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Follow Friday - Infolass

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The feeling of being followed by Anjan Chaterjee - image found on Flickr and used under Creative Commons licence anjan58 From Geneabloggers .... Follow Friday is a daily blogging prompt used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Follow Friday,  simply create a post in which you recommend another genealogy blogger, a specific blog post, a genealogy website or a genealogy resource.  Tell us why they are important to the genealogy community and why we should follow. A special thanks to Earline Bradt of Ancestral Notes for suggesting Follow Friday as a daily blogging theme! My pick for this week comes recommended to me by +Jill Ball aka Geniaus who is in my Genealogy circle on Google+.   Jill reminded me that +Liz Pidgeon is the recipient of the 2012 Margery Ramsay Scholarship for her project " “Local and Family History Services in the UK and USA” .  Liz is  also the  Local an...

Imagine my surprise...

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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...