Trove Tuesday – Transmission by Death Notices
For my first Trove Tuesday post of 2017, I am highlighting the wonderful information that can be located in the seemingly boring Government Notices section of newspapers. Today’s topic is transmission by death notices and this is where property is directly...
The Search for Henry Spencer
I first wrote this blog post on 7 Sep 2010 for another website and have now decided to also put it on my own website with the rest of the posts on the Spencer family. In the last paragraph below, I talked about how we hoped to find some long lost cousins and reconnect...
Week 35 Sporting Records in 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2015
This personal genealogy blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 – 2015 by focusing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy...
Census Records: Week 27 in 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2015
This personal genealogy blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 – 2015 by focusing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.