Well, I spent the whole day in the Reading Room in Dublin last week going through Lord and Lady Monteagle's correspondence. It was a slow old process on microfilm. I didn't find what I was looking for in the documents, but I did come across several pieces of correspondence between Caroline Chisolm and the Monteagles during the 1850s. Above: A signed card by Caroline Chisholm holding her portrait. Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria Ms Chisholm was a very famous early A

Do you have ancestors who served in a war or major conflict? Would you like to know more about their experiences in a theatre of war or even exactly where they were located on any given day? War Unit Diaries are one of my favourite military family history resources and are underutilised records for researching military ancestors. Above: 4th Light Horse Battalion War Unit Diary, Aug-Oct 1914, p.29. What is a War Unit Diary? A war unit diary is a regularly updated official rec

I'm heading to the wonderful National Library of Ireland in Dublin this morning. I've ordered records which I hope will hold correspondence from my Frawley and Windle ancestors to/from Lord or Lady Monteagle who assisted them in emigrating to Australia in the 1850s. Wish me luck! Therese Lynch Your Family Genealogist Photo : courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Trove is the National Library of Australia (NLA)’s repository for digitised newspapers. The internationally acclaimed program seeks to digitize all Australian newspapers dating from the earliest colonial times. If Trove is not already in your Australian genealogy tool kit, then it most certainly should be and you are in for a treat. As I said in a previous blog article, Trove is the Australian taxpayers’ gift to genealogists. Here are 10 reasons why you should be using this f

Great news from the South Australian Government. The ABC reports that Family Search has entered into an arrangement with the state Government to digitise BDM, social welfare, family history, and school admission records. And of course the best news is that, once digitised, the records will be online and free. Until now it has been necessary to rely on other records to help establish BDM information or visit the South Australian Record Office in person and pay for copies of

Get in quick. Ancestry.co.uk has free access to all its records, including the (1939 Register) up to and including the 9th July. Take advantage of it while you can. The free access periods don't come long as often as we'd all like. Happy searching. Therese Lynch Your Family Genealogist Picture : courtesy of Pixabay