If no man is an island, then caring what happens in poorer places and countries is important. It’s easy sometimes to feel there’s little you can do to help “solve” world problems. However, there is one strategy that we can all contribute to, according to our means, and that is Kiva. I’ve talked about this … More Kiva Genealogists for Families – helping others to help themselves
The man I am writing about in this year’s Trans-Tasman ANZAC Day blog Challenge (commemoration?) is not a relative. Initially I looked for someone who lived close to my One Place Study, Murphy’s Creek, and chose a man about whom I’d write. At midnight last night, something niggled me to look up men from Toowoomba … More Anzac Centenary 2015: A Gallipoli “Everyman” Victor Joseph Sanders
Alona from LoneTester blog has offered us this fun “When I was young” geneameme and it’s been a pleasure reflecting on the answers. Do you (or your parents) have any memorabilia from when you were a baby? (ie. baby book, lock of hair, first shoes etc.) Yes, I am lucky to have a baby book, … More “When I was young” geneameme
The final session of Congress 2015 was a Panel discussion entitled Family History Research: why leave home to do it. The panel members were Josh Taylor (FGS and FMP, USA), Carole Riley (SAG) and David Holman (FFHO, UK) and it was moderated by Congress 2015 Official Blogger Jill Ball aka GeniAus. Jill had a list … More Congress 2015: Panel Session re Societies
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
It’s a week since Congress 2015 came to a close and for most of that time I’ve been gallivanting around Sydney with my other half. My reflections on the speakers I heard and my thoughts have been distracted by the offerings of the Big Smoke. Thank heavens I wrote all my notes into Evernote where … More Congress 2015: Cherry-picking papers
One of the challenges of any conference is the selection of competing topics when inevitably we want to listen to at least two of the choices, if not more. Perhaps that’s why Keynotes are so appealing – not only are the presentations by experts in their field but we don’t have to pick and choose. … More Congress 2015: Inspirational Keynotes
Congress 2015 has come and gone and The Carnival is Over. I imagine Convenor Kerrie Gary and her team of “green people” and “purple people” have all collapsed in a heap after a job well done…they certainly took care of us very well and provided us with a luxury smorgasbord of speakers. So…what of my … More Congress 2015: The Carnival Is Over
Registration completed, bags collected and blogger beads have been donned. The crowds gathered and the conversations began…in fact the bus to the Australian War Memorial for the welcome did sound like a flock of happy lorikeets settling into the gum tree for the evening <smile>. The buzz didn’t cease as we entered the hall dominated … More Welcome to Congress
My email this morning included one from Congress 2015 convenor, Kerrie Gray…the new Congress app (on Android and Apple) is now available. Over my morning coffee I downloaded the app to my iPad, and added the sessions, and keynotes, that I was attending. Kerrie offered these useful guidelines for adding presentations to the “My Program” … More All App’d up for Congress in five more days
Family history across the seas 