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*]

  Arthur Phillip was born in London on 11 October 1738. He joined the Royal Navy when he was fifteen, and alternately earned a living as a navy officer and as a farmer. In October 1786, Phillip was appointed Governor-designate of the proposed British penal colony of New South Wales. He was a practical man who suggested that convicts with experience in farming, building and crafts be included in the First Fleet, but his proposal was rejected. The First Fleet left Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787, and arrived in Botany Bay on 18 January 1788. Phillip immediately determined that there was insufficient fresh water, an absence of usable timber, poor quality soil and no safe harbour at Botany Bay. Thus the fleet was moved to Port Jackson, arriving on 26 January 1788.

Phillip faced many obstacles in his attempts to establish the new colony. British farming methods, seeds and implements were unsuitable for use in the different climate and soil, and the colony faced near-starvation in its first two years. Phillip also worked to improve understanding with the local Aborigines. The colony finally succeeded in developing a solid foundation, agriculturally and economically, thanks to the perseverance of Captain Arthur Phillip.

Poor health forced Phillip to return to England in 1792. He resigned his commission soon after arriving back in England, and died on 31 August 1814.

[flashie*]

James Scobie was an unassuming gold miner who came to Australia from Scotland to make his fortune on the Ballarat goldfields. After becoming involved in a fight at the Eureka Hotel, also known as Bentley's Hotel, Scobie died on 7 October 1854. An inquest into his death absolved the hotel owner, Bentley, and his staff of any wrongdoing. The miners, however, felt that justice had been thwarted, and held a meeting outside the hotel on 17 October 1854. Tempers flared, a riot ensued and the hotel was burnt to the ground. As a result of this, more troopers were sent from Melbourne, and miners were subjected to more frequent licence checks, and more frequent clashes between miners and troopers. Another inquest into Scobie's death was held a month later, on 18 November, during which Bentley and two of his staff were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to three years' hard labour in the road-gangs. The general dissatisfaction generated by these events was a catalyst in the events leading up to the Eureka stockade of December 3.

[mtnlane]

Whist I am not involved in family research at the moment, I heard an interview this morning about an organisation - The Guild of One-Name Studies - and thought some of you might be interested in reading about it.

Who knows, It might assist you some way in your research or you might be able to further some of their research.

http://www.one-name.org/

[flashie*]

Punch.............are you around?

I have a bit of a dilemma.

I have had a lady contact me about my great great grandfather..............she seems to think that I have wrong information on him.

It is pretty clear one of us is wrong.

Do you want to have a little look for me and see which one of us you think is right.

I think it is me..............she has over 20 000 people in her tree............and I just can not see how you could have that many accurately.

[green.fields]

Flashie I am with you and I have said it elsewhere that when people have literally thousands upon thousands in their tree I wonder how accurate it really is.  I questioned this elsewhere when I came across a couple that had 50000 and 70000 people in their trees.

[punch*drunk]

I can have a look flashie, can you email me some info.

I agree with you re trees that large, I wont take any information off a tree with that many people on it, although there is one exception re a local researcher, but he has just about every birth & death certificate for every person in his tree so his research is pretty good. not good enough to have my grandparents married in it though lol.

[flashie*]

It might take me a bit to type it up.

I wont tell you which one is which........that way you will not be influenced.

[punch*drunk]

Ok, this'll be fun, I love a good mystery 🙂

[flashie*]

After three tries I think I sent you all the information.

I used these sites during some of my searching.

http://www.mullgenealogy.co.uk/cr_deaths.htm

Freeecen

[harley_babes_hoard]

reply to the feedback using the buyers ID so we can stick him on the BBL