In 1948 Ray Bean went on a 10 week trip around Western Australia and parts of the Northern Territory. The map below shows some of the places he visited. Meteorite Crater SYDNEY, April 22.-One of the world’s largest meteorite craters had been … Continue reading
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I decided that I wanted to up my game with my Genealogy and learn more about one of my favourite past times. I want to make my family tree better and tell the stories of my family better. I may, … Continue reading
I was directed to this video for better searching on Ancestry. It is brilliant. Ancestry is one of those things that I dip into and out of. I usually go as far as I can go with my research doing … Continue reading
One of the Warnecke relatives passed away two weeks ago. He was in Germany and had been there for a number of years but all of his living descendants and his ex-wife still live in Australia. So we had a … Continue reading
The Ryde District Family History Society have a meeting once a month on the second Saturday of the month. Every year they ask a bunch of people to speak at these meetings about things that will be of interest to … Continue reading
For the Diploma of Family History I have to put together an outline of some family history research that I am going to do. So this seemed like a good time to re-visit my old bug bear ‘What happened to … Continue reading
Over the years I have been searching for the death of Mary Ann Russell nee Gransden and her husband William Russell. To date I have not been able to find them. The records that I do have for them seem … Continue reading
As I wrote two blog posts yesterday and I haven’t put a new family story up for some time I decided to put up a new family story today. So instead of writing up a new blog post I have … Continue reading
I have put up my Eulogy to Linda Bean a number of posts back. It was a post more about how I felt about her life and death than the actual details of her life and death. However, it is … Continue reading
March is National Women’s History Month. So here is a very good article to celebrate Women’s History Month. It is important to realise that women are often not heard in history. They were there and they participated in history but … Continue reading