The ‘continuing beginners’ group came in for a hands-on session on the second Thursday after meeting with Judy at Rambling Rose on the frst Thursday. All members described making progress in journeys typified by individual approaches to documenting their family trees.
With Anzac Day approaching we had a look at the war records of Benalla nurse Sister Hilda Knox, who died of meningitis in France in 1917 and is listed on the Roll of Honour in Canberra. We also completed a search for ‘Sister Hilda Knox, Benalla’, using Trove, previewing articles developing some of the events we had noted in the records, with knowledge about her also shared by group members.
With DNA results featuring more regularly in discussions, the group showed interest in three videos recommended by Deb Saunders on understanding DNA results. Records from India where English ancestors did military service and had families featured in both DNA results for Helen’s family (5% Indian) and in Robyn’s current search for ancestors. Robyn learned to use Pay as You Go credits to open records from India in ancestry, then Judy helped her to locate similar records using our new My Heritage account. Val worked on adding photos and images from Trove to a family story she is writing in Word, and Mary made first steps in to learning how to use Trove.
From May, this group will have a new name 'Family Research - Intermediate' and meet at changed time slot - the 3rd Thursday from 1 to 4 pm - for it's main session. The session will have a problem solving/hands on element, as well as a ‘pains and gains’ catch up and theme for the day. Intermediate group members can also attend the beginners’ session on the first Monday if topics are relevant to their learning needs and the guest speaker component of the advanced group on the 4th Thursday if it is of interest..
A special thanks to mentor Judy Barry, who is creatively supporting group members to make breakthroughs when they seem to have reached brick walls!
Bev Lee
With Anzac Day approaching we had a look at the war records of Benalla nurse Sister Hilda Knox, who died of meningitis in France in 1917 and is listed on the Roll of Honour in Canberra. We also completed a search for ‘Sister Hilda Knox, Benalla’, using Trove, previewing articles developing some of the events we had noted in the records, with knowledge about her also shared by group members.
With DNA results featuring more regularly in discussions, the group showed interest in three videos recommended by Deb Saunders on understanding DNA results. Records from India where English ancestors did military service and had families featured in both DNA results for Helen’s family (5% Indian) and in Robyn’s current search for ancestors. Robyn learned to use Pay as You Go credits to open records from India in ancestry, then Judy helped her to locate similar records using our new My Heritage account. Val worked on adding photos and images from Trove to a family story she is writing in Word, and Mary made first steps in to learning how to use Trove.
From May, this group will have a new name 'Family Research - Intermediate' and meet at changed time slot - the 3rd Thursday from 1 to 4 pm - for it's main session. The session will have a problem solving/hands on element, as well as a ‘pains and gains’ catch up and theme for the day. Intermediate group members can also attend the beginners’ session on the first Monday if topics are relevant to their learning needs and the guest speaker component of the advanced group on the 4th Thursday if it is of interest..
A special thanks to mentor Judy Barry, who is creatively supporting group members to make breakthroughs when they seem to have reached brick walls!
Bev Lee