Researching in Australian Archives

Helen V. Smith
Dec 31, 2018
2863 views
CC
SyllabusSyllabus
SyllabusSyllabus

About this webinar

There are many Australian archives for research. From local council, town, State, Commonwealth, religious, business, organisational and more. Jurisdictional responsibilities changed over time, so it is important to know when and where your ancestor was to determine which archive might contain the records you need.

\n

About the speaker

Helen has been researching her family since 1986 with research in Australia, England, Wales and Ireland. She is the author of Death Certificates and Archaic Medical Terms and Google the Genealogist’s ...
Learn more...

Comments (2)

Sort byNewest
  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    Really enjoyed the webinar and thought it was very helpful\n\nSo enjoyed being able to view in real time\n\nSo grateful for it being on in a time zone where I was able to participate and ask questions. And to put some icing on the cake...I was one of the prize winners. :)\n\nThank you for expanding your webinars!\n\nThank you for the coming series Down Under. I have not seen much webinar info or other learning materials about Australia.\n\nThank you Helen and Geoff. Great to hear research information that is directed at Australia specifically instead of the more general world stuff. That was a lot of detail and will need to be rewatched I think, awesome. Happy New Year and thanks again\n\nThank you, Helen. Very informative. There's so much information that was covered.\n\nThanks. Heaps of information in one webinar. In depth research techniques on a more specialised area (e.g. Using John Oxley Library) could form topics for future webinars.\n\nThe 2 hour advance reminder was good as I'm one hour behind Sydney time. Learning about the smaller archives available was very interesting.\n\nThis is my first webinar, so I didn't know quite what to expect . I found it to be a very comprehensive overview - in fact too comprehensive. There was just too much information to absorb. Perhaps splitting it over two sessions might be less overwhelming. I do look forward to further Australian content.\n\nThis was the first opportunity I have had to attend your webinars - it was wonderful, so thank you. I have had the fortune to meet Helen at other conferences and I am in awe of her vast knowledge of Family research. \n\nVery clear and easily understood presentation.\n\nvery clear to understand. Thank you\n\nVery enjoyable and lots of information. Best of all is the time frame, being able to watch live in daylight and not in middle of night when tired and cannot concentrate.\n\nVery good - had to leave after an hour but well worth it - learned a lot about access to Aussie websites\n\nvery helpful, and most interesting as an Australian it was a good time and home based. Thank you\n\nVery informative on Australian Archives and Genealogy. Done in a language that we can all understand\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery interesting and helpful with many new places to search for information to help with the "brick walls". Looking forward to the next one and checking on others I may have missed that would help me. Thank you. \n\nVery nice 1st webinar from Down Under!\n\nvery thorough and informative.\n\nVery well done with lots of information on how and where to search the Archives in Australia.\n\nWonderful presentation - well presented & full of useful information for us Aussies. Well managed by Geoff also. :)\n\nWonderful to have a Webinar on Australian material. \n\nWonderful, friendly and knowledgeable presenter! Lots of new information and ideas to help with our research. Fantastic time of the day! Thank you both so much! 5*****

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    7 years ago

    A lot of information to remember!! \n\nA wealth of information presented in accessible bites.\n\nAbsolutely wonderful! Helen is an excellent speaker and having country oriented speakers.. especially from an area we never hear from is perfect! Thank you.\n\nAn excellent Australian webinar, I will be watching all further Australian webinars. Thank you Geoff\n\nAs an Australian who has been researching my family history for at least 15 years I am blown away at the number of archives that Helen mentioned that I hadn't even thought of. Thank you so much.\n\nBrilliant coverage of all States and Territories Archives etc. The speaker knows her subject and how to present it well, as proven in her answers to questions after the webinar. Thank you for providing this webinar in normal daylight hours for south of the equator from Western Australia to New Zealand all awake.\n\nClear, concise and kept to time. Great first webinar from Legacy for me.\n\nComprehensive!\n\nDelighted to attend a live webinar - different timezones have made it too difficult in the past. The webinar was absolutely wonderful and very comprehensive. I will need to watch this again and of course download the course notes, but I now have so many go to places to do my research. Thank you\n\nenjoyed very much and learnt an enormous amount, look forward to more of these\n\nExcellent search ideas for downunder!\n\nExcellent.\n\nExtremely interesting. Although I live in Australia and am currently a research officer for our local group it was great to have a refresher on various aspects of Australian sites etc. Many thanks to all for putting this together and I hope I am able to attend the next sessions as from next week this time frame clashes with my research hours at the local library. Greetings from Australia\n\nFantastic Webinar, I learned so much and got such a great discount for renewing my Subscription, Win/Win!\n\nFirst time I've done one of these - will now know how to "work" things for next webinar. Many thanks.\n\nGood clear, concise and full of relevant information. More Helen Smith webinars would be appreciated.\n\nGreat\n\nGreat information and a great time for us Australians to be able to join in.\n\nGreat Information, well arranged and presented\n\nGreat speaker and content. \n\nGreat to be able to hear it live in daylight.\n\nGreat to have a daytime webinar in our time zone. Excellent content.\n\nGreat to see an Aussie Webinar\n\nGreat, interesting and informative.\n\nHelen did an AWESOME job. I am looking forward to the whole Australian series this year on Legacy Family Tree Webinars.\n\nHelen has very clear diction, and speaks at a speed that can be readily understood\n\nHelen presented very well and she was easy to listen to. Her slides were also highly informative. It was an hour+ well spent. Thank you.\n\nHelen spoke with great knowledge about her topic and presented via her Powerpoint a wealth of reference guides for Australian research\n\nHelen was very familiar with her topic and was able to cover a lot of different sites of interest.\n\nHelen was wonderful. Gave me such great tips for my Australian research.\n\nHeln excellent as usual. great choice to start series\n\nI arrived late so missed some of the early stuff. But thank you Helen for highlighting the lesser known archives and museums and some hints about accessing these.\n\nI joined the seminar too late to have heard most of it, but what I heard sounds very interesting. Will log in later to hear what I missed.\n\nI need to check Australian sites for my one-name studies!\n\nIf there was a higher mark she would get that too. Outstanding webinar filled with information not just relating to Australia but can be used as well for Archives around the world - simply brilliant!\n\nInformation-packed! Thanks, Helen. And thanks, Geoff, for providing webinars at a very viewable time for Oz & NZ genealogists. Much appreciated. But I'll still be up at 7.30 tomorrow morning to hear Judy Russell...!\n\nIt is valuable to have an expert who lives in Australia speak on the topic.\n\nIt was extremely well done by Helen the best I have heard in my 36 years of Family History. I Enjoyed every minute of Helen's talk. Can't wait to hear the next one.\n\nIt was so comprehensive! Thank you.\n\nIt was very good\n\nlearned heaps\n\nLook forward to more pending work free time.\n\nLots of new ideas and places to look. Thanks.\n\nLovely and clear. Fitted in a great deal of information yet wasn't too fast. Helpful visuals.\n\nMost enjoyable and informative, today gave me information about some sites I had not known of. I look forward to the other topics in this series. Thank you.\n\nMy first one, I am hooked. It opened my eyes as to how much more info is available.\n\nMy first webinar very informative thank you\n\nNice to have it on local time. Well done!\n\nNice webinar\n\nPlenty of great starting points I hadn’t considered. Thank you

Related webinars

Researching in Kent
Play video01:18:49
Researching in Kent
453 views
CC
Six Top Sites for Queensland Research
Play video01:03:27
Six Top Sites for Queensland Research
277 views
CC
To Have but No Longer to Hold: Divorce in Australia
Play video00:47:06
To Have but No Longer to Hold: Divorce in Australia
82 views
CC
Government Gazettes as a Genealogical Resource
Play video01:07:16
Government Gazettes as a Genealogical Resource
372 views
CC
Burying the Body in England
Play video01:13:03
Burying the Body in England
5.5K views
CC
Australian Census Substitutes
Play video01:09:03
Australian Census Substitutes
4.1K views
CC
Tracing Australian and New Zealand World War One Ancestors
Play video01:09:53