Wow there is so much happening at the moment I'm finding it hard to keep up with webinars and conferences. A weekend away at Tin Can Bay was good and took me away from the study desk.
ANZAncestryTime
This is a Twitter event by @ANZAncestryTime held every Tuesday night at 6pm Brisbane time (just adjust the time to your time zone). Topics vary each week and attendees answer questions posed by the hosts for the night. It is a great way to pick up some new tips and resources. If you miss a night you can go back and see the night's summary done by @tasteach. Remember to use the hash tag #ANZAncestryTime so that eveyone else can see your responses. The hour goes very quickly.
Association of Professional Genealogists Australia & New Zealand Chapter
Hosted the last Zoom meeting of APG ANZ for 2021 where we discussed what it is like being a genealogy speaker downunder as compared to the US and the UK.
The impact of Covid and the rise of Zoom has also changed the way society meetings and conferences are managed.
I also have arranged for a members badge based on our logo for in person events which will come back some day.
Bribie Genealogy
Time was spent on preparing for the December meeting on Friday 3 December where I will be conducting a Christmas genealogy quiz on family history basics. I have also drawn up a list of 31 things to do over the Christmas New Year break before we meet again in February.
At our last Monday night meeting of the year on 6 December, David Barnes and myself are showing members different ways of identifying DNA matches.
Conferences
Looking forward to THE Genealogy Show Winter Event this coming weekend 3-5 December. Talking on asylums in Australia and will be doing a live chat on Saturday morning. Not sure how that goes but the talk is prerecorded and loaded along with the handout. So I can just sit back and enjoy the weekend. We have 30 days to then watch all the presentations. It is not too late to buy a ticket.
The Scottish Indexes next conference is on 5 December and I have registered for that too. I love these conferences and get so much out of them. Plus they are free and watchable in our time.
DNA Update
Totally surprised to see someone two steps away from my brother's Y DNA in Family Tree DNA during the week. It fits with my theory of Dad's father, although still all circumstantial bits of evidence. At least they are all pointing in the same direction.
The Zoom gender reveal party is on 4 December. They are in Sweden, her parents are in New Zealand and the Netherlands and we are in Australia. A multiglobal family.
Reading
Going on holidays with someone who is a late riser is always difficult for me as I am an early riser. What can I do without making a noise before they wake up? Happy to say that I managed to catch up with my ejournals and emagazines. The latest issues of Who Do You Think You Are and Family Tree Magazine gave me lots of ideas to follow up. Do you know that you may be able to get them through the eresources of your local library? Worth a look and some libraries also have the print magazines for loan.
SA Genealogy Nov 2021 journal, a couple of back issues of Generation from Genealogical Society of Queensland journals and ditto for the Queensland Family Historian from the Queensland Family History Society. Perhaps I need to get away more!
RootsTech 2022
I'm excited to have been appointed a RootsTech 2022 influencer. This is the first time for me.
Two of my speaking proposals were accepted and I have been busy reading forms and contracts. Also there are specific instructions for recording so I will have to practice with the unfamiliar technology.
Registrations have now opened and you can sign up now for free.
This reminds me that there are still a few talks from last year on my must watch list.
Writing My Family Histories
The focus this week was on Max's Spencer family as he wants to give it as a Christmas present for his son. I had a draft to start with and this week's just been filling out different sections and making it more clear who is who in the tree. There is a strong military presence so I am adding an appendix of those who served in the various wars both in the UK and Australia. Learning quite a bit about British military records which will be useful.
What's Coming Up?
After this weekend there are no more talks or meetings until the New Year. This will give me even more time to work on those family history drafts. It would be really good to start 2022 with a few of them printed and spiral bound. From there I could PDF and place them on my website.
I'm going to miss online conferences but there is still plenty of presentations to watch on Legacy Family Tree Webinars and lots of genealogy tutorials on You Tube.
The following week I will be attending the Caloundra Family History Research Christmas party which is always good fun.
What's New
Trove enews in November was all about Western Australia. It is free to subscribe and a quick way to find out what's new in Trove. Check out all the new newspaper titles coming and thanks to the various partners who are making it happen. The WA and SA newspapers are of most interest to me.
Western Australia
- The amateur sports gazette (1934-1935) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Daily News (1951-1955) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Dalgety's review: a weekly record of pastoral, agricultural, commercial and general information (1926-1948) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Freelance (1924-1925) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Perth Daily Telegraph (1922) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Sports News (1953) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Social wealth: an exposition of the natural laws governing the production and distribution of wealth (1934) [State Library of Western Australia]
- The Sruss-Sruss (1931-1932) [State Library of Western Australia]
- The standard: a church paper for the Diocese of Perth, W.A (1882-1886) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Suburban Life (1939) [State Library of Western Australia]
- Victoria Park News (1949-1950) [State Library of Western Australia]
- W.A. shipping and commercial news: pastoral, agricultural and mining gazette (1922-1923) [State Library of Western Australia]
- South Australia
- Daylight (1919 - 1928) [Brian Samuels / State Library of South Australia]
- The Western Mail (1928 - 1930) [Brian Samuels / State Library of South Australia]
- The Adelaide Examiner (1841 - 1843) [Brian Samuels / State Library of South Australia]
- The Prospecter (1978 - 1984) [Prospect South Australia History Group]
- Northern District Times (21 Oct 1937-17 Feb 1938) [State Library of South Australia with Prospect Local History Group]
- Northern Districts Courier (Aug 1925-Dec 1927) [State Library of South Australia with Prospect Local History Group]
- Queensland
- Catholic Advocate (1911 - 1919; 1923 - 1934; 1936 - 1938) [State Library Queensland]
- Victoria
- Richmond Guardian (Vic. : 1885; 1904 - 1922)
- Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (1860-1872) [Albury Library & Albury Wodonga Historical Society]
- Bacchus Marsh Express (1866 - 1943) [Bacchus Marsh and District Historical Society]
- Great Southern Advocate (1889 - 1906, 1914 - 1919, 1921 - 1940) [Korumburra & District Historical Society]
- Elmore Standard (1882 - 1911) [Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society]
- Ferntree Gully News and Mountain District Free Press (1954); [Eastern Regional Libraries & Dandenong Ranges Historical Society]
- New South Wales
- Inverell Times (1899 - 1907, 1909 - 1954) [Inverell Shire Public Library]
- Albury Banner and Wodonga Express (1860-1872) [Albury Library & Albury Wodonga Historical Society]
Enjoy your genealogy week and stay safe and well.
Shauna
