On behalf of GSQ I hope you are enjoying posts by our two new bloggers: Geraldine Lee joined us in January and Meg Carney joined us in February. They will be blogging on the 4th and 3rd Mondays respectively. Many thanks to Lyndall Maag and Tiggy Johnson for their contributions over the past 18 months. As 2016 is a leap year we have a 5th Monday on 29th February. Watch our for our guest blogger. Happy researching! Pauline
Continue readingLocation of Lorenzago di Cadore Amongst the trickiest part of researching a family tree that extends back many generations is the temptation to read history backwards. One of my earliest ancestors, Oliviero DeMichiel (1535-1568) lived in the village of Lorenzago in the foothills of the Dolomite Mountains of northeastern Italy. As I tried to write about Oliviero’s daily life my 21st Century assumptions about society (education, sanitation, transport, art and culture, technology, etc) kept getting in the way. I could catalogue … Continue reading
By Lyndall Maag. It was my first visit to GSQ’s new premises in the Brisbane suburb of Wishart and I wondered what I would find. Would I find the resources I needed to progress my own research or the family tree charts that have been the basis for my monthly posts for the last 18 months? Would the charts have made the transition from the old to the new home in one piece? Would the larger scrolls in the repository … Continue reading
By the time you read this post, I will be all at sea, somewhere between Bruges in Belgium and Warnemunde in Germany on the Unlock the Past Baltic cruise. After leaving Southampton on Saturday 11 July we should be well settled into cruising and Monday 13 July is a full conference day. As internet access is likely to be limited (and probably expensive) I am writing this post from the comfort of my own study at home before I leave. … Continue reading
