This class provides detailed description of how to research your family
in Australian and New Zealand records. Learn about history, geography,
civil registration, church records, immigration (both "free"
and convict), as well as the archives and other records you can use
to "add flesh to the bones" and turn a list of names and dates
into a family history. Learn how to use the online indexes and find
the digitized records that can help overcome the "Tyranny of Distance".
Bio:
Kerry Farmer
Following
a background in programming and systems analysis Kerry began teaching
classes in "Family History Research using the Internet" at
adult community colleges in Sydney in 1997. Kerry is on the Education
Committee of the Society of Australian Genealogists, and presents seminars
and classes there as well as at adult education colleges, and accepts
occasional speaker roles elsewhere.
Kerry has
researched her own family history since 1984 and has 16,000 names in
her database of her own and her husband's family trees, predominantly
from Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, but
also including family branches in Canada, USA, South Africa, India,
Germany, Poland, Norway and Russia.
LESSON
TITLES
LESSON
1. Introduction
1. Introduction to Australasian research
2. Where do I begin?
3. Sources close to home
4. Recording what you find
5. Finding others tracing the Family Tree
6. Family History Societies
7. AGCI - Australasian Genealogical Computer Index
8. Church of the Latter Day Saints
9. Books and Magazines
LESSON
2. Historical & Geographical Background
1. Maps & geographical information
2. Indigenous Australians
3. Polynesian settlement of New Zealand
4. European Exploration
5. British settlement and colonization
6. Colonial self-government and the discovery of gold
7. Federation of Australia
8. 1901 to 1945
9. After World War 2
LESSON
3. Births, Deaths & Marriages
1. Civil registration and what it means
2. New South Wales records
3. Queensland records
4. South Australian records
5. Tasmanian records
6. Victorian records
7. Western Australian records
8. Australian Capital Territory (A.C.T.) records
9. Northern Territory records
10. Cemetery records
11. Wills and probate
12. Newspaper BDM & funeral notices & obituaries
13. New Zealand records
LESSON
4. Immigration (free settlers)
1. Immigration background
2. Immigration to New South Wales
3. Immigration to Queensland
4. Immigration to South Australia
5. Immigration to Tasmania
6. Immigration to Victoria
7. Immigration to Western Australia
8. Immigration sources to "All Australia"
9. Ancestors on Board
10.Immigration to New Zealand
11.Naturalizations
LESSON
5. Convicts
1. Background
2. Trial Records
3. Convict Indents
4. Assignment
5. Tickets of Leave
6. Tickets of Exemption from Government Labour
7. Certificates of Freedom
8. Pardons
9. Secondary Punishment Colonies
10. "Convict Central"
11. Convict sources on Ancestry.com.au
12. Other Sources
LESSON
6. Government Archives
1. National Archives of Australia
2. State Records New South Wales
3. Queensland State Archives
4. State Records of South Australia
5. Archives Office of Tasmania
6. Public Record Office Victoria
7. State Records Office of Western Australia
8. Territory Archives - Australian Capital Territory & Northern
Territory
9. Other Government Archives - eg City of Sydney Archives
10. Archives New Zealand
LESSON
7. Histories & Directories
1. Published family histories
2. Dictionary of Biography
3. Local Histories
4. Dictionary of Sydney
5. Directories
6. Government & Police Gazettes
7. Electoral Rolls
8. Newspapers
LESSON
8. Military Records & Other Sources
1. National Archives of Australia
2. Australian War Memorial
3. British regiments in colonial Australia and New Zealand
4. Commonwealth War Graves Commission
5. New Zealand Defence Force Records
6. Other Occupational Sources
7. Censuses in Australia
8. Libraries' digital collections
9. Other Websites with genealogical links for Australia and New Zealand
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