There’s nothing like the thrill of a new untapped source of records with the potential of finding hitherto unknown information or, even...

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 Reading time : 3mins Do you have ancestors who were patients at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne? Perhaps...

Thumbs up to the Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV) for the quality of the equipment available for researchers' use in their North...

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...

I recently came across The Irish Famine Eviction Project which caught my attention as a worthy online volunteering opportunity. It...

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

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