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Lesser Known Sources for Surname Searching in Australia

Shauna Hicks
Mar 19, 2022
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Queensland Family History Society
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Gen Society of Queensland
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Western Australia
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New South Wales
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Tasmania
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Canberra
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Last Thoughts
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

This webinar was presented live during the 2022 Surname Society annual conference.

This presentation looks at genealogy indexes created by societies and other volunteers in all the Australian states and territories. The focus will be online indexes searchable by non-members. While useful information may be hidden behind society paywalls, there are still many sites that can be searched for surname references.

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Shauna Hicks

Shauna Hicks
Shauna Hicks has been tracing her own family history since 1977 and worked in government for over 35 years in Australian libraries and archives in Brisbane, Canberra and Melbourne. Since retiring from full time work, she has written numerous famil
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