Enrol Now for the UTAS “Convict Ancestors” Online Course
Applications for the UTAS course “Convict Ancestors” are now open. Learn more about the nation’s convict past with this fully online course.
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Category: Genealogy Australia
2019 Schedule of Online Family History Courses at UTAS
The online family history courses that UTAS runs, have been hugely popular. So if you are thinking of doing a subject or two, or more if you’re doing the Family History Diploma, here is the 2019 schedule of courses.
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Inspiring Genealogy Blogs – November 2018
Another month has passed us by, and we’re into the tail end of the year. In this edition...
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Australian Genealogy and History Snippets – November 2018
From time to time I come across all sorts of interesting history and/or genealogy related tidbits that I wanted to share with you. From a book launch to a book award, and war memorials …
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Event Registrations Open for South Australia’s History Festival 2019
Event registrations for next year’s South Australia’s History Festival are now open! Earlybird registrations close Thursday 24 January. Standard registrations close Thursday 7 February. Book your event in now.
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Trove Newspapers Update (July-November 2018)
During the past few months Trove has continues to add thousands of records to their newspaper collection, taking the current total of old newspapers records to a whopping 220,950,426! That’s right … over 220 MILLION records.
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Inspiring Genealogy Blogs – September & October 2018
The year keeps flying by, and with November hitting us tomorrow we are most certainly at the tail...
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Applications for Victorian Local History Grants 2018-19 Now Open
The Victorian Government recognises the value of recording history, and makes grants of up to $15,000 available for community groups to record Victorian history through numerous means. Applications for the 2018-19 round of grants has just opened.
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Call for Papers “Cornish Australians Who Changed our World”
The Cornish Association of South Australia (CASA) committee is pleased to announce the CALL FOR PAPERS for their next series of Cornish/Australian history seminars to be held in 2019. Using the theme “Cornish Australians who changed our world”
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Happy 20th Birthday to the ‘Ryerson Index’
If you’re researching Australian ancestry, you more than likely know about the Ryerson Index, and just how valuable it is. but did you know that it celebrated its 20th Birthday last week?
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Highlight: A Country to be Reckoned With: The True Story of Australia’s Pioneer Stock Agent
In the 19th century, Australia went from a penal colony struggling to survive to a thriving, prosperous community. George Matcham Pitt’s life spanned the best part of that century, and had a part to play in this
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Applications Open for “Writing Family History” Online Course from UTAS
Bring your ancestors stories to life with the “Writing Family History” unit starting 19 November. Be introduced to writing fictional and non-fictional narratives based on real genealogical records.
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