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?

[the_great_she_elephant]

Wow, Punch, what an awesome piece of family history.

[clair.de.lune]

That's fantastic punch!

[clair.de.lune]

This person has seriously just about saved my whole tree. 2 records, 4 records, 3 people, 3 records

It makes me mad but then I think oh well I'm the one that got the satisfaction of searching & searching and finding all the hidden information, names spelt wrong etc. She had to do no work, just save my tree *shrugs*

Nothing more satisfying than searching for hours and stumbling across something you've been looking for for ages, it's like finding gold!

How boring to just save somebody else tree

[green.fields]

Clair, Some people are just number gatherers, you have the satisfaction of the hunt.

Great find Punch, wish all of us could find something so interesting.

[punch*drunk]

Clair, I have similar stuff happen. I have spent a small fortune on BDM records that people just click and save to their own tree. I sometimes consider making mine private, but I dont think I will. I'd rather people take my info and get their trees correct than taking the word of others that are full of mistakes, something I was did when I first started researching.

I hadnt been on Ancestry much lately and there seems to be some new records transcribed. Last might I found a missing persons notice in a NSW police gazette for the above policemans mother. There are several people researching this family and nobody has ever managed to locate the deaths of his parents. This doesnt get me much closer, but its an extra piece of the puzzle.

Strangely enough, the ad is looking for Mary Ann Pegler or Kirkham. Does anybody else think its strange that he'd put her maiden name as first option? I'm wondering whether she reverted to using her maiden name after her husband died?

[clair.de.lune]

She could very well have done punch

After weeks of searching and only knowing there was "another" brother from a family notice on Trove, I have finally found him. Bingo!

[punch*drunk]

Thats great Clair, I love finding the mystery ones.

I have been banging my head against old brick walls hoping for new pieces of the puzzle, none are forthcoming though 😞

[clair.de.lune]

Yeah it's like that isn't it punch?! Old brick walls......

I have discovered I have ancestors in the Parkville cemetery, about 4 in a grave (incl 2 babies). I'm quite excited about that, that's a fairly old cemetery, near the Melbourne zoo. Hope to go visit soon although I fear there is no headstone as the name is not coming up in the headstone photos website.

[clair.de.lune]

From only Melbourne website: "Many people assume the first Melbourne cemetery was the Old Melbourne Cemetery (over Queen Victoria Market), when it was Burial Hill, today's Flagstaff Gardens.
Willie, the child of James Goodman was the first person to buried in Melbourne, Port Phillip District. He was buried on 13th May 1836 at Burial Hill. This site was only used for about 6 burials.
It is not possible to visit the Old Melbourne Cemetery either, because it is located UNDER the present day Queen Victoria Market.
Bounded by Queen Street to the east, Peel Street to the west, Franklin Street to the south, and Fulton Street (which no longer exists) to the north, the Old Melbourne Cemetery was established in 1837 in West Melbourne. The first person to be buried on this site was also a child. He was Frederick William Craig, the infant son of Skene Craig. As Melbourne grew, this site was recognised as being too small and the Melbourne General Cemetery (or new Cemetery), that we know today, in Carlton, was established by an act of the New South Wales parliament in 1850 and was opened on 1st June 1853." 

I read only those that had headstones were exhumed. So what there's graves under the Viccy market?

[flashie*]

Clair................you have mail.....