By Pauleen Cass. In recent weeks, Ellen from Hound on the Hunt blog asked the question: “Who has helped you most with your family history?”[i] Randy from Genea-Musings picked up the theme for his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post.[ii] The topic inspired me to make it my theme for this month’s GSQ blog post. As Ellen said, over the years I’ve had many people help or inspire me with my own research explorations. Let me share some of them with … Continue reading
Before we started researching our ancestors, many of us probably thought they were just ordinary people. Nothing very interesting happened to them. My previous blog about David Brown, sole survivor of a massacre in the Solomon Islands certainly may have captured readers’ imaginations.[1] It might encourage you to read this, my third blog about my research journey into the family of my late wife, Helen. David Brown was a common name, as was Helen’s other maternal great grandfather, William Lambert. … Continue reading
It all seems so long ago now. I refer to the days of my childhood and my memories of my grandmother, Eva Dalby. Memories that have faded with time. I can still visualise my Nana’s house in Broadmeadow, Newcastle; it was her domain. I spent a reasonable length of time in that home, sometimes visiting with my mother and at other times I would stay overnight at the request of my parents. Constructed in the early 1900’s, the cement-rendered home … Continue reading
It seems a long time since I contributed to the GSQ blog and thought I’d use this post as a catch up with things I’ve done since my previous one. I mentioned earlier this year that, together with a group of others, we researched descendants of Mary Reibey, whose image appears on the Australian $20 note. Mary (Molly) Haydock was only young when she was transported to New South Wales and it was there she married Thomas Reibey in September … Continue reading
