Presentation for Coffs Harbour Family History Association, 2012

1. A Dream Come True
Coffs Harbour Family History Society
Botanic Gardens
26 May 2012
Sharon Brennan
Tuesday, 26 June 12

2. Outline
• What is Trove?
• How do you access Trove?
• What might you find on Trove for family history?
• The Trove home page
• Registering with Trove
• Printing and saving from Trove
• Text correction on Trove
• Tagging, collaborating on Trove
• Questions
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

3. Mornings with Alex Sloan Interview with Rose Holley, 7 September 2010
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

4. What is Trove?
• A world first initiative of the National Library of
Australia
• A repository of Australian material
• An integrated searchable database of newspapers,
books, magazines, maps, theses, pictures, sound
recordings
• A wonderful free resource for all family historians
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

5. • Knowing you have made a significant difference to
providing easy access to Australian history, and are
helping people to find things in seconds that previously
took months or even years is hugely rewarding
• Rose Holley interviewed in Inside History magazine
No 2 Jan-Feb 2011, p. 13
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

6. As of today
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7. How do you access Trove?
• A computer or mobile device
• Internet access
• An open mind
• Time, time, time and even more time
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

8. What can you find on Trove?
• Full text of major Australian newspapers 1803-1954
• Birth, Marriage and Death announcements
• Shipping news
• Advertisements
• Legal notices
• Sound recordings
• Pictures
• Maps
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

9. June 1933 - December 1982
Cover image 3 August 1960
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/imageservice/nla.news-page4822093/print
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10. My most
interesting
find!
The Courier Mail, Thursday 8th June 1950, p. 5
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11. My saddest find
Blog entries
The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Thursday 7 March 1861
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12. Note the father’s
missing finger
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13. Country news in city newspapers
The Brisbane Courier, Friday 18th November 1927, p. 11
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14. Verification of
family stories
• Ellen Sullivan was murdered by aboriginals
somewhere north of Armidale
• Year unknown
• A search of BDM’s proved difficult and inconclusive
without the purchase of more than one death
certificate
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

15. The Moreton Courier, Monday 13 September 1852, p. 1
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16. What else have I discovered?
• My great grandfather was wounded by a bull
• My grandfather was kicked by a horse and injured his eye
• Another great grandfather was in a critical condition after being
caught in a horse’s reins
• My husband’s great, great grandfather was assaulted and robbed
in his house at night
• Many detailed marriage reports
• More details about several accidental deaths
• What have you discovered?
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

17. Tuesday, 26 June 12

18. Search term
Coffs Harbour
Pictures
Books
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19. Websites
Newspapers
Journals
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20. Maps
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21. Archived websites
Music, sound, video
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22. Lists
Diaries, letters, archives
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23. People and organisations
Note - subscribe
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24. • Why login to Trove?
• Edit the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and delete tags and
comments
• Create lists
• Create private tags and comments, readable only by you.
• Keep track of your newspaper corrections
• What are tags?
• Basically labels or keywords you attach to articles
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Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
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26. Link
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29. Trove Tips -1
• Start with a broad search then narrow using filters on
Trove
• You can browse or search newspapers
• Use inverted commas to enclose phrases
• Boolean searches
• AND, OR and NOT and brackets to create boolean
expressions. You can use a minus sign next to the
word in place of NOT
• Try variations of surnames, e.g. Halloran, O’Halloran
Thanks to Jill Ball
Tuesday, 26 June 12

30. Trove Tips -2
• Do a NEAR search for names with the tilde key (~),
which will pick up names within 2 workds of each
other d.g. “Sharon Brennan”~2
• Search for family name plus town of residence
• Don’t restrict searches to local newspapers -
interstate papers often reported on news from other
areas
• Search for photos of Churches, Towns of significance
to the family
• Check for funeral was well as death notices - there
may only have been one
Thanks to Jill Ball aka Geniaus
Tuesday, 26 June 12

31. Trove Tips -3
• Repeat searches on a regular basis as new content is
added regularly
• Use Trove to date newspaper clippings found
amongst family papers
• Paste corrected text from Trove into a note in your
genealogy program
• Regularly check the list of newspapers which have
been recently digitised
Thanks to Jill Ball aka Geniaus
Tuesday, 26 June 12

32. Trove Tips -4
• Use the RSS Feed button from the bottom of search results
screens to get updates for topics you have searched
• Read the news of the day for a family event - to give
social context
• Check the weather of the day for a family event - further
context
• Zooming to about 65% makes newspaper articles easy to
read
• If a page is missing contact Trove
Thanks to Jill Ball aka Geniaus
Tuesday, 26 June 12

33. Contributions to Trove Community
• 52 552 newspaper text corrections today
• 3 201 photos have been contributed via Flickr this
month
• 9 062 items tagged this week
• 1 221 comments added this month
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12

34. Trove and Flickr
• Did you know you can add your images to Trove to
help build a picture of Australian life?
• What is Flickr?
• Instructions here.
Sharon Brennan
Coffs Harbour 26 May 2012
Tuesday, 26 June 12