Jul 14, 2014

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Report on Australian Historical Association conference Brisbane July 2014...

Well I spent last week attending the Australian Historical Association (AHA) conference at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. The University has changed a lot since my time there. It was five days of history, catching up with friends, networking, social events and library visits. I am not going to attempt to summarise even the sessions I attended as there were 14 streams over the five days with a choice of 8-9 sessions in each stream most days plus the...

Jul 6, 2014

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52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2014 – Week 21 Obituaries...

This blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 by focusing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy interests and there are probably lots of other records that I could have included. The challenge has an Australian focus but most of these records will be found just about anywhere in the genealogy world. The 52 different...