Month: April 2016

Online courses

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My great grandfather
My great grandfather

 

As regular readers of my blog know, I have taken part in a few online courses since I retired.

The first one was run by the University of Tasmania and was titled Introduction to Family History. As you can tell I love genealogy and tracing my family tree. I knew the co-ordinator of the course and thought I might learn some new things about researching correctly especially referencing, citations and new sources or repositories to use. I created a page on my blog with all the sources mentioned by students in the group I was part of during this course.

I have since been asked to help moderate the same course – both times with beginner groups. This might be because I tend to enjoy writing step by step instructions which I know a lot of beginners to both online learning and family history need during the course. It can be tough learning the set up at a University as well as using a computer efficiently and also doing the reading and listening involved in the actual family history side of the course.

I am now thinking I might need to look at my sources page from this course and split it further into smaller sections.

I then took part in a course with Future Learn. Monash University was running a course on World War I – looking at stories of participants through videos created by students at the University. To see my posts on this course, check out the category linked here. I created one post just listing links of places to visit when researching a World War I soldier or nurse.

I am presently enrolled in another course at the University of Tasmania where they are putting together a Diploma of Family History – 8 topics being offered. I didn’t complete the Writing your Family History course but intend to do it at some future time.

But I am doing the Convict Ancestors course. With 8 convicts in the family so far and, luckily, all in Tasmania I felt this was a great chance to find out more places to search for records on my convicts. I have researched well most of their lives in Tasmania – at least the birth, death marriage side of their families, but would love to find out more about their life pre-transportation to VDL. I will be putting together some resource pages on convicts as well throughout this course.

Part of the course is transcribing documents and writing a story about your convict using the software at Our Family Past. I have decided to use one of my convicts I know little about – even her name might be wrong as she was convicted under another name as well. Isabella WATKINS(ON) who was the wife of Francis COLGRAVE in Evandale.

Readers: Have you decided yet who you will be researching? Why choose that person?

Letter N challenge

Miss W. Boyd, Colgrave, Convict Ancestors course, England, Tedman , ,

Today is ANZAC Day here in Australia and New Zealand so I thought I could combine three things in one post.

Wreaths in Hall of ValourThe letter N is for

New Course

I have enrolled as a student in a new course HAA007 (part of the Diploma of Family History) at the University of Tasmania titled “Convict Ancestors” run by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and his team. I have previously been involved with “Founders and Survivors” also organized with Hamish and a different team. They were looking at descendants of convicts and how their improvements in health evolved over time eg height , weight of sons, grandsons  etc

So this leads to the second part of this post which is looking at the descendants of my convicts who may have served in WWI. I will need to carefully look at my database and check them out – so far I know of three in the COLGRAVE side of the tree.

Finally to the third thing in this post is a link I found on another facebook group which is about a special blog post for Military Monday and relating to ANZAC Day. For those searching for information on their soldiers in WWI, check out the great links in that blog post.

So now let’s start the true part of the post.  My convicts and their descendants who served in WWI:

Francis COL(E)GRAVE:

Great grandson – Private Roy Graham COLGRAVE who I have researched carefully and already written a post about his life in WWI. His records are in the National Archives of Australia SERN 5996 – 56 pages

Grandson –  William COLGRAVE – SERN 834 – 66 pages

Grandson –  Walter COLGRAVE – SERN Depot – 20 pages

Great grandson –  Walter William COLGRAVE – SERN T9050 – 15 pages

Great grandson –  Tasman Allan COLGRAVE – SERN 1060 – 33 pages

Great grandson – Angus Colin COLGRAVE – no digitised record yet

William TEDMAN

Grandson – Edward James TEDMAN – SERN 6096 – 37 pages

John ENGLAND

Grandson? – Edward ENGLAND – is this Vivian Edward ENGLAND? – SERN 2177 – 16 pages

I haven’t researched the BOYD side of the tree enough to know the grandsons and great grandsons who might be mentioned in the Discovering ANZACs website.

Readers: Please leave a comment about my post or something beginning with N that relates to your family history or your research.

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