Discovering Immigration Museums For Genealogy
When we want to find out about our ancestors immigration details we usually go to archives and libraries to research. An often overlooked resource are immigration museums or migration centres and we have some excellent examples in Australia. The Immigration Museum in...Turbo Charging My Irish Genealogy
To celebrate the end of another great National Family History Week, I attended the Irish seminar organised by the Genealogy Society of Victoria’s Irish Special Interest Group. Key speaker was Gregory O’Connor the higher archivist at the National Archives...Genealogy Booming in Australasia
Over the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of attending the inaugural Family History Fair in New Zealand, the inaugural Adelaide History and Genealogy Expo in South Australia and the annual Family History Feast in Melbourne, Victoria. All three events were...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.