Beyond the Internet: Week 37 Monumental Inscriptions and Gravestones

15 September, 2012

This is Week 37 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Cemeteries: Monumental Inscriptions and Gravestones. This forms part of the cheerily named “Death” theme in the series. In the coming weeks we’ll talk about burial registers and funeral undertakers. This topic seems … More Beyond the Internet: Week 37 Monumental Inscriptions and Gravestones

Family History Alphabet: S sets us challenges

14 September, 2012

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

Chocolate delights

13 September, 2012

According to Geneabloggers, today is International Chocolate Day and ties in with the blog hop What’s your Chocolate which was scheduled for Monday 10 September. I only read about this blog hop yesterday on Denise Covey’s L’Aussie Writer blog. I know I’m late but it sounded like too much fun to miss out on. When I was a … More Chocolate delights

Remembering 9/11

12 September, 2012

It seems presumptuous for an Australian to be talking about 9/11 and yet it was an event which affected us all, wherever we lived, and yes it’s right that we should also  record our memories for our descendants as suggested by Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers.. On 11 September 2001, we were woken by a call … More Remembering 9/11

Trove Tuesday: a little boy wins a prize

11 September, 2012

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

Beyond the Internet: Week 36 Photographic archives

10 September, 2012

This is Week 36 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Photographs and Postcards. Strangely perhaps this topic ties into the archives and libraries branch of the series. This is something of a case of “teaching your grandmother to suck eggs” since … More Beyond the Internet: Week 36 Photographic archives

Family History Alphabet: R is for………R-E-S-P-E-C-T

8 September, 2012

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