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?

[clair.de.lune]

I've sent you a msg flashie

[punch*drunk]

clair, have you tried playing around with Victorias BDM online records?

If I cant find a match, I sometimes search using just the parents first names, or every birth within a certain time frame with just the first name of the child, or even a shortened version of the first name.

You dont need to put in a surname to get a result. You can play with it a bit like ancestry, and it only costs 99c to view a page of results. And if you're looking for a death, when you click on the search results, most of the time you'll get an approx age so that can help narrow things down a bit too.

[clair.de.lune]

Do you have to pay first punch because it keeps coming up no results found.

Like that war records site showed you there were records there and that enticed you to pay lol

[punch*drunk]

You only pay if you get results and its 99c per page (20 I think) of results. If you want to buy a certificate, its $20 and you can download it immediately.

I'll email you a couple of screenshots of the information you get.

[clair.de.lune]

Thanks punch 🙂

I will have a look tomorrow

[flashie*]

Clair...............I got your message............and I am still looking at it..........I can not make up my mind.

Did anyone watch Who do you think you are tonight on SBS..............Sam Womack....it was a really good one.

[icyfroth]

My grandmother had to wear a built-up shoe because of a childhood accident that left on leg shorter than the other. I wasn't close to her, didn't get to know her til I was in my teens.

Despite her disability she had 3 children. My Mother was the eldest. Oma was tops in making preserves and I used to sneak her jars of preserved cherries. God they were good.

She caught me once but she never dobbed me in.

[clair.de.lune]

No I didn't watch it flashie and I haven't looked properly at those links yet punch but I will.

Do you ever do ancestry reseach icy?

How funny, I just emailed this to the lady in Perth:

The lady at the genealogy museum remembers Anna but appears to not remember me as she tells me this every time I visit!

[clair.de.lune]

How funny's this, I just went to the next door neighbours house and she showed me these brilliant wool weave pictures she had done. They were bush fire scenes, stories taken from old newspapers about bush fires in the area. And one was where there was a lady who lived in a hut in the bush and her MIL had died and the priest and a man came to pick up the coffin in horse & cart but just as they were carrying it out two men called out from over the hill that there was a bush fire heading their way. So they put the coffin in the potato patch and when they went to get it later the coffin and remains had survied!

Wonder if i can find the story on Trove?

[green.fields]

You never know Clair, worth a search. Amazing the coffin wasn't touched by fire, meant to be I'd say.

Flashie I watched WDYTYA, was very interesting, my husband kept waffling while I was trying to watch, I had to shoosh him a few times. I did think her reactions were a bit OTT at times, that said it was interesting and I didn't even know her from a bar of soap.