Public and some private records for Tasmania's colonial period are rich and well preserved and I am eternally grateful to the Archives Office of Tasmania for making them so freely available, increasingly in digital form. The story of my family is also the story of Tasmania, or parts of it, from the early years of the colony of Van Diemen’s Land to modern times.
The National Library of Australia’s TROVE website digitising Australian newspapers has also been an invaluable aid and the excuse for happily wasting many hours. Historical associations in Tasmania and elsewhere and many individual researchers have also helped in all sorts of ways and I thank them for sharing their work.
I also learned a great deal from completing the University of Tasmania’s on line Diploma of Family History and can’t recommend it too highly, especially for researchers with a Tasmanian focus.
Finally, thanks go to my husband, Antoine Guichard, for technical support. He should get the credit for everything that works in the user interface as without him there wouldn’t be one. All errors and omissions in the content are my doing.