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Friday's Family Recipe and Sharing Memories - Homemade Tomato Sauce
Summer time brings back memories of Mum and Dad’s vegie garden and the glut of ripe juicy tomatoes. Dad would check the vines morning and night to pick the tomatoes before the pesky birds and insects...
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Wordless Wednesday - Barry Shepherd 1952-1953
This is one of those very special family photos, battered and very much loved. It is a picture of my Grandfather Roy Herbert with my older brother Barry. Barry was born on the 10 November 1952, in...
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Funeral Card Friday - Marion Miller Taylor (nee McNair) 15 September 1952
Funeral card for Marion Miller TaylorMarion Miller Taylor (nee McNair)Marion Miller Taylor, (nee McNair) was born in Torphichen, West Lothian Scotland on the 10th August, 1864, and came to Australia in...
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Time Out - Family Tree Burnout
It is November!!Five months since I last posted a blog!! I am not sure where the time has gone, but today I received a gentle shove that has given me the motivation to get back to writing about my...
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Sentimental Sunday - William John Herbert - Uncle Bob
William John (Bob) HerbertWilliam John Herbert (1985-1972), or Uncle Bob as I knew him was my grandfather (Roy Clarence Herbert)'s half brother. He and his wife Florence (nee Beaumont) were my...
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Wedding Wednesday - Jessie Taylor and Alfred Smith
Jessie Taylor and Alfred Smith - 8 January 1921My husband's grandparents, Jessie Taylor and Alfred Smith were married at the Presbterian Church, Marrickville, NSW, on the 18 January 1921. Alfred was a...
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Sunday's Obituary - William Taylor 1833-1928
Colne Times 3 June 1928General regret will be express in Colne at the death of Mr William Taylor of 62 Alkincoats Road, and formerly of Duke Street, which occurred on Wednesday morning. Mr Taylor...
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Lunch Time Discoveries in the Rocks - McGregor Family Bible
McGregor and Kinnear Family BiblesAs mentioned in my recent blog, Matrilineal Monday - The Ladies of the McGregor Family I recently received a copy of a family photo of James and Margaret McGregor with...
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Those Places Thursday – Araluen 1859 – Home of the McGregor and McPherson...
In piecing together the story of the McGregor Sisters, I have spent quite a few fascinating hours Sydney Morning Herald 29 June 1859scanning newspaper articles in TROVE, reading about life on the gold...
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Wordless Wednesday - with a question?
Letter from James McGregor to his daughter Jessie Kinnear In my recent blog Lunch Time Discoveries in the Rocks- McGregor Family Bible I describe my good fortune after being contacted by the Society...
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Sentimental Sunday - Christmas Greetings from the Past
Christmas is almost upon us, and it is time to sit and take the time to send out our Christmas cards and family letter. A tradition that is slowly dying out and being replaced by emailed and facebook...
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Follow Friday - Recipes from the Past - A Christmas Sweet - 1911
When scanning through old papers on Trove and British News Papers on line I often come across interesting old recipes from past eras. Why not share some of these? Maybe others would like to do the...
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Those Places Thursday - Sharing Memories - Childhood Christmas in the Outback...
Our Aussie Christmas TreeRecently I received an email from a friend in England in which she commented. "I guess you are going to have one of those funny Australian Christmases”. This made me smile,...
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Follow Friday - Recipes from the Past - Christmas Recipes
This week I searched TROVE for a tasty christmas recipe from the past to post for this weeks recipe from the past and found two that I couldn't go past. These two recipes provide the ingredients for a...
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Wisdom Wednesday - 2013 Accentuate The Positive Geneameme
We are approching the countdown to 2014, and it is time for a little reflection on the passed year. I must thank Jill Ball, from Geniaus for her wisdom in posing a challenge to all genealogy bloggers...
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Amanuensis Monday - The Tantulean Tragedy - Murder Theory
I have mentioned in previous blogs the value of researching your family tree links in TROVE. However, when I first started searching for links to my family history, online research wasn't even thought...
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Thriller Thursday - The Mystery Surrounding the Death of Ralph Shepherd
In my last post "Amanuensis Monday - The Tantulean Tragedy - Murder Theory", I shared an article that I transcribed in the early 1980’s about the Mystery surrounding the murder of my great grand uncle...
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Australia Day Challenge 2014: C’mon Aussie
It is hard to resist an Australia geneameme. Thanks Pauline from "Family History Across the Seas" for opening up this challenge. I think you would have to agree that over the last 25 years there has...
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Thankful Thursday - More Discoveries at the SAG
Lunch Time Discoveries in the Rocks – McGregor Family Bible continuedIn mid-November, I wrote about my first visit to the Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) and my fortunate acquiring of James...
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Sunday's Obituary - James McGregor (1833-1917)
Among the files that I looked at last weekend at the Society of Australia Genealogists (SAG) was the hand written obituary for James McGregor (my great great Grandfather). A photo of James, his wife...
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