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ABC podcast: Family history tips from writers

"Writers share their tips on researching family history"

Listen to Angelo Loukakis, author of 'Who Do you Think You Are - The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History' and  
Helen Laidlaw, author 'The Gardener's Gamble' as they discuss researching and writing a family history.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bushtelegraph/stories/2011/3212609.htm

ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph program.  

Duration: 19 mins

IGGS collects 120 stories for 120 years

Ipswich Girls' Grammar School is celebrating 120 years in 2012. To commemorate the event we are collecting 120 stories about the school from past and present students, teachers and parents - one for every year from 1892 to 2012.

For information on the project and how you can be involved, visit the IGGS website and look under community for 120 stories. The more varied the stories, the more interesting the final publication will be.

http://www.iggs.qld.edu.au/

Download notice as pdf file

Queensland FHS Inc. Family History (Writing) Award 2011

The Society invites entries for this Award which will be presented to the person or persons producing the best history of a Queensland family, published in book form within the last five years. It must be the story of a family, not of an individual. The Award is open to the general public as well as to members of the Society.

Entry forms are available from:

• www.qfhs.org.au
• Hon. Secretary, QFHS Inc., PO Box 171 Indooroopilly, Qld, 4068 or
• Robert Adamson, 25 Brown Street, Windsor, Qld, 4030

Entries close on 30 November, 2011.

Create your own family history blog

Blogs are a great way of documenting and sharing your family history over the Internet. About.com have created an excellent guide called "Blogging your family history search". The guide shows you how to start your own blog, write your first posting, publicize your work and much more.

http://genealogy.about.com/od/publishing/a/blogging.htm

Podcast: The changing face of wartime correspondence

Listen to ex-military personnel and guests as they take you on a journey through the years, back to a time where it was simpler to preserve the physical evidence of wartime, love and relationships and examine the difficulties of doing the same in our 21st century, technology driven lives.

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/webcasts/lovewar