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As our family tree branches develop, we come across locations we haven’t researched before. Michelle Patient shares her tips for how to find the sorts of records you will need, what information they contain and where best to find them. You can’t assume it will be the same as the locations you already know when a place is new to you.
Michelle Patient is a genealogist, computer geek, and DNA enthusiast, with qualifications in Chemistry, Geology and Family History. Growing up with her grandmother’s family stories, photographs, and memorabilia sparked her life-long interest in genealogy. In 1987 Michelle began searching for her English half-sister, and in 2005 she reconnected her mother with her birth family. With ancestry ranging from long standing English lines, early Australian military and convicts, Australian & New Zealand early colonists, through to post-WWII British Royal Naval Support, her personal research covers a wide range of British Isles Diasporas and early Down Under research. She has separated facts from fiction, uncovering stories of will disputes, adoptions, children being given away, bankruptcies, and murder-suicides.
Adding DNA research to her genealogy tool kit has increased the range of Michelle’s methods, revealed skeletons, and broke down many brick walls. Michelle has volunteered for several genealogical societies, is a member of APG, was one of the DNA consultants behind the Australian SBS TV series Every Family has a Secret, and is researcher for the New Zealand TV series My Family Mystery and co-hosts Talking Family History, Genealogy Unscripted and Ancestry Unpacked with Fiona Brooker.
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