It’s the Dry Season in the Top End and as usual Darwin has been humming with activities, but this month it reaches a crescendo of activity with the Darwin Festival. August in Darwin is filled with such amazing opportunities: Indigenous singers and performers, international artists, the Aboriginal Art Festival, the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres … More Darwin Fun in the Dry: Photos, Stories and a Laugh
This is Week 32 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Journals. This is part of the Archives and Libraries section of the series and follows on from the discussion of university and reference libraries in Week 29 and books … More Beyond the Internet: Week 32 Journals
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….
Ironically even as my post on maps and gazetteers was scheduled to go online last Saturday I was attending the National Family History Week talks hosted by the Northern Territory Library, one of which was about maps. I was riveted by Geoff Carr’s presentation on maps and mapping. Geoff is a cartographer with the Northern Land … More More about Maps
A while ago I was generously offered a guest post on Wrote by Rote by blog-owner Arlee Bird who is one of the coordinators of the A to Z series. Wrote by Rote is a blog about writing memoirs so it fitted with my own contribution to the A to Z series where I wrote about family … More Wrote by Rote guest post
This is Week 31 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Maps and Gazetteers. This is part of the Archives and Libraries section of the series. Please do join in and write comments or posts on your experiences with these. … More Beyond the Internet: Week 31 Maps and Gazetteers
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
Okay enough of the frivolous business of Paris and Provence – back to some hard core family history. Over the past few weeks I’ve been studying the coursework from another Pharos course, this one on One Place Studies (OPS). I was so tempted to focus on one of my easy ancestral places in England or … More One Place Study -Broadford, Co Clare, Ireland
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.
This post is about total self-indulgence. We visited Provence for the first time in October 2010 and it remains one of our most memorable holidays….another visit is now on our bucket list. We loved everything about it -we even survived driving on the “wrong” side of the road. That is after we finally made it … More Paris in July 2012 -images of Provence
Family history across the seas 