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Written by John
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Thursday, 26 August 2010 21:51 |
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Frustrated. Irritated. Angry? Take your pick.
The past week I’ve examined two records that have shed some light perhaps, on two of my forebear’s origins. But instead of the usual excitement, I’ve only found myself irritated with what I’m seeing in the records.
The first record is for my great great grandfather James Avery, who I wrote about in my previous blog entry. In that entry I explained how I had given over to a cautious assumption for James Avery having been a man of E ...
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Written by John
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 04:00 |
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Late night searches on Trove can be greatly rewarding I find. There are certainly a lot less matters to distract me at 3am!
Given that my great grandfather, Herbert AVERY was a black man who had been rudely labelled a half-caste in government documents, I had come to the tentative assumption that at least one of Herbert’s parents was white, or at the very least – non Indigenous.
The facts:
Herbert AVERY was the son of James AVERY and Sarah MORGAN. He was born in about 1881 at Gordon Brook S ...
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Written by John
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:34 |
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It's great to see that Ancestry.com.au is finally of some real value. It's recently added the BD&M indexes for Australia's various states, from 1788-1920. This will be a great help, especially given the ancient software versions presently available on CD, the pain of fiche, and the drudgery of paying online to simply view Victorian search results.
I can't wait to rip in!
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Written by John
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 13:01 |
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It’s going to be an interesting time for genealogy on Australian TV in the back half of 2010. Whilst it’s all quiet on the US front, we’re going to see a trickle of worthy documentaries/series hitting the airwaves in coming months (should there be no production delays), ranging across both Aboriginal and Colonial History, along with a genealogy mainstay. It may not be a torrent of material, but it’s certainly welcome food for thought.
Convict Ghosts Speak (10 x 5min)
35 convicts - photograp ...
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Written by John
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 06:43 |
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Today I’ve perhaps come to a dead end in a line of research that I’ve found baffling for the last few years, and all because of a simple mistake in spelling in a newspaper article. Patten, Pattin, Pattern, Potten, Pittin, Payten, Payton, Patin, Patterson, Patern, Paten, Pahen, Pattenden, Patton, Pattinson – there are a lot of possibilities for people to mess up!
A few years back I found what I believed was the first likely mention of my family’s surname as being directly tied to me. It came i ...
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