Getting the Best from Newspapers on Ancestry and Findmypast is the topic of a public talk by Sue Reid at the Heritage Centre, Cooroy on Saturday 13 April from 1pm.
A gold coin donation is requested. The talk will last about three quarters of an hour.
Sue Reid is a Fellow of the Queensland Family History Society, convenes the QFHS Family History Writing Group and was the Chair of the QFHS Education Sub-Committee for 10 years. She has authored many journal articles and holds the Society of Australian Genealogists’ Certificate in Genealogical Research.
Subscription based services – Ancestry.com.au and Findmypast.com.au – both have extensive historical collections of newspapers for viewing online. Although you may not have a subscription to either database, for little or no cost you can access them at your local genealogical and history group or at local libraries which may have access to these and other databases such as the National Library of Australia’s online collection of newspapers and gazettes, called Trove.
The Heritage Centre is located at 17 Emerald Street Cooroy.
For more information, phone 3129 0356.
The Heritage Centre is open for research from 9.30am to 1pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
