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31 Activities for NFHM (researchers) – The First Fifteen!
My 31 Activities For Researchers During National Family History Month August 2013 Here are the first 15 activities: 1 Visit your local library and explore the genealogy and local history sections My local library is the Bribie Island branch of the Moreton Bay...
Family History Feast Melbourne Aug 2013
Having left Victoria last year I didn't really expect to go to another Family History Feast but it was the 10th anniversary of the first Feast, and I was invited down for a photo opportunity with my two co founders of Family History Feast, Anne Piggott and Anne...
National Family History Month Launch 2013
Yesterday was the launch of National Family History Month 2013 and as the voluntary national coordinator I had the pleasure of chairing the launch at the Brisbane Office of the National Archives of Australia. To start with I highlighted all the changes this year and I...
Looking at the Irish & Immigration with GSQ
I'm back home after attending the Genealogical Society of Queensland's annual seminar in Brisbane. This year the theme was Irish in the morning and Immigration in the afternoon. It was the first genealogy seminar I've been to since February (which is almost like a...
World War One & the brothers Finn
As usual I am participating in Kintalk's (Auckland City Libraries) annual Trans Tasman ANZAC day blog challenge. This year I am featuring my father's three great uncles Robert, John and Denis Patrick Finn who enlisted in World War One. Although all three returned to...
Third Unlock the Past genealogy cruise review
This will be an overview of the whole cruise as I've already given detailed account of the genealogy sessions in my Diary of an Australian Genealogist blog - check out Days 1-5 and Days 6-9. As this was my fifth cruise and third genealogy cruise I'm usually a very...
Blog of the Year Award
I am honoured to have been nominated for Blog of the Year Award 2012 from Geniaus for my My Diary of an Australian Genealogist blog. Jill wrote that she read the Diary for the 'news, views and a slice of life' which is a nice way of saying that sometimes it's not...
Accentuate the Positive 2012 Geneameme
Good geneafriend Geniaus has thrown down another geneameme challenge to get us all thinking right at the start of 2013. As usual I can't resist so here are my responses to her Accentuate the Positive 2012 geneameme. All contributions will be collated so if you also...
Genealogy Aspirations 2013
Regular readers of this blog will know that each year I like to review the genealogy goals I set myself at the beginning of a year and then set new goals for the coming year. There has been varying success over the last three years but 2012 was definitely more...
Christmas Geneameme
I'm a fan of geneamemes and I couldn't resist this timely Christmas geneameme from Cassmob which makes us think about our own Christmas traditions and memories. Anyone can join in and if you leave a link in the comments section of the link above then it will be...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.