by shaunahicks | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog
For today’s Trove Tuesday I went looking for my mother’s sisters. Mum was the youngest of 10 children and was only a small child aged under 10 when her four sisters married in the late 1930s. Mum had more in common with her nieces than her sisters. So...
by shaunahicks | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog
Most family historians look for funeral notices as they provide information on close relatives such as a person’s address, names of children and sometimes where they live if not local, married names of daughters, and sometimes even grandchildren’s names....
by shaunahicks | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog
When I attended the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies conference in Camden in September 2016, I was able to catch up with Carol Baxter, the History Detective. Carol had just published the 3rd edition of her popular Writing Interesting Family...
by shaunahicks | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog
For my first Trove Tuesday post of 2017, I am highlighting the wonderful information that can be located in the seemingly boring Government Notices section of newspapers. Today’s topic is transmission by death notices and this is where property is directly...
by shaunahicks | Jan 1, 2017 | Blog
Each year Geniaus (Jill Ball) invites people 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 or answer just a few questions. I always like to participate as it gives me a chance...
by shaunahicks | Dec 30, 2016 | Blog
Genealogy and technology just keeps on getting better and better. When I first started researching the family history in 1977 who would have imagined that we could do so much simply sitting at home. In March 2017 I will be celebrating 40 years of passionate and...
by shaunahicks | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog
This is the fourth book of the adventures of fictional forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier by UK author Nathan Dylan Goodwin . My December 2014 review of the first two books Hiding the Past and The Lost Ancestor can be read here. Then there was the novella, The...
by shaunahicks | Oct 12, 2016 | Blog
Unlock the Past held a two day history and genealogy expo in Adelaide on 7-8 Oct 2016. There is a separate report for Day One and this post completes the report on the whole expo. Before the talks got underway, I visited some more of the exhibitors. Although I have no...
by shaunahicks | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog
Unlock the Past held a two day history and genealogy expo in Adelaide and as this was a huge event, I am dividing the report into two, one for each day. Day One attracted lots of people, not only those in Adelaide and South Australia but I also caught up with friends...
by shaunahicks | Oct 1, 2016 | Blog
I first wrote this blog post on 7 Sep 2010 for another website and have now decided to also put it on my own website with the rest of the posts on the Spencer family. In the last paragraph below, I talked about how we hoped to find some long lost cousins and reconnect...
by shaunahicks | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog
Whenever possible I try to attend the annual NSW & ACT Family History Organisations annual conference. This year it was in Camden New South Wales and I flew to Canberra and then hitched a lift with a long time geneafriend who was also going. So a long day of...
