The countdown is on!

I picked up the travel documents from my travel agent today, so it feels like it is getting very close now. After our visitors leave this week, I shall put my suitcase on the spare bed and start to throw items of clothing into it, as I think about what to take to London. it will be a very different experience this time, as I am used to packing for the English Summer and now I have to think instead about what to pack for the Winter, and we are in the middle of our Summer. I hope my brain can cope with this!

"Who Do You Think You Are?" Live is the biggest family history event in the world!

Whether you’re new to tracing your family tree or a seasoned researcher, it’s packed with industry-leading genealogy experts, informative workshops and celebrities from the TV show to help with your own family history quest.

Customised Heritage Tours is calling for registrations of interest in a trip from Australia to London for this event next year. Combined with research at some of London's top research facilities such as The National Archives, London Metropolitan Archives and The Guildhall, it will be a great opportunity for you to further your research amongst many experts that we normally can't get access to especially in Australia.

Hey there, just a reminder about the closing date for our Canberra research tour withMegan Gibsonas your guide. I am not able to accept any bookings after 15th March due to my commitment to the Brassey in Canberra. I promised we wouldn't change the bookings after this date!

Let me know today if you are interested!

 

We have reserved the beautiful Belmore Annexe, at the Brassey for our welcome dinner on Wednesday 30th March to welcome our guests and start our tour with a very interesting talk by Megan from

Well, thanks to the Ancestry.com.au newsletter, our bookings are filling up fast for the Canberra trip.  Plans are well under way and we are getting very excited as we bring this inaugural trip to you! 

Megan is working hard on the finer details of the itinerary and it is shaping up to be a wonderful trip both for beginners and seasoned family tree researchers.

Please let me know soon if you are interested in joining us, as I wouldn't want you to miss out.

Cheers for now,

Liz

 

Customised Heritage Tours will be heading to Canberra in late March for a family history research tour, with extra-special guest and Tour Guide, TV researcher Megan Gibson from Family Tree Time.

We are planning a fun trip, staying at a historic location, with the opportunity to further your research and talk to others with similar interests, as well as having access to experts at some of Australia’s top research spots.

As we celebrate Australia day, let's just take a minute to think about how we came to be here in this great country and how different life might have been had our ancestors made different decisions.

In my own case, my parents made a very courageous decision to emigrate to Australia from England in 1973. Imagine how much harder that decision and ultimately the journey would have been in 1873 or even earlier. In my husband's family we have a lenient judge to thank, who decided to send his direct ancestor to Tasmania from Scotland rather than having him hanged for his misdemeanor!

2011 is here and now’s the time to book onto one of our tours for this year! Remember we only have a maximum of 10 guests per trip, so you don’t want to miss out!   So what do we have to offer?  

Our first trip is in June to England and some of the counties we will be visiting are Cornwall, Greater London, Gloucestershire, Leicestershire, Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire.  However, once you book and pay your deposit, you then help to shape our final itinerary, as we include your own places of interest in our journey.