South Australia’s History Festival, 1-31 May 2016
May is just around the corner, and South Australia’s History Festival for 2016 is ready and raring to go for 31 days of history events. Continue reading → May is just around the corner, and South Australia’s History Festival for 2016 is ready and raring to go for 31 days of history events. Continue reading → Unlock the Past Cruise T-Shirts – Back for a Limited Time
The “Unlock the Past Cruise” T-shirts are back, but only for a limited time. If you would like your own ‘exclusive’ Unlock the Past cruise t-shirt be sure to get your order in by … Continue reading → #MuseumWeek – 28 March to 3 April 2016
It was on in 2015, and now it’s back again for 2016! #MuseumWeek is back. This is an opportunity for museums right around the world to show off their collections to the public, through social media. Continue reading → On the Sea Again …
It’s that time of year again. Time for Unlock the Past’s next genealogy and history cruise. This one is their 10th and it takes cruisers from the top of New Zealand, down to the bottom of Australia and right over to Perth. A number of our staff (myself included) are heading over to New Zealand […] Continue reading → #GenealogySelfie Day, 1 February 2016
This one is for all of those social media lovers out there. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember I’ve written about #AskACurator Day, #AskArchivists Day and #MuseumSelfie Day in the past. All of these social media activities are aimed at making the archives and museums more accessible, and ‘seen’ to […] Continue reading → Kiama Family, Local and Social History Expo
Kiama is a coastal town 120 kilometres south of Sydney with a very active genealogy group who are understandably getting very excited about their event which is just a few months away now. Date: 16 April 2016 Time: 9.30am to 4.00pm Place: Kiama Pavilion, Bong Bong Street, Kiama Cost: Free So if you are into […] Continue reading → 2016 Legacy Family Tree Webinars Announced
Webinars are an amazing way to be able to expand your knowledge, and you can learn from some of the world’s best family historians from the comfort of your own home. Now the team at Legacy Family Tree Webinars have announced their schedule of webinars for 2016, and there is an incredible 63 of them! […] Continue reading → Book Now for the “Judy Russell and Paul Blake Downunder” Tour
The Unlock the Past cruises have been known to attract many world renowned guest presenters, and the 10th Unlock the Past cruise which is coming up in February/March 2016 is no different. For this one they are honoured to have Judy G. Russell from the US (also known as The Legal Genealogist), Louis Kessler from […] Continue reading → UTAS Offers a FREE Online “Writing Family History” Course
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) has run their Introduction to Family History course twice, with an incredible response each time. Now they are offering a new course for family historians. One on writing family history. As with the earlier course, it is done fully online, and it is FREE. So don’t just ‘collect’ to stories, […] Continue reading → Be a Part of the Find A Grave Community Day 2015
Last year Ancestry organised the “Find A Grave Community Day“, and it was an amazing success thanks to everyone who participated … there were more than 100 meet-up points around the globe, and more than 100 cemeteries were visited, and people contributed more than 250,000 photos on the days leading up to, and on, Find […] Continue reading → Ask A Curator Day is Back, 16 September 2015
AskACurator Day has been going since 2010, and since 2012 it has been an annual Twitter event held around the middle of September. AskACurator Day seems to seems to grow in popularity each year, with 721 museums from 43 countries taking part in 2014. There’s still a few weeks left for museums etc. to register, […] Continue reading → National Family History Month 2015
If you are in Australia or New Zealand and are into family history, you should already have heard about National Family History Month which is on for the whole of August. This is a time when individuals and groups promote family history to the public, which ca be done in any number of ways. Seminars, […] Continue reading → Save Your Photos Day, 26 September 2015
The 2nd Annual Save Your Photos Day is coming up on Saturday, 26 September 2015. So write it in your diary or on the calendar, because you don’t want to miss it. Save Your Photos Day is an annual event that offers individuals the opportunity to connect through local community events, an online event, activities and […] Continue reading → 