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24.01.2022 Is anyone else having trouble with TROVE this morning? Getting lots of error messages
23.01.2022 On Lake Macquarie this afternoon ... when you're a family history researcher, you see genealogy symbols everywhere:)
23.01.2022 To photograph or not to photograph, that is the question ... http://wishful-linking-family-history.blogspot.com.au//to- What do you think? Is it worth photographing an unmarked grave?
22.01.2022 A few online tools to help genies doing some family history research over the holiday period: http://geniesdownunder.blogspot.com.au//online-genie-tools
21.01.2022 What jobs did your grandparents do throughout their lives? Read about two unusual jobs of my ancestors in http://wishful-linking-family-history.blogspot.com.au//ton
21.01.2022 For those not in Australia, here is a bit of Christmas Australiana. Hope you enjoy the holiday season.
21.01.2022 If anyone is connected to this little Tea Tree Cemetery at Mirannie (near Singleton, NSW), here's a pic I took yesterday of the cemetery (from the road, as the cemetery is on private property) and the Mirannie Hall.
21.01.2022 Like to hear some ideas of how to insert humour into your family's history? Then listen to the September 2015 episode of the Genies Down Under podcast. Download Episode 47 through iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com//po/genies-down-under/id467595597) or at the Genies Down Under website: http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_047_full.mp3. Hope you enjoy it.
20.01.2022 Like to learn more about DNA in family history? Find out how to trace your roots through genetics. Hear it from Aussie genies. Download Episode 43 of Genies Down Under through iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com//po/genies-down-under/id467595597) or at the Genies Down Under website: http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_043_full.mp3. Hope you enjoy it.
20.01.2022 Wonder whose ancestors lived in this old place, up near Gresford in NSW
19.01.2022 Interested in researching your ancestors at sea? Then listen to the March 2015 episode of the Genies Down Under podcast, with host Maria Northcote - Maritime stuff in family history: Ancestors at sea . Download Episode 41 through iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com//po/genies-down-under/id467595597) or at the Genies Down Under website: http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_041_full.mp3. Hope you enjoy it.
19.01.2022 Thanks Marian Pierre-Louis from the Genealogy Professional podcast (http://www.thegenealogyprofessional.com/) for a great interview last night. Looking forward to sharing this with the Genies Down Under listeners soon.
18.01.2022 Thanks to Marie Cowley for transcribing so many of the County Clare baptism records. Her hours of long work helped me to find the answer to a 20+ year search for my great-grandmother's baptism record (and her siblings' baptism records): http://wishful-linking-family-history.blogspot.com.au//suc
15.01.2022 Like to hear some family history advice from some superstars of Australian genealogy? Then listen to the February 2015 episode of the Genies Down Under podcast, with host Maria Northcote - Superstar stuff in family history: Messages from Aussie family history gurus. Download Episode 40 through iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com//po/genies-down-under/id467595597) or at the Genies Down Under website: http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_040_full.mp3. Hope you enjoy it.
15.01.2022 Anyone else doing the UTAS intro to genealogy course? I'm enjoying it a lot.
15.01.2022 Happy new year to family history buffs everywhere. Here's a new year's present for you. Eight suggestions of stories to read with Australian history and family history themes. Hope you enjoy Episode 50 of the Genies Down Under podcast. Download Episode 50 through iTunes or at the Genies Down Under website: http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_050_full.mp3. Happy new year.
15.01.2022 Love animals? Love family history research? Listen to the June 2015 episode of the Genies Down Under podcast where you can combine the two. Animal stuff for genies: Non-human members in our family history research. Download Episode 44 through iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com//po/genies-down-under/id467595597) or at the Genies Down Under website: http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_044_full.mp3. Hope you enjoy it.
15.01.2022 A genealogist I may be but a gardener I am not ... my husband does a good job of keeping the garden around our house looking good, year in and year out. I told him a few years ago to leave a little bit of garden for me to care for ... oops. A sad state of affairs. Does anyone else have neglected parts of their life due to a genealogy obsession?
14.01.2022 Like to check out some examples of old handwriting - picked up from the NSW Archives today? See: http://geniesdownunder.blogspot.com.au//crusty-envelopes-c
14.01.2022 Very exciting. Catholic Parish Registers now online: http://registers.nli.ie/. Fantastic night ahead.
14.01.2022 Thanks to Janelle Collins for telling me about Helen Smith's blogpost about mapping your ancestors using Google Maps. Here is the product of my efforts of tracking the locations where my great-grandfather lived in NSW in the 1870s-1880s: http://wishful-linking-family-history.blogspot.com.au//map
13.01.2022 Love collecting these photos of old homes and wondering which of our ancestors have lived in them in days gone by.
12.01.2022 Interviewed a fantastic genie down under about DNA on Friday for the podcast. You'll hear her great DNA family history tips soon on the Genies Down Under podcast. Thanks Ros!
10.01.2022 Enjoying looking through the National School Admission Registers & Log-books in UK (via FindMyPast). Some interesting ways to describe school kids in the column "Remarks" on the records - often related to why they left the school.
09.01.2022 Ever wondered about the different types of treasures you could discover in TROVE Newspapers about your ancestors' lives? Check out this blogpost: Treasures in TROVE: An A-Z of 24 examples: http://geniesdownunder.blogspot.com.au//treasures-in-trove
08.01.2022 Were you born in the 1950s? This untouched house from the 1950s will bring back some memories: http://1950s.littlethings.com/original-1950s-kitchen/
08.01.2022 Love the sharing genies that are around these days. So many lovely genealogists who are keen to share their stuff, their advice and their friendship:) What a great thing genealogy is ... What do you appreciate about your genie friends?
08.01.2022 Very exciting ... just found my great-grandfather's school records in a tiny little school in Ysceifiog National School in Wales, 1871 (through FindMyPast). He was only 4 when he started school, pretty young.
07.01.2022 Check out the first half of Maria's interview with Marian Pierre-Louis from the Genealogy Professional Podcast on the Genies Down Under Podcast on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com//po/genies-down-under/id467595597) or on the GDU website (http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_051_full.mp3). Thanks Marian, really enjoyed our chat.
06.01.2022 Interested in animals in family history research? The Genies Down Under podcast episode will soon be available: Animal stuff for genies: Non-human members in our family history research (June 2015). Thanks for your patience, Genies Down Under listeners.
06.01.2022 The funny things you find in the records when searching for your ancestors ... http://geniesdownunder.blogspot.com.au//the-funny-things-y
05.01.2022 Very exciting to have finally found a record of one of my great-grandmother's baptism in County Clare, Ireland in 1853, thanks to the newly online Catholic Parish Registers of births and marriages (http://registers.nli.ie/parishes). Have been searching for this for over 20 years.
05.01.2022 Love these old Aussie sheds
05.01.2022 Like to hear about the day-to-day lives of the ANZACS and get some tips about researching soldiers in your family's history? Then listen to the April 2015 episode of the Genies Down Under podcast, with host Maria Northcote including an interview with ANZAC researcher, Assoc. Prof. Daniel Reynaud - Anzac stuff in family history: 100 year anniversary. Download Episode 42 through iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com//po/genies-down-under/id467595597) or at the Genies Down Under website: http://geniesdownunder.com.au/podcasts/ep_042_full.mp3. Hope you enjoy it. Lest we forget.
01.01.2022 For Miss Fisher fans who aren't able to make it to Melbourne to the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition, here are a few pics ...
01.01.2022 Feel like a bit of binge listening to Genies Down Under podcasts that focus on family history topics with an Australian twist? Here is a blogpost to help you catch-up with the last 6 months of the Genies Down Under podcast: http://geniesdownunder.blogspot.com.au//quick-catch-up-wit
01.01.2022 Love wondering about who lived in these old places in years gone by - taken around the Gloucester and Orange areas of NSW during the last week or so.
