But persistence is all: sooner or later, with time, patience and infinite determination, I discovered some pure gold nuggets. ‘GM Pitt’ threw up a thousand Pitt Streets and Pitt Towns and references to the British Prime Minister and excluding ‘Pitt-Street’ under ‘without these words’ didn’t seem to work. So what name do I put in the search engines? I could never quite get the hang of using quote marks, or asterisks to fill in the indeterminates. I’ve been researching my great-great-grandfather George Matcham Pitt, aka GM Pitt, aka occasionally as Geo Pitt, or George Pitt, or even Mr Pitt. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Trove over the years. It’s an online database containing scanned copies of virtually every newspaper ever published in Australia since the first edition of the Sydney Gazette in 1803 (among other things), and unlike its near counterpart in the UK, it is free! If you are researching your Australian ancestors you’ll be familiar with Trove. ![]() Writer Patsy Trench, who has written two books about her Australian migrant ancestors, shares her expert search tips for using the National Library of Australia’s online Trove Newspapers database.
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