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...
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...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.