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Today is Week 7 of a 15 month project inspired by Julie Goucher of Angler's Rest. What were their names? Where were they from? Were they related? – Cousins perhaps Where were they born, another Country or state/area Photos What did they do? Did you know them? What was your relationship with them? If you didn't know them have you researched about them? I have written about my grandparents quite a bit on my blog already so I apologise for any repetition. I only remember two grandparents when growing up: one from each side of the family as the other two had died before I was born.  Let's tackle them one side at a time. Maternal Grandmother My maternal grandmother's name varies according to the certificates you read. On her birth certificate she is called Helen Kate  Forfar. On her marriage certificate she is called Katherine Helen Forfar. On her death certificate she is called Kathleen Helen McLoughlin. Kit (as she...

Alan from Sepia Saturday says: It is 100 years since HMS Queen Elizabeth was launched at Portsmouth. Whilst this is not the Queen Elizabeth, it matters not, because in Sepia Saturday 198 we celebrate the start of something new. It might be a life, it might be a love, it might be a a new chicken coop or it might be a mighty ocean liner. In the case of our current photograph it was HMAS Albatross the Royal Australian Navy's first seaplane carrier which was launched in February 1928 at Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney. The photograph, which was taken by Sam Hood (1872-1953) and forms part of the Australian National Maritime Museum's stream on Flickr Commons. If you have a picture of a launch of a battleship in your collection, feel free to share it, but a photograph of anything new, anything beginning or anything that floats on water will do.  Joy and Ray's album It's always a challenge deciding what to do for Sepia Saturday. I saw the ship and imme...

View Larger Map Just another quick one today to alert you to this call for feedback on the Waterfall General (Garrawarra) Cemetery north west of Helensburgh near Wollongong. If you have ancestors that died of TB (tuberculosis) and who lived in NSW, they may very well be buried here. There is a searchable burial register on the page. There's a great little video too (15 mins or so) - well worth watching to get a feel for the place and its history.

This post is a continuation of Julie Groucher's fantastic meme The Book of Me, Written by You. There is a useful You Tube video here too if you need some inspiration. . The prompt for week 6 is Journals and Diaries Do you keep a journal or diary? How far back do they go? What do you record? Where do you keep them? Do you always buy the same one or vary them? Have you inherited any? Do you intend to pass along your journals or destroy them? Pictures Do you have a favourite? What do you use to write with – biro, pencil, ink or fountain pen? Diaries I've had a few. Like this green one...not sure what the year is.  But it is the one after the one written in hieroglyphic code when I was going through my Egypt phase.  I seem to have mislaid that particular one for the minute which is a bit of a shame. The green diary has some really boring entries but then some little treasures like this one....which tell you the year.... Good...

Alan from Sepia Saturday says: Our theme image for Sepia Saturday 197 does not come from one of the on-line collections on Flickr Commons. Let's face it, no world-class image collection would give album space to this blurred, scratched, undefined, and plain boring image. In fact it comes from the collection of that great photographer, Frank Fieldhouse (AKA "Uncle Frank"), and is entitled "The Pennines (From Express), 1941". Dusty, dirty, and plain as it is, it reminds us that we all have such images in our collections - and sometimes they can be as revealing as a picture postcard. So for Sepia Saturday 197 we are inviting you to by-pass the best, avoid the crystal clear, and focus your attention on the less than perfect, because, as we all know, all too often, life is less than perfect. Great !  Fabulous!  A chance to show off all those misbegotten masterpieces! My mother (as a fledgling photographer) seemed to have been wrestling with differen...

Just a quick one today. As a librarian, I am a member of a professional association called ALIA .   One of the benefits of membership is a monthly professional development newsletter which alerts me to all sorts of opportunities to increase my learning. Of course, I am not allowed to rebroadcast that newsletter in part or full but I did want to share with you one of the finds in this month's newsletter and acknowledge how I found out about it. Thanks ALIA.  Well worth the membership :)  And, of course, I encourage you to join if you are working in libraries and information in Australia and are not a member already. The find is a You Tube video from the Museum of Australia which is about caring for your photographic collection.  It's not short being an hour in duration...but if you feel like a virtual visit to the Museum in Canberra and learning about their photographic collection, different types of photographs, digitisation of photographic material and pic...

View Larger Map View Larger Map Today is week 5 of what is going to be a 15 month project. Each Saturday, at around 12.30am UK time the lovely Julie from Angler's Rest will release the prompt for that week's Book of Me, Written by You. The prompt for week 5 is Your Childhood Home When did you leave home? Where was it? Where did you move to? Was it rented or owned? –  with parents/Grandparents Was it inherited What was it like – describe it – each room. Were there a favourite room? Is there anything you particularly remember from the house? Pictures The road & area I left home when I was about 20.  I moved to a friend's place first and then into a rental property in Chippendale.   Our home was in Sydney and was called "Avondale" at 44 Toxteth Road Glebe.  We hadn't lived there for very long - say about five years. In the Google picture above Number 44 is the behind the gum tree.  The first of a row of three terrace houses...next ...