oh gosh, this is very out of date. I have been plodding along with my family history and completely neglecting this blog.
I have stumbled over two new convicts, found out that many of my father's ancestors were actually Tasmanians who moved to Victoria.
Visited a few Schultz cousins during a road trip that took me to Bendigo, Horsham and Melbourne last year.
Knocked out a few bricks in a wall on my mother's side that was doing my head in for years!
This year I have signed up to do the Diploma of Family History through UTAS. The first unit I am doing is called Place, Image, Object and I am a bit excited about using my brain for something different. I am also enrolled for a unit on Convict history too.
This year I decided to become more involved in the Launceston Historical Society by accepting a place on the committee. I look forward to learning more and being involved in some projects locally. I am also involved (with my 12yr old daughter) in the Launceston Mechanics Institute project. We will be researching artifacts from the old institute and documenting them in a photography project and researching their history. I also plan on doing an oral history project later in the year for the same group. It is all happening! Along with volunteering in the archives at Launceston LINC.
This week I have had to give thought to an image or object for study. Sadly most of my family were not hoarders so this has left me with very few objects from the past and even less photographs.
My mum did hand over these treasures today though so I am trying to decide what I will concentrate on. The small book is a prayer book given to my grandmother by my mother in 1957, the ruler was my grandfathers, who was a carpenter/builder and the large book is a book that belonged to by great grandfather on 'how to be catholic'.
I have stumbled over two new convicts, found out that many of my father's ancestors were actually Tasmanians who moved to Victoria.
Visited a few Schultz cousins during a road trip that took me to Bendigo, Horsham and Melbourne last year.
Knocked out a few bricks in a wall on my mother's side that was doing my head in for years!
This year I have signed up to do the Diploma of Family History through UTAS. The first unit I am doing is called Place, Image, Object and I am a bit excited about using my brain for something different. I am also enrolled for a unit on Convict history too.
This year I decided to become more involved in the Launceston Historical Society by accepting a place on the committee. I look forward to learning more and being involved in some projects locally. I am also involved (with my 12yr old daughter) in the Launceston Mechanics Institute project. We will be researching artifacts from the old institute and documenting them in a photography project and researching their history. I also plan on doing an oral history project later in the year for the same group. It is all happening! Along with volunteering in the archives at Launceston LINC.
This week I have had to give thought to an image or object for study. Sadly most of my family were not hoarders so this has left me with very few objects from the past and even less photographs.
My mum did hand over these treasures today though so I am trying to decide what I will concentrate on. The small book is a prayer book given to my grandmother by my mother in 1957, the ruler was my grandfathers, who was a carpenter/builder and the large book is a book that belonged to by great grandfather on 'how to be catholic'.
This next picture is of a charm or pendant that belonged to by grandmother's grandmother. It is very old, but I don't believe it to be very valuable, it doesn't look to be made from actual silver but I have never had it looked at professionally. The book is a 1891 copy of Great Expecttions and The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens. This book belonged to my great grandfather and was the only book he ever read. Seriously, he would finish it, turn it over and start again! That is dedication for you.
Anyway, I hope to update a little more often from now on. I have a few stories to share of various ancestors and a couple to update.
