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?

[green.fields]

Clair, I will have plenty of time on mothers day, my child and his family are abandoning me :_|:^O that day so after placing flowers where my mother is resting I can drag hubby right round the cemetery, it will be our exercise for the day. lol.

[kitty-kat1234]

Morning everyone,long time no searching for me.

Fab amount of work been done since i was last in,great stuff!

Sitting here having a VERY lazy sunday & decided to do a quick search on some photo's/linfo i recieved afew months ago & found this.....

http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-sa-naracoorte-107302362

I have photo's of family infront of cottage n store,its changed quite abit,very exciting & an easy find.

Good hunting all,kat

[kitty-kat1234]

Not sure if anyones found this site yet,this one is linked to my family but it may help someone else.

http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I114917&tree=SouthAustralia

[clair.de.lune]

punch photos sent. Let me know if you got them. Not sure if the McGregor one is your people? I'd be able to go to the old cemetery one weekend if you had the right details 🙂 Love to look in there anyway.

roserobin ok I will email a person in Perth see if she's got any photos but she won't have the  Primitive Methodist / Roman Catholic couple as they are not her family so I'll message you their details.

[punch*drunk]

Thanks Clair, I have them.

Mary Ann and William are my great, great grandmothers siblings. Their parents are in the old cemetery. I dont go too much into the children of extended family, but it was interesting to see they had a child named Rae, that was their mothers maiden name.

I'm sure the McGregor would be the right one, I got the burial details from the cemetery's online index. Shame the grave doesnt have any real detail on it.

[clair.de.lune]

Well the grave I went to see was unmarked. Just this big communal grave called Nazareth house? Fifty or sixty people in there?

[punch*drunk]

Well the grave I went to see was unmarked. Just this big communal grave called Nazareth house? Fifty or sixty people in there?

Thats a bit disappointing.

I have one ancestor buried quite close to where I live and I kept meaning to go check it out and hadnt gotten around to it. I was doing some local research and discovered that there was a Salvation Army home in that town at the time and it made me wonder if he had lived there. I contacted the cemetery, and yes, he is buried in an unmarked grave in the Salvation Army section 😐

Not much point me going there now.

[clair.de.lune]

Yeah well I'm going to ring the cemetery and find out what it is but I guess it's the same sort of deal. This was another child of my great great grandparents.

Another child of theirs, a son the lady in Perth thinks is in a paupers grave in Fitzroy somewhere. So sad.

[flashie*]

I emailed the Historical Society where my Great Great Grandfather originally came from to ask if there was a headstone for his little girl who was stillborn while he was awaiting trial.

They got back to me and said there was no headstone as his wife was receiving parish help at the time of the birth.....................but there was a nice little tree down in the back corner of the cemetery where they used to bury the "little ones".................how sad.

[clair.de.lune]

Yes it is flashie.

roserobin I've had a search, there are some in Karrakatta that I would like photos of but others are in Guildford and Fremantle but I will message you the details of the Karrakatta ones this week 🙂