Welcome to the South of the River House Group.
We meet in the Willetton area
on the first Wednesday of each month, except in January.
If you would like more information about our House Group
please contact our Group Convenor Louise Clarkson
Of interest for September 2023
Wellington City Recollect https://wellington.recollect.co.nz/ all about Wellington NZ’s historic past with photos, maps, newspaper clippings and more. This a fabulous resource for anyone with Wellington NZ family. Open up whole books of old photos, find old streets and individual houses. Excellent!
FindMyPast – 1931 Canadian census added. https://www.findmypast.com/
Car registrations of WA 1915-1928 https://www.carnamah.com.au/car-registrations
A new project will recover the names of up to 10 million people enslaved in America before emancipation and locate their living descendants https://eogn.com/page-18080/13236396 The project—10 Million Names—will centralize genealogical and historical information about enslaved people of African descent and their families on a free website. Also - For many years, a 19th century painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look like the sky: the figure of an enslaved youth “Bélizaire and the Frey Children”. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/14/video/belizaire-frey-children-portrait-met.html
Not whether, but how: All of us — The Legal Genealogist included — want to use DNA as a tool in researching our family histories. And all of us who use DNA as a tool in researching family history want (or should want) DNA to be used ethically and responsibly in every corner of the genealogical world. That includes the corner of genealogy called investigative genetic genealogy — IGG for short — the use of DNA to identify human remains and solve crimes. Read more -
Judy G. Russell, “Not whether, but how,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 13 Aug 2023).
Have you got a convict ancestor, who lived in NSW? This Facebook group, informing on the website, looks like a lively bunch with a lot to share https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100060917928975
Software MacKiev announced that a new update (24.2.2) for its Family Tree Maker 2019 software will be released soon. The update is intended to fix syncing problems that have been bugging the system since the latest version was released earlier this year. Sadly, I find I am not yet in green weather to be able to download and upload safely!
Don’t forget the Welcome Wall! All sorts of information here on passengers embarking at Fremantle https://museum.wa.gov.au/welcomewalls/
This year for Library and Information Week (31 July – 6 August 2023), we’re calling on the Trove Community to add links to your Trove discoveries to the relevant articles in Wikipedia. Adding a Trove link in Wikipedia – whether it’s to a newspaper article, manuscript, image, oral history, or some other primary source material – is easy. Go to https://trove.nla.gov.au/announcement/2023/07/31/add-your-trove-sources-wikipedia to find out how.
