Yesterday the Australian War Memorial announced a request for volunteers to assist them to transcribe thousands of love letters written between soldiers and their loved ones at home during the major conflicts. I signed up to the website and started to transcribe a letter from Dorothy Williams to her love Malcolm ‘Mac’ Keshan. The letterContinue reading “Love letters from the front”
Category Archives: Family history
A Christmas Grave Tale – Young Cemetery
Young cemetery in south-west New South Wales contains one grave that made me look twice and a third time. It is the grave of Noel “Christmas” Carroll born on Christmas day 1937, to Hugh and Lucy. What else would you call your son born on Christmas day when your last name is Carroll? And whatContinue reading “A Christmas Grave Tale – Young Cemetery”
Christmas Conversations
Christmas is a great time to have a conversation with family members about family history. Chatting about family stories with older family members while gathered is an important element to gathering clues to help piece together an ancestor’s life. My grandfather Frederick James Peeling was born in Shepherds Bush, London on 19 May 1908, toContinue reading “Christmas Conversations”
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