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Title: Link: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: CassT on Wednesday 13 February 13 04:34 GMT (UK)

This wonderful tool searches the National Archives of Australia (NAA), the Australian War Memorial (AWM) and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) all with the one search.


http://wraggelabs.com/ww1-records (http://wraggelabs.com/ww1-records)

Cass

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: Wiggy on Wednesday 13 February 13 04:50 GMT (UK)

That's a very useful link - found one of mine immediately!!

Thanks Cass.   ;)

Wiggy   :)

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 13 February 13 04:56 GMT (UK)

Thanks for bringing that to our attention. I've put it in my favourites. Though none of mine were in in WW1, I'm sure it will come in useful nevertheless.  :)

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 13 February 13 04:59 GMT (UK)

I just had a play with the site - I like the way the digitised records all appear on screen, so you can click on and enlarge whichever page you want.  :)

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: PrueM on Wednesday 13 February 13 07:18 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Ruskie on Wednesday 13 February 13 04:59 GMT (UK)

I just had a play with the site - I like the way the digitised records all appear on screen, so you can click on and enlarge whichever page you want.  :)

I REALLY like that feature - much better than the NAA's viewing setup which is pretty ordinary  :-\

Thank you for the link, Cass, I'll drop the developer a line on Twitter and let him know what a great idea it is  :D

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: CassT on Wednesday 13 February 13 22:01 GMT (UK)

Prue M ,

Thank you for contacting the developer, if I knew how I would also send Him/Her a message.
A friend told me about it, (I dont how she found the link), and I thought I would pass it on to Rootschat,

Cass

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: Tim Sherratt on Thursday 14 February 13 01:03 GMT (UK)

Hi, I'm the developer - glad you're finding it useful.

Just thought I'd let you know that you can actually view any digitised NAA file using my Archives Viewer. Just go to:

http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/

And enter an item barcode.

There's also a bookmarklet you can use to jump directly from RecordSearch, see:

http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/connectors/

Cheers, Tim

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: majm on Thursday 14 February 13 01:10 GMT (UK)

Fantastical !  Many many thanks

Cheers,  JM

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: PrueM on Thursday 14 February 13 02:58 GMT (UK)

Quote from: wragge on Thursday 14 February 13 01:03 GMT (UK)

Hi, I'm the developer - glad you're finding it useful.

Just thought I'd let you know that you can actually view any digitised NAA file using my Archives Viewer. Just go to:

http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/ (http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/)

And enter an item barcode.

There's also a bookmarklet you can use to jump directly from RecordSearch, see:

http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/connectors/ (http://dhistory.org/archives/naa/connectors/)

Cheers, Tim

Great work, Tim - thanks for the hints and links.  I just love that record viewing interface you have set up :)

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: Tim Sherratt on Thursday 14 February 13 03:07 GMT (UK)

No worries.

You may have noticed too that the Archives Viewer comes with a couple of extra features...

You can print a whole file or a range of pages.

You can share persistent urls for files or individual pages (which include the correct file metadata), so it's easy to share your discoveries with others.

There's more details in this blog post:

http://discontents.com.au/old-loves-new-views/

cheers, Tim

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: Wiggy on Thursday 14 February 13 05:15 GMT (UK)

Hopefully this address will take its place on the Aussie resources list!

Thanks Tim!

Wiggy 

Title: Re: Australian WW1 Record Finder
Post by: deeiluka on Friday 15 February 13 05:26 GMT (UK)

What a great website!   :D

Thanks Wragge.
I recommended it to the local family history group here yesterday.


Dee    :)