family history and genealogy
#familyhistorymonth week 4 challenge How have you celebrated Family History Month? I had a relatively quiet month, but on reflection believe it was a successful month. Adelaide UTAS a Genie Group celebrated Family History Month The University of Tasmania Family History group got together and had lunch to celebrate Family History Month and talk all... Continue Reading →
#familyhistorymonth2022 Throughout our family history journeys we all undertake the trek to cemeteries to family members from our past. For some this may be close and for others far away. Many are fortunate in that we can still see the headstones of those who have gone before us. For others we may never find the... Continue Reading →
Week 6: 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks On your family history travels have you ever wondered where exactly people were living and what their world may have looked like? Maps help us to understand distances between places, where people lived and where they may have traveled to. Following is a pictorial journey around the Thanet Region... Continue Reading →
In the hidden box of treasures were at least 50 postcards. The majority of which were written to Eva Nosworthy. Eva was born Evangeline Jane NOSWORTHY in March 1867. She must have been a prolific leather or postcard writer when we see the number of cards she received and from a wide variety of people.... Continue Reading →
A task I had set myself was to clean up the book cases in the spare room. I thought the book cases were just full of my old teaching materials and that most would go to the skip. When I started to clear the out I found the suitcase. A quick look showed a treasure... Continue Reading →
August is Family History Month, in 2021 it is also time for the Australian Census that is undertaken every 5 years. Following on from Alexandra Daws post My Life in Twelve Censuses, I decided to have a look and see where I was and what I was doing for each census year, with a little... Continue Reading →
Trinity Church Adelaide where Thomas married his second wife Mary IRWIN in 1855 Throughout 2021 I have been reviewing the history of the GIBBS family in South Australia. During the lockdown of 2020 I joined the Pioneers Association of South Australia. Thomas GIBBS and his first wife Elizabeth HUGHES arrived in South Australia in 1840... Continue Reading →
I am undertaking the blogging challenge for National Family History Month called Genealife in Lockdown. Technically we are not in lockdown in South Australia. We are locked in as we can’t move across many of our state borders and have a few restrictions. Essentially it is life a the new normal. A hard lockdown for... Continue Reading →
#52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - Week 5 How many of us have completed hours of research on a family line, following what we believe is a solid trail that would meet the standards of proof, to suddenly stop and think is this the right William NOSWORTHY? To then discover five William NOSWORTHY's born all around... Continue Reading →
# 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks Trinity Church North Terrace Adelaide is an institution is South Australia. Sitting on the corner of Morphett Street and North Terrace it is one of the first churches in South Australia. The foundation stone was laid by Governor Hindmarsh on 26 January 1838 [1]. For anyone with family who arrived... Continue Reading →
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