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Australia Day 2011 My Earliest Documents
This is my contribution to the Australia Day blogging theme suggested by Twigs of Yore celebrating our earliest connections and documents in Australia. By the time my son was born, I had been tracing my own family history for ten years and I knew that my earliest...
Online Genealogy Courses
Last year while on the Unlock the Past history and genealogy roadshow I met and got to know Louise St Denis, Director of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies (NIGS). On the New Zealand part of the trip I also met up with Kerrie Farmer, the new Director,...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Week 3 Cars
This week's topic is one that I do have clear memories of. As a teenager I wasn't all that fussed on getting a driver's license and in fact, I was in my early 20s before I obtained my first driver's license. By then I was married and my husband had a blue volkswagen...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Week 2 Winter
Like Week 1 in this series 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History, I am finding it hard to remember things from my childhood. I simply cannot remember winter in Queensland although I was there for over 40 years which seems unbelievable. However I think I didn't...
My 2011 Genealogy Aspirations
It has taken me a little while to finally decide on what I want to focus on in 2011. My review of my 2010 aspirations made me realise I was really trying to do too much in too many areas. The five key areas I have decided on are: 1. Write up my mother's Price family...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History – Week 1 New Year’s Day
Well I have just signed up for another 52 weeks of improving my genealogy skills with Geneabloggers. Last year's theme was Better Genealogy and this year the theme is Personal Genealogy & History. The first week is looking at New Year's Day traditions in the...
My 2010 Genealogy Aspirations Review
On 28 December 2009 I posted my New Year Genie Aspirations for 2010 and on 9 July 2010 I did a mid year review of those resolutions where I found that I was not keeping up with my ambitions for the year. After July my year was even busier so it is interesting to...
Reading For Genealogy – Archives Annual Reports
This is a continuation of my last blog What Are You Reading For Genealogy? Government publications might seem a strange choice and some might think my working in government for 35 years has coloured my choice of reading material, especially for genealogy. But I hope...
What Are You Reading For Genealogy?
On the recent Unlock The Past history and genealogy roadshow, I gave a presentation on Where Else Can I Look, It's Not All On The Internet which looked at a range of ideas. The handout for that talk, and the others I gave, is on the Resources page of my website (just...
Australia and New Zealand History & Genealogy Roadshow Overview
Well it is now a week since I returned home after the 20 day trip around Australia and New Zealand on the Unlock The Past History & Genealogy roadshow. The eleven days of the roadshow were blogged daily and I was surprised at the following the daily blog...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.