Trove Tuesday - Anatomy of a search
Family Notices. (1934, November 10). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32821946 Good morning everyone! How are you this fine day in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia? I have been off the radar for reasons which I won't discuss just now but I am happy to get back into the swing of things with a post on the meme of Trove Tuesday. I have a friend staying from Scotland with me at the moment. Joy of joys, she asked me to do a little family history research for her. She wanted to find any trace of her uncle who came out to Australia in about 1925 as a young lad from Scotland. She gave me his name: Allan MacDougall, his approximate age (15 or 16) and the name of his mother: Bella Ann (after whom my friend was named) and his father: Alexander. She thought he might have worked in the railways. We did a bit of digging and I thought I would share our lines of research...