Family Tree Frog

  Having stoutly denied that Australians have such things as Year Books, I am now forced to concede that we do...sort of.  So here's the entry from mine. The editors spelled my maiden name correctly - Yay!  Given that I was only at this school for a couple of years, that's amazing.   The book had mini-bios of all the girls in 6th Form as it was then called.  There were some extracts from Charivari, the school magazine from earlier years - funny poems from the littlies.  There were some memorable quotes from teachers at the back of the book.  And some thoughts about what we learned at school.  There were also photos of us as babies and some more casual ones of us at school.  There's one of me studying in the library, one of me on the sporting field, which is a rare occurrence let me tell you, and one of me washing cars, to raise money for charity. The quality of the photos by today's standards is of course a joke but I am grateful that an...

    Geneabuddy Pauleen has challenged us to write about our new normal and provided the following questions.  Why don't you join in too? Has your day-to-day life returned to how it/you functioned previously? Absolutely not. Pre-COVID I worked full-time.  Now I am retired.  Very very different. If your “new normal” is different from your “old normal”, can you share some of the ways it’s changed? I used to commute for about 2.5 - 3 hours a day and would go through lots of petrol filling the car twice a week.  Now I am filling up my car about every 2-3 weeks.  I would leave home by 6.15 every morning and get home at about 6:30 or quarter to 7.  My weekends were packed with social engagements and I always struggled to stay on top of housework. The only thing that has stayed the same is that I still struggle to stay on top of housework!!  Family history is SOOOO much more interesting. Do you think these will be long-term changes for you? Yes What...

Week 20/52 John FORFAR – 1764 - ? (by 1842) Ahnentafel Number  112 Context for discovery: This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. The theme for this month is Social and this week is textile. Amy says: Week 20's theme is "Textile." Clothing, quilts, weaving -- there are so many ways to talk about textiles in our family history! Be creative with this week's theme! In Week 15 I wrote a biography of my 3 rd great-grandfather Robert Forfar .  He was baptised on 6 November 1817 and his parents identified as John Forfar and Isabella Rae.  His father was deceased by the time Robert married in 1842. John, Robert’s father, was my 4 th great-grandfather.  He has been variously described as a manufacturer and woollen manufacturer on his children’s marriage certificates. Timeline dates written in red on the right hand side of the test are sourced from Rosemary Big...