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

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

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

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

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