The following is from FamilySearch 04/23/2013: FamilySearch has added more than half a million images this week from Australia, England, Italy, Philippines, Spain, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 92,436 images from the new U.S., Ohio, Southern District Naturalization Index, 1852-1991, collection, and the 73,580 images from the new Australia, Tasmania, Civil [...]

Bob Gosford of crikey.com.au wrote an interesting article about death on the Northern Territory frontier this last week. Check it out.

The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added 1.7 million indexed records and images this week with new browsable image collections from Austria, Paraguay, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 13,110 images from the new Arizona, Maricopa, Mesa City Cemetery Records, 1885-1960, collection and the 105,745 indexed records and images from the [...]

The National Library of Australia has posted a list of newspapers that will be digitized and made available during the year. According to their website, “Multiple titles may be processed and made available at any given time. Dates of when specific issues will be available unfortunately cannot be provided.” I counted about 170 titles in [...]

The following news release is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch added 8.5 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Included are 2,897,940 additional index records and images for the new New York State Census of 1855 collection, the 1,070,807 index records and images from the Texas Birth Certificates collection from 1903-1935, and [...]

The following News Release is from FamilySearch.org dated January 15, 2013: FamilySearch added an additional 7 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,747,863 indexed records and images in the Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books collection from 1592-1910, the 1,308,956 indexed records from the United States [...]

FamilySearch added an additional 16.3 million new, free indexed records and images this week to its collection. Notable additions include the 1,984,100 records for the United States, World War I Draft Registration Cards from 1917-1918, the 2,056,187 added to U.S., California, Probate Estate Files from 1833-1991, and the 1,610,053 added to the new British Columbia, [...]

The following excerpt is from an article posted in the August 21, 2012 edition of psnews.com.au: More than 1,000 archivists from 90 countries have come to Brisbane this week to try and solve the challenges of the digital age. Hosted by the National Archives of Australia, the International Council on Archives (ICA) Congress is being [...]

America was not the only land to be heavily colonized by England. Australia is another country of predominately English colonization. One big difference between the two countries, however, is the number of colonist who chose to emigrate compared with those who were forced to leave their home country. Bound for Botany Bay: British Convict Voyages [...]

My friend, Kimberly Powell, has posted a very good article on locating Australian Wills and Estate Records. The following is a teasor from her article posted at about.com: Wills and probate records can often be a gold mine when researching Australian ancestors. Wills generally list surviving heirs by name, providing confirmation of family relationships. Probate [...]

Over 50 graves were desecrated by vandals. Read the story and see a video of the event on the couriermail.com.au website. Here is an excerpt: THEY were 50 Australian men who left their lives at home to make the ultimate sacrifice on the war fields. Now, almost 70 years later, their families and ancestors have [...]

According to an article posted in the Canberra Times, one of next year’s big travel trends will be to take a personalized genealogy tour. I can think of worse ways to spend two weeks, but hiring someone to handle a personalized tour isn’t something I would have guessed as making the “hot” list in travel. [...]

A broad range of records were added to FamilySearch.org this week from 20 countries, notably Australia, Austria, Canada (Saskatchewan), Chile, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Germany, England, Dominican Republic, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Slovakia, Spain, Venezuela, and the U.S.A. The U.S. additions include a variety of records from California, Illinois, Indiana, North [...]

The following press release was received from FamilySearch: 28 September 2011: New records collections from Australia, Estonia, Mexico and the United States can now be searched for free at FamilySearch.org. In addition, new records were added to Austria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Honduras, Poland, South Africa, and Spain collections. Find your ancestors now at FamilySearch.org. [...]

The following item was just posted on the Gladstone Observer website. Hmmm… What I difference a few little letters can make… A 5.4 magnitude quake has hit near Bowen Queensland, and was felt from Airlie beach, down to Townsville. Just eighteen minutes later, a 5.2 magnitude quake hit Christchurch in New Zealand. According to the [...]