Blogs
My twice a year guest blog for GSQ is coming up so I have put fingers to the keyboard. It's nice to tick off something early. Also helps those who have to put the blog online.
For Mother's Day I have been promising myself a couple of new books - put the order in to Gould Genealogy and now await their arrival.
The AGM is coming up this month and as Patron I will be attending. I'm also going to be doing a short talk on attending RootsTech 2023 in person. An amazing experience and the size of the Salt Palace Convention Centre was simply staggering.
Books
Definitely never enough time to read all the books I keep piling up. At Bribie Library I saw an Elizabeth George Inspector Lynley book I hadn't read. Simply had to check it out and of course, it is hundreds of pages long.
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| Takes after his 'farmor' (father's mother) |
My son lives in Sweden and he has promised a FaceTime chat with my little one year old grandson. So presents and a visit - what more could I want?
Bribie Family History Association Inc
As President I chair the monthly meeting on the 1st Friday of the month at the Bribie RSL.
We had 36 members out of 48 members turn up to hear Sue Reid talk about resources available after 1954 when digitised newspapers generally cut out in Trove. It was great to see so many people attend and a smaller number stayed on for lunch and more geneachat.
Bribie U3A
The Irish genealogy class is going well with 13 attendees. I am updating/changing the course from what I did in 2021 as there has been so much change since then. New resources and more digitised newspapers. I use my own Irish families to find examples so it is an excellent way for me to do my own genealogy research at the same time.
Conferences
The NSW & ACT annual conference in Wyong clashes with a talk I am doing for GSQ so I will just have to attend from afar.
Virtual/hybrid conferences certainly cut the cost of travel and accommodation. Watching things later is the catch - I still have RootsTech 2023 and 2022 talks I wanted to watch. Not to mention Legacy Family Tree webinars that are featuring Australian and New Zealand speakers.
At the Family History Down Under conference last year, I won a prize. A free premium account with Cite-Builder designed and maintained by Jenny and Andy Joyce. Sad to say this is the first day that I have had a chance to sit down and have a closer look at how it creates citations for you. It would certainly help with consistency as that is a problem with all my draft family histories. See below.
There is a free version as well which might be all that you want. Try it out and see will it be useful for your family history writing.
History Queensland
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| 2023 in person |
The AGM is coming up this month and as Patron I will be attending. I'm also going to be doing a short talk on attending RootsTech 2023 in person. An amazing experience and the size of the Salt Palace Convention Centre was simply staggering.
New Resources
All those RootsTech sessions are online to view free. Never watch television again when you have a smorgasbord of genealogy webinars to watch.
For example, you can find out what's new at FamilySearch by watching the webinar here.
Do a search for Irish, English, Scottish or simply browse to see what might be relevant to your own research. Some of the previous year's sessions are still available.
Talks
Another Noosa talk on FamilySearch coming up. So many people don't use all the various search features and other resources on this website.
My Website
Pleased to say that my website has been sorted out again following a move to a new server platform. Now I have a bit of updating to do but at least it looks good again. Many thanks to my tech guy Joannes who is local.
What's Coming Up
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| Herbert William White from Pitton & Farley Wiltshire |
I'm hoping to finish the first edition of my White's of Wiltshire family history. It has taken me quite a bit to locate and do my citations which I don't seem to have bothered too much with before the days of the internet.
Thankfully I have managed to locate most of them and it was lovely to see Wiltshire records digitised on Ancestry where as before I only had transcripts from a UK researcher. After that, I only have another four main family drafts to finish not to mention some maternal lines that I would like to write up.
The end goal is to have all my research available online for free in various places. I don't want it ending up in the bin.
Enjoy your genealogy research over the next couple of weeks. Stay safe and take care.
Shauna
