When I started my genealogy do-over in January, I quickly found a rhythm. First thing in the morning, I backup all the research I did the previous day to my portable hard drive and OneDrive, and move the files to my genealogy do-over folder. I then add these files to my Excel spreadsheet which has… Continue reading My genealogy workflow
Category: Researching your family history
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
My to-do list
My sister spoke to me yesterday about going to the Shepparton Library, and I thought that I should do that at some time, to find death notices that I had found using the Ryerson Index that were in the Shepparton News. I therefore decided to have a look at the to-do report in Legacy, to… Continue reading My to-do list
Should you use research logs or journals?
I’ve been researching my family history for nearly 30 years now, and I’ve never used a research log or journal. I watched the Legacy Family Tree Webinar New Tools and Ideas in Research, and he suggested that you should keep a research journal. I also noticed that Geoff Rasmussen talks about his research journal in… Continue reading Should you use research logs or journals?
Thursdays Tips – FamilySearch
At this stage, I am still focusing on websites that are free to search with records from Victoria, Australia. I started with the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and then looked at websites with newspapers. The next type of record I use are cemetery records. The first site I use to find cemetery records… Continue reading Thursdays Tips – FamilySearch
My research checklist – an update
When I was researching my great grandparents, Joseph Whimpey and Sarah Jane Sharp, I found I needed to update my checklist. Sarah was born in 1853 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. She came with her parents to Australia in 1863. Also, one of Joseph and Sarah’s son had been killed in the First World War. I… Continue reading My research checklist – an update
My research checklist
In previous posts, I have summarized my previous methods of organizing my research, how I finished off 2019, and my plans for 2020. In an earlier post, I shared the index I had set up for my previous research (at least for the documents, I still haven’t indexed my old research notes). Since the 1… Continue reading My research checklist
The advantages and disadvantages of indexes
Today I was double checking my entry in my Ancestry Public Member Tree for Edward Whimpey, and noticed that I still hadn’t added a source to the burial information I had for him. Before the images of the Somerset parish registers became available on Ancestry, I had been using the indexes on the FreeReg website,… Continue reading The advantages and disadvantages of indexes
Using multiple sources to confirm information
I was recently researching my great grandmother, Henrietta Louisa Russell’s brother, Edward Fitzgerald Russell. I had a copy of his death certificate, which showed that he died at 62 Stirling Street Footscray, and the death certificate listed this as his residence. Then I came across an entry in the Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records,… Continue reading Using multiple sources to confirm information
The limitations of OCR
In working in the Australia Electoral rolls collection on Ancestry, I have come across numerous examples of instances when the OCR has not done a very good job. Some names come out as gobblygook, while other names are missed completely. The following is a list of the years available on Ancestry for Victoria. Those marked… Continue reading The limitations of OCR
