Lilian's Tree

The house if starting to come together, floors will be done next month and then we can move the furniture back in. Looking forward to it as I can't find anything. While this is going on I'm spending time researching various branches of the tree, with a bit of success.  I have joined the Kent Family History Society,  http://www.kfhs.org.uk   and they have been very welcoming. Their journal is interesting and I have joined the Global Section and have had helpful replies to my query. I have also taken out a subscription to The British Newspaper Archive so I can access their version of TROVE. No luck so far with my searching but as it was 10.00pm, last night, I might do better when I'm fully awake! This morning I went to the Garden of Remembrance at Rookwood Cemetery and took some photos for a friend. It is part of The Office of Australian War Graves and has plaques for eligible veterans, who have died post -war and whose deaths are accepted as being caused by war serv

The workshop, yesterday was amazing and I learnt heaps, now all I have to do is practice, practice, practice and keep a photo journal of what works. The teacher, Fiona was generous with her knowledge and was able to have us all taking really good photos. We went to Paddington Reservoir for the practical side and it is a really interesting place. Once a water reservoir for the area it is now a community space and it is beautiful. The photos below are from there, including the one with lights, taken in the lift, for a bit of fun. The class was at the Australian Centre For Photography.  www.acp.org.au

Ever wanted to take those spectacular photos that others seem to, well today I'm going to learn how to!  I have a day class, a gift from a friend, to learn how I can get the best out of my hybrid digital camera. I'll show the photos of how I do and will also include a link. Bye Lilian

I left home at 7.30am Friday morning and arrived back 2.30pm Sunday afternoon after three wonderful days and two nights at the NSW & ACT Association Conference. As I mentioned in my previous post Friday was open to the public as a Family History Fair and it was really good. There were four talks on Friday and I went to three of them. Joy Murrin talked about NSW BDM's and said that is it often best to think outside the box, with regards to names and registration districts. She gave and example of a person, occupation was a mason and when the child was entered into the register it was with the surname Mason. With registration districts Joy explained that each are were allocated a number of pages and it they filled up, the next entry went where ever there was a space, so you could have a Kempsey in a Kiama spot. The best thing is to be open minded and with a transcription agent, you can do a check and verify, before getting the full document. Gail Davis from State Records a

I am at the NSW & ACT FHS Conference. Today was open to the public and the next two days are for attendees. I have had a wonderful day. Will blog more latter.

http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/index.html    This is the AIF Data base. http://www.awm.gov.au/    The Australian War Memorial. http://trove.nla.gov.au/   Trove, for newspapers. http://www.naa.gov.au/  National Archives, Australia. http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/   A new site Mapping our ANZACS. http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/home/    Another new site, Discovering ANZACS. www. forces -war- records .co.uk/ Records www.forces- war - records .co.uk/ ww2 - records    These two are UK records.

How was your weekend? I had a good, lazy weekend doing assignments, reading, knitting and dinner out last night. My weekend really started on Friday, when I went to my daughters' place and sent time with her and our grandson. Picked Grandad up from work and had dinner with them. Today I attended the Australian Copyright Council's conference, doing two sessions. The first Copyright Essentials was fantastic and Megan West, the presenter was excellent.  I recommend looking at their web site,  www.copyright.org.au   and reading their information leaflets.  Copyright essentials covered topics dealing with What is copyright? Who owns copyright, How long does copyright last? etc. I also did Clearing Copyright Material Offline and Online. This was good in explaining how to make sure that everything you publish, that you didn't produce, you have got permission to use.  It is better to take the time and effort to get things cleared than end up with a law suit. One more lot of