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Educational lectures are offered by our experienced representatives on a broad list of topics.
To request more information on lecture contents and availability please submit a Client Request Form.
Family History - Getting Started
An overview on the process of how to start your family history research and to record your findings. A basic search into BDM certificates, wills and probate, immigration records, monumental and cemetery records, school and hospital records.
Scottish Family History
Getting started by using statutory records, census, monumental inscriptions, testamentary records, and church records.
Scottish Kirk Session Records
A wealth of information is to be found with it the records of the Kirk, these provide details and information to 'flesh out' your family history.
Scottish Immigration - an extensive overview
A look at the reasons our Scottish Ancestors chose to leave Scotland and make a new life in a new country.
Searching for John Smith
Whilst most people avoid the Smith, Brown and Jones names, it is possible to find your ancestors with common surnames. The lecture details over 50 primary resources used to turn one John Smith into a real person.
Cornish Family History
Fleshing out your Cornish Ancestors with all the resources. The lecture covers the use of all research techniques available from beginners to most advanced.
Searching in England (general)
A look at statutory, church, census, wills and probate and many other records used to build your family history.
Searching in the North of England
Research tools available to search in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Westmoreland. Finding research resources from Australia
Permanent Addresses
Alternate records to pin down that elusive ancestor, using directories, electoral rolls, and registers to trace your ancestors.
The Victorian Public Record Office - a treasure trove for genealogists
An overview of the 'hidden treasures' stored at the PRO, and their value to the family historian.
Getting the most from CD-ROMs
There is a wealth of information available to the family historian on CD-Rom, the lecture looks at Australian records using the Digger™ format, the 1881 Census produced by the LDS and 1861 London Census using Acrobat™ formats.
UK Census Records
An in-depth look at Census Records in all formats, book, CD-Rom and on-line resources.
Central Victorian Hospitals
The formation of early hospitals, their rules, regulations and the records to be found.
Squatters and Selectors
From the small colony of NSW to the opening up of the other settlement that later became the various states. The Squatters who built their wealth, running sheep and cattle on large tracts of Crown Land, the introduction of legislation to control their holdings. Those Squatter's who witnessed the carving up of the countryside. To the Selector's, who took up their 'Pre-emptive Right', and then purchased adjoining land to increase his holdings.
Central Victorian Records for Genealogists
Records to assist those with family in Central Victoria.
Institutional Care in early Colonial times
A look at the provision of care for the sick in a new colony. Ideally in a new colony institutions should be planned according to population growth and anticipated needs. However government administrator for Port Phillip tended to keep ' their head in the sand' when it came to provision of asylums, orphanages or hospitals.
Doctors, Death and Depositions
The difficulties faced by pioneer Doctors who came to Victoria to specialise in the field of health management. Whether it was accidents or disease, childbirth or old age, the outcome may have been the result of good or bad medical care. Patient's may have been cured, resolved, maimed or as newspaper obituaries state, “become one of the greater majority” depending on the patient's constitution or the Doctor's expertise.
Settlers, Selectors and Speculators (3 hour workshop)
A look at pioneer families who took up the challenge to come to Australia. What was the motivation to come, the determination to succeed, and the successes and failures. From the humble agricultural labourer, the secondary sons of the landed gentry or tenant farmers, to the trades person, Australia was the land of opportunity. A look in to various records including land holdings, business dealings and even bankruptcy.
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