Thursday’s Tips – Utah Cemeteries & Burials

Another resource I am using at the moment as I research the descendants of Isaac Whimpey and Mary Lewis is the Utah Cemeteries & burials database on the Utah State Division of State History website.  This is another free resource.  You can search for just a last name, or a first and last name.  I…

Thursday’s Tips – Australia Cemetery Index, 1808-2007

My 2x great grandfather, George Oliver, died in 1930 and was buried in Bairnsdale Cemetery.  The only free online records I have found for Bairnsdale Cemetery are on the Australian Cemeteries Index and Gravestone Photographic Resources.  Find a Grave and BillionGraves also have memorials from Bairnsdale Cemetery. I wasn’t able to find George on any…

Thursday’s Tips – Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997

Although there are many free cemetery records available online, sometimes you need to use a subscription website.  Although I found a memorial on Find a Grave for Louisa Mulder (nee House), there was no image.  I was unable to find a memorial for her on BillionGraves.  I therefore had a look for her on the…

Cemeteries

In my post about free resources for researching your family history, I mentioned that there were so many websites with records from cemeteries that I was going to set up a separate post. There are the websites I've used so far in my genealogy do-over - there are many more.  I have a section on…

Free websites for family history research

In this post, I am sharing the free websites I am currently using.  So far, these websites are for Australia, New Zealand, England, Wales and Scotland.  I am also going to copy this post to my Resources section, and update it as I expand my research into other countries. Births Deaths and Marriages Births Deaths…

Thursday’s Tips – Cemetery records

Once I have checked FamilySearch to see which cemetery (and other) records they have for the person I’m researching, and then checked the memorials on Find A Grave and/or BillionGraves, I then check to see if there are other records available online for the cemetery. I have started to set up a section on my…

Thursdays Tips – FamilySearch

At this stage, I am still focusing on websites that are free to search with records from Victoria, Australia.   I started with the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and then looked at websites with newspapers.  The next type of record I use are cemetery records.  The first site I use to find cemetery records…

Finding Burial Locations

After watching the Legacy Family Tree webinar Six Feet Under Down Under, presented by Jill Ball (who has the blog Geniaus), I have decided to share some examples of how I would go about trying to find a burial location. To do this, I started off by running a search in Legacy For my examples,…

Australian Cemeteries

Jill Ball has set up a new website “Six Feet under Downunder” where she wrote: While preparing for my Six Feet Under Downunder webinar over the past few days I realised that there was no one site that listed all the wonderful Australian resources that index the names of deceased resting in cemeteries and crematoria…

More about the Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997 collection at ancestry.com.au

Yesterday, I provided information about the Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844-1997 collection at Ancestry.  This morning, I was wondering if headstone photographs for these cemeteries were available online, and if there were, would I need the collection at ancestry? I decided to test this by looking for a headstone photograph for the…