Five essential websites for NSW genealogy
Today I want to discuss websites that I find to be essential for researching family history in New South Wales. Genealogy has come a very long way in the last few years, with so many government...
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Don’t forget the relatives – a NSW immigration story
This is a story from my own family tree, in particular it is about my g-g-grandfather Richard Eason. When I started looking into my family history I got his NSW death certificate from 1922 on which the...
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Immigration Indexes
There are four ways that our ancestors could have arrived in Australia in the early years of the colony before Federation. These are: Convict transportation Soldiers assigned to the convict colony...
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
The Colonies of Australia were often discussed in the British Parliament, and much of the relevant correspondence and reports were printed and distributed for the information of the Members. The...
View ArticleIndian immigration passes 1879-1919
Indian immigration passes from 1879 to 1919 held by the National Archives of Fiji have been microfilmed on 42 reels. The passes contain the migrant’s depot number, gender, name, caste, father’s name,...
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Not the Same Sky
Fiction can tell the stories of our ancestors in a way that a bare recitation of facts cannot. There is no way that we can know how our ancestors felt when they left their homes forever for a new land,...
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