Join us for a 5-part course that will enable you to learn how to create a set of websites that form an online family archive using the WeAre.xyz platform.

WeAre.xyz is your very own online space in which you can create and share, even collaborate on, nostalgic archives relating to topics close to your heart. For each archive you create, you can choose from the following, with more to follow:

• Family Archive: a collaborative digital record of your family's past, present and future past.
• One Place Study Archive: a collaborative digital record of any type of place, for example a house, village, town, neighbourhood, county, street, national park, battlefield, heritage location, stately home... anywhere with a past that you would like to capture, share and develop for present and future generations.

Program Outline:

Each session will be a typical workshop style where we encourage interaction with participants as well as share short demonstrations and sample archives and articles.

Q & A will feature during these one-hour sessions.

July 1

Your Family Archive Starts Here - Overview of WeAre.xyz, navigation and interaction

July 8

Building the Foundation - Choosing a tree, creating an account, uploading a GEDCOM, exploring the archive

July 15

Give Your Past a Voice - Sharing welcome pages: Ancestor Profile: sharing with others

July 22

Stories from Research - Sharing ancestral profiles: Research Article, sharing with others

July 29

Preserving for the Next Generation - Sharing research articles, long-term planning, creating a legacy plan

Access to WeAre.xyz

We recommend that attendees wait until late June or early July to sign up to their 30-day free online archive trial of WeAre.xyz to ensure that they maintain free access to the service for the duration of the series.

Carole McCulloch is a pioneering genealogist and educator who masterfully blends traditional research with cutting-edge AI technologies. Since earning her Diploma in Family History from the University of Tasmania in 2019, she has dedicated her retirement to genealogical discovery and storytelling. Carole delights in uncovering hidden gems that illuminate ancestral lives, weaving these discoveries into vivid narratives that connect past to present. As a family storykeeper, she champions innovative approaches to preserving family legacies, sharing her own digital archive through WeAre.xyz. Join Carole to discover how combining time-honored methods with new technologies can transform your family history journey.

Dr Fleur Creed descends from convicts, bounty immigrants and free settlers who arrived in NSW and VDL in the early 19^th century. She inherited her passion for family history from her father, who researched and wrote about families in the Queanbeyan district, before the siting of the National Capital at Canberra. Fleur has completed the Diploma of Family History at UTAS, the SAG Certificate of Genealogical Research, and is currently undertaking the SAG Diploma of Family History Studies. She has a registered One Place Study of the small community of Dallarnil in rural Queensland. She is using WeAre.xyz to display her One Place Study, along with her family research.

Presenters: Carole McCulloch and Fleur Creed

Skill level: Beginner