Mary Ann Harper: Died at Sea 16 October 1841
Mary Teresa Harper, née Aldridge died on 16 October 1841 while sailing to Nelson, New Zealand on the ship Fifeshire. Read More …
How one of my childhood sweets lead to a gene discovery
Genealogy Photo a Day via Instagram – Day 3 Sweets. When I was a kid one of my favourite childhood sweets was a thing called a chocolate fish. So you knew what they looked like Read More …
Child at the beach – photograph by FG Reade
Day 30 Beach – Photograph by FG Reade This photograph by FG Reade is from my father-in-laws collection. I have called is Child at the Beach. Francis Graham Reade (1924-1988) or F.G. Reade, as he Read More …
The Ancestral Places Geneameme
Alona Tester gave us The Ancestral Places Geneameme challenge for this years Family History Month so I thought I should squeeze into my busy life having a go at this. The bulk of my ancestors Read More …
Use Your Society to Honour Local People
Why share a story? Here is another review of a talk at the Footsteps in Time Conference: Being interested in how societies and individuals can use modern technologies to promote, share and research family history Read More …
Get a Good History Book and Read It
What you can learn at a family history conference At conferences it can be worthwhile to attend a talk that you think will have nothing to do with your research so I attended Martyn Killion’s Read More …
Prosecution Project: Unlocking Criminal Records in Australia.
The Prosecution Project Professor Mark Finnane was the opening speaker on Saturday morning. He spoke about the Prosecution Project where he is part of a group digitising and unlocking criminal records. Eventually they plan to Read More …