Month: January 2012

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Week 5 Life experiences: Finding Mary O’Brien

30 January, 2012

Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog, in conjunction with Geneabloggers, has a new series of weekly blogging prompts for 2012 and the theme is 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy.  Week 5’s topic is Life Experiences: Sometimes the challenges in life provide the best learning experiences. Can you find an example of this in your own family tree? … More 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Week 5 Life experiences: Finding Mary O’Brien

52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy Week 4: my kitbag of offline tools

28 January, 2012

Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog, in conjunction with Geneabloggers, has kicked off 2012 with a new series of weekly blogging prompts themed as 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy.  Week 4’s topic is Free Offline Genealogy Tools: For which free offline genealogy tool are you most grateful? How did you find this tool and how has it benefitted … More 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy Week 4: my kitbag of offline tools

Beyond the Internet week 4: Donations and subscriptions

27 January, 2012

This is Week 4 in my Beyond the Internet series of topics in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. I’d love it if you wanted to join in with your own posts on this week’s topic which is donations and subscriptions. Have you ever considered how useful it would be … More Beyond the Internet week 4: Donations and subscriptions

Australia Day 2012: Wealth for toil on the railway?

25 January, 2012

Shelley from Twigs of Yore has again initiated an Australia Day blogging theme. In 2012 the focus is  “wealth for toil” drawing on the words of our national anthem, Advance Australia Fair. Our challenge is to choose an Aussie ancestor and relate how they toiled. There were several alternative approaches but I chose to tell … More Australia Day 2012: Wealth for toil on the railway?

Beyond the Internet: Week 3: Houses wrapped in red tape.

20 January, 2012

Don’t you find life is full of red tape? Someone always wants paperwork from you in relation to some part of your life. How do people survive who are uneducated I wonder. The very same red tape that we often find so exasperating in day-to-day life, is heaven-sent when we’re doing family history. Much of … More Beyond the Internet: Week 3: Houses wrapped in red tape.

Week 2 of Sharing Memories 2012: First flight(s)

19 January, 2012

OliveTree Genealogy is celebrating the 3rd year of Sharing Memories – A Genealogy Journey with the goal of writing our memoirs and childhood memories for our descendants. The topic for Week 2 is “First flight”. This seems like such a simple question doesn’t it, yet for me there were three flights that fitted this description. … More Week 2 of Sharing Memories 2012: First flight(s)

52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Week 3: Celebrate the generosity of free websites

19 January, 2012

This week’s questions are gifts in themselves. I have two sites that I routinely sing the praises of, one international and one for regional Australia, and one that I think deserves to be better known. Clare County Library is my all time favourite resource for free family history and Clare history, aided and abetted by … More 52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Week 3: Celebrate the generosity of free websites

52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Week 2 – Thistle do me: ScotlandsPeople

18 January, 2012

Amy Coffin of the We Tree blog, in conjunction with Geneabloggers, has kicked off 2012 with a new series of weekly blogging prompts themed as 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy.  Week 2’s topic is Paid Online Genealogy Tools: Which paid genealogy tool do you appreciate the most? What special features put it at the top of your … More 52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy: Week 2 – Thistle do me: ScotlandsPeople

Beyond the Internet Week 2 (belatedly): Ancestral homes and their history

18 January, 2012

My good intentions to publish this in week 2 were derailed by house-hunting interstate so, with my thoughts locked on real estate, it seemed appropriate to talk about ancestral houses and what we can find out about them beyond the internet. For most of us a high point on our ancestral wish-list, is to actually … More Beyond the Internet Week 2 (belatedly): Ancestral homes and their history