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25.01.2022 Did anybody have forebears who were governesses in the colonies?

25.01.2022 Have you attended any Family History Month activities yet..? There are so many amazing events - all available from the comfort of your lounge room! Tomorrow th...ere's a great event run by the Society of Australian Genealogists: DNA tested and wondering what to do with it? The session aims to lead you through an introduction to DNA integrated research methods, with lots of time for Q&A's at the end. https://www.sag.org.au/event-3896060 There's also several TROVE workshops, so you can take advantage of all the new features "new" TROVE has to offer. It's also great for those who are looking to understand this incredible resource for the first time https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=630635& And Bundoora Library is running its Family History Group online via Webex next Tuesday afternoon. The group aims to help each other through road blocks, give ideas for what to do next and answer questions about family research. https://www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/ev/family-history-group-1 For more events (there are pages of new events, something for everyone!) check out the National Family History month website: https://familyhistorymonth.org.au/events/

20.01.2022 Welcome to the Google of the 1800s: beautiful (and musty) handwritten records of more than 100 years of Library history. These cards were handwritten in ...ornate and exquisite copperplate back when immaculate penmanship was a prerequisite for becoming a librarian! And with alphabetical listings come some quirky categorisations: Birds of Hawaiian Islands through to Birth customs Cricket through to the Criminal and the Community Dead seagulls through to Debaters Discover more: slv.vic.gov.au/access-all-areas-card-catalogue

20.01.2022 A report of our recent AGM including the President's report presented to the meeting https://www.aagra.asn.au/42nd-agm/

20.01.2022 Happy 20th birthday to the Victorian Archives Centre! https://prov.vic.gov.au//celebrating-20-years-victorian-ar

17.01.2022 From Tuesday 1 December we are pleased to re-open the Victorian Archives Centre Reading Room to the public. To ensure we are continuing to keep everyone safe we... have made some temporary changes to our services. To visit the Reading Room you must: Order a record from the Public Record Office Victoria and/or National Archives Australia collection AND Make an online booking before coming in (there are two public sessions per day Monday to Friday, 10 am to noon and 1pm to 3pm). Visit our website for more information and to make your booking: https://prov.vic.gov.au/victorian-archives-centre-reading-r See more

16.01.2022 If anyone ever asks you why you want to learn more about your ancestors, you could always direct their attention to the final paragraph of Tudor Cornwall, writt...en by the Cornish historian, A.L.Rowse. "Impossible as it is to reconstruct at all fully those vanished lives, we may reflect that they as we felt the heat of noonday, lay down tired with their labour at night, watched the stars come out over the familiar hillsides and hang the night with creation; they too heard the wind in the trees, the smouldering seas lapping our coasts in the summer, or thundering upon the rocks in winter. Or perhaps their lives were for the most part of sterner, simpler stuff, their lot harder, filled almost wholly with labour and endurance, the struggle to wrest a living from the soil, the begetting of their children, birth, marriage, death. In the end their lives can never be wholly without interest for us: for they were our forefathers.

15.01.2022 https://www.theage.com.au//space-aplenty-just-45-visitors-

14.01.2022 Public Record Office Victoria again closed

14.01.2022 Great news the State Library of Victoria will reopen from Thursday 19 November.

14.01.2022 Updated Trove is here! Use the banners at the top of Trove pages as your key to explore both versions of Trove all week until the official launch at 10am AEST o...n Friday June 26. If you'd like help navigating the new features, read the introductory articles on the new Trove homepage or see the Help menu at the top right-hand side of the screen. If you'd rather a brief video introduction, here's something we prepared earlier:

13.01.2022 A new book contemplating why we research our forebears. PDF preview is available. Australian authors. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003011576

13.01.2022 A tutorial in reading old handwriting offered by the UKNational Archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography

13.01.2022 The power of archives, an Irish perspective https://www.irishtimes.com//learning-from-the-past-the-pow

12.01.2022 Tomorrow, 15 August, Victory in the Pacific Day, commemorates Japan's acceptance of the Allied demand for unconditional surrender, made on 14 August 1945. For A...ustralians, it meant the Second World War was finally over. Activities to mark the 75th anniversary will recognise and thank living WWII veterans and explore Victoria’s WWII history and stories. Take a look at the Vic Gov website here: https://www.vic.gov.au/75th-anniversary-end-world-war-two-w We have photos of some military personnel in our Railways collection, including this one. Search WW2 for more: https://bit.ly/2DTxrSX MILITARY PERSONNEL ON DISPLAY AT FOOTBALL GROUND WORLD WAR 2, VPRS 12903/ P1 item 354/12

11.01.2022 Though there had been censuses before, the 1851 census was especially detailed, and people began to wake up and realise there was something rather thrilling abo...ut statistics. To help the idea along, the Illustrated London News published a breakdown of occupations. None of us will be very surprised to discover there were just under a million servants in private houses (978,209): some may be surprised it is not more, although that figure omits the 55,423 charwomen. How many of us could have guessed, however, that five men gave their occupation as professional pedestrian, or race-walker? A figure dwarfed, however, by the 1,414 Pew Openers, a job one might hardly think one could make a living at... The nation has slightly more shepherds than policemen, at 19,075 v. 18,848. It has 152,672 tailors, but only 146,019 washerwomen. Seamstresses and shirt makers are lumped together willy-nilly at 73,068, but the straw hat industry, if we add together straw hat makers, straw plaiters and straw plait dealers, keeps 54,558 people on employment. The marital arrangements at inns are called into question by the revelation that 29,060 men give their occupation as Innkeeper, but only 17,447 women are prepared to list themselves as Innkeeper's Wife. Perhaps the 60,586 Inn Servants know the answer to that one. There are 660 sculptors, 5,534 engravers, 1322 night-soil-men, but only 88 leech breeders and dealers. Eleven persons mine jet, and 184 (presumably all in Whitby) carve the fruits of their labours. Ninety one persons manufacture articles of Tunbridge Ware (judging by the amount that survives, they must have beavered away like crazy). Most trades are still dwarfed by Agricultural Labourers (1,077,627): note this figure doesn't include the 19,0075 shepherds. The Britain of 1851 lists a surprisingly low 284 Peers Who Gave No Other Profession, in contrast to the 9,050 Lunatics Of No Stated Occupation. There are just six dealers in macaroni, hardly adequate, one would have thought, for a population of just under eighteen million... With thanks, as is so often the case, to: https://www.facebook.com/248233195597027/posts/958981267855546/ https://www.facebook.com/248233195597027/posts/957568681330138/ And... https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2338356.pdf https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/ce/table/GB1851POP2_M[1] #VVVSocialHistory

10.01.2022 https://www.bloomberg.com//blackstone-said-to-reach-4-7-bi

09.01.2022 This family history month we’re highlighting collections from the recently digitised Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). British army regiments served in... the Australian colonies until 1870. If your ancestor came to Australia in one of these units, you can track their service during the regiment’s time stationed here through the British Army’s pay lists and muster books online through the AJCP. You’ll be able to follow payments, promotions (or demotions), locations etc during the regiment’s time in Australia. Browse or search the muster books and pay lists, starting here: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-728664549/findingaid British Army muster documents were digitised as part of the AJCP with thanks to the National Archives of the U.K.

08.01.2022 Anita Payne, one of our members has written about joining AAGRA after graduating from the University of Tasmania with a Diploma of Family History and the benefits she has gained from AAGRA membership. Thanks Anita for sharing your experience. https://www.aagra.asn.au/anita-payne-how-did-i-get-to-join/

08.01.2022 How has Trove reshaped the possibilities of historical research in Australia? The Australian Historical Association History Australia Journal are seeking contr...ibutors to write short pieces about the impact of Trove for a forthcoming special feature. Details in the image. You can send your 100 word abstract to [email protected] Abstracts due 30th September See more

06.01.2022 The National Archives of Australia has signed contracts totalling $4.4 million for the bulk digitisation of more than 650,000 Second World War service records. ...Minister for Veterans' Affairs Darren Chester visited the Second World War Project Digitisation Centre at the National Archives Preservation Facility to see the important work being carried out by staff. Read more: https://bit.ly/36jIdw2 Australian Government Department of Veterans' Affairs

04.01.2022 We have simplified the process of applying to become a member and you can now apply with an online form. https://www.aagra.asn.au/aagra-membership-application-now-/

02.01.2022 He was introspective, passionate, cultured, meticulous and driven. The papers of Sir John Monash accounting for approximately 60 shelf metres of storage at th...e National Library are now available to explore online. Highly regarded for his role as an Australian military commander during the First World War and his work as a civil engineer, the collection includes items that both reflect Monash’s accomplishments and offer insight into his personal life. Uncover history online with the National Library: https://bit.ly/2BnKPgh #NLADigitalCommunity

01.01.2022 From 18791916, over 60,000 indentured immigrants travelled from India to Fiji to work on plantations supplying British colonies. The Indian Indentured Labour...er records held at the Library include immigration passes and general registers, plantation registers, repatriation registers and death registers. Over the past six months the National Library of Australia has worked with the National Archives of Fiji (custodians of this collection) to digitise and make records freely available via Trove. To learn more about the importance of this collection to family historians, we spoke with Vanita Kumar, a renowned Australian researcher in the field of Indian indentured labourers in Fiji and the founder of the Girmit.org website. Read the blog now:https://bit.ly/32uLYwJ With thanks to the National Archives of Fiji, custodians of the original records. #NLADigitalCommunity