Descent Online & print magazine of the Society of Australian Genealogists |
We’ve been publishing a magazine or journal for members since the Society was founded, and it’s full of wonderful articles on Australian and overseas families, resources and local history.All new members are automatically set up to receive the electronic version; if you'd like to change to a print copy just let us know.Members can search and download all past issues of Descent and The Australian Genealogist here. (Requires member login)Subscribe to Descent by becoming a member of the Society. See details below on contributing to Descent and here are a few of our favourite articles as well as some Descent Extra articles where we will provide some exclusive content to this website . |
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Descent Extra As part of our Descent Extra online only content, we will be showcasing SAG activities and updates from the family history sector. In our first feature, Christine Woodlands provides an overview of one of the highlights of our 2021 events calendar, our Meet the Author night with Nathan Dylan Goodwin. You can read Christine's article here: Meet the Author - Nathan Dylan Goodwin. We would like to encourage more of our members to contribute features such as these - thanks Christine, for starting off this new venture! Image of The Mermaid Inn in Rye, East Sussex, England, is via Creative Commons and frequented by characters in the Morton Farrier novel series, not far from the The House with Two Front Doors! |
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Contributions to descent
The Society welcomes articles for publication in Descent. Preference is given to articles which demonstrate methods, sources and tactics which will help others with their research. Family is about sharing - so we encourage you to share your stories with your fellow Family Historians.
Deadlines - Articles can be submitted at any time to the Editorial Committee by emailing editor@sag.org.au. Time sensitive items need to be received by 18th January, 18th April, 18th July, and 18th October for the Autumn (March), Winter (June), Spring (September) and Summer (December) issues respectively.
Length
Family history research and articles - 1,000 – 2,000 words although longer articles will be considered.
In Search of ... themes - of any length with hi-resolution images.
Please submit all as Microsoft Word or RTF file and keep formatting to a minimum.
Photographs and Illustrations These are encouraged and should be sent as separate (not embedded) 300 dpi resolution JPEG files. If you cannot supply an image electronically, good quality copies are accepted for scanning. Original documents and photographs should not be sent as we cannot guarantee their safe return. Sources and captions should be given.
Citations Source citations as footnotes or endnotes must be included and set by your word processor program where possible. We encourage the use of citing sources as this will assist other researchers to follow your research leads. Footnotes will be converted to endnotes to conform to our house style. Please refer to our Referencing Guidelines for more detailed information.
Copyright Clearance Copyright clearance is your responsibility and you must ensure that written and illustrative material does not breach copyright and all sources are correctly acknowledged.
Copyright The submission for Descent grants the Society the right to publish and the Society holds the copyright in all articles published. A release form will be sent to you if your article is selected for publication.
2023 THEMES
Ireland/Irish Research - with submissions due by 1 February 2023
Southern Europe Research - with notifications to write on a topic are due 4 April 2023 and submissions are due 18 April 2023
(Conference 10 June*)
"Southern Europe" is taken from the Family Search Wiki as covering: Andorra, Cyprus, France, Greece, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Portugal, San Marino, Spain & Vatican City
Australian Welfare Experience (focusing on 18th, 19th and early 20th century research e.g. historic adoptions, out-of-home care, asylums) - with notifications to write on a topic are due 4 July 2023 and submissions are due 18 July 2023. (Conference 26 August*)
DNA Research Tools - with submissions due by 15 October 2023 (Conference 25 November)