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Remembering to Accentuate the Positive 2022 challenge.

GSQ Blog Posted on January 23, 2023 by Bobbie EdesJanuary 4, 2023

This is the fourth time I have participated in Jill Ball’s (aka GeniAus) challenge.  As part of the challenge Jill sets out a number of sentence beginnings which bloggers need to elaborate on. It’s a rewarding experience and helps me to realise the many positive steps undertaken during the past year. I was happy to go back to travelling and catching up with a very old relative after a Covid enforced absence in interstate travels. Prior to my arrival in … Continue reading

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Accentuate the Positive – 2021 (in Jan 2022).

GSQ Blog Posted on January 17, 2022 by Bobbie EdesJanuary 17, 2022

Many years ago Jill Ball set a January challenge on GeniAus for a yearly blog to Accentuate the Positive – 2021 and this one in January 2022 is my 4th yearly effort.  The challenge has 20 set points to cover, however I have used a few challenge points from past years to replace those that haven’t fitted my year. I encourage readers to check back next week for Pauline’s challenge. I got the most joy from – In 2021 I … Continue reading

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Remember to Accentuate the Positive – 2020.

GSQ Blog Posted on January 11, 2021 by Bobbie EdesFebruary 2, 2021

Jill Ball has set a January challenge on GeniAus for a yearly blog to Accentuate the Positive. This is my 2021 effort reflecting on my 2020 year.  The challenge has 20 set points to cover. Remember to Accentuate the Positive An elusive ancestor I found was – Someone I had been searching many years for, an adopted baby. I finally cracked the mystery and managed to track who she had married, when she died and what children she had. A great … Continue reading

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Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2019

GSQ Blog Posted on January 13, 2020 by Bobbie EdesJanuary 13, 2020

Jill Ball has set a January challenge on GeniAus for a yearly blog to Accentuate the Positive, this is my 2019 effort. The challenge has 20 set points to cover (or amend etc). An elusive ancestor I found was – on the maternal side of my Webster ancestry. Finding Hugh aka Heugh (Elder) Frazer who married Jannet Baverage on 31 July 1702 in Wemyss Parish in Fife thus extending this line to my 7th great-grandfather.[1] A great newspaper article I … Continue reading

Remember to Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2017

GSQ Blog Posted on January 22, 2018 by Bobbie EdesNovember 10, 2022

Bobbie Edes, GSQ Guest Blogger 2018 is the 6th consecutive year that Jill Ball has set a challenge on GeniAus. After reading on Facebook two great blogs by Pauleen Cass and Shauna Hicks I decided to take up this challenge myself. 1. An elusive ancestor I found was: No new direct ancestors unfortunately, but I did find another sister to my maternal great-grandmother. As she married prior to the majority of the family emigrating, I had missed her. On checking … Continue reading

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