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*]

Yes I got it...........and still searching..............nothing on Ancestry yet.

Do you have a tree on Ancestry........the name you gave me is showing in a private tree.

[clair.de.lune]

yes I have a tree

[flashie*]

I would say it was yours I found then..........:^O.........as that was the only hit I got........darn.

[clair.de.lune]

🙂

[flashie*]

You just do not see articles like this any more.

[flashie*]

Monday, June 21, 1869. :   

The first telegram is sent in Western Australia.

     Australia's first telegraph line, which ran from Melbourne to Williamstown, opened in 1854. Each of the other states followed suit within seven years, but Western Australia's relative isolation delayed the development of the technology.

Edmund Stirling was the proprietor of the Perth newspaper, and the one who stirred the colonial authorities into action. He offered to build a telegraph line extending from Perth to Fremantle if the government was prepared to supply and erect the poles. Stirling joined with ex-convict James Fleming who had been transported for swindling in 1864, and who was subsequently appointed Superintendent of Telegraphs on a conditional release.

The first telegraph pole was installed near the Perth jetty by Colonial Secretary, the Honorable Fred Barlee, in 1869, and a 12-mile wire extended to Fremantle. The first telegram was sent on 21 June 1869. The text of the first telegram read:

"To the chairman of the Fremantle Town Trust. His Excellency Colonel Bruce heartily congratulates the inhabitants of fremantle on the annihilation of distance between the Port and the Capital and he requests that this the first message may be publicly known.
Government House 21st June 1869."

[clair.de.lune]

Wanted for seduction amazing isn't it flashie?

Someone, anyone, you know how there can be so many variations of names on ancestry? Surely I can I assume that a name on a death certificate is the correct way to spell it?

[green.fields]

No Clair I don't think we can assume that they got any spelling right, be it on death certificates or elsewhere. Always have to keep an open mind with genealogy.

[flashie*]

If you have to chose correct spelling on a birth marriage or death certificate I would chose the marriage certificate............they fill them in their selves................but I would not take as gospel what/who they say their parents are...............many an illegitimate child has fibbed about a deceased imaginary father.

[clair.de.lune]

Oh ok cause that's the one (one of the few) that had about 6 variations of her maiden name

I received the death certificate for her young son that died