By Joan Riek. I thought you may enjoy this fictional account of what might have happened to my Great Great Great Grandmother, Mary Ann Perrett and her children. It was Christmas Eve. The light was diminishing, and James and John Perrett were almost finished weeding the vegie patch at their cottage in Bundamba, They’d been at their labouring jobs all day, but they knew how important it was to tend their garden beds. What with their father James dying suddenly, … Continue reading
Do you have favourite resources/internet sites that you go to for your research? Do you limit yourself to these or do you actively seek out new ones? Some ways in which I try to expand my knowledge are to offer, and attend, education courses and conferences; investigate websites highlighted or recommended in magazines or by other researchers; and write this regular blog. How do these help me to learn more? Presenting an education course or writing a blog post puts … Continue reading
This post has been slightly modified from one which originally appeared at www.learnsource.com.au/wp. By Cathie Sherwood. Some time ago, I travelled, with two of my sisters, to Bundaberg where my father had grown up with his nine siblings. I made contact beforehand with some of my cousins who still live in the area and told them that I was looking for any stories, photos or memorabilia that I could copy to incorporate into the story that I am compiling on … Continue reading
Lorraine McMahon (nee Cox). My genealogy addiction commenced in 1982 with a simple question “Dad, do you know whether your father is still alive?” By then, Grandfather Cox would have been in his early 80s. The reply was “I don’t know; I lost contact with him just after you were born and I have never heard from him since.” Dad gave me his permission to search records and do whatever else I had to do to find the answers. Much … Continue reading
By Joan Riek. Following on from my previous blogs on “Thinking outside the box”, and the “Value of letters”, their use became invaluable, when I had to write a story about my father, Edgar Raymond Perrett. My father was on the hospital ship, “Centaur”, when it was torpedoed off the coast of Caloundra on the 14th May 1943. I was 21 months old so I never knew anything about my father. In 1995, I was asked to write a story … Continue reading
