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ANZAC Day Tribute to Alexander Thomas Davis

ANZAC Day Tribute to Alexander Thomas Davis

As usual I am participating in Kintalk's Trans Tasman ANZAC Day blog challenge. This year my tribute is to Alexander Thomas Davis my first cousin three times removed who saw service in World War One and died of wounds shortly after arriving back home. Alexander was...

Forensic Genealogy with Colleen Fitzpatrick in Brisbane

Forensic Genealogy with Colleen Fitzpatrick in Brisbane

On Saturday I attended the Colleen Fitzpatrick seminar co-hosted by the Queensland Family History Society and the Genealogical Society of Queensland in Brisbane. Colleen gave three talks and there was a morning tea break. The venue was St Joseph's College, there was...

Genealogy Society Seminars – Why You Should Have Them

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 and...

AFFHO Congress 2015 Days Three and Four Report

AFFHO Congress 2015 Days Three and Four Report

This is the second part of a three post report on AFFHO Congress 2015 held in Canberra from 26-30 March 2015. Part One is here and an interim report posted during Congress is here. Day Three started with a keynote address by Michael McKernan on war on the home front....

AFFHO Congress 2015 Days One and Two Report

AFFHO Congress 2015 Days One and Two Report

This is the first of three posts on the 14th Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Heraldry, hosted by HAGSOC (Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra) on behalf of AFFHO (Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations). It was a four day conference...

Review of Jayne Shrimpton’s Fashion in the 1940s

Review of Jayne Shrimpton’s Fashion in the 1940s

Jayne Shrimpton is probably best known in the genealogy research world for her book Tracing Your Ancestors Through Photographs, so I was interested to see what her other books on women's fashion were like. Fashion in the 1940s published by Shire Books is set against a...

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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