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”
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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”
The wanderings of John McCarthy
When you research a family story for a person living in the 1800’s and even into the early 1900’s you don’t expect a person to move very far in their life. There are some however that move due to circumstances such as running from the law, running from a family or external events such asContinue reading “The wanderings of John McCarthy”
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