I'm absolutely delighted to announce that I will be returning to Australia next year as lead speaker for the 18th Unlock the Past history and genealogy cruise!
This will be my fourth cruise with Unlock the Past, the last one being the Baltic cruise in 2015 (I unfortunately had to withdraw from the 2018 Alaska cruise), and this will be my first trip down under since 2017, when I did a talks tour for the company across many Australian cities, with fellow genie Dirk Weissleder. As well as the cruise itself, there will be some shore-based events in Australia itself, and I really, REALLY hope that you can join us!
The following is the official announcement from Unlock the Past:
ANNOUNCING
18th Unlock the Past cruise - Southern Australia December 2024
Date: 1–10 December 2024 (9 nights). This is a great time to join us for an early summer cruise - before the rush of Christmas / new year holidays.
Departs/Returns: Sydney.
Ports of call: Hobart, Kangaroo Island, Adelaide, Melbourne.
Ship: Celebrity Edge.
The conference: over 30 conference sessions over the four days at sea and every evening. Plus, one on one help from experts.
Speakers: the program will be headed by Chris Paton, one of the most sought after speakers in Australia and internationally.
We have a limited number of places for those with recognised expertise and presentation skills who come on the cruise as fully paid cruisers. Click here for more information.
More information: visit the cruise website
click links above the cruise page image for more details.
If you have never been on a genealogy cruise before, they provide the best of both worlds - a genealogy conference and a holiday combined. Unlock the Past cruises have been run since 2011 by Adelaide based Alan Phillips and his team, including the superb Rosemary Kopittke and Helen Smith (both great speakers!). The talks are given by presenters when the boat is at sea, and when in port you can then visit all sorts of wonderful shore based attractions - and incidentally, the cruise company is billing this as a 'wine cruise', so I'm guessing that might mean a vineyard visit or two, but don't quite me on that! I've been to Adelaide and Hobart once before, and to Sydney and Melbourne a few times (I have family in Melbourne), all wonderful places, and this will be my first trip to Kangaroo Island, which sounds fun!
To give a flavour of previous Unlock the Past cruises that I have been on before, you can read the following blog posts, which should provide a flavour of the craic enjoyed along the way, and a sense of how they work:
Unlock the Past's 2nd genealogy cruise - review (Australia and New Zealand)
Unlock the Past cruise and talks tour now over (4th Unlock the Past cruise, with Thomas Macentee - includes some video diaries on board!)
Unlock the Past Baltic genealogy cruise - Days 12-14: Copenhagen and homeward bound (8th Unlock the Past cruise)
Good talks, good food, good accommodation, good fun, and great craic - I hope you can join us!
For information on all of Unlock the Past's previous cruises visit https://www.unlockthepastcruises.com/cruises/previous-cruises/.
hris
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