Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – Ellen Questions Part 1

Each week on Randy Seaver’s Genea-musings blog he has a post for Saturday night Genealogy fun. Because of the time difference, I have called my series Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun. This week’s mission was: 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her blog this week - see Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You(posted…

Friday Finds 21 Jun 2019

Each Friday, I share the new and updated collections from Ancestry, FindMyPast, FamilySearch, as well as links to details about other new, and not so new, records and tools. I’m running late with the post this week. The following are the Recently added and updated collections at ancestry.com.au this week UPDATED Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2016 19/06/2019…

Trove Tuesday – John William Whimpey and Ezywalkin Shoes

  Yesterday, I was working on John William Whimpey.  My relationship to John is: The Western Australian directories had shown that John was the manager of Ezywalkin Shoes at Boulder, and later at Albany, so I decided to do a search on Trove for articles, using the search terms “Whimpey Ezywalkin” The earliest article I…

Alfred Taylor – coal dealer and silversmith

My 3x great grandmother's sister, Sarah Mills married Alfred Taylor on 4 November 1847. Alfred Taylor was of full age, widower, coal dealer, residence New John Street West, father William Taylor, grocer. I had been able to follow Sarah on the census records from 1861 to 1901 (refer my previous post about Sarah), and had…

Finding Sarah Taylor (nee Mills) on the 1871 and 1891 censuses

I was recently researching the siblings of my 3x great grandmother, Catherine Mills, and was working on her sister Sarah. Sarah had married Alfred Taylor in 1847, and by 1861 she was a widow.  The surname Taylor is a fairly common one, (as are most surnames that are occupational surnames), which is one of the…

Friday Finds 14 Jun 2019

Each Friday, I share the new and updated collections from Ancestry, FindMyPast, FamilySearch, as well as links to details about other new, and not so new, records and tools. There was only one Recently added and updated collections at ancestry.com.au this week. UPDATED Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 10/06/2019 The following are the collections featured in this week’s FindMyPast Fridays…

The advantages and disadvantages of indexes

Today I was double checking my entry in my Ancestry Public Member Tree for Edward Whimpey, and noticed that I still hadn’t added a source to the burial information I had for him. Before the images of the Somerset parish registers became available on Ancestry, I had been using the indexes on the FreeReg website,…

Trove Tuesday – John Theodore Mulder

I recently had a contact on Ancestry saying they had found John Theodore Mulder and Mary Josephine Mulder together on the Electoral rolls, and was asking how they fit in to the family. This was my reply: John Theodore Mulder was the son of Thomas Alexander Mulder and Lizzie Silk. John had married Bessie Baker…

Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun – Ancestor Life Sketch Tweets

Each week on Randy Seaver’s Genea-musings blog he has a post for Saturday night Genealogy fun. Because of the time difference, I have called my series Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun. This week’s mission was: 1)  Gail Dever in a blog post suggested writing a life sketch tweet with no more than 280 characters for a…

Friday Finds 7 June 2019

Each Friday, I share the new and updated collections from Ancestry, FindMyPast, FamilySearch, as well as links to details about other new, and not so new, records and tools. The following were the Recently added and updated collections at ancestry.com.au this week. UPDATED Web: Washington County, Maryland, Marriage Index, 1861-1949 05/06/2019 NEW Essex, England, Church of England Births and…