Trove Tuesday – Funeral Notices and Oddfellows
Most family historians look for funeral notices as they provide information on close relatives such as a person’s address, names of children and sometimes where they live if not local, married names of daughters, and sometimes even grandchildren’s names....
Writing Up The Family History with Carol Baxter
When I attended the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies conference in Camden in September 2016, I was able to catch up with Carol Baxter, the History Detective. Carol had just published the 3rd edition of her popular Writing Interesting Family...
Trove Tuesday – Transmission by Death Notices
For my first Trove Tuesday post of 2017, I am highlighting the wonderful information that can be located in the seemingly boring Government Notices section of newspapers. Today’s topic is transmission by death notices and this is where property is directly...
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2016
Each year Geniaus (Jill Ball) invites people to take part in this activity by responding to the following statements/questions in a blog post. Write as much or as little as you want or answer just a few questions. I always like to participate as it gives me a chance...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.