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....
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.