Looking forward to giving my first presentation with Legacy Family Tree Webinars this Wednesday at 2pm NZDT - free on the day and the week following, register here: familytreewebinars.com/webinar/find... #genealogy

For those in Ireland, the Valuations Office is moving house. Short post about it here. cbgenealogy.ie/valuations-o... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour

Guess where I’ve been, @kiwinomad06.bsky.social ?

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

"Using DNA for Family History Research: A Beginner's Guide" will take place online on Sat 20 Sept at 7pm UK time, admission £10. (A recording will be made available for a week after.) To register, please visit us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... I'll hopefully see you there! #genealogy #FamilyHistory

Scottish GENES Webinar - Using DNA for Family History Research: A Beginner's Guide scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/scot... #genealogy

Out in November 2025 www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... #history #NewBooks

Boggles the mind that they actually printed the contestants' home addresses in this. Yikes. 1964 "Miss Industries Fair" Entrants, Gisborne, NZ. One of these is my mum! (Photo News is awesome, available for Gisborne and Nelson). photonews.org.nz/gisborne/iss...

Because of reasons, I've been checking out the Edmonds Cookbook online, and OMG, they have a heap of their recipes available in te reo. It's happening, whānau. Te reo is becoming part of us, little by little. edmondscooking.co.nz

Using examples from my family in Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S., I talk about how I used both written records and DNA matches in this video to confirm and expand what I knew about one set of my Irish ancestors. #irishgenealogy #scottishgenealogy #DNA #DNAmatches #genealogy youtu.be/Tfg9YktIzEI

It’s a crazy wind out there!

Happy 15th birthday, Legacy Family Tree webinars! To celebrate, they're offering a half price membership to new customers. Love these webinars, and the back catalogue available in the library. legacyfamilytree.com/blog/2025/04... #genealogy

Save the date! The 2025 Virtual APG PMC is happening Sept 18-20! Don’t miss expert insights, professional development, hot topics & networking. Stay tuned for details: bit.ly/4ilSM5f. Sponsorships available! #APGPMC2#APGPMC2025

Another Friday afternoon is here, which means wrapping up the week by investigating the location of Pacific collections and records. Do you care for or know someone who maintains such a collection or records? Please get in touch with me if so. #history #collection #records #archives

My April newsletter is out now talking podcast recommendations for Irish history & #genealogy claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/p/context-is... @rtedoconone.bsky.social @limerickslife.com @familyhistpod.bsky.social @irishacw.bsky.social @empirepoduk.bsky.social @leannemccormick.bsky.social

Old Irish maps are an essential resource for Irish family historians and genealogists. Want to locate your ancestral home, parish church, or nearest market town? Or explore the roads that rose to meet your ancestors' footsteps back in the day?  Here's our guide! Link in bio!

Bus driver phoned! Saw the message on my phone with contact number. Am sending partner for 12.07am rendezvous in nearby suburb. Yay for #Metlink and #Transurban and #FindMyIphone

My phone fell out of my coat pocket on the bus this evening. Tracked its location with partner's phone, activated Lost mode, and now it's sending me wee emails telling me where it is! Hopefully makes it safely to the depot tonight and the lost property mavens look after it till I can pick it up.

I sent you the war plans that were in the group chat and which you were probably saving for select eyes Forgive me they were juicy and and I was shitfaced

Looks like Irishgenealogy is loading on the new year of records. Indexes for the 3 new years are now up but the images aren't there yet. It surely won't be long now! (births for 1924, marriages for 1949 & 1974 deaths) #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour

Fabulous and thought provoking keynote from Nick Barratt to close #Connections2025

Great to have David Ryan here from Cork at #Connections2025 talking on Irish agrarian ancestors!

Standing room only for Kerry Farmer’s presentation on migration records #Connections2025

Conference dinner about to start #Connection2025 #partyparty

Lots to think about after Greg Carlill’s talk on using AI in his WW1 unit diaries project, excited to see how I can use for my own projects #Connections2025

Inspiring and fascinating keynote from Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, first session starting Day 2 of #Connections2025

Last session of the day was @jahboeren.bsky.social on Dutch records - loved this, so illuminating! #Connections2025

Fabulous talk from Perry McIntyre on Irish workhouse girls emigration to Australia #Connections2025

Looking forward to hearing this presentation from Cathy Sherwood #Connections2025

About to start soon! #Connections2025 #GenHour

Up bright and early for #Connections2025 Easy enough when you’re still on NZ time 🤓

All set for #Connections2025, but flight to Brisbane cancelled! Now flying via Sydney, getting in late. Might have to resort to the duty-free gin to keep me going.

A reminder that the Dictionary of Irish Biography has just completed four years on open access at dib.ie 11,000+ lives are waiting for you. Each one written by an expert in their field. Initially paywalled, now free courtesy of government support.

I just subscribed to Unsettling: Aotearoa New Zealand History! buttondown.com/unsettling

There are more than 70 APG members speaking at RootsTech 2025! Don't miss their sessions and be sure to stop by APG’s exhibit hall booth when you are in Salt Lake City (or our virtual booth). See the full list of our member speakers: www.apgen.org/docs/APG_Members_at_RootsTech_2025_Full_List.pdf

#AncestryHour Top tips for dealing with the #RootsTech schedule. 1. #NotAtRootsTech? Filter for Online classes first 2. Filter for skill level, then review, advanced first 3. Filter for your favorite speakers, then review. 4. After that? look for favorite topics regardless of skill level

Two weeks from today I’ll be heading off to Brisbane for #Connections2025 Can’t wait to catch up with genie mates and meet new ones. Some cracking presentations to look forward to as well! Delighted that @fiona-memories.bsky.social has been added to the program. #AncestryHour

Here's details of my St Patrick's weekend census talk for @sogorg.bsky.social cbgenealogy.ie/upcoming-tal... #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour

Great list, thanks Jill! Who else will be in Brisbane for #Connections2025? #GenHour I'm looking forward to catching up with lots of genie friends.

Via Facebook, I've found a new tool for converting old to new census links for the Irish censuses. Well done that man! daenis.com/census-tools #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour

Happy New Year made happier by Auckland Libraries Heritage Research's release of 1,042 digitised images from Rykenberg Photography from 1960s on Kura. Groovy, baby! kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll... #Auckland #photography #street #showbands #commercial #weddings #nightclubs #history

Submissions on the Treaty Principles bill reopened. New closing time and date: 1pm on Tuesday 14 January. Treaty Principles Bill submissions re-open after website woes www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

My new book "Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland" will be published next month in the UK - it can be pre-ordered at www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Researching-... #genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ireland

Heads up! The 50% Ancestry subscription sale has just dropped here in NZ. The 1921 England/Wales census is also coming to Ancestry 8 Jan - sorry didn't screenshot the evidence in my haste to renew. Offer expires 12 Jan. #GenHour #genealogy

Schedule is out now! My presentation on Finding your family’s footprints in Ireland is on November 5th at a #DownUnder friendly time. #genealogy

Meri Kirihimete me ngā mihi o te wā ki a koutou/ Merry Christmas and season's greetings to you all!

In 1947 a polio epidemic closed North Island schools from November through to Easter the following year. At Christmas time, my grandfather George Wright dressed up as Santa and helped distribute presents to local children in Hawera, Taranaki. #genealogy #kikorangi

At about this time 71 years ago, my grandpa Ted Brett and two of my grandma's brothers boarded a train in Palmerston North. The night was clear and the weather fine, but these young men and 282 others were heading towards disaster at Tangiwai Here's a piece I wrote last year, with some new edits

Thrilled to be included in Legacy Family Tree Webinars’ speaker lineup for 2025 #genealogy

Interested in #genealogy or #familyhistory? Please join me in the 12th year of the "Accentuate the Positive" challenge geniaus.blogspot.com/2024/12/acce... #blogging