History Helper

28/08/2024

Great intro session on genealogy by City of Marion Libraries and Marion Heritage Research Centre.

And a great refurb of the library at Park Holme!

28/08/2024

Checking out genealogy at the local library City of Marion Libraries

22/08/2024

We’re glad to say Ben is recovering well 😂🤣😂🤕

Since February History Helper have digitised over 700 of our collection of church registers, with nearly 1000 now digitised in total (this is about half of the collection). This project was generously funded by a National Library of Australia Community Heritage Grant.

The project has been a great success, not only for making the registers more accessible, but allowing us to reassess our holdings, including finding some registers that had been lost in the system due to misnaming, and standardising the naming system across the entire register collection.

We are very grateful for the service that History Helper has provided as digitising is a quite dangerous process, as can be seen by the hand injury in the photo below!!🤣🤣

22/07/2024

History Helper has a course and a few walks in the spring with WEA adult learning. Check our Facebook event listings, or head to the WEA website:

GENEALOGY FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
: https://www.wea-sa.com.au/44507
GERMAN ADELAIDE: COMMUNITY: https://www.wea-sa.com.au/47201
GERMAN ADELAIDE: CULTURE: https://www.wea-sa.com.au/47202
STREETS OF ADELAIDE: PUBS: https://www.wea-sa.com.au/47221

29/05/2024

Finally the Heimat Adelaide wiki is back to full functionality! Thanks to Zoran D. for working his back of house magic.

Now it’s back to the data mines for us to keep finding more nuggets of information.

If you want to see some findings, check the recording of Ben’s presentation for the Friends of Lutheran Archives South Australia's History Festival event last week: https://www.youtube.com/live/2qbQFMZkoSA?si=akTOqBbPdmofU8FB

https://wiki.historyhelper.com.au

This is the publication site of the Heimat Adelaide Project. The Project aims to record all instances of German speakers living or working in the City of Adelaide, South Australia, between the years of 1836 and 1920. This is a work in progress. As more information comes to light, pages will be updat...

22/04/2024

Legacy Family Tree webinar memberships are on sale at 50% off. Membership includes a years access to the entire Legacy Family Tree library of over 2100 webinars.

Offer valid for new memberships only, and expires on April 28, 2024 at 11:59PM. You'll get one full year of anytime access to all 2,100+ classes and 8,400+ syllabus pages. Your membership also gives you access to the members-only hit...

13/04/2024

Time to walk the walk in support of the SA Museum. First Nations research and repatriation, climate research, biodiversity research- it’s all at risk with the current proposals of restructure within the collections management and research areas of the museum.

11/04/2024

For those concerned about the direction of the SA Museum, this is a chance to walk the walk. 13 April 11 am, SA Parliament House.

Over 400 high-profile individuals have signed an open letter to Premier Peter Malinauskas, saying they are “deeply concerned” about a proposed restructure of the South Australian Museum.

16/03/2024

Have you ever wondered what people were paid or what things cost in 19th century South Australia? Directories and almanacs have a huge amount of this information in them, and many are online for free at the State Library of South Australia https://guides.slsa.sa.gov.au/c.php?g=410329&p=6950224

The image is from Boothby's 1864 Almanac and shows wages for the Adelaide Labour Market, while the next page on shows Adelaide retail prices.

Check them out!

18/02/2024

We’re at the German Heritage Sunday at Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum today. Great local history museum with lots of dedicated volunteers.

17/02/2024

If you are looking for an at home volunteering project, and you can read cursive, consider this.

05/01/2024

If you have an interest in marriage law in 19th century (and early 20th century) Australia, then you may be interested in “Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law” by Alecia Simmonds. Find out which Australian Prime Minister was caught up in a breach of contract suit related to an engagement of marriage.

Dr Alecia Simmonds is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her first book, Wild Man, won the 2016 Davitt Prize for best nonfiction crime writing.

The link below is to an extract published in The Australian (sorry, you’ll need a subscription): https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/courting-book-extract-love-and-the-law-in-australia

Or read a review here: https://insidestory.org.au/blighted-affections/