52 Ancestors in 52 weeks: Week 4 Foundations Curious: Mary Anthony
I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 4 of Foundations is Curious. Curious is a strange topic to write about as we are all curious about our ancestors and how they lived. When I discovered that my 4th great...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 3 Foundations Favourite Photo Mary Finn
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks to keep me motivated and blog writing my family stories. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the pace....
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 2 Favourite Find – Elizabeth Rosewarne
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This will keep me motivated to writing my family stories as short blog posts. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1 Foundations – Thomas Price
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks to keep me motivated and blog writing my family stories. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the pace....
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2021
Here is my contribution to the annual Accentuate the Positive Geneameme Jill Ball (aka Geniaus) invites you to take part in Accentuate the Positive by responding to the following statements/questions, several of which are new, in a blog post. Write as much or as...
Trove Tuesday: the Hazards of Being female
At the weekend while searching the British Newspaper Archive, I was shocked to discover that my 5X great grandmother Mary Hitchman, aged and infirm, died when she fell into the fireplace in 1809 in Oxfordshire, England. She was horrifically burned as it was some time...
Tossing out the family history binders
Yes! I am finally doing it. It’s a little scary but I know it is the right thing for me. Ever since my shock cancer diagnosis in August 2019, I have been weeding and downsizing my family history records that reflect 44 years of research. A truly daunting task with a...
Genealife in Lock down
It’s National Family History Month and I’m looking at the positives and the negatives of doing family history in covid times. It has been an interesting 18 months around the world with Covid raging, in some countries more than others. In Australia we have...
Review on the Family history show 20 Feb 2021
In pre Covid times, I used to try and get to as many Australasian genealogy conferences as I could in person. Catch up with friends, meet speakers and network with colleagues. Travel may have disappeared for a while but all is not lost. One of the few benefits of...Australia Day 2020 Challenge: C’mon Aussie
Back in 2014, one of my favourite bloggers, Cassmob, issued an Australia Day Challenge C’mon Aussie geneameme in which I participated. My answers are below plus an update (in bold) six years on. CLIMBING YOUR FAMILY’S GUM TREE My first ancestor to arrive in...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.