Register for Tuesday's Down Under webinar: Looking for ‘Aliens’ Down Under: A Guide to Australian Naturalisation Records by Kristy Love, PhD

Register for Tuesday's Down Under webinar: Looking for ‘Aliens’ Down Under: A Guide to Australian Naturalisation Records by Kristy Love, PhD

Following the founding of the colony of Australia, individuals born in the British Empire were considered British subjects, irrespective of the nationality of their parents. Residents of Australia whose native place was outside of the British Empire were not afforded the same rights and privileges as British subjects. These rights, in particular the right to buy land and vote, could be conferred to an individual by a process known as naturalisation. This bureaucratic process generated multiple sets of records that contain a wealth of genealogical information. This talk will outline the complex history of naturalisation in Australia, the changing terminology used, how, when and why naturalisation records were created, and discuss the likely availability of records and for whom they may have been created.

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Kristy LoveKristy Love (formerly Davidson), Ph.D., is a professional family historian and founder of Family History Agency in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. In her former working life, she gained several decades of experience working in university research management. In 2021, Kristy completed the short course ‘Chinese Ancestry: Research Methods and Sources’ run by the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria (CAFHOV), where she volunteers. Kristy was part of the award-winning CAFHOV team behind the Victorian ‘Certificate Exempting from Dictation Test’ Index project. She has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, an Honours Degree in Psychology, and a Certificate in Genealogical Research from the Society of Australian Genealogists. Kristy has a particular research interest in Australian women who, like her great-great-grandmother, were criminalised by poverty.

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Tips & Tricks for Researching in Australian Archives - free replay of today's Down Under webinar by Shauna Hicks now available

Tips & Tricks for Researching in Australian Archives - free replay of today's Down Under webinar by Shauna Hicks now available

The recording of today's webinar by Shauna Hicks, "Tips & Tricks for Researching in Australian Archives" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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This presentation explains how to search online archive catalogues for maximum results. Just one letter can mean that researchers will not find what they are looking for. Searching variant names and places is critical and numerous examples will allow researchers to search more effectively in Australian online archive catalogues.

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Encounters – Our Immigrant Ancestors - free replay of today's webinar by Fiona Brooker now available for limited time

Encounters – Our Immigrant Ancestors - free replay of today's webinar by Fiona Brooker now available for limited time

The recording of today's webinar by Fiona Brooker "Encounters – Our Immigrant Ancestors " is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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Learn about 19th and 20th century sources for finding your ancestors’ arrival in New Zealand.

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Finding Mob: Researching Indigenous Australian Family History - free webinar replay by Benjamin Hollister now available to view for limited time

Finding Mob: Researching Indigenous Australian Family History - free webinar replay by Benjamin Hollister now available to view for limited time

The recording of today's webinar, "Finding Mob: Researching Indigenous Australian Family History" by Benjamin Hollister is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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Government Policy in Australia, particularly from Federation until the 1980s, meant that many Australians with indigenous roots have lost connection with family and community. Between adoption, state foster care, missions, hiding ethnicity, and relocation, it is often difficult to know where to start and haw to analyse records. This webinar will present how to start your research, looking at repositories, institutions, and community records that will assist, both indigenous specific and general, in compiling a genealogy or family history.

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The Madness of ‘Mc’ Surnames - free webinar replay by Carol Baxter now available to view for limited time

The Madness of ‘Mc’ Surnames - free webinar replay by Carol Baxter now available to view for limited time

The recording of today's webinar, "The Madness of ‘Mc’ Surnames" by Carol Baxter is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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If you have already worked out that ‘Mc’ and ‘Mac’ surnames are the most complicated British surnames, you must listen to this webinar. And if you haven’t already worked this out, you must absolutely listen to this webinar. ‘Mc’ surnames are double the trouble because they can suffer distortions at the beginning, middle and end of the ‘Mc’ prefix as well as at the beginning, middle and end of the rest of the surname, the root word. Sound glides are a particular problem, in which the ‘k’ sound at the end of the ‘Mc’ prefix distorts the first letter of the root word (e.g. McCue/McKew/McHugh, McLachlan/McGloughlan). Transcription errors can also produce a non-‘Mc’ surname (e.g. Mackever/Markever) which can prove a trap for the unwary. This seminar will help you keep you sane when you encounter the complexities of these mad Scottish-origin surnames.

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Education in Australia - free webinar by Cathie Sherwood now online for limited time

An Introduction to Education in Australia - free webinar by Cathie Sherwood now online for limited time

The recording of today's webinar by Cathie Sherwood, "Education in Australia" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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Tracking the movement of ancestors in Australia can be difficult without available census records. However, there are numerous record alternatives, one of which is school admission registers as children are recorded each year, with details including parent’s names and dates of entry and exit. Industrial or trade schools, universities, religious schools and others can also present information not found elsewhere.

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Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History - free webinar by Fiona Brooker now online for limited time

Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History - free webinar by Fiona Brooker now online for limited time

The recording of last night's webinar by Fiona Brooker, "Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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Add some more detail to your New Zealand Family History by checking four more sources for your research: Military records, NZ Electoral Rolls, The Suffrage Petition and the Cyclopedia of New Zealand.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour and 17 minute recording of "Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History" is now available to view in our webinar library for free. If you have a webinar membership, it is available anytime.

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Once upon a time: It’s all about the story - free webinar by Carol Baxter now online for limited time

Once upon a time: It’s all about the story - free webinar by Carol Baxter now online for limited time

The recording of today's Down Under webinar by Carol Baxter, "Once upon a time: It’s all about the story" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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‘Facts’ send people to sleep; ‘stories’ keep them awake and alert and eager to learn what happens next. In this seminar, Carol shows you how to tell a gripping story within a family history, and by extension, how to write a gripping a family history.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 32 minute recording of "Once upon a time: It’s all about the story" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. If you have a webinar membership, it is available anytime.

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Register for the Down Under webinar: Organizing Your DNA Results (updated!) by Diahan Southard

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Now that you have pages of matches and gobs of new information, how do you keep track of it all? We will spend time going over how to create and track correspondence, organization tools within each testing company, as well as strategies for tracking the genealogy information of your matches, including surnames, locations, and genetic relationships. You are bound to walk out of this lecture with a game plan that you can implement right away.
 
Join us and Diahan Southard for the live webinar Tuesday, February 4, at 8pm eastern U.S. time, which is 12pm Sydney time. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion. 

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DiahanSouthard-144x144-2018A microbiology graduate, Diahan Southard worked before and after graduation for the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation. Growing up with the budding genetic genealogy industry lead her to her current position as Your DNA Guide, where she provides personalized, interactive experiences to assist individuals and families in interpreting their genetic results in the context of their genealogical information. Diahan's lectures are always fun, upbeat, and full of energy. She has a passion for genetic genealogy, a genuine love for people, and a gift for making the technical understandable.

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