I was recently trying to find a birth entry for William Kidd. His death entry indicated he was born about 1887 at Chewton, Victoria, Australia, and his parents were John Kidd and Ann Boag. I was unable to find an entry for William Kidd that matched, so I then tried searching for children with the… Continue reading Tuesday’s Tips – Using wildcards when searching
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Thursday’s Tips – NSW State Archives & Records
The NSW State Archives & Records is the equivalent in New South Wales of the Public Record Office, Victoria, and it holds similar collections. As with the PROV, the NSW State Archives & Records has a Collection Search that enables you to search for a person across multiple indexes. Some of the records available on… Continue reading Thursday’s Tips – NSW State Archives & Records
Thursday’s Tips – Births, Deaths and Marriages for other Australian states and territories and New Zealand
My first post in this series was for the Births, Deaths and Marriages, Victoria website. Since most of the information in that post applies to the other states as well, I have decided to just do the one post for the other Australian states and territories, and New Zealand. NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages Since… Continue reading Thursday’s Tips – Births, Deaths and Marriages for other Australian states and territories and New Zealand
Thursday’s Tips – Google
I use Google a lot. I don’t have bookmarks for all the sites I regularly use, so I use Google to find them again. I also find that sometimes it’s quicker to use Google to find a site, rather than go through my bookmark folders to find the link. Also, sometimes the links change, and… Continue reading Thursday’s Tips – Google
Thursday’s Tips – Public Record Office Victoria
So far in this series I have covered Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Trove Other Newspapers for Australia Family Search Cemetery records Military Records The next site I search for information on families in Victoria is the Pubic Record Office Victoria (PROV) website. The collections I use the most are the Probate and Administration Files… Continue reading Thursday’s Tips – Public Record Office Victoria
Tuesday’s Tips – Other options for searching names
Reverse name order In searching for my uncle on FamilySearch, I couldn’t find an entry for him, but I knew I had already found his entry on BillionGraves, so his entry should’ve come up on FamliySearch, since they have indexes to BillionGraves memorials. And then I remembered why I couldn’t find it – because the… Continue reading Tuesday’s Tips – Other options for searching names
Tuesdays Tips – Browse collections
If you can't find an entry that you believe should be in a collection, try browsing the collection, or at least narrow your search to just a surname. I had a funeral notice for one of dad's cousins, Ivy Henrietta White, nee Harley, which indicated she was buried at Warragul Lawn Cemetery. When I searched… Continue reading Tuesdays Tips – Browse collections
Tuesdays Tips – Smallpdf
I had found my grandfather, John Ernest Whimpey’s service file on the National Archives of Australia website, and had downloaded the images to my computer. The problem was, when I tried to attach these images to the source citation for his birth, there were 30 images in total. I tried to add some of the… Continue reading Tuesdays Tips – Smallpdf
Tuesday’s Tips – Templates
I started a series Thursday’s Tips last Thursday where I share information about the various resources I use to research my family tree. This series on Tuesday is to share my other tips that help me in my research. When I went in to hospital, my sister brought up to my other sister’s house the… Continue reading Tuesday’s Tips – Templates
My top 10 tools for genealogy
James Tanner, on his GenealogyStar blog, wrote the post My Top Ten Genealogy Programs for now on the 14 August 2016. Randy Seaver on his genea-musings blog, also did a post My top ten genealogy research programs I’ve decided to do a post about my top 10 as well. I prefer to call these tools, rather… Continue reading My top 10 tools for genealogy