Letter to My Dear Sisters & Brothers From Grace Dawson
Day 14 Writing – a Letter I’m lucky enough to have a copy of a letter my Nana (Grace Dawson, née Shepherd DOB 1896) wrote to her brothers and sisters in 1959. She came with Read More …
Category: Instagram #GenealogyPhotoADay
Instagram #GenealogyPhotoaday
Way back in 2012 I started creating a TravelGenee Instagram Diary. It’s a kind of TravelGenee visual blog about my life, travels and family history.
i also take part have in the #GenealogyPhotoaday postings along with a number of other family historians. Here we share extracts of our family history based on prompts from @genealogygirltalks who shares these posts at @genealogyphoto on Instagram. Or sometimes I post pretty flowers.
I hope you enjoy my stories and images.
School Days with GenealogyPhotoADay
Day 12 Memory of School Days School photos always produce a memory or two. Fraser Crescent Primary School in 1961. The days when teachers had over 40 pupils to teach. Reading and arithmetic dominated the Read More …
Grace Shepherd DOB 1896, January 6th, Keen Gardener
Grace Shepherd DOB 1896, 6th January. Happy Birthday Nana, born Grace Shepherd DOB 1896. I love that whenever you got dressed up you wore flowers. Usually from you own garden. You loved your garden. I Read More …
Rootstech 2017 – Snow or Not I’ll be There
Happening soon – RootsTech 2017 RootsTech 2017 is about to start soon and for December 28 #GenealogyPhotoADay I featured a view from the plane window of Salt Lake City flying in on a previous visit. Read More …
What’s in a Name? Chase Your Family History to Find Out!
#GenealogyPhotoADay Day 11, December 2017 – Name What’s in a name. Couldn’t think of a nice pic for this days Genealogy Photo a day so I wrote a nice saying instead. You can find the Read More …
Probate Stamped on GenealogyPhotoADay
Image is from probate documents for my great grand father, Francis Kitto. Day 5 Stamped – Probate On one of the probate documents for my great grand father – an “affidavit of executor in support Read More …
Rona Dawson on GenealogyPhotoADay
GenealogyPhotoADay: Day 4 Sunday Best (Not) Rona Dawson Day 4 Sunday Best (Not). I love this picture of my mother. While most photos seem to be posed and dressed up in Sunday Best outfits this Read More …