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 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?
@clair.de.lune wrote:
punch how fantastic is St. Kilda cemetery?! I've driven past it so many times in my 20's never drove in. Sadly no headstones for me today please tell me do your people have headstones in there?
Its great isnt it! All of my rellies in there have headstones, in fact one family have 2.
We went and asked for assistance in finding the family grave and while we were standing there taking photos, the caretakers came back and asked us to follow them. 2 rows over was an identical headstone that had been broken and was just laying flat on a different grave. Not sure how it happened, I assume someone had the original replaced at some stage and then it found its way onto someone elses grave. We moved it over to the correct place, but i would have loved to ask them if I could take it home ๐
We visited that cemetery with a friend my sister made when we started doing ancestry My sisters house was previously owned by a hoarder and in amongst some of the rubbish left behind was the handwritten life story of a woman that came to Australia in the 1800"s. She managed to trace her family and make contact with them, the lady who wrote the story is also buried in St Kilda.
Clair, I have family in Creswick too. A young girl whos was married underage and then died only a few months later. She has no stone though, in fact the cemetery didnt even know she existed until I sent them the death certificate stating she was buried there.
Just had a quick look, she came to Australia in 1838 and wrote her life story in 1891. She was the daughter of a Persian princess but she had quite a difficult life when she came to Australia. Cant remember all the details, I must read it again.
Would you believe most of my husbands ancestors are in Coburg and Fawkner
In Fawkner there are some in Methodist and some in Church of England, not sure about the coburg ones, havent finished researching them yet.
Actually, I must sort that side of the family out a bit better, some of the ones I thought were in Fawkner are actually in Coburg.
What I need to do is sort out the millions of BDM records that I have, then I'll know where the ones that cant be searched online are. I havent done much ancestry lately, so its all getting a bit fuzzy, I must get a better filing system going.
