Getting started on my mother's family tree

My mother was able to help me with the people who had come to England. Based on the information that she provided, I was able to trace a few events in the General Records Office registrations of births, deaths and marriages. I found entries by using FreeBMD to search the index. Two of my great aunts had died too recently for their deaths to show up using FreeBMD.

Apart from these few people who had come to England, I knew that my mother had three uncles who had managed to get out of Vienna. Two had found their way to the USA and settled in California and had lived quite close to each other. They had both married. In fact, one had remarried. One of them had had a son and a daughter and then grandchildren. They had visited the UK so I knew that I had some family in California.

The other Uncle had managed to find his way to Australia. We had contact with his grandsons in Adelaide.

So now I had four avenues to follow;
- To see if I could find more information and family links in the UK. I decided for now that getting actually copies of register entries was a costly exercise that could wait,
- To see what I could trace in Vienna,
- To see what more I could find out to add to the USA branch of the family, and
- To see what I could find out about the Australian branch of the family.