An announcement from World Vital Records:

World Vital Records is announcing the addition of the largest number of records to be released in a single day since the site launched in 2006.

To commemorate this milestone, for the first time World Vital Records is offering FREE PUBLIC ACCESS to its entire online collection beginning August 11 through August 13, 2009. This is a perfect opportunity to participate in this incredible promotion.

This is a great opportunity to have a look around at the Australian content in this site, mostly, but not only, provided by Archive CD Books Australia.

Just click on the link below!

• Genealogy research in other countries
  I am constantly surprised by the differences in genealogy research in different countries (and Australian states). We tend to take for granted procedures and availability of records in our own patch a...
• Unlock The Past Expo Victoria
  The last of the four Unlock The Past Expos was held this weekend in Geelong, and it was the biggest and best ever. It was held at the Geelong Arena, the home of the Geelong Supercats (a basketball tea...
• Social Media for Family Historians
  My first book, Social Media for Family Historians, was published in late 2010 by Unlock The Past. It explains what social media is; what use it is; and introduces you to more than 25 social media site...
• Australia Day Challenge – A Conditional Purchase Application
  Shelley at Twigs of Yore has set herself a task for Australia Day, and a challenge for the rest of us: Find the earliest piece of documentation you have about an ancestor in Australia. If you don't...
• My DNA results have arrived!
  I have previously written about beginning my DNA adventures with a test with 23andMe, a company that focuses more on the health aspects of genetics than the genealogical aspects. They had an offer I c...

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I’ve decided to turn this rather quiet website into a blog. Like a diary, I guess, or a journal. So here goes…

Today I’m struggling to get my Heritage Genealogy website looking the same on Internet Explorer as it does on Firefox. Different rules apply, obviously. There is always more work to be done on a website and unless there is somewhere else to test changes the risk is that I will break something on the real website and not be able to fix it.

Even this simple website has a great blue bar across the middle of it in IE7 and not in Firefox. The simple answer for me is to ban Internet Explorer but unfortunately I can’t, so I either have to fix it or change it. I don’t know how to fix it so I guess I’ll have to change the template to something that WORKS. What a pain, I like the paintbrush theme.

When I’ve finished playing with the website I will have a look at the documents a client has sent me on her convict.

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• Spam, spam, everywhere spam
  It's midday in Sydney and this blog has already received 16 spam comments today. Fortunately I don't have to deal with them as I use a Wordpress plugin called Akismet to weed them out for me. They end...
• A good reason to write a blog
  Blog posts are a snapshot in time. Just as a photograph can tell you a lot about someone, so can a blog post, even when they talk about seemingly trivial things. Even memes, those things that seem to ...
• Wordpress Themes – sometimes not as easy as they look
  I have been trying to find a theme for my blog. I want one that displays the writing in a clear and clean manner, and ... Nearly everywhere I have read recommends the Thesis theme, but my understan...
• Free access to World Vital Records for 3 days starting today!
  An announcement from World Vital Records: World Vital Records is announcing the addition of the largest number of records to be released in a single day since the site launched in 2006. To commemo...