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One of my observant offspring noticed that, on my family site , I still have marked as "Living" some people who are actually "Deceased". Mea Culpa . What excited me was that one of my offspring...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/09/more-deaths-and-burials.html

Yesterday on a sensational spring day husband and I stopped for a picnic lunch at Curry Reserve near Camden, NSW. This park, which is on the edge of the historic town was gazetted as a reserve...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-picnic-with-patrick.html

Together with a number Genies from around the world I am a member of the 'GENEALOGISTS FOR FAMILIES ' Project on Kiva .  We believe that our small deeds can make a big difference to families...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/08/kiva.html

In a recent post I shared my excitement about being chosen as a subject for a Wikitree Challenge.  As the event, THE 2024 WIKITREE CHALLENGE 11 ,  will be launched on zoom at 2am tomorrow (...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-late-night-night-or-early-morning.html

I know a time-poor genealogist who is easily drawn into undertaking new projects. Sounds like me! It's ten years since I joined the Society for One-Place Studies  (SOPS). This is a niche onlin...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/07/careybay2283.html

This blog has taken a back seat while I was out of the country in May and June. As part of our holiday we took a five day BackRoads tour of the WW1 Battlefields . This was our second such tour bu...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/07/much-needed-help-coming-my-way.html

Over the last few years I have taken up the April AtoZ Blogging Challenge several times. As I did in 2023 I participated in  the challenge on my personal blog jillballau . My topic Gods' Hous...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-atoz-challenge-conquered.html

Back in 2012 I penned a post about Paper Overload  in which I lamented about the practice of many speakers to provide handouts, reference lists in hard copy. I said" MY PLEA TO PRESENTERS IS T...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-wish-cametrue.html

On St Patrick's Day I remember my first visit in 2001 to Ballyfoyle, Kilkenny , and the home of Patrick Kealy , my Great-Great-Grandfather. It was the birthplace of my Great-Grandmother Mary Keal...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/03/24-years-ago.html

G'day Genimates,  I am sharing this Save the Date notice on behalf of our friends at The Genealogical  Society of Queensland – GSQ . We encourage you all to follow the Connections 2025...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/03/save-date-connections2025.html

This morning I posted on social media news of  the 17th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry (otherwise known to genies as Congress)  & 5th Queensland History State Conference. As ...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-big-news.html

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http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/01/big-news.html

Thanks to the wonderful genies who have supported this exercise . A shoutout to JENNIFER JONES who was the first to submit a response for 2023 and to BOBBIE EDES and Linda STUFFLEBEAN for enquiri...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/01/accentuatethe-positive-2023-responses.html

Back in 2012 when geneablogging was more popular than it appears to be today I threw out a challenge to fellow genies. I have continued this tradition each year. I wrote "I feel that a lot of m...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/12/accentuate-positive-geneameme-2023.html

When fiddling on my blog today I noticed that, in my header image, I had brown or pepper and salt coloured hair. Nowadays my dome is snow white.  My branding should reflect the person that I am....

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-snow-white-dome.html

I had committed to updating my online tree regularly from my main database in Family Historian, Over the past year I have made my tree a priority.  I have been beavering away adding new cousi...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/12/almost-year.html

Dad's younger sister, Kathleen Curry , was the first person in my immediate family who travelled from Australia to work in another country.  Kathleen Curry 1927-2013 During the 1960's Aunt...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/11/aunty-kaths-slides.html

When I announced on Facebook in September that I was in Cairns, Queensland one of my Kealy cousins sent me a message: "Hi Jill While in Cairns are you going to visit William Kealy’s grave? I�...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-kealy-in-cairns.html

Back on this day in 2014 I celebrated the sixth birthday of this blog with a post titled Six Years and Going Strong .  Today this blog is 15 years old.  My blogging status today would be li...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/11/limping-along.html

Several months ago I was going over some old research and found a new reference on ancestry.co.uk. to my husband's 3xGreat-Grandmother, Ann Elms (nee Jones) . It was a record from the REGISTER ...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/08/visiting-ann.html

I'm settling in at home after a seven week journey around Northern Europe and the UK. While the trip was mostly for pleasure I managed some research while visiting a cousin in Wiltshire and durin...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/08/back-in-saddle.html

We capped off our genealogy day by spending a few hours and sharing a pleasant dinner with genimate and font of knowledge on all things English, Graham A Walter. There's always plenty to talk ab...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-genimate-in-london.html

We went chasing Robert's Elms ancestors at Tower Hamlets Archive and Bancroft Road library  in London today.  The archive is housed in a beautiful old building which needs an injection of...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/08/chasing-down-elms.html

I have been very quiet on the geneablogging scene lately as I have been concentrating on my personal research.  Since I started researching 35 years ago many things have changed and many new i...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/06/600-burials.html

A photo of me presenting a session at THE Genealogy Show in Birmingham, England in 2019 popped up in my Facebook memories today. Jill presenting at The Genealogy Show 2019 I paused to remem...

http://geniaus.blogspot.com/2023/06/memories-snapped-by-susan.html