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...
Census Night: Week 1 National Family History Month 2016 blogging challenge
Alex Daw (aka FamilyTreeFrog) has set up a weekly blog challenge for National Family History Month 2016. I like blogging challenges as they usually get me writing about topics that I might not normally do. Week 1 is My Census Story – Census Night in Australia is 9...
The Finn Brothers – 2016 Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge
Since 2011 the Central Auckland Research Centre has been issuing the Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge. Each year I take part and focus on one of my military ancestors. This year I am revisiting a family that I first wrote about for ANZAC Day 2013. Read the...
Women’s History Month – My Four Great Grandmothers
As March is Women’s History Month, I am focusing on my four great grandmother’s (although there is now some doubt about one of them, but that is a story for a later date). There was a lot of social media activity around International Women’s Day on 8...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.