Trove Tuesday – Karisma Estate, Toorbul & the Carnegie Family
My great great great grandparents John and Helen Carnegie are buried in the only surviving grave in the old Toorbul cemetery, now a historic reserve. I have found all types of records about the family and their oyster leases in Pumicestone Passage after they settled...
Trove Tuesday – The Queenslander Cot Fund
The Queenslander Cot Fund was set up by the newspaper The Queenslander to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Children in Brisbane. In my example John C Davis was the organiser and he was my great grandfather James Carnegie’s cousin. John C Davis was the son...52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2014 – Week 10 Occupation Records
This blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 by focussing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy interests and there are probably...
Speaker with two talks - Mining ancestors in Australia and Researching at the National Archives of Australia.