The Toowoomba & Darling Downs Family History Society is collecting information for the second edition of the Darling Downs Biographical Pioneer Register. This lets family historians provide information on their families who lived on the Downs up to 1920. BTW you don’t have to be a member of the society to submit your forms 🙂 This … More Darling Downs Biographical Pioneer Register
Ancestry has announced the addition of Bavarian military service records for WWI. Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 Bavaria had its own military even after Germany’s unification. In this collection of rosters, look for details including rank, birth date and place, religion, occupation, parent names and more. Don’t sprechen sie deutsch? You’ll find a simple … More World War I Bavarian military service
I’ve recently obtained the death certificates for my Offaly ancestors: Martin Furlong and Margaret Furlong nee Stanton or possibly Staunton. Although like British certificates they are frustratingly sparse in their details in comparison with Australian records, there was enough to effectivey confirm that these were the parents of Bridget Furlong. Margaret Furlong was 73 when … More Martin Furlong family Tullamore Offaly (Kings Co)
Thanks to Noel from the Toowoomba & Darling Downs Family History message boards (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TDD_Family_History_Group/messages) for posting about the new online Griffith Valuation search engine at: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml Not only does this let you search the GV across Ireland, it gives you a great deal of original information to build up the story of your family. A search by … More Griffith Valuation (GV) online
My grandmother and most of her siblings emigrated to Australia early in the 20th century, after the death of her father. One brother remained behind however. His name was Thomas Sim McCorkindale (the Sim being his mother’s maiden name). Thomas Sim McCorkindale married Jane Wilson McVey in Glasgow in 1910 and they then moved to London … More Missing McCorkindales -the family of Thomas Sim McCorkindale
If you have ancestors in the south-east corner of County Clare or Limerick, you may be interested to know that the Board of Guardians Minute Books for Limerick Union (which includes parts of Clare) are available online through the Limerick Archives at http://www.limerick.ie/DigitalArchives/LimerickCityCouncilandLocalGovernmentCollections/LimerickUnionBoardofGuardiansMinuteBooks1842-1922 While these are not searchable they provide a fascinating insight into the … More Limerick Board of Guardians Minute Books
The current edition of the National Library’s newsletter has asked for help finding missing editions of this Australian classic so they can be digitised. The AWW was the staple women’s magazine at a time when we weren’t all inundated with choices. Women are traditionally difficult to research and while we might not find our own … More Missing Australian Women’s Weekly mags
This post is really about my husband’s family and some World War II history from Papua New Guinea (then Papua). This story shows how family history intersects with local history and each can complement the other. Let him tell the story of how this all started: From the late-1960s my family lived at Alotau, the … More Sadds Ridge Rd, Charters Towers (Qld) and WWII in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
As a fairly techno-competent family historian I didn’t expect to get so much from Shauna’s talk on Online Trends. I was wrong! Sure there were plenty of sites that I’ve used and love, but there were great insights into new ones and new strategies. I learnt what RSS was all about (not having bothered to … More Comments on Shauna Hicks’s talk re Online trends in Family History
On Saturday Shauna Hicks gave two very informative and enjoyable family history presentations in Darwin. Shauna apologised for her laryngitis and croaky voice but it didn’t affect the pleasure of listening to someone with such wide experience. Shauna’s talk on asylum records highlighted how these records could help people to find missing ancestors and the … More Comments on Shauna Hicks’s talk on Asylum Records
Family history across the seas 