Family Tree Frog

  Goodness me!  There's only a couple of weeks to go before it is August and National Family History Month. Here's a list of 31 things you can do to celebrate National Family History Month in Australia and New Zealand. Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Andrew Redfern Join us for the Opening Ceremony with speakers Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Andrew Redfern looking at the pros and cons of using Artificial Intelligence in researching your family history.  Please register and request the Zoom login details via this website's contact form, or Email jan@jansquire.com directly. Details will be sent 24 hours before the event. Check out the NFHM events calendar and book to attend an event. You can find the calendar here . Write a blog post with regard to the theme for NFHM - Secrets and Lies: using AI responsibly in family history research and handling sensitive material in research and publication. Read someone else's blog post and comment on it.  There's a gr...

  Thank you! "Gather round people...I'll tell you a story..."   First of all a big thank you to all the bloggers out there who embraced this challenge with such gusto and enthusiasm.    From little things big things grow .  No truer words were sung.   The Quiz The winner of the quiz is, without a doubt, Rosie Gall.  She was the first to get her entry in and all answers were correct.  Chris Goopy gets the runner-up prize for also submitting correct answers and doing such a fabulous job of collating all our posts.  Thank you both.   The answers are below:    1.    What was Ipswich in Queensland called by white settlers before it was officially named Ipswich in 1843?   Answer: Limestone 2.    Who was the first Lady Principal of Brisbane Girls Grammar? And for a bonus point who recently wrote a history about her? Answer: Mrs Janet O'Connor - Elisabeth Wheeler  3.   What do the ...

    How are you going with your Family History Bingo card for August, National Family History Month? One more day to go and I had hoped to achieve them all but some are still languishing. There have been so many great posts this week and I was particularly impressed by Jill Ball's bucket list , Pauleen's questions about succession and Claire's take on where she was and what was happening during the Census at various times in her life. I've had an extraordinarily busy week with babysitting for four days, bookclub one night, bridge another night, lunch with Dad and his partner for their birthdays and a sewing workshop.  Not much family history got done let me tell you! And so today, I vowed to make a start on a few fronts Plan a Research Trip This has not happened. Record an oral history interview  Nor has this.   Cap Badge for Navy - Edwin Conner born 1869 Portsea, England died Sydney Harbour 1927 Preserve a family heirloom I spoke to Dad today about plans fo...