Welcome to 2025 and another great year of family history research.
I spent the holiday break on another attempt to weed out my two remaining vertical file cabinets. Tossing what I don't need, scanning what I do need, and putting aside my paper birth, marriage and death certificates for donation to the Queensland Family History Society. After scanning of course.
As usual my library has grown and these new additions are all added into Library Thing, which is also an app on my phone to avoid buying something twice. Yes I am feeling organised to take on 2025.
Blogs
I participated in Jill Ball's Accentuate the Positive 2024 annual blog post. You can read mine here and then go to Jill's Geniaus blogpost for the accumulation of all the contributors to get more ideas for 2025. At the time of writing this post, Jill is still receiving blogposts, so just watch her blog site for the accumulation update.
Books
As mentioned above, there are some new books on the shelves.
Conferences
Looking forward to the AFFHO Congress in Brisbane in March. Read more about Connections here.
Online Webinars
Looking forward to the next series of Rippling Effects of the Great Irish Famine which starts at the end of January. Some excellent speakers including our own Dr Perry McIntyre and it runs for five weeks until the end of February. Lectures are recorded and you can watch at a time that suits. And it's free.
The previous series is still available on their You Tube channel. See it here.
Resources
The end of the year is always a great time to get a round up of what has been added to various databases. MyHeritage does their compilation as a diagram which really appeals to me. Read their blog post for more details here. Staggering numbers.
I'm a bit behind with Ancestry but I just read that they added over 13 million records in November. it is easy to see all the new collections - just visit the recent collections page and select the country of interest.
FamilySearch also did a blog post on their year in review. Read it here.
How can anyone keep up with all these new resources? It really is a great time for researching our family history.
Talks
March and the Congress will soon be here so I hope to catch up with lots of friends and colleagues in Brisbane.
What's Coming Up?
My first talk for the year is at the Caloundra Family History Research Group on 16 January. In person, and hybrid, I will be looking at Scottish ancestors and how to trace them. Always a fun group to visit.
Research on my PhD is ongoing and amazing how fast 20 hours a week goes. At least there is no travel time.
Have a great geneaweek and until next time, have fun finding those ancestors. Shauna
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