Alex Daw

Thanks to our photographer, Chris Rowan, we have images of the #Genealogy #Bloggers from downunder present at #Connections2025 in #Brisbane today.

A fabulous commitment to blogging and preserving our #familyhistory

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Looking forward to my next read ! #Melbourne #1855 #bigamy #Victoria #goldfields #QFHSbookclub

Bit sad that it’s all over but so glad I went. Best time ever. Thank you #AFFHO and #GSQ and #HistoryQueensland

Brilliant idea! Familytreefrog.blogspot.com

With a thousand apologies Dr Nick Barratt- spelling is everything!

Future casting with Nick Barrett for the last session of #connections2025. Dystopia or Utopia ?#genealogy #familyhisory #GSQ #AFFHO

Described as one of our heroes in genealogy- very pleased to hear from the lovely Andrew Redfern regarding Artificial Intelligence #connections2025 #AI #SAG #AFFHO #GSQ #genealogy #familyhistory

What happens to your research after you’re gone???? Thank you Sally Romano for this very important topic #connections2025 #GSQ #familyhistory #genealogy #archive #preservation

Big turnout for Char’s talk about “It wasn’t what you knew but who you knew” presentation. Go Char! #connection2025 #QFHS #GSQ #familyhistory #genealogy

The fab Michelle Patient strutting Ancestry’s stuff this morning. #connections2025 #Ancestry #familyhistory #genealogy #AI

Also great table decorations ! #connections2025 #DNA #genealogy #familyhistory

Up and close with @Roly Sussex at #connections2025 #anthroponyms #names #words #genealogy #familyhistory

Ooh you’re the 2nd person to mention this book to me in as many days!

One Free Woman - Big Sky Publishing The true, compelling story of Hannah Rigby, a Liverpool seamstress and serial thief exiled to Moreton Bay. Despite enduring three harsh sentences, poverty, and oppression, Rigby’s remarkable resilienc...

How wonderful to see a book launched at Congress! Author Jane Smith has written about #convict #HannahRigby and her book One Free Woman is available now. #Connections2025 #convict #genealogy #familyhistory www.bigskypublishing.com.au/books/one-fr...

What a fab title for a presentation! So looking forward to hearing what this legend has to share! #Connections2025 #familyhistory #AFFHO #GSQ

Absolutely fascinating talk by Judy Russell #legalgenealogist #Connections2025 What a great start to the Congress. A high benchmark indeed. #AFFHO #genealogy #familyhistory #GSQ

Super excited to be here at #Connections2025. Its great to meet other bloggers face to face and make new friends.

Finally got round to reading your great newsletter. It's just the right length with lots of good stuff. LOVE the new cover designs. Well done you and your team!

Ooh thank you for those recommendations! I haven’t seen either so will make sure to put them on my list 🙋🏻‍♀️

Just saw A real pain and loved it. Such a clever concept and beautifully realised. Great casting. A perfect road movie. Those who don’t like the F bomb give it a wide berth.

That is just beautiful and so special. Well done you!

Oh you do make me laugh !!!!!

Great to see @qfhs.bsky.social on Bluesky too! Yay!

#Booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 20
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#Booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
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#Booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 18
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The bridge club is looking more and more like home;) plus resident possum on the verandah when its teeming with rain.#Kenmore #bridge

Caspar painting in the style of Monet? Lots of greenery and figures glimpsed by a stream.

The Friary front door- original building history from website is as follows “records suggest that the main house was built on the site in 1924 using sections of an 1890s house at Toowong called Glen Olive (designed by Richard Gailey in 1890 as his family home and later sold to Dr Sandford Jackson). In 1932, Fr Robert Bartlett Bates, Rector of All Saints Wickham Terrace, purchased the property. He opened St John's Home for Aged Men which later relocated to West Toowong. Then in 1934, he opened St Christopher's Lodge for Boys, a farm school for orphaned or disadvantaged boys. Fr Bates was the Principal and Founder of this school as well as continuing his duties as Rector of All Saints Wickham Terrace.”

Old Friary hallway. Caspar’s painting is currently hanging up on right hand side. He used to do art classes here as a kid.

Great to see one of Caspar’s paintings hanging in the hallway of Kenmore Bridge Clubs’s new temporary home at the Old Friary. Lovely to see some of our members quilts up there too. They will help to baffle noise #bridge #Kenmore #Brookfield www.friary.org.au/about-the-ol...

Practice practice practice seems to be key like learning any new technique. I like the idea of treating it like an intern and the importance of iterative dialogue.

Cover of Eleanor Oliohant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman picture is six burnt matchsticks arranged into a childlike drawing of a house.

#Booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 17
#BookChallenge