Family Tree Frog

  From Edward Lear's limerick There was an old man of St Bees    You'd better get a cup of coffee.  This is going to be a long one! This past week has certainly tested South East Queensland residents. (Pun unintended) In one week we went from 37 to 169 cases of Delta in the community.  This probably seems a laughable figure to the rest of the world and indeed parts of Australia like Sydney but it does demonstrate how quickly the virus can spread.  And the fact that contact tracing included at least half a dozen schools, a university, at least three major shopping centres and a couple of hospitals did tend to put the wind up us.  I was very sorry to see my first library listed.  Til now I've been rather foolishly reassured by the fact that no bookshops or libraries have been listed to date . Here's a map of the close and casual contacts close to where I live.    I've included Ipswich as well as that is where my daughter and I were on Thur...

  Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog post for National Family History month in the land downunder. It is so lovely that so many fellow geneabloggers want to take part in this challenge.   I can't wait to see what we all come up with. Well, as some predicted, we in Brisvegas are now in a snap lockdown or slap knockdown as one very tired journalist reported the other day, much to our amusement.  Of course it's frustrating.  I was hoping to have a celebratory champers with my sister-in-law tomorrow to celebrate the end of Dry July.  But I am well aware that we have been pretty lucky in the Sunshine State so far.  I have been able to spend lots of time with my new grandson which I know is way more than many other grandparents have been able to do over the past 18 months or so, so I mustn't grumble.  We have plenty of food and I have plenty of family history to do and online bridge to play so I am quite chuffed to be able to get on with it. I know ...

  Alan from Sepia Saturday says: To take us into 2021 we have the letter T. You can interpret this as you like, for our theme image I have chosen a Birmingham tram from the 1920s. All you have to do is to feature an old photo in a blog post, post the post on or around Saturday 9th January 2021, and add a link to the list below. I have chosen a few bits and bobs from a memento box which needs to be sorted and scanned; something on my list of never-ending things to do which never seem to get done. Hazel Teddy & Jim at The Gap Watson's Bay   I don't think I've posted this photo before.  I like this photo because it shows Ted as a young boy.  Most of the photos I have of Ted are when he is an adult or a teen. As my father is the baby in this photo, I reckon Ted was probably about 10 years old and Hazel, 12-14 years old. Jim, my father, seems to have lost his shoe.  Why would they have been at Watson's Bay I wonder?  Had Jim just been baptised?  No. ...