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*]

Today in history.

Wednesday 26th August 1818

Explorers John Oxley and George Evans discover the fertile Liverpool Plains in NSW.

  John Oxley (1785?-1828) was an English naval officer who, shortly after arriving in Australia in 1802, was made Surveyor-General of the New South Wales colony. George Evans was Deputy Surveyor-General, and went on numerous expeditions, both in his own right and accompanying Oxley.

In 1818, Oxley and Evans set off from Bathurst with 15 men to follow the Macquarie River. The previous year they had encountered many obstacles while attempting to follow the flooded Lachlan River, so this time they were prepared, having taken along boats. However, numerous shallow marshes, thick forests and areas of quicksand forced them to abandon their boats and any hope of making further progress in that direction. Turning east, on 26 August 1818 they climbed a hill and saw before them rich, fertile plains which they named the Liverpool Plains after Lord Liverpool, the British Prime Minister. This countryside is now some of the richest in New South Wales.

[punch*drunk]

Another interesting website  http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2013/08/27/trove-tuesday-lets-celebrate/

I actually got a notification when you posted yesterday flashie, first time since the boards changed. They must have fixed something 🙂

[clair.de.lune]

Thanks punch 🙂 I looked at that link yesterday.

I have been doing a lot more ancestry lately as I've had a bit of time off work, it's bad when I work fulltime then have the grand daughter on the weekends I hardly get time to search.

flashie I have a death certificate that says my 2nd grt grandmother died in W.A. Dec 1912 (and I know from Trove she'd gone back to W.A. to live with her daughter for the last few years of her life) and then an electoral record saying she was still living in the house in Moonee Ponds in 1914. I can only assume the electoral records hadn't been updated?

Some things are so frustrating.

Also I know they had some time to register a childs birth so if the childs birth was registered in say 1885 can I assume they might have been born in 1883? Ages on death certifciates don't add up

[punch*drunk]

Clair do you have any rellies in Cheltenham cemetery? I am a member and can access an online database with phtos and information.

[clair.de.lune]

punch no I don't thanks 🙂

However everytime we drive past a cemetery my husband goes I bet you've got rellies in there and turns out a lot of the time I do!

Mind you he'd be the same, I haven't done his tree yet but he said his 2nd grt grandmother owned a pub in Benalla that sheltered Ned Kelly

[clair.de.lune]

Received email from the lady in Perth Helen/Ellen are the same person, she was registered as Helen but went by Ellen or Auntie Nellie

Well Hmpf what about the imaginary husband & son I gave to Helen I thought that was very nice of me

And she was born 1862 yet registered 1866?

[clair.de.lune]

I thought it was strange when the imaginary Helen and her pretendy husband and pretendy son were the only ones out of the 12 children that were receiving hints

[flashie*]

I found this site when I was trying to find a spare convict for Karen.

http://www.claimaconvict.net/

[punch*drunk]

Looks like the one notification I got for this thread was just a fluke, or maybe the notifications will be coming annually?

Some friends and I are thinking we might do a tour of Aradale, Ararat Lunatic Asylum. Dont think I'll be doing a night time tour though, could be a bit spooky.

http://www.aradaleghosttours.com.au/history.php 

[clair.de.lune]

I did it once punch, not a night time tour. It was some years ago and the guy that did the tour used to work there