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AtoZChallenge RootsTech London Ambassador – It’s Official

Posted onApril 20, 2019April 20, 20192 Comments

What do you do when you discover the post you wrote a while back announcing you were selected to be a RootsTech London Ambassador actually was still sitting in drafts? Especially when RootsTech starts with Read More …

AtoZChallenge Queensland Waves in Time Conference

Posted onApril 20, 2019April 20, 20192 Comments

I have been busy for a year on the website for the Queensland Family & Local History Conference. With about a month to go before the conference starts on Friday 24 May things are not Read More …

Meet the Speaker: Shauna Hicks Shares Conferences Tips

Posted onApril 19, 20191 Comment

Yesterday I attended a talk at Caloundra Family History by Shauna Hicks. Soldiers in The Family: Find Out More, as the title explains, was a talk that covered the archives, documents and techniques you use Read More …

AtoZChallenge Promoting Prosperity – Advertising from NZ

Posted onApril 18, 2019April 18, 20193 Comments

When the #GenealogyPhotoADay prompt was the word book I shared one called Promoting Prosperity. And now I share this book for the letter P: AtoZChallenge Promoting Prosperity, The Art of Early New Zealand Advertising. AtoZChallenge Read More …

AtoZChallenge Occupation – The Danger of Not Thinking

Posted onApril 17, 2019April 17, 20194 Comments

#genealogyphotoaday Occupation For the #genealogyphotoaday Occupation prompt, I shared two images from the 1851 England Census. If you check out the images posted, you can see many Kitto’s were “Miner Lead”. There are two Kitto Read More …

AtoZChallenge Newspapers – Are these people in my family tree?

Posted onApril 16, 20199 Comments

Sometimes I joke that some of my Kitto family had a permanent desk at the local newspaper because they appear so frequently in print. Alongside the expected birth, death and marriage notices, they regularly ran Read More …

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AtoZChallenge Miramar South P1 Class in 1931

Posted onApril 15, 20196 Comments

AtoZChallenge Miramar South P1 Class in 1931 The Instagram GenealogyPhoto prompt for 16 February 2019, was school. When I am looking for images to post for GenealogyPhotoADay I cannot always recall if I have posted Read More …

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