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

Template: Profiles of couples (new file, 7/10/25): Word document so you can amend layout.

Five-generations chart

Alternative five-generations chart

Slides for Session 1

Session 2: Materials for download

(New file, updated 7/10/25) Search Guide (Contains link to new Irish records (virtual treasury), and land titles)

Software for family history (Note: common providers, beyond Ancestry and MyHeritage)

Cousins defined (A useful map of the various terms used)

Session3: Resources