Carmel Galvin

Ephemera in the Family Collecting the stories behind those pieces of paper, Christmas letters, membership and business cards, funeral memorabilia and more.

Some thoughts on finding and digitising our family’s ephemera. #FamilyHistory

Infographic about Cooroy-Noosa Genealogical &Historical Research Group

Using some AI tools to promote our local #FamilyHistory group. #genealogy

SearchResearch Method: Control-F for reality (finding books on your shelves) Ever lose a book on your shelves?  I spent an hour tearing my personal library apart in a desperate search.  Ever happen to you? You know, ...

Using Gemini to search bookshelves, another fascinating, useful post from Dan Russell. #books #genealogy searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2025/11/sear...

Have you tried NotebookLM? Add your own sources then use it tools to generate infographics, slides and more.

Adding to the Family Archive Using a variety of AI tools to enhance my family history stories

Using AI tools to enhance family history stories. crgalvin.substack.com/p/adding-to-... #genealogy #FamilyHistory

BOOKMARKS 🔖📚 Bookmarks have a rich social history. I have gathered a lot over the years, and also managed to lose a fair few. The leather one below is quite special. My partner and I walked the Thames path when…

What fun, an interesting look at Bookmarks. paulineconolly.com/2025/bookmar...

A Poignant Notice Remembering her motherHow are people remembered? Who recalls their life? What does a death notice convey?O'NEILL.—Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of Catherine O'Neill, relict of the la...

Who will remember Catherine? A recent post about my husband’s 3x gt grandmother #genealogy #FamilyHistory app.weare.xyz/blog/galvin-...

Once upon a shelf Using LibraryThing and TinyCat for small genealogy, heritage and family history libraries

Forgot to add 2018 write up here www.carmelgalvin.info/2018/08/once...

I have been using LibraryThing since 2006, always reliable.

Understood, I started with FTB the free MyHeritage one, but I also have RootsMagic.

Thought you were a Family Historian advocate or is it different programs for different interests?

Just rechecked some recent additions to the National Archives Australia, picture of my father-in-law John, aged 17, Jan. 1937 on enlistment in RAAF. An amazing likeness to my husband and son at similar ages. He served throughout WWII #FamilyHistory

Good luck with all that. What a treasure trove for you.

EVENT Sat 30th Aug, 17:00 BST
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Join our super friendly group zoom on collaborative family archiving, & all things ancestral & nostalgic :)
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ChatGPT's image of group of genealogists having A LOT OF FUN on vacation

James, an Irish immigrant in Alma The Family in CastlepollardIn the rolling hills of County Westmeath, Ireland, a child was born in 1834 who would eventually become part of the great wave of Irish immigration that helped shape colonia...

In 1864 James Smyth followed his 3 elder brothers to South Australia, Irish chain migration in action. app.weare.xyz/share/earlie...
#FamilyHistory #genealogy

Here’s another playfordspast.recollect.net.au

Covers of family history books

Just received my blog books from Pixxibook(dot)com A4 size, glossy print sturdy hardcover binding. Covering 13 years of #Horgan and #ODea stories. #FamilyHistory #genealogy

Brilliant, this will be so useful. Thank you

A Winter Tragedy in Terowie A Life of Quiet Strength  In the cold midwinter of 1913, Kitty suffered a horrific accident that would change her life forever. With her fat...

Cold mornings remind me of this little girl’s sad tale. earlieryears.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-wi... #genealogy #FamilyHistory

cricketers debasing labourer
heterodox church vulgarities
divorced baseball banalities

https://wraggelabs.com/fotp/?word=cricketers&word=debasing&word=labourer&word=heterodox&word=church&word=vulgarities&word=divorced&word=baseball&word=banalities

What percentage of the examples used are American?

I ended up creating myself as another user and moved the Libraries there to get rid of #OneDrive Would have been better had I thought to partition the disk first before I loaded my Documents!

Arranging a Family Photobook For the Grandchildren Now in the second half of the year thoughts turn to approaching birthdays and that inevitable end of the year Christma...

Choosing, enhancing photos for a #familyhistory photo book. earlieryears.blogspot.com/2025/06/arra...

Cold weather reminds me of childhood chilblains on toes and fingers.

Lifespans, charts and timelines During the month of April I experimented with a variety of methods to display family history data. Ideas come from video channels, blogs and...

Another method to get and display family tree data. earlieryears.blogspot.com/2025/06/life...

The Claddagh Ring: A Small Circle with a Big Story This week, I want to share the story behind perhaps one of the most recognised symbol of Irish heritage around the world - the Claddagh ring.

Interesting story behind the Claddagh Ring www.aletterfromireland.com/the-claddagh...

Such an interesting but sad story.

Last in my posts for April #AtoZchallenge a recap of posts. Z for The Family History Zone earlieryears.blogspot.com #FamilyHistory #genealogy

X for Extracting the details #AtoZchallenge #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #SchoolRecords earlieryears.blogspot.com/2025/04/extr...

Writing their stories This series of posts focuses on an A-Z theme for April in 2025. I have chosen events that occurred On This Day in April of years in the past...

W for Writing their stories, a detailed description of wedding outfits in 1938 #AtoZchallenge #FamilyHistory #Horgan

earlieryears.blogspot.com/2025/04/writ...