Family Tree Frog

I do like a challenge.  And yes, I'm late - terribly late....we're almost halfway through the alphabet but I'm sure I can catch up! The wonderful Alona Tester who I met for the first time last week at the Family HIstory Expo has devised this meme - bless her!  At first I was going to use surnames but I think place is a better way to go with this challenge because ultimately I think that's how we can all best connect is through place yes?  The people come and go but the place remains. So - perhaps rather unimaginatively today I am focussing on - yes, you guessed it...Ireland. Now, what I'm amused at is how proudly I assert my Irish ancestry.  When I truthfully look at my ancestry - I am way more English. Of my four grandparents - three were Australian-born and one English-born..Of my eight great-grandparents, three were English and five were born in Australia.  Of my sixteen great-great-grandparents eight were born in England, two i...

Just like tree frogs hitching a ride on bananas, it is sometimes easy to get lost or distracted whilst surfing the internet. If you find a blog you like, it is great to be able to follow it or subscribe to RSS feeds and check on it on a regular basis. I follow and subscribe to a number of family tree blogs such as Anglo Celtic Connections , Chris Paton's Walking in Eternity , GeneWebinars , Roots and Rambles, The Armchair Genealogist , The Turning of Generations , Geniaus and Family History Across the Seas . Each blog has its own merits but the ones that appeals to me the most - or the ones that I find myself most often reading are Geniaus and Family History Across the Seas .  I'm not quite sure why that is...maybe it is because they are written by Australian women and so I identify with their struggles and also am inspired by their passion. Geniaus aka Jill Ball is very excited by new technology and Web 2.0 and her enthusiasm is positively infectious! Cassmob ...