September research update.
My September research was to read the War Diaries for the unit my Dad served in. Well I am but they make for hard reading, that I have to leave them and only read in small batches. This is going to continue for the rest of the year. I have both the Unit Diary and Charles Bean's diary as well. The Unit Diary is very factual, while the Bean one give you the whole picture. I decided that I needed to some fun research, so picked my grandparents line and looked for any new information on the branches. Did a death search on the various sites and found some new deaths. Also did a Ryerson search for the death/funeral notices and had some success there as well. September also saw me start a seven week writing course with The Novel Guys. I'm finding it very helpful as we are given homework, which is reviewed by Nathan and the group and feed-back is given. The only downside is that it's from England and while 8.00pm UK time is good for them, it's 5.00am here for me. Luckily for m