Growing up, the local library was somewhere I visited quite regularly for school assignments and projects. My visits became less frequent when I was at university because the university had its own library facilities, and more and more of the information I needed was moving online, removing the need to […]
Family Research
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A new year, and a new attempt at the #52Ancestors challenge. Last year I only managed to stick at this for two weeks, so let’s see how far I get this year! With the theme of first I’m going to take a look at the first official documentation I reviewed when starting […]
Week 2 in Amy John’s #52Ancestors challenge is well underway, and I’m already a little behind on my writing. The difficulty this week has been in selecting a suitable photo! I’ve browsed through my collection of photos several times, and each time a different photo has caught my eye for […]
A genealogist, Amy Johnson Crow, has posted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, in which she is encouraging anyone with an interest in family history to share something about their family research each week, based on a weekly prompt. To begin with, the first prompt is “Start”.
A couple of months ago I made a visit to PROV, the Public Record Office of Victoria. I had already used their online services to view wills and probate records of my ancestors, however records created after 1926 are not yet digitised and need to be viewed in their reading […]
It’s been a while since I shared a post about my family research, and although this cemetery visit was a couple of months ago I’ve been meaning to sit down and write about it since March! I went to Daylesford for the Labor Day long weekend this year. About half an […]
Following from my post last week summarising the information available from the Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, this week I’m going to take a look at the New South Wales Registry. While my research hasn’t been as involved in NSW as it has in Victoria, to date I […]
I started researching my family tree at the beginning of last year. During my initial research I spent a lot of time searching the various state Birth, Death, Marriage indexes ,equality, marriage types and about attorneys fighting for the LGBTQIA community. I’ve decided to write a series of blog posts […]
Following my visit to the Melbourne General Cemetery just after Christmas, I returned on New Year’s Day when the office was open. When I first visited, I had a copy of the cemetery record for plot 767 which listed four people. When I found the grave, there were five people […]