Family Tree Frog

Jill Bill from GeniAus once again invites us to reflect on our genealogical achievements for the year.   Here are the questions and I just know that my account of 2019 will not be a fabulous one but, if anything, it inspires me to greater heights in 2020: 1.  An elusive ancestor I found was  2.  A great newspaper article I found was about John Patrick or "Jack" McLoughlin, my mother's uncle,  in this blog post here. 3.  A geneajourney I took was to Melbourne.  I confess the trip to Melbourne was mostly about catching up with dear friends, going to a musical and doing a sewing workshop but I managed to convince a friend/chauffeur to detour while getting croissants one morning to have a look at an ancestor's house in Napier Street Fitzroy.  Who knows if it really was his house - numbers may have changed in the street - but I was just excited to be in the street where he used to live.  I wrote about Peter Sinclair ...

It's such a lovely big old world and we are so lucky to have the internet.   Have you ever wanted to start family history but didn't know where to begin? Today I learned that the University of Tasmania - right down the bottom of the world - is offering a free course - Introduction to Family History as per here.   To enrol for free you do have to be an  Australian citizen or a student holding a Permanent Humanitarian Visa or with a Permanent Resident Status. And you need to study it in their Spring Semester which starts 8 December.  Applications close 16 December.  But what if you already know a bit about Family History and want to know a bit more? I have enrolled in several courses through the lovely Pharos Tutors  who are pretty much at the top of the world. At the moment I am studying a 3 week course in World War Research with Simon Fowler and it is great.  Yes...THE Simon Fowler! No, not that Simon Fowler...th...