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Tag Archives: Australia
Trove Detective: Craig Baynes’ 1950 film ‘Undertow’
Have you visited the National Film & Sound Archive either online, or at their offices in Canberra or elsewhere? While investigating further research on the ballet dancer Queenie Royal, I came across an interesting article on her husband Craig Baynes, who … Continue reading
Posted in Baynes, National Film & Sound Archive, Uncategorized
Tagged 1950, Australia, Commonwealth Film Laboratories, Craig Baynes, demonstrations, documentary, producer, Queenie Royal, rescue, resuscitation, short film, surf boards, surf boats, surf life saving, techniques, Undertow
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WW1 War Records: Alfred Pendleton & the AIF Project
Alfred Pendleton (1891-1951) AIF Service Number 313 Troopship ‘Thermistocles’ 1917 (SLVic Image H21105) START HERE at the AIF PROJECT and save a lot of time & effort looking for WW1 servicemen. This database uses the records from the Australian War … Continue reading
Posted in Australian War Memorial, Australian War Records, Pendleton
Tagged ADFA, AIF Project, Australia, Davies, Gallipoli, Konigen Luise, manchester, Pendleton, Service, Thermistocles, Western Front, Wood, World War One, WW1
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Trove Detective: WW1& WW2 Matron Grace M. Wilson
The Face of Australian War Nursing Have you found the option to search for Illustrated Articles in Trove’s digitised newspapers section yet? It’s on the left hand side of the basic search results with the options to refine your search … Continue reading
Posted in Military, Newspapers, Trove, Trove Detective, Wilson, World War I, World War II
Tagged 3rd Australian General Hospital, Abbassia, Abbeville, Alfred Hospital, Australia, Australian Army Nursing Service, Brisbane, France, Grace Campbell, Grace Wilson, Matron, Matron Grace Wilson, melbourne, World War I, World War II
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Exploring the British Newspaper Archives
In Search of Substantiating Evidence In Australia, we are extremely fortunate with the information available on our Birth, Death & Marriage Certificates and our free online Newpapers at Trove. After recently purchasing some Birth and Marriage Certificates from England, I … Continue reading
Trove Detective: Maude O’Reilly, A Talented Artist
Trove: An Australian Treasure Trove is an extremely valuable resource and it’s free, thanks to the National Library of Australia. The digitised newspapers may need editing but if we all do a little when we visit it helps everybody. It … Continue reading
Posted in Canberra ACT, National Library of Australia, O'Reilly, Trove, Trove Detective
Tagged Australia, Brisbane, Canberra, John Rowell, L J Harvey, London, Maud, Maude, melbourne, National Library of Australia, O'Reilly, Perth, Queensland, Royal College of Art, Trove, Victoria, Western Australia
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Trove Detective: John F. O’Reilly: Just a Little Trove Magic
Perseverance Rewarded. Still struggling to find where John O’Reilly was buried. His marriage certificate showed his name as John Francis Benedict O’Reilly, an electrical engineer living in Petersham when he married Catherine Maude Wormersley, a dressmaker at St … Continue reading
Posted in Cemeteries, Deaths, Marriages, National Library of Australia, Newspapers, O'Reilly, Trove Detective
Tagged Australia, BDM's, Burwood Cemetery, death, Design & Art, Engineer, Free BMD, John O'Reilly, Lewisham, Maud O'Reilly, Maude Wormersley, melbourne, New South Wales, Post Master Generals, Queensland, South Australia, St Thomas', Thomas Becket, UK, Victoria, Western Australia
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Ellen O’Reilly: Keeping the Family Together.
Finding more ways around Rookwood Necropolis Babies Michael, Mary & Agnes O’Reilly have no headstone Cemetery Transcriptions are another way to trace family members you may be looking for, through inscriptions on headstones and memorials in cemeteries. It’s always rewarding … Continue reading
Posted in Cemeteries, Deaths, Field of Mars, Macquarie Park, O'Reilly, Rookwood, Trove, Waverley & South Head
Tagged Agnes, Australia, Australian Cemeteries Index, Ellen, Find my past, Frances, James, Johanna, John, Joseph, Lilian, Mary, Michael, O'Reilly, Peter, Rookwood Cemetery, Ryerson Index, Society of Australian Genealogists, Stephen
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Kiama, NSW. Well Done and Thanks to the National Library.
NLA : Ask a Librarian Service Following on from a previous blog about Captain Charles Moore Stevenson, V.D., of Kiama who died in 1909, I have the following information provided by the dedicated staff of the National Library of Australia … Continue reading
Posted in Ask a Librarian, Family, Kiama NSW, National Archives of Australia, National Library of Australia, Newspapers, Places, State Library of NSW, Stevenson, Trove
Tagged 2nd AIR, 2nd Australian Infantry Regiment, Archibald Langwill, Australia, Captain, Charles Moore Stevenson, Kiama, Kiama Independent, Memorial, Military Service, National Library Australia, Robert Dalton, Volunteer Officers Decoration
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