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New Year Genie Aspirations – In 2010 I Will
Maintain my health and fitness program so that I will have the energy and strength to do the next 9 items. It is too easy to get mesmerised by the computer or the fascination of the library, book or whatever. Without regular breaks my back starts to ache, my joints...
50 Australian Websites For Family History
Christmas Greetings! There are numerous ‘best of’ lists but rarely do they include Australian websites. This list reflects my own interests but I would welcome suggestions and would love to make it a Top 100 list. Some websites fitted more than one category,...
No Time For Family History
Many years ago I bought a slim Federation of Family History Societies publication by Eve McLaughlin entitled No Time For Family History? and this was largely in the pre personal computer days. Back then we were busy people and we squeezed the family history in by not...
Living Relatives – Don’t Waste Opportunity
This week's blog sees me back in Brisbane at my mother's. Over the last few months I seem to have spent more time in Brisbane than I have in years. Mum's illness also means that I have spent more time with her than I have in decades and at a time when she is not able...
Serendipity or Advertising Your Ancestors
I finished last week's blog by saying that Serendipity would guide this week's entry. Fortunately Serendipity was kind to me and I can report that it does pay to advertise your ancestors in publications, on websites and on social networking sites like Facebook. In...
Online BDMs Demolish Brick Walls
My last two blogs have been about preparing for my talk on Convicts and Criminals and accompanying Handout at Mulwala Family History Expo and all the wonderful information I discovered on my families because of new online resources. The talk went very well and I...
Using Police Gazettes
In some ways this is a continuation of last week's entry in that it relates to my talk on Convicts & Criminals this Saturday at the Mulwala Family History Expo. I had finished my presentation and was doing a final run through to see that it worked and realised I...
Using Online Newspapers: the good and the bad
I have been working on a talk Convicts & Criminals for the Mulwala Family History expo on 21 November and part of the talk is about the advantages of having Australian Newspapers online. The really exciting bit is that I have found new information on one of my...
Mining and Criminal Records in Queensland
In 1992 I successfully completed the Diploma in Historical Studies at the Society of Australian Genealogists. It was the end of an annus horribilus year, my son turned five, my then husband had major cancer surgery followed by chemotherapy, I was working full time at...
Radio interview in Mount Gambier, South Australia
On Monday 2 Nov 2009 I was interviewed by Stan Thomson during his Mornings program on ABC SE South Australia on my visit to Mount Gambier and my talk to the Mount Gambier History Group on Discovering Military Ancestors Online . I was a bit surprised to find that Stan...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.