This photo definitely includes my grandfather, Denis Kunkel (second left, second back row) and was found as a backing board behind another picture. I have a theory it is be an extended family photo because of some of the poses and family resemblances-some look very like my father. Or it could be some local society -but … More Wordless Wednesday (not quite) -Brickwall photo
The topic for Week 6 is Radio & TV: What was your favorite radio or television show from your childhood? What was the program about and who was in it? http://www.geneabloggers.com/tag/52-weeks-of-personal-genealogy-history/ Well this week’s challenge certainly stretched my brain…probably because I didn’t read the question (you know, exam strategies 101)! So really just randomly picking … More 52 Weeks of Personal History & Genealogy: Week 6: TV & Radio
The biggest roadblock in writing my Kunkel-O’Brien family history in 2003 was trying to give my readers a flavour of the ancestral home village in Bavaria. I struggled with this stumbling block for weeks, but during a day’s creative writing class at the NT Writers’ Centre a lateral approach came to me. Instead of being … More Writing family history -roadblock in Dorfprozelten
Despite missing the timeline for Week 2, I thought I’d update my blog to include my thoughts on “Winter” in Queensland. This isn’t all that simple, as other Australian bloggers have mentioned, because when you grow up in a sub-tropical climate, winter is a relative thing. In the tropics where I now live, a temperature … More 52 weeks of Personal Genealogy & History -Week 2 overdue -Winter
Favourite Food Thinking about this topic I’ve realised how strong has been the influence of my mother’s grandparents –my great-grandfather was a confectioner and pastry cook and the family owned tea rooms in Charters Towers in the late 19th century and prior to that a confectionery business in Ipswich, Queensland. Judging on a few newspaper … More 52 Weeks of Personal History & Genealogy-Week 5 -Favourite Foods
The lack of shoes is not indicative of financial poverty -this is a sub-tropical area.
Shelley from http://twigsofyore.blogspot.com/ has invited us to submit an Australia Day post on our blogs. She suggests that we “Find the earliest piece of documentation you have about an ancestor in Australia. If you don’t have an Australian ancestor, then choose the earliest piece of documentation you have for a relative in Australia” On Wednesday … More Australia Day 2011 meme: the importance of church records and archives to my early documents.
The house where I lived, until I left home as an adult, is a typical Queensland house of its era, in a near-city working class suburb. It is on stilts to gain the benefit of cooling breeze, but also to open up underneath for the typical working tasks, sort of like a combined men’s and … More 52 Weeks of Personal History & Genealogy: Week 4 Home
As hard as it is to believe these days, when (and where) I was growing up, very few people actually owned cars and those who did were generous with their availability. Dad’s family had owned a car for quite a while when he was young but I don’t know why they sold it. My … More 52 weeks of Personal Genealogy & History: Week 3 Cars
As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve recently been transcribing the copies of some pages I got on the Inishail Kirk Session records when I was in Scotland late last year. In this post I’ll focus on what I found while trying to learn more about my 3xgreatgrandfather’s pauper status in 1851. The Kirk Session … More Inishail Kirk Session -Poor’s Funds
Family history across the seas 