Unlock the Past Seminars

Those wonderful people at Unlock the Past are presenting more seminars around Australia, with the Melbourne 2 day session coming up soon.

Seminars will be held in :

• Melbourne 19th-20th April
• Canberra 23rd April
• Sydney 26th-27th April
• Adelaide 18th-19th May
• Perth 8th-9th June
• Brisbane 19th-20th October

I've booked my ticket for Melbourne and am looking forward to taking lots of notes, chatting with fellow genealogists and buying a few new books to read.  The program for Melbourne is below and looks great.

Thursday 19 April 2018

9.00am	registration and exhibition
9.25am	welcome and seminar introduction
9.30am	Locating your ancestor’s place of origin in Germany - E. Kopittke
10.20am	Online newspapers: what happened in the “dash” - R. Kopittke
11.10am	break and exhibition
11.40am	Midwives and nurses: and researching female ancestors - S. Zada
12.30pm	lunch break and exhibition
1.40pm	Understanding the system: a brief overview of the history of the German region - E. Kopittke
2.30pm	Convict ancestors - S. Zada
3.20pm	break and exhibition
4.00pm	Researching in German church and civil records - E. Kopittke
4.50pm	close

Friday 20 April 2018

9.00am	registration and exhibition
9.25am	welcome and seminar introduction
9.30am	Understanding your World War One ‘Digger’ - N. Smith
10.20am	Beyond just indexes: why we should check source records - R. Kopittke
11.10am	break and exhibition
11.40am	topic and speaker TBA
12.20pm	prize draw
12.30pm	lunch break and exhibition
1.40pm	Researching your Freemason ancestor - R. Hamilton
2.30pm	Tracing your World War Two Australian military ancestors - N. Smith
3.20pm	break and exhibition
3.40pm	ScotlandsPeople: the place to launch your Scottish research - R. Kopittke
4.30pm	close