Family Tree Frog

  From Edward Lear's limerick There was an old man of St Bees    You'd better get a cup of coffee.  This is going to be a long one! This past week has certainly tested South East Queensland residents. (Pun unintended) In one week we went from 37 to 169 cases of Delta in the community.  This probably seems a laughable figure to the rest of the world and indeed parts of Australia like Sydney but it does demonstrate how quickly the virus can spread.  And the fact that contact tracing included at least half a dozen schools, a university, at least three major shopping centres and a couple of hospitals did tend to put the wind up us.  I was very sorry to see my first library listed.  Til now I've been rather foolishly reassured by the fact that no bookshops or libraries have been listed to date . Here's a map of the close and casual contacts close to where I live.    I've included Ipswich as well as that is where my daughter and I were on Thur...

Crowdsourcing.  I love it.  I use it all the time.  Do you?  This morning I spent quite a bit of time on Ravelry looking up free knitting patterns for cowls using Ravelry's fabulous database - largely constructed by all the wonderfully generous knitters in the world who are on Ravelry.   I thought I would give back some of the love but in another of my favourite areas - genealogy. And so today I signed up to become an indexer on the Family Search website in anticipation of the Worldwide Indexing event on July 20 and 21.  Yes that's today here in Australia but we're waiting for the rest of the world to catch up ;) When I told my husband I was indexing, he made the remark "Whatever that is...." and so I felt the need to explain to him and anyone else who doesn't understand the concept.  When I signed up to index today, I was lucky enough to be given a batch of records from the Hobart Public Cemetery in Tasmania.  The batch was for Septembe...