Upcoming Presentations

Are you intrigued by AI tools but unsure how they fit into your family history research? Wondering whether you can trust AI with your ancestors’ stories, or how to avoid introducing errors or bias into your work?This session is for family historians who want to better understand the role of artificial intelligence in genealogy – without the hype. We’ll explore the practical uses of AI for tasks like transcription, story writing, and research planning, alongside examples where it gets things wrong. You’ll learn a straightforward framework to help you decide when to use AI, how to interpret its results, and how to keep human judgement and historical context at the heart of your research.No technical background is needed – just curiosity and a desire to work more critically and confidently with AI. You’ll leave with greater clarity, practical takeaways, and a downloadable decision-making tool to guide your own use of AI in family history.

Struggling to keep your family history research organised? Not sure where to put things or how to find them later? This session is for everyday family historians who want to simplify their digital research using easy and effective strategies. We will cover how to set up consistent folder structures, use file naming conventions that actually work, and create simple research logs to track your progress. You will also learn about best practices for recording names, dates, and places, which are essential for consistency, sorting, and searching. Additional tips will include how to manage downloads, reduce digital clutter, and back up your work safely. Whether you are just starting out or trying to bring order to years of research, this session will provide practical and realistic tools to help you feel more in control of your research and better prepared to preserve and share your findings. No technical expertise is required. Just bring your curiosity and a willingness to tidy things up.

Australia’s family history goes far beyond convicts, and so do its records. This session will help you uncover your Australian ancestors, particularly those who arrived as free settlers, gold miners, assisted migrants, or post-war arrivals. You’ll learn how to navigate the country’s unique record systems shaped by colonial settlement and state-based jurisdictions. We’ll explore how to access birth, death and marriage records, immigration and naturalisation files, land grants, and newspapers. You’ll also discover how to compensate for the lack of national census data using electoral rolls, directories, rate books, and other creative substitutes. Knowing were to look and how to access the records will be a key consideration of this session.

Whether you’re just starting out or tackling a tricky brick wall, this session will give you the tools, strategies, and confidence to explore your Australian ancestry effectively—no prior experience with Australian records required.

Use AI to extract, clean, organise, and analyse your family history research. Intermediate level, focused on workflows and data handling; ideal for users managing large research projects; activities include table-building, clustering, and data cleaning.

1: From Records to Raw Data—Extracting with AI  Register
2: Cleaning Up—Fixing, Formatting, and Validating Data  Register
3: Organising Information—Tables, Tags, and Templates  Register
4: Seeing Patterns—Summaries, Timelines, and Clusters  Register
5: Your AI Research Assistant—Logs, Notes, and Citations  Register

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