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Goal 8: Learn about Australian newspaper records.
Choices:
ALearn about Australian newspapers online.
- Learn about using online newspaper articles in this FamilySearch Wiki article.
FS—Wiki: Australia Newspapers - Learn about Australian newpapers for research.
SLQ—Newspapers - 2019 - Explore the
Trove Australian Newspapers online project for clues on finding your Australian ancestors. - Use the Ryerson Index to learn about death notices in Australian newspapers.
BExplore Australian newspapers for ancestor research.
- Find links to Australian newspapers on the Wikipedia site.
- Search Australian newspapers in the onlinenewspapers.com site.
- Search Australian newspapers in the newspapers.com site.
- Explore links to Australian newspaper sites in the Pacific section of the FamilySearch Digital Historical Newspapers page.
Record Search Practice |
Hector McQuarrie appeared in an Australian newspaper article 1n 1930. Use the "MH: Australian Newspapers" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- What was Hector McQuarrie noted for in this article?
- What ship was he a passenger on, and what was unusual about the ship?
- What song was being played on the piano that Hector interrupted?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Hector" as the first name and "McQuarrie" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click the document icon for Hector McQuarrie.
- Read the information in the center column. You can zoom in and read the newsprint, or scroll down tro the OCR text section.
- Hector was noted as a journalist and traveler.
- The ship was the Tahiti, and it apparently was sinking.
- Hector interrupted "Old Folks at Home."
(Contributed by Brent Bunker )
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