Weird – Good or Bad?
Returning to the blog, after being distracted by other things, with thoughts on distraction and weirdness.
Growing Up Non-indigenous in Australia
This weeks #52Ancestors challenge – Origins prompted me to look at the concept of foreignness.
…and the world improves
As we approach another arbitrary temporal boundary, or New Year as some would have it, I am prompted to consider my place in the world and my responsibilities to society. So because social media reflects so much of society these days, I reflect on social media. As a member of […]
Aiming for Something Better
I decided celebrate my fedi-versary by finishing a half written blog post from a few weeks ago, about xitter v mastodon. I had got bored before finishing it, but the purpose of the blog is supposed to be to leave information about the past for my grandchildren and other descendants, […]
Names in Genealogy
A genealogy question on Mastodon, about households containing people with identical names, started me thinking about the number of different version of names we find in old documents and I wondered if it might be explained by the tendency in times past to name children after parents or grandparents, or […]
The Place of Pride and Shame in Genealogy
Comments in social media recently have prompted me to think about the place of Pride & Shame in genealogy.