Researching Irish Ancestors
Last year for St Patrick’s Day I wrote a blog Letters Home – My Irish Families (6 Mar 2010). It reunited me with three distant lines of my Jeffers family of Portadown, Ireland which was exciting for all of us. This year my tribute to St Patrick’s Day...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 10 Disasters
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. I’m fortunate that my immediate family have never suffered a big disaster – my mother’s family were continually flooded out when she was young and that is the reason why...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 9 Sounds
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s challenge is to describe sounds that take you back to your childhood. This one stumped me for a while as I couldn’t really think of any sounds that opened up...Scottish Genealogy & Serendipity in Victoria
I believe that serendipity happens a lot in genealogy and one of the things on my to do list for 2011 is to revisit my Scottish families and find out more about them. I first researched them in the late 1970s, and ad hoc since then. However, there are many resources...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 8 Technology
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about what were some of the technological advances that happened during your childhood. Wow – where to start as there has been incredible change during my 50...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 7 Toys
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about what was your favourite childhood toy. I was always a bit of a tomboy so even though I was given the obligatory Barbie doll when she came out in 1959...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 5 – Food
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. Surprisingly this has been a difficult blog to write as I have been unable to pick a central theme. I like all foods and cooking styles but if I focus back to my primary school years I...GenealogyWise Update
I am a member of GenealogyWise and also a member of the Australian Genealogists group which is administered by Geniaus, a well known Australian blogger and tweeter. There are just over 300 members of this group (a lot more in the whole of GenealogyWise) who help each...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 6 – Radio & Television
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about our favourite radio or television show when we were kids. I remember loving Romper Room and each time I waited for Miss Betty to say my name at the end...Those Places Thursday – Discovering Pitton & Farley, Wiltshire, England
This is my contribution to the blogging theme Those Places Thursday and I have selected one of my English parishes as I am also interested in One Place Studies. My great grandfather Herbert William White was born in Farley, Wiltshire in 1864 and I have been...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.