Random thoughts and observations
This information about the Sutherland family came to me via Rex Sutherland. The notes were written by Leslie Archibald Sutherland (1911-97). I have edited them slightly to put them in my own family’s context. My great-great grandfather Daniel Sutherland migrated to Australia from Scotland in 1854. Together with his wife Mary (nee Ferguson) and their [...]
I again discovered something tonight on the National Library of Australia’s digital newspaper archives. Here is a story from The Argus (Melbourne) dated October 5, 1893: An accident happened on the Colac railway this afternoon, between the Pettavel Road and Germantown stations. Violet Gorey, aged 3 and a half years, a daughter of Mr John [...]
I’ve written before about the National Library of Australia’s wonderful digitisation program. Hundreds of historic newspapers are having their pages converted to searchable electronic copies. I’ve already used the resource for family history research. The text appears garbled in most cases. Hence the NLA has asked volunteers to correct digital records as they discover them. [...]
I haven’t done much offline genealogical research since 1999, but I occasionally browse online sources on public holidays, like today. These sources are much more plentiful than they were 10 years ago and most didn’t exist in 1999. Today I checked old digital copies of The Argus on the National Library’s archive. This is a [...]
I discovered today the National Library of Australia has begun digitising millions of old newspapers from microfilm. These archives are progressively being made available online. What a wonderful project and how tremendous it will be for researchers. I spent days browsing microfilm while studying the family history, often picking dates at random. Now it’s possible [...]
