Family Tree Frog

  Week 4 - Celebrate - tell us what you've achieved this month. What talk did you attend during #NationalFamilyHistoryMonth that you thought was brilliant or tell us about the discoveries you made? This has been a crazy busy month for me.  We've had a lot to do at QFHS and I have been rather distracted.   But I am pleased that, despite many distractions, I still managed to publish some blog posts - ten if I get this and another one completed today. I also managed to progress the framing of my father's grandfather's medals.  We're not there yet by any stretch of the imagination.  As someone once said, COVID has a habit of warping time.  It has taken over a year to find someone to scan and touch up and enlarge a very old bad photo of my father's grandfather, get the right ribbons for the medals and find a framer.  Who woulda thought it could take so long???? See this ABS report on Business Conditions and Sentiments  which talks about the shortage...

  This is the 2nd week of the #NFHM2022 Blogging Challenge Week 2 - Travel - who hasn't got the travel bug at the moment? Perhaps you could showcase all the photos of family cars, boats, horses or bicycles over the years. Better still plan your family history "bucket-list" travel plan. Or tell us about a recent family history jaunt. Ooh, goody here is my bucket list for travel.... This little frog would love to go back to the UK.  The last time I was there I was 18 years old so I suspect much has changed.  These are the places I would like to go: I have put all the places on a map here  https://goo.gl/maps/PK6NioNzRA3oqeBN9 If I had buckets of money, I would also love to visit Malta which is where some of the Conners were born and worked. It's a lot of territories to cover and I imagine I would want to spend at least a fortnight in London and the same in Ireland and Scotland so I can't see myself getting out of it in under 8 weeks altogether.  I also have friend...

  My maternal grandfather Tom McLoughlin at the end of the back row on the right 1912 This week is going to be a very short post indeed.  Normally I have quite a swag of material about each of my ancestors but this is where my McLoughlin stops as it were. I wanted to write today about Patrick McLoughlin's father Owen McLoughlin.  I wrote about Patrick back in May here. Patrick's death certificate says that his parents were Owen McLoughlin and Bridget Sweeney. On his marriage certificate it states that his father's name was Owen McLoughlin and that he was a labourer. The only birth I have been able to find to a Bridget Sweeney and a McLoughlin is a Patrick to a John McLaughlin and Bridget Sweeney in Templeboy, Sligo as per this blogpost here .  Now - the question is if this John is also known as Owen.   What do you think? Is it too big a leap? There's a bit of me that says let's go back to basics and remind ourselves of what the original research question wa...

  It's National Family History Month in Australia and this is the first of four posts that I will be contributing to our blogging challenge every Sunday in August. The theme for the first week is the word August which you can interpret any way you want really - indeed it doesn't matter what you write about during August - just so long as it's about family history.  August can mean respected or impressive so I've chosen a bit of an easy option (because I am so behind in my blogging for #52Ancestorsin52weeks) and have decided just to publish an obituary for one of my ancestors my 3rd great-grandfather George Henry Carrett I. Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent Tuesday 2 July 1912 - Page 3  courtesy of Trove. And here is the transcription: The hand of death has rempoved from amongst us another of our old and highly esteemed residents in the person of Mr G.H. Carrett, which sad event took place at his son's house, Wellington road at 9:30pm yesterday, the cause o...