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

Merged Convict Index (July 2010)
North Irish Horse (July 2010)
Tasmanian census records online (July 2010)
North West family tree website launched (July 2010)
Find My Past takes over WorldVitalRecords Australasia (June 2010)
National Genealogy Roadshow (June 2010)
Historic Australian Newspapers updated (May 2010)
Soldier Settlement Loan Files (May 2010)
State Records NSW Staff Picks (May 2010)

Registers of auriferous (gold) leases, 1874-1928 (April 2010)
Salvaging flood-damaged records (April 2010)
UK BMD certificates price rise (April 2010)
Births, marriages and deaths at sea (March 2010)
Online genealogy courses (March 2010)
Royal Naval service records 1853-1923 (March 2010)
Another year of NSW BDM indexes online (February 2010)
Australian Women’s Weekly digitisation project (February 2010)
Families on the brink of war (January 2010)

NZ BDM records online (January 2010)

Queensland BDM indexes online (January 2010)

190,000 Welsh wills online (December 2009)

British Library collection to be preserved (December 2009)

New on ScotlandsPeople (December 2009)
brightsold to manage ScotlandsPeople (November 2009)
Discover true stories of heroism (November 2009)
Legislation favouring genealogy (October 2009)
Irish 1911 census: all 32 counties now online (October 2009)
NZ Passenger lists 1871-1915 being indexed (October 2009)
RNZAF No 6 Flying Boat Squadron formed in 1942 (October 2009)
Next generation genealogists (October 2009)

Australian Genealogy Survey (September 2009)
GenClass (September 2009)
Moreton Bay cemetery records online (September 2009)

New Tasmanian Portal (August 2009)

1911 census (August 2009)

GeoCities to close this year (July 2009)
New Google features (July 2009)
New mailing list Blackbirding (July 2009)
British Newspapers 1800-1900 online (June 2009)
Genealogy courses online (June 2009)
New Zealand Blue Books 1840-1855 online (June 2009)
Indexes on the State Records of South Australia website (May 2009)
Queensland BDM certificates (May 2009)
Indexes to 3 Irish genealogy databases online (May 2009)
New Queensland indexes online (April 2009)

New Tasmanian indexes online (April 2009)

NZ BDM indexes online (April 2009)

Search new Bankruptcy Index (April 2009)

Find the felon in your family tree (March 2009)

NSW Bankruptcy Index to be accessible online (March 2009)

NSW Certificates of Naturalization, 1849-1903 (March 2009)

NSW Index to convict pardons (March 2009)

NSW Primary Application packets (March 2009)

Australian and New Zealand online genealogy course (February 2009)

Over 26 million UK BMD index entries online (February 2009)

Victorian Probate and Shipping Indexes (February 2009)

Victorian Probates 1841-1925 (February 2009)

600,000 UK birth, baptism, marriage, burial records online (January 2009)

Family Historian 4 due out soon (January 2009)

Military research course online (January 2009)

Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria (January 2009)

Women in the records (January 2009)

Campaign to open the Irish Republic’s 1926 Census (December 2008)

Canadian Directories 1819-1899 online (December 2008)

Familyrelatives.com to add 10 million Irish records (December 2008)

Index to Settlement Purchase Registers (November 2008)

New military history pages (November 2008)

Registers of Firms Index (November 2008)

Virtual tour of the Australian War Memorial (November 2008)

1901 Census for Surrey online (October 2008)

GenClass – genealogy courses online (October 2008)

Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office: Advanced Searching

    using the Index to Tasmanian Convicts (October 2008)

Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (September 2008)

Limerick Digital Archive Collections (September 2008)

Making Australia Home (September 2008)

Convict Transportation Registers (August 2008)

Genealogy program assistance (August 2008)

Creating your own free page on Rootsweb (July 2008)

Early Probate Records NSW (July 2008)

More National Burial Index records (July 2008)

Australian War Graves Photographic Archive (June 2008)

Queensland BDM indexes online (June 2008)

Australasian Newspaper Digitisation Project (May 2008)

 

Articles and Reviews

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Archway Online (October 2005)

Australian Newspapers Digitisation program (May 2008)

Deaths in Australia and the Ryerson Index (December 2009)

European Research on the Internet (August 2004)

Family Historian 3 (January 2006)

Family Pages on the Web (May 2005)

Genealogical Mapping (September 2003)

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)
LDS Church and Ancestry.com (October 2004)

Legacy Family Tree – A Different Approach (November 2004)

Lincolnshire Convicts transported to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda (September 2005)

Maintaining a Professional Family History Website (November 2003)

Research on the Internet (September 2004)

Review of Family Tree Maker 2008 (January 2008)

The Portable Genealogist - Mini Review (August 2007)

What to do with your Research (December 2005)

What's new in Legacy Family Tree 7 (December 2008)


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 (Mac OSX 10.3)

Family Historian free trial

Family Tree Legends free trial

Family Tree Maker

GenealogyPro (Mac OSX) free trial

GenoPro free trial

GENP free trial

Great Family free trial

Heredis (Mac X.2) free trial

Hereditree free trial

iFamily for Leopard (Mac OSX 10.4 plus) free trial

iFamily for Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4 plus) 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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