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...
Norfolk Island History & Genealogy Conference 29-31 Oct 2014
This was an Unlock The Past event held on the historic and picturesque Norfolk Island, an Australian territory in the Pacific. Australians with convict ancestry may have had an ancestor or two who were sent to either the First Settlement 1788-1814 or the Second...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.