Family Tree Frog

I'm on duty today at QFHS .  It's very quiet.  Just one happy, but possibly over-serviced member, with three volunteers to look after him - all of us working away at our family history. Honestly if you want to come to the library when it's quiet, Sunday afternoons seem to be the "go".  I love coming to the library every month.  I always get to see the new additions to the library (as pictured above). Look at all these lovely books!  What's not to love?   And for those of you who are particularly interested in Brisbane history, I am delighted to report that the book (that came out at Christmas time I think) - Lost Brisbane and surrounding areas 1860-1960 by the Royal Historical Society of Queensland in partnership with QBD The Bookshop is now on sale at QBD for $29.99 (a saving of 57% the QBD website tells me).  I couldn't resist. 350 pages of photos of Brisbane.  The first 100 pages or so are of the city, then onto South ...

Mrs. Haskins Snr., early Redcliffe pioneer. ( Description supplied with photograph ). Mrs. Haskins is wearing a dark coloured skirt, jacket, gloves and headscarf, which suggests she may be in mourning. She is holding an envelope in her right hand.  Courtesy of Picture Queensland. Last Saturday I attended a seminar presented by QFHS at the Queensland Baptist's Conference Centre at Gaythorne.  Speakers included Dr Kerry Raymond, Helen Smith , and Dr Leigh Summers .  Topics included  headstones, cemeteries, death certificates and mourning customs. Samuel Taylor's gravestone Kerry's presentation was billed as assisting "researchers in using records connected with burial." Kerry is probably best known for the website chapelhill.homeip.net which has a fantastic photo collection of South East Queensland cemetery headstones. Kerry gave us a handout with over 30 website links on it from Queensland place names to Trove and Google Maps.  ...