Family Tree Frog

    Welcome to Day 25 of the  #AtoZChallenge.  Don't know what the AtoZChallenge is? Find out more here. My theme is about Family History Societies.  What they are, How they work, Who is in them, Why they exist. And which ones begin with Y !   Societies beginning with Y Young and District Family History Society    Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society    Family Organizations beginning with Y (Family Search Wiki)  Y is for YouTube Who hasn't consulted YouTube when they're stuck for knowledge?  As a Librarian I used it all the time; for my own use and to recommend to patrons.     My husband uses it when he has computer problems or wants to know how to fix the car or lawnmower.  I use it for refreshing my memory on knitting techniques or for inspiration.  As a university student you may have noticed that libraries make use of YouTube to guide their students in the use of the catalogue or how...

Photo by  [Segle] - REFLEX IS BACK !  on  Foter.com  /  CC BY-NC-SA With thanks to Randy Seaver and Jill Ball for the meme - Pot Pourri - It has been a very productive month for me family history wise. Here is what I have been doing..... Study I completed another unit of my Diploma of Family History - Writing Family History on Wednesday night - the last day of January.  During January I had to write 3 x 250 word short stories and then one 750-1000 story. So that was quite a bit of work as you can imagine. And then because I am a sucker for punishment I enrolled in another unit - Families at War .   I have to complete 8 units altogether to finish the Diploma. I have completed: Intro to Family History Convict Ancestors The Photo Essay: an Introduction and Writing Family History So that's all my foundation units done. I have also completed Oral History .  So only two more units to complete after Families at War....

  © Rob Steven via Flickr This week I am going to stray from my norm and give you photos found on Picture Queensland rather than from my own family albums.   Rob Steven has given us such a fantastic photo that I feel nothing in my family albums is equal to the task...and besides...I do like a good hat...or bonnet.  Nothing is known about the prompt image, so I could look for siblings, wives, penetrating gazes, shawls, gloves, beards, hands on shoulders or any group of three. So off we go, a hunting for bonnets and penetrating gazes Mary Ann Low 1877 - State Library of Queensland Out of copyright This is Mary Ann Low.  According to State Library of Queensland  she is "photographed wearing a bonnet decorated with feathers and lace ties. She has a cameo brooch on the neck of her dress." Here's another photo of her with her daughter many years later.  NB. Hand on shoulder....ooh...and shawl... Mother and daughter Mary Ann Lo...

  Springsure State School student group, 1884 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland The lovely Shelley from Twigs of Yore came up with this great meme for Australia Day. Shelley proposed the following: Choose someone who lived in Australia (preferably one of your ancestors) and tell us how they toiled. Your post should include:     What was their occupation?     What information do you have about the individual’s work, or about the occupation in general?     The story of the person, focussing on their occupation; or     The story of the occupation, using the person as an example.   I chose my great grand aunt - Harriet Rowland (nee Conner) Harriet is pretty emblematic of how I tend to jump around in family history.  She is not a direct ancestor as such - she is in fact the older sister of my paternal great-grandfather.  Of course I never knew her.  When I grew up t...