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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 23

The tree of me genealogymatters2me.blogspot.com

The Tree of Me

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 23

@ryangenealogy.bsky.social

Some great resources in this presentation. Thank you

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 23

Looking forward to Helen Smith’s presentation. #Connections2025

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 21

2nd connection during Connections 2025. Pauline Cass in her presentation Leaving home, Finding home: Bavaria to New South Wales and Queensland mentioned Vincent Kaufline and wife Eva. Two of their children George and Annie married into my Agnew family in Cooma. #Connections2025 @cassmob.bsky.social

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 21

And when his sentence expired he went back to Scotland.

Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 21

First connection in Judy Russel’s wonderful presentation- 9G uncle Gilbert Milroy was sent to Jamaica.
#Connections2025

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 20

Judy Russell’s A sentence of transportation about to begin. #Connections2025 @FamilyHistory

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 9

I have just listed to this and I'm now off to visit the records about Carrick-on-Suir. Fingers crossed.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 8

Anyone use Family Atlas - genealogy mapping software? Thoughts? #RootsTech #genealogy

Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Another Rootstec presentation. cristacowan.bsky.social
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...

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Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

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Timothy J. Barron @timbarron.net · Jan 5

In case not known already, Crista Cowan from Ancestry has a series of 7 videos on the Genealogical Proof Standard up on YouTube here. 😎
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Genealogical Proof Standard | Ancestry - YouTube

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Watching Preserving Documents and Ephemera. Will have to get my toolbox ready. #Rootstech #genealogy.
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...

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Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 1

Is this place of birth?

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 1

@daniellelautrec.bsky.social thanks for your SAG presentation. Think I'm on the way to having Notion worked out. I've even set up some research questions and tasks and actually working on them.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Mar 1

Will we have access to any recordings of sessions? In some time slots I want to go to all 3 sessions. #connections2025

Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Feb 1

A few hours scanning today. I need to get my family photos under control!

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Feb 1

Thanks, my husband has family here. Looks like I know what I'm doing tonight.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Feb 1

One name at a time.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Feb 1

Finally published the 6th post about Jacob Scheef's holiday from Armidale to visit his family in Germany in 1885. As I had missed this post, I had to change the positing date so it appears before the 6th post.
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Jacob Scheef letters (5) 20 June 1885

My husband's family are very fortunate as his great grandfather, Jacob Scheef travelled on holiday to Germany from Armidale, NSW from May t...

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Feb 1

Just finished watching two family history connect webinars from the Society of Australian Genealogists. I can definitely recommend The cause of death Parts 1 & 2 with Patrice Connelly. Off to look at my ancestors' deaths in more detail.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Jan 30

I’ve registered.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Jan 29

I'll be at #Connections2025 . See you there.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Dec 26

Having fun tonight. Using Transkribus to read old family letters in German written from the 1850s to the 1890s. Then putting the German text into ChatGPT to translate. I'm then getting a table detailing those mentioned in the letters, their relationships and other pertinent details.

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Nov 27

I'm still on Blogger. What do you do with your posts if you move to another platform?

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Sharon Brennan @sbrennan.bsky.social · Nov 14

What a fantastic photo.

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