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How did they get here? An introduction to NSW 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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A surprise in the Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence
I found a surprising document when I was researching a convict at State Records New South Wales at Kingswood last week. John Webster arrived in 1830 on the Lord Melville (2), received his certificate...
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My mother had always said that her father didn’t serve in either of the world wars. The stories I remember were that he was too young in the First World War and too old in the Second World War, and...
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Family history travels
I’ve just spent two weeks travelling – doing family history, attending AFFHO‘s 13th Australasian Congress in Adelaide, and playing tourist in outback South Australia and New South Wales. Now that I’m...
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