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My Favourite 25 Australasian Websites
Back in December 2009 I wrote a blog post 50 Australian Websites for Family History and it is interesting to see what has changed in just nine short years. Most are still there, some have changed names, some have disappeared or been absorbed into other sites and of...
Finding Truth in Family History Through DNA
Since 1977 I have been tracing my family history through the more traditional methods. Buying certificates, using archives and libraries and perhaps most importantly talking to the ‘oldies’ and learning what they knew about our family. By 2015 I thought I knew it all...
Trove Tuesday – John Finn Charged with Incendiarism
Today’s Trove blog post is revisiting some earlier research. My great great grandfather John Finn was charged, and finally acquitted, of arson in 1903. Back in the 1980s when I first discovered this family scandal, I searched the Brisbane Courier and the Truth on...
Review of The Promise of Tomorrow: final volume in The Garth Trilogy
L F (Lynette) McDermott, Promise of Tomorrow, Book 3 of the Garth Trilogy, Lynette McDermott, Sydney, 2018, ISBN: 978-0- 9946057-2-6, $30.00 plus $8.00 postage within Australia, 462pp, paperback and ebook also available. The Garth Trilogy is a series of historical...
Trove Tuesday – Body Discovered, Unknown Identity
My great great grandfather James Henry Trevaskis is one of my last remaining brickwalls - he was last known to be working for the Municipality of Clermont and Copperfield in 1868. His wife Elizabeth remarried George Guy as a widow in 1873, still in Copperfield....
Report on Unlock the Past Alaska Genealogy Cruise – Part Two
This is the second blog post on my recent genealogy cruise to Alaska - read Part One here. Day 5 started with an amazing trip up Tracy Arm Fiord and there is nothing like looking out the window (porthole) and watching ice bergs drift past. Had breakfast with a window...
Report on Unlock the Past Alaska Genealogy Cruise – Part One
The Unlock the Past (UTP) genealogy cruise to Alaska was seven nights with two full days and one half day of seminars plus an evening seminar each night of the cruise. Given the number of sessions attended, I am dividing this report into two separate blog posts. A...
Review of Unlock the Past in Seattle One Day Seminar
In conjunction with the Unlock the Past genealogy cruise to Alaska (a separate blog post to follow), there was a one day seminar in Seattle open to cruise registrants as well as those in the Seattle area of the USA. There were four speakers - Blaine Bettinger, Maurice...
National Family History Month 2018 Review of Talks Attended
August is National Family History Month in Australia and there are lots of events across Australia and in the first half of the month I have been to three events. First there was the FamilySearch Discovery Day at Forest Glen which was an all day series of talks across...
Trove Tuesday – Family Weddings & What They Wore
My son was married yesterday so my thoughts have been all around weddings. So for my first Trove Tuesday post in a while I looked for weddings on my mother's side of the family. Mum's cousins were all much older than her and some of them even married before she was...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.