My travels and family history help you reveal yours.
This is a curated collection from my GenealogyPhotoADay posts on Instagram for the A to Z Blogging Challenge posts held in April each year.
Here I share extracts about the people and places in my family history. Sometimes I add the adventures I have had in life traveling, researching and thoughts about my life. The TravelGenee blog is a place to record these for future generations.
L for Landscape. This landscape scene is about 200 metres from my great grand fathers home in Falmouth, Cornwall. I wrote about this trip to Falmouth in Cornwall in a post called Visiting Your Ancestral Read More …
The Changing Fashion of Kitchen Labels I thought how kitchen labels have changed over the years when thinking about the #GenealogyPhotoADay prompt Kitchen. I visited Trove to see what I could find in their digitised Read More …
J for Jewerly (USA version) or Jewellery (English version). Interesting that the spelling of words between the USA and England differ. Here in Australia we have a bias to the English versions but this is Read More …
TravelGenee’s Best 9 on Instagram. I is for Instagram At the beginning of 2017 I check out my Best 9 on Instagram for the previous year, 2016. The nine top liked posts were very representative Read More …
The Name of the Father is Missing! Collecting vital records like birth certificates is something one does to find out more information if you are addicted to the hobby: family history. H for Hobby: Family Read More …
G for Jenni & Thomas wearing “Glasses”. Earlier in 2017 I was at RootsTech, the biggest genealogy/ family history conference on earth. It’s held annually at Salt Lake City in the USA. One social event Read More …
Enjoying The Native Green New Zealand Tree Rimu. The rimu tree is a native of New Zealand. It can grows to 50m (165 feet) tall and live a 1000 years. The New Zealand government has Read More …