One of my Dad's cousins had done a family tree for the family in Australia, and I was intrigued, but there were lots of gaps and a lack of dates. Once I realized the NSW BDM indexes were available for free, I started off checking her work. Once I had sorted out the 3 brothers and their sister who came to Australia, I want to trace them back in England. Back then in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I went off to the Local History Library used their IGI microfiche to follow up in England. And to the LDS library to stare at the England Census on microfilm and bought the 1881 census on CD rom (I still have it somewhere!)
After going back to work about 2008, visiting the various research centres was on the back-burner, but then Ancestry came along and I could do a lot from home. I still like to visit State Records and the State Library when I can.
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