Family Tree Frog

It is now day mutter mutter mumble of the 30 x 30 minutes of the family history challenge created by Janine Adams , I confess to not doing any yesterday, but believe me, I have done more than 30 minutes on other days, so I'm not too worried about it. Check out this stack of books I borrowed from the State Library of Queensland .  Yes, you heard correctly - borrowed.  Who knew you could borrow books from SLQ?  Not this little black duck.  I knew you could do Interlibrary Loans or whatever they're called, but borrowing directly from the library... well, how fabulous is that?  Of course, there are some requirements that you can check out here. As I've mentioned in recent blog posts, I am currently undertaking a short course with Pharos Tutors , titled ' Education and Childhood 1820-1920 '.  I was also lucky enough to be able to borrow this book from my local city council library... So many books to read...so little time. This looks like a particularly intere...

  Back in 2012 when Jill Ball aka Geniaus decided to publish   the first Accentuate the Positive Geneameme she said: "At this time of year many geneabloggers take stock of what they have achieved or not achieved in the previous twelve months and set themselves goals for the coming year. I have been reading several of these posts this week.   Jill feels that a lot of her geneablogging friends are too hard on themselves; several have reported on their successes this year but quite a number have lamented that they haven't achieved as much as they set out to do or that they haven't blogged with the frequency they envisaged. Jill says "You are a bunch of highly motivated people who have made great strides in the genealogy sphere. Let's share the good news." Jill invites you to take part in this activity by responding to the following statements/questions in an online  post. Write as much or as little as you want and complete as many statements as you wish. If you...