Meeting on the second Thursday, the continuing group welcomed Mary, who has worked on her family tree ‘on paper’ for around 30 years.
Helen shared news of the death of her 102-year old mother in law, a repository of family wisdom, and also showed us death certificates from India. Val shared exciting progress in finding the mysterious Margaret Hernan, who she now believes may have returned to England with a child in 1857. Avid reader Julie shared information on Griffiths Valuations found in the book titled, ‘Farewell My Children – Irish Assisted Emigration to Australia’ by Dr Richard Reid, which she highly recommended.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we enjoyed a preview of the musical documentary ‘Bounty Girls’, recommended by Maggie Hollins and available on the FR-B webpage.
Mary’s mammoth efforts to transpose work completed on an immense paper-based tree to ancestry.com provided the opportunity to review and apply the use of hints and the why, what and how of locating and removing duplicate records.
Finally, a problem presented by Val led to a practical demonstration of uploading photos from her phone to her laptop, which everyone seemed to find useful.
In April continuing students will again meet at Rambling Rose on the first Thursday from 2 to 3 pm and in the small classroom or a hands-on session on the second Thursday from 1 to 4pm.
Bev Lee
Helen shared news of the death of her 102-year old mother in law, a repository of family wisdom, and also showed us death certificates from India. Val shared exciting progress in finding the mysterious Margaret Hernan, who she now believes may have returned to England with a child in 1857. Avid reader Julie shared information on Griffiths Valuations found in the book titled, ‘Farewell My Children – Irish Assisted Emigration to Australia’ by Dr Richard Reid, which she highly recommended.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we enjoyed a preview of the musical documentary ‘Bounty Girls’, recommended by Maggie Hollins and available on the FR-B webpage.
Mary’s mammoth efforts to transpose work completed on an immense paper-based tree to ancestry.com provided the opportunity to review and apply the use of hints and the why, what and how of locating and removing duplicate records.
Finally, a problem presented by Val led to a practical demonstration of uploading photos from her phone to her laptop, which everyone seemed to find useful.
In April continuing students will again meet at Rambling Rose on the first Thursday from 2 to 3 pm and in the small classroom or a hands-on session on the second Thursday from 1 to 4pm.
Bev Lee