Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Family History Help – If you are new to family history start with one of the family history guides listed or contact your local family history society or library. It is important to understand one of the fundamental rules of genealogical research. Begin with yourself and work back generation by generation documenting the relationships as you go. Please remember that genealogical information found on the Internet and elsewhere should always be crosschecked with the original source documents or records wherever possible.
Internet Help – If you are new to computers and/or the Internet use one of the online tutorials listed in this category to help you learn how to use the Internet efficiently so that you can tackle family history research online.
This links to articles that were once Family History Library publications called Genealogical Word Lists. They list the English meanings of about 900 key terms for different languages from Afrikaans to Ukrainian and also includes Latin. There is information on…
This site by Australian professional genealogist Kerry Farmer details courses she runs, has resources to assist you with family history research, a of list family names she is researching plus information on her publications. The family history research blog has…
Family Research 2016. This website and workbook has been created by the National Archives of Ireland to help you find your ancestors online. There is a workbook, detailed guides to the different kinds of records, case histories and targeted tasks,…
A free online course to help develop an understanding of basic genealogy techniques and how to communicate your family history. It does not concentrate on a specific country’s records so it should be useful to anyone around the world. It…
Newsroom is a dynamic source for news and what’s new in family history records, products, services, technology, classes and events. It features Collections Update, In the Blogs, Featured Articles, FamilySearch Spotlight and In the News.
Genealogy Wise is a social network especially for genealogists by the National Institute of Genealogical Studies (Ontario Canada). New
This blog examines the intersection of traditional genealogical techniques and modern genetic research. The blog also explores the latest news and developments in the related field of personal genomics. New
FamilySearch is the family history site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It offers free access 8+ billion searchable names and 3.2+ billion digitised records worldwide. Resources include FamilySearch Catalog; FamilySearch Digital Library with 500,000+ digitised books…
This new tool has replaced the Place Standard Finder and performs the same functionality and more. It provides access to standardized information about locations and can assist researchers in searching for exact spellings, checking whether locations exist, as well as…
The Family History Research Wiki has information for 244 countries. You can search by place, or topic, or just click on a region on the map and browse. If you click on All countries they are displayed in alphabetical order.…