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Using Ballarat Libraries digitisation equipment, learn how to safely digitise and preserve old family photos.

This beginner friendly session explores key resources, including transportation registers, newspaper articles, and digital archives, to help you uncover the stories, journeys, and lives of convict ancestors

Explore strategies for tracing your family history when adoption is part of the story.

Learn how to use Trove, Australia’s free digital archive, to uncover stories, events and moments that shaped your family.

Discover the stories behind your family history in this introductory session on navigating the British Newspaper Archive.

Start your family history research with this beginner-friendly workshop.

Expand your family history research by delving into the rich archive of government records including passenger lists, wills and probates, and hospital and education records.

Discover how PROV records and other useful resources can help you when researching your home.

This session will show you how to select and order records through the new Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) online catalogue.