If you are looking for your British ancestors then you want to look for British newspapers online or specifically British Newspaper Archive website. Newspapers are the vibrant heart of what was going on at the time and give so many details when researching your family history. (In Australia, we turn to …
Top five gifts for genealogy, should save your loved ones time and money. Because I don’t know about you but I find that most of my Christmas preparations involves hours of walking around the shopping centre trying to find the “perfect” gift. I always wish I knew what the avid …
This week it’s like getting blood from a stone with South Australian births, death and marriages. (When only a few weeks ago, I did an article on Tasmania and wrote about the ease of finding records for family historians.) It’s confusing, it’s frustrating and it is painstaking work. A lot …
A grave is the final resting place of your ancestor or loved one. But sometimes making a trip to see it can be impossible. Billion graves aims to fix this. But they not only fix having access to the grave through photo’s, they also are preserving the grave that may …
The Old Bailey online website is a great free website that holds the court proceedings of London’s central criminal courts from 1674 to 1913. Why do you want to use this website? Well, when convicts were sent to Australia, they had to go through the courts to get sentenced. On …
Although photography had started in 1838, it was not widely used in 1840 when Queen Victoria married Prince Albert. So fourteen years later in 1854, they dressed in their wedding clothes again and finally got their wedding picture taken. By today’s standards, that seems crazy and I’m glad it still …
Findmypast is top ranking subscription website. It offers millions of genealogy records. However it has been plagued with problems in the last year or so. In early 2014, they changed their interface and practically ruined their search facilities. In May 2014, they had to acknowledge that the site didn’t work …
Genealogy really becomes a full time passion for many people and there are many ways to extend your knowledge. One of the ways is to take genealogy courses. As genealogy is becoming such a popular hobby it has become a part of university courses. I have found three Australian courses …
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 …
Not everyone can see the value in old items such as letters, diaries, bibles and even war medals. Many times when people die all their possessions are just dispersed into the bin, second hand shops or sold off. The problem is that unless it is obvious sometimes, it is hard …
