By Peter Cass. Hello and welcome to my fourth annual GSQ blog. The original impetus for this blog was comments made to me by former pupils of Mum’s, at two primary schools in Papua new Guinea, that “your mother was wonderful, the best teacher I ever had” and “she ignited my life-long love of reading.” I thought, “Well. I might say a bit more” and then I thought “I don’t actually know very much about Mum’s own primary schooling. I … 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
By Di Edelman. Last September my niece, Georgina Alley from Geelong, and my cousin, Kay Prosser from Victoria, British Colombia, our husbands and I spent a week in Wiltshire visiting the places where our ancestors had lived. We stayed in an Airbnb in Freshford, just over the border in Somerset, hired a car, stocked up with food at the local farm shop and were ready to explore. My birth father was Sydney Herbert Alley, son of Frederick Ernest Alley and … Continue reading
At our last Wednesday morning Zoom session, I asked members to write a short story just 200-300 words of a Christmas memory. This was an enjoyable challenge in our October Writers Group meeting also, and I realised it is a good way for any family historian to begin their own all important story. The suggestion was to also copy it to their genealogy software program profile page of themselves. Hopefully following this, some of our newer members will also join … Continue reading
Document and preserve the stories and the memories. By Victoria MacGregor. The sharing of an old family photograph, and a personal memory, isn’t a popularity contest, or a “what-ya think” moment. The sharing shouldn’t be attributed to the number of likes, hearts or thumbs up collected. Leave all that admiration and back slapping to social media and the showcasing of random current event images. Sharing an old family photograph, can and should be the starting point for a walk down … Continue reading
