W11 CONTENT
This "course" will build itself from lessons that have been given or will be given at genealogy conferences or through other mediums. Two lessons were prepared for Legacy Family Tree Webinars and will be recorded next year for the benefit of Annual Members.
LESSON 1
To be recorded in 2023
Four groups of people sailed to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: convicts, free passengers, soldiers and sailors. This seminar focuses on the free passengers, those who paid for their passages or received free passages under systems like the Bounty Immigrant scheme. These colonial shipping records are not only useful for researchers whose ancestors migrated to NSW. They are also useful for researchers whose ancestors did not. This is because they provide information about the migrants’ parents, grandparents, siblings or other relatives who lived or had died in their homeland. For example, some records from the 1830s/1840s provide four generations of information, beginning with Irish residents who were born in the mid-1700s. Thus, NSW colonial passenger records can be a valuable source for Australian and non-Australian researchers alike.
Lesson type: Researching
Video duration: ? minutes
Handout: Yes
To be published: 2023
LESSON 2
To be recorded in 2023.
This seminar explains how to best use colonial muster and census returns, including later returns such as the 1841 and 1891 Australian Census returns, taking into consideration their many faults and foibles. Carol Baxter has an unparalleled knowledge of the NSW Colonial Muster and Census returns, having edited all the surviving General Musters from 1800 to 1825, examined smaller returns for the same period, and processed the raw data of the 1828 NSW Census/Household Returns and 1837 Convict Return.
Lesson type: Researching
Video duration: ? minutes
Handout: Yes
To be published: 2023
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