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52 Ancestors in 52 weeks: Week 8 Branching out – Courting – Mum & Dad
I am participating in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge. You can see the previous weeks on my website's Blog page. Courting is a tricky subject because normally we do not know how our ancestors met. If you are lucky and have known your grandparents, then you...
RootsTech Connect 2022: My experience
Well RootsTech is all over again for another year. My only disappointment was that it was not in person. I have been promising myself this trip for the last few years but something has always prevented me from attending. Maybe 2023 will be the year. While virtual, it...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 7 Branching Out – Landed – Robert Fegan
I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s genealogy blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. See my previous posts here. This week’s challenge was Branching Out – Landed and I struggled with who to write about. Those ancestors with land had previously been written...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 6 Branching out Maps – John Carnegie
I am currently participating in the genealogy blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks set by Amy Johnson Crow. You can see the earlier weeks under the My Blog option on my website. The Week 6 topic left me a bit stumped for inspiration. I ended up thinking of John...
52 Ancestors in 52 weeks: Week 5 Branching out – Herbert William White
I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge. How to interpret this week’s theme puzzled me at first. But then I thought of the recent research I have been doing on my great grandfather Herbert William White. He was the only one of...
52 Ancestors in 52 weeks: Week 4 Foundations Curious: Mary Anthony
I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow's blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 4 of Foundations is Curious. Curious is a strange topic to write about as we are all curious about our ancestors and how they lived. When I discovered that my 4th great grandmother...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 3 Foundations Favourite Photo Mary Finn
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks to keep me motivated and blog writing my family stories. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the pace....
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 2 Favourite Find – Elizabeth Rosewarne
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This will keep me motivated to writing my family stories as short blog posts. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1 Foundations – Thomas Price
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks to keep me motivated and blog writing my family stories. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the pace....
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2021
Here is my contribution to the annual Accentuate the Positive Geneameme Jill Ball (aka Geniaus) invites you to take part in Accentuate the Positive by responding to the following statements/questions, several of which are new, in a blog post. Write as much or as...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.