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