Shake Your Family Tree Day 2013

Shake Your Family Tree Day 2013

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Posted 2013-03-22 by Dave Walshfollow

Sat 16 Mar 2013 - Tue 16 Apr 2013



Tracing your ancestors can be a fascinating, if at times frustrating experience.

Records can be hard to locate (if they exist at all). Sometimes they are overseas. Older family members may be long gone, or unable to remember much of your family history.

Once you have found the information, you may then uncover some surprises. Perhaps your great grandfather was a renowned scientist. Maybe great aunt Hettie was a South London street walker.

Maybe you can find more about your surname origins, or even discover the family crests.

It can be a bumpy journey, but it's one that many people want to take. Perhaps particularly parents, who want their children to have an understanding of their origin and family history, and what they have achieved to be happily living in Australia.

My own parents were ten pound ($20) immigrants, who were lucky to get an assisted fare by ship to Australia after the war. Their story is recorded in the Migration Museum , like may others. Thousands of people who came that way now consider themselves just as Australian as those whose ancestors were deported here.



If you are interested to find out your own family history, the National Archives has just the thing for you.

On Tuesday April 16 the local office of the Archives will hold Shake Your Family Tree - a full day of activities designed to help people who are of immigrant origin find out more information about their past. You will be able to learn how to find records related to your family's story of arriving and settling in Australia.

Key sessions will be webcast, including a special panel about how migrants have shaped Australia, moderated by Karen Middleton, SBS journalist.



The full program will be released shortly, and bookings open on March 22 for the sessions within the Archives. They include:
  • Introduction to Record Search (2 sessions)
  • Passenger records at the National Archives and State Records of SA
  • Introduction to immigration resources of the State Library of SA
  • Hostel stories

  • Other displays will be held outside on Leigh St and will not need booking. They will include free showbags and information, and free online access to Ancestry.com.au

    Happy hunting!

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    !date 16/03/2013 -- 16/04/2013
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