Connect with your Convict Ancestors in our Rooms.

The Society received this notification from Find My Past.  This resource is available to members at no cost in our rooms.

Time poor?

This list of tasks from Findmypast has useful suggestions for the busy researcher.

10 Quick Research Tasks for the Busy Family Historian |

Learn how to use FindMyPast from an expert

Our Society has a subscription to the FindMyPast database that is at present being underutilised. Our subscription provides access to many records from Australia, Britain and Ireland including  Census Records, Military Records, Police Gazettes, Shipping and Immigration Records.

Joshua Taylor

The Society has received notification that Findmypast’s Lead Genealogist, Joshua Taylor will be touring Australia and New Zealand during July and August giving free talks developed to provide you with the necessary tools to use our subscription and hopefully knock down some brick walls.

Joshua will be presenting at Parramatta on August 10. For full details and bookings please go to: http://www.findmypast.com.au/articles/upcoming-event-joshua-taylor-tour

This event should book out quickly so don't delay.

More Records added to FindMyPast

The FindMyPast database is available for members to use in our Society rooms. We have received the following notification that these records have been recently added to the collection.

World Collection Records Over the past six months we have added millions of new records to our World collection. You can view the full list of World records here These records include: US Censes 1790-1940 US WW1 Draft Registration cards Irish WW1 memorial records New Zealand WW1 Soldiers records US WW2 Army enlistment records Records of Germans to America 1850-1897 Records of Italians to America 1855-1900 New Zealand electoral rolls 1853-1996 Irish court & prison registers 1790-1924 Australian school pupil indexes Ireland Births 1864-1958 Ireland Deaths 1864-1958 Ireland Marriages 1845-1958 Australian Censuses 1841-1921 Index of Irish Wills 1484-1858 Irish Burial Registers 1618-2005 Convict arrivals in New South Wales 1788-1842 If it's a while since you used this resource it would be worthwhile taking another look.

Free Digital Magazine

Find My Past have notified the Society that a free magazine is available for download from this link on their site.  http://i.findmypast.com.au/newsletters/assets/fmpau/anzac/22615-online.html

To commemorate Anzac Day, findmypast and Inside History magazine have produced a special edition digital magazine, which you can download for FREE. This wonderful collaboration offers an interactive and entertaining way to learn more about family history and our military past with a number of intriguing articles written by military experts.

Findmypast.com.au

The Society has amongst its online subscriptions available to members in the Society rooms a subscription to Find my Past (Australia). We recently received news of a number of new record sets available via this subscription. This might just provide the key to finding those elusive ancestors and cousins.

From Findmypast.com.au:

We're excited to announce that we have just added a huge 56 million new records to our Australia / New Zealand collection. This brings the total number of records available on findmypast.com.au to a staggering 1.5 billion!

New records in the Australia / New Zealand collection include:

·         Electoral rolls for New Zealand and Australia

·         Births, deaths & marriages for South Australia

·         Government and police gazettes

·         Directories, handbooks and almanacs

·         Unique records such as Radio Call and much more

See the complete list of records now available in our full list of records.