Category Archives: Shauna Hicks

Genealogy in COVID 19 Times Was Amazing and Never Boring.

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By Shauna Hicks. Since 16 March I have been mostly at home except for food shopping and medical appointments. There has been some reading, cleaning, and gardening but mostly I have had the luxury of spending more time on my own family history. I have tidied up paper files, sorted and tried to identify family photographs, cleaned up computer files and directories, worked through DNA matches, undertaken some new research on various sites and completed some serious writing of stories … Continue reading

Local, Family and Social History – In Time and Place

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You may be wondering why there’s another post from me in August. Well, this is a fifth Monday and usually we have a guest blogger. The need to confirm a guest blogger for August fell off my “To Do” list in the catching-up phase after a month overseas. So, I decided to tell you about a conference being held here in Brisbane on 3-4 October which is Queensland’s first local, family, and social history conference.  In Time and Place, is … Continue reading

Guest Blog – Shauna Hicks (Diary of an Australian Genealogist and SHHE Genie Rambles)

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There are five Mondays in September and as the GSQ blog post is every Monday they needed a guest blogger. I am flattered to have been asked but was a little unnerved to find that I could write about anything I wanted. Totally open. Now some might think that is easier than having a defined topic but I find it is quite the opposite. I actually like blogging prompts and it is why I set myself a personal genealogy blogging … Continue reading