Family Tree Frog

  Welcome to Day 2 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge for April.  To find out more about the blogging challenge click here .  My theme for this month is Family History Societies: What does it take to run one?  What do they do?  Who is in a Society and why? What kind of societies are there?  Are Societies relevant in this day and age? B is for Board, Buddies, Blog and Bookshop. Let's deal with the Board first.     Our meeting room isn't this swish...in fact we meet via Zoom! Now "Board" can be quite a controversial term.  Perhaps you don't even know what I am talking about.  The Board is the group that manages the Society on behalf of the Members.  Our Board at QFHS is called a Management Committee.  Same thing really.  But perhaps not. In Queensland the Associations Incorporation Act has been modernized and reviewed by the Associations and Incorporation and other Legislation Amendment Act 2020 , some of which came into eff...

Just like my daughter's partner, Dan, who spends every weekend "pimping" his cars - endlessly tuning, tinkering and playing under the bonnet and modifying the body - I suspect that many genealogy bloggers are also trying out new looks and playing with the design of their blogs. Fellow geneablogger Geniaus talked about modifications to her template today and asked how often we gave blog layout and design a health check.  She got great feedback and offers of help which inspired me to think about having a Blog Pimping day this Saturday. Would you like to sign up to help others spring clean their blogs?  Sometimes spring cleaning is an overwhelming task and you don't know where to begin.  What if someone "came over" and offered to help or said "Let's tackle this first" ?  I propose that we all commit to cleaning up our blogs (even just a teensy bit) this weekend.   This is how it would work.  When you sign up in the comments below to...