National Family History Month - QFHS Seminar Fortune and Misfortune
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...