These are some of the articles that I've published on the Internet and in print. External links open in a new window.

Articles published on the Internet (a small selection)

• 10 Tips for Wills, Intestacies and Probate:  This includes advice about related but little-known record series, and it is relevant worldwide.
  
  
• Will Books 1800-1952. I've had great success with this superb source.
  
  
• Using LostCousins for Genealogy (UK, Ireland, USA and Canada). LostCousins uses a different and very clever technique for finding people who are related to you.
  
  
• Use FreeBMD postems to find new relatives.  This describes a simple strategy that has worked brilliantly for me. Try it if any of your ancestors or their siblings were born, married or died in England or Wales from 1837 onwards.
  
  
• Local Government (Council) Records and Family History.
  
  
• How to Become a Paid Genealogy Researcher.
  
  
• Children in Mental Asylums.
  
  

Articles published in print

• 'The Case of the False Identity', in Inside History magazine, issue 17, Jul-Aug 2013 (available in many libraries, or ask me about getting a copy). This will change the way you think about 19th-century passenger lists!
  
  
• 'Black Sheep and Vanishing Relatives: sources and strategies for researching colourful characters and people who disappeared', in Preserving the past for the future: Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, 2009, New Zealand Society of Genealogists.
  
  
• 'Using Indexes: Tips and Traps', in Preserving the past for the future: Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, 2009, New Zealand Society of Genealogists.
  
  
• 'Putting Family Data on the Internet: Privacy and Security Issues', in Queensland Family Historian, vol. 28 no. 1, Feb 2007, Qld Family History Society.
  
  
• 'Some Historical Records Pertaining to the Queensland Police Service', in Journal of Police History, Winter 2000, Victoria Police Historical Society.

• Published papers from genealogy conferences.