There can be few topics as universally appealing as the study of one's own family story. Not surprisingly, school-aged children take to learning about family history with great enthusiasm. Tracing & Writing a Family Story is the ideal book to help any teacher introduce the topic of family history of their students. Teachers can use the book as the basis of a whole integrated unit of study, ...
Genealogy is now Australia's most popular hobby and Janet Reakes is one of our best-known and most widely published authorities. It is with a sense of expectation that many Australian genealogists now trace their family trees in the hope of discovering a convict lurking on a branch. In Janet Reakes's bestselling guide, comprehensive listings of convists sent over on the First, Second and ...
Millions of us have ancestors who came to Australia from overseas, whether as convicts, gold seekers, early free settlers or as post-war immigrants. Tracing those ancestors, sometimes many years later can be a daunting task for the beginner. Perhaps you're one of those people who wants to 'find their roots' but you don't know where to begin. In How To Trace Your Family Tree (and not ...