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GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
1st Floor, 25 Cavenagh Street, Darwin NT
Phone:
08-89817363 Fax: 08-89817383 Email: gsntinc@bigpond.net.au
Another fascinating site: type in an address and a picture of that address is seen. Great for your ancestors' addressses, and your previous addresses.
National Archives and Records Administration (US) or 'NARA' announces a Website for 1940 Census Records: paste this link into your Address :-http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2012/02/21/NationalArchivesAnnouncesWebsiteFor1940CensusRecords.aspx?et_mid=540447&rid=55043994
When the 1940 census is released free online this April 2nd at 9 a.m. ET, you can view your ancestors’ records free at 1940census.archives.gov.
SEMINARS & TUTORIALS
to help you with your family history research :
MORNING TEA WITH PEARL OGDEN OAM:
Pearl was her usual entertaining self when she spoke to the topic Wartime years in the North - A look at the impact of the war years in Darwin
on Saturday 18th February 2012 - great attendance, and we saw many, many long-time Darwin friends there. But, please book next time, because we were a bit crowded!
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1. UNLOCK THE PAST - 25 Feb 2012 from 9:00am - 4:30pm
– www.unlockthepast.com.au
On 19 February 1942, war came to Australia, and has been dubbed the 'Pearl Harbour' of Australia.
Unlock the Past has an organised ship's cruise for the 70th anniversary commemoration of the bombing of Darwin which will come to Darwin and tour Northern Territory sites.
As a flow on from the above event, when the cruise comes to Darwin, a Seminar has been arranged in partnership with the Northern Territory Library. The proposal for the Seminar has not been finalised but this is to just give you a taste of the planning so far for this Darwin event.
This seminar with Shauna Hicks and Rosemary Kopittke is being organised in association with the Northern Territory Library and the Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory.Planning so far:
When
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Where ?
- Northern Territory Library , Darwin, Northern Territory
• 9.00am - registration
• 9.30am - Shauna Hicks - topic 1
• 10.15am Rosemary Kopittke - Government & police gazettes
• 11.00am - tea break
• 11.30am - Shauna Hicks - topic 2
• 12.15pm - three 10-15 minute promos - NT Library, NTGS, UTP [possibly]
• 1.00pm - lunch
• 2.00pm - Rosemary Kopittke - Introduction to Findmypast - UK, Ireland & Australasia
• 2.45pm - Shauna Hicks - topic 3
• 3.30pm - break
• 3.45pm - Rosemary Kopittke - topic 3 [probably]
• 4.30pm - finish
A selection of Unlock the Past publications will be on sale. Other participating organisations may have publications for sale as well. The cost at this stage will be around $40 and Unlock the Past has advised there will be a discount for Library Members.
2. ONE DAY TUTORIAL on Saturday 24th March 2012:using familysearch to solve problems -
but there's more - see below
In conjunction with the Northern Territory Library and the Family History Centre of the LDS Church in Darwin, we are organising a one day seminar for Saturday 24th March.
The speakers are Daniel Poffenberger and Todd Knowles, researchers from the Family History Centre in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA); both these speakers are calling into Darwin on their way to the Adelaide Congress.
Saturday 24th March: Program for a One Day Tutorial about :
- problem solving with familysearch
- beginning Irish research on the Internet
- maximising your Scottish Research
- maximising ancestry.co.uk research
- searching for ancestors on the Internet
- The Parish Chest: but there's more!
• 8.30 for 8.45am Doors open at NT Library, Parliament House:
• 8.45 to 9.45am Beginning Irish/Irish Internet Research
• 10.55 to 11.10am MORNING TEA
• 11.15 to 12.15 'Aye, it's a well-known fact, Sonny Jim'
Getting the most out of scotlandspeople.gov,
or
Beginning Scottish Research
• 1220 to 1250 LUNCH
• 1255 to 1355 ancestry.co.uk - Getting the Most
out of these Internet Resources
• 1400 to 1500 When the Wave Crashes Down - Strategies
for Searching for your Ancestors on the Internet
• 1500 to 1515
AFTERNOON TEA
• 1520 to 1620 The Parish Chest:
Beyond the Christening, Marriage and Burial Records
New content coming to ANCESTRY.COM in 2012 includes:
the 1940 census, which you've probably already heard will be free on Ancestry.com and elsewhere;
the complete, indexed 1911 UK census;
more US vital records;
new church records, including specifically for US Quaker records, UK non-conformist records and Swedish church records;
US and UK occupation-related records; railroad and maritime records.
November 2011 :
The National Archives, UK now holds 500 black and white unclaimed portraits of World War I Diggers who died at the Western Front.
Extending your Family Tree