Living Relatives – Don’t Waste Opportunity
This week’s blog sees me back in Brisbane at my mother’s. Over the last few months I seem to have spent more time in Brisbane than I have in years. Mum’s illness also means that I have spent more time with her than I have in decades and at a time...Serendipity or Advertising Your Ancestors
I finished last week’s blog by saying that Serendipity would guide this week’s entry. Fortunately Serendipity was kind to me and I can report that it does pay to advertise your ancestors in publications, on websites and on social networking sites like...Online BDMs Demolish Brick Walls
My last two blogs have been about preparing for my talk on Convicts and Criminals and accompanying Handout at Mulwala Family History Expo and all the wonderful information I discovered on my families because of new online resources. The talk went very well and I...Using Police Gazettes
In some ways this is a continuation of last week’s entry in that it relates to my talk on Convicts & Criminals this Saturday at the Mulwala Family History Expo. I had finished my presentation and was doing a final run through to see that it worked and...Using Online Newspapers: the good and the bad
I have been working on a talk Convicts & Criminals for the Mulwala Family History expo on 21 November and part of the talk is about the advantages of having Australian Newspapers online. The really exciting bit is that I have found new information on one of my...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.