Books & Articles

'William Cross' Grant at Wilberforce', Hawkesbury Crier, Newsletter of the Hawkesbury Family History Group, Jun 2010

'Placing a Value on our Family History', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 30, Issue 5, Mar 2011. Reprinted in Western Ancestor, Western Australian Genealogical Society, Vol 11, No 12, Dec 2011
'Your French Connection', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 31, Issue 6, Sep 2011
'Wilberforce Races', Hawkesbury Crier, Newsletter of the Hawkesbury Family History Group, Dec 2011

'Robert Forrester: an old love story', Hawkesbury Gazette, Wed 15 Feb 2012, p 12
'My Most Unusual Ancestor, Dr George Young, c 1726-1803', Second Place, 2011 Janet Reakes Memorial Award, May 2012
'Paul Bushell, 1766-1853', Hawkesbury Gazette, Wed 12 Sep 2012, p 28
'An Introduction to e-Books for Family History Writers', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 31, Issue 3, Sep/Oct/Nov 2012
'Southwark Luck', First Fleet Folio, Newsletter of the First Fleet Fellowship Vic, Inc, Issue 162, Oct-Nov 2012
'Southwark Luck', The Mail, Newsletter of the Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria, Inc, Nov-Dec 2012, No 158, pp 6-8

'Southwark Luck for Charles Martin', Hawkesbury Gazette, Wed 17 April 2013, p 18
'A Woman of Flowers', The Gardens, magazine of Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Autumn, 2013, pp 14-15
'Granny's Chair', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 31, Issue 6, June 2013
'Oh the places you'll go' Fifty-Plus News, July 2013, p 7
'Just go right along, you'll start happening too', Fifty-Plus News, August 2013, p 7
'Aspects of Structure in Family Histories', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 31, Issue 7, Sep 2013
'Wilberforce Cemetery Update', The Mail, Newsletter of the Descendants of Convicts Group Victoria, Inc, Sep-Oct 2013, No 162, pp 6-8
'A First Fleet Family' by Louis Becke & Walter Jeffery, Book Review, First Fleet Folio, Newsletter of the First Fleet Fellowship Vic, Inc, Issue 168, Oct 2013
'Louise's Albatross', The Genealogist, Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc, Vol 14, No 4, Dec 2013
'A Fragrant Memory', The Botanical Artist, Journal of the American Society of Botanical Artists, Dec 2013, Vol 19, Issue 4, pp 30-32

'Writing a Brief Finished Piece', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 32, Issue 1, March 2014, pp 38-9
'Isabella Bushell, Pioneering Publican', Hawkesbury Crier, Newsletter of the Hawkesbury Family History Group, Mar 2014 and Hawkesbury Gazette, Wed 2 April 2014
'Family history boring? Never!', Fifty-Plus News, August 2014, p 7

'Louise's Albatross', Fifty-Plus News, May 2015, p 7
'The Pierssené Family', A New Tapestry ? Australian Huguenot Families, Huguenot Society of Australia, 2015

'Booktown's Boulton Ghosts', Backstory Journal, Swinburne University, 22 May 2016

'Oh! The Places You'll Go!', Family History Matters at GSV Blog, 26 May 2017 (first published 2013)
'The Boulton Family of Verna, Wentworth Falls', Blue Mountains History Journal, Issue 7, May 2017, pp 11-20
'Reviewing Family Histories', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 33, Issue 7, September 2017, pp 26-27

'Who's Been Living In My House?', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 34, Issue 1, March 2018, pp 8-11
'A Guide to Researching New South Wales Records, Part 1', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 34, Issue 2, June 2018, pp 8-11
'A Guide to Researching New South Wales Records, Part 2', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 34, Issue 3, September 2018, pp 26-29
'Isabella Ramsay, a founding mother of modern Australia', Newsletter of Cumbria Family History Society, November 2018, pp 13-22

'Masters of the Road', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 34, Issue 8, December 2019, pp 4-8. Winner of GSV's Annual Writing Prize, 2019

'Creating a Sense of Tension, Integrating Conflict or Struggle in a Story', with Jean Dart, Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 35, Issue 2, June 2020, pp 40-41.

'Including First Nations people in our writing', Ancestor, Quarterly Journal of The Genealogical Society of Victoria, Inc, Vol 35, Issue 8, Dec 2021, pp 40-41.
'The Long Road to the Finish Line', The Genealogist, Family History Connections (AIGS Inc), Vol 16, No 12, Summer 2021, pp 6-7.

'A Hapless Fate', Kent Family History Society Journal, Vol 17, No 1, December 2022, pp 50-58.

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