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AFFHO Congress Thoughts – The First Congress 1977

AFFHO Congress Thoughts – The First Congress 1977

With the AFFHO (Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations) Congress 2015 just over a week away now, many people are excited at attending this geneaevent which only happens every three years. Over the last few months, the three official Congress bloggers,...

Week 34 Maps in 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2015

Week 34 Maps in 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2015

This personal genealogy blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 - 2015 by focusing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy...

Report on Criminals and Victims Seminar, 7 Mar 2015

Report on Criminals and Victims Seminar, 7 Mar 2015

Yesterday I gave a presentation at the Queensland Family History Society education session on criminals and victims, other speakers were Rosemary Kopittke and Helen Smith. It was a great morning and an enthusiastic crowd.         I started with my...

Interview with Carole Riley – speaker AFFHO Congress 2015

Interview with Carole Riley – speaker AFFHO Congress 2015

As one of the official AFFHO Congress 2015 bloggers, it is my pleasure to interview speakers and learn more about them prior to the Congress in Canberra in March 2015. Organised by AFFHO (Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations), Congress is only held...

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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