On the Genealogy Boomerangs blog, I came across the post Some Pinterest Updates, that mentioned that the Victorian Government Gazettes were free to search online.  Since I had recently viewed some of these records during Ancestry and FindMyPast free weekend for the Australian Day holiday, I was eager to see whether the same records are… Continue reading Finding information in unlikely places

Yesterday, I read a post (I can’t remember which one) which mentioned that Legacy Family Tree could synchronise with FamilySearch, so I checked out the information on the Legacy site https://www.legacyfamilytree.com/fs.asp However, rather than a true synchronisation, this is really just an option to do merging, just like with My Heritage Smart Matches and Ancestry… Continue reading Smart Matches and Merging

Kathleen McKenzie on her Vita Brevis blog wrote a post “The Name’s the Same”, where she told of how her great grandparents had two children who had died young, and they had then given two younger children the same names.  She had investigated this, and found that it was an Irish custom, to honor the… Continue reading Same name, different child

Although the record hints in Ancestry, and other websites such as My Heritage, can help you find additional records for your ancestors, in many cases you would need to conduct more research, which may possibly not yet be included in the record collections at Ancestry (or My Heritage), to determine whether the record suggested is… Continue reading Searching beyond record hints

I recently came across the post Starting your research on the right foot by The In-Depth Genealogist. While using paper forms may suit some people, I can’t imagine, having used computers for the better part of 20 years for my family history, using paper forms. For one thing, I can type a lot faster than I can… Continue reading Computer vs paper forms

Amy Johnson Crow has just started a series 31 Days to Better Genealogy.  The tip in day 1 was to decide what you want to find.  The tip for day 2 is timelines. In my post Tips for deciding what to research I mentioned that before deciding what information you want to find, you needed… Continue reading Using timelines to plan your research

Amy Johnson Crow has just started a series 31 Days to Better Genealogy.  For day 1, the tip was “Decide what you want to find”.  I have set out some additional tips about deciding what you want to find. When deciding what you want to find, you need to look at what information you already… Continue reading Tips for deciding what to research