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Kaye Nardella (Senior Curator, Museum of Lands Mapping and Surveying outlined the essential background knowledge that will help you to identify the records you need to track down your ancestor's real property. The excellent collection of URL to index maps and other resources from Kaye's talk have been used to update our collection of hints on Using maps as tools in family history.
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Helen Vince was our guest speaker who focused on the enormous variety of valuable records that can generated by a death and burial (or cremation). Locating the last resting place of an ancestor can be both the end of one research trail and the beginning of another as a snippet of information on the headstone, in the sexton's book, or in an obituary prompt you to explore new areas.
Helen referred to a huge range of useful websites which have been added to the collections that we already had in the Death and Burial pages [https://familyst.weebly.com/death-and-burial.html]. You can connect directly to the sites she recommended from there. Of particular interest was the idea that many smaller (and lesser-known) cemeteries may have heritage protection orders on them and so can be located through a search within the database held by the state authority such as https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au/heritage-register/ (in Queensland). Members with (late) parents who served in WWII may be particularly interested in following up their eligibility for memorial plaque recognition like the one Helen displayed honouring her father. See https://www.dva.gov.au/commemorations-memorials-and-war-graves/remembering-our-war-dead/commemorating-our-post-war-dead At the beginning of the month, QFHS hosted a seminar by an experienced trainer of the volunteers who staff the LDS Family History Centres. Paul T summarised some of the major features including the revelation that more than 50% of the currently available records are not name-indexed so you need to use the List of Collections to identify the most likely source of the information you want and then browse (with a plan, not randomly) to get to the particular record. Paul has produced a tutorial demonstrating the search for a record of the death of Saringa Janos in Hungary. You can view that as many times as you wish and work through it step-by-step at https://www.iorad.com/player/130839/FamilySearch-Drill-Down-for-Dr-SARINGA-JANOS
A second aspect was a reinforcement of what Helen Smith told us about the value of the Family Search Research Wiki. We need to use all the available background information to ensure that we find the most appropriate records. Paul's second tutorial concerns a set of probate (will) files held at Family Search but not indexed there. A University has indexed them but does not have the images, so has linked their index back to Family Search. The entry in the Research Wiki is the key to locating a University web page (that you would otherwise not think to look at) which unlocks the value in the images. Follow along in the search for the will of Henry Maugham by going to https://www.iorad.com/player/130841/Henry-Maugham-s-Will---Hamsterley--Durham--1791 The final aspect concerned the Family Search Family Tree (which many of us have used) with an emphasis on the rich material available in the Memories pages which can hold a wide variety of media and document types to add flesh to the genealogical skeleton. |
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