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Sydney Genealogy Congress 2018 Day Three Report
I was remiss in the Day 2 report by not mentioning the wonderful gift I received as a speaker. These wonderful drink coasters are almost too good to use. A lovely memento of a great Congress. A plenary session with Paul Milner on English Research - 18th Century...
Sydney Genealogy Congress 2018 Day Two Report
If you missed Day One, read about it here. Day Two started with a sponsor presentation with Ancestry. Without the sponsors, it would be very hard for any group to put on an event like Congress so thanks to all sponsors, especially the major sponsors. Ancestry have...
Sydney Genealogy Congress 2018 Day One report
Congress was held at the International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour in Sydney over 4 days from 9 March to 12 March 2018. There were numerous plenary sessions, and a choice between 4 talks at other times and even a couple of sponsor presentations. The exhibitors...
Trove Tuesday – Samuel Plimsoll (ship) 1878 illustrated sketches
My great grandparents Thomas and Elizabeth Price arrived in Sydney on the Samuel Plimsoll in 1878. As a newly married couple from West Bromwich in Staffordshire, they were embarking on the adventure of their lives in a new land. They had ten children in various parts...
Discovering Worcestershire Archives
I was unexpectedly asked to review this new eguide Explore History Landscapes Family published by Worcestershire County Council. It is 73 pages on researching at the Worcester Archive and Archaeology Service and available to download for £6. The Archive offers fee...
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2017
For the 6th consecutive year Jill Ball is asking bloggers to contribute to this challenge. As a regular participant it is an interesting exercise as I usually find that I have done more than I think during the year. Anyone can take part by responding to the...
Trove Tuesday – The Queenslander Cot Fund
The Queenslander Cot Fund was set up by the newspaper The Queenslander to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Children in Brisbane. In my example John C Davis was the organiser and he was my great grandfather James Carnegie's cousin. John C Davis was the son of...
Remembrance Day 2017 & the Kennedy Regiment, Queensland
Amazingly it is six years since I first wrote about my grandfather Henry Price and his army service with the Kennedy Regiment on board the Kanowna at the outbreak of World War One. Read that blog post here. Back then I struggled to find information about the Kanowna...
Report on Your Family Story: Telling, Recording & Preserving conference, Orange NSW, Sep 2017
Each year the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Organisations holds an annual conference and this year it was in Orange, NSW in September 2017. With the theme of Your Family Story: Telling, Recording & Preserving it was always going to be a conference to...
Archives, Skeletons & DNA: National Family History Month 2017 Closes in Townsville, QLD
In previous years the end of National Family History Month and the giveaway prize draw has piggy backed on existing events in south east Queensland. For the first time we had a dedicated event with the Family History Association of North Queensland based in...
