D is for DIGITISATION I think of Digitisation as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Good? It’s readily accessible through personal subscription or library access, so long as you have internet access. You can be living remotely from your place of interest and yet still be able to do research (well at least … More D is for Digitisation and DNA
C is for CERTIFICATES Depending on where you live, and the timeframe in which you’re searching, certificates can be both critical and extremely useful. Australian certificates are so excellent that almost anyone else’s, except the Scots’, (from my own experience) pale into insignificance. Fully completed, our certificates can launch your family tree on to new … More C is for Certificates, Collateral Research & Census Data
B is BDMs/BMDs Births, Deaths and Marriages or BDMs are also known in other countries as BMDs which actually makes more sense, after all if we marry it’s unlikely to come after we die, rather beforehand. I mentioned in the last post that the best genealogy explores backwards from ourselves, working through the generations. This … More B is for BDMs, Blogs and Beyond the Internet
Welcome to my A to Z journey through family history. If you’ve ever been curious about your own family’s story perhaps this will tempt you to get started – or frighten you off entirely. A is for ANCESTORS The starting point about doing family history is to learn who our ancestors were, their names and … More A is for Ancestors and Archives
After much deliberation I’ve decided to once again participate in the April A to Z challenge, despite having been in the blogging doldrums for some time, largely thanks to a relocation interstate and then internet challenges. I participated in the A to Z Challenge in 2012 when I wrote about the places of importance to … More A to Z 2016: a Family History Journey
Family history across the seas 