Each April the A-Z challenge for bloggers attracts a wide range of participants. The idea is to publish a blog post for each letter of the alphabet each day in April excluding Sundays.
Australian participants from genealogy and family history circles often participate. Some write about their research and own family histories. Others choose more general themes. Here's some of those more general themes of interest to family historians.
Alex Daw from Brisbane is examining all the facets of family history and genealogy societies, what they are, what they do and where they may go in the future. Visit her Family Tree Frog blog to read her thought provoking posts.
You may enjoy her selection for D D is for Databases, Donations, Direction, Decline and Dragons?
Pauleen Cass of the Sunshine Coast is reminiscing about Family Food Fare and Favourites on her Family History across the seas blog. She says:
Join me as I dig through my memories, and recipes, to rediscover my family’s food “back in the day” and how those food habits have changed over the decades to today’s diverse and multi-cultural cuisines.
Pauleen's C post on Casseroles, Curries and Cakes has a delicious rum chocolate cake recipe.
Jill Ball on her GeniAus blog is writing about two of her passions, books and family history. She is taking a trip down memory lane and revisiting some of those books that have enriched her genealogy experience.
Luckily Noosa Library has a copy of Esther, a book recommended by Jill. E is for ...Esther : the extraordinary true story of the First Fleet girl who became first lady of the colony, sounds like an excellent read.
Carmel Galvin at Carmel's Corner is exploring the huge collection of resources in the Australian Joint Copying Project available through Trove and providing a guide on how to make best use of these resources to enrich family stories. The B Browsing the Board of Trade post shows how one may find information about those maritime wanderers of the past.
More Australian A - Z bloggers
- Anne Young -Anne's Family History
- Jennifer Jones - Tracking Down Family
- Jen Gay - GenieJen
- Linda May Curry - The Curry apple orchard
- Lilian Magill - Lilian's Tree
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Thank you for putting this together (and for the shoutout). It will make commenting on our Aussie blogs so much easier.
ReplyDeleteGenealogist Lilian Magill is also participating in the challenge at http://researchbylily.blogspot.com/
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DeleteThanks for this Sharn. There are a couple of blogs on the list that I missed. Off to visit them now.
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing this Carmel, and the shout out, thanks Jill, somehow Lilian slipped by me.
ReplyDeleteAlso family historian ScotSue is writing about her experiences of covid on the Scottish Borders...well worth reading. https://scotsue-familyhistoryfun.blogspot.com/
And Irish participant Dara is building a virtual graveyard for her family at https://blackravengenealogy.blogspot.com/
If you grew up in the 60s you might enjoy genealogist Molly’s story of being a teen in the US
https://mollyscanopy.com/
Dear Carmel - a very belated thank you for the acknowledgement of FamilyTreeFrog. Can't believe I found this just after the challenge finished. Typical ;)
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