Of course not, I hear you say, but unfortunately there are family photos for sale in many charity shops around the world. They are removed from their albums and all provenance is lost. We have to persuade our families that the family photos have value so they don’t just “clear out the rubbish” when we die or go into a nursing home. How can we do that? We need to tell the story of the photo. Every photo … Continue reading
Hello Everyone, My name is Geoff Doherty and I have been asked to be the guest blogger for this extra 5th Monday in May. I am an Historian (got the degree), a Family Historian (20+ years of experience), and I am the current President of the Genealogical Society of Queensland (8 months, and counting). So I have a bit of an interest in Family History, per se. But not so much in my own family history. It is dead boring. … Continue reading
The Australian government recently announced budget cuts that will almost certainly negatively impact further development by the National Library of the collection of books, newspapers, photographs and journals currently available free of charge to Australian researchers. On one of my forays into Trove’s newspaper collection I came across a bit of buried treasure, an article that illustrates the wealth of information in these collections and the importance of maintaining and developing them. The article appeared in a Sydney newspaper in … Continue reading
A few weeks ago, my father, my sister and I went for a holiday to Coolangatta, at the southern end of the Gold Coast. This holiday turned out to be a lovely trip down memory lane for my father who will turn 90 in two months time. It was there in the twin towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads that my father and mother met, courted and were married. Coolangatta and Tweed Heads are situated on the Queensland, … Continue reading
I went to England in July last year to catch up with my mother and brother both prior to and after the Unlock the Past Baltic cruise. Have you visited family or a repository, perhaps attended a conference or just a half-day or full-day course, made lots of notes and reminders of things to follow up afterwards and then find that ‘life’ makes this follow-up seemingly impossible. It feels somewhat selfish to focus on ‘following up’ when there are a … Continue reading
