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...
Archives, Skeletons & DNA: National Family History Month 2017 Closes in Townsville, QLD
In previous years the end of National Family History Month and the giveaway prize draw has piggy backed on existing events in south east Queensland. For the first time we had a dedicated event with the Family History Association of North Queensland based in...
The Ancestral Places Geneameme
I am participating in Alona Tester’s family history blogging challenge of an alphabetical ancestral placename geneameme. It has taken me a little while to get started as I have been busy as the voluntary coordinator of National Family History Month in Australia....
Report on Unlock the Past PNG military & genealogy cruise
There were 4 at sea days and these had sessions running from 9am to 5pm most days plus there was at least one, sometimes more, talks from 8pm onwards. It was often a rush to fit in dinner, the cruise ship show and the after dinner talks! Who said cruise ships were...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.