How to knock down a brick wall

Photo by Nicole Köhler on Magdeleine I've been researching family history for a very long time...a very long time. Let me say that again....a very long time. So you think I'd know better but....we all get into habits and routines. We all think we know how to do research. So, let me tell you a story about what happened to me the other day. The other night actually. Wednesday night specifically. Wednesday night had been looming large in my consciousness because it was when my final assignment was due for the Writing Family History unit I'm studying at University of Tasmania (yes - even though I live all the way up in Queensland - don't you love modern technology?) The assignment was due at midnight. So anyway, I'd decided to write about my two great-great-aunts Clara Rebecca Conner and Harriet Conner because I am ob sessed with them. During the course I had written a couple of short stories about them. Photo by...