An intriguing, if lengthy, story of just one Bomber Command crash during WWII. #worldwar2 #RAAF

My reflections on the challenges of collating and writing my posts for this year's A to Z challenge. #AtoZchallenge #personalhistory #travel

From snow in Canada to a remote part of Australia. #AtoZchallenge2025 #personalhistory #travel

My first helicopter ride and some Top End visits as well as countries visited in this #AtoZ2025challenge #travel #personalmemories #NorthernTerritory

My A to Z themes to date Somewhat to my surprise, this was my 9th participation in the A to Z blogging challenge, so I thought I'd revisit the topics I'd written about over the years. A to Z 2025 Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with, using IATA codes where they’re…

From PNG to ski planes and how we did so many trips. #AtoZchallenge #pesonalhistory #travel

From Europe to Asia. From Peace to War. #AtoZchallenge2025 #personalhistory #travel #Venice #Vietnam #ANZACDay

UAS, United Airlines and LAS My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. UAS…

Flying can be scary either at international airports or small "bush" airstrips. #AtoZchallenge2025 #personalhistory #trave; #Gurney

All the Ss we've visited. #AtoZchallenge #personalhistory #travel

RAK is for Marrakesh My 2025 A to Z theme is Airports, Airstrips, Aircraft, and Airlines I’ve known and flown with. I’ll be using IATA codes where they’re available. My inner travel agent emerges at this point as I’m the FTO (family travel organiser) and now, the online travel agent. RAK Marrakesh…

Australia's national carrier has national and personal significance. #AtoZchallenge2025 #travel #personalhistory #qantas

Port Moresby, Perth and Prague - visits across the years. #AtoZChallenge2025 #personalhistory #travel

Today we're in Africa and visiting the equator. #AtoZchallenge2025 #travel #personalhistory

Spain, France and PNG...any familiar airports for you? #AtoZchallenge2025 #personalhistory #travel

Some very large and often intimidating airports and a couple of small ones from PNG. #AtoZ2025challenge #travel #personalhistory

Two special adventures - one in Kenya in 2013and another in Kathmandu in 1977. #AtoZchallenge #personalhistory #travel

From a scenic flight in Kakadu National Park to JFK airport New York. #travel #AtoZchallenge #personalhistory

Two diverse cities: Washington and Istanbul. #AtoZchallenge #travel #personalhistory

Two Asian airports and another in Papua New Guinea #AtoZchallenge #travel #airports

We've flown into or out of many airports starting with G. From Gurney in Papua New Guinea to Glasgow in Scotland. #travel #personalhistory #AtoZchallenge

When memory poses a conundrum even with two minds working on the problem. Frankfurt and Rome. #AtoZchallenge2025 #personalhistory #travel

Two very different places: Edinburgh and Entebbe. #AtoZchallenge #travel #personalmemories

From Darwin to Dublin, airports offer challenges and "entertainment". #AtoZchallenge #Travel #Flying

Let's visit Paris, Morocco, New Zealand and Canada. #AtoZchallenge #travel #personalhistory

Travelling from PNG to Australia, Spain and the USA. #personalhistory #travel #AtoZ2025challenge

Airrports in Australia, NZ, Greece and the Netherlands from 1968 to 2021. #AtoZChallenge2025

A belated addition to the 2025 A to Z challenge with my theme reveal. Airports, Airlines and Airstrips. #personalhistory #AtoZchallenge2025

Today's the day. Off to #Connections2025 for catching up with genimates and great learning opportunities. Time to settle in before we start tomorrow.

#OnThisDay 1883 London, Chatham & Dover Railway shunter Withers was squeezed between wagons, after an engine reversed without warning. His first name wasn't given in the record - nor the location; these 'incidental' details don't seem to have mattered at the time. #Railway200

Wonderful new issue of History Australia on truth-telling and the academy in Australia from Laura Radamaker, Yves Rees and Alecia Simmonds. www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/2...

Have written a review: cbgenealogy.ie/new-site-for...

A marriage witness with an unusual name led me to army attestation papers and a 'care of' address in Glasgow, which has helped me hatch, match and dispatch another corner of my Irish family tree. (Moral of the tale: If you can't find them, try Scotland)

I took some a while back and they were very helpful. #familyhistory #genealogyeducation

Researching Place-Based Religious Histories Beyond the Parish Church 1🔗 (25 Mar) and 2🔗 (7 May 2025). Researching faith and belief in #LocalHistory / #OnePlaceStudies in the UK? These online events from Victoria County History @vchlondon.bsky.social may be of interest. Free, but booking required.

My talk yesterday at Caloundra Family History was about blogging: who, how, why. It seemed to be well received and generated lots of questions. #familyhistory #blogging

cassmobfamilyhistory.com/2025/02/18/m... #familyhistory #genealogy #conferences

Just finished reading this beauty! It’s a new history of Orkney, focussing on the late medieval/early modern period, but also considering the importance of the islands’ prehistory and folklore. The author has a refreshingly positive attitude to genealogical research! Highly recommended… #StormsEdge

Mary Rosalie Zöller and her families dorfprozeltenaus.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/m...

A few useful links to pages and resources on the Society for #OnePlaceStudies website: ✦ Home page ✦ About us ✦ What is a one-place study? ✦ A guide to one-place studies (PDF) ✦ Registered Studies ✦ Blogging prompts ✦ Events ✦ Join us #OnePlaceWednesday

I mainly love the stories about ancestors but I also like this strategy for seeing the commonalities and variances across time. Great ideas from this! #familyhistory #genealogy

This blog post by @chiddickstree.bsky.social is excellent. As researchers we owe it to our ancestors (and ourselves) to deal sensitively and appropriately with secrets we uncover. "Do unto others..." #genealogy #familyhistory chiddicksfamilytree.com/2024/11/29/w...

This might be of interest to those whose ancestors fought in the American Civil war. aihsny.org/events-2/aih...

No matter how long you work with archives the thrill of opening a box and finding documents that nobody's looked at for years never goes away ...

Thursday at Mooloolaba beach.

Always good to get a new blog published. This time, it’s a summary of 3 guest blogs during the year. #familyhistory #genealogy andrewredfern.com/guest-blogs-...

G’day to my friends from the #genealogy #familyhistory world.