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I recently had the chance to walk the area in Sydney that my ancestors lived in during the 1860s. Yep, that's a lovely brutalist police station sitting on top of most of the places they lived. Ah well, it was nice to wander the area anyway.
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Fat Albert posted:Hello friends. Get as much info as you can from your family and draw up a basic family tree. When you get to the point where the info gets iffy, choose the points where you want to push back the boundaries and order some birth/marriage/death certificates. (So say your family knows vaguely where your grandfather was born. Try and find his birth certificate, or failing that, his marriage certificate or death certificate will have his place of birth as best the people involved knew it.) From there, you can use the parental information on the certificate to try and find records from further back, although the records get worse as you go back. I have a standard word document for each couple I research that contains lists Birth, Parents, Siblings, Children, Immigration, Employment, Residences, Death, and Miscellaneous. It all seems to fit into a double column A4 without too much trouble. I footnote where each item came from so it's possible to find the source long after you've forgotten everything. Then I have another word doc that has all the obituaries and other images I find. Again, caption how you found it and as much other info as you can. Then any other fun stuff like stories or good pictures in their own files. I posted about my experiences with Australasia specific stuff here.
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Vital statistics?
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