Jill Ball aka GeniAus

Goal!
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Thanks , will add to my YBV last. $rootstech.

2026 A to Z challenge theme reveal 2026 will be my thirteenth year of the ‘Blogging from A to Z April Challenge‘, where participants post  twenty-six times, a letter a day for every day of the month except Sundays. This year I will …

Congratulations @anneyoungau.bsky.social on joining the @atozchallenge.bsky.social challenge. I look forward to reading your posts #australia #history #blogging
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Another of my favourite bloggers has taken up the @atozchallenge.bsky.social challenge. #blogging #Australia #AtoZChallenge

Definitely adding to my #reading list. #books #biography #Australia

4 ticks for me.

An ancestral area. Hope it's saved.

Late to the Party I've noticed several genimates posting caricatures on social media and, as I have a bit of spare time for play this week, decided to hop on...

I hopped on the bandwagon and created a caricature in #ChatGPT #AI #familyhistory geniaus.blogspot.com/2026/03/late...

📢 2026 WikiTree Challenge 3 for Kirsty Gray 🌳 @familywiseltd Registration is NOW OPEN for #WTChallenge 3! Join us 26 Mar–2 Apr 2026 for a week of collaborative genealogy with special guest Kirsty Gray! 🌳Ready to grow your tree together? Register now:…

📢 Registration is NOW OPEN for WikiTree Challenge 3!

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Join us 26 Mar–2 Apr 2026 for a week of collaborative genealogy with special guest Kirsty Gray!

🌳Ready to grow your tree?

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#CollaborativeGenealogy

Would love to visit Rootstech but I can't see a visit to the US in my immeiate future.

Last century?

I'll be following you @jennifer-jones.bsky.social #blogging @atozchallenge.bsky.social

I've signed up #blogging #challenges @atozchallenge.bsky.social Here's my Theme Reveal
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It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

Australia’s blind refusal to question Trump’s bombing of Iran risks ensnaring us in a dangerous folly | Paul Daley Appeasing the White House at all costs indulges little but a sentimental notion of a US-Australia relationship that no longer exists

Australia’s blind refusal to question Trump’s bombing of Iran risks ensnaring us in a dangerous folly | Paul Daley

Why Reading Can Change a Life: The Quiet Power of Bibliotherapy Why Reading Can Change a Life Most of us can remember a book that arrived at exactly the right moment. Not necessarily a famous book.

Bibliotherapy is the use of books as a form of psychoeducation and emotional reflection to help solve a problem. #reading

Not in #Australia 😢

Two Months of Brain Food My year of reading started off slowly as I was travelling on January and concentrating on enjoying and leaning about the places we visited i...

Two months of Brain Food - my #reading so far this year. #books
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Women got a full 24 hours in #Australia

Library of Congress’ new experiential gallery designed to invite children and teens with their families - The Source: Where Curiosity Sparks Discovery #libraries

An opportunity missed by #Familysearch.

Took a peek at #RootsTech posts over on X, just to see if there were more posts there than BlueSky.
Nope! I’d say BlueSky had way more content. This despite the fact there is no RootsTech account here. FamilySearch should seriously consider this! #genealogy

GRIP Interview - Course 2026 05 Digging Deeper: Records, Tools & Skills YouTube video by National Genealogical Society

Genealogy interest? My interview n Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills for June week of GRIP Genealogy Institute is free, National Genealogical Society YouTube channel. Jeanette Shilega does a fantastic job of asking questions about the course content! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBhv....

Loved that challenge, thanks.

My guest post for the GSQ Blog. I wrote about @wikitree.bsky.social and #futureproofing our #familyhistory #research
#blogging
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun RootsTech 2026: My Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Recap RootsTech 2026 wrapped up today, and like many genealogists who couldn’t travel to Salt Lake City, I attended several sessions online. Since Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompt asked participants to share what they watched and what they enjoyed most, I thought I’d turn my notes into a recap of the sessions I followed over the past three days.

I attended several online sessions during #RootsTech2026 and shared my notes for Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. From AI tools to DNA research strategies, here are the sessions that stood out and what I learned along the way.

Where have all the women gone? To mark International Women’s Day I wanted to have a look at the key records that we use to research our English & Welsh family history, and to consider how those records routinely under-repres…

To mark #InternationalWomensDay2026 here's a blogpost I wrote five years ago about the under-representation of women in the key sources that we use for our family history research...

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Added benefit of #rootstech and #notatrootstech tags is that I've found more #genealogy and #familyhistory bods to follow on @bsky.app 👏😁👏

RootsTech is packed with opportunities to learn! Come step inside one of the classrooms with me and see what the in-person sessions are really like. Whether you’re attending onsite or online, there’s something here to help you take your genealogy skills to the next level. #RootsTech2026

Some great things coming out today and in the future from @myheritageofficial.bsky.social #RootsTech