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Janice Cooper
Passing family stories on
October 5, 2026
How do you build a successful history research group?
August 31, 2026
A voyage to remember
July 27, 2026
Properties of George Evans late of James Street, Fortitude Valley
July 13, 2026
Mabel’s story
July 6, 2026
Reading an Inquest with AI: The Death of Alfred Tinney
June 22, 2026
George Evans of Brisbane, a Pioneer Ancestor
June 15, 2026
Some Pioneers of Brisbane, New South Wales
May 18, 2026
‘Remarkable’ Brisbane 1895: ‘a city of hotels’
May 4, 2026
Getting to know Catherine
April 27, 2026
A Woman of Character
March 30, 2026
Susannah Armstrong Davern: A woman of resilience
March 23, 2026
Tell me a story of the olden days
March 2, 2026
From gaol to ‘the smarter end of Queen Street’: the changing face of Brisbane
February 23, 2026
Betty’s Story
February 16, 2026
Bridget Connor: My Irish Orphan 2nd Great-Grandmother
February 1, 2026
Christmas at Grannie Bell’s
November 30, 2025
The Hallams’ Pioneer Days in the Whitsundays
November 23, 2025
A Comedy of Errors or Just Bad Luck
November 9, 2025
Mary Ann’s Cottage
October 26, 2025
My Mum, the Nurse
October 19, 2025
‘Duels were now only fought by snobs’
September 21, 2025
Francis Theobald Heffernan c.1840-1908: A nineteenth century literate bushman
September 14, 2025
Still walking in ancestral footsteps
September 7, 2025
A Tough Lady – Continuing the Next Genealogy Journey
August 24, 2025
Missionary Encounters at Moreton Bay
August 10, 2025
My childhood homes
July 20, 2025
The Temperance Pledge of days gone and my Porter family
June 23, 2025
The Fever Ship Minerva
June 2, 2025
The Cambus Wallace: tragedy and souvenirs from the sea
May 19, 2025
The Demise of a Gold Prospector
March 17, 2025
Echoes of War: The Franz Family’s Tragic Legacy
March 10, 2025
Arrivals in Moreton Bay 1849-1850: a population boost with a difference
February 24, 2025
A Death by Drowning, an Inquest and the Brisbane Flood of 1890
February 17, 2025
My connection to ‘The Valley’ from the late 1850s
October 21, 2024
Broaden your horizons
October 14, 2024
A letter home: Tracing my Thompson family
September 16, 2024
Gems from land files
September 9, 2024
Enjoying the Next Genealogy Journey – All the Way from Prussia
September 2, 2024
Why? Why? Why? Question everything and learn the full story
July 22, 2024
Ada Baker – From gentility to domestic service in the colony
June 17, 2024
Housing for People of Small Means: Worker’s Dwelling Act 1909
May 27, 2024
An ordinary man
April 22, 2024
Elizabeth Readford, lost to history
April 15, 2024
Dara, the Archbishop’s Palace and a wedding
April 8, 2024
Relics of Early Explorers
March 18, 2024
‘An Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge’. Researching Irish in the State Library of Queensland Pt. 2
March 11, 2024
‘An Evergreen Tree of Diabolical Knowledge’. Researching Irish in the State Library of Queensland Pt. 1
March 4, 2024
Arrival of the Artemisia: an “important event in the annals of Moreton Bay – an epoch to be often reverted to”
February 26, 2024
My grandmother Eileen Evans and the photo in a locket
December 4, 2023
Threads of memories
November 27, 2023
Once a soldier
October 30, 2023
Louise Christina Schattling
October 23, 2023
Recollections of an old hand in Colonial Queensland
September 25, 2023
My Grandma Irvine: Lills Life and her autograph book
September 4, 2023
A journey of Faith for Dorothea
July 17, 2023
The elusive background of Mary Sheehy
June 26, 2023
Remembering Jane
June 5, 2023
Death of a blacksmith
April 10, 2023
A long way to Queensland: The wreck of the Dacca 18 May 1890
February 27, 2023
Enjoying the next genealogy journey
February 20, 2023
Telling our own stories
November 21, 2022
Grandfather: William Leonard Tunny (Len) 1884-1942. Part 1
November 14, 2022
A Carpenter in Law
August 1, 2022
Out in the weather
July 18, 2022
Hugh Irvine: bootmaker and storekeeper extraordinaire
June 20, 2022
Family links to land
May 23, 2022
Have you wondered?
May 9, 2022
Love Letters to Maggie
March 28, 2022
Trying to decipher Jean McGill’s role during World War Two
March 21, 2022
Every Ocean has a Distant Shore: Surgeon-Superintendents on Queensland Immigrant Ships
February 7, 2022
Revelations from the Register
January 31, 2022
The postmaster, the bolter and the draper
November 1, 2021
Andrew Gilmore Irvine: A bootmaker from Killyleagh
August 23, 2021
Great Aunt Lulie Ubania Medosa Bell
June 28, 2021
Francis Irvine – Immigrant, Bootmaker, Shopkeeper & Baptist elder
March 22, 2021
The Sad, Short Life of Harriet Jones
January 25, 2021
Walter’s happy memories
November 8, 2020
Tragedy at Fortitude Valley store
June 22, 2020
Scrutinizing Passenger Lists: Missed anything?
May 25, 2020
The Kate and her companions who brought immigrants into Brisbane
May 4, 2020
Buried Treasures
May 23, 2016
Treasures in the Trove – October 2015
October 26, 2015
What About You?
July 12, 2015
Go Queensland!
June 4, 2015