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Footsteps in Time family & local history conference review, May 2017
The second History Queensland family & local history conference was a wonderful success (apart from a very rainy Friday). With the theme Footsteps in Time it was held on the Gold Coast from 19-21 May 2017. Gold Coast Family History Society was the host and their...
Trove Tuesday – Frederick John Finn, a sad victim of Murphy’s Creek
It's Trove Tuesday again and I'm participating in the regular Trove Tuesday blog challenge. My aim is to do it at least once a month, and this is my second post for May. This time I am revisiting the sad death of Frederick John Finn, my first cousin twice removed (my...
Trove Tuesday – Why You Should Repeat Trove Searches
It's Trove Tuesday again and I'm participating in the regular Trove Tuesday blog challenge. My aim is to do it at least once a month, so I'm getting in early and hopefully there will be more than one post this month. Regular searches of Trove are essential as new...
Trove Tuesday – Why You Can’t Find Someone
For my Trove Tuesday post I went looking for the death of my great grandfather Thomas Price who died when he accidentally fell from a bridge in 1918 while on his way to work. Over the years I have looked at both microfilm newspapers and more recently the digitised...
Trove Tuesday – A Beautiful Bride and An Accident
For today's Trove Tuesday I went looking for my mother's sisters. Mum was the youngest of 10 children and was only a small child aged under 10 when her four sisters married in the late 1930s. Mum had more in common with her nieces than her sisters. So could Trove...
Trove Tuesday – Funeral Notices and Oddfellows
Most family historians look for funeral notices as they provide information on close relatives such as a person's address, names of children and sometimes where they live if not local, married names of daughters, and sometimes even grandchildren's names. Occasionally...
Writing Up The Family History with Carol Baxter
When I attended the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies conference in Camden in September 2016, I was able to catch up with Carol Baxter, the History Detective. Carol had just published the 3rd edition of her popular Writing Interesting Family...
Trove Tuesday – Transmission by Death Notices
For my first Trove Tuesday post of 2017, I am highlighting the wonderful information that can be located in the seemingly boring Government Notices section of newspapers. Today's topic is transmission by death notices and this is where property is directly transferred...
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2016
Each year Geniaus (Jill Ball) invites people to take part in this activity by responding to the following statements/questions in a blog post. Write as much or as little as you want or answer just a few questions. I always like to participate as it gives me a chance...
2016 Genealogy Reflections: 2017 Genealogy Expectations
Genealogy and technology just keeps on getting better and better. When I first started researching the family history in 1977 who would have imagined that we could do so much simply sitting at home. In March 2017 I will be celebrating 40 years of passionate and...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.