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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 7 Branching Out – Landed – Robert Fegan
I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s genealogy blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. See my previous posts here. This week’s challenge was Branching Out – Landed and I struggled with who to write about. Those ancestors with land had previously been written...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 6 Branching out Maps – John Carnegie
I am currently participating in the genealogy blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks set by Amy Johnson Crow. You can see the earlier weeks under the My Blog option on my website. The Week 6 topic left me a bit stumped for inspiration. I ended up thinking of John...
52 Ancestors in 52 weeks: Week 5 Branching out – Herbert William White
I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge. How to interpret this week’s theme puzzled me at first. But then I thought of the recent research I have been doing on my great grandfather Herbert William White. He was the only one of...
52 Ancestors in 52 weeks: Week 4 Foundations Curious: Mary Anthony
I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow's blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 4 of Foundations is Curious. Curious is a strange topic to write about as we are all curious about our ancestors and how they lived. When I discovered that my 4th great grandmother...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 3 Foundations Favourite Photo Mary Finn
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks to keep me motivated and blog writing my family stories. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the pace....
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 2 Favourite Find – Elizabeth Rosewarne
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This will keep me motivated to writing my family stories as short blog posts. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be...
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1 Foundations – Thomas Price
In 2022 I am participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s blog challenge 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks to keep me motivated and blog writing my family stories. During the last two years my blog posts have been few and often far between. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the pace....
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2021
Here is my contribution to the annual Accentuate the Positive Geneameme Jill Ball (aka Geniaus) invites you to take part in Accentuate the Positive by responding to the following statements/questions, several of which are new, in a blog post. Write as much or as...
Trove Tuesday: the Hazards of Being female
At the weekend while searching the British Newspaper Archive, I was shocked to discover that my 5X great grandmother Mary Hitchman, aged and infirm, died when she fell into the fireplace in 1809 in Oxfordshire, England. She was horrifically burned as it was some time...
Tossing out the family history binders
Yes! I am finally doing it. It’s a little scary but I know it is the right thing for me. Ever since my shock cancer diagnosis in August 2019, I have been weeding and downsizing my family history records that reflect 44 years of research. A truly daunting task with a...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.