an oft neglected genealogy & history blog
Well it appears I may have found the antecedent to that bushranger anecdote passed along by my father: “HIGHWAY ROBBERIES ON THE GREAT NORTHERN ROAD.”The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 –…
I often joke that I am related in someway to half the people in the town that I grew up in, and with my maternal grandmother’s family having been in the region since the 1840s…
because I’m not having any luck finding an arrival for Patrick Lynch (b.1832, Ireland d. 1891, NSW) his wife Bridget nee McGraie/McGrail or his children Mary (b. 1856, Scotland?) and John (b. 1857, Scotland?). I…
Pauleen Cass over at Family History across the seas has challenged Aussie geneabloggers to an Australian themed geneameme for Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day, The questions are really interesting so I hope my answers are as well…
Yes, once again I am crowdsourcing transcriptions, in this case because I want to be really sure about what it says particularly the top right and the information under remarks. I know what I think…
I am at the State Library today to do something I am afraid to admit I have been avoiding for years. The day started well enough, a quiet carriage that was actually quiet meant a…
I’m not one for making resolutions, rather at the start of each year I like to think of things I am looking forward too and hope to achieve during the year. Much less pressure.So without…
Once again the lovely Jill over at GeniAus has given us a geneameme, this time challenging us to think about the positives of the past year. So here is my 2013 in review. An elusive…
Sometimes you come across a character in your research who for one reason or another sparks your curiosity. One such person is John Phillip Gail, the second husband of my 3x Great Grandmother Christiana Sophia…
I have to admit, I am more than a little ambivalent about Ancestry.com public trees. *Puts on Curmudgeon Hat* They are, I am afraid, possibly the most significant source of the proliferation of lazy research…