Surname Saturday Meme: Names, Places and Most Wanted Faces

by | Nov 17, 2011 | Blog

As a regular reader of Geniaus‘ blogs, I often find myself (lately) doing memes. Sometimes they are created by Geniaus and sometimes she has picked up memes from fellow bloggers. This is one of the latter, and it is a really useful way to advertise the primary...

Old Research, New Resources, Fresh Eyes

by | Sep 18, 2011 | Blog

I started researching my family history in August 1977, just over 34 years ago and I am amazed at the changes over that time. Anyone starting out now can’t appreciate just how hard it was back then, especially trying to do it from Australia. Yesterday I proved...

Using Twitter For Genealogy Brickwalls

by | Nov 2, 2010 | Blog

Yesterday I had a spare 30 minutes while dinner was cooking so I thought I would do a quick UK census search as I have been having quite a lot of success finding families that I couldn’t find years ago while searching through microfilms. My gg grandmother was...

Living Relatives – Don’t Waste Opportunity

by | Dec 11, 2009 | Blog

This week’s blog sees me back in Brisbane at my mother’s. Over the last few months I seem to have spent more time in Brisbane than I have in years. Mum’s illness also means that I have spent more time with her than I have in decades and at a time...