14 sources of death information
I was inspired recently by William Dollarhide’s article (reproduced here) giving a checklist of documents to be acquired for the death of every one of your ancestors and their siblings and children....
View ArticleThe wonders of newspaper family notices
It is amazing how much information can be gained from newspaper family notices, and in particular funeral notices. Here is an example from Trove in the Sydney Morning Herald of Tuesday 27 November...
View ArticleCouncil rates assessment books for the City of Sydney and Newtown
Rates assessments can tell you a lot about the owners and renters of land. The content varies between councils and over time but at the very least you can see who is living in the property, the type of...
View ArticleLand Research for Family Historians in Australia and New Zealand
My new book Land Research for Family Historians in Australia and New Zealand is out now at Gould Genealogy and History. In the book I have tried to display the main types of land records available and...
View ArticleFixing old photographs
Old family photos are the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for family historians, but often when you find them they have been damaged over the years. I have been practising my photo-editing skills...
View ArticleNSW Land and Property Information website
The NSW government department responsible for land administration is currently called Land and Property Information. Here is a brief list of links to the most important websites for family historians....
View ArticleGovernment Gazettes and Police Gazettes
Government Gazettes and Police Gazettes are an enormously rich source of information for family historians. They can be useful for filling in some of the detail about the lives of our ancestors, and in...
View ArticleWhat do you know about the house you grew up in?
I wonder how many of us lived in the same house all through childhood? I didn’t. I lived in four different houses from when I was born until I finished school and left home. I don’t remember one of...
View ArticleUniversity libraries for family historians
University libraries can be enormously helpful for your family history research, especially if you have one nearby. They have a lot of books and microfilms on the open shelves that are not available in...
View ArticleNSW Will Books to be digitised by FindMyPast Australia
FindMyPast Australia has acquired the rights to digitise and publish the Will Books held by State Records NSW. I don’t usually publish press releases but this is such good news I just had to do it! The...
View ArticleTuncurry Afforestation Camp
I’ve been researching the great-uncle of a client. We started off with a notice in the NSW Police Gazette that he had been arrested for stealing money from the Government Savings Bank. A Sydney Morning...
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