52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 10 Disasters
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. I’m fortunate that my immediate family have never suffered a big disaster – my mother’s family were continually flooded out when she was young and that is the reason why...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 9 Sounds
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s challenge is to describe sounds that take you back to your childhood. This one stumped me for a while as I couldn’t really think of any sounds that opened up...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...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...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...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.