After a hot and sunny day walking around Adelaide, it is back to the Conference Room for more great talks. The Top 10 Tips for finding hard-to-find ancestors has reinforced for me just what a huge undertaking family history can be and how persistent and sometimes just lucky we have to be to find that elusive clue that leads to a brick wall breakthrough. Jill Ball's talk on free websites for Australian genealogy has me once again amazed at how much information is now available online and the sheer scale of effort that has gone into various digitising and scanning projects. Also just how much is still left to do - it is certainly not all online. Other talks today have included Lost in London, Civil Registration in the British Isles, and World War 1 diggers. My brain is full.
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