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Articles and Other Free Content
The content in this section is generally free. The free articles may link to other paid content.
Blogs
Book Review
- Book Review - Lands Guide: A guide to finding records of Crown land at Public Record Office Victoria by Shauna Hicks
- Book Review - The Family and Local History Handbook 12 by Shauna Hicks
e-Handouts
- Cruise March 2011 - Click here to see the a list of speaker handouts available, & daily cruise program, from the Unlock the Past Cruise March 2011
- Expo and seminar e-handouts
How to guides
- How Do I Start Tracing My Family? - A Brief Introduction by Shauna Hicks
General interest
- For the Price of a Weekly Cup of Coffee: The Benefits of Subscribing to an Online Commercial Database by Shauna Hicks (PDF file)
- Heritage Tourism in the North: Darwin’s Historical Heritage by Shauna Hicks
Guides to records
- Government and Police Gazettes: Unlocking a major untapped resource by Alan Phillips (PDF)
- New South Wales Government Gazettes (PDF)
- Queensland Government Gazettes by Mary Geiger and Rosemary Kopittke (PDF)
- The South Australian Government Gazettes with particular reference to Port Adelaide by Andrew G Peake (PDF)
- Victorian Government Gazettes by Clive Luckman (PDF)
- Directories and Almanacs by Graham Jaunay
Religion
- Find Your Ancestors in Church Publications Part 1 by Shauna Hicks
- Find Your Ancestors in Church Publications Part 2 by Shauna Hicks
- Find Your Ancestors in Church Publications Part 3 by Shauna Hicks
Free sample files and indexes
Click here -for hundreds of downdable free CD sample files
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- Online content sites - guides to what is available and how to get the most from it
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