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An early spring clean
Do you spring clean? And, yes, I know that my Aussie mates will be muttering “it’s autumn!” But here there are crocuses peeping out and I’m getting that hopeful feeling. Mind you, it’s not too late for a frost, and … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Blogging, Website
Tagged A Rebel Hand, Australia, Blogging, Sydney, Worldwide Genealogy
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Australia Day Challenge 2014: C’mon Aussie
I do love the genealogy online community. People help one another, collaborate, chat and set up memes and challenges. Here’s the latest geneachallenge – it’s for Australia Day, from that bonza blogger Pauleen Cass of Family history across the seas. … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Blogging, Convicts
Tagged 1798, Atlas II, Australia, Blogging, Convict, family history, Friendship, genealogy, James Thomas Richards, John Simpson, Nicholas Delaney, Sarah Marshall, Transportation
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Worldwide Genealogy – a new collaboration
It’s an exciting day for me today. My first blog post on a new, collaborative blog was published. Worldwide Genealogy is a fresh way of looking at genealogy, history and local history. Julie Goucher, who you may know from Anglers … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Genealogy
Tagged A Rebel Hand, Blogging, family history, genealogy, history, local history, social history, Worldwide Genealogy
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Accentuate the Positive 2013 – continued
It’s 2014! A fresh new year in which I hope to pull a few more bricks from those genealogy walls as well as finding out more about the historical background to my ancestors’ lives in Australia and the British Isles. … Continue reading
Accentuate the Positive 2013
It’s New Year’s Eve, a time when people drink too much look back on the past year and assess their achievements – and the things that didn’t quite go to plan. And it’s too easy for many of us to … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Nicholas Delaney, Website
Tagged 2013, 2014, Anglesey, blogger, Blogging, Deptford, geneablogging, genealogy, Griffith Owen, Guildhall Library, James Thomas Richards, NewYear, OldBailey, positive
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Christmas memories
Christmas is a time for memories – making new ones as well as revisiting the past. Walking along the street today and looking at the decorated trees in people’s windows, I found remembered images of Christmas Eve and the day … Continue reading
Australia’s oldest bridge revisited
Sometimes a friendly email brings unexpected genealogy bonuses. My Delaney (and Simpson) cousins are generous with their information about our ancestors, and one of the people who helped my mother and me with researching our book, A Rebel Hand: Nicholas … Continue reading
The Bloggers’ Geneameme – my answers
It’s the end of Australia’s National Family History Month. I started it with a post and I’ll end it with one, too – my answers to Jill Ball’s Bloggers’ Geneameme from her well-known and well-respected blog, Geniaus. I haven’t answered … Continue reading
Posted in Nicholas Delaney
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Requiem for Seamus Heaney
Today I heard the news that Seamus Heaney, the great and beloved Irish poet, has died. A great sadness caught at me and I wondered why. I’d never met him, though I admired him. And then I realised that his … Continue reading
Posted in 1798, Ireland
Tagged 1798, Boolavogue, Irish Rebellion of 1798, Nicholas Delaney, requiem, Seamus Heaney
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A ‘Girl Announcer’ confesses… Trove Tuesday post
OK, I admit, I was naughty when I posted that ‘Wordless Wednesday’ picture. I kept wordless shtum about who the ‘girl announcer’ was, though many of you guessed… But I did promise to reveal all on Trove Tuesday, so – … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Genealogy
Tagged Announcer, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcasting, Delaney, Trove, Trove Tuesday
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Vinegar Hill – the Irish rebels’ last stand
This weekend (August 3 – 4, 2013) the Irish rebels (cheers!) and the redcoats (boo!) have been recruiting, drilling, camping and fighting around Vinegar Hill in County Wexford. They’ve been re-enacting the last full battle of the Irish Rebellion of … Continue reading
National Family History Month – and some of my ancestors
Did you hear about National Family History Week in Australia last year? Well, the country-wide programme of family history events has been extended to the whole of August for 2013. New Zealand is holding its own sister event, too. If … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Genealogy
Tagged Ann Graham, Bailey, Bayley, Bayly, Elizabeth, genealogy, James Thomas Richards, John Simpson, Mary Maude Wilson, Nicholas Delaney, Nicholas Delany, Rebecca Harrington, Sarah Emma Henley, Sarah Marshall, Thomas Delaney, Thomas Robert Sandon Wilson, Thomas Winter
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What does she confess? Wordless Wednesday
To mark one year since my mother’s death, I’m posting a Wordless Wednesday picture. This is the original photo, published in various Australian newspapers and captioned ‘A Girl Announcer’s Confessions’. Because it’s Wordless Wednesday I can’t tell you any more. … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Australia, Genealogy
Tagged ABC, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Delaney, memory, Patricia, Wordless Wednesday
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Inside History Magazine’s Top 50 Genealogy Blog Awards
I’m thrilled, humbled and surprised to find this blog, A Rebel Hand, on Inside History Magazine‘ s newly-published list of 50 top genealogy blogs. Thrilled, because who wouldn’t be? It’s a huge honour, coming from the must-read magazine for anyone … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Blogging, Genealogy
Tagged A Rebel Hand, Australia, awards, blog, Blog award, genealogy, genealogy blogging, history, Inside History, top 50
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