Family Tree Frog

Welcome to this week's calendar of local and family history events for Brisbane and surrounding areas. Anyone who knows me well will know that I am a dead cert for registration for the QFHS seminar this Saturday with Jenny Joyce about family history photographs.  From dating your photos, to organising them and keeping them safe, I can't wait for Saturday! Other events this week include a local history night at Annerley library featuring the history of Yeronga State School, a conservation clinic at State Library of Queensland and a talk at Ashgrove Library about the evacuation of Gallipoli.  I haven't been to the Museum of Brisbane for a while and was interested to see that they have a new exhibition coming up called Facing World War One. Also, if you belong to a society or museum that needs help with preserving your collection you might want to think about applying for a Community Heritage Grant funded by the Australian Government through the National Library of A...

Things are slowly getting back up to speed now that people are returning to work from the summer holiday break.  There is a tsunami of books being returned to the library where I work, so families are getting ready for the return to school and tidying up their homes.  It's lovely to see so many people enjoying the benefits of a free library and all it has to offer. Perhaps you have been mulling over whether or not to write up all your research.  Go on!  Make 2016 your year of writing the family history book.  Join a writing group for support and to keep you honest about your progress.  QFHS' Family History Writing Group meets this Saturday morning for the first time this year.  For more information about the group and what it has to offer click here . Were you a bit shaken by the Family Tree Maker software news?  Perhaps you want to see what other family history software is like.  There are lots of software support groups and the Q...

Just a quick one today. As a librarian, I am a member of a professional association called ALIA .   One of the benefits of membership is a monthly professional development newsletter which alerts me to all sorts of opportunities to increase my learning. Of course, I am not allowed to rebroadcast that newsletter in part or full but I did want to share with you one of the finds in this month's newsletter and acknowledge how I found out about it. Thanks ALIA.  Well worth the membership :)  And, of course, I encourage you to join if you are working in libraries and information in Australia and are not a member already. The find is a You Tube video from the Museum of Australia which is about caring for your photographic collection.  It's not short being an hour in duration...but if you feel like a virtual visit to the Museum in Canberra and learning about their photographic collection, different types of photographs, digitisation of photographic material and pic...