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A Short History of Floods in my Family

Floods seem to be a recurring theme in the history of my father’s side of my family right from the early days when my paternal ancestors first arrived in Australia.  My paternal great-great grandparents and my great grandparents lived in the Richmond Valley near the town of Coraki, on the Richmond River, about 25 kilometres from Lismore. This is an extremely flood prone area. Both of these men took up land there when the land Selection Acts were passed during … Continue reading


In Search of My Queensland Ancestors

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A few weeks ago, I attended a seminar at the Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ) (http://www.gsq.org.au) presented by Helen Smith. I was sitting there feeling a little bit like an imposter because I was not a Queenslander. I wasn’t born in Queensland. I was born in New South Wales and still think of myself as a New South Welshman. But then I thought “Hey! Wait a Minute” this seminar is called “My Ancestor Was in Queensland”, and that was why … Continue reading

The New South Wales Regiment of Cavalry

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A few months ago, my father sent me a photo of a medal he had been shown while visiting a relative he had not seen for many years. This relative is his second cousin and they have a great uncle in common. The medal had belonged to this great uncle, Hugh Smith, and had been handed down to my father’s cousin by her mother. She brought it along to show my father. No-one at the family gathering knew what the … Continue reading

Getting organised

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Getting organised Following on from January’s post, I thought I’d talk a bit more about getting organised. On Saturday 21 January I presented a session for GSQ on Organising your research. This was planned as a practical course to provide suggestions on how to manage your paper records as well as your digital records. This proved to be quite popular and so we had to limit the numbers. I have agreed to offer this session again on 3 June, so … Continue reading

Just what you need and nothing more

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By Bob McAllister. To a casual observer, the agenda of the last meeting of the Legacy User Group might have seemed a little incongruous. The first item was a discussion of the likely release date for Version 9 of the software. This was followed by an in-depth examination of a feature that has been present since (at least) Version 6 but which very few of the members had used much. How can we possibly justify buying a new version of … Continue reading

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