by shaunahicks | Feb 11, 2011 | Blog
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...
by shaunahicks | Feb 3, 2011 | Blog
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...
by shaunahicks | Feb 2, 2011 | Blog
This is my contribution to the Waitangi Day Blog Challenge – Your Earliest Known New Zealand Ancestor. While most of my ancestors were Australian based, I do have New Zealand connections like many other Australian families. In a lot of cases this is a mining...
by shaunahicks | Jan 28, 2011 | Blog
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s challenge is to describe the home we grew up in. This is much easier for me as my parents stayed in the same place for the whole of their married life. Not like...
by shaunahicks | Jan 25, 2011 | Blog
I am honoured and delighted to have been nominated for the Ancestor Approved Award by both Kerrie Farmer and Judy Webster. The Award was created by Leslie Ann Ballou to acknowledge genealogy blogs that are ‘full of tips and tricks as well as funny and...
by shaunahicks | Jan 25, 2011 | Blog
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...
by shaunahicks | Jan 24, 2011 | Blog
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,...
by shaunahicks | Jan 19, 2011 | Blog
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...
by shaunahicks | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog
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...
by shaunahicks | Jan 10, 2011 | Blog
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...
by shaunahicks | Jan 3, 2011 | Blog
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...
