No.16 (genealogy worldwide)

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• Family history talks:  I have updated the list of family history talks that I will be giving. Venues already confirmed are Cardwell (next week), Wongaling Beach, Innisfail and Tully (the following week), Coffs Harbour (late 2012), Sydney (early 2013), and Biloela, Moura, Taroom and Theodore (April 2013).


• Qld marriage indexes:  You can now search Queensland marriage indexes up to 1937 on the Internet - but don't forget that the indexes right up to 1939 are available on microfiche at Qld State Archives and in some libraries. Annotations on Queensland's State electoral rolls may provide clues to marriages after 1939.


• UK newspapers:  Audrey Collins has a new page with links to genealogy sources including hard-to-find UK newspaper sites.


• Ancestry searches:  If you put too much information in the search form, a poor match may appear higher on the list than a perfect match. What does it take to get a good result from Ancestry?

No.15 (Family History Through the Alphabet)

A page at Genealogy Leftovers has links to all my articles in the 'Family History through the Alphabet' series. I intend to add a new one each week.

• A is for Asylums, Arndell Index and Ashton
• B is for Birth Place
• C is for Cooktown, Croydon and Cunnamulla
• D is for Dunwich Benevolent Asylum
• E is for Evidence, Engineers and Emigrant Siblings
• F is for Fires
• G is for Gypsies, GENUKI and Gold Coast
• H is for Hackney Cabs and Helen Harris's indexes