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'Many brick walls..., but celebrations when someone has 'a find'!

1/8/2019

The Tech Savvy Projects ‘Family History’ group met on Thursday afternoon 27 June. Four people spent the afternoon working on their individual projects on Ancestry.com. As is the usual case with this type of research, it is time consuming with many brick walls to overcome. Working in a group allows for idea/experience sharing and celebrations when a ‘find’, no matter how small or large, is made. Bev Lee was taking a well-earned break but will return next month to continue to lead the group.

Wendy Sturgess

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Family Research

Family Research is a guided self-help group for members who are already working on their family tree who enjoy, learn and gain confidence from group interaction. The course includes two sessions a month -

1. A group session which commences with reports on ‘pains and gains’ over the previous month accompanied by shared problem solving and lots of encourage-ment and ideas for next steps. Presentations by group members, guest speakers and excursions will increase your awareness of different approaches and resources and will also expand your understanding of local and other family research initiatives. You will be encouraged to set project goals such as working on a particular family line; preparing stories for a collection; publishing and giving family history related gifts to families, and more.

2. A drop in session with a hands-on component which will support you to build further confidence in using online geneology programs; to resolve problems you are in danger of putting in the too hard basket, and to complete your project goals.

Experienced members of the group will be available as mentors at the drop-in session and for one to one consultations or appointments if required. .

Convenor/s Contact Details

Barry O'Connor
0407 266 688

Meeting Times

Main Session - 4th Thursday 1:30 to 4 pm

Drop In 'Hands On' session - 3rd Thursday 1:30 to 4 pm

Research Links

Benalla Family Research Group

Trove

'More on Trove'

Everyone Loves Trove (Podcast)

DNA Detectives and the End of Family Secrets

Hands on help...

Finding the Alphabetical List of Names on Ancestry.com (Barry O'Connor)

Program to convert PDF files to Word –https://www.pdf2go.com/pdf-to-word

Photo restoration - simple projects -
https://hotpot.ai/restore-picture

On-line geneology platforms

ancestry.com.au

myheritage.com

Scotland's People

findpenguins.com (if you travel to family history sites)

HEREDIS (recom.by John Barry)

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