Family Tree Frog

Alan Burnett from Sepia Saturday says: Our theme image this week shows a type-setter at work. It comes from the collection of the Netherlands National Archives and is part of their Flickr stream. Whatever type of old image you want to share for Sepia Saturday 330, just include it in a blog post, post your post on or around Saturday 14th May 2016 and then add a link to it on the list below. Having nothing in my own collection to match the image prompt, I duly searched Picture Queensland . The image below was one of the results that emerged from the search term "type". Illustrated page from The Queenslander annual, November 4, 1935, p. 37  - courtesy of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland This is a cropped image, I hasten to add....and here is the caption: If you want to see the original image go here. Being the family historian that I am, I of course want to know a bit more about Miss M. Morrow.  Grove Crescent Toowong is reason...

Thomas MacEntee of Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories says: Any other time of the year, a cookie is a cookie – even homemade ones. But during Christmas, well a cookie is a special treat. Whether it is a Snickerdoodle or a Peanut Butter Blossom or perhaps decorated Spritz cookies, we all have special memories about Christmas cookies. Tell us about your favorite Christmas cookie (and share a recipe please!) as well as your memories of Christmases past. I don't normally get excited about biscuits at Christmas...well maybe a bit of shortbread.   For the first time this year, I made some.  And they seemed to go down quite well at work.  Perhaps I should make more....and perhaps I should ice them next time. The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) allows you to share your family’s holiday history twenty-four different ways during December! Learn more at http://adventcalendar.geneabloggers.com 

Thomas MacEntee of Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories says: So what side of the tin are you on? Do you love fruitcake or despise it? Do you have a favorite recipe or favorite kind of fruitcake? If you are in the “no” column, do you politely refuse a gift of fruitcake or do you regift it or even recycle it as a door stop or food for the birds? Many people are passionate about fruitcake and its role during Christmas time. Tell us all about your like or dislike of fruitcake and your memories of Christmases past. When I married my husband, his best-man/friend's wife gave me her boiled fruit cake recipe.  Robert is rather partial to fruit cake and this was Pat's gift to me to ensure the continuity of our marriage ;)  As a young bride, I tried to mess with various recipes, but this one always comes out trumps, is easy to make and smells divine when it's cooking.   Robert loves grocery shopping and happily goes to at least two supermarkets a day.  This ye...

Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 14 May 1918 courtesy of National Library of Australia Some of you may remember me blogging about my 2nd great grandmother, Isabella Ellis (nee Sinclair) last month .  Lovely Jill Ball of Geniaus asked me if I had looked for her Probate files. I hadn't.  So guess what turned up in the mail yesterday?  The probate files.  Hoorah!! It cost $34.13 to be precise.  Item 19/10252 Reel 3033.  No less than 11 pages for me to digest.   I can see the signatures of her sons - James St Clair Ellis of Hurstville and Henry Victor Ellis of Bondi.  There is an inventory of her estate.  It was valued at less than one thousand pounds so was not subject to stamp duty.   It totalled £783.0.10. The debts were interesting.  The greatest of these was the exhumation and removal of her husband's body £27.6.  He had been buried a couple of years before at the Field of Mars Cemetery as per this...

Alan from Sepia Saturday says: " Our theme image this week is a 1906 picture postcard which has the provocative caption "Proverbs : A girl unemployed is thinking of mischief". There are all sorts of directions you can take this theme in : there are postcards themselves, there are proverbs and there are men falling fast asleep whilst reading their newspapers. You can wander down the path that leads to the assumption that Edwardian women had little to do other than maintain a home, raise the children, and probably take in washing as well. Or you can always explore the fact that within ten years of this picture being published, women were maintaining the basic industries of many of the leading industrial nations. " When I put "mischief" in as a search term on Flickr Commons the following images were some of the results of the search. These images are from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.  The image descripti...