Speaker Topics

Following is a list of topics submitted by our speakers to date. This will increase as speakers add to their portfolio and other speakers are added with more specialised topics

Further details and ways to organise the topics are still to come, including:
- topic overview, length of presentation etc
- what is required of a host (internet access, data projector, etc)
- ability to select, filter and/or sort topics by speaker, general subject category, where available etc

Australia - National

• An Introduction to the Colonial Secretary's Papers and the Australian Joint Copying Project (Cora Num)
• Asylum Records: A Place to Look for Missing Ancestors (Shauna Hicks)
• Bankruptcy Records (Andrew Peake)
• Be a Sport: Archives and published sources to discover your ancestors sporting achievements (Bruce Smith)
• Behind Bars: Convicts and Criminals (Shauna Hicks)
• Biographical Database of Australia (Carol Baxter)
• Convict Ancestors: Fascinating and Frustrating to Research (Shauna Hicks)
• Convicts on the Internet (Cora Num)
• Finding your Australian Jewish Ancestors  (Kim Phillips)
• Gold Fever (being developed) (Vicki Eldridge)
• Government Publications: Untapped Resources for Family History (government gazettes and parliamentary papers) (Shauna Hicks)
• How Did They Get Here?: Locating Shipping and Immigration Records (Cora Num)
• Immigration Records to Australia Post World War II (Andrew Peake)
• Making the Most of Archives: Tips for Using State Archives (Shauna Hicks)
• Military Ancestors Online (Shauna Hicks)
• Occupational Records: Getting Them Working for You (Cora Num)
• Online Newspapers: New Pathway to Discovering Ancestors (Shauna Hicks)
• Researching Convict Ancestors (Vicki Eldridge)
• Researching in Country Newspapers (John Graham)
• Researching Land and Buildings (Susie Zada)
• State Archives Online: Practical Tips (Shauna Hicks)
• Taking a Lead from Government and Police Gazettes (being developed) (Vicki Eldridge)
• Taking Care of Business: Locating and using Australian Business Archives for Family History Research (Bruce Smith)
• The Ryerson Index (John Graham)
• Tour of Australian Repositories for Family Historians (Graham Jaunay)
• Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors (Carol Baxter)
• Travelling Showmen (with special reference to circus) (Mark St Leon)
• Unlocking Government and Police Gazettes (Alan Phillips)
• Using Government, Police and Education Gazettes (Rosemary Kopittke)
• Where? What? Still? Researching Your Ancestor’s Home (Susie Zada)
• Working Lives - A genealogist’s guide to working through Trade Union archives to discover more about our ancestor’s working lives (Bruce Smith)

New South Wales

• 19th Century Migration from the South Coast to the Richmond River (John Graham)
• Aboriginal Family History – Research & Resources (Cathy Dunn)
• Deaths 1788 – 1810, NSW and Norfolk Island (Cathy Dunn)
• Early Australian Colonial Education (Cathy Dunn)
• Early Settlers of the Southern Illawarra and Northern Shoalhaven (John Graham)
• Getting the Best from New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages (Allan Murrin)
• How to Effectively use the New South Wales BDM Indexes (John Graham)
• NSW Education/Teachers/School History and Records (Vicki Eldridge)
• Old Sydney Burial Ground 1792 – 1820 (Cathy Dunn)
• Scandal and Skulduggery in Early Sydney (Carol Baxter)
• Tracing Your Ancestors in Colonial New South Wales (Carol Baxter)
• Tracing Your Ancestors in the Mitchell and State Libraries of New South Wales (Carol Baxter)
• Tracing Your Ancestors through New South Wales Land Records: Old System, Torrens Title, Pastoral and Conditional Purchase (Carol Baxter)
• Tracing Your Ancestors through the Land and Property Management Authority (aka Land Titles Office) (Carol Baxter)
• Tracing Your Ancestors through the New South Wales Muster and Census Returns (Carol Baxter)
• Tracing Your Ancestors through the State Records of New South Wales (Carol Baxter)
• Women Convicts: 1788 - 1805 (Cathy Dunn)

Queensland

• Online Sources for Queensland Family History (Shauna Hicks)
• Queensland Family History Research (Ann Swain)

South Australia

• Biographical Sources for the Family Historian in South Australia and the Northern Territory (Andrew Peake)
• Bound for South Australia (Graham Jaunay)
• Employment Records as a Source of Biographical History: South Australia and the Northern Territory (Andrew Peake)
• Finding South Australian Families in Newspapers (Graham Jaunay)
• Records Relating to Institutional Care in South Australia (Andrew Peake)
• South Australian Lutherans in the early 1900s (Aimée Engler)
• South Australian Military Ancestors (Graham Jaunay)
• South Australian Shipping Records (Andrew Peake)
• The South Australian Government Gazette with particular reference to … (Port Adelaide, Copper Triangle etc) (Andrew Peake)
• Using South Australian BDM Indexes Effectively (Graham Jaunay)
• Using South Australian Resources in Family History (Graham Jaunay)

Tasmania

• Tasmanian topics to be advised

Victoria

• Old Victorian Pubs - and researching hotels in general (Susie Zada)
• Point Henry: an amazing place (Susie Zada)
• Victorian Resources for Family History Research (Shauna Hicks)

Western Australia

• Finding Rhoda: a case study - a personal story about finding a lost cousin who came to Fremantle in 1923 (Mike Murray)
• Western Australian research: Overview of WA history, WA records, Strangers on the Shore: maritime history of WA in story and song (Mike Murray)

British Isles

• Basic Scottish Research (Ann Swain)
• 19th Century British Records (General Register Office and Census) (Jeremy Palmer)
• 19th Century British Records (General Register Office, Census and Parish Registers) (Jeremy Palmer)
• Beyond the Census - Pre 1841 Census Substitutes (Jeremy Palmer)
• British First World War Records (Jeremy Palmer)
• British Military Records (Jeremy Palmer)
• British Research - specific eras and places (Norwich: 1570 Census of the Poor, 16th and 17th century research, Gaelic Scotland, UK genealogy on the internet (Mike Murray)
• Civil Registrations of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (Allan Murrin)
• Early Scottish Ancestry and History (Ann Swain)
• English and Welsh Probate Records (Jeremy Palmer)
• Finding Your Way around the English and Welsh Censuses 1841-1901 (Graham Jaunay)
• Guild Records (Jeremy Palmer)
• Irish Research in the Electronic Age (Cora Num)
• London: specific focused presentations for family historians (Growth in London, Railways, Guilds and apprenticeship records, The London Blitz) (Mike Murray)
• Lost in London: Introduction to London genealogy including unique problems and what to do about them (Mike Murray)
• Research in Kent (Jeremy Palmer)
• Researching in England Prior to Civil Registration (Graham Jaunay)
• The Mobile Scot (Ann Swain)
• The Parish Chest (Jeremy Palmer)
• Tracing Your Ancestors in England (Rosemary Kopittke)
• Tracing Your Ancestors in Scotland (Rosemary Kopittke)
• Tracing your English Ancestors from Afar (Graham Jaunay)
• Tracing Your Irish Ancestors from Afar (Graham Jaunay)
• Tracing Your Irish Ancestry (Jeremy Palmer)
• Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors from Afar (Graham Jaunay)
• Tracing Your Welsh ancestors from Afar (Graham Jaunay)
• UK Census (Allan Murrin)

Europe

• Danish Census and Emigration (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Church Archives and Records (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Civil records (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Early Germans in Brisbane (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Emigrant lists (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Internet Resources (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Locating Your Ancestor's Place of Origin (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Maps and Gazetteers (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: Reading German handwriting (Eric Kopittke)
• Germany: The Church in the 1930s (Catholic and Protestant) (Aimée Engler)
• Overview of History of Poland (Eric Kopittke)

Computers & the Internet

• Digital Data: The Delivery, the Dynamics and New Developments (Cora Num)
• Facebook Applications for Family Historians (Carole Riley)
• Facebook for Family Historians (Carole Riley)
• Family History in the Digital Age: How to Cope (Cora Num)
• GenealogyWise (Carole Riley)
• Genealogical software programs (demonstration and how to use them) - overview of common features, Reunion for Macintosh, Legacy, Family Tree Maker (Mike Murray)
• Genealogy on the Web (Graham Jaunay)
• How to get the best out of genealogical websites: what’s there, how to use them, specific search tips and demonstrations (Mike Murray)
• Introducing World Vital Records (Alan Phillips, Christine Woods, Graham Jaunay, Rosemary Kopittke, Shauna Hicks, Vicki Eldridge)
• LDS Catalogue on FamilySearch: an overlooked resource (Allan Murrin)
• Online Trends in Family History (Shauna Hicks)
• Partnering with World Vital Records (Alan Phillips)
• Sharing Photos on the Web (Carole Riley)
• Solve not Revolve: Take a Spin with the Internet Revolution (Cora Num)
• The Future with FamilySearch Pilot (Allan Murrin)
• The Master Genealogist (Carole Riley)
• The Maze of Online Social Networking Sites (Carole Riley)
• The Vagaries of the Web (Graham Jaunay)

Miscellaneous Topics

• An A to Z for Tracing Missing Ancestors (Cora Num)
• Asylum Records: A Place to Look for Missing Ancestors (Shauna Hicks)
• Between the Line – Using Newspapers in Family History (Cathy Dunn)
• Beyond the IGI (Allan Murrin)
• Blazonry - Heraldry for Family Historians (Jeremy Palmer)
• Brief Introduction to Family History Research (Shauna Hicks)
• Business Continuity Planning for Local Societies (John Graham)
• Caring For Your Family Records (Shauna Hicks)
• Climbing Your Family Tree: an Introduction (Jeremy Palmer)
• Coming to Grips with FamilySearch on the Web (Graham Jaunay)
• Cops, Crooks and Victims 1840s style (Graham Jaunay)
• Costumes as an Aid to dating 19th Century Photos (Graham Jaunay)
• Diaries and Letters: Fleshing out the Family History (Shauna Hicks)
• DNA for the Genealogist: What can DNA testing tell us as genealogists? (Mike Murray)
• Family History on the Cheap: Tips and Tricks (Shauna Hicks)
• Family History (Jeremy Palmer)
• Finding Laurence Ryland … or not! (talk being developed) (Susie Zada)
• Genetics and Family History (Ann Swain)
• Heritage Collector (Allan Murrin)
• Heritage Tourism (Cathy Dunn)
• How to Read Old Handwriting (Graham Jaunay)
• Identifying and Dating 19th Century Family Photographs (Graham Jaunay)
• Indexing for Genealogists and Local Historians (John Graham)
• Introducing Family Photo Book (Aimée Engler)
• Introduction to Family History Research (Graham Jaunay)
• Life Events that Create Records (Andrew Peake)
• Linking Local History and Genealogy Research (John Graham)
• Military Ancestors: Discover Their Stories (Shauna Hicks)
• Missing an Ancestor: Try Looking Behind Bars! (prison records) (Shauna Hicks)
• Moments, Monuments and Mortality: Family History and the Local Community (Cora Num)
• Never Judge a Book by its Cover or its Title (Susie Zada)
• Online Trends for Family History (Shauna Hicks)
• Organising Your Family History (talk being developed) (Susie Zada)
• Organising, Recording and Preserving Your Family History (Graham Jaunay)
• Palaeography (Jeremy Palmer)
• Pitfalls in Family History Research (Graham Jaunay)
• Professional’s Diary: A few anecdotes from the diary of a professional researcher (Mike Murray)
• Preserving Your Records (Shauna Hicks)
• Researching the Maternal Line (Graham Jaunay)
• School Days: Education Records for Family History (Shauna Hicks)
• Skeletons in the Closet! (Susie Zada)
• Skeletons in the Family: Looking at Asylum Records (Shauna Hicks)
• So You Want to Publish Your Family History (Graham Jaunay)
• Stepping Stones to the Past: Awareness building - how to get started with your family history (Mike Murray)
• Telling Your Story in Print: Producing a book - writing, editing, images, design, layout, proofing, publishing, printing, distribution (Mike Murray)
• Telling Your Story: a video documentary - Making a DVD: planning, filming, editing, producing a life-story documentary (Mike Murray)
• The Holden Brothers Circus and Family (Susie Zada)
• Top Tips and Mistakes in Family History (Jeremy Palmer)
• Tracing Your Past: Practical Skills in Genealogy and Family History - a structured course (Mike Murray)
• Warning Warning: Tips and Tricks to Avoid Common Family History Mistakes (Shauna Hicks)
• What Was the Voyage Really Like? (Shauna Hicks)
• Why Use a Professional: Engaging a professional - why bother and what to expect (Mike Murray)
• Writing INTERESTING Family Histories (Carol Baxter)
• Your Ancestors: where they lived, worked, played or went to school! (Susie Zada)
• Your Ancestors: where they played! (Susie Zada)
• Your Family History Legacy: Ensure Your Research is Available to Future Generations (Shauna Hicks)