More #FamilyHistory tonight - a brilliant online seminar through #SocietyOfAustralianGenealogists on “60 ways to use your Family History Research in 60 minutes.” Oh, my head is buzzing! One of the suggestions was to make a #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre style presentation for your family, because that makes the #history more accessible than written histories and charts. That’s a huge project, lots of editing and new skills, but could be fun! Whatever gets them in, right? #histodons #aushistory

Arvo Toots! Well, #FamilyHistory month continues, and I was able to surprise my Mum with the #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre news that’s “Almost as good as being royal,” according to Dad - she’s descended from a #convict!

“Me?!” She cried! “There’s no convicts in our family!” But yes! In 1830, “Sylvester Neyton” (Silvester Newton) age 16, was sentenced at Kings Lynn, Norfolk, to 7 years Transportation, for stealing 7 silver spoons. He was sent to Van Diemen’s Land. #histodons #aushistory

#Queensland #archives reveal long history of scams with letter-writing #swindle. The word of a dying father trying to save his daughter won over outback Queenslanders. It was a #scam. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-13/history-of-scams-letter-swindle-queensland/102172774 #history #AusHistory #SpanishPrisoner #PigeonDrop #419scam #fraud

@donkey @davidho @kcarruthers Speaking for #Australia, the last time one of our governments was even *capable* of organising a root in a brothel was in 1891, in Melbourne. https://junkee.com/longform/mace-melbourne-mystery #history #aushistory #auspol

The forgotten #queer #history of #Tasmania's #convict past and how it shaped social attitudes for decades: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-03/love-rebellion-queer-convicts-form-unbreakable-bonds-tasmania/102038836 #lgbt #auspol #aushistory

RT @AnthonyODonne13@twitter.com

Hey #aushistory folks, any of you come across stuff relating to Young Christian Worker (YCW) movement? I & @cnresearch@twitter.com & Katharine Massam looking to do a centenary history of the Aus movement for 2025. Important part of our religious and labour history (the two entwined, natch).

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AnthonyODonne13/status/1617358298596118528

Awful to see a public resource like Trove under threat again - permanent commitment to recording and preserving our national heritage should be a no-brainer. I can’t be the only Australian writer who calls on it frequently.

#AusPol #AusWriters #AusHistory

https://theconversation.com/troves-funding-runs-out-in-july-2023-and-the-national-library-is-threatening-to-pull-the-plug-its-time-for-a-radical-overhaul-197025

RT @PeterWMurphy1@twitter.com

Australian history summed-up. Powerful cartoon by Dr Costa Avgoustinos @costaavg@twitter.com. #Indigenous #history #AusHistory

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PeterWMurphy1/status/1602108628869447682

Part 2 of Buckley & the Wathawurrung story is available. His recollections give us a fascinating insight into life amongst the Kulin Nations in pre-colonial times.

🎧 https://australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/2022/12/11/63-buckley-the-wathawurrung-pt-2/ 🎧

#Buckley #Wathawurrung #AustralianHistory #HistoryPodcast #history #histodons #HistoryAu #AusHistory #AustralianPodcast #AustralianStories #Podcast #AusPod