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Interview With Richard Reid: keynote speaker AFFHO Congress 2015...
As one of the official AFFHO Congress 2015 bloggers, it is my pleasure to interview speakers and learn more about them prior to the Congress in Canberra in March 2015. Organised by AFFHO (Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations), Congress is only held every three years. It attracts some of the best speakers in Australasia and overseas, hundreds of keen family history enthusiasts and lots of trade exhibitors and without doubt is the major genealogy, family history and heraldry event...
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Frederick Trevaskis – Remembrance Day Tribute...
Each ANZAC and Remembrance Day I like to do a tribute to one of my military ancestors. Frederick Trevaskis was a distant cousin (my great grandmother Dorcas Trevaskis was his aunt) and in the centenary year of World War One it is fitting to dedicate this blog to him. Frederick Trevaskis was the son of William and Louisa Trevaskis and was born in Charters Towers in 1891. He had three older brothers and one older sister and three younger...
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Norfolk Island History & Genealogy Conference 29-31 Oct 2014...
This was an Unlock The Past event held on the historic and picturesque Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Pacific. Australians with convict ancestry may have had an ancestor or two who were sent to either the First Settlement 1788-1814 or the Second Settlement 1825-1856 – brief outline of history here. This conference was mostly about the history associated with the First Settlement with a little bit on the Second Settlement and some overall genealogy topics. As...
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Eastern Australia Unlock the Past cruise 23-26 Oct 2014 report...
This was a different type of cruise to what I had been on previously. As a three night cruise on the Celebrity Solstice with no port stops it was described as a sampler cruise for those who might be considering a longer cruise but not sure if they would like being at sea. However for those who liked cruising and genealogy, this was more just like a genealogy conference, only at sea. It did not attract as many...
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