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Scottish Genealogy & Serendipity in Victoria...
I believe that serendipity happens a lot in genealogy and one of the things on my to do list for 2011 is to revisit my Scottish families and find out more about them. I first researched them in the late 1970s, and ad hoc since then. However, there are many resources available now which are more accessible and easier to use so I might make better progress. As part of my resolve I booked myself into the Genealogical...
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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 8 Technology...
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about what were some of the technological advances that happened during your childhood. Wow – where to start as there has been incredible change during my 50 something years. After some thinking I have come up with my top 3 technological advances that impacted me the most in hindsight. Without doubt the purchase of our first television changed our lives (and our...
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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 7 Toys...
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about what was your favourite childhood toy. I was always a bit of a tomboy so even though I was given the obligatory Barbie doll when she came out in 1959 (I’m a few years older than Barbie and I have great trouble accepting that Barbie is now a 50+ woman), I don’t think I ever really played with dolls. I was...
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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 5 – Food...
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. Surprisingly this has been a difficult blog to write as I have been unable to pick a central theme. I like all foods and cooking styles but if I focus back to my primary school years I would have to say that I always liked Friday nights. That was fish and chip night and unwrapping the newspaper and letting out all those wonderful smells is an enduring...
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GenealogyWise Update
I am a member of GenealogyWise and also a member of the Australian Genealogists group which is administered by Geniaus, a well known Australian blogger and tweeter. There are just over 300 members of this group (a lot more in the whole of GenealogyWise) who help each other with queries, post events, announcements and so on. If you haven’t had a look, now is a good time to see what you are missing! Below is a press release...
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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 6 – Radio & Television...
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about our favourite radio or television show when we were kids. I remember loving Romper Room and each time I waited for Miss Betty to say my name at the end of the program but it was always the more regular kind of kid’s names. There weren’t that many Shauna’s in the late 50s early 60s in Australia so although I watched...
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Those Places Thursday – Discovering Pitton & Farley, Wiltshire, England...
This is my contribution to the blogging theme Those Places Thursday and I have selected one of my English parishes as I am also interested in One Place Studies. My great grandfather Herbert William White was born in Farley, Wiltshire in 1864 and I have been researching the family since 1977. Many others are also linked into the White family as the family stayed in the same parish for generations. As an Australian it is not that easy...
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Waitangi Day – A New Zealand Connection...
This is my contribution to the Waitangi Day Blog Challenge – Your Earliest Known New Zealand Ancestor. While most of my ancestors were Australian based, I do have New Zealand connections like many other Australian families. In a lot of cases this is a mining connection with many people crossing the Tasman in search of their fortunes. My son’s gg grandfather John Barrow Atkinson went to New Zealand first before being attracted to the gold fields of Gympie...
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