Family History
August 7, 2018
I have two questions for you: Where in the world are you searching for your ancestors? AND What social media platforms (if any) do you use? These might seem like two completely unrelated questions, but they’re not. In fact, answering the second question can help you with the first. My mum and I had been […]
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July 31, 2018
How long – if at all – have you been tracing your family history? Perhaps you’ve been researching your ancestors for decades, or maybe you only recently undertook the challenge and don’t know where to start. You may even have dismissed family history as something for other people, or another time, or you’ve decided it’s […]
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May 8, 2018
Walking in their Footsteps
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Are you someone who can create entire worlds in your head, like some of the best dystopian and speculative fiction writers I know? Or do you, like me, need to experience a place to be able to write about it? Whether it’s a community history (such as Many Hearts, One Voice) or family history, or […]
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April 17, 2018
As Anzac Day approaches each year, I find myself thinking about members of my family who have served their country in war. I’m fortunate enough that my 94-year-old grandfather is still alive, and willing to talk about his experiences. He has also gifted me with the letters he and my grandmother wrote to each other, […]
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November 21, 2017
This week, I interviewed my 94-year-old grandfather about the Second World War, and he told me the story of how he met my grandmother. Technically, the interview was an assignment for an oral history unit I’m completing. My real purpose, though – and why I’m studying a Diploma in Family History at all – is […]
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November 7, 2017
If you’ve been searching for Irish ancestors, then you may be under the impression, as I was until recently, that all genealogical records were destroyed in 1922 when an explosion and fire badly damaged the Public Records Office in Dublin during the Irish Civil War. The destroyed records included Irish census returns, original wills dating […]
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