Grandma Warren sat down in her last days and typed up her memoirs. I love them and I am glad that she dedicated her time to getting it down on paper. I think she was prompted by family members and helped by them too. She had such a large family …
When I first started researching my family history, I found that religion was a great clue to finding out more about my family. When doing a cemetery search where there are religious division, it can be very helpful know what religion your ancestor is. However after a while I realised …
Family Treemaker is a popular choice for a beginner genie. It is easy to use with the tabs running across the top of the screen and has many features that make it helpful in organising and making something useful out of your information. I have had a look at all …
Before civil registration, records were held in the parish of our ancestors, or the church that was in charge of their neighbourhood/ village/ hamlet. The records were created by the clergy and the parish officers who were responsible for looking after the parish. It become compulsory to keep records from …
The Scottish and English may be very similar in their approach to heraldry, however there are many subtle differences. Scottish heraldry has a simplicity and an openness to it that the British could learn from. For example in English heraldry you can add as many coat of arms as …
In today’s world we all expect vital records like births, deaths and marriages to be there. However marriages today are not how they always were. In the beginning, marriages were public commitments to a person and upheld more by the community knowing a couple was together. However the ability to …
Looking at the occupation of an ancestor can tell you so much. It rounds out their everyday lives and what they did with their days. It shows a community of coal miners, generations of fathers and sons going into the pits. It shows a line of generations following a path …
When doing genealogy, a census is a great wealth of information. However in Australia, our census hasn’t provided us with the wealth of information that other countries have. It was really a task in counting off convicts initially and making sure there was enough rations. Then there is the fact …
Australia was a vast place, well away from civilised society in England. However I think that sending people that predominately lived in the city to do manual and agricultural labour in a country like Australia was not a smart idea. Australia couldn’t survive on the convict labour to start …
When researching my family history, there can be many types of records that you can come across. A government gazette is one of those types of records that we may not be familiar with today but are a great resource in family history research. Although gazettes are written in quite …
