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National Family History Week 2012 Launch
Although National Family History Week is a national event in Australia, it is only launched in one place which is usually in Melbourne. This year I was honoured to be asked to do the launch and below is the text of my talk for those not able to personally attend the...
Illuminating Blogger Award
Thanks to Geniaus I have received an Illuminating Blogger Award originally started by Foodstories. It was for my blog Diary of an Australian Genealogist and in her nomination Geniaus said - Shauna Hicks lectures, writes, and blogs about genealogy in Australia. In her...
Overview of Unlock the Past Queensland Expo Jun 2012
Regular readers will know that I reported on the Unlock the Past Queensland Expo in Brisbane 25-27 Jun 212 on a daily basis through my Diary of an Australian Genealogist blog. If you missed it, here are links to Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Expo Exhibitors reports. In this...
Leslie Gordon Price – A Rat of Tobruk
Today is ANZAC Day and I foreshadowed back in February during the Bombing of Darwin 70th anniversary tour that my ANZAC Day blog this year would be dedicated to my Uncle Gordon, my mother's eldest brother. During the bombing of Darwin tour, I met historian Brad Manera...
Overview of AFFHO 2012 heraldry & genealogy congress
Regular readers will know that I like to do a daily blog of genealogy events so that I capture things as I go and then do an overall summary at the end when I have had more time to think about how it all went. For my daily accounts of the 2012 AFFHO Congress in...
My Reader Geneameme in 2012 National Year of Reading
My contribution is very late as I was away when Geniaus first threw down the gauntlet of another geneameme and totally missed it. Geniaus commented that this one hasn't been as popular as previous ones and I suspect it is because it is not as genealogy oriented or...
Darwin Family History Seminar
While up in Darwin for the War Comes to Australia tour, I also took part in the Unlock the Past genealogy seminar in conjunction with the Northern Territory Library and the Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory. It was a full day with Rosemary Kopittke and I...
Battlefield Tours – War Comes to Australia: 70th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin
Well I am just back from my first ever battlefield tour and I'm hooked - it's like genealogy cruising, you get to travel and learn more about things you have an interest in. Plus I didn't have to do housework for almost a week! I was privileged to be a speaker on the...
My Bucket List Geneameme
I always like to try any challenge thrown out by Geniaus especially her Geneamemes and this Bucket List Geneameme is no exception. The only difference this time is that I have found it incredibly difficult. Why? I've had a personal bucket list for years and slowly...
Wealth for Toil – Thomas Price
It's Australia Day 2012 tomorrow and I am participating in Twigs of Yore's annual blog challenge with this year's theme Wealth for Toil. It took me a while to decide on who to write about because although all my ancestor's worked hard, none of them were wealthy and...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.