2017 NFHM Blogging Challenge
August is not so very far away and that means....
HOORAH!!
Who's up for a blogging challenge?? Some of us thought a literary theme might be the go given that a few of our more well known authors were born 100 years ago e.g. Ruth Park (okay she was born in NZ but we adopted her as our own), Sumner Locke Elliott, Nancy Cato and Frank Hardy.
So this is the plan:
Week 1 - Poor Man's Orange - take what you will from this title of Ruth Park's novel published in 1949. Poor Man's Orange was set in Surry Hills Sydney about a Catholic Irish Family. Perhaps there were Irish Catholics in your family. Perhaps your ancestors lived in Surry Hills or Sydney. Have you got a tale of making do? Take the theme as laterally as you like or ignore it altogether. We just want to see you blogging.
Week 3 - All the Rivers Run - Nancy Cato's saga spanned eight decades and four generations. Your blog post doesn't have to do that but was there a matriarch in your family that inspires you? Or maybe you want to focus on a particular river that played a part in your ancestors' lives. Where will your imagination run to?
Week 4 - Power without Glory - Frank Hardy's novel covers a wide range of notorious characters from criminals to Archbishops and politicians, wrestlers to gamblers and everyone else in between. One of the themes is conscription during WW1 but you can interpret the title as broadly as you like. Were your ancestors powerful in some way? Legitimately or not. Did they have a stoush with the authorities or strong political beliefs? Lets hear their story.
Let's blog every Saturday if we can. See you then.
And thanks to Canva for the great meme picture. It reminded me of a neighbour popping their head over the fence for a chat with a kid hanging off them. And thanks to AFFHO and the lovely Shauna Hicks for organising National Family History Month so we can all have so much family history fun.
PS You don't have to be an Aussie to participate. We welcome one and all in this great big genealogy family.
Comments
on your articles. I'll bookmark your blog and test again here regularly.
I'm quite sure I will be told plenty of new stuff proper here!
Best of luck for the next!
I want to let you know that your blog post is listed in today's Genealogy Fab Finds post at http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2017/07/janas-genealogy-fab-finds-for-july-7.html
Have a great weekend!
Sally you are completely on the right track. Please blog about your family history. The meme is meant to inspire but if it doesn't just blog about any part of your family history that you feel motivated to write about at the moment. One blogger has chosen to write about Ruth Parks because she wanted to write about that. Another blogger has written about her Irish Catholic heritage. I may yet write about grapefruit ;) It will be interesting to see where this first week leads us and I am so glad that you want to participate.