Family Tree Frog

Julie from Angler's Rest gives us Prompt Number 20 This week's prompt is  - The feeling of home Home means different things to different people, so this week we are going to explore what it means to us What does it feel like? How do you recognise it? What makes it home - people, place, time My mother used to ask me - "Which is home for you?" ... mostly because we had lived in a few homes and she wondered which one meant the most to me.   It's hard to say....probably our home in Aranda but I loved our home in Glebe too. I don't remember our first home - Hurstville... This is where I came home to as a baby. Then we traveled overseas and my home for a while was the Oriana...it had a pool and everything! from SSMaritime Here I am testing out the comfy furniture.   We moved to Edinburgh...I think this place was first...it had squirrels.  I liked squirrels. And then this one... See the VW Co...

Julie, from Angler's Rest has devised a series of prompts for a meme that will run for 15 months and t his week’s prompt is –   Who Do You Miss? Having just gone through the Festive season our thoughts turn to those not with us.  Whether that is people who live elsewhere and that we will not see over the festive season People that have passed away. Who do you miss? Why do you miss them? Them as an individual Something specific to them Christmas at Nungara Street circa 1973 - I am seated between my uncle and my aunt.  My grandfather is to the right of my aunt. At Christmas time it is inevitable that I miss my mother who died 18 years ago.  Ghosts of Christmas past and all that. Mummy loved Christmas.  Her passion for getting things "just right" tended to drive us all a bit barmy.  She always wanted a bigger tree, a bigger turkey and inevitably burned the midnight oil cooking or preparing something.  W...

Alan on Sepia Saturday says "All that Christmas and New Year stuff is behind us and we drive, full speed ahead, into 2014. And our vehicle of choice is a cross between a stretch limo and a country bus. There are plenty of potential prompts to be found in this image which comes from the collection of the Royal Australian Historical Society on Flickr Commons : cars, buses, dams, men in white coats."  c. 1941 I do hope I haven't posted this photo before.  It is another favourite of mine but I know zip about it....other than that's my mother (the little girl) standing smack bang in the front of the photo there.  No grown-ups near her look familiar so maybe her nearest and dearest was taking the photo.  Was it her mother or her father I wonder?  Where were they?  Blue Mountains I'm guessing or maybe Newcastle.... circa 1912-1916 Here's a postcard of the construction of the Cotter Dam.  According to the brochure from the dis...

Bullock teams hauling logs through Landsborough, Queensland Gosh!  Two blog posts in one day.  I must be excited! Well I am to tell the truth. The most marvellous resources have just been published on the web for teachers and students.  Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, the resources were originally designed for use with Year 5 students but I think are a fantastic resource for any age level. In fact, I'm so excited I'm going to use them for my next geneadventures! Check them out here. You might like to check out this page too. Disclosure:  Yes I am currently employed by Moreton Bay Region Library Service.   Whilst you may consider me completely biased because of this fact, I hasten to add my employer did not ask me to blog about this.  A few years ago I worked with the two women employed by the Library Services who are responsible for putting these resources together.  I know that it would have been a labour of love...

Qld Ladies Interstate Tennis Team, 1908 It's tennis season here in Queensland and they're slugging it out at the Brisbane International.   Look at the women in the photo above from the State Library of Queensland Flickr stream - they look full of resolve don't they?  What an inspiration. So too am I following a time-honoured tradition of setting some goals for 2014. Inspired by Geniaus reflection on last year's achievements, I resolve to do the following this year: Study and or attend workshops regularly(and report on it or share with others my discoveries along the way) - I might try something new like NIGS (thanks for the tip Shelley ) Regularly review magazines/books that I borrow/purchase Keep scanning family photos and finding out as much about them as I can Be a more generous user of Trove i.e. correct and tag articles that I find Create a Graves page on my blog to log all the graves I know about and keep an index of who is buried where. Go on more...

The fabulous Jill from Geniaus encourages us to reflect on our efforts in the past year with the following questions: 1.  An elusive ancestor I found was The article below is about my paternal 2nd-great-grandfather Edward Connor (yes the spelling of Conner/or is up for debate).  My gran always told us he shot himself but we were sceptical, shall we say.  Well, Gran was right.   Portsmouth Evening News 24 April 1897 Where on earth did Edward get the gun???? He didn't die until 1903 as per this notice. Portsmouth Evening News 6 October 1903 I suspect it was something to do with this.... Portsmouth Evening News 7 June 1893 I ordered the death certificate and received it in May but English death certificates are not as fulsome as Australian ones.  I have just realised that I was so excited to get the certificate that I gave it to my father without making a copy first (silly me).  I don't think it even tells us where he i...