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Trove Tuesday: Highway Robberies on the Great Northern Road

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 –…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on February 25, 2014
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Family Anecdotes and Gossip

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on February 16, 2014
  • 4 Comments on Family Anecdotes and Gossip

I think they swam

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on February 5, 2014
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Geneameme: Australia Day 2014

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on January 21, 2014
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Deciphering Old Handwriting: Take 2

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on January 21, 2014
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13 March 1958

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on January 6, 2014
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2014

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on January 1, 2014
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Geneameme: Accentuate the Positive

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on December 30, 2013
  • 4 Comments on Geneameme: Accentuate the Positive

John Phillip Gale

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on December 26, 2013
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Ancestry Public Trees and ‘Cousin-baiting’

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…

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  • by Sharon
  • Posted on November 30, 2013
  • 3 Comments on Ancestry Public Trees and ‘Cousin-baiting’

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