As I wrote last week, I want to get back to some regular blogging on my families and I was toying with doing my own blog challenge to keep me focused. With a bit of effort I have come up with 52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2014 and I even managed to get the first Week 1 blog post done in time for this Diary update.
What is my blog challenge? Briefly it is to stimulate my own genealogy
blogging efforts in 2014 by focusing on a different kind of genealogical
record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival
background as well as my own genealogy interests and there are probably lots of
other records that I could have included. The challenge has an Australian focus
but most of these records will be found just about anywhere in the genealogy
world.
The 52 different types of genealogical records I finally
decided on are listed in no particular order (each week will be a random
surprise). Anyone is welcome to do all or part of this blogging challenge. Let me know if you are participating and I
will put a link to your post under each week's challenge.
Read Week 1 Military Medals. Wish me luck with the next 51 weeks, especially when I am travelling (the Unlock the Past 4th genealogy cruise is only a bit over three weeks away and there will be lots to blog about there too!)
I also managed to write up my response to GeniAus' Accentuate the Positive 2013 Geneameme - read my response here.
I have almost finished my talks for the UTP cruise although I will still have to do a quick check of URLs just before sailing as some websites seem to change all the time! I am participating in a panel session with Chris Paton and Thomas MacEntee and we have been given the questions in advance to allow us time to think about our responses. It should be an interesting session with viewpoints from the UK, the USA and Australia. For those not going on the cruise, remember that both Chris and Thomas are doing DownUnder day seminars in Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart and Perth. Not to be missed, although I do feel sorry for those in Darwin as it is the only state/territory missing out. Hopefully they will be reading some of the various blogs that will be written about the cruise and day seminars.
I am sitting here watching a pair of rosellas feeding in a tree just outside my study window and there are a pair of doves foraging on the ground below them. The butcher birds and magpies (and their babies) will be flying in soon too. There are sparrows lined up on the pool fence too. It is a great view and I positioned my desk so that I could look out over the pool, the palms and the orchard but it is a bit distracting! The humidity is building again and there may even be another storm out there. That was the long way of saying I am signing off and going for a swim! Happy researching, until next time.
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