Carmel's Corner

Just a few of the presentations I attended at Connections2025 Just back from three days of learning in Brisbane my thanks to GSQ, AFFHO and ...

Think of a spreadsheet as a smart table for sorting and organising your accumulated data. Whether you're using Google Sheets, OpenOffic...

In my preparations for a webinar for the Society of Australian Genealogists about the Australian Joint Copying Project now available throu...

Local History Preserved Volunteers at Cooroy Noosa Genealogical & Historical Group have created a new index. Over the last 20 year...

Create a family site in the free Google sites Have you been adding family stories to your blog? A blog is a great platform for sharing ...

Each August is designated as National Family History Month in Australia. A wide range of activities takes place across the various Stat...

As a family historian I aim to find as many records as possible for individuals. It is not always possible to visit repositories where copie...

Heritage month During May the local library has been celebrating Heritage Month with a range of events . On Thursday I attended an informa...

Hazel hones our histories. Hazel’s hints help. What works as a title? I settled on Hippo Sized Hints for this post. I’m practising...

What a wonderful prize I won at the end of National Family History Month in 2014; a year's subscription to Ancestry. As I had only b...

As National Family History Month in Australia comes to an end for 2015, here's a wrap up of events held at Noosaville Library. The p...

A rainy winter morning was not enough to prevent an early start to Brisbane to attend Ireland to Australia: Searching for Ancestors semina...

Visiting the library This week I have the opportunity to visit Canberra for Congress 2015 . Not only will I be able to listen to and le...

What a rewarding experience I have had over four weeks. The regular family history/genealogy volunteer guru in our local library has been ...

Photo Mapo The Photo Mapo  app available for iPad and iPhone adds maps as a background for your photos. A description of 180 characters ca...

Help from 66,000+ One effective way to use the expertise of librarians worldwide is to search through the  LibGuides Community  site. ...

Military ancestors Today I attended the fourth workshop this month provided by the Noosa Library Service for National Family History ...

Finding your family in the news Newspapers are a wonderful source of information for the family historian. In Australia we are so fo...

NFHM2014 Geneameme This challenge was posted by Pauleen at Family History across the seas. 1. What are you doing for National Family...

Dear family historians and genealogists, Humour and fun played a large part in my family upbringing. My mother was a word-lover and was...