Changing Names
The #52Ancestors prompt this week is changing Names, so I’ve written about my Desrez side of the family, whose French surname has been modified and mangled by Australians, and other English speakers for the past 170 years
Growing Up Non-indigenous in Australia
This weeks #52Ancestors challenge – Origins prompted me to look at the concept of foreignness.
Names in Genealogy
A genealogy question on Mastodon, about households containing people with identical names, started me thinking about the number of different version of names we find in old documents and I wondered if it might be explained by the tendency in times past to name children after parents or grandparents, or […]
A Story of Love and Loss
I have a letter found in my Grandfather’s desk, which illustrates the lengths to which we need to go to work out what our ancestors were doing. I guess they never imagined that we would be trawling through their letters and their lives 100 years or more after they had died, or what we’d be able to find out.
History in Three Centuries
On this day – September 25th 1902 Gertrude Ellen Wilson was born.