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Monthly Archives: January 2018

Disappointing for the descendants of Alma R Readford

GSQ Blog Posted on January 29, 2018 by guestbloggerJanuary 31, 2018

Guest Blogger, Janice Cooper relates her experience of an online tree Recently, I was curious to discover an online family tree which included Alma Readford as the daughter of Henry Readford and Elizabeth Jane Skuthorpe, a couple from New South Wales. The family tree indicated that she had died in 1940 and it seems possible that the brief information included there came from the death entry on the online index of the New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and … Continue reading

Posted in Alma Readford, Henry Readford

Remember to Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2017

GSQ Blog Posted on January 22, 2018 by Bobbie EdesNovember 10, 2022

Bobbie Edes, GSQ Guest Blogger 2018 is the 6th consecutive year that Jill Ball has set a challenge on GeniAus. After reading on Facebook two great blogs by Pauleen Cass and Shauna Hicks I decided to take up this challenge myself. 1. An elusive ancestor I found was: No new direct ancestors unfortunately, but I did find another sister to my maternal great-grandmother. As she married prior to the majority of the family emigrating, I had missed her. On checking … Continue reading

Posted in Genealogy challenge, Geniaus, Uncategorised

Highs and Lows

GSQ Blog Posted on January 15, 2018 by Joan RiekJanuary 15, 2018

Highs and Lows Thought I would share with you, some of the highs and lows of my family history research. Years ago, after researching at the State Archives and the local Council, I was able to find the address of where my Great Grandparents, Christian and Anna Nebe lived when they first settled in Queensland. Having to go to Toowomba I decided to call in to find the place. Only when I got there, I realized I didn’t have my … Continue reading

Travel on my mind

GSQ Blog Posted on January 8, 2018 by Pauline WilliamsJanuary 8, 2018

I sat down to start writing this blog post after the whirl of Christmas and Boxing Day was over. I’ve been thinking about the two trips I’m planning for this year: the AFFHO Congress in Sydney in March and the Unlock the Past Cruise to Alaska in September. My main activity over the past few weeks, however, has been to write up a family history for my dad’s ancestry, which has been somewhat on the backburner for several years. I wanted to … Continue reading

Posted in context in family history, family histories, research | Tagged canals, parish records, railways, roads, travel

The Porter family in Toowoomba: A short interlude: Charles Edward Porter (1885-1962), Flora Mabel Trott (1885-1956) and Edward Porter (1916-1916)

GSQ Blog Posted on January 1, 2018 by margJanuary 1, 2018

I am the guest blogger this week at GSQ giving the other bloggers a rest over the holiday.  I have been doing family history for about forty years and I thought I start to write some stories about my research.  My topic for the blog is my father’s aunt, uncle and cousin who lived for a couple of generations in nearby Toowoomba. Charles and Flora Porter were children of Darling Downs pioneers. Charles was the youngest son of James Porter … Continue reading

Posted in Darling Downs, genealogy, Genghis Khan, grocer, Scotia, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Cemetery, William Miles

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