Hi Everyone, I hope you have had a good week and you got some of the wonderful rain that we have been having, where ever you are.
I receive on average about 20-25 emails and messages per day about family and local history matters. Mose queries are easy to reply to and others take a little longer. I reply to them all strictly in date order, so if you have sent me an email a while ago, it may show how far I’m behind. I must admit that the number of inquiries during the ‘COVID year increased by about 25%. I do promise you that I do respond to each and every one. ‘Eventually’!
Anyway, I had an email from a lady during the week asking me how to go about researching her family history on the Goldfields of Western Australia. She was just starting out and wanted some ideas. I asked her if she had looked on the Outback Family History website to see what she could find, but she told me she had never heard of it and only read the OFH stories, etc on Facebook and on the Outback Family History Blog.
It got me wondering if others may not be aware of the website either. So just to explain:
The Web site, www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au is what I would call the library which holds all of the photographs and information covering a huge number of subjects on the people and places of the Western Australian Goldfields. It can be searched by name, keyword, or place. The site is huge, and I couldn’t guess how many records it holds, but it is added to all the time.
The blog, as you may know, is the collection of stories, the ‘Ripping Yarns, and Tragic Tales’. Several times I have been advised to combine the two sites, but I feel that the audience is different for both. The first is for those researching their family history or are interested in a particular place or subject. The blog is for those interested in just the stories about these people and places.
What I was wondering is, who wasn’t aware of both sites and who uses or has used the OFH library site? I would love to know, really I would! – research@outbackfamilyhistory.com.au
My third site is that of the Western Australian Virtual Miners Memorial, www.wavmm.com, it is a site dedicated to the people of Western Australia who have lost their lives during the course of their work on a WA mine site. This includes all sorts of mining. Each person has a profile page and myself and two volunteers are always adding new information as we come across it so each person is not ‘Just a Name’. The Dept of Mines assists us in supplying information on deaths in the last 30 years or so, as these are the ones we know little about. This site is specifically to do with mining accidents so a narrower field of interest, but it still has a wide following both in the mining community and individuals.
So it’s goodbye from me, and I hope you have a great week.♥
Moya Sharp
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