Tim Sheens, coach of the Australian Rugby League team, recently had a drink in the pub that had been run in the 1890s by his great-great-great-great-uncle in Leeds. We’ve been researching Tim’s ancestry over the last few months, and he has some very...

Ancestry seems to have added more Australian electoral rolls onto ancestry.com.au without any great fanfare. At least, if there was one I missed it, and I didn’t get an update about it. They now cover the period from 1903 to 1954, although the coverage...

Greghamstown School Where did your ancestors go to school? Did they go to school at all? How long did they go to school, and what was being taught at the time? To understand your ancestor it’s important to know what sort of education was available at...

Spending time in the reading room of State Records NSW at Kingswood and the State Library NSW can be an educational experience. I sometimes come across university history students looking for convict indent records as part of an assignment, and I help...