Month: December 2015

A comment challenge

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Hangman Blue Letter C O letter M letter M letter E N letter T S

While scrolling through my Facebook feed, I came across a link to Gould Genealogy about passenger lists to Australia. When on that blog, I also noticed a heading called Blog Challenges. Intrigued, I checked it out and found the author of the blog Alona Tester had run a weekly blogging challenge back in 2012 about Family History A-Z

This gave me an idea. I know many of my visitors to this blog don’t have their own blog but are interested in family history. Maybe I could run a comment challenge instead where you leave a comment relating to that letter of the alphabet. For example, A might be about Aunt Jane or Australian shipping or accident or archives – anything relating to family history beginning with that letter.

To find all the posts for the challenge, look on the sidebar for tags and the “comment challenge” or to make it easier, click this link.

Please leave a comment if you would take part in something like this.

Congratulations Di and Joan

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Dianne Snowden signing books today
Dianne Snowden signing books today

This afternoon I attended a book launch at the Cascades Female Factory. Over 150 people were there to congratulate Dr Dianne Snowden and Joan Kavanagh on their joint authorship of the book titled

Van Diemen’s Women – a History of Transportation to Tasmania

Dianne and Joan had already launched the book in Ireland last month at the County Gaol in Wicklow which I visited when I was travelling last year.

Kate Warner (Governor of Tasmania), Joan Kavanagh and Dianne Snowden (authors of the book)
Kate Warner (Governor of Tasmania), Joan Kavanagh and Dianne Snowden (authors of the book)

The book was launched here in Tasmania for a second time by Her Excellency the Professor Kate Warner, Governor of Tasmania. Speeches were also given by Dianne and Joan with her lovely Irish accent.

Cake cut by descendants of convict women on this boat.
Cake cut by descendants of convict women on this boat.

A cake was cut by two descendants of women who were transported on the convict ship Tasmania 2 and who were mentioned in the book.

Despite the rain, it was a great afternoon with a marvellous afternoon tea eaten under lots of umbrellas.