This is Week 38 in my Beyond the Internet series in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens and the topic is Burial Registers. This forms part of the cheerily named “Death” theme in the series and next week’s post on funeral directors’ registers will be the finale of this section. Cemeteries offer … More Beyond the Internet: Week 38 Burial Registers
I am participating in the A to Z 2012 blog challenge throughout April. My theme is a genealogical travelogue or a travel genealogue (I’m not sure which). F is for the Fifteen Mile (Queensland) The Fifteen Mile in Queensland would be unknown to most people except locals. Part way up the road between Murphys Creek and the … More F is for the Fifteen Mile, Fromelles and Fleurbaix
Last night most of us slept peacefully in our beds, but ninety-five years ago a fierce and bloody battle was raging in France. That night Australia suffered a truly terrible loss of its young men akin to that at Gallipoli. Among the Australians readying for action on the evening of 19 July 1916 were my … More Battle of Fromelles: In Memoriam L/Cpl James Augustus Gavin KIA
Family history across the seas 