Carmel's Corner

The good, the bad and the ugly Trove is one of my favourite sites for finding items related to my family history and for providing backgroun...

This article appeared in 1947 with the reporter and John McInerney reminiscing about the Tarlee picnics of days gone by. Like so many Trov...

The power of a book club. Three men wanted more books to read, others followed their lead. In 1888 in Tarlee, in the mid-north of ...

Remember that seaside picnic, the one in 1918 of course. Here it is - Talking Tarlee - Beach Picnic Further searching in Trove revealed th...

The weather was hot. Harvest was over. Time for some fun. A visit to the beach. In 1918 motorised transport was still a luxu...

Trove turns up treasure again. How could I have previously missed this tome published on the occasion of the South Australian Centenary in ...

Hatch, match and dispatch Time for a little light entertainment - Correction time! The Trove digitised newspaper zone provides wonderfu...

In order to keep abreast of newly digitised newspapers on Trove , I use a feed reader to deliver the latest titles. One can select from a v...

Building with Trove The importance of Trove as a community resource vital to Australia cannot be over emphasised. The development of this ...

In the spirit of contributing, volunteering and not without a sense of personal satisfaction, I have been text correcting digitised newspape...

Here's another method to make those old family photos available to your siblings and cousins. Sign up for Flickr to get 1 teraby...

Evernote to the rescue In the course of my family research I have compiled a number of surname lists in Trove and while these are very ...

This week we have had the delight of the birth of a new grandchild and attendant baby sitting duties for his elder brother in Thirroul, NS...

     This week Alex Daw ,  Shauna Hicks  and Fran Kitto have published their reviews of the successful History Queensland "In Time a...

Lights on vehicles This week while exploring some newspapers in Trove I came across an article which puzzled me. Why would vehicles b...

Image courtesy Boston Public Library Hidden Killers The BBC TV program  More Hidden Killers of the Victorian Age revealed fascinating...