Nov 15, 2015

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Week 43 Geographical Place Names in 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2015...

Week 43 Geographical Place Names in 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2015

This personal genealogy blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 – 2015 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...

Nov 14, 2015

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A Baltic Genealogy Adventure with Unlock the Past...

A Baltic Genealogy Adventure with Unlock the Past

This report on my Baltic genealogy cruise with Unlock the Past in July 2015 is a bit late but I hope that people will still be interested in what I learnt from a great geneaconference at sea. For those who don’t know I had a fall while on a shore excursion in Germany (sadly just the second port of call and the 4th day of a 14 day cruise) and broke my right elbow. After being patched up...

Nov 12, 2015

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Travelling the Burnett – a scenic family history, heritage & gourmet adventure...

Travelling the Burnett – a scenic family history, heritage & gourmet adventure

A week’s holiday (and I actually did no work, blogging, writing or anything much else) at lovely Bargara near Bundaberg. Max has a 94 year old aunt that we like visiting – she has some great memories and stories of his mother’s family. We also spent some time with her youngest son. As Bundaberg is only about 4 hours from Rockhampton it was a great opportunity to present an afternoon of talks to the Central Queensland Family History...