Family Gatherings
On 30 September 2010 I attended a morning tea to celebrate the 100th birthday of my partner’s aunt Mavis Rogers nee Eldridge. The preceding few days were spent visiting and catching up with various cousins he hadn’t seen in over 4o years and yet they could...Report on Bomaderry ACT/NSW Genealogy Conference 2010
It was a beautiful weekend in Shoalhaven with blue skies and warm weather. The conference, with a theme ‘A Most Suitable Place’ was a great opportunity for me to catch up with friends from all over New South Wales, Canberra and even one person from...Education Records for Genealogy
While working at Queensland State Archives back in the 1980s, I became a fan of school admission registers when one of the projects I was involved in was the preparation of the registers for microfilming. This meant that I had to look at every register then in custody...Discovering Maritime Museums for Genealogy
In my last blog I wrote about Discovering Immigration Museums for Genealogy. Closely related are Maritime Museums and Australia has quite a few and some with excellent online resources. The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is one that I frequently refer to...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.