Last Wednesday was a fantastic day for me. I went to Melbourne to meet someone special - Christine Wilton. We connected through Facebook genealogy groups - I checked her profile because my Mum's maiden...
Connecting Dots. Connecting Branches.
Sunday, 3 July 2016
Thursday, 30 June 2016
DNA, Yay Yay Yay
Ahem... I'm very bad at this blogging gig. I said I'd be back to post and then I just sort of wandered off...
My main gift for Christmas 2015 was an Ancestry DNA test kit, and I got that sucker into the mail just as quickly as I could. The 6-8 week processing time threatened to drag forever, but in...
Reflections and New Discoveries on the 133rd Anniversary of my Great Great Grandparents Marriage.
My Great Great Grandparents' marriage has always seemed a little sketchy. They were William Turner and Harlettee Louisa Smith, nee Groombridge. He was 70. She was 36. They married on the 30th of June, 1883 at the office of the Registrar of Marriages for the District of Collingwood, at Hoddle Street....
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Delighted by Newly Arrived DNA Results
It has been an age since my last post, and for no good reason. I just got distracted and wandered off, as is my wont. My youngest, Womble, was sick at the time but it was just one of those childhood illnesses...
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
A Sick Little Womble
I haven't been able to get a new post up for a few days because my 3 year old, The Womble, hasn't been well. Long nights without much sleep have been eating into my genealogy and blogging time. Hopefully he'll be back to his regular self in short order and life will resume....
Thursday, 29 May 2014
Myrtle Elsie Adelaide Turner 1889-1963
Myrtle Elsie Adelaide Turner was born in 1889. The youngest of the three children of Harlettee Louisa Groombridge and William Turner, she was only 4 when her father passed away.
Undated photo of...
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Three Postcards
Tonight I want to talk about the Three Postcards. They came in the box of treasure from Linda Grumont that I've mentioned previously, and two of them are perfectly charming pieces of family history. The...
