Someone asked me the other day why I choose to use Family Treemaker. Why not another genealogy software program? I couldn’t really answer, as when I picked Family Treemaker, it was many years ago and at the time it ticked all my boxes. I was already an ancestry.com convert and …
Familysearch.org website is one of the most used websites in genealogy. This is a big achievement, as I don’t see them put out big advertising campaigns like Ancestry and Findmypast. Familysearch website doesn’t have the slick lines and the shaky leaf syndrome. It also doesn’t have the price tag. It’s …
I was searching for more information on my ancestor John Robinson. I knew his date of death was 1876 and he died in Balmain. However I was keen to find out what other information I might get from his will and probate information. I was very excited to see what …
Our Warren coat of arms has given inspiration to our family. Not the type of inspiration that you would expect. The colours on the shield are blue and yellow and my father in law took that as a sign to paint his home in those colours. I love the meaning …
Ben Affleck has been in the news recently when it was found out that he asked for a part of a show from “Finding Roots” to be taken out. He was embarrassed by a slave owning ancestor. Now that everybody knows, he is happy to admit that he was embarrassed. …
Not everyone can see the value in old items such as letters, diaries, bibles and even war medals. Many times when people die all their possessions are just dispersed into the bin, second hand shops or sold off. The problem is that unless it is obvious sometimes, it is hard …
The Stolen Generation was not only stolen from their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters but from their extended family, their indigenous language, their culture, their right to land, and their identity. Many white Australians are able to easily access their family history but indigenous Australians removed from their families can …
When I was 15 I decided that with my part time job I would buy stuff to one day move out. I had an older brother with many items in his house that used to be in our family home and thought Mum would run out of things to …
Trove is one of my favourite places to go when doing genealogy. I love the Australian focus and the amount of different gems of information I have gotten from it. When I started doing genealogy I found a publication and the contact details to another fellow Warren researcher. I was …
It was rumoured that one of my ancestors had a mine that was called Hallelujuh and they were a member of the Salvation Army member. This lead me to wonder what records that Salvation Army had. This helped me strike gold in my own mine of genealogy. My first stop …
