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Remembrance Day & My Two Grandfathers
Each ANZAC Day I like to blog about one of my military ancestors, and this Remembrance Day I have decided to do the same. Neither of my two grandfathers spent much time in military service but their stories are still interesting. Although my parents were born only a...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 43 Worst School Subject
I’m participating in the weekly Geneabloggers theme of 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History and sadly I don't always get the time to do each week's topic. This week is your worst school subject and I simply had to do this challenge. I only ever failed one...
Beyond the Internet Geneameme
Pauleen from the Family history across the seas blog has created a Geneameme Beyond the Internet which focuses on genealogy resources beyond the Internet. Geneamemes (named by Geniaus) seem to be quite the trend lately so not to be left out, here is my contribution to...
Writing Family History Again
Back on 24 August 2011 I wrote a Writing Family History blog and since then I have met and talked with two interesting authors and have read and reviewed their books. As I have mentioned in previous blogs, I have been a fan of Hazel Edwards for many years and recently...
My Ancestors’ Geneameme
Geniaus is one of my favourite Australian bloggers and I can easily follow her posts on Twitter. She likes to issue challenges from time to time and here is another Meme challenge - The Ancestors' Geneameme. This was issued on Friday and I notice that there is already...
Ongoing Value of Genealogy Conference Papers
In my 'spare' time, I have been compiling a list of all the conference papers presented at VAFHO (Victorian Association of Family History Organisations) conferences between 1995 and 2010. Conferences are usually held every two years but there are exceptions especially...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 39 Least Favourite Foods
I’m participating in the weekly blogging theme 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History and this week’s topic is all about our least favourite foods. When I first saw the topic all the horrible things Mum used to cook for me as a child instantly came to mind. Now...
Old Research, New Resources, Fresh Eyes
I started researching my family history in August 1977, just over 34 years ago and I am amazed at the changes over that time. Anyone starting out now can't appreciate just how hard it was back then, especially trying to do it from Australia. Yesterday I proved (I...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 37 Earliest Memories
I’m participating in the weekly blogging theme 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History and this week’s topic is all about our earliest memories. I find it hard to define earliest - is it what I actually remember or what I think I remember? A lot of early...
The Tech Savvy Genealogists’ Meme
Another Geniaus challenge - interestingly it captures all of the issues I have been looking at over the last few months ie new phone, tablet, netbook, scanner etc - parts of me want to be tech savvy but other parts of me want to go back to my Grade one slate and...
