My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. We’re tearing towards the alphabet’s end. Today we focus on the tantalising letter T. T is for TENACIOUS: You’ll need to be persistent to track down all the clues you can about … More Family History Alphabet: Tantalising T
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. We’re on the final rush to the end now and S is our letter of the week. By this stage we’re reaching some antonyms of earlier attributes. S is for STAMINA: … More Family History Alphabet: S sets us challenges
Yesterday I came across this little snippet on Trove about my grandfather’s younger brother George Michael Kunkel. He had won a prize at the Beenleigh Show in September 1895 for “a home exercise book for children under 10”. Now this would be a delightful but comparatively unimportant find in the normal course of research events. However it … More Trove Tuesday: a little boy wins a prize
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. This week we’re on the letter R and all of a sudden I hear music. R is for R-E-S-P-E-C-T: We owe it to other researchers to acknowledge their work. Citations and … More Family History Alphabet: R is for………R-E-S-P-E-C-T
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. This week’s letter is Q, an important one if we’re ever to complete our family history. Q is NOT for QUITTING: If we want to find out the story … More Family History Alphabet: Q is for ….guess
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. We’re powering through the alphabet and Week 16 brings us a plethora of “P” characteristics. P is for Privacy: No, not our own, though that they … More Family History Alphabet: A Plethora of P attributes
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. We’re galloping through the alphabet now and Week 15 brings us to the “O” attributes. What are they going to be? O is for Optimistic: no … More Family History Alphabet: O is Optimistic and Obsessive
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. Week 14 brings us attributes from the letter N. N is for notetaking par excellence: If we aren’t good at notetaking when we start this journey, … More Family History Alphabet: N is for….
My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. Week 13 is in the middle of the alphabet and brings us the letter M. M is for MENTAL GYMNASTICS: I guess this is appropriate for … More Family History Alphabet: M is for Mental Gymnastics, Maths and Mothers
You can tell that we really loved Aix-en-Provence because I wanted it to have its own slideshow, so here it is. I would love to go back again. This post is part of the Paris in July 2012 theme hosted by Karen from BookBath and Tamara from Thyme for Tea.
Family history across the seas 