Shauna Hicks, a very experienced researcher and family historian, is giving two talks in Darwin on 6th February, hosted by the Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory. Anyone who has heard Shauna speak will know a treat is in store for them. Her talks will be: Online Trends In Family History & Asylum Records: A … More Shauna Hicks to visit Darwin
Irish family history research and County Clare … More Irish Ancestry and County Clare research
Like many Territorians we woke up on Saturday to find that we had no power. Life’s tough without the first cup of coffee for the day so thank heavens for the gas camping kit.The house was gloomy until about 8am except for the glow of the laptop screen and the fluoro torch. It makes you … More Gloom and doom and no power
One of the positive things about internet genealogy is the capacity to make connections with relatives or other family historians around the globe. A couple of years ago I posted my research on the connection between the John Widdup family from Urana and his cousins John Bracewell (UK) and Jesse, Jonathan, and Joseph Hodgson from … More Widdup Hodgson and Bracewell connection updated
Grass Roots Queenslanders: the Kunkel family. History of the O’Brien family of Ballykelly, Clare, Ireland; Widdups of Urana, NSW. Urana and Narrandera are places where the Widdup family had branches. links to the Hodgsons from Eaglehawk near Bendigo in Victoria … More Widdups from Urana & Bracewell-Hodgson connection
One of my bugbears about current family history is the near-total reliance on the internet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of the internet but there’s a time and place for everything. Yes the IGI does provide a glimpse into potential ancestral families but this is a plea for people to move beyond … More LDS films & their usefulness to family history
This is an introduction to my family history interests: Names: Kunkel, O’Brien, Partridge, Kent, Gavin, McCorkindale, Sim, McSherry, McSharry, Sherry, Melvin, Cass
Places: Dorfprozelten, Bavaria; Broadford, County Clare; Coleford, Gloucestershire; Sandon, Hertfordshire; Ballymore Eustace, Kildare; Davidstown, Wicklow; Loch Awe and Ardkinglas, Argyll; Tullamore, Offaly; Gorey, Wexford; Glasgow, Lanarkshire; Leith, Midlothian; … More Introducing my family
Family history across the seas 