Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[flashie*]

There are now 100 000 burials and cremations at Cornelian Bay Cemetery.

I could not find any current pictures taken from the same angle.

[clair.de.lune]

That's all amazing I can't believe the headstones in the walls!

[flashie*]

There are a few schools in Hobart that were built over old Cemeteries.

One has a few headstones in an outer wall.

That school a few years ago got funding to build new clasrooms/hall..............and when they were digging the foundation for the new building they dug up a skull.

It was in the paper..............I do not think they tried to find out who the poor devil was.............I thik they jsut put him back in the ground.

[clair.de.lune]

Oh my!  

[clair.de.lune]

It just shouldn't be allowed quite honestly

[punch*drunk]

This website came up in my facebook this morning, a database of female Irish orphans that came to Australia between 1848 & 1850.

Irish Famine Memorial.

http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/database/?surName=murphy&firstName=mary&age=0&nativePlace...

[clair.de.lune]

Thanks punch!

[soul_art]

Great old photosflashie, thanks for posting them.

I wonder what will happen in the future as less ans less land is available. 

cemeteries are usually in prime RE areas ?

[2chappies]

Punch, today is the day of the Famine Memorial service on the site of the Hyde Park Barracks. They have been having it annually since the memorial was erected a few years ago. I must try and get there next year even though I (don't think) I have any rellies who came through there.

[punch*drunk]

I think I may have a couple of famine orphans, but the names are so common they're almost impossible to trace accurately.

Lol, I must be getting the ancestry bug again, I've gone from the orphan site to the workhouse site to the London archives, I'm sure I've seen them all before but I havent done much ancestry for a while so its like finding them all for the first time 🙂