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Trove Tuesday – Funeral Notices and Oddfellows...
Most family historians look for funeral notices as they provide information on close relatives such as a person’s address, names of children and sometimes where they live if not local, married names of daughters, and sometimes even grandchildren’s names. Occasionally we might get other information such as military service, employment, membership of sporting groups and friendly societies. For today’s Trove Tuesday post I am looking at my great grandfather James Carnegie who died in 1954. His funeral notice...
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Writing Up The Family History with Carol Baxter...
When I attended the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies conference in Camden in September 2016, I was able to catch up with Carol Baxter, the History Detective. Carol had just published the 3rd edition of her popular Writing Interesting Family Histories and a companion volume Writing and Publishing Gripping Family Histories. I’ve enjoyed many of Carol’s presentations on this topic over the years so I was quite happy to review both books. Carol Baxter is a...
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Trove Tuesday – Transmission by Death Notices...
For my first Trove Tuesday post of 2017, I am highlighting the wonderful information that can be located in the seemingly boring Government Notices section of newspapers. Today’s topic is transmission by death notices and this is where property is directly transferred from the deceased to someone else, quite often a spouse, assuming there are no objections. Information includes: Name of deceased proprietor with details of last residence Date of death Name of claimant, their address and relationship...
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Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2016...
Each year Geniaus (Jill Ball) invites people to take part in this activity by responding to the following statements/questions in a blog post. Write as much or as little as you want or answer just a few questions. I always like to participate as it gives me a chance to reflect back on all my genealogy successes during the year. Once you have done so please share your post’s link in a comment on Jill’s original post or email her at...
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