A few months ago, my father sent me a photo of a medal he had been shown while visiting a relative he had not seen for many years. This relative is his second cousin and they have a great uncle in common. The medal had belonged to this great uncle, Hugh Smith, and had been handed down to my father’s cousin by her mother. She brought it along to show my father. No-one at the family gathering knew what the … Continue reading
Getting organised Following on from January’s post, I thought I’d talk a bit more about getting organised. On Saturday 21 January I presented a session for GSQ on Organising your research. This was planned as a practical course to provide suggestions on how to manage your paper records as well as your digital records. This proved to be quite popular and so we had to limit the numbers. I have agreed to offer this session again on 3 June, so … Continue reading
RootsTech is a conference (8-11 February) that combines technology and genealogy. Now it its seventh year it has highlighted many technological advancements, program changes, new applications for tablets and phones that can be used for genealogy, many classes teaching people how to use technology in their genealogy from using Google Earth to better scanning methods to DNA analysis to using Scrivener, Evernote, Excel and so much more. It is held in Salt Lake City, the genealogical mecca that has the … Continue reading
By Bob McAllister. To a casual observer, the agenda of the last meeting of the Legacy User Group might have seemed a little incongruous. The first item was a discussion of the likely release date for Version 9 of the software. This was followed by an in-depth examination of a feature that has been present since (at least) Version 6 but which very few of the members had used much. How can we possibly justify buying a new version of … Continue reading
In 21st Century Australia, discrimination based on race, creed, gender or sexual preference, age or physical capability is prohibited by law. Most of us regard this as progress, as evidence of Australia’s commitment to basic human rights, an acknowledgement of the cultural benefits of tolerance and diversity. In colonial Australia, British assumptions about race – the inferiority of the Oriental, the inability of ‘whites’ to labour in the searing heat of the tropics – gave way to an economic imperative: populate or … Continue reading
