Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

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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?

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Monday, November 5, 1804. :  

 Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson lands in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in order to begin a new settlement in the north.

     Tasmania was first discovered by Abel Tasman in November 1642. Tasman discovered the previously unknown island on his voyage past the "Great South Land", or "New Holland", as the Dutch called Australia. He named it "Antony Van Diemen's Land" in honour of the High Magistrate, or Governor-General of Batavia.

In 1804, Lieutenant-Governor David Collins moved most of the members of the settlement he had founded at Port Phillip Bay, but which had faltered due to unsuitable conditions, across Bass Strait. He established the settlement of Sullivan Cove, which was later renamed Hobart Town, on the Derwent River.

In that same year, the British Government appointed Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson as Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land and instructed him to form a settlement at Port Dalrymple in the north of Van Diemen's Land. This was to further offset French interest in the island. Paterson arrived at Outer Cove on 5 November 1804 with a detachment of soldiers and seventy-five convicts. He initially established the site at Western Arm, which he named York Town, but two years later he formed a new settlement on the present site of Launceston.

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Hey what about photos? I've got photos of most of my great grand parents bar two what about you guys?

That's a lot of money isn't it lyndal? I've been talking to the cemetery secretary, I've not organised anything as yet.

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Australian History

Thursday, November 11, 1880. :   Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.

     Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous bushranger, was born in December 1854 in Victoria, Australia. Kelly was twelve when his father died, and he was subsequently required to leave school to take on the new position as head of the family. Shortly after this, the Kellys moved to Glenrowan. As a teenager, Ned became involved in petty crimes, regularly targetting the wealthy landowners. He gradually progressed to crimes of increasing seriousness and violence, including bank robbery and murder, soon becoming a hunted man.

Many of Ned Kelly's peers held him in high regard for his stand of usually only ambushing wealthy landowners, and helped to keep his whereabouts from the police, despite the high reward posted for his capture. However, he was betrayed to the police whilst holding dozens of people hostage in the Glenrowan Inn in June, 1880. Wearing their famous armour, the Kelly brothers held a shootout with police. Gang members Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne were killed, and Ned was shot twenty-eight times in the legs, which were unprotected by the armour. He survived to stand trial, and was sentenced to death by hanging, by Judge Redmond Barry on 29 October 1880. Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne on 11 November 1880.

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Monday, November 11, 1918. :   Today is Remembrance Day, marking the end of World War 1, in 1918.

     At 5am on the morning of 11 November 1918, Germany, lacking manpower, weaponry and supplies, and facing imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. This marked the end of World War 1, also known as the Great War. November 11 has come to be known as Remembrance Day or Armistice Day. Traditionally, British, Canadian, South African, Australian and New Zealand citizens observe the day with two minutes' silence at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, which is the time that the armistice became effective.

The red poppy has come to be recognised as the symbol for Remembrance Day. It was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders, an area in western Europe now spanned by Belgium, France and the Netherlands.

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I am available for any searches.

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Punchie I'm worried.  I've left you a message. 🙂  x

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World History

Thursday, November 20, 1947. :   Princess Elizabeth, who became Elizabeth II, is married to Philip Mountbatten.

     Princess Elizabeth, who became Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor on 21 April 1926. She was proclaimed queen on 6 February 1952, following the death of her father, George VI. She ascended the throne the following year, on 2 June 1953. Princess Elizabeth was married in westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947 to Prince Philip, who came from Greece's royal family. Prince Philip is Queen Elizabeth's third cousin, as they share Queen Victoria as a great-great-grandmother. He had renounced his claim to the Greek throne and was known simply as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten before being created Duke of Edinburgh before their marriage.

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WOW! 65 years married. Not many can claim that. 😄

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Thursday, November 20, 1947. :   Princess Elizabeth, who became Elizabeth II, is married to Philip Mountbatten

Hi all 🙂

Did you know that Mountbatten used to be 'Battenburg' but was changed to Mountbatten, I think, when WWI broke out.  The German connotations were not acceptable. 🙂

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I had read something along those lines Darkie.