Family Tree Frog

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....

There was a time when I used to look after the QFHS Bookshop and I always like to tell the story about how the Toowong Monumental Inscriptions boxes used to be stored at the foot of our matrimonial bed.  I think any marriage that can survive that can survive anything. Needless to say I have a VERY understanding partner.   I still have the Toowong Monumental Inscriptions - but only one set now.  I have been surprised how many times I have had occasion to refer to them and look them up.  Of course you don't even have to have books now.  You can just purchase the CD from QFHS - a CD takes up much less space shelf.  Libraries aren't just books.  They are CDs, DVDs, eResources- the whole shebang.    Family History Congresses - I have been to a few.  My first one was back in 1991 in Launceston.  That was just before I had children. The papers are called Our Heritage in History and were produced in a book. My parents and ...