Hi everyone It seems I pressed the publish button too soon on my last blog post without proof reading it thoroughly.   I was asked by the Genealogical Society of Victoria to take the post down immediately this morning as it contained incorrect information about their finances.   In my haste to take down the blog post, I have now completely lost it so am unable to confirm exactly where the error was. However the Secretary of GSV advised me that I indicated that the GSV ran at a loss in 2022 which is completely untrue. You can check GSV's accounts on the ACNC website here ..read more

    A while ago, John Reid wrote an article entitled The Financial Health of Canadian Genealogical Societies 2022 .  Thank you John for this most thought-provoking article. What a brilliant idea, I thought to self.  Let's see if we can do the same for Australian societies. Reid's article looked at 12 societies in Canada: Alberta Genealogical Society British Columbia Genealogical Society British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc Manitoba Genealogical Society New Brunswick Genealogical Society Genealogica ..read more

  Goodness me!  There's only a couple of weeks to go before it is August and National Family History Month. Here's a list of 31 things you can do to celebrate National Family History Month in Australia and New Zealand. Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Andrew Redfern Join us for the Opening Ceremony with speakers Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Andrew Redfern looking at the pros and cons of using Artificial Intelligence in researching your family history.  Please register and request the Zoom login details via this website's contact form, or Email j ..read more

Image by Leandro De Carvalho from Pixabay  Let's talk about writing, shall we? I'm contributing to a Talking About session tomorrow morning run by QFHS.   The session description says the following: The best way to preserve your family history is to write about it. You could write a story for our journal; upload a document to Ancestry; a page on a website such as the Virtual War Memorial, My Primitive Methodists; an entry on Convict Records, Wikipedia and Wikitree; a media output (blog, podcast and YouTube); or a play for your grandchildren to act ou ..read more

  Alex and her bestie Loani showing off the quilt made for Caspar's birthday 1. I was happy to go back to ... after a Covid absence Face-to-face conferences, meetings, and workshops. 2. In 2022 I was particularly proud of writing ... as many of my 52Ancestorsin52week blog posts as I could. 36 in total. 3. A new software package or web application I embraced was ... I kept going with PowerPoint in terms of presentations and was very brave and did a presentation at a SAG hangout in March.  I had lots of egg on my face in terms of working out the sound but the SAG convenors ..read more

Thomas Case Ahnentafel Number 54 Context for discovery: This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. The theme for this week is Exploration. Amy says: Where did your ancestors explore? Who moved around a lot? You could also share records, libraries, or archives that you've explored in. Remember, there's no wrong way to interpret the theme! Feel free to post your links and stories in the comments. Thomas was my 3rd great-grandfather on my maternal side of the family. I am ashamed to say that I ..read more

Church of St Marty the Virgin Swineshead by Captain Smurf on Flickr Img 4896 https://flic.kr/p/7WfKH Ahnentafel Number  30 Context for discovery: George Ellis was my 2ndgreat-grandfather on my mother’s side.  This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. Amy Johnson Crow says Week 35's theme is "Free Space." I intended for this to be a week for you to choose whatever you want to write about. (Though that's true every week!) But also feel free to riff off of the theme -- maybe ..read more

Ahnentafel Number  29 Context for discovery: Emily Mercy Hollingham was my 2nd great-grandmother on my mother’s side. She married George Forfar and they owned a bakery in Hove, Sussex in the late 1880s. This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. This blog post is a compilation of several blog posts I previously wrote about Emily and George. Every time I write I find out more snippets of information. Week 34's theme is "Timeline." Amy Johnson Crow says. Timelines are a great research tool. Wh ..read more

  Week 4 - Celebrate - tell us what you've achieved this month. What talk did you attend during #NationalFamilyHistoryMonth that you thought was brilliant or tell us about the discoveries you made? This has been a crazy busy month for me.  We've had a lot to do at QFHS and I have been rather distracted.   But I am pleased that, despite many distractions, I still managed to publish some blog posts - ten if I get this and another one completed today. I also managed to progress the framing of my father's grandfather's medals.  We're not there yet by any stretch of the imagin ..read more

This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. Week 33's theme is "Service." Military service. Service stations. In service to others. Even good or bad service at a restaurant. Let your imagination run with this week's theme! Context for discovery: I am deviating from the norm this week by not writing about my direct ancestors but rather about two great uncles on my father’s side of the family. This blog post is a compilation of several blog posts I previously wrote about the Carrett family’s war service ..read more