Amanuensis Monday: It is Old, but Still Good.
In amongst the certificates and photographs documenting the family is two pages of hand-lined yellowing paper, covered in a careful script. My Nana gave it to my Father and I when I was 15 and…
The Bloggers’ Geneameme
The lovely Jill over at Geniaus has posted a meme/questionaire for National Family History Month and I though I’d play along, so here goes: What are the titles and URLs of your genealogy blog/s? My blog…
Deciphering Old Handwriting
is not something I am very good at, and given my own atrocious handwriting you think I would be. Yesterday I turned to twitter to help me make out a place name on a board’s…
Trove Tuesday: Where are you Walter Le Pelley?
My Great (x4) grandfather, Walter Le Pelley (c.1840-?), the youngest child of Ernest Le Pelley (1801-1849) the 16th Seigneur of Sark, migrated to South Australia presumably due to the reversal of fortune encountered by the…
Trove Tuesday: Shooting with Intent
Being on uni break and suffering from brain fog inducing sinusitis, I’ve spent the past couple of days meandering through my family tree research and following whatever tangents caught my interest. A pleasant morning was had searching…
Trove Tuesday: Western Australian Newspapers, or Trove makes an appearance in my uni work
I have been rather remiss of late when it comes to Trove Tuesday and blog posting in general as my own research has been sidelined in favour of uni assignments and research tasks for others,…
The Charlemagne Factor
The common ancestor is an idea with a long history, and if you have been around the internet or genealogy circles anytime since the late 1990s, the concept that westerners are all descended from Charlemagne…
Trove Tuesday: The First Born, South Australian Male
I was rather amused to come across this series of correspondence within the Chronicle and The Advertiser and even more amused to find two of my maternal grandmothers branches claiming ownership of this title, one on her mother’s…
Trove Tuesday: Location, Location, Location
I mentioned yesterday my desire to map out my family history in some way and to this end, Trove has been a fabulous resource. I’ve previously used a family notice found in Trove to begin…
Mapping Family History
I have a bit of a weakness for maps, and lately I have been contemplating how to plot some of the never ending list of place names that appear in the course of digging around…