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2024 – Year in Review
Setting out to write this blog post Sunday, I thought I would check out Facebook first; my following has been less than avid for some time, and I came across a post about the arrival of a new boy in … Continue reading
Northern Gateways: Chinese History and Heritage in Northern Australia
I have been organising this conference for most of this year. Three years ago, I first pitched this idea to the Chung Wah Society as part of a series of possible events to commemorate 150 years of Chinese settlement in the … Continue reading
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2023 – The Year (s) in Review
What a terrible blogger! March 2022, since my last post. I usually make up for this lapse by writing a ‘year in review’; perhaps I could have the financial year to get me to the 30th of June 2023. But, … Continue reading
Published!
Soul Search might be a tiny journal with a small readership. Still, its publication of a reworking of my Blog article Thomas Solly – Explorer, Mounted Policeman and Publican (29 November 2012) marks my international publishing debut!
2021 in Review
Three blog posts in 2021! A paltry record in another year of the pandemic with so many people in lockdown and working from home. But this is my normal lifestyle anyway. Given this blog focuses on my Muir-Buirchell and Jones-Sexton … Continue reading
Family History and Chinese Women in Aviation
This article was first drafted in July 2020 as a ‘From the Vault’ segment for the NT Chinese Museum e-News, but never completed. The draft was inspired by reading a 1930 newspaper article about the arrival in Darwin of the … Continue reading
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Learning to be a Family Historian
In August last, I (we) went to Hobart for the first time in 33 years; last time, it was one night, this time two nights (or sort of – two and a half). The trip logistics were a nightmare; starting … Continue reading
Edward Treasure: Poverty, Success and Ignominy
This story about my convict ancestor, two times great grandfather Edward Treasure, was originally written as an assessment task in the Diploma of Family History course at the University of Tasmania.
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“Squatter ” Jones Revisited
Back in 2016, I published an account of my great-grandfather William Thomas “Squatter” Jones. Since then, I started the Diploma of Family History through the University of Tasmania and required to write a 1000 word essay on an ancestor, I … Continue reading
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The Office Clean-up
Lorelei carried out her threat and emptied out the office and NJS Family History Archive. It took us together over a week to clean up and reorganise. Here are the before photos:
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