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We had a very busy March meeting in which Peter Hamersley presented two case studies demonstrating some thinking

Do you have a photo of a person in uniform and want to know how to identify key details to help with your research?  Stephen Sinclair, Robert Mitchell and Bob Wise from the Army Museum of WA will be at the meeting of the Military Interest Group on Saturday 18 May 2024 to provide advice about WW1 and WW2 uniforms and other clues from the photos. 

Ancestry

• Blacksmiths and Related Trades Index 1720-1940
• United Kingdom, Red Cross Volunteers During WWI 1914-1918
• Battle of Jutland Crew Lists 1916
• Hampshire, England, Wills and Probates 1398-1858
• London, England, Stanfords London Maps 1890
• Ireland,

April News

• FamilyHistoryWA - YouTube
• Improved copy and paste of URLs in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Support

Ancestry

• UK, Imperial Gazetteer Maps 1900
• London Parish Maps, 1860-1880
• Aberdeen and North-East Scotland, Index to Memorial Inscription Booklets 1500-2021
• Ireland 2nd and 3rd Edition Map, 1899-1905
• Ireland, Land Commission Advances 1891-1920
• Northern

WA Government Railways staff cards.

Here’s an interesting slant on Consignment 3393 (the WA Government Railways staff record cards), which can be found in the State Records Office of WA.

The

March News

 New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks

Ancestry

• England and Wales, New Popular Edition Maps 1940-1948
• UK, Electoral Registers 2011-2018
• Hampshire, Nonconformist Registers 1835-1921
• Westminster, Electoral Registers 1902-1970
• Aberdeenshire, Criminal and Court Records 1841-1922
• Ireland,

A review of the book - My Grandfather's Clock by Graeme Davidson popped into my email Inbox this morning.

The book, written by one of Australia's leading historians, is a combination of history and family history … tracing back to find ‘lost relations’ and looking

News from Dec-Feb

• Why you should start the year with a digital cleanup | Kaspersky official blog