600 Burials

I have been very quiet on the geneablogging scene lately as I have been concentrating on my personal research. 

Since I started researching 35 years ago many things have changed and many new indexes and resources have become available on the internet. My recent efforts have been directed towards killing off and burying the relatives in our family tree, I am slowly looking at those born prior to 1930 and seeking out their Birth, Death, Marriage and burial records.

I use the spreadsheet type view in Family Historian software that allows me to choose which fields I want to display and then sort them by name, date or other element. Viewing this shows me the gaps I need to fill

An excerpt from my database sorted by a surname (hidden) then a death date which shows the gaps 

To support this work I have many popular site tabs open on my menu bar. One of these is FindaGrave where I may have two or more tabs open.

In conjunction with this research I have been creating a Virtual Cemetery of our children's descendants on FindaGrave. When searching this site add extra details to family profiles and I try to link up family members. While on the site I add our biological relations to my cemetery. 

So why am I blogging about this today?

I have reached a milestone as I just managed to inter the 600th biological relation into my Virtual Cemetery. (I had intended celebrating at 500 but forgot.)

My Virtual Cemetery

I hope that some time in the future family members may find this useful. 

Memories - Snapped by Susan

A photo of me presenting a session at THE Genealogy Show in Birmingham, England in 2019 popped up in my Facebook memories today.

Jill presenting at The Genealogy Show 2019

I paused to remember the photographer, the late Susan K Howard, with whom I shared some memorable geneamoments online, at Rootstech and workring at THE Genealogy Show. Susan was a genial and generous genie.

A Large Footprint

While there hasn't been much action on the GeniAus blog I have been blogging on my personal blog,  jillballau. I am using that blog to document some of the events in my life so that I can leave a large footprint for those who come after me.

In April I completed at that blog the A to Z blogging challenge where I related some of my activities in the past year. Following are links to my posts for the challenge. 

A is for Aeroplanes and Airports
B is for Bridges
C is for Cocktails
D is for Dogs
E is for Evening
F is for Funny
G is for Gardens

H is for Home Sweet Home
I is for Indigenous
J is for Joy
K is for Knockers
L is for Libraries
M is for Monuments
No thanks
O is for Old
P is for Panorama
Q is for Qantas
R is for Reflections
S is for Streetscapes
T is for Toilets
U is for Up Close
V is for Vistas
W is for Workers
X is for eXtra Special
Y is for Yellow
Z is for Zing

Descendants

I had a rest from searching for ancestors over the holidays and concentrated on living family 

Earlier this month we gathered with our 16 descendants and some of their partners for a family holiday in the snow in Hokkaido, Japan.

We were so fortunate to spend a week together. It was especially lovely to see our grandchildren catching up and enjoying their time together. They all enjoyed their time in the snow and indoors.

With our four children

With our twelve grandchildren