Family Tree Frog

Goodness me!  2020!  Who woulda thunk we'd be seeing the year 2020? Alan Burnett from Sepia Saturday has provided us with the prompt of the charming smile of an unknown lady. So here goes...a photo from my maternal grandfather's collection.  I welcome all comments from the McLoughlin clan as to who this photo is of...the name Lena springs to mind.  Probably one of my grandfather's sisters. Here is a photo of the photo wallet in its entirety.  The number on the top left looks suspciously like my mother's writing but it could be a photographic studio note.  Does it mean it was taken in 1921?  We will probably never know.   I can find evidence of the Rupert Kay Studio in the Sydney Morning Herald from Trove 21 January 1914. 1914 'Advertising', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 21 January, p. 12. , viewed 04 Jan 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15492509 I think dating the photograph at about 1921 is ...

Jill Bill from GeniAus once again invites us to reflect on our genealogical achievements for the year.   Here are the questions and I just know that my account of 2019 will not be a fabulous one but, if anything, it inspires me to greater heights in 2020: 1.  An elusive ancestor I found was  2.  A great newspaper article I found was about John Patrick or "Jack" McLoughlin, my mother's uncle,  in this blog post here. 3.  A geneajourney I took was to Melbourne.  I confess the trip to Melbourne was mostly about catching up with dear friends, going to a musical and doing a sewing workshop but I managed to convince a friend/chauffeur to detour while getting croissants one morning to have a look at an ancestor's house in Napier Street Fitzroy.  Who knows if it really was his house - numbers may have changed in the street - but I was just excited to be in the street where he used to live.  I wrote about Peter Sinclair ...