U3A course: Opening the Door to Family History
Topics
1. Starting from nothing; Certificates (and informants)
2. Creating an overview; Family tree software, shipping lists, cemeteries
3. Convicts and colonials; Newspapers (Trove), State records, British newspapers
4. Family migration; Goldmining; The effect of a death on a family
5. Short articles and longer stories; travel and family history
6. Migrants: a special case; National Archives; genealogy societies
Session 1: Files for downloading
Alternative five-generations chart
Session 2: Materials for download
New Search Guide (Notes: contains link to new Irish records: virtual treasury)
Software for family history (Note: common providers, beyond Ancestry and MyHeritage)
Cousins defined (A useful map of the various terms used)
Still to come: a family history guide to land and ownership.
