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Discovering Worcestershire Archives
I was unexpectedly asked to review this new eguide Explore History Landscapes Family published by Worcestershire County Council. It is 73 pages on researching at the Worcester Archive and Archaeology Service and available to download for £6. The Archive offers fee...
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2017
For the 6th consecutive year Jill Ball is asking bloggers to contribute to this challenge. As a regular participant it is an interesting exercise as I usually find that I have done more than I think during the year. Anyone can take part by responding to the...
Trove Tuesday – The Queenslander Cot Fund
The Queenslander Cot Fund was set up by the newspaper The Queenslander to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Children in Brisbane. In my example John C Davis was the organiser and he was my great grandfather James Carnegie's cousin. John C Davis was the son of...
Remembrance Day 2017 & the Kennedy Regiment, Queensland
Amazingly it is six years since I first wrote about my grandfather Henry Price and his army service with the Kennedy Regiment on board the Kanowna at the outbreak of World War One. Read that blog post here. Back then I struggled to find information about the Kanowna...
Report on Your Family Story: Telling, Recording & Preserving conference, Orange NSW, Sep 2017
Each year the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Organisations holds an annual conference and this year it was in Orange, NSW in September 2017. With the theme of Your Family Story: Telling, Recording & Preserving it was always going to be a conference to...
Archives, Skeletons & DNA: National Family History Month 2017 Closes in Townsville, QLD
In previous years the end of National Family History Month and the giveaway prize draw has piggy backed on existing events in south east Queensland. For the first time we had a dedicated event with the Family History Association of North Queensland based in...
The Ancestral Places Geneameme
I am participating in Alona Tester's family history blogging challenge of an alphabetical ancestral placename geneameme. It has taken me a little while to get started as I have been busy as the voluntary coordinator of National Family History Month in Australia. But...
Report on Unlock the Past PNG military & genealogy cruise
There were 4 at sea days and these had sessions running from 9am to 5pm most days plus there was at least one, sometimes more, talks from 8pm onwards. It was often a rush to fit in dinner, the cruise ship show and the after dinner talks! Who said cruise ships were...
Masonic Archives for Family History
As a young child I was aware that my aunt's husband was a Mason although I wasn't too sure what the Masons were all about. My partner's great grandfather Thomas Stephen Burstow was very high up in the Masons (discovered through digitised newspapers in Trove). So there...
Trove Tuesday – Did the family ever contact back home?
One of the questions I have always asked myself was - did my immigrant ancestors ever have contact with the family members back home? In some cases there have been surviving letters which do show that letters and photographs were exchanged with those left behind. In...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.