Family Connections

As I pack my suitcase to travel to England at the end of the week for five weeks, there is time to reflect on what it must have been like ma...

I finished library school and began working in public libraries in Canberra in November 1967. Retiring this month after working 21 years at ...

Returning to Melbourne, I worked at the Hargrave Engineering and Physical Sciences Library at Monash University in the 1970s. I started work...

The prompt this week is Independence due to July 4 (American Independence Day) occurring during the week. I therefore looked at a number ...

Half way through the #52 Ancestors journey for 2018 it is perhaps time to look at what has been achieved in the first six months and refle...

Unfortunately I have no record of the reaction of the families of my convicts regarding the arrest, trial and transportation of their chil...

When we chose names for our sons we were careful to ensure that we did not select names previously used in our immediate families. Each of o...

The Fathers Day prompt for #52Ancestors provides the opportunity to think about our father or male ancestors who were fathers. For me it is ...

St Philip's Church, Sydney - Sydney Architecture When I saw this prompt in the #52 Ancestors I immediately thought of the church in ...

Distance is a feature of my family history. Ancestors from all branches of my family tree came from England, Scotland and Ireland. As they h...