This month our main session moved to the Third Thursday. Our group has been relabelled the Intermediate Group, with a web page separated out from the Beginners Group's page..
During the session we began by following up and developing the issues covered at the First Thursday Session described in the previous post..
During the session we began by following up and developing the issues covered at the First Thursday Session described in the previous post..
'Pains and Gains, Tips and Tricks' for May included Judy's miraculous discovery of postcards from ancestors in a collectables/opp shop; Julie's gains and recommendations regarding Robert Kee's 'Ireland - A History', the book and the 12 part televised series available through You Tube; and Robyn's work and developing confidence in using ancestry.com 'Pay as You Go' credits ($10.99 for 10 records) in tracking ancestors who worked with the English police force in India and their families. Robyn also read her story 'Anzac Day', added to her Family Stories collection, to the class. Robyn finds writing the stories from the 'Fourth Thursday' topic list provides the opportunity to focus on a particular person or family in her tree and add depth to her understanding of their lives.
In the last hour of the session, guest speaker Deb Saunders gave a fascinating presentation on 'The Earl Grey Scheme'. Deb set the scene by exploring the context in which the scheme was set, then drew upon records documenting the nature of the Scheme and the processes involved to highlight the possible experiences of her ancestor, Bridget Cain, an Irish orphan, who sailed from Plymouth on December 31st 1849 on the Eliza Caroline, arriving in Port Phillip on March 31st 1850.
Deb, thank you so much for the thought and effort you put into your presentation and the engaging manner in which you presented it. Hopefully you will get other opportunities to present it in future.
Items/ideas arising during the session to be carried over to our June session include:
We had a very full session and so did not have time for hands on problem solving or hands on. Bev is happy to be contacted for support and a possible one to one session if class members have something they are trying to resolve proves difficult. Mentor Judy has a number of queries to follow up, including helping Mary to resolve a problem - were there two James Shortis's with different wives, or was there one James Shortis with two wives? As you can imagine, with quite a number of children involved, there is scope for much duplication and confusion if this is not resolved. We'll also have a problem solving, hands on focus at our next 'Third Thursday' session.
Bev Lee
- Helen taking us through the way in which she has been working with her ancestry.com tree now that DNA has been linked to it; particularly to show us why she enjoys using 'Throughlines'.
- Judy sharing her progress in using about timeline producing apps, the result of John's trialling them, a recommendation from John, and will also demonstrate working on a timeline she is constructing using one of the apps.
- Robyn highlighting the ancestors in her tree/s for whom she has been able to find records from India and demonstrating the way in which she has been using 'Pay as You Go' credits in the process of finding Indian records.
We had a very full session and so did not have time for hands on problem solving or hands on. Bev is happy to be contacted for support and a possible one to one session if class members have something they are trying to resolve proves difficult. Mentor Judy has a number of queries to follow up, including helping Mary to resolve a problem - were there two James Shortis's with different wives, or was there one James Shortis with two wives? As you can imagine, with quite a number of children involved, there is scope for much duplication and confusion if this is not resolved. We'll also have a problem solving, hands on focus at our next 'Third Thursday' session.
Bev Lee