January is a
good time to reignite your family history.
Make 2013 the year to break down your genealogy brick walls. There are
many opportunities to promote your subject interest or search for others with
common interests.
Some sites
include:
You can create accounts and profiles on sites
such as
You may like
to set up a blog. There are many family
history researchers doing just that.
Check out the Genealogy Blog roll for some inspiration. Have you registered your names on your Facebook account?
Enquiries
with newspapers still yield results. As
far as I know the following newspapers still feature “Can you help” columns
Western
Australia News canyouhelp@wanews.com.au
Sydney
Morning Herald rsvp@smh.com.au
Daily
Telegraph (Sydney) yoursay@dailytelegraph.com.au
The Sunday
Herald Sun (Melbourne) offer paid classifieds.
A
subscription to Australian Family Tree Connections also allows the subscriber
to register 15 names annually, a similar arrangement for the Genealogical Society of Victoria and their journal “Ancestor”.
I am sure there are many other ways to share your surname interests. Please leave a comment.
I am sure there are many other ways to share your surname interests. Please leave a comment.
Yarra Plenty Regional Library will continue to provide resources and programs for the family history researcher in 2013. Family History Fest will re-commence at Diamond Valley in February and the Mill Park Family Tree Group will also reconvene next month.
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