Want to find out what the National Library of Australia has to offer without even taking a step outside of your house? Now you can with the new videos that the National Library of Australia have created, which will help viewers started using their collections and services. You’ll learn how to access their readings rooms and galleries, research your family history, use online resources and order copies from the collection.
A New Project to Digitise Country Victoria Records
Victoria’s history sits on 9km of shelving in the PROV’s repository at North Melbourne. The problem is, these records are hundreds of kilometres away from the folks in country Victoria, so aren’t easily accessible. Now Archival Access Victoria has come up with a Project that will help everyone. Their plan is to digitise these records for country Victoria …
Kelly Family 175th Anniversary Reunion
A third Kelly family reunion is planned to mark the 175th anniversary of the arrival of William and Jane Kelly in South Australia. William Kelly (1804-1888) and his wife Jane (1819-1893), left the Isle of Man in July 1838 for South Australia, where they arrived on 1 December 1838. They came soon after to what became Cudlee Creek …
Passenger Lists to Queensland 1848-1912
Passenger lists. They are something that every genealogist hunts for. Some are easy to find, while others aren’t and for those ones we swear that our ancestors either swam or arrived via spaceship. But let me tell you about the wonderful thing the Queensland State Archives have done.
Speakers on Unlock The Past’s 4th History & Genealogy Cruise
February 2014 is when Unlock The Past’s 4th History & Genealogy Cruise is scheduled to leave Sydney. Now a major part of why the Unlock the Past cruises are so good is because of the guest speakers. Afterall you can’t really have a genealogy cruise without them can you? And this cruise most certainly takes the cake for the speakers. With 6 international speakers, and 12 from Australia this will be a cruise like no other.
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Family History Through the Alphabet
Family History Through the Alphabet – L is for …
It’s exciting to see so many people participating. We’ve had an amazing range of topics that people have been writing about … we’ve had everything from emigrant ships, attributes, archives, alphabets, special ancestors, family stories, home towns, war memorials, heirlooms, occupations, streets and more. So now that we’re up to “L”, what does L relate to in your family history?
Family History Through the Alphabet
Family History Through the Alphabet – K is for …
Another week means another letter in the Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge, and we are now up to the letter ‘K’. Each letter has brought out so many wonderful topics: family members, websites, photographic montages, occupations, memorabilia and ephemera, emigration, genealogy programs and apps … and OH SO MUCH MORE!
Societies
National Archives of Australia Seeks $92 Million for Preservation Facility
The Canberra Times had an interesting article on the National Archives of Australia seeking $92 million to upgrade their facilities. According to the report the NAA Mitchell storage facility has become so decrepit that tape is being used to hold down floor tiles which could contain asbestos. It is our our NATIONAL Archives for goodness sake!!
General
Help Make Australian BDM Certificates Cheaper
We all know that Australian BDM certificates are ridiculously expensive, but why is this so? Why do we have to pay $30-$40 per certificate, when we can order others from the UK for about $15.00? It doesn’t seem right. Inside History Magazine have started a petiton in a bid to get not only the price of Australian BDM certificates dropped, but also with the aim to make them easier to order.
Events
Australia’s National Family History Week 2012
Australia’s National Family History Week is on again and this year runs it from 27th July through until 5th August 2012. As family history is fast becoming one of the most popular hobbies around, use this opportunity to either expand your own family history knowledge, or share the passion by introducing someone else to it.
Products
Two More Unlock the Past Books Due Soon
The Unlock the Past authors have busy putting pen to paper (or should I say fingers on keyboards?), and have been busy writing a whole host of new books. Two of the new books are due within 1-2 weeks, and are now available for pre-order. Interestingly both of these new books relates to land records, one for Australia and New Zealand and the other for Scotland.
Family History Through the Alphabet
Family History Through the Alphabet – J is for …
If you’ve just discovered our Alphabet Challenge, we’d love for your to join us. We are looking for genealogists worldwide who are bloggers, Facebookers, and/or Tweeters to join us. All you need to do is use the current letter for the week (J this week), and connect it to someone, something, or a topic relating to your family that you’d like write about. Sounds like fun? It is …
Records
Find & Connect – Australian Orphanage and Child Migrant Records
Don’t you love it when you hear of new projects that start up, and you can see the potential for it to not only be huge, but so useful to others as well! This is how I feel about Find & Connect. This is a project that is designed to connect forgotten Australians, former child migrants, orphans and those in Children’s Homes to their families as well as information and resources …
Events
30 Reasons to Attend a Genealogy Cruise
Genealogy Crusing seems to be a popular way of combining a genealogy conference together with a holiday these days, and with just over 7 months until the 3rd Unlock the Past History & Genealogy Cruise, here’s 30 reasons as to why you (together with a friend or family) should attend a genealogy cruise.
Family History Through the Alphabet
Family History Through the Alphabet – I is for …
As we’re now 9 weeks into the Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge (really, where’d that time go), that brings us up to letter ‘I’. So geneabloggers, Facebookers, and Tweeters, tell us what the letter ‘I’ means in connection to your family history.
Records
Update on Trove’s Historical Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program
Back in July 2011 I posted Trove’s digitisation schedule of historical Australian newspapers, now they have released an update on this list, and have included the schedule for newspapers in 2012-2013.
Records
Ancestry Adds Half a Million New Dorset Records
If you’ve got Dorset ancestry, you’ll love this. Ancestry have just added almost half a million new Dorset records to the site. These include including convict records from the 1700s-1900s, as well as Jury Lists, Militia records, Vagrant passes and a whole heap more. Whether your family’s black sheep committed their crimes on land or sea, you’ll find detailed accounts of their offences, and their punishment
