I’m not a big party person but birthdays are special and always a great reason to celebrate with close friends. My baby book records that I spent my first birthday quietly…which set the theme for others to come I suspect. By my third birthday I had three little friends, Mum and her friend. My birthday is … More 123rd Carnival of Genealogy: Birthday Parties
How could I possibly ignore this month’s Carnival of Genealogy topic of reading. Jasia has posed the following questions: Do you come from a family of readers? What kinds of reading material was typically found around your house when you were growing up… fiction books, comic books, poetry, the Bible, magazines, cookbooks, prayer books??? What … More Carnival of Genealogy 118th edition: Reading
My grandmother, a girl on the verge of young womanhood, looks at us sidelong from her position beside her mother, yet her gaze is direct and intense. I see echoes of myself in this photo, taken when she would have been about 12. This makes it likely that the photograph dates from around the time … More Carnival of Genealogy – 116th edition – Catherine McCorkindale
Family history across the seas 