Facebook and Genealogy: 100 Links for Australian Researchers

There is no doubt that Facebook is THE popular to keep you connected to family and friends. But do you realise just how important it can be for your genealogy? Facebook and genealogy … really? Absolutely!

You can find genealogy related groups online to ask your how-to questions, you can keep up with what your local societies are doing, you can help track down your digger ancestors, ask for help identifying those old photos you’ve inherited, find out the latest publications from companies, find a researcher and so much more.

Facebook is there to be used, so why not use it to your advantage.

My Family History Through the Alphabet Collection

Over the past six months or so I’ve been taking part in the Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge which I was also co-ordinating on the Genealogy & History News blog. And while it was a lot more work involved than I had anticipated, I did really enjoy it.

I was great to be able to write about things relating to my family history (people, heirlooms, websites, countries etc), and use the alphabet letters as a prompt for doing so. And even though I did finish a little late (though there wasn’t really a formal time limit), I did finally make it from A right through to Z. So this post is simply “My Family History Through the Alphabet Collection”.

Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge: A is for … A2A (Access to Archives)

You might think hang on, what is she doing. Is she starting the Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge again??  In short no, but let me explain. As I never actually did the letter A thanks to a lack of inspiration which lasted until about the letter J or so, and I really would like to complete the whole alphabet, I am doing it now. And I figured it was better to do it at the end, rather than right in the middle. So for my A post …

A is for … A2A (Access to Archives)

Some of you may have heard of the A2A website, others may not have. But for me it is one of the most amazing sites around.

Two More Convicts in the Family

Last week was very exciting as I added to more convicts to my family … woohoo, yippee, happy dance 😉

Well it was almost as exciting as that. Last week I received two more convict smurfs to add to my collection, which now brings my total to eight.

Back in my childhood, when Smurfs they first came out I was a collector, and from memory I had about 30 or so, I’m really not sure what happened to that collection.