Had a quick play with this #resource for my #OnePlaceStudy at #CareyBay #Australia. Was able to place and date several people in the area. #localhistory #familyhistory

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections Outside the Guggenheim in #Bilbao #Spain #travel

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections #Antarctica 2019 #travel

Being "wasian" in #Australia #familhistory

It's where I'll be tomorrow for a local Group's Meeting #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #LakeMacquarie #Australia

www.msn.com/en-au/news/a... #Women #History #Australia

Important petition this one... for sand nourishment instead of damaging, brutal seawalls that kill beaches. www.facebook.com/wamberalbeac...

Cheers to Tim for opening up access to #resources for #familyhistory #research in #Australia

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... #cemeteries #history #Australia.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections Just now in the backyard #CareyBay #Australia

Today's #familyhistory rabbit hole is adding more antecedents to @wikitree.bsky.social A great way to #futureproof one's #genealogy #research

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforReflections My Backyard at Night #CareyBay #Australia

My last post for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens is a post-mortem image of #QueenVictoria on her deathbed in Osborn House #IsleofWight #travel

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens Artworks in the Queens Gallery at Buckingham Palace. #travel

My #reading in the Month of May #books ballau.blogspot.com/2026/05/keep...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens Hats worn by Queens Margrethe and Ingrid on display at Amalienborg Palace in 2006 #Copenhagen #Denmark #travel .

James Valentine made my long drives home after work bearable.

#Books #Australia

Great to see another genie from #Australia in the list. Look forward to hearing from @andrewredfern.bsky.social #familyhistory

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens The Zambezi Queen on the #ChobeRiver #Botswana #travel

Always check the original record where possible, there may be more information than a transcript or online source. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #TopTip

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens A plate fit for a Queen at Osborn House #IsleofWight #travel

#Genealogy #Free #FamilyHistory Webinar featuring @dlgenealogist.bsky.social speaking about the basics of New England genealogy research. Tues May 5 at 2 pm Eastern. Free! More info and to register: www.southburylibrary.org/event/zoom-b...

My month of #blogging in the @atozchallenge.bsky.social This is a list of links to my 26 posts during April ballau.blogspot.com/2026/03/blog...

Inspired by @sheena-mck.bsky.social and her #AlphabetChallenge (if I remember) I'm going to be #blogging my responses to her challenges ballau.blogspot.com/2026/05/alph...

#Alphabet Challenge #WeekQforQueens Entrance to Queen Street Mall #Brisbane #Australia #travel

What a fun Friday Hangout with the @socaustgen.bsky.social. Thanks to @genefleur.bsky.social for hosting this session on #Heirlooms.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens Outside and Inside The Queen Victoria Building in #Sydney #Australia #travel

Great to see a new #oneplacestudy in #Australia

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#QueenVictoria gets around. Here she is sitting above the door to the old GPO in #Sydney #Australia #travel #AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens

Today's #familyhistory rabbit hole. Placing #DNA matches in my biological tree with #RootsMagic and Ancestry Shared Matches Pro.

#AnzacDay. A great uncle emigrated to Oz in 1911. He enlisted in 1915 and died at Gallipoli We have a photo of his sweetheart, Daisy in his effects. . I managed to find out who she was. He was 23 #WW1 #familyhistory historicalclues.blogspot.com/2022/01/thom...

Before antibiotics, bovine tuberculosis destroyed children's bones across Britain. They were taken from their families, left outside in all weathers. No toys. No books. No education. 'Yet' tells one child's story. It has just won a Silver from the Nonfiction Book Awards. #FamilyHistory #GenHour #TB

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens #QEII In a souvenir shop in #Berlin in 2012

part 29

Today in the @atozchallenge.bsky.social #blogging challenge we meet some young islanders. #travel ballau.blogspot.com/2026/04/blog...

#AlphabetChallenge WeekQforQueens On my keyring - souvenir of #QEII's Coronation Festival at #BuckinghamPalace in 2013 ##travel

Y is for yields Gold on the Victorian diggings was weighed by the troy system, the standard for precious metals. The smallest troy unit was the grain, nominally based on the weight of a single cereal seed. Then came the pennyweight (24 grains), the troy ounce (20 pennyweights), and the troy pound…

Letter X in the #AtoZBloggingChallenge proved a bit tricky! I have no Loughborough-related architect, but the article is architecture-related! #OnePlaceStudy lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2026/04/so-w...

#libraries #Australia

In today's post on the @atozchallenge.bsky.social #blogging challenge we explore Xenodocy. #travel ballau.blogspot.com/2026/04/blog...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens #passé Found in my handkerchief drawer

The Best Place in the World. #BookSky

Come to the #IsleofWight with me. #travel #blogging ballau.blogspot.com/2026/04/blog...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens Victoria loved #OsborneHouse on #TheIsleofWight #travel

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQueens #QueenVictoria in #Liverpool #UK #Travel

Another #IVF bungle in #Australia www.msn.com/en-au/health...

Remembering those who served from #CareyBay2283 @oneplacestudies.bsky.social #ANZACDay #oneplacestudies careybay2283.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-w...

The Irish 1926 Census is here 🇮🇪 Join Claire Bradley to explore this landmark release — its historical context, how to use it, and what it reveals for family history research. 📅 30 May 2026 | 10:30–11:30 🎥 Online 👉 Book now: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/2...