Register Your Events For National Family History Month 2019
August is National Family History Month in Australia and New Zealand, and now is the time for organisations to add your events to the National Family History Month website.
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Secret Identities, Nazi Collaboraters & Conmen all Feature in the New TV Series “Every Family Has a Secret”
Noni Hazlehurst uncovers gripping family secrets in a new SBS documentary series ‘Every Family Has a Secret’. This show sees six Australians discover the truth about their family’s past, confronting the secrets that have shaped who they are.
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Enrol Now for the “Introduction to Family History” Online Course from UTAS
Want to learn more about your family history? Study online without tuition fees? Well, enrolments for the Introduction to Family History course are now open … so don’t delay!
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National Volunteer Week, 20-26 May 2019
National Volunteer Week (NVW) is the annual celebration in Australia “to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation’s volunteers”.
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The National Library of Australia Wants Your 2019 Election Junk Mail
The 2019 Australian election is coming, and so is all the electoral junk mail. But don’t throw it away as the National Library of Australia collects it for historical purposes
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Get Ready for South Australia’s 2019 History Festival?
The official launch took place, the program is online, the program guides sent out, so it’s...
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Who Do You Think You Are? Australia Season 10 (2019) Starts Soon
2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the Australian edition of the celebrated genealogy series...
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Trove Newspapers Update (November 2018-March 2019)
During the past few months Trove has added over 2 million more pages to their historical newspapers collection, taking the current total to over 222 million pages, These are all online, and free, for everyone to use.
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Are You Descended From Anyone on this List?
George Wyndham purchased a property in Branxton, NSW in 1828, naming it Dalwood. From 1828 through until 1900 there were hundreds of convicts, indigenous people, free settlers, colonial born employees and German vine-dressers who worked there. The Dalwood Restoration Association are looking for descendants of those who worked there …
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Learn to Tell Stories Through Photography – Enrol in “The Photo Essay” UTAS Online Course
Applications for the University of Tasmania’s (UTAS) online course “The Photo Essay” are now open. This course teaches you how to tell stories through photography, and about going deeper than a single image.
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Australian Genealogy and History Snippets – February 2019
A job opportunity, new websites, unmarked graves, more records online, a new bus service, and more … here’s the latest collection of history and genealogy related news from around Australia.
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Applications Open for South Australian Anzac Day Commemoration Grants 2019-2020
Councils, schools, universities, museums, RSL clubs, military groups, individuals and other community groups around South Australia like to honour the locals who were involved in war. But creating and maintaining memorials, or other projects does cost money, so at least for those in South Australia, the Anzac Day Commemoration Fund Grants are ideal.
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