Family Tree Frog

Photo by  [Segle] - REFLEX IS BACK !  on  Foter.com  /  CC BY-NC-SA With thanks to Randy Seaver and Jill Ball for the meme - Pot Pourri - It has been a very productive month for me family history wise. Here is what I have been doing..... Study I completed another unit of my Diploma of Family History - Writing Family History on Wednesday night - the last day of January.  During January I had to write 3 x 250 word short stories and then one 750-1000 story. So that was quite a bit of work as you can imagine. And then because I am a sucker for punishment I enrolled in another unit - Families at War .   I have to complete 8 units altogether to finish the Diploma. I have completed: Intro to Family History Convict Ancestors The Photo Essay: an Introduction and Writing Family History So that's all my foundation units done. I have also completed Oral History .  So only two more units to complete after Families at War....

The fabulous and amazing Jill Ball from Geniaus has invited us once again to reflect on our Geneayear.  What a great tradition.  Here are the questions with the proviso that we Accentuate the Positive and stop lashing ourselves for those things we didn't get round to or achieve: 1.  An elusive ancestor I found was Thank goodness for death notices.  I discovered my ancestor Peter Sinclair was a librarian at the Parliamentary Library in Melbourne on this blog post here.  2.  A great newspaper article I found was I reckon I found a photo of my maternal grandmother and her twin sister at Randwick Destitute Asylum in The Star in 1908 as per this blog post here.   3.  A geneajourney I took was I had hoped to go to the NSW Family History Conference in Orange this year but we mustn't be maudlin.  By all accounts it was fantastic.  Shauna Hicks reports on it here. 4.  An important record I found was Peter Sinclair's death certifica...