Responding to Part 2 of Amy Coffin’s challenge for Week 8 on Technology: Part II: What types of technology do you enjoy using today, and which do you avoid? So what technology do I use now? Pretty much everything has a technological component and if we don’t try to adopt new advances as they come … More 52 Weeks of Personal history and genealogy: Week 8 Technology (Part 2)
The challenge issued by Amy Coffin and Geneabloggers for Week 8 of 52 weeks of Personal History and Genealogy is: Technology Part I: What are some of the technological advances that happened during your childhood? Part II: What types of technology do you enjoy using today, and which do you avoid? As a baby boomer I … More 52 weeks of personal history & genealogy: Week 8 Technology (Part 1)
The challenge issued by Amy Coffin and Geneabloggers for Week 7 of 52 weeks of Personal History and Genealogy is: What was your favourite childhood toy? Is it still being made in some form today? The prophetic asset in my toy collection was a rubber rabbit which was apparently mass produced at the time. Given … More 52 weeks of personal history & genealogy: Week 7: toys. A tale of rabbits, dolls and guns
After listening to five of the seven online video-streams, I was thoroughly bewildered by all the choices: so many strategies, so many concepts to absorb. If I felt like this after such a small smattering of talks, I can’t begin to imagine the impact of listening to all the sessions live. Or the thrill of … More RootsTech -Bewildered and Bemused -but resolved
So RootsTech has come and gone for 2011. I wonder how many genies will schedule a trip next year and, for those who can’t get there, will the organisers make the video stream more widely available even on a user-pays basis. I’d certainly be willing to pay for the opportunity to see it from Australia … More RootsTech – Bedazzled
Like many others I’ve been participating in the 52 weeks of personal history and genealogy created by Amy Coffin in collaboration with geneabloggers (http://www.geneabloggers.com/tag/52-weeks-of-personal-genealogy-history/) so retrieving memories has definitely been on my mind. One of my “to do” tasks is to knock my study into some order so I’ve been cataloguing my books, slowly, and came … More Memories of days past and memory-jogging
This photo definitely includes my grandfather, Denis Kunkel (second left, second back row) and was found as a backing board behind another picture. I have a theory it is be an extended family photo because of some of the poses and family resemblances-some look very like my father. Or it could be some local society -but … More Wordless Wednesday (not quite) -Brickwall photo
The topic for Week 6 is Radio & TV: What was your favorite radio or television show from your childhood? What was the program about and who was in it? http://www.geneabloggers.com/tag/52-weeks-of-personal-genealogy-history/ Well this week’s challenge certainly stretched my brain…probably because I didn’t read the question (you know, exam strategies 101)! So really just randomly picking … More 52 Weeks of Personal History & Genealogy: Week 6: TV & Radio
The biggest roadblock in writing my Kunkel-O’Brien family history in 2003 was trying to give my readers a flavour of the ancestral home village in Bavaria. I struggled with this stumbling block for weeks, but during a day’s creative writing class at the NT Writers’ Centre a lateral approach came to me. Instead of being … More Writing family history -roadblock in Dorfprozelten
Despite missing the timeline for Week 2, I thought I’d update my blog to include my thoughts on “Winter” in Queensland. This isn’t all that simple, as other Australian bloggers have mentioned, because when you grow up in a sub-tropical climate, winter is a relative thing. In the tropics where I now live, a temperature … More 52 weeks of Personal Genealogy & History -Week 2 overdue -Winter
Family history across the seas 