Family Tree Frog

Extract from Passenger List of Shenir 1883 This post is the attempt to structure thoughts about some recent research on my husband's side of the family ....and also to show some early efforts at scanning using my brand new FlipPal. So...let me show you the FlipPal scanner .... Here it is in it's bright purple carry case which for some reason looks blue in this photo..... Here it is unveiled for the world to see.... So you can see that it is quite small and easy to carry...I don't know what it weighs...okay I'll go and weigh it...it weighs 770g with the carry  case or nearly 2lbs.  Here it is open and ready for business.....see that little screen on the right? That's where you can see your image when you scan it... The image gets recorded on the SD card just under the screen there... And if your computer is old and clunky like mine and doesn't take SD cards, never fear, the FlipPal comes wi...

Photo courtesy of Karva Javi on Flickr I love a good surprise.   The past couple of weeks have been a hive of feverish activity as I struggle to finish my assessment work for Uni , start a new full-time job and stay on top of my commitments to the Research team at the Queensland Family History Society. I finished my last assignment last night for this Semester's course - Information Service Management and hopped into bed wreathed in that sense of virtuousness which is so short lived when one realizes that one still has two subjects to go before one is finished with literature reviews and the like. As a special treat I opened my copy of Inside History which arrived in the post that day and which I had been studiously avoiding reading until the assignment was finished. It looked a great edition from the cover - an article about the Salvation Army Family Tracing Service which I'd only be promoting last weekend at a Library Assistants' Meeting at QFHS.   I was al...