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...

A Settler's Home, New South Wales, ca. 1841 / watercolour by Frederick Garling.  The image is from the collections of the State Library of NSW. According to Nick Vine Hall's Tracing Your Family History in Australia: a Guide to Sources :  " The first full census of new South Wales was not made until 1828. Subsequent censuses were taken sporadically in the various colonies until 3 April 1881, when a census was taken for the first time on the same date throughout Australia." I decided to look at the 1841 Census for my 3 x great-grandfather, Samuel Taylor.   The 1841 Census was taken on 2 March and is indexed and held on microfilm by the State Records of NSW (referred to as AONSW in Vine Hall's book) and the National Library of Australia (NLA).  You can search the index on State Records site here or you can look at the digitized version on Ancestry .   I am lucky that Samuel lived on the Murrumbidgee as not all places have names of individuals lis...