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Genealogy Aspirations Reviewed & Renewed 2012
Although it's already two weeks into January, my holiday travels (see Diary of an Australian Genealogist) have slowed down my blogging output. However I have been thinking about what I aspired to in 2011 (see My 2011 Genealogy Aspirations) and how well I managed to...
Unlock the Past Scottish Irish Genealogy Cruise 2011 Overview
Regular readers will know that I flew to Auckland New Zealand on 18 November for the Unlock the Past history & genealogy cruise with a Scottish Irish theme. Throughout the trip I maintained a daily account of the genealogy sessions as well as the onshore...
Two Full On Genealogy At Sea Days
Those following my Diary of an Australian Genealogist blogs will know that I am recording my touristy adventures there along with reports on the few genealogy sessions we have when in port. For the days we are totally at sea with no touristy distractions, I am putting...
Genealogy Cruising Day One at Sea
It was great to see so many people turn up for my talk At Sea Then and Now and I appreciated the feedback throughout the day as I kept running into other Unlock the Past cruisers (now easily identifiable by our lanyards and name tags). Also interesting to see how many...
Genealogy Cruising Again – Day One
I write another blog, Diary of an Australian Genealogist, and note my daily activities briefly there but for the larger seminar reports, I will be putting them on my website. So for those interested in the Unlock the Past Scottish/Irish history and genealogy cruise...
Surname Saturday Meme: Names, Places and Most Wanted Faces
As a regular reader of Geniaus‘ blogs, I often find myself (lately) doing memes. Sometimes they are created by Geniaus and sometimes she has picked up memes from fellow bloggers. This is one of the latter, and it is a really useful way to advertise the primary...
Pambula Genealogy Seminar
It's a long drive (606 kilometres) from our place to Pambula, New South Wales but it does take you through the scenic Gippsland area of Eastern Victoria. For most of the time we were out of mobile phone coverage which always makes me wonder what would happen if the...
Remembrance Day & My Two Grandfathers
Each ANZAC Day I like to blog about one of my military ancestors, and this Remembrance Day I have decided to do the same. Neither of my two grandfathers spent much time in military service but their stories are still interesting. Although my parents were born only a...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 43 Worst School Subject
I’m participating in the weekly Geneabloggers theme of 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History and sadly I don't always get the time to do each week's topic. This week is your worst school subject and I simply had to do this challenge. I only ever failed one...
Beyond the Internet Geneameme
Pauleen from the Family history across the seas blog has created a Geneameme Beyond the Internet which focuses on genealogy resources beyond the Internet. Geneamemes (named by Geniaus) seem to be quite the trend lately so not to be left out, here is my contribution to...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.