They say “two is company and three is a crowd” and there are times when that can feel quite true. Growing up as an only child, it was easy at times to feel odd one out, or conversely to lend allegiance to one or the other parent: a triangulation of emotions. Envy of those with … More A tale of threes
Today I’m talking about blogs as part of the Seniors’ Month activities. Different people tell me the very word “blog” makes their eyes cross and sends them to sleep. My goals for the talk are: Not to go blank when someone mentions blogs to be able to recognise one when you meet it not be … More Learning about blogs
There I was, thinking of the myriad picnic photos I could use for this week’s Sepia Saturday 190, when I had a sense of déjà vu. A quick search of this blog and I realised I’d posted at some length on this very topic during the February Photo Collage Festival. If you’d like to read what I had to … More Sepia Saturday and Trove Tuesday: Two for one on picnics
Despite my late response to this week’s Sepia Saturday post, this theme produced an instant image association. It was so reminiscent of photos I’ve seen of the old harbour in Leith – the port for Edinburgh, Scotland, over many centuries. Just imagine the whisky that may have been shipped! My own Melvin (aka Melville) family … More Sepia Saturday 188: The Melvin/Melville Family of Leith
“Some days are diamonds” as John Denver once sang. This morning I received an email from my 3rd cousin, Sheila, in Canada. We share common ancestors Duncan and Annie McCorquodale (various and many spellings). I had sent Sheila a link to an amusing parking sign for McCorkindales and she repaid me with a gold mine! … More Some days are diamonds for Cairndow
What an opportune topic for Sepia Saturday 187! Regular readers will know I’ve only recently returned from interstate where I’ve been helping my mother to move. In the process we’ve unearthed a number of liturgical memorabilia. The first find, which I hadn’t seen before, was a New Testament given to my grandmother when she left … More Sepia Saturday 187: Prayer books, bibles and missals
A featured story this week on the Australian Genealogists’ Daily was one by the eminent Thomas MacEntee writing about “what to pack for a research trip”. It was a great summary of what you mustn’t forget on such a trip but was mostly focused on a domestic journey in one’s own country. I woke up … More Packing for an overseas research trip?
Here I am again after my trek to Queensland and back, notching up about 8000 kms. Mission accomplished in terms of helping Mum move into her new retirement unit. Thanks to all of you who commented and emailed me during my absence. It’s so nice to know my blogging mates are so supportive. That kind … More Inside History’s Top 50 Blogs for 2013
To my good blogging mates, just a message to let you know I’m only MIA temporarily….well for a few weeks. Over the past two months my mother has sold her long term home and is moving to a retirement unit. Needless to say this is a huge task involving much sorting and packing so my … More Missing in Action
It seems that my uncle Pat Farraher is determined to have his moment in the Sepia Saturday sun. Pat appeared back in Sepia Saturday 166 and today’s topic is tailor-made for him. The World War II nominal roll only gives bare details but it lists Patrick Joseph Farraher enlisting on 15 September 1942 in Enoggera, Brisbane at the … More An army marches on its stomach
Family history across the seas 