Waitangi Day – A New Zealand Connection
This is my contribution to the Waitangi Day Blog Challenge – Your Earliest Known New Zealand Ancestor. While most of my ancestors were Australian based, I do have New Zealand connections like many other Australian families. In a lot of cases this is a mining...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 4 – Home
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s challenge is to describe the home we grew up in. This is much easier for me as my parents stayed in the same place for the whole of their married life. Not like...My Ancestor Approved Award
I am honoured and delighted to have been nominated for the Ancestor Approved Award by both Kerrie Farmer and Judy Webster. The Award was created by Leslie Ann Ballou to acknowledge genealogy blogs that are ‘full of tips and tricks as well as funny and...Australia Day 2011 My Earliest Documents
This is my contribution to the Australia Day blogging theme suggested by Twigs of Yore celebrating our earliest connections and documents in Australia. By the time my son was born, I had been tracing my own family history for ten years and I knew that my earliest...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.