Australia’s National Film & Sound Archive Receives $5.5M Funding Boost
An announcement recently made by the Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, the...
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10 Projects Funded Through the NSW Small Heritage Grants Program for Local History and Archives
Earlier this year the Royal Australian Historical Society requested applications for their 2020...
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The New Updated Trove is Coming … Are you Ready?
It was back in February 2020 when the National Library of Australia (NLA) announced that they were...
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Australia & New Zealand’s National Family History Month – August 2020
August is National Family History Month (NFHM) in Australia and New Zealand, and to say that...
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Trove Newspapers Update (August 2019 to April 2020)
It’s been a while since I did a Trove newspapers update, so this is rather overdue, and...
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Who Do You Think You Are? Australia 2020 (Season 11) Begins Soon
The news on the genie grapevine today is that the next season of Who Do You Think You Are? Australia starts soon, and celebrities from the world of music, politics, sport, television and film all feature in this new season.
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Applications for the Victorian Community History Awards 2020 Are Now Open
Applications for the Victorian Community History Awards for 2020 are now open. So if you have contributed to preserving Victoria’s history through various means (publication, display, multimedia & more) during the past year, you might be eligible for an award.
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Wanted: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Ephemera
The State Library of New South Wales is requesting that you don’t throw out any brochures, posters, signs etc. that relate to COVID-19, as they would like them for their collection.
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COVID-19 and its Effect on the (Australian) Genealogy World
The coronavirus has arrived, and the world as we know it has changed. In a bid to slow the spread of the virus, many businesses and organisations are temporarily closing their doors or are limiting their hours including those in the history and genealogy world. So what is open and what’s not? I have decided to compile a listing of the Australian based ones…
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New South Wales 2020 Heritage Grants Open for Applications
If your group of society needs some funds, the 2020 New South Wales Heritage Grants program is now open for applications.
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Preview the “new” Trove
Did you hear the news? Our beloved Trove is changing … and it’ll be bigger and better than ever. But before it goes live, the awesome Trove team are letting us all preview it, and check it out.
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The 2020 Schedule of Online Family History Courses at UTAS
The online family history courses that the University of Tasmania (UTAS) runs, have been hugely popular over the past few years. So if you are thinking of doing a subject or two, oreven their Diploma of Family History, here is their 2020 schedule of courses.
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