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a nation’s treasure

Jill Ball

Hornsby Library

4 May 2012

trove.nla.gov.au

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Jill Ball Hornsby Library May 4 2012

Trove A Nation’s Treasure

Outline

• What is Trove? • What do you need? • What might you find on Trove for family history? • The Trove Home Page • Searching on Trove • Printing and Saving from Trove • Signing up on Trove • Text correction in Trove • Tagging in Trove • Collaborating with Trove • More on Trove





Inside History Magazine Issue 3

What is Trove?

• a discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians

• managed by National Library of Australia • searchable database of biographies, pictures,

music, maps, newspapers, books etc. • for researching in the social sciences, literature,

local or family history, or for school assignments

• best of all it’s FREE



Single search vision (2002)

Search and Navigation Interface

Image

Collections

Websites

Databases

E-Journals

Library

Catalogues

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Content sources

Australian Collaborative Services

• ANBD – 1000 libraries

• Pandora - websites • ARO - Research • RAAM - Archives • Picture Australia • Australian

Newspapers

Open sources • Open Library

(Internet Archive) • Hathi Trust • OAISTER

Targets – websites

•Amazon

•Wikipedia

•Google Books/Videos

•Flickr

90 million items

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What do you need?

• A Computer or Mobile Device

• Internet Access

• A Web Browser

• An Inquisitive Nature

• Open Attitude

• Lots of Time



What might you find on Trove for

Family History?

• Birth, Death, Marriage Notices • News articles – Sporting Achievements, Criminal

Activities, Interviews, Accidents • Legal Notices - Divorce, Bankruptcy, Probate • Theses • Histories of Places and House Information • Shipping news • Advertisements for Family Businesses • Journals, Diaries, Letters • Sound Recordings, Interviews, Oral Histories • SURPRISES





The Gem amongst my Treasures

The Gem among my Treasures



ADVANTAGES OF EMIGRATION. — Statement No. 33. — Paddy Curry, Limerick- — New South Wales, January 6, 1846.— I left

my native home in 1823, arrived in this country in1825. I was assigned to Messrs. James and William Macarthur, and was five years

before I got my liberty, then I married ; and when the youngsters gathered about me, Mr. Macarthur gave me to cultivate 30 acres of

land. He never charged me any rent ; he made a sort of a memorandum, but he never took a shilling from me. I take a load to

Sydney now and then— shear for him — job now and again ;well, when I was getting on well, my wife takes sick, and really the

Macarthurs behaved like Christians to me. Mrs. Macarthur used to come in her carriage to her, and eased her mind by telling her that

it was nothing the children should want, and it's a true-worded woman she proved. Well, my wife died of her fifth child, and after three

years I married again, and then Mr. Macarthur gave me a second farm, and so I hold two, and it's not a better farm he has on his

estate. I get 30 bushels of wheat to the acre— the weight is from 60 to 64 lbs. the bushel. I get about 50bushels of Indian corn to the

acre— have had 60. I have now in my barn 400 bushels of wheat— plenty of corn— have above about 60head of cattle, 3 horses, 2

mares, 2 drays, a cart, 1 plough, a new house, 36 feet by 16 ; several out-buildings as you see — poultry in abundance. We

consume one chest and a half of tea in the year, 4 lbs. of sugar a day— no stint; I kill four bullocks in the year at the very least,

mostly five, besides pigs. I keep two men, pay them £18 a year, and their board, lodging, and tobacco. In the harvest time I pay 5s. a

day. I have reared a large family in comfort, want for nothing. Now, what I have say of the Macarthurs is this—there is no gentleman

at home or abroad that could behave better: for twenty years I can speak of them as masters and landlords— there cannot be better

found ; their words are to be taken—you need not touch paper with them ;they seem to like me to get on; they ride through my farm,

and are always willing to accommodate me with a bullock or grain. For the two farms I pay 15s. an acre, on a 21 years‘ lease; it's five

years getting to the 15s., at which it keeps. I had to clear it; but it is a cheap farm, because the land is good—it is, you see, upon the

banks of the river. They are Protestant gentlemen, but they are kind to their Catholic servants and tenants. Indeed, when they had a

good lot of government men, they kept a clerk that they allowed to read prayers for us ; indeed, I could not describe to you the

goodness of these gentlemen." —Douglas Jerrold's Paper.

Corrected Text

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Advanced Search

Search term Hornsby

Journals etc – Results



Pictures, photos objects - Results



Maps - Results



Map

online



Newspapers - Results



Books - Results



Pioneers of Hornsby Shire



Theses

• Trove includes Australian theses at all levels, including Honours, etc.



Diaries, journals etc - Results



Hornsby Article



Waltzing Matilda – Results 1



Waltzing Matilda – Results 2



Waltzing Matilda



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Browse

Newspapers

• One can also browse newspapers in Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

• If a search doesn’t return any results and you know a date use browse



http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

Trove Tips - 1

• Start with a broad search then narrow using filters on Trove

• You can browse or search newspapers

• Use inverted commas to enclose phrases

• Boolean searches

• AND, OR and NOT and brackets to create boolean expressions. You can use a minus sign next to the word in place of NOT

• Try variations of surnames eg Curry and Currie



Trove Tips - 2 • Do a NEAR search for names with the tilde key

(~), which will pick up names within 2 words of each other eg (Jill Ball)~2

• Search for family name plus town of residence • Don’t restrict searches to local newspapers –

interstate papers often reported on news from other areas

• Search for photos of Churches, Towns of significance to the family

• Check for funeral as well as death notices – there may only have been one notice



Trove Tips - 3

• Trove won’t search for abbreviations or acronyms for your search terms. So search for these as well.

• Repeat searches on a regular basis - new content is regularly added

• Use Trove to date newspaper clippings found amongst family papers

• Paste text from



Trove Tips - 4

• Read the news of the day for a family event – to give social context

• Check the weather of the day for a family event – more context

• Zooming to about 65% makes newspaper articles easy to read

• If a page you require is missing contact Trove and they will endeavour to find and add it



Printing and Saving from Trove

• Print and save from Trove buttons at the top of

the left-hand column, above the electronically translated text.

• One can print an issue, a page, an article or a section of an article eg from Family Notices

• Detailed instructions are on the Trove website http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/using-digitised-newspapers-faq/#Print



http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/using-digitised-newspapers-faq/







Printing and Saving from Trove



Article saved as PDF from Trove

Signing up on Trove

• Search within your libraries • Have a profile page to track your comments, tags

and corrections • Organise content with your own tags • Contribute to Trovewithout completing a captcha

challenge • Be ranked in the text correctors hall of fame • Create lists of useful items you've found • Connect with researchers with same interests

Jill Ball

Hornsby Library May 4 2012 Trove A Nation’s Treasure

You can use Trove without signing up but there are benefits to membership

Signing up on Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/signup

http://trove.nla.gov.au/signup

http://trove.nla.gov.au/signup

Collaborating with Trove

• Add tags to articles in Trove

• Add comments to articles in Trove (further info abt content or people in article)

• Make OCR text corrections

• Join groups on Trove

• Add your own images to Trove

• Set up a User profile in Trove



Kay made a connection



Tagging in Trove

• Tags are keywords or labels added by users. • A tag can be anything you use to describe a topic, a

place, an event, a person, a feeling, your research progress.

• Anything in Trove (except Archived Websites) can be tagged.

• Anyone can add a tag. • Tags are searchable • You can choose whether to make a tag public or

private • To add a tag, go to the item to be tagged and click on

the “add a tag” link.



Trove Hall

of Fame as at 3/5/2012





Groups on Trove

Text Correction

• Newspaper OCRs sometimes poor quality

• Humans can read – machines may not be able to

• Your names may not be indexed

• You can add value to the resource by making text corrections

• Provides more accurate records

• Help other family historians by correcting names

• Want to help Australian Community/Library



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Adding your own Images to Trove • Join Flickr http://www.flickr.com • Upload your photos there • Add them to the ‘Trove: Australia in Pictures

Group‘ • After about 10 days they will appear in Trove • If you want your real name to show in Trove

make sure you put your name into your Flickr profile

• Detailed Instructions http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/individual.html



http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/individual.html

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Trove User Profile



More on Trove

• Hicks, Shauna Brimming with Treasure Inside History

Magazine Vol 2. 2011 • O’Brien, Aillin Trove uncovers a treasure (and a idea for Trove

genealogy bloggers) http://ausgenjourneys.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/trove-uncovers-treasure-and-idea-for.html

• Tanner, James Find a Treasure Trove in Australia http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/find-treasure-trove-in-australia.html

• Trove on Twitter @troveaustralia • Trove on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/TroveNLA • Trove User Forum http://trove.nla.gov.au/forum/ • WraggeLabs Emprorium – Trove Tools

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