Lilian's Tree

Lisa Louise Cooke's book, The Genealogist's Google Toolbox, is wonderful. A useful book that you can turn to, when you are stuck, even if you don't do genealogy. How to use Google Alerts,  Google Books and Google Scholar, are just some of the tools, Lisa covers. Written so that you can follow the instructions and not be confused, this book would be a very useful addition to your bookshelf.

https://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/useful-tips-for-reading-handwritten-documents/ 'Archives Outside is for people who love, use and manage archives.'   So says the spiel on the top of the page and as a genealogists I do love archives. This link is to a post about reading old handwritten documents and was complied by Archives NSW staff. Divided into four sections, Strategies, Useful equipment, Tips about lettering, symbols and abbreviations, Useful reference tools and resources,  these give us positive ways in which we can workout problems. Under Strategies, two tips that stuck out were Use common sense and Persistence is the key . These are important as we tend to want to finish, transcribing the document, quickly. Looking at the section , Useful equipment , I thought what? You need your eyes and pen and paper  but NO! The two tips they give made perfect sense. No, I'm not going to tell you, what they are. Tips etc. is divided in...