Family Tree Frog

This post may not really be of much interest to anyone.  It's such a common story in family history but it bears repeating.  And this is more of a note to self than anything else but if you get something out of it too, all to the good. I'm a bit excited because next week Caspar and I are going on a holiday to Tasmania.  As a family historian going somewhere automatically becomes a question of "What research should I be doing while I'm there?"  I haven't been to Tassie for a long time - maybe a decade??  Last time I was there it was for work, so a very snatched visit with little time to do any prolonged resesarch.  This trip will probably be a bit the same.  I don't want to bore Cas too much. However.... The Forfar family have led me and my cousins a merry dance over the years and their first born child (I think) was born in Hobart - Queen Street East Sandy Bay to be precise.  So I'd like to go back there and have another go...

The Springs Chalet Mt Wellington Tasmania c 1949 Isn't this picturesque? The back of the photo reads: " This is the Springs Chalet up Mt Wellington where I walked and had afternoon tea. There was no snow at the Chalet at the time except on the Mountain at back similar to the other photo No. 1"   I have no idea what Photo No. 1 is.  And I'm not sure whose handwriting this is.  It doesn't look like Gran's and it doesn't look like my father's.  I'll have to ask him. These photos are in one of my father's albums. Here is another photo of his mother in the snow.   The caption underneath the photo in the album read " Puss in Boots " Ethel Conner nee Carrett Mt Wellington c 1949   And the back of the photo says " On top of Mt Wellington " I think they went to Tasmania for a holiday after his brother died. Some of the photos are dated 20 July 1947 on the back so I think maybe his mothe...