Baxter, Carol

Carol Baxter, the History Detective, is a Fellow of the Society of Australian Genealogists and an adjunct lecturer at the University of New England (NSW). She started tracing her family history while she was still at high school and gained employment in the industry when she was aged 24. She worked as Project Officer for the Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record and later as General Editor of its 21st century incarnation, the Biographical Database of Australia. In those roles, she edited many publications dealing with Australian colonial records. Currently, she is a full-time writer