This is a combined post for Family Tree Frog’s National Family History Month blog challenge and Geneamusing’s Saturday Night Fun on Favourite Aunts. When I see my grandchildren’s close relationships with their cousins, and hear of the tight links others have with cousins, I’m a tad jealous of those bonds. With families geographically dispersed, and … More Aunts, Uncles and Cousins
This is a re-post of one of my submissions to the Worldwide Genealogy blog nearly three years ago. I thought it might be worth a re-share here for National Family History Month 2017. As family historians we need the traditional three Rs of reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic, after all how else to locate our families’ … More The Three Rs of Genealogy
This year’s A to Z Challenge hosts a plethora of blogs being written on a variety of topics. It’s a couple of years since I joined the challenge so I was pleased to discover how many of my genimates (and a few new ones) are participating. In case you haven’t tracked them all down yet, … More Sunday Summary – A to Z
B is BDMs/BMDs Births, Deaths and Marriages or BDMs are also known in other countries as BMDs which actually makes more sense, after all if we marry it’s unlikely to come after we die, rather beforehand. I mentioned in the last post that the best genealogy explores backwards from ourselves, working through the generations. This … More B is for BDMs, Blogs and Beyond the Internet
I’ve been AWOL lately leaving my blog crying for attention. Unfortunately my mind is completely focused on getting our Darwin house sold and thinking about our proposed move interstate. The same level of obsessiveness I bring to family history has been brought to bear on housing matters. Having to have everything squeaky clean and spic … More A blogging “drought”
Having reviewed some of the talks I attended at Congress 2015, it’s time to turn to a little personal navel-gazing. Decades of working as a senior administrator means I can’t help myself when it comes to assessing what went well and what wasn’t so successful. How else to improve one’s own performance in any sphere? It’s always … More Congress 2015: Navel-gazing
I nearly let myself get dragged along by the tiger’s tail again with all the enthusiasm Thomas MacEntee has generated around the geneaglobe with his Genealogy Do-Over (GDO) Project. The GDO Facebook site has been abuzz with ideas, strategies and new software suggestions. Anyone with genealogy interests can join in – you just need to … More Back to Basics 1: First Quarter 2015
It’s hard to believe, but today is this blog’s 5th anniversary. Perhaps it’s why I’ve been feeling something of a five-year itch with it. Over recent months, in a scattered way, I’ve been reflecting on where I’m at with both my research and blogging. My prevailing sense has been that my blogs, and my research, … More 5th Blogiversary: Reflections and Goals
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I’d been nominated for the One Lovely Blog award by Deb from A Pocket Full of Family Memories, and Alona from Lone Tester. While I’ve been away I’ve again been awarded the blog by Niki Marie of My People in History and Helen Smith from who kindly … More One Lovely Blog: Paying it Forward
It’s been an exciting genea-jigging time for me lately. First up my blog appeared in the Inside History Top 50 blogs for 2014. Thanks Inside History, and Geniaus, who does the complex comparison between all the blogs…heaven knows how many she has on her list. Then the voting on John Reid’s Rockstar Genealogist 2014 was … More Down Under’s Rockstar Genealogists 2014
Family history across the seas 