Level : Intermediate Reading time : 2 min Did your ancestor work for the world-famous Guinness Brewery in Ireland? Did you know the...

Level : Advanced Reading time : 3 mins Were any of your ancestors patients in the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH)? Hospital records are...

Level : Intermediate Time to read : 4 mins Were any of your ancestors present during the Eureka Rebellion at the Ballarat gold diggings...

Level : Intermediate Time to read : 2 mins As discussed in a previous Blog article, many of us volunteer to transcribe records in order...

Level : All Time to read : 1 min Have you ever thought I wish someone would write about the topics I’m interested in? Well, today I’m...

Level : Advanced Time to read : 4 mins During World War 1 (WW1) German casualties totalled more than 7 million people killed, wounded,...

Level – Advanced Time to read – 3 mins This week's most memorable website is DNA Painter. The free web-based tool is designed primarily...

A key online resource for New Zealand family history research is Papers Past, a digital online archive for millions of pages New Zealand...

The Australian War Memorial is one of my favourite Canberra locations both for family history research and as a place to catch up with...

As a proud Victorian, Easter always makes me think of the annual Stawell Gift, Australia's pre-eminent foot race since 1878. That in...