This is Week 44 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. This week’s topic is Offline Newspapers. Being in something of a newspaper mindset lately, I’ve moved this topic up on my planned schedule. Australian family historians are quite rightly enamoured with the astonishing resource we … More Beyond the Internet: Week 44 Offline Newspapers
This is Week 43 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. This week we’re off to Ireland’s green fields with the Griffith’s Valuations. I could make my life easier, and this post very brief, by exhorting you to beg, borrow or buy a copy of James Reilly’s book … More Beyond the Internet: Week 43 – Griffith’s Valuations
This is Week 42 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. The topic this week is Naturalisation Records. I was reflecting the other day that these are perhaps the most poignant of our ancestral family’s records. It was the point at which they committed to their new … More Beyond the Internet: Week 42 Naturalisation Records
This is Week 41 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. The topic this week is Emigration records: those documents created as our ancestors left their homeland en route to a new life. Emigration and immigration records are like the double-faced Janus, superficially much the same, but … More Beyond the Internet: Week 41 Emigration Records
This is Week 40 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. The topic this week is Immigration records. This post has become almost as long as the sailing voyage to Australia, but it’s such an important part of our research that I hope you’ll persevere to … More Beyond the Internet: Week 40 is a long voyage of immigration
This is Week 39 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Funeral Directors’ Registers. While it’s fairly automatic for us as genealogists to look for monumental inscriptions, or even just gravestones, funeral directors’ records are a less used resource. My suspicion is that … More Beyond the Internet: Week 39 Funeral directors’ registers
This is Week 38 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Burial Registers. This forms part of the cheerily named “Death” theme in the series and next week’s post on funeral directors’ registers will be the finale of this section. Cemeteries offer … More Beyond the Internet: Week 38 Burial Registers
Using a slideshow of photos to illustrate my latest post in the Beyond the internet series didn’t work all that well. I thought I’d post the images here so you can get a better look at what they offer – you never know there might just be a rellie among them. Remember you can click on each … More Monumental inscription examples
This is Week 37 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Cemeteries: Monumental Inscriptions and Gravestones. This forms part of the cheerily named “Death” theme in the series. In the coming weeks we’ll talk about burial registers and funeral undertakers. This topic seems … More Beyond the Internet: Week 37 Monumental Inscriptions and Gravestones
This is Week 36 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Photographs and Postcards. Strangely perhaps this topic ties into the archives and libraries branch of the series. This is something of a case of “teaching your grandmother to suck eggs” since … More Beyond the Internet: Week 36 Photographic archives
Family history across the seas 