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Category: My Family History Year

My Family History Calendar

The “My Family History Year” is all about events in my ancestors lives on a particular date. Births, marriages and death dates are just the start. Also covered are newspaper articles, family events and more I discover researching my family history. The first post commenced on 1 January 2014 and I hope to one day have an event for every day of the year.

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Ready for RootsTech Connect: Relatives at RootsTech 3

Posted onFebruary 24, 2021October 25, 20212 Comments

If you are on social media, follow family history blogs or attend society meetings you might have seen people moaning about the FamilySearch tree. “People keep changing MY tree.” “There are so many mistakes.” Then Read More …

CategoriesMy Family History YearTagsRootsTech, RootsTechConnect

Carmel's Corner Gravetales Geneameme

Cemetery Geneameme

Posted onOctober 26, 2020October 30, 20205 Comments

After Tuesdays Cemetery Topic at #ANZAncestryTime on Twitter Carmel put up a geneameme for us to share our cemetery memories. Here are a few of mine. A beautifully tended plot or cemetery Last Christmas we Read More …

CategoriesHistorical Buildings, My Family History Year, New ZealandTagsCemetery, DAWSON, geneameme, IRELAND (Surname not country), Karori-Cemetery, KITTO, MACDONALD / MCDONALD, RICHARDSON, Taita-Cemetery

AtoZchallenge Kitto - all dressed up for a wedding

AtoZChallenge Kitto – All Dressed up for a Wedding

Posted onApril 12, 2019November 26, 202015 Comments

With a surname like Kitto, how can I not repeat it again for this years blogging A to Z held each April – AtoZChallenge Kitto. AtoZChallenge Kitto – All Dressed up for a Wedding I Read More …

CategoriesA to Z Blogging Challenge, My Family History YearTagsAtoZChallenge2019, birth, DAWSON, death, GenealogyPhotoaDay, KITTO, SHEPHERD, Wedding

AtoZChallenge Jeffries

AtoZChallenge Jeffries – More on Flora

Posted onApril 11, 2019April 12, 20193 Comments

I wrote about the Jeffries, including Flora in a previous A to Z Challenge back in 2016. The post mentions Flora Elizabeth Jeffries was born in 1868. She was my paternal grandmother’s half-sister and the Read More …

CategoriesA to Z Blogging Challenge, My Family History YearTagsAtoZChallenge2019, BARNARD, Cemetery, GenealogyPhotoaDay, JEFFRIES, Paperspast

AtoZChallenge Great Grandmothers deathly coincidence

AtoZChallenge Great Grandmothers Deathly Coincidence

Posted onApril 8, 2019April 10, 20194 Comments

G for Great Grandmothers This AtoZChallenge Great Grandmothers, reports a coincidence on the date of death for Amelia Bretel and Mary Scott McDonald. Both occurred on the 7th of March. On the 7th Match in Read More …

CategoriesA to Z Blogging Challenge, My Family History YearTagsAtoZChallenge2019, BELL, BRETEL, IRELAND (Surname not country), KITTO, MACDONALD / MCDONALD

#AtoZChallenge Dawson - Traveler, Soldier & Familyman

#AtoZChallenge Dawson – Traveler, soldier & family man

Posted onApril 4, 2019April 10, 20194 Comments

I have featured my grandfather, Charles Collis Dawson, a number of times for the #genealogyphotoaday so here is a combination of some Instagram posts. The photo above is from 1949 at my Aunty Joan’s wedding. Read More …

CategoriesA to Z Blogging Challenge, My Family History YearTagsAtoZChallenge2019, DAWSON, Instagram, military, SHEPHERD

#AtoZChallenge Catholic Station

AtoZChallenge Catholic Station – What is it?

Posted onApril 3, 2019September 8, 20198 Comments

AtoZChallenge Catholic Station My great great grandmother and great great grand father were married on 9th June 1853 at the Catholic Station in Nelson, New Zealand. I was unsure what the term Catholic Station meant Read More …

CategoriesA to Z Blogging Challenge, My Family History YearTagsAtoZChallenge2019, GenealogyPhotoaDay, HARPER, MACDONALD / MCDONALD, Nelson

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I work so I can travel, blog, research family history, drink coffee, a conference gal and love sport. My teams are Melb Storm NRL, Chelsea FC & for baseball, the Braves. I’m an Aussie from NZ. TOO MUCH FAMILY HISTORY IS NEVER ENOUGH!

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