Military Ancestors – Week 3 National Family History Month 2016 blogging challenge
Alex Daw (aka FamilyTreeFrog) has set up a weekly blog challenge for National Family History Month 2016. I like blogging challenges as they usually get me writing about topics that I might not normally do. Week 3′ s challenge is – Significant military...
The Finn Brothers – 2016 Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge
Since 2011 the Central Auckland Research Centre has been issuing the Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge. Each year I take part and focus on one of my military ancestors. This year I am revisiting a family that I first wrote about for ANZAC Day 2013. Read the...
Week 37 Military Unit Histories & Unit War Diaries in 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2015
This personal genealogy blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 – 2015 by focusing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy...
ANZAC Day Tribute to Alexander Thomas Davis
As usual I am participating in Kintalk’s Trans Tasman ANZAC Day blog challenge. This year my tribute is to Alexander Thomas Davis my first cousin three times removed who saw service in World War One and died of wounds shortly after arriving back home. Alexander...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.