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| Darwin conference |
Books
Discovering lots of interesting books and articles for my Ph D that are also relevant to my family history research. Local history of an area also plays a big part in understanding what was going on in the local community too.
Only bought two new books at the Historians conference, although there was a lot of temptation.This was only $5 in the second hand section.
Conferences
I had already planned to go to the Dragon Tails conference in Brisbane in late November, but now I have to go as my session proposal was accepted. Looking at the relations between some of my incarcerated women and Chinese men in colonial Queensland. This will be my third talk this year connected to my PhD topic.
My session on vagrant women in colonial Queensland went well at the Darwin Professional Historians Conference. Lots of relevant questions and comments. I submitted an expanded version for peer review for the professional journal Circa.
After Darwin we headed off to Broome in Western Australia to tick off another one of my must visit bucket list places. Sadly we picked up some dreaded virus and brought it home with us which is why this is a bit late. But we had fun while we were there.
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| Chinatown in Broome |
New Resources
Ancestry has been busy with new DNA ethnicity reports and thanks to a new DNA match I have narrowed down my search for the unknown biological father of my great grandmother on my father's side. It's great when the pieces start to fit together and you see similar family names on the matches trees.
Plus there are new Australian collections. Too many to retype so forgive the snippets but there are some interesting series to follow up.
Talks
How exciting - my talk on post office directories in MyHeritage made the 2nd runner up list. See the top 10 for Legacy Family Tree Webinars here.
The last session of Genie Chats for 2025 is next week. We have focussed on Thomas MacEntee's Genealogy Do Over book all year. I am surprised at how much I have achieved by simply planning the monthly sessions and using my own examples to inspire others in the group.
For example, a long neglected task was tidying up my location references to make them consistent. Should it be Brisbane, or Brisbane, Queensland or Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. I went with the latter as my research is global and not everyone will know where I am from if I just say Brisbane. After all, it could be Brisbane, California, USA.
What's coming up
Another trip believe it or not. This time to Yeppoon where we will have two weeks exploring the Capricorn Coast and doing some fishing, weather permitting. Taking the laptop so I also hope to be doing some thesis writing and reading for the literature review.
Until next time happy searching. Shauna