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Convict Queensland & Visiting Queensland State Archives

Convict Queensland & Visiting Queensland State Archives

Well I have finally made my long awaited visit to Queensland State Archives (QSA). It is just over three years since I moved back to Queensland and I'm wondering now why it has taken me so long. The trip down the highway and going over the Gateway Bridge always seemed...

Mothers Day 2016

Mothers Day 2016

Mother's Day and my son's birthday are very close together, he arrived just after what I always consider my first Mother's Day. I still have the tea cosy I bought myself in preparation for any sleepless nights that might have been ahead. But he was one of those...

Herbert William White Obituary – Trove Tuesday Blog

Herbert William White Obituary – Trove Tuesday Blog

My Australia Day tribute this year was to Herbert William White - read the post here. He was my great grandfather from Wiltshire. Back in January I wrote about his life using information I had gathered over many years. Today as I thought about who to focus on for this...

Women’s History Month – My Four Great Grandmothers

Women’s History Month – My Four Great Grandmothers

As March is Women's History Month, I am focusing on my four great grandmother's (although there is now some doubt about one of them, but that is a story for a later date). There was a lot of social media activity around International Women's Day on 8 March but I have...

Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.

Pandora – Australia’s Web Archive

In 2013 this blog was selected for permanent preservation in the National Library of Australia's web archive.

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