Searching family from Ireland

www.igp-web.com/down  Ireland genealogy projects –  Co Down website with lots of useful info

www.census.nationalarchives.ie  has 1901 and 1911 census and links to other sites

www.proni.gov.uk/index             public records office – worth a look

thanks to Lois for these.

Coolgardie School 1907

Sisters of Mercy Convent School.

Family Searching in Yanchep & Two Rocks Term 1 2012

Have you ever wondered about your ancestors, looked at some TV programme & thought ‘that looks easy’ then gone to a computer to find out how you can research your family?  “You just have to start looking”! If you are a beginner it can be daunting – all that information – where do you start! Maybe you have been researching for years but just can’t break down that brick wall. Help is at hand at Yanchep Community Centre & Two Rocks Library. Beginning on Wednesday 8th February through to 4th April, Angie Beck will guide you through the forest of information to find your tree. Maybe a convict, an ag lab (agricultural labourer) or a Lord?

At Yanchep Community Centre, from 10.30 – midday you will be able to learn how to use ‘FIND MY PAST’.  For a small fee you can check Migration records, Military records, Parish records & many more documents (mainly UK). In the afternoon from 2pm-4pm at Two Rocks Library Angie will guide you through Ancestry.com. “You don’t have to know what you are looking for… You just have to start looking.”  It can be very confusing if you just put a surname in & then get a million ‘hits’!! There are ways of working out if they belong to your family. 

If you are interested please phone Yanchep Community Centre 9561 2039 or Yanchep Library 9561 1110 to book a place. Bring with you any certificate's and any information you have on your family, plus a pencil, notebook & a thumb drive (if you have one). Oh, you might need some patience!!!

If you are wanting more instruction on how to use a computer there are classes at both venues. Yanchep Community Centre on a Thursday & the library on a Monday. Booking is essential as there are a limited number of computers.

Family Researcher page

 Has some free family tree info including Old Occupations

family researcher

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

The first collection of PRONI images to be made available on Flickr are wedding and family group portraits taken by the Allison Photographic Studios, Armagh, between circa 1900 and 1955.

Check out the photo stream on flickr.

Also Home Rule

Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant

Being convinced in our consciences that Home Rule would be disastrous to the material well-being of Ulster as well as of the whole of Ireland, subversive of our civil and religious freedom, destructive of our citizenship and perilous to the unity of the Empire, we, whose names are underwritten, men of Ulster, loyal subjects of his Gracious Majesty King George V, humbly relying on the God whom our fathers in days of stress and trial confidently trusted, do hereby pledge ourselves in solemn Covenant throughout this our time of threatened calamity to stand by one another in defending for ourselves and our children our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom and in using all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland. And in the event of such a Parliament being forced upon us we further solemnly and mutually pledge ourselves to refuse to recognise its authority. In sure confidence that God will defend the right we hereto subscribe our names. And further, we individually declare that we have not already signed this Covenant.

Ulster Day, Saturday 28th, September, 1912.

God Save the King

Free Family Tree Builder

My Heritage

Searching for past WA loved ones

The Metropolitan Cemeteries Board’s Cemetery Records System was the first of its kind in Australia. It is a computerised tool that enables heritage records to be maintained for all of our cemeteries, dating back to 1899.  The Metropolitan Cemeteries Board maintains records for all interments, cremations and memorials at our cemeteries dating back to 1899. For your convenience, this information is available through this website as well as at our offices.

West Australian Metropolitan Cemeteries Board

Found on the Internet

 Judy Webster's Genealogy Advice for Australia
 Genealogy Blog Finder
Roots and Rambles
English Family History Online

More later

Lost Cousins free time!

Between Christmas and New Year the LostCousins site will be totally free - all members will have subscriber privileges whether nor not they have paid a subscription. This means that now would be a great time to bring your My Ancestors page up to date - because there's nothing as rewarding as finding a new cousin at Christmas time!

1st steps

If you are just starting to delve into your family the first thing I suggest is to download the Legacy Family Tree programme (free).