It’s National Family History Month and what better month than to start your family history. This year the theme is ‘Secrets and Lies’ and many of us have discovered just that in our research, things we didn’t know about our family and things kept secret or told in a way that covered the truth. OnContinue reading “There is no ordinary life”
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Grave Tales – Tingalpa Christ Church
The Tingalpa Christ Church and cemetery is a little piece of history remaining in Brisbane, now surrounded by industry and traffic. The sound of pressurised gas and the smell of fried potatoes waft from the Smiths Factory next door and the rumble of trucks and cars travelling the six lanes of Wynnum Road is everContinue reading “Grave Tales – Tingalpa Christ Church”
Looking beyond Ancestry
Most of us in Australia use Ancestry to build our family tree. There are limitations with the records available online and limitations with record sets that can’t be released until a time period has past. The limitations with this is that the records have a release date, so births, marriages and deaths are available onlyContinue reading “Looking beyond Ancestry”
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