Monday, July 30, 2018

Education Records

Panton Hill School (1924) Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection Yarra Plenty Regional Library in partnership with Eltham District Historical Society
It is Family History month.  Retired teacher and genealogist Beryl O'Gorman will take us back to our School Days at Lalor Library Thursday 2 August to kick off our month long program.  She will also provide tips on how to access education records for your family history research. Researching students or teachers, records can be found in the schools themselves, government and private, including church schools. Older government schools will have records archived with State Archives.  Look for published school histories, newspaper reports, photos and family records.
Facebook groups, Flickr , local history group collections and of course public library local history collections.  Online exhibitions can provide good context to the times in which your ancestors went to school including Victorian times
Yarra Plenty's E-Resources also provide some collections to search:
Find My Past have an education and work category.  Some specific collections include:
On Ancestry
and more.  Reading memoirs and biographies can also provide an insight to the school days of our family members, such as Great Australian Outback Teaching Stories
What records have you found useful to research the school days of your ancestors?

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