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Using Twitter For Genealogy Brickwalls
Yesterday I had a spare 30 minutes while dinner was cooking so I thought I would do a quick UK census search as I have been having quite a lot of success finding families that I couldn't find years ago while searching through microfilms. My gg grandmother was Harriet...
Family Gatherings
On 30 September 2010 I attended a morning tea to celebrate the 100th birthday of my partner's aunt Mavis Rogers nee Eldridge. The preceding few days were spent visiting and catching up with various cousins he hadn't seen in over 4o years and yet they could all...
Report on Bomaderry ACT/NSW Genealogy Conference 2010
It was a beautiful weekend in Shoalhaven with blue skies and warm weather. The conference, with a theme 'A Most Suitable Place' was a great opportunity for me to catch up with friends from all over New South Wales, Canberra and even one person from Queensland. It is...
Education Records for Genealogy
While working at Queensland State Archives back in the 1980s, I became a fan of school admission registers when one of the projects I was involved in was the preparation of the registers for microfilming. This meant that I had to look at every register then in custody...
Discovering Maritime Museums for Genealogy
In my last blog I wrote about Discovering Immigration Museums for Genealogy. Closely related are Maritime Museums and Australia has quite a few and some with excellent online resources. The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is one that I frequently refer to...
Discovering Immigration Museums For Genealogy
When we want to find out about our ancestors immigration details we usually go to archives and libraries to research. An often overlooked resource are immigration museums or migration centres and we have some excellent examples in Australia. The Immigration Museum in...
Turbo Charging My Irish Genealogy
To celebrate the end of another great National Family History Week, I attended the Irish seminar organised by the Genealogy Society of Victoria's Irish Special Interest Group. Key speaker was Gregory O'Connor the higher archivist at the National Archives of Ireland...
Genealogy Booming in Australasia
Over the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of attending the inaugural Family History Fair in New Zealand, the inaugural Adelaide History and Genealogy Expo in South Australia and the annual Family History Feast in Melbourne, Victoria. All three events were...
Can You Do Genealogy Without Technology?
Can you do genealogy without using technology today is a question that I have been mulling over for some time. In just about every talk I do, there are at least one or more people who claim not to use a computer, quite a few that don't use mailing lists, most don't...
Mid Year Review of Genealogy Resolutions
On 28 December 2009 I wrote my Genealogy Resolutions for 2010. Now that we are into July I thought it was time for a review to see how I am going. - Maintain my health and fitness program so that I will have the energy and strength to do the next 9 items. Not too bad...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.