold Coast) 2000 Dec, p35-36
BUILVAN State School 1922-1923 - Names, enrolments. Relatively Speaking (N. Qld) 2000 Sep, p7
BULL Capt. John Edward Newell - Re Bull’s Camp, family history, photos. Explorers’ Tree (BM))2002 May, p9-12
BULL Nathaniel George - People of Liverpool, from 1888 History. Timespan (Nepean) 2003 Jun, p5
BULLEN family - Royal Navy, descendants. Cornwall Family History 2003 Mar, p35
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