Give credit where credit is due.

My presentation at the Hawkesbury Family History Group on Wednesday this week is titled "Do the right thing - minding your manners in the geneasphere". 

One of my slides contains this clip of a comment from Alex in response to Susan's blog post.

Alex didn't have to tell Susan how she found her way to Susan's post but she did and I am most grateful. THANKYOU Alex. 

If you would like to join me for the talk at Hawkesbury Central Library at Windsor on Wednesday at 10:00am  I would love to see you there. Details can be found here: http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/community/hfhg/meetings.html

The Wonderful Wayback

I extolled the virtues of the Wayback Machine in a recent post on the Worldwide Genealogy blog and expressed disappointment that, as I couldn't remember the URLs of my old websites,  I couldn't see if they were archived in The Internet Archive on the Wayback Machine.

As I was playing around in Rootsweb Mailing Lists this mroning I came across and old post of mine and in the signature was the URL of the website I had at the turn of the century. I entred the URL and to my absoute delight found archived copies of my website. Some of the images haven't saved but I can see the basic structure, plenty of pages and follow some links..

The Internet archive tells me that

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~theballs

Saved 31 times between September 19, 2000 and September 19, 2006."

So let's take a trip down memory lane.

2001

2003

2003

In 2006 I moved the site to a new server at http://users.tpg.com.au/welwel/theballs/ and our page looked like this:

I also had a couple of subsites. There was Jill's Jigsaw.

And there was my first attempt at a Surname page for Currys in Australia. Too Hot to Handle. I have started over again at http://curryaus.wordpress.com.

I  am going to record those old URLs in Evernote in case I want to visit my old sites via The Wayback Machine again.

Aussie Images

As I cast around for images to use on my blogs and in presentations I want to respect copyright.

State Records NSW recently posted on Facebook some images  from the series NRS 15051 School photos. Of course I followed their link and  found some charming old images of  schools my parents attended.  I then did a further search for some family related towns and localities via The Photo Investigator Search and found a load of images that would enhance my writing.

When I saw the note "Reproduction rights: State Records NSW"  on the images I thought "Oh, bother" I can't use them legally.  Then I noticed at the bottom of the pages a Menu item "Copyright". I am so pleased that I followed the link.

I'm no lawyer but after reading their Copyright statement I believe I can use the above mentioned images if I append the description required by State Records NSW ie "© State of New South Wales through the State Records Authority of NSW".

You can read the Copyright Statement for yourself here http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/copyright-policy.

I am enhancing this post with a photo from the collection. I chose it because it is of a family group  in a rural setting going to school in 1929 and that is how my father and his siblings travelled to school at Bangaroo about that time. It would be perfect to illustrate a post about the Curry Children's school days.

This photo is described thus on the website:

Burdett Public School - members of Sid Nash family leave for school

Digital ID:	15051_a047_002044.jpg		Date:	c. 31/12/1929
Format:	Black and white photograph		Size:	160 KB
Source:	Item held at State Records NSW		Rights:	Reproduction rights: State Records NSW

© State of New South Wales through the State Records Authority of NSW

GAGs - GeniAus' Gems - 9 October 2015

I find revisiting the blogs I have marked as possible GeniAus' Gems in my Evernote folder an enjoyable experience. So for the next ten or fifteen minutes (it was actually an hour) I will head to Evernote, reacquaint myself  with those posts and make a final selection.

The list I choose is totally subjective - I don't claim to select the best of the best just posts tht resonate with me.  (and perhaps you too). Sometimes a phrase or sentiment strikes me, a title amuses me, I learn something new or I want to welcome an absent blogger back into the fold. My criteria are fluid and affected by the environment. A big THANK YOU to those who have shared positive comments about this series recently - makes the effort worthwhile.

Each week I seem to happen across new to me blogs, this is good as I note that many of the bloggers in my Inoreader (free, stable, recommended) RSS feeds have taken sabbaticals from blogging. I do hope they return as I try to have a downunder bias in these posts but it's difficult when so many Aussie geneabloggers are on leave at once. I will from time to time add the URLs of new to me blogs to my posts.

Enough prattle it's time to head over to Evernote.

1.  Jennifer tells us about man's best friend at war.

https://jonesfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/airedale-terrier-amazing-war-dogs/

2. Irish interests? Here's a free course from Trinity College.

http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2015/10/trinity-college-dublin-launches-free.html

3. Matt shares some new treasures.

http://thehistoryofmatt.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/photos-of-my-great-grandmother-mary.html

4. Prue starts off her post by proposing some questions.

http://becomingprue.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/mary-ann-williams.html

5. For those bloggers on sabbatical, a plea from DearMYRTLE

http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2015/10/please-write-please-share-something.html

6. Canadian, John, writes an unbiased review of an Australian publication by an English author.

http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/book-review-til-death-us-do-part-causes.html

7. Wayne's Aunt Doris was a generous and dedicated researcher

http://discovergenealogy.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/letters-from-my-aunt.html

8. Denise always teaches me something techy.

http://moultriecreek.us/gazette/archival-quality-blogging/

9. It's unusual for me to include a post from a commercial organisation, my excuse is that I love words.

http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/10/06/drugster-snobscat-can-you-guess-these-old-time-occupations/

10. With a title like that I just had to read Nola's post.

https://nolamackey.wordpress.com/2015/10/05/michael-stapleton-an-ancestor-with-a-wooden-leg-was-he-a-pirate/

11. Another beaut Outback story from Moya.

http://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/2015/10/03/carrie-of-the-miner-a-lady-first/

12. Susan provides an insight into our ancestrors' journeys.

http://susansfamilytales.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/migrants.html

And I nearly forgot the wonderful recounts of the In Time and Place Conference last weekend. Thanks for sharing your experiences, Alex, Caitlin, Fran, Shauna, You made the conference come alive for those of us who couldn't be there.

New to me Blogs

Bribie Island History  http://bribieislandhistory.blogspot.com.au/

The Heneker Family http://heneker52.com/

Inside the Travel Lab http://www.insidethetravellab.com/blog/ This traveller loves it

Research by Lily  http://researchbylily.com.au/ (I didn't realise that Lilian had a third blog)

Warcoo Family Histories http://warcoofamilyhistories.blogspot.com.au/ Jeffrey has set up a series of blogs to record his family  stories.