by shaunahicks | Nov 2, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday I had a spare 30 minutes while dinner was cooking so I thought I would do a quick UK census search as I have been having quite a lot of success finding families that I couldn’t find years ago while searching through microfilms. My gg grandmother was...
by shaunahicks | Oct 5, 2010 | Blog
On 30 September 2010 I attended a morning tea to celebrate the 100th birthday of my partner’s aunt Mavis Rogers nee Eldridge. The preceding few days were spent visiting and catching up with various cousins he hadn’t seen in over 4o years and yet they could...
by shaunahicks | Sep 20, 2010 | Blog
It was a beautiful weekend in Shoalhaven with blue skies and warm weather. The conference, with a theme ‘A Most Suitable Place’ was a great opportunity for me to catch up with friends from all over New South Wales, Canberra and even one person from...
by shaunahicks | Sep 16, 2010 | Blog
While working at Queensland State Archives back in the 1980s, I became a fan of school admission registers when one of the projects I was involved in was the preparation of the registers for microfilming. This meant that I had to look at every register then in custody...
by shaunahicks | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog
In my last blog I wrote about Discovering Immigration Museums for Genealogy. Closely related are Maritime Museums and Australia has quite a few and some with excellent online resources. The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is one that I frequently refer to...
by shaunahicks | Aug 17, 2010 | Blog
When we want to find out about our ancestors immigration details we usually go to archives and libraries to research. An often overlooked resource are immigration museums or migration centres and we have some excellent examples in Australia. The Immigration Museum in...