Family Tree Frog

  Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog post for National Family History month in the land downunder. It is so lovely that so many fellow geneabloggers want to take part in this challenge.   I can't wait to see what we all come up with. Well, as some predicted, we in Brisvegas are now in a snap lockdown or slap knockdown as one very tired journalist reported the other day, much to our amusement.  Of course it's frustrating.  I was hoping to have a celebratory champers with my sister-in-law tomorrow to celebrate the end of Dry July.  But I am well aware that we have been pretty lucky in the Sunshine State so far.  I have been able to spend lots of time with my new grandson which I know is way more than many other grandparents have been able to do over the past 18 months or so, so I mustn't grumble.  We have plenty of food and I have plenty of family history to do and online bridge to play so I am quite chuffed to be able to get on with it. I know ...

Transforming Tindale - A travelling exhibition from State Library of Queensland (SLQ) - at Arana Hills Library until 20 February The Transforming Tindale exhibition has finally been installed at our library and is attracting a lot of attention which is very pleasing. The exhibition explores the legacy of Norman Tindale’s 1938 anthropological expedition to Aboriginal communities. T hese records are both a source of contention surrounding the treatment of Aboriginal Australians, and a valuable resource for relatives.  If you are not able to visit the library to see the exhibition you can explore the virtual exhibition online here. #genealogyselfie How is your research going this week?  I have ordered and received a couple of inter-library loans through my library which I hope will help me with a couple of roadblocks and/or just give me more information about my ancestors and the lives they lived.   But I do seem to be a bit stu...

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!