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From the Library of Congress Pauline Frederick's Potiphar's Wife National Family History Month got off to a great start on Saturday in Queensland with the QFHS ' latest seminar at the Queensland Baptist Conference Centre.  It was called  Fortune and Misfortune: Parish Chest, Poor Law and Bankruptcy. Over 40 hardy family historians decided to forgo the beautiful Queensland winter sunshine and participate in this very worthwhile educational exercise.  I took notes using Evernote on my iPad.  I'm not going to give you a blow-by-blow account of each of the speaker's talks because that would discourage you from going along to QFHS talks.  What I shall do, instead, is attempt to give you a taste of what  was covered to encourage you to attend in future.   The three speakers each undertook a different facet of the subject matter. The first speaker, Bev Bonning, introduced us to the delights of the Parish Chest and all the treasu...

Thomas MacEntee from GeneaBloggers says: If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Amanuensis Monday. What is it? Amanuensis Monday is a daily blogging prompt used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. An Amanuensis is a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. Amanuensis Monday is a daily blogging theme which encourages the family historian to transcribe family letters, journals, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin – some we never met – others we see a time in their life before we knew them. ... Amanuensis Monday is a popular ongoing series created by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch. My contribution to this meme is the transcription of an advertisement I found in Trove the other day about my 3 x great-grandfather.  It's a bit sad really. ...