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Preparing Your Family History Records For Hand Over Month 3 Progress Report
In November 2019 I set a 12 month personal genealogy blog challenge - Preparing Your Family History for Hand Over in the Future. Read about the issues I am going to tackle over the next 12 months and follow my progress. It is obviously a topic that resonates with lots...
Preparing Your Family History Records for Hand Over – Month 2 Progress Report
In November 2019 I set a 12 month personal genealogy blog challenge - Preparing Your Family History for Hand Over in the Future. Read about the issues I am going to tackle over the next 12 months and follow my progress. It is obviously a topic that resonates with lots...
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2019
Each year since 2012 (except for 2018) Jill Ball invites the genealogy community to take part in this activity by responding to the following statements/questions in a blog post. Write as much or as little as you want and complete as many statements as you wish. If...
Preparing Your Family History Records for Handover – Month 1 progress report
In November 2019 I set a 12 month personal genealogy blog challenge - Preparing Your Family History for Hand Over in the Future. Read about the issues I am going to tackle over the next 12 months and follow my progress. It is obviously a topic that resonates with lots...
Preparing Your Family History Records For Hand Over in the Future
Recent health issues have made me realise, more than ever, that if our family history is not well organised and compact then no one is going to want it. Having started way back in 1977 my records are a mix of paper and digital, there are books, genealogy journals,...
Sydney DNA Down Under Report Part 2 Aug 2019
I was privileged to be an ambassador for the Unlock the Past DNA Down Under tour and went to both the one day Brisbane and 3 day Sydney events. Read about my report for Brisbane here. As Sydney was over 3 days I have written the report in two parts. Read about Days...
Sydney DNA Down Under Report Part 1 Aug 2019
I was privileged to be an ambassador for the Unlock the Past DNA Down Under tour and went to both the one day Brisbane and 3 day Sydney events. Read about my report for Brisbane here. As Sydney was over 3 days I will report first on Days 1 and 2 and then a second blog...
Brisbane DNA DownUnder Report Aug 2019
Bribie Island is about an hour's drive from the event venue and the highway traffic can be unpredictable. After an early start I arrived about 15 minutes before registration was about to commence. Totally shocked to find the car park almost full but I managed to get...
Waves in Time Family & Local History Conference, Queensland – Part 2
This is the second blog post on my attendance at the Waves in Time Conference on the Sunshine Coast in May 2019. Read Part 1 here. Part 2 looks at the Conference over Saturday and Sunday. With the exception of the Keynotes, there was a dual program on both days. This...
Waves in Time 2019 Family & Local History Conference – Queensland Part 1
After two years of waiting and planning, the 3rd biannual History Queensland family and local history conference is over. Waves in Time was a wonderful conference thanks to the extensive planning by Caloundra Family History Research and History Queensland. The venue...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.