Family Tree Frog

  This is the third blog post for the #NationalFamilyHistoryMonth blogging challenge.  You can find out all about it here. Week 3 - Share - tips for smashing brick walls, or your opinion on what needs to be fixed/changed in family history - "If I ruled the world!".  Tell us what you can't live without - maybe it's a piece of tech gear, your society or group, or your library. It's so difficult to choose what you can't do without but I'm going to perhaps choose something that may seem a bit unusual or different.  I can't do without my family history podcasts.  There you are. I was going to say I can't do without the internet and yes, of course, that really would be a dint in my family history research.  I wouldn't be able to access my databases, search library catalogues or great websites, blog or send emails to my cousins or share stuff on Dropbox or attend Special Interest Groups at my Society or attend workshops or meetings via Zoom.  So defin...

Bird Feeding Hour at The Polish Place Mount Tamborine What's on offer this coming week in south-east Queensland family and local history wise? Saturday 13 June - 9.00am - 12:30pm - Qld Baptists' Conference Centre QFHS leads the pack with their Ireland to Australia: Researching Your Irish Ancestors seminar - Presenters are Dr Richard Reid and Mary King .   Cost $15 for members $20 for non-members (includes morning tea) To find out more click here. Tuesday 16 June - 6:00-7:30pm - John Oxley Library Reading Room The Vital Track - 150 Years of Railways in Queensland - speakers Greg Hallam, Historian at Queensland Rail, and Dr Geraldine Mate, Senior Curator, Transport and Energy at The Workshops Rail Museum .  Cost ?  Free!  To book click here . Thursday 18 June - 10:00-11:00am - Garden City Library History of the World War II Eagle Farm Airfield Join historian Peter Dunn as he discusses the fascinating history of the Eagle Farm Airfield d...

Lovely Pauleen from Family History Across the Seas  has offered this Geneameme for your consideration.  What a great idea!  I'm in !  My answers are below. What are you doing for NFHM? Shauna Hick's 31 Activities for Researchers What do you hope to learn in NFHM? Heaps! Do you research at a family or local history library?   Yes! QFHS ! We're having an Open Day on Saturday 23 August 10am-3pm.Why don't you come along?  We're here. Do you do all your research online?   No! What’s your favourite place to store your family tree?  In several places I guess so if something goes wrong, I know it's somewhere! Online, on a computer, on paper. If offline, which genealogy program do you use?  ( do tell us its strengths/weaknesses if you like) I use Family Tree Maker and have done since time immemorial.  There's a bit of me that suspects that it is not the best but then I guess all software has its advantages and disad...

  Without a doubt my most favourite offline genealogy tools are public libraries! My husband laid the law down a few years ago about my spending on books.  He is quite right of course...there are only so many books one can store in one's home and we have surely exceeded our quota. The other point is that often I will buy a book and it's not what I thought it was going to be or I only use it once and then it sits there collecting dust.  So why not go to your local library and check out their genealogy collection.? Genealogy books can be found under 929 in the Dewey Decimal system. But more importantly libraries are about so much more than books. There's magazines...now there's a saving if ever there was one.  Australians are famous for their consumption of magazines.  Check out the ABS statistics here .  Here's a way to save money AND the environment.  Some popular titles are Your Family Tree and  The Australian Family Tree Conn...

  Image by asenat29 from Flickr under Creative Commons Licence Free online genealogy tools are like gifts from above. Which one are you most thankful for? How has it helped your family history experience? I do like a list.  I do.  I do. A couple of weeks ago, Genealogy in Time released a list of Top 100 Most Popular GenealogyWebsites. They were quite specific about what they would and would not class as a genealogy website. For example: NOT Library, museum and general archive websites.  University websites.  Wide-ranging government websites.  General knowledge websites (such as Wikipedia). Sniff. Well, my list is going to include a library website.  And I bet every red-blooded, Australian Genealogist knows which site I'm going to pick.  Yes.  Dear old Trove.   If you haven't heard from your genealogist friend recently, you can bet pounds to peanuts they're buried up to their neck in lubberly newspaper ...