By Tiggy Johnson. My laptop must be three weeks out of warranty and suddenly it’s falling apart. The screen is literally falling off its backing. Or vice versa. But anyway, it got me thinking about all the information I have stored on it. What will happen if it does break properly and I can’t access my files? It’s happened before too. Not the same, exactly, but a few years ago, during a big clean-up, I came across a … Continue reading
A couple of months ago I posted information about the In Time and Place conference being held at Riverglenn at Indooroopilly in Brisbane’s west on 3 and 4 October. This conference, Queensland’s first local, family and social history conference, was a joint venture for History Queensland, Genealogical Society of Queensland, and Queensland Family History Society. The program was divided into two streams: Family History and Local History. Overall, the presentations were excellent and many demonstrated clearly the nexus between family and local … Continue reading
Most exciting news for Queensland researchers announced at the “In Time and Place” conference held this weekend. It was a wonderful conference with many great speakers in both family history and local history streams. Kudos to all who were involved in its organisation. The Office for the Registrar for Births, Marriages and Deaths announced they are digitising the marriage source documents from 1940 backwards and the first batch of these will be released in about 6-8 weeks. The Director … Continue reading
By Lyndall Maag. Assume – as genealogists, we are told not to, but to prove all our assertions by rigorous application of solid genealogical methodology. Assumptions – we are told not to make them, but to back up our claims and cite our sources. What, however, could possibly happen if we did, in fact, challenge some of our most basic genealogical assumptions? For instance, what actually constitutes a family tree chart? What content, layout, format should be included, … Continue reading
By Tiggy Johnson There have been two deaths in my family this month and, as well as making me almost forget to write something for you, it got me thinking. One of the people to have passed was my mother’s aunt. I was fortunate enough to have visited her when I was in Melbourne in January, and after I learned of her passing, it made me want to sit down and write the stories she told me then (from … Continue reading
