Family Tree Frog

This week's Sepia Saturday theme is about the classroom.  It could be about chemistry.  It could be about classrooms.  It could be about glass.  It could be about windows.  We can always go quite broad in terms of theme with Sepia Saturday.  In my usual frog like fashion, I shall jump all over the place. Chemistry and I did not go together.  Poor Mrs Pyle had an uphill battle with me.  And I had an uphill battle with Mrs Pyle's fashion sense.  I could not take seriously anyone who wore such lairy ponchoes.  It is apalling to confess, but I failed Chemistry miserably.  I always maintained I must have been away the day they explained everything.  It is fair to say that I loathed the subject.   I found some photos of Canberra Girls Grammar, my alma mater, on the National Archives website. Canberra Girls Grammar School 1971 front entrance These photos were taken in 20 August 1971.  I'm not really sure...

The theme for this week's Sepia Saturday post is smoking and anything else associated with the prompt image on the blog e.g. black cats, vending machines and so on. I am kind of excited about this theme because it gives me a chance to highlight an interesting series of photos found in my maternal grandfather's collection i.e. those belonging to Thomas McLouglin (1898 - 1982).      Seated Smoker  I don't know who is who in any of these photos or whether any of them are my grandfather.  It's hard to tell.  I suspect that they are friends, brothers or cousins.  I have a memory of my mother saying that her cousin was a photographer and there does seem to be a lot of posing going on and experimenting with light and contrast so, maybe her cousin's father owned the photography business first and then passed it on to his son.   Spivs Here are some more photos of the likely lads.  They look rather sharp don't yo...

Reading the paper in Edinburgh c. 1963 I haven't blogged for a while.  My apologies for the silence.  I've been busy graduating which seemed to involve lots of lovely dinners with good friends and family and being a tourist for a few days enjoying galleries and the like. Alex at Graduation ceremony in Great Hall Parliament House  Canberra March 2013 And so to today's meme courtesy of Sepia Saturday . We still read newspapers in our house.  We tend to be a bit old-fashioned.  The photo at the top is of my father reading a paper in Edinburgh when we lived there for a short while when he was studying for his PhD.   My husband enjoys nothing better than reading the paper on the weekend sitting in the sun in winter or the shade in summer. Robert reading the paper  He has to sit outside because, shock, horror he is a smoker and I am the world's worst reformed smoker.  He is sitting next to the guinea pigs, who don't hav...

Isn't this lovely? If only I knew who it was. The information on the photo jacket reads as follows:  Rupert Kay Studio The Strand Sydney. Judging from entries found on Trove, the Studio seems to have been in existence from 1924-1933. So - once again I need to track down the fellow McLoughlin researchers and see if they can identify the young woman.

Alan Burnett from Sepia Saturday advises the following for today's prompt: "boxes, paper, workers, machines and dangerously long skirts spring to my mind. All you have to do is to select an old photograph or two and say a few things about them and if you can tie it in with your interpretation of the theme image, well that is a bonus. Post your posts, link it to the list below and then pop in and visit as many other Sepians as you can manage. Easy peasy!" Well - here she is...my female worker. No idea if she is wearing a dangerously long skirt...I suspect so. I am fascinated by what she is wearing.  It looks to be quite a heavy, I don't know, serge type fabric I suppose..quite swish really.  And do you think that is a bib she is wearing?   Anyway, this is from my grandfather's album.  No identifying information on the photo I'm afraid. I'd say it's a McLoughlin - maybe a sister or an aunt. She could be working in a Post Offi...

The feeling of being followed by Anjan Chaterjee - image found on Flickr and used under Creative Commons licence anjan58 From Geneabloggers .... Follow Friday is a daily blogging prompt used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites. To participate in Follow Friday,  simply create a post in which you recommend another genealogy blogger, a specific blog post, a genealogy website or a genealogy resource.  Tell us why they are important to the genealogy community and why we should follow. A special thanks to Earline Bradt of Ancestral Notes for suggesting Follow Friday as a daily blogging theme! My pick for this week comes recommended to me by +Jill Ball aka Geniaus who is in my Genealogy circle on Google+.   Jill reminded me that +Liz Pidgeon is the recipient of the 2012 Margery Ramsay Scholarship for her project " “Local and Family History Services in the UK and USA” .  Liz is  also the  Local an...

On the back of this photo is my Grandmother's writing - "My father and brother George, Grandfather standing and great grandfather with beard." Great-grandfather - as in George Henry Charles Carrett 1 who was born 1834 and died 1912. Grandfather as in George Henry Charles Carrett II born 1856 and died 1929. Father as in George Henry Charles Carrett III born 1879 and died 1953. Brother as in George Henry Charles Carrett IV born 1906 and died 1976. My guess is the photo was taken c1907.   The baby was born in November 1906 - a twin to his sister Daisy Minnie. Once again this is a copy of a copy so I have no idea who has the original or who the photographer was although it is obviously a studio portrait.   Gran had a tendency to burn things when people died. My aunt also had a fire at her place in the 60s so we have lost things over the years. The twins Daisy and George This is the last photo in this series. It's certai...