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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 7 Toys
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week’s topic is all about what was your favourite childhood toy. I was always a bit of a tomboy so even though I was given the obligatory Barbie doll when she came out in 1959 (I'm a...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 5 – Food
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. Surprisingly this has been a difficult blog to write as I have been unable to pick a central theme. I like all foods and cooking styles but if I focus back to my primary school years I...
GenealogyWise Update
I am a member of GenealogyWise and also a member of the Australian Genealogists group which is administered by Geniaus, a well known Australian blogger and tweeter. There are just over 300 members of this group (a lot more in the whole of GenealogyWise) who help each...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 6 – Radio & Television
I’m participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week's topic is all about our favourite radio or television show when we were kids. I remember loving Romper Room and each time I waited for Miss Betty to say my name at the end of the...
Those Places Thursday – Discovering Pitton & Farley, Wiltshire, England
This is my contribution to the blogging theme Those Places Thursday and I have selected one of my English parishes as I am also interested in One Place Studies. My great grandfather Herbert William White was born in Farley, Wiltshire in 1864 and I have been...
Waitangi Day – A New Zealand Connection
This is my contribution to the Waitangi Day Blog Challenge - Your Earliest Known New Zealand Ancestor. While most of my ancestors were Australian based, I do have New Zealand connections like many other Australian families. In a lot of cases this is a mining...
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History Week 4 – Home
I'm participating in the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history challenge. This week's challenge is to describe the home we grew up in. This is much easier for me as my parents stayed in the same place for the whole of their married life. Not like their gypsy...
My Ancestor Approved Award
I am honoured and delighted to have been nominated for the Ancestor Approved Award by both Kerrie Farmer and Judy Webster. The Award was created by Leslie Ann Ballou to acknowledge genealogy blogs that are 'full of tips and tricks as well as funny and heartwarming...
Australia Day 2011 My Earliest Documents
This is my contribution to the Australia Day blogging theme suggested by Twigs of Yore celebrating our earliest connections and documents in Australia. By the time my son was born, I had been tracing my own family history for ten years and I knew that my earliest...
Online Genealogy Courses
Last year while on the Unlock the Past history and genealogy roadshow I met and got to know Louise St Denis, Director of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies (NIGS). On the New Zealand part of the trip I also met up with Kerrie Farmer, the new Director,...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.