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RootsTech 2013 From Australia
What happens when the techonology and genealogy industries collaborate on a conference … ROOTSTECH, that’s what!!! The world’s biggest genealogy technology conference is on again. And now into it’s 3rd...
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14th Australasian Congress 2015 Calls for Speakers
The once-every-three years genealogy event that happens down here in Australasia is Congress, or to give it it’s official name the “Australasian Congress on Genealogy and History”. The next one is...
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RootsTech 2013
One of the mega genealogy events on the genealogy calendar is about to kick off later this week, and that is RootsTech. Held over three days (Thursday, Friday & Saturday), this event is the second...
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Meeting the Suppliers at RootsTech 2013
RootsTech, is not only the the world’s largest genealogy-tech related conference, but it is also now officially the largest genie conference in the US with the latest figures quoting around 6800 people...
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Shake Your Family Tree Day – Tuesday 16 April 2013
Shake Your Family Tree Day is a day to celebrate your heritage at the National Archives of Australia’s open day, which is on Tuesday, 16 April 2013. Each year the National Archives of Australia offers...
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Blinco Family Reunion & Book Launch, 13th April 2013
Now I know this is rather late notice, but I have only recently been given this informatio. For anyone with connections to the Blinco family in Australia, you’ll be interested to know about a reunion...
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A Few Highlights from the RootsTech Exhibitors
the team from Unlock the Past at RootsTech 2013: Alan Phillips, Helen Smith & Alona Tester RootsTech was a few weeks ago already, and while Gould Genealogy & History didn’t exhibit over there,...
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Australia’s National Family History Week becomes National Family History Month
In a BIG announcement made last week, the 2013 National Family History Week will be trialed as a month long initiative! So it’s now National Family History Month (NFHM)! It’s no surprise to us that...
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Ballarat History and Genealogy Exhibition – 3rd May 2013
If you love genealogy and are going to be in Victoria, or more specifically the Ballarat region around the latter part of next week you’ll be interested to know about the Ballarat History and...
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National Family History Month in Australia and New Zealand
I’m sure all of you know that August 2013 (yes, right now) is National Family History Month in Australia and New Zealand. Anyway if this is news to you, never fear as there are still another two whole...
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Diary Date: 12-14 February 2015, RootsTech + FGS
We’re not even finished with 2013 yet, let alone into 2014 or 2015, so why am I talking about diary dating events in 2015 already? Well simply, this is something you wont want to miss. The FGS...
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Exodus Conference: Migration to, From and Within the British Isles
Let me tell you about about an event that is on in England in a couple of weeks time (actually only 10 days time according to the countdown on their website), and that is the Exodus Conference. I know...
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New South Wales History Week, 7-15 September 2013
New South Wales History Week is back again, and it keeps getting bigger and better. Hosted by the History Council of New South Wales, their aim is to celebrate and advocate history and historians in...
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Early Bird Prices for Congress 2015
The Australasian Congress which is held triennially (once every three years), is coming up again in March 2015. So don’t forget to diary date it. March 26-30 to be exact. And even though it’s just...
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Unlock the Past Cruises heads to the Baltic for their 8th Cruise
(click for a bigger image) Unlock the Past cruises heads to the Baltic, that’s right. They’ll be doing the cruise around the British Isles in July 2014, and now they want to explore more … so they are...
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Unlock the Past Heads to Scotland for Who Do You Think You Are? Live in Glasgow
Who Do you Think You Are? Live, the world’s biggest genealogy event, is heading to Scotland in August 2014, and Australia’s Unlock the Past team will be there too. Held over three days, 29-31 August...
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Unlock the Past Cruises has a Genealogy Cruise for Everyone
Unlock the Past Cruises is a reasonably new player on the genealogy cruise scene having run their first cruise in 2011, but in that short time they have certainly made themselves known. Having run...
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On the Road Again …
I owe the title of this blog to Dick Eastman, as whenever he goes away he lets his readers know where he’s off to. That is what I’m doing in this post. Though technically it should probably be called...
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7th Unlock the Past Cruise: Western Australia
The team at Unlock the Past are kicking off 2015 with a very special cruise, one to Western Australia. THE DETAILS The Date: 5 nights, 19-24 January 2015 The Ship: Cruise & Maritime Voyages “Astor”...
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Congress: 12 Reasons Why You Should Go!
If you are only going to attend one genealogy event in Australia during 2015, be sure to make it this one: The 14th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry Thursday 26 – Monday 30 March 2015...
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