Janelle's family tree addiction

 My father is from a long line of coal miners, strecthing back at least to the early 1800s. His COLLINS family emigrated from Worsley, Lanca...

Edward and Ivy's wedding portrait taken on 27 November 1907 Just like mitochondrial DNA, a lot of family history stories are carried dow...

A Guide to Searching the Find a Grave website   Why Use Find a Grave? The Find a Grave website is one of the most popular tools for genealog...

 A family secret came to light because my great-uncle Gus (Thomas Augustine O'NEILL) told his brother, Cyril. Before he died, Cyril told...

My great-great-grandfather was Henry Burgess GIBB. He was born in Paddington (an inner-city suburb of Sydney) in 1864, and died near Teralba...

Thanks to Jill from GeniAus for kicking us off in 2020 with her Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2019 . 1.  An elusive ancestor I found w...

While at a RootsTech London pre-conference dinner in October I finally got to meet genealogical crime mystery author Nathan Dylan Goodwin , ...

In September a few friends and I attended a celebration for History Week at State Archives in Kingswood, NSW. This included a tour of their ...

Looking back over 2019 it has been a wonderful year for family history, with many conferences attended, my first trip to England for RootsT...

In November I returned from a 2-week trip to England where I attended my first RootsTech extravaganza. I arrived the weekend before so I cou...

While researching the land petitions and dealings of my convict ancestor, Esther Salamon Spencer Stubbs Bigge, I came across a document (1) ...