June’s sessions featured an introduction to searching for digitized newspaper articles in Trove. Val’s quest for evidence of a family story that her grandfather had been shot in the stomach led to the discovery of two short articles which referenced this, while Phil read through articles about the Lady Northcote school in Bacchus Marsh where his family was sent in 1967 on arrival in Victoria as ‘Ten Pound Poms.’
Val brought along an engagingly presented family history book ‘Up the Abley Tree’ prepared by a cousin. Divided into three broadly themed sections Part 1 – Our Walter – Famous or Infamous, with eight themed chapters; Part 2 Courageous Women with two chapters and Part 3 Five Survivors with five chapters, this Word-based document with photographs was attractively laid out.
Val brought along an engagingly presented family history book ‘Up the Abley Tree’ prepared by a cousin. Divided into three broadly themed sections Part 1 – Our Walter – Famous or Infamous, with eight themed chapters; Part 2 Courageous Women with two chapters and Part 3 Five Survivors with five chapters, this Word-based document with photographs was attractively laid out.
Val introducing a cousin's publication - 'Up the Abley Tree'...
Garry (pictured) is also an Abley descendant!
Garry (pictured) is also an Abley descendant!
Helen brought along the results of recent research into husband Chris’s family filed systematically using colored paper clips.
In addition to working independently during this month’s hands-on session, Garry tracked the exporting and uploading of his Ancestry.com tree as a GED.com file into My Heritage and the production of his first genealogical ‘full book’ report and ‘fan’ family tree chart. Phil learnt how to add ‘occupations’ to ancestors’ profiles on ancestry, while Margaret continued to develop confidence in adding information from family trees and other documents collected over time into ancestry.com.
A highlight this month was Deb’s report that revisiting details in a marriage certificate and an unexpected Google result had helped her to uncover the origin of one of her ancestors. “The Google search led to an academic article filled with information and a connection to a family member in Scotland. Not only did I find the Stewart Family ancestors lived at High Park Farm on the Kintyre Peninsula - currently owned by Paul McCartney. It has also been confirmed through DNA that my mother is part of the Royal Stewarts of Scotland, descending from King Robert III. What a surprise!”
Bev Lee
In addition to working independently during this month’s hands-on session, Garry tracked the exporting and uploading of his Ancestry.com tree as a GED.com file into My Heritage and the production of his first genealogical ‘full book’ report and ‘fan’ family tree chart. Phil learnt how to add ‘occupations’ to ancestors’ profiles on ancestry, while Margaret continued to develop confidence in adding information from family trees and other documents collected over time into ancestry.com.
A highlight this month was Deb’s report that revisiting details in a marriage certificate and an unexpected Google result had helped her to uncover the origin of one of her ancestors. “The Google search led to an academic article filled with information and a connection to a family member in Scotland. Not only did I find the Stewart Family ancestors lived at High Park Farm on the Kintyre Peninsula - currently owned by Paul McCartney. It has also been confirmed through DNA that my mother is part of the Royal Stewarts of Scotland, descending from King Robert III. What a surprise!”
Bev Lee