How death certificates can advance your research It is never a good idea to rely on family members for information. Memories can become distorted and stories, once erroneous, may have now become family lore. I have been researching my Great Grandmother, Millie Green. My father’s memories are hazy to say the least, and there are …
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Sharing Family History in the Cloud What is Voicethread? VoiceThread is a totally web-based digital story telling application that allows you to place collections of media like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the centre of an asynchronous (not occurring at the same time) conversation. A VoiceThread allows people to have conversations and to make …
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Backtracking through the census to find ancestors The UK census has been instrumental in uncovering ancestors on my father’s paternal side of the family. All I knew at the outset from my Grandfather’s death certificate was the name of his mother, and his father – including his father’s date of birth and place of birth. …
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Genealogy & History Research Assistant This is an iPad app available from the iTunes store for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. To develop my research into my family’s history, I want to know more than just dates and basic relationships. A more comprehensive understanding of the history and social conditions of an ancestor will …
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Embed and share information using Embedit.In If you have your own blog or website, you may have included an image, a video, a Powerpoint presentation, a .pdf file, a WORD, EXCEL document. It is often a messy, convoluted process. Do you need a more efficient process? This is the first in a series of posts on …
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My Newbie journey into Genealogy My new-found interest in Genealogy started with attending a Genealogy user group – part of the AUSOM (Apple Users Group of Melbourne). I’ve never given my family history a second thought until that moment. However, the combination of hunting for family clues, online access to records and software for recording and …
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Organising your online news If you’re like me, you are immersed in social networks as a means of connecting to the genealogy and family history community: Twitter, Facebook, Google +, instagram, , flickr, tumblr, linkedIn. As a newcomer to genealogy, social networks have been brilliant in connecting me to people and information. However, accessing …
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Who do you think you are LIVE 2012 Speakers notes and presentations The Who do you Think You Are LIVE 2012 conference was held in February in London. The speakers notes and presentations have been posted on the Society of Genealogists website, (albeit very difficult to locate). As a beginner to Genealogy, these workshops …
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Indexing: Opening up records for all What is Indexing? An indexer’s responsibility is to make a searchable index of the records. In most situations, you type what you see. Each batch of records is indexed by two people – called the A and B key. If information in the A key does not match the …
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