GenealogyWise Update
I am a member of GenealogyWise and also a member of the Australian Genealogists group which is administered by Geniaus, a well known Australian blogger and tweeter. There are just over 300 members of this group (a lot more in the whole of GenealogyWise) who help each...52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 6 – Radio & Television
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about our favourite radio or television show when we were kids. I remember loving Romper Room and each time I waited for Miss Betty to say my name at the end...Those Places Thursday – Discovering Pitton & Farley, Wiltshire, England
This is my contribution to the blogging theme Those Places Thursday and I have selected one of my English parishes as I am also interested in One Place Studies. My great grandfather Herbert William White was born in Farley, Wiltshire in 1864 and I have been...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...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.