Family Tree Frog

Photo by  [Segle] - REFLEX IS BACK !  on  Foter.com  /  CC BY-NC-SA With thanks to Randy Seaver and Jill Ball for the meme - Pot Pourri - It has been a very productive month for me family history wise. Here is what I have been doing..... Study I completed another unit of my Diploma of Family History - Writing Family History on Wednesday night - the last day of January.  During January I had to write 3 x 250 word short stories and then one 750-1000 story. So that was quite a bit of work as you can imagine. And then because I am a sucker for punishment I enrolled in another unit - Families at War .   I have to complete 8 units altogether to finish the Diploma. I have completed: Intro to Family History Convict Ancestors The Photo Essay: an Introduction and Writing Family History So that's all my foundation units done. I have also completed Oral History .  So only two more units to complete after Families at War.  Writing the Family Saga and Convic

The lovely Alona Tester from Lonetester HQ has thrown out the challenge to see how many letters of the alphabet you can assign to an ancestor's place of work or home; not necessarily where they work born but where they lived or worked. A Arncliffe , Sydney - where Kate Amelia Ellis died. Arana Hills - where I work Aranda - the suburb I grew up in Canberra or  Avondale - the name of our house in Glebe, Sydney where I finished school and went to Uni. B Bannockburn, Scotland   for the Forfars who cause me no end of trubble.  Bathurst, NSW   - the birthplace of my maternal grandfather (McLoughlin).  Barbados  for my husband's family (Donovan/Proverbs).  Bishopsgate, London, England   where the Cooks lived in the 1860s.  Bondi, Sydney  for my grandmother in her later years and where both sets of my grandparents were married.(McLoughlin) and Conner  Bourke , NSW - where John McLoughlin and Margaret Taylor were married. Bowenfells, NSW - where John McLoughlin w

  Springsure State School student group, 1884 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland The lovely Shelley from Twigs of Yore came up with this great meme for Australia Day. Shelley proposed the following: Choose someone who lived in Australia (preferably one of your ancestors) and tell us how they toiled. Your post should include:     What was their occupation?     What information do you have about the individual’s work, or about the occupation in general?     The story of the person, focussing on their occupation; or     The story of the occupation, using the person as an example.   I chose my great grand aunt - Harriet Rowland (nee Conner) Harriet is pretty emblematic of how I tend to jump around in family history.  She is not a direct ancestor as such - she is in fact the older sister of my paternal great-grandfather.  Of course I never knew her.  When I grew up the Conners I knew had always lived in Sydney, but there were rumours of family in Queensl

Photo by Nicole Köhler on Magdeleine I've been researching family history for a very long time...a very long time.  Let me say that again....a very long time.  So you think I'd know better but....we all get into habits and routines.  We all think we know how to do research.  So, let me tell you a story about what happened to me the other day.  The other night actually.  Wednesday night specifically. Wednesday night had been looming large in my consciousness because it was when my final assignment was due for the Writing Family History unit I'm studying at University of Tasmania (yes - even though I live all the way up in Queensland - don't you love modern technology?) The assignment was due at midnight. So anyway, I'd decided to write about my two great-great-aunts Clara Rebecca Conner and Harriet Conner because I am ob sessed with them.  During the course I had written a couple of short stories about them.   Photo by  Library Company of Philadelp