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26 May 2012Sharon Brennan

A Dream Come True

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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

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Mornings with Alex Sloan Interview with Rose Holley, 7 September 2010

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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

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• 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

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As of today

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How do you access Trove?

• A computer or mobile device

• Internet access

• An open mind

• Time, time, time and even more time

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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

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June 1933 - December 1982

Cover image 3 August 1960

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/imageservice/nla.news-page4822093/print

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My most interesting

find!

The Courier Mail, Thursday 8th June 1950, p. 5

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My saddest find

The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Thursday 7 March 1861

Blog entries

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Note the father’s missing finger

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Country news in city newspapers

The Brisbane Courier, Friday 18th November 1927, p. 11

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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

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The Moreton Courier, Monday 13 September 1852, p. 1

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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?

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Search term Coffs Harbour

Pictures

Books

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Newspapers

Journals

Websites

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Maps

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Music, sound, video

Archived websites

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Lists

Diaries, letters, archives

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People and organisations

Note - subscribe

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• 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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Link

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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