Blogs by group members can be found on sidebar of my blog
Hints for using Ancestry.com
We have been able to save to a USB stick when using Ancestry/Find my Past at the Library and find it works for us. If you use Ancestry at your library and find any interesting census or other records I’m pretty sure you can email it to your self directly out of the program – there might be a limit of 5 per email address? Otherwise you can take a photo of the screen for later reference.
GEDCOM is an acronym standing for Genealogical Data Communication and has been used by every family history program for quite a while. Every program (eg FTM, Legacy.Paf) will default to export your file as their own format (ie .FTM instead of .GED) and these files will only open again in that program – you need to make sure you download as as GEDCOM. The only other thing is that some programs will only copy the data to the .GED file so, for example, you download from Legacy & upload to Ancestry but you might only get the names & dates of the people but no photos or notes. The very last thing is that if you have any data incorrectly entered into your tree it might not transfer, ie. if you have the birth month as Sept instead of Sep it might not recognise September, but each program will prompt with an error log after importing. Thanks Naomi for this great description
Hints from Derek and other students
Anyway to access Ancestry FREE datasets... On the Ancestry website, Select Search >Card Catalogue. Then type the word FREE in the KEYWORD box, depending on which site you are using will show you a list of what you can search for FREE.
Should you wish to look at international datasets just choose your country from the list at the bottom of the page on the right hand side – you may need to register on each site, they are in the language of that country
Now I have also found the Ancestry You Tube channel & regularly watch the new videos as they come up & they are very good at pointing out all sorts of things you can do on Ancestry. This has been particularly helpful as they update the site.
Genealogy estate planning video
Here is a link to a group of videos called ‘Successful searching on Ancestry.com’
A way around it is if you use any search engine that uses the boolean system which is most of them you can tweak your searches by putting the search query within the double quote brackets ” which forces the search engine to find only those words that are together on a page/document/website etc. The other trick is to use either the boolean operator NOT (notice capitals) or the minus sign – immediatally before the word, ie.,
“charles october” capetown 1890 NOT month
“charles october capetown” 1890 -month
“mary cheese” london 1900 NOT cheddar, NOT stilton, NOT brie etc
“mary cheese london” 1900 -camenbert, -cottage, -kraft etc
Other sources mentioned in the course
Storing information
Digital folder, sleuthing activity, Geneamusing files and folders, Family Historian user group, Gould archival storage, Family tree maker, Tutorial using hyperlinks, hyperlinks in excel, National Museums Australia, Digital print preservation
Software and online programs
Legacy, Family Tree Maker, MyHeritage, Reunion, Brother’s Keeper, iFamily for Leopard, Family Historian – user group, review, Gramps, Wiki Tree
Templates tools and repositories/sources
Research log from family search, charts from ancestry.com, Films from family search, Chapman codes from AIGS, Findmypast.co.uk, Findmypast.ie, Findmypast.com, Findmypast.com.au
Australian National University – centre of biography, Australian dictionary of biography, Search for a surname, Common Nicknames, What’s In A Name?
Shipping and mariners records
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/
Some Tasmanian arrivals – in Tasmanian Names Index
Victoria – passenger records and immigration
NSW – immigration and shipping
NSW – crew record guides
Shipping/Passenger Lists on CoraWeb site
South Australia, NSW, QLD & Tasmania.
Online Newspapers
Australia using Trove
New Zealand using Papers Past
Chat , google+, facebook and email groups
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/118405013789303343900
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1518087328444757/
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Social_Media#Google.2B_Communities
Rootsweb Mailing Lists
Genealogical Magazines/sites
http://www.genealogyintime.com/
http://lostcousins.com/newsletters/jan15news.htm
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/
http://www.familytreecircles.com/
Family History groups
Western Australian Genealogical Society – WA Surnames:
http://membership.wags.org.au/membership-mainmenu-44/members-only/wa-surnames
Cairns Family History Society
http://cdfhs.org/services/members-surname-interests/
Geraldton Family History Society
http://members.westnet.com.au/gfhs/interests.htm
Caloundra Family History Research Inc.
http://www.caloundrafamilyhistory.org.au/
Webinars, podcasts etc
http://www.familytreewebinars.com/
http://podbay.fm/show/208318433
http://lisalouisecooke.com/podcasts-2/
Websites with lots of links
Google Books
Deciphering handwriting
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/
http://www.familysearch.org/help/handwriting
Copyright and privacy
http://www.copyright.org.au/search-results/?q=Family+Histories+%26+Copyright
Genetics
The Invisible History of the Human Race, How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures, Christine Kenneally, Black Inc, Collingwood Vic 2014
The 3 main DNA testing companies are Ancestry.com, FTDNA (Family Tree DNA) & 23&me All of them are very reputable & give you lists of matches & how close they might be to you
Post about DNA testing, post about reviewing DNA test,
Interesting posts
Genealogy do-over http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/legacy_news/2014/12/grab-your-genealogy-by-the-horns-five-ways-to-take-control-of-your-research-in-2015.html
http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy-doover-golden-rules-genealogy/
http://www.emeraldislegenealogy.com/individual-biographical-report.html
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmtilbury/murphyslaw.html
http://lostcousins.com/newsletters/jan15news.htm
http://www.gouldgenealogy.com/2014/12/who-owns-what-in-the-genealogy-world/
Buying old books
http://www.abebooks.com/?cm_mmc=ggl-_-AU_AbeBooks_Brand-_-Top+Brand-_-abebooks
http://www.brotherhoodbooks.org.au/
Books about early Tasmania
‘Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1822’ edited by Irene Schafer St David’s Park Publishing Tasmania 1991- ISBN 0 7246 2177 6
‘EXILED Three Times Over, Profiles of Norfolk Isander exiled in Van Diemen’s Land 1807-13’by Irene Schafer and Thelma McKay St David’s Park Publishing 1992 – ISBN 0 7246 2585 7 (set)
‘Pubs in Hobart from 1807’ by David J Bryce Davadia Publishing Tas. 1997 ISBN0 646 30147 0
‘Taroona 1808-1986- Farmlands to a Garden Suburb’ produced by the Taroona Historical group pub 1988 1SBN-0-7316-3091-2
TASMANIA’S CONVICTS How Felons Built a Free Society by Alison Alexander Published by Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781743318720
Cemeteries
http://findagrave.com/index.html
Australia in general
http://www.chinesemuseum.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Guide-to-Chinese-Australian-Research.pdf
Missing persons
http://salvos.org.au/need-help/missing-persons/
http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/about/
http://www.join.org.au/synagogue/synagog.htm
Renamed towns
http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Other/Renamed-Places-in-Queensland.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_changed_from_German_names
http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/tasmaniasheritage/search/guides/place-names
Tasmanian searching
http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/research/browse-by-category/familyhistory
Aborigines Tasmania http://www.linc.tas.gov.au/research/browse-by-category/familyhistory/aboriginal-ancestry
Orphan school http://www.orphanschool.org.au/
Germans in Tasmania www.germanaustralia.com/e/tasmania.htm
Beatties Studio (Photographs of Tasmania) http://www.beattiesstudio.com/history-of-beatties-studio
Thomas J Nevin Tasmanian Photographer
http://tasmanianphotographer.blogspot.com.au/
Queensland searching
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/
https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/
http://www.qfhs.org.au/shop/shop-catalogue/society-publications/shipping-migration/qfhscd891/
www.archives.qld.gov.au/immigrationindex
Ships passenger records www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/Indexes/Immigation/Pages/Default.aspx
https://www.heavenaddress.com/restingplace
https://graves.brisbane.qld.gov.au/
http://www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/services/cemeteries/bundaberg/search
http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/facilities-and-recreation/cemeteries
http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/facilities-and-recreation/cemeteries/search
http://www.judywebster.com.au/searches.html
New South Wales (ACT) searching
transcriptions
Marilyn Rowan – Phone: 61(2) 4658 1206 | Fax: 61(2) 4658 1296
Email: marilynr@nswtranscriptions.com.au – Web: nswtranscriptions.com.au
http://www.monaropioneers.com/
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/
http://www.transcriptions.com.au/
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/search-our-collections/sands-directory
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/census-records 1841 and 1891
Victoria searching
http://prov.vic.gov.au/provguide-18
Bendigo goldfields http://www.ncgrl.vic.gov.au/services/research
Bendigo archives www.brac.vic.gov.au
Bendigo churches http://www.bendigofamilyhistory.org/ourdatabase.htm
http://prov.vic.gov.au/research/adoption-and-wardship
South Australia
http://www.sapolicehistory.org/
http://www.unley.sa.gov.au/libraryservices#family
Western Australia
That’s a lot to be going on with … Thank you
Hi Josephine,
If any more interesting links are given in the course, feel free to add them here in the comments and i will add them to the page.
a very very comprehensive list!
Thanks Julie,
I will be adding more to it from this course and the links given by students in my three beginner groups.
Hi Sue,
I’m enjoying the online studying with the Family Research with the University of Tas. I’m really excited to learn about my own Family History as this is my first time at studying online with talking with the other students and getting to know everyone.
Kind Regards
Heidi
A fabulous resource – thank you.
Val Horne