• Early Chinese Australian families – putting your Chinese ancestors in context.
• Finding your Chinese roots: tips for tracing your Australian family’s Chinese origins.

• Help Help! Which information is correct?: Tried-and-true strategies for determining historical truth.
• Help! Why can’t I find my ancestor’s surname

• Tracing your ancestors in the digital age: the digitisation of collections at the State Library of New South Wales.

• Separation and Divorce Scotland 17th to 19th Centuries

• The Marriage of local and family history: a bridge to the past.
• Harness the power of blogging – From Dorfprozelten to Australia

• ‘Migration schemes to Australia’ – Understanding more about the people who were encouraged to come.
• ‘DNA for Genealogists’ Introducing the DNA tests that can be used as tools in family history research.
• Learn more from autosomal and X-chromosome DNA

• Not just the facts Ma’am: give me the big picture.
• A different kind of DNA talk.
• Genealogy and the six degrees of separation: how to find anyone in the world

• Shovelling out paupers: Researching assisted emigration in English archives.
• Hardship and boredom, marauding and drink – researching British Military Deserters.
• Hidden Gems: finding and using unusual record collections in English archives.
• Writing up your family history for pleasure and profit.

• Finding your ancestors in the genealogical haystack.
• The Joint Copy Project – making Parish Registers accessible to researchers.

• Sporting Ancestors – Discovering Forgotten Athletes.
• Bring your ancestors to life – using Court of Petty Session records

• Did your ancestor serve in the British Military during WWI.
• Source for Mr Goose and Mrs Gander.
• Using British Medals to help fill out your family tree.

Lunchtime Seminar: Breaking down brickwalls in your research.

• The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers – an unknown resource.
• The UK Gazettes – A Treasure Trove of Information for Family History.
• Wills from England and Ireland.

• A history of British Child Migration Schemes.
• For king and empire – services rendered: WW1 Medical Records
• Getting the most out of nationalarchives.gov.uk

Lunchtime session: Volunteering at The National Archives

• WW1 – New Zealand remembers.
• How did that Kiwi get in your tree.

• Remembering and commemorating our ancestors.
• ‘the infernal villain will be sent away’ Convict Case studies in the National Archives of Ireland

• Scotland – maps and gazetteers for research.
• Buried treasures – what’s in the English Parish Chest.
• Digging for Gold – Locating British Miners and their Records.
• Tracing Your Pre-WWI British Soldier

Lunchtime Seminar: Genealogical lecturing skills. Proposal to Presentation

• A general and indiscriminate stigma – the Irish Famine Orphans, 1848–1850.

• Across the centuries – the Huguenots and their Australian descendants.

• Discovering the hidden riches in public libraries:Fostering family history in Local Studies Collections.

• Far from home Researching stories of First World War military service

• Mapping our families – putting them in their place.
• Work choices – shaping our lives.
• What can I find using eRecords.

• Migration to New Zealand
• Finding family in New Zealand

• Family search – future and vision.
• Connecting the Community through FamilySearch.
• Irish Census and census substitutes.
• Ireland – Interpreting and evaluating name lists.
• Ireland -Chasing the poor and the landless.

• Probably you have read of the fight for Bullycourt…Ancestors on the Western Front, 1916-1918

• Bankrupts and Insolvents in mid-nineteenth century England – some available records and sources.

• Following the gold.
• Dropbox and Evernote for family historians.
• House and Home – double session.
• Crossing the great generational divide using social media.

• The Social Archive: socialising Australia’s wartime history.

• The many meanings of TROVE

• Friendly Societies and family historians.
• One-name studies what use are they to you.
• Distressed cotton weavers emigration scheme.
• The English Workhouse and its records.

• Heraldry and the genealogist

• The Abandoned Child – Social Changes 1850-1870 through the records of the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children.