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
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
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
Favourite Food Thinking about this topic I’ve realised how strong has been the influence of my mother’s grandparents –my great-grandfather was a confectioner and pastry cook and the family owned tea rooms in Charters Towers in the late 19th century and prior to that a confectionery business in Ipswich, Queensland. Judging on a few newspaper … More 52 Weeks of Personal History & Genealogy-Week 5 -Favourite Foods
Shelley from http://twigsofyore.blogspot.com/ has invited us to submit an Australia Day post on our blogs. She suggests that we “Find the earliest piece of documentation you have about an ancestor in Australia. If you don’t have an Australian ancestor, then choose the earliest piece of documentation you have for a relative in Australia” On Wednesday … More Australia Day 2011 meme: the importance of church records and archives to my early documents.
The house where I lived, until I left home as an adult, is a typical Queensland house of its era, in a near-city working class suburb. It is on stilts to gain the benefit of cooling breeze, but also to open up underneath for the typical working tasks, sort of like a combined men’s and … More 52 Weeks of Personal History & Genealogy: Week 4 Home
As hard as it is to believe these days, when (and where) I was growing up, very few people actually owned cars and those who did were generous with their availability. Dad’s family had owned a car for quite a while when he was young but I don’t know why they sold it. My … More 52 weeks of Personal Genealogy & History: Week 3 Cars
In the past week I’ve been discovering other people’s blogs about family history, not just their specific families but general discussions as well. Among these I’ve discovered (belatedly) are Amy Coffin’s WeTree (http://wetree.blogspot.com/) and Geneabloggers (http://www.geneabloggers.com/). For 2011 Amy has put forward another year of topics for family history bloggers which is hosted on Geneabloggers … More 52 weeks of personal genealogy & history- Week 1 – New Year’s Memories
Family history across the seas 