Not sure where the last three months have gone but it has been an eventful time.
Back from my holiday which didn't go quite to plan. Missed seeing Belfast and Islandmagee, Shetland and my three-night stopover in Doha. However, I still managed to get to Sweden and spend some time with my little two-year-old grandson. What happened? Bad luck said the hospital doctor when I queried how I got bacterial pneumonia which led to a 11-day hospital stay in Liverpool, England.
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| Baptismal font Canterbury Cathedral England |
On the plus side I also managed a few days in The Netherlands in Amsterdam and Rotterdam before boarding the cruise ship. The first port was Dover, and it was really good seeing the white cliffs of Dover as we sailed in.
The excursion to Canterbury Cathedral and Leeds Castle in Kent was good.
From there we went to Ireland, and we saw the castles of Cashel and Cahir which was amazing. The next day I knew I was sick and confirmed with an x-ray in the ship's hospital. Thank goodness for travel insurance.
Only a couple more medical appointments and apparently I will be as good as new. Not sure I believe that but I certainly hope it helps with my mobility issues. The pink walking cane is an eye catcher and often leads to people assisting me or giving up a seat for me. I would miss that. Stay tuned.
Blogs
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| Cashel Castle Ireland |
Books
Many years ago, I catalogued all my library books into Library Thing. From time to time, I have added books but not every book and I have moved books around and even given some away. As a result, I have bought second copies which is a waste not to mention lugging them home in my suitcase. One of my promises to myself post illness was to update Library Thing and put the app on my phone. It is a tedious job checking, adding and deleting but I will now be able to find any book anywhere in the study.
Do I really have 641 books from 442 authors on my bookshelves? And that is after my massive cull and giveaway of books over the last year.
Family History Month
Check out the new AFFHO website for Family History Month - they have dropped the national. It is now much easier to add events to the calendar for August. Have a look at August events.
Remember too there are prizes to be won. Simple to enter and free.
Genealogy Software
There is a new Version 10 for Legacy Family Tree software which I will have to download as I have Max's family in Legacy. I often move my own family between Family Tree Maker and Legacy as there are different features that I like.
Ancestry have introduced a paid product DNA Pro Tools which allows you to see the shared matches of your matches. Max is away fishing so I have quite a few hours set aside to check out what it does for my own DNA matches. Have heard good reports from others but I am looking to find three unknown biological ancestors all on Dad's side.
New Records
Findmypast has new parish records for London, Middlesex and Surrey. Also over 320,000 new digitised newspaper pages. Anybody else finding it hard to catch up.
Online Events
On 22 June I attended the Society of Australian Genealogists one day seminar on Enhancing Your Family History with Artificial Intelligence. There were seven speakers looking at different aspects and certainly thought provoking.
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| Canal cruising Amsterdam |
There are seven talks lined up for me during August so it will be a busy month for me. Some are virtual so that saves travel time and worrying about what the highway traffic will be like.
Check out the events page of my website for dates, places and topics.
What's Coming Up
There are a number of events I'm looking forward to attending in August. Some in person and some virtual.
I am also hoping to catch up with everything - so easy to get behind when you go on holidays or get sick or both.
Emails multiply, my blog and genealogy journals/magazines falls behind and then there is my Ph D on the Incarceration of Women in Colonial Queensland. My one year milestone is coming up in August. The year has flown.
Until next time happy searching
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