I started doing week three of the FutureLearn Genealogy: Researching your Family Tree course today. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses We are learning all about different repositories for genealogical information. As a result people were putting up different links to sites that they had found were … Continue reading
I have learned so much about Genealogy over the last few weeks. With both the start of the Diploma of Family History at UTAS and also the Future Learn Course- Researching your Family Tree there has been so much to … Continue reading
Having now gone through the NSW State Library’s catalogue of photos for Walkabout Magazine I now have a fairly good idea of where Ray Bean was when. It seems likely that he sent is first photo into Walkabout Magazine sometime … Continue reading
Ray Bean didn’t just travel in 1948 for Walkabout Magazine. He did some extensive travel in 1947 as well and seems to have still been working with Walkabout Magazine as late as 1951, possibly even later, with some of this … Continue reading
Ray Bean’s 1948 Trip with Arthur Upfield, John K. Ewers, Michael Sharland, H. Tate and George Keen took him to the very top of Western Australia including to the Argyle and Ivanhoe Stations. Patrick and Michael Durack, of Kings in Grass … Continue reading
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
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