Continuing on in the Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge, I’ve chosen  to write about the Genealogy Happy Dance.

H is for Happy Dance

The Genealogy Happy Dance is something that every genealogist lives for, and will get to experience it sometime throughout their research life. Though the when, where, and how often varies from person to person, as it is rather unpredictable.

The occurrence:
The Genealogy Happy Dance is the dance that occurs when you’ve hit the jackpot so to speak, also known as ‘genealogy gold’.

We did it Adelaide at the Congress, now could we do it in Brisbane at the Queensland Expo? We were certainly gonna try for a group geneablogger photo!

Queensland, Australia’s ‘Sunshine State’ is the place to be at the moment, though not for the sun since it’s been raining for days), but rather if you’re an Aussie genenalogist then you would (or should) be at the Unlock The Past Queensland Expo which is currently on. The last day (Day 3) starts in a few hours.

As a bunch of people who are passionate ….. ok, ok …. a bunch of people who are totally addicted to genealogy, these events tend to draw the contingent of Aussie genealogy bloggers (aka geneabloggers) to them – well duh, it’s GENEALOGY!

As I was packing my bags, getting ready for the Queensland Expo next week, I picked up my all-time fav genealogy book “The Zen of Genealogy” and wondered if I’d have another read of it on the flight up. In short the answer was yes … so it’s going in the suitcase.

After a flick through it again, I rediscovered the list of Ten, Eleven, make that Twelve Commandments of Genealogy liste, and decided I wanted to share them with you.

We’re up to G, and right from the beginning of the Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge, I knew I wanted to write about my home town ‘Gumeracha’.

G is for GUMERACHA

The tiny little country town of Gumeracha (pronounced Gum-e-rac-ka), is in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills was where I grew up. It was where I went to school, where I played sport, where I rode my bike to friends places, played in the creeks and the paddocks, and it was a town where everyone knew everyone.