Digitising Family Records
This session will explaining how to create digital images of
your family records. It will cover reasons and uses for digitising, image
resolution, colour management, file types, compression, metadata, storage
options and equipment. (This session can
be either 45 minutes or 2 hours plus a workshop)
Mapping your Ancestors
Show – don’t tell!!
Replace lengthy descriptions of places with a simple map and
improve your family stories. Using maps will give a sense of place and the
setting of your family story. Maps can show the family’s position in the world,
their local environment and the path of their travels.
Using Maps in your Family Story
This session will discuss how to improve your family stories
with the use of maps.
It will cover where you can obtain a suitable map (Internet,
atlas or other sources); how to modify the map to tell your family story and
then insert the finished map into your story. (This session is 45 minutes and would be assisted by access to the
Internet)
Obscure Place Names and Parish Maps
This session will discuss how to locate that obscure place
name that you have been searching for and then search for and download Parish
maps to your computer to assist in further research.
It will cover the resources that are available to find your
locality, the background to Parish maps, using the HLRV (Historic Land Records
Viewer) within the NSW Land Registry Services website where you can view Parish Maps and how to Print
or Download the selected Parish map to your computer. (This session is 45 minutes and needs access to the Internet)
Introduction to Land Records and Parish Maps
This session will discuss how Land purchases were recorded
from the early days of settlement and will discuss how to search the indexes of
Land Title transfers in the Colony of New South Wales.
It will cover using the HLRV (Historic Land Records Viewer)
where you can view various indexes and how to obtain copies of the original
Deed Image. (This session is 45-60
minutes and needs access to the Internet)
The Spatial Services Portal
Add DimensioN
to your Family Research and Storytelling with map imagery.
SIX is the Spatial Information eXchange and it has some free functions available to
genealogists through the Spatial Services Portal:
SIX Maps allows us to transition from
aerial photography of today to aerial photography of Sydney from 1943 to
current street maps. It also provides Cadastral, Place Names and Addressing
data.
NSW Globe is a free and easy way to view NSW government primary
spatial information and spatial services using Google's familiar search and
mapping functionality.
The Map Store allows you to browse and select Layered and Georeferenced
PDF Topographic Maps Online.
Hear how these tools can add a new dimension to your research
and storytelling with map imagery. (This
session is 45-60 minutes and needs access to the Internet)