The topic of one of my papers at Congress 2015 is The marriage of local history and family history: a bridge to the past. In part this will be a case study of the town of Murphy’s Creek, Queensland, at the bottom of the Toowoomba range. For several years I’ve been collecting information on the … More Missing Friends: Murphy’s Creek (Qld) people
Yes, Christmas is also coming, and is the goose getting fat? Well maybe not, but the shops are happy for us to believe it and want to part us from our money. Being a good genealogist I have a different idea for your Christmas wish list and your hard-earned cash. Early birds today will be out … More Congress 2015 is coming for early birds
Over the past days I’ve been working on my Congress 2015 about family and local history. I came across this wonderful photo which I wanted to share right now – regular readers may see it again in a few months <smile>. It is wonderful because of the four generations included in it rather than the … More The Chapman and Marshall families: Qld pioneers
As happens sometimes with a Sepia Saturday prompt, I immediately thought “how can I write on this?”… “I’ve got nothing in my family history that fits”. Turning to Trove, the Aussie genealogists’ friend, I searched for “police + chemist”. Did you notice there was a chemist’s shop in the background of the featured image? So … More Sepia Saturday 251: Qld Civil Liberties in the 60s
Unlike many other long-term genies, I haven’t attended lots of AFFHO Congress events over the years. As far as I recall my tally to date is only three, four counting Canberra in advance. I’ll blame family commitments, full-time work and distance but they’re probably just excuses. Even though my batting average isn’t high, I’ve had … More Coincidental Congress Discoveries
Today’s guest post is by my friend, Kate Cole, in England who I met doing an online course several years ago. Kate’s just published her first local history book on the town of Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire. We had a virtual conversation about how she came to research and publish her book. I posed some questions, and … More Guest post: Kate Cole on Local and Family History
Funny how things turn out isn’t it? All along my plan was to write my Sepia Saturday post on Kathmandu…after all my photos fitted the theme perfectly. Then I went off the idea, and life got in the way as I worked on photo books of our last holiday. The universe had other plans though, … More Sepia Saturday (or Tuesday): Kathmandu tales
Quite a few of us are celebrating our third anniversary as supporters of Kiva through the Genealogists for Families (GFF) team initiated by well-respected researcher and Queensland genealogy guru, Judy Webster back in 2011. Not long afterwards GFF won a 2011 Geneablog Award for best new community project. Just the other day I got an … More Kiva Genealogists for Families anniversary
Some of you may be bewildered by all the references to AFFHO in relation to the Canberra Congress 2015. It’s simple really as AFFHO is the umbrella organisation overarching all the triennial genealogy congresses Down Under. The acronym stands for the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations Inc. You’ll be hearing lots more about Congress … More Let’s get social @AFFHO2015
This week’s Sepia Saturday is about the horse, the cart and the drivers. While my Denis Gavin from Kildare and Dublin worked as a bullocky out west when he first arrived in Queensland I have no photos of him, or his bullock dray. Many of my ancestors also rode the iron rails but today’s photo … More Men of the Queensland Bush: Sepia Saturday 249
Family history across the seas 