Lilian's Tree

It was announced on 13 January that FHDU2021 will be a virtual conference, please check the website for details. Yippie, now I can go. Well what a messed up 12 months we have had, Covid-19 has thwarted plans for genealogy get togethers, worldwide  with BUT Allan Phillips and his intrepid crew have got FHDU organised. March 22-26 at Maroochy RSL. Maroochydore on the beautiful Sunshine Coast. The program is packed with excellent speakers, like Carol Baxter, John Boeren, Janet Frew, Shauna Hicks and Mel Hulbert to name five of the 28 listed on the speakers page. Now if you are one of the very lucky ones, allowed to travel, I hope you have a look at the bookings and try to go. Me, well I'm waiting for FHDU 2022, when... maybe... I can travel outside my home state. This link, below takes you to the home page and you can browse from there. https://www.familyhistorydownunder.com/  

Friday morning saw several of us from The National Institute for Genealogical Studies meet up for a photo and chat. It was great to met others who are studying and see how they are going. Louise St Denis, the founder was great to chat with and listened to the ideas we had.  As it took longer than I thought, I skipped the first session and John Boeren and I sat and talked, for ages and then when the Vendor Hall opened, went our different ways. I used this time to catch-up with friends and get photos, as it was empty enough to do this. Group photos happened after the day's talks were over, with GeneaBloggers, Commonwealth and the Aussie Contingent. My last talk, for Friday was WATO, (What Are The Odds) workshop. I was disappointed. I expected that those of us paying for this would have been able to discuss our problems and how to work it out but the presenter had us working on hers. Not to mention that some didn't know what WATO was and had no idea what to do....

 Life has happened in an interesting way and I haven't really felt like blogging but I would like to share my RootsTech 2020 journey. After the fantastic Sunday exploring Antelope Island, I thought that I'd crash. Nope! Sleep eluded me until the wee small hours of Monday, which then caused me to sleep in and not start my day how I planned it. I had wanted to be a the Family History Library, when it opened but while that didn't happen I did get there by 9.15am. Tried to research but gave up and went to find friends.  There was a large group of us waiting to see Dear Myrtle and have a chat. Jennie Fairs and I were in the first group and it was great to catch-up.  Then we all went to lunch in the John Smith building. Being interviewed by Dear Myrtle. After lunch Pat Richely-Erickson, Roberta Estes, Jennie Fairs and I went to Quilt Etc. a lovely quilt shop and did some shopping. The view from the shop was lovely. Back in the city Roberta, Jennie and I cont...