Carmel Galvin

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April A to Z Challenge Theme Reveal This is a month long challenge held in April with bloggers posting each day except Sundays using the twenty six letters of the alphabet. Peo...

It’s time to reveal themes for the April A-Z blogging challenge. Mine is right here earlieryears.blogspot.com/2026/03/apri...

Mah Jong today #RootsTech tomorrow

Have topic and headlines but have not written any posts. Eek! #AtoZChallenge

On Leaving Evernote Reviewing use of and price rise of Evernote

Another price rise has had me evaluating all my subscriptions. A useful tool through 12 years has been Evernote but its no longer for me www.carmelgalvin.info/2026/02/on-l...

Valentine's Day A guide for men.

An entertaining read from Dave Barry re Valentine’s Day davebarry.substack.com/p/valentines...

An AI Toolbox for Family Historians.

Had fun this afternoon presenting to my local genealogy group. 22 attendees. Had a quick trip through 5 AI tools with samples from my own research turned into family stories and visuals.

Another #genealogy mystery to solve. Lars Larsen born Norway, listed on birth cert. as father to husband’s grandmother, obits have him as father to Lawson children not born to him …awaiting NSW certificates. Marriage cert. for daughter (the grandmother) lists different mother. What tales lie within!

Thanks Jill. WeAre[dot]xyz is a great tool for a #familyhistory archive, the blog is just an offshoot, my husband’s paternal line. Slow progress on my part 😀

Give yourself time to enjoy the break before the prep for the coming year’s lessons. never considered a cushy job by me. 🍎

Accentuate the Positive 2025 Geneameme AI generated image, random text added on iPad Each year Jill Ball from her  Geniaus blog prompts family historians to participate in the Ac...

Accentuate the Positive 2025 earlieryears.blogspot.com/2026/01/acce...

Accentuate the Positive 2025 - Shauna Hicks History Enterprises I am again participating in this blog challenge. Below is my response. Back in 2012 Jill Ball (aka Geniaus) decided to publish the first Accentuate the Positive Geneameme. Jill had seen several genies...

My response to the Accentuate the Positive 2025 blog challenge suggested by GeniAus
www.shaunahicks.com.au/accentuate-t...

Accentuate the Positive 2025 Geneameme A blog about genealogy and family history.

First response I’ve seen to Accentuate the Positive 2025, a yearly geneameme. #genealogy #FamilyHistory familytreefrog.blogspot.com/2025/12/acce...

What a great read, thank you! Morton solves the genealogical puzzle once more.

Ephemera in the Family Collecting the stories behind those pieces of paper, Christmas letters, membership and business cards, funeral memorabilia and more.

Some thoughts on finding and digitising our family’s ephemera. #FamilyHistory

Infographic about Cooroy-Noosa Genealogical &Historical Research Group

Using some AI tools to promote our local #FamilyHistory group. #genealogy

SearchResearch Method: Control-F for reality (finding books on your shelves) Ever lose a book on your shelves?  I spent an hour tearing my personal library apart in a desperate search.  Ever happen to you? You know, ...

Using Gemini to search bookshelves, another fascinating, useful post from Dan Russell. #books #genealogy searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2025/11/sear...

Have you tried NotebookLM? Add your own sources then use it tools to generate infographics, slides and more.

Adding to the Family Archive Using a variety of AI tools to enhance my family history stories

Using AI tools to enhance family history stories. crgalvin.substack.com/p/adding-to-... #genealogy #FamilyHistory

BOOKMARKS 🔖📚 Bookmarks have a rich social history. I have gathered a lot over the years, and also managed to lose a fair few. The leather one below is quite special. My partner and I walked the Thames path when…

What fun, an interesting look at Bookmarks. paulineconolly.com/2025/bookmar...

A Poignant Notice Remembering her motherHow are people remembered? Who recalls their life? What does a death notice convey?O'NEILL.—Of your charity pray for the repose of the soul of Catherine O'Neill, relict of the la...

Who will remember Catherine? A recent post about my husband’s 3x gt grandmother #genealogy #FamilyHistory app.weare.xyz/blog/galvin-...

Once upon a shelf Using LibraryThing and TinyCat for small genealogy, heritage and family history libraries

Forgot to add 2018 write up here www.carmelgalvin.info/2018/08/once...

I have been using LibraryThing since 2006, always reliable.

Understood, I started with FTB the free MyHeritage one, but I also have RootsMagic.

Thought you were a Family Historian advocate or is it different programs for different interests?

Just rechecked some recent additions to the National Archives Australia, picture of my father-in-law John, aged 17, Jan. 1937 on enlistment in RAAF. An amazing likeness to my husband and son at similar ages. He served throughout WWII #FamilyHistory

Good luck with all that. What a treasure trove for you.

EVENT Sat 30th Aug, 17:00 BST
click to join: fb.me/e/3C9nqKIZC
WeAre.xyz Features & Fun August Taster
Join our super friendly group zoom on collaborative family archiving, & all things ancestral & nostalgic :)
#FamilyHistory
ChatGPT's image of group of genealogists having A LOT OF FUN on vacation

James, an Irish immigrant in Alma The Family in CastlepollardIn the rolling hills of County Westmeath, Ireland, a child was born in 1834 who would eventually become part of the great wave of Irish immigration that helped shape colonia...

In 1864 James Smyth followed his 3 elder brothers to South Australia, Irish chain migration in action. app.weare.xyz/share/earlie...
#FamilyHistory #genealogy

Here’s another playfordspast.recollect.net.au