Trove Tuesday: Family Celebrities
I am of the general belief that every one has in their family tree a celebrity of some sort, in my case it is the husband of my great (x2) great-aunt, Monica Sinclair. They met…
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I am of the general belief that every one has in their family tree a celebrity of some sort, in my case it is the husband of my great (x2) great-aunt, Monica Sinclair. They met…
One of my major historical interests is the history of education, something to which my shelved PhD project will attest, so it has always been a pleasure to know that one of my ancestors at…
… given the state of my house as I emerged blinking from the assignment fog. [No heading]. (1933, September 2). The Australian Women’s Weekly (1933 – 1982), p. 28. Retrieved October 30, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4602358 Hope the…
If you have been paying any attention to the media this week or last you would have noted that it is the 70th anniversary of the Second Battle of El Alamein. The Sydney Morning Herald. (1942,…
One of the things I have been using Trove for is to find out more about places that are mentioned to me by various family members or that come up in the course of research.…
One of the troubles I have had in researching my family tree is the reticence of one side of the family in talking about the past. Whereas one side is happy to tell you anything…