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Caring for your Family Records
My presentation on Caring for your Family Records at the Second National Australian Jewish Genealogy Conference in Melbourne last weekend was very well received. I had intended to spend the whole day at the conference but we experienced some minor roof damage from the...
Letters Home – My Irish Families
This week's blog is my contribution to the Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture, 18th edition With four gg grandparents born in Ireland it is no wonder that I am interested in Irish heritage and culture. Of the four it is only my gg grandmother Maria Jeffers who...
52 weeks to better genealogy – my WorldCat.org challenge
Amazing how quick the weeks go by when you are enrolled in the 52 weeks to better genealogy challenge. I love doing the challenges, but I am not so good on writing up the results. Challenge 4 was exploring a library's inter library loan (ILL) policy and how you can...
Finding My Long Lost Jeffers Cousins Online
I have written before about why it pays to advertise your family research interests online and this is another example with my Jeffers family from Portadown, County Armagh Ireland. I placed a query about the family on an Ancestry.com message board in November 1998 and...
Why You Should Still Use Family History Bibliographies
In the age of Google we sometimes think that everything is online but we really know that it isn't. Some of the family history resources and tools of the past tend to be forgotten because it takes a little extra effort to use them and most times we can't use them at...
Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory – why you should use a local society!
This week's blog is coming from Darwin in the Northern Territory where I have spent a fascinating week. I was also privileged to visit the Library of the Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory (GSNT) where June Tomlinson gave me the tour. Just because a...
Your Family History – Recording Here and Now
Last week's blog was Recording Your Own Life, this week's blog is on that same theme and it is a few days late because we are in Darwin playing grandma and grandpa. We haven't seen the 3 youngest grandkids of our eldest son since the family all moved from Adelaide a...
Recording Your Own Life
I have spent this week thinking about my own life. Why? I am enrolled in the 52 weeks to Better Genealogy program and week 3 is reflecting on our own lives and how we have recorded them. We document our ancestors and living family members but do we take the time to...
52 Weeks to Better Genealogy – My Progress So Far!
I have accepted a challenge from Genea-Bloggers to participate in a 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy workshop. We are at the end of Week 2 and I honestly don't know where the last two weeks went. I have done both challenges and as they are related I thought I would...
Is My Family Already On The Internet?
Not too many years ago, most genealogists and family historians used to submit their names and research interests to society journals or genealogical research directories (GRD's), either local, national and/or international. We would then sit back and hopefully...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.