I came across the term outdoor pauper today while searching the 1891 English census so I went straight to Google to find out what it meant.

For all things relating to poor relief and workhouses I turn to www.workhouses.org.uk/.  The glossary says that indoor relief or an indoor pauper was a resident of a workhouse who was receiving their poor relief in that way.  Outdoor relief was given to those who still had somewhere to live but little to no income.

Here is a definition I found via Google Books;

Ageing and Generational Relations over the Life Course by Tamara K Hareven

Has anyone else come across this before?  Have you heard a different meaning?

I had a great day at this seminar put on by Unlock The Past yesterday.  I met up with other geneabloggers some I already knew and some I hadn’t met before.

Here are some of the things I learnt from Chris and Thomas they aren’t in any special order:-

If you upload a picture with text in it to Google drive then right click on it, go to Open With, and click on Google Docs it will open the picture in a word processor document and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) will do its best to read the text and insert it into the document underneath the picture.  You can then edit and use the text however you would like.  You can also do the same thing with a .pdf file.

In Google Images if you click on the little camera icon in the search box you can upload a picture and Google will search for all websites which have that picture on them.  It doesn’t do facial recognition yet so some of the results can be quite funny but there are enough accurate ones to make it worth checking if someone else has a picture of one of your ancestors and is also researching them.

 

Google Books has many complete copies of Ancestry Magazine for free.  I did a search for “Ancestry Magazine” on Google Books and got over 7000 results.  Lots and lots of good reading there!!

The British Gazettes website has London, Edinburgh, and Belfast gazettes available for use under the Open Government Licence.  Under this licence you are free to:

 

India is an entirely new place for me to be researching.  I’m doing some research for a friend and finding it utterly fascinating.  This cemetery in Secunderabad has a lot of British interments and these great monuments.

{Cemetery photos courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/mars1940/10883216765/in/photostream/}

 

The Families in British India Society is a wonderful research resource with photographs, maps, military records, cemeteries, censuses, maritime, wills and probate and much more.

 

The photos on  the FIBIS website are geotagged showing their location on a map.  As I know nothing about India this is helping me get my bearings.

http://www.gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/1119/search/129&map

This website is a great example of modern technology being used to further genealogical research.

 

This is my response to Pauleen’s Australia Day Challenge;

CLIMBING YOUR FAMILY’S GUM TREE

My first ancestor to arrive in Australia was: George James Hayward who arrived in South Australia in 1843.  He’s probably also the person I know least about.

I have Australian Royalty (tell us who, how many and which Fleet they arrived with): I don’t have any Australian Royalty in my family.

I’m an Aussie mongrel, my ancestors came to Oz from: Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, England, Prussia

Did any of your ancestors arrive under their own financial steam? Yes some did but I haven’t recorded how many.

How many ancestors came as singles? Three ancestors came to Australia single, George James Hayward, Captain James Welsh, and Thomas William Tyrrell.

How many came as couples? I don’t think there are any couples who came to Australia on their own.

How many came as family groups? There were eight family groups who came to Australia.

Did one person lead the way and others follow? I haven’t found anywhere where this happened with my ancestors.

Did anyone make a two-step emigration via another place? No there weren’t any two step emigrations.

In which state or colony did your ancestors arrive? South Australia

Did they settle and remain in one state/colony? All but two families stayed in South Australia.

Did they stay in one town or move around? Some stayed put and some moved around to find more work in mining.

Do you have any First Australians in your tree? No

Were any self-employed? Yes

What occupations or industries did your earliest ancestors work in? Agriculture, Postal Service, Brass Founding, Ship’s Captain, Copper and Gold Mining.

Does anyone in the family still follow that occupation? Yes there are still farmers in my family.

Did any of your ancestors leave Australia and go “home”? Yes only one family returned to England but their daughter remained here.

NOW IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU

What’s your State of Origin? South Australia

Do you still live there? Yes

Where was your favourite Aussie holiday place as a child? Yankalilla, South Australia

Any special place you like to holiday now? Bendigo, Victoria for the history and all the research opportunities.

Share your favourite spot in Oz: It’s hard to pick one favourite, along the Murray River in South Australia, the Darling River in New South Wales and the River Torrens near where I live now in Adelaide and yes I do love rivers.

Any great Aussie adventure you’ve had? When I left high school at 17 I worked as a Governess on sheep and cattle stations in outback South Australia and New South Wales for a year and a half.

What’s on your Australian holiday bucket list? All the states I haven’t been to yet – Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.

How do you celebrate Australia Day? When my children were younger we would go to the Australia Day BBQ Brekky (barbecue breakfast) which also had races and other activities for the children and then the official ceremonies.  Now I’m more likely to have a quiet day at home.