Contents: The wide world of family history / Lesle Berry p1. Researching your German ancestors / Horst Blaich p5. Sources for passengers, ships, captains and crew in Victoria / Jenny Carter p11. Footprints: tracing the journey of Lucy and Percy Pepper through government records about aboriginal people and presenting their story to a contemporary audience / Simon Flagg and Dr Sebastian Gurciullo p19. Family search: the next generation / Elder Norbert Gariety p33. How to successfully archive old media / Peter Harkness p43. Probate genealogy in Australia / Sue McBeth p53. What did the Irish read? identifying the Australian Irish reading experience 1830-1900 / Kevin Molloy p63. Become a living ancestor: leave your memories behind / Beryl O'Gorman p89. Government and police gazettes: unlocking a major untapped resource / Alan Phillips p95. Digitisation in the National Archives of Australia / Anne Piggott p107. Colonial women: what we can learn about their lives / Dr Liz Rushen p113. Oral history in family history: opportunities and challenges / Professor Alistair Thomson p119. Sugar and spice and all things nice: women in Victorian colonial records / Dorothy Wickham p123. Don't judge a book by its cover ... or its title / Susie Zada p127. VAFHO conference: speaker profiles p133..