Family Tree Frog

Welcome to this week's calendar of local and family history events for Brisbane and surrounding areas. Anyone who knows me well will know that I am a dead cert for registration for the QFHS seminar this Saturday with Jenny Joyce about family history photographs.  From dating your photos, to organising them and keeping them safe, I can't wait for Saturday! Other events this week include a local history night at Annerley library featuring the history of Yeronga State School, a conservation clinic at State Library of Queensland and a talk at Ashgrove Library about the evacuation of Gallipoli.  I haven't been to the Museum of Brisbane for a while and was interested to see that they have a new exhibition coming up called Facing World War One. Also, if you belong to a society or museum that needs help with preserving your collection you might want to think about applying for a Community Heritage Grant funded by the Australian Government through the National Library of A...

Transforming Tindale in the box What's in the box you may very well ask?   Transforming Tindale - that's what. So I haven't got much time to chat this morning.  I've to get to work and mount an exhibition, that's what. Transforming Tindale i s a thought provoking journey into the Tindale collection, what it means to Aboriginal people and its place in Queensland’s history. Transforming Tindale is on display at Arana Hills Library from 29 January ( today  tomorrow- eek!) to 20 February.  For more information click here. There are lots of other great events coming up this week including one featuring fellow bloggers Helen Smith and  Pauleen Cass  and experienced English researcher Pauline Williams at GSQ called Putting Your Ancestors in context. Enjoy!