Genealogy Cruising Days 7-12 with Unlock the Past around New Zealand and Southern Australia
This is a continuing series of blog posts on the 10th Unlock the Past cruise to New Zealand and southern Australia through to Fremantle in Western Australia. If you missed Days 1-6, catch up here. Day 7 was at Port Chalmers, just a short bus ride away from Dunedin on...
Genealogy Cruising Days 1-6 with Unlock the Past around New Zealand and Southern Australia
This is the 10th Unlock the Past genealogy cruise and I am excited to be on this one because I have been wanting to hear Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist in person for some time. Plus there is a variety of other fantastic speakers covering a wide range of topics....
A Baltic Genealogy Adventure with Unlock the Past
This report on my Baltic genealogy cruise with Unlock the Past in July 2015 is a bit late but I hope that people will still be interested in what I learnt from a great geneaconference at sea. For those who don’t know I had a fall while on a shore excursion in...
Genealogy Society Seminars – Why You Should Have Them
At the weekend I traveled to Maryborough (QLD) to give three presentations to the Maryborough Family Heritage Research Institute. I don’t normally report on seminars where I am the only speaker but I think there are some wider lessons here for other genealogy...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.