St Patrick’s Day – My Irish Finn Family from County Wicklow, Ireland
St Patrick’s Day and my thoughts turn to my Irish great great grandparents John Finn and Sarah Fegan. I first starting researching them in 1977 and over the years my research has turned up many questions, some still waiting to be solved. This blog post only...
Review of 10th Unlock the Past Genealogy Cruise to New Zealand and Southern Australia
This is an overview report of Unlock the Past’s 10th Genealogy Cruise. I have already done three daily reports. If you missed them, catch up with Days 1-6 here Days 7-12 here Days 13-19 here. Overall it was a great cruise and not just because I managed not to...
Genealogy Cruising Days 13 -19 with Unlock the Past around New Zealand and Southern Australia
This is the third post of a series of blog posts on the 10th Unlock the Past cruise to New Zealand and southern Australia through to Fremantle in Western Australia. If you missed Days 1-6, catch up here and Days 7-12 here. Day 13 was in Melbourne and as we used to...
World War One and The Finn Brothers – Trove Tuesday Blog
I have previously written about my three Finn great great uncles who fought in World War One. Read their story here. Last year I managed to find a photograph of Denis Finn courtesy of Trove but I had no luck finding photos of his brothers John and Robert. Today I had...
Genealogy Cruising Days 7-12 with Unlock the Past around New Zealand and Southern Australia
This is a continuing series of blog posts on the 10th Unlock the Past cruise to New Zealand and southern Australia through to Fremantle in Western Australia. If you missed Days 1-6, catch up here. Day 7 was at Port Chalmers, just a short bus ride away from Dunedin on...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.