16 tips to promote your history group website

As we are constantly looking for and linking to websites of historical interest we have listed below 16 tips for history societies to use to help promote themselves to the wider community.

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Adopting a grave

Most Australian gravesites have perpetual tenure meaning the site cannot be resold or reused and are reserved for the inhabitant in perpetuity.

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Come find me, actually come find me

Tracing family history is one of the fastest growing interests in Australia, with more people than ever using online records to discover elusive relatives.

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Finding burial information - tips and traps

Many of the interment lists for Australian Cemeteries are coming online and they are extremely useful resources for family historians especially when you cannot easily visit.

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Following naming conventions in genealogy

Have you noticed how European ancestors, particularly the British ones, often carried the same first names down through the family lines?

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Genealogical events

The online indexes usually show the year when the birth, death or marriage was REGISTERED.  This does not necessarily mean it is the year of the actual event.

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The disappearing men - using census records

Scouring the UK census data often leads to various potholes especially around the years of mass migration to Australia and the USA (1840 - 1870).

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