Ms

Ruth Graham

Ruth Graham is a family historian, researcher and educator with a particular interest in placing individual lives within their wider social and historical contexts. Ruth is the International Officer and a Trustee of the Family History Federation and is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Society of Australian Genealogists. Her own research work explores how literature, archives, local history and cultural places can help family historians move beyond names and dates to recover richer accounts of their ancestors’ lives.

Ruth has researched her own family history since her teenage years, tracing people and connections across Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the United States and New Zealand. Her interests include migration, convict history, women’s lives, occupations, place-based research, DNA evidence and the connections between family history, social history and the digital humanities.