Computers and Genealogy

keeping Australian and New Zealand genealogists who use computers for genealogy up to date.

Recommended genealogy websites are also featured in the magazine every month.

 

Internet News  |  Articles and Reviews  |  Programs

Internet News

20th century Merchant Navy Seamen records online October 2011
75 years of the Auckland Star to be available online May 2011
1850 convict pardons granted but not collected April 2011
1911 Scottish census released May 2011
Burial and cremation records on Deceased Online August 2011
Cyndis List – what would I do without it? March 2011
Early British newspapers available online January 2012
Family History auctions online April 2011
FamilySearch adds 14,000,000 records (Belgium, Canada, Chile, England, Netherlands, Slovakia,
    South Africa, USA) May 2011
Free Map Tool January 2012
Goodbye IGI, hello HRC September 2011
Guild of One-Name Studies special offer August 2011
Index to Immigrants landed at Brisbane 1885-1917 April 2011
Irish Church Records Project October 2011
Jewish Genealogy news February 2011
Launch of findmypast.ie June 2011
Letters received relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland 1822-1860 October 2011
Militia service records added to findmypast.uk August 2011
Missing census records in England and Wales October 2011
New English online shop June 2011
Old weather update March 2011
Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills 1384-1958 February 2011
Royal Navy and British despatches March 2011
SA BDM indexes to go online January 2012
Save the Workhouse on Cleveland Street Fitzrovia April 2011
Society of Genealogists collection February 2011
Survey of genealogists May 2011

 

Articles and Reviews

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Archway Online October 2005

Australian Newspapers Digitisation program May 2008

Balmain General Cemetery November 2011

Brick Walls removed FREE! September 2011

Deaths in Australia and the Ryerson Index December 2009

European Research on the Internet August 2004

Family Tree Maker 2011 review November 2010

Genies Down Under – a podcast about genealogy, with an Australian twist November 2011

How permanent is your CD-R? January 2006

How to get the best from RootsMagic March 2005

How to print, save and display the newspaper images from Papers Past November 2009
Whats new in Legacy Family Tree 7 December 2008
Maintaining a Professional Family History website November 2003

Research on the Internet September 2004

Take another look at FamilySearch! January 2011

The Portable Genealogist – mini-review August 2007

The role of social media in family history July 2011

What to do with your Research December 2005


Programs

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Genealogy Software Comparisons bookmark this site and visit regularly!

Ancestral Quest free trial and video tutorial

Brother's Keeper freeware

EziTree free trial

Family Historian free trial

Family Tree Maker

GenealogyPro (Mac) free trial

GenoPro free trial

GENP free trial

Great Family free trial

Heredis (Mac) free trial

Hereditree free trial

iFamily for Leopard (Mac) free trial

iFamily for Tiger (Mac) free trial

Legacy (Standard edition) free

Personal Ancestral File free

Relatively Yours free trial

Reunion (Mac) free trial

RootsMagic free trial

The Master Genealogist

 

 

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