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Comment by Linda Ottery on May 17, 2011 at 7:08am

My name is Linda. I worked as a Librarian for most of my working life, but now look after my disabled husband. When my mother, whom I call "The Real Family Historian" passed away in 2004, I inherited all the papers, photos, mementos - boxes and boxes of them. I have a tree on ancestry, but it needs careful revision, as I was an absolute beginner in 2008 when I first decided to tackle Mum's research and put it online.

We recently moved house, and am in the process of reorganising Everything, and I get easily way-layed, off the track and become undecisive as to what task to takel first. Do I scan? Do I put such fragile letters and papers that I have into archival storage? Which branch shoud I follow? How much can I afford to spend on certificates and many more questions. I have found and met many new "cousins" from all over the world in carrying out my Family History, but still many brick walls. I descend from 3 pairs of covicts that married (6 direct ancestors)

I live in Melbourne, but ALL my family is from NSW, so getting around to local historical or family history groups makes things a touch difficult, while my Librarian training makes me eager to carry out my own research.

Regardless of the difficulties, I am a definite FH addict, and while following this group for a long while, this is my first post.

So hi from me to all of you, especially Geniaus who has been a great inspiration to me, and perhaps one day, I will gain the courage to ask for help with some of my brick walls!!

Comment by Anne Stafford on May 17, 2011 at 5:38am

I am Anne and I live near Bendigo in Victoria. I have been doing my family history on and off for about 20 years. I really love all the things that technology is bringing to our hobby includint the online webinars that are now available. I am trying to focus on my brickwalls that I have put aside over the last few years and hope to make some breakthroughs soon.

Comment by Carmel M Reynen on May 17, 2011 at 3:55am

I am Carmel I live in central Victoria and have been tracing my family for over 30 years. I started when there was no microfiche, or computers and definitely no internet. I have found it is great to find a new ancestor and their details but find it much more fun to find out about the person. Loving newspapers that are continually coming on line, it brings those family members to life. 

I have photographed a number of cemeteries, been involved in the digitisation of cemetery records, have completed a number of transcriptions fro various organisations, helped many people with family research and am the editor of LINK the news letter for the Ballarat and District Genealogical Society. I do have a blog of some of the ways I have resolved brick wall, identified photos etc. 

I started family history before I started my family and now have 5 children and 6 grandchildren and still counting. 

I love these groups as often something can be staring you in the face and need someone else to point it out. 

 

Comment by Co Ordinator on May 17, 2011 at 2:50am

Well Well what can I say these pages have multiplied incredibly quick and Geniaus what a magic suggestion and like most of us here, I too started on this page back around ten/eleven and now we have 57 pages of comments.
I am Wayne Known as the Coordinator I try to help as many people as I can and have had positive feed back of my helping others.

I transcribe and index every day for other genealogy sites one being LDS.
On that note since indexing for them I have made quite a few friends via that and one being very high up that has given me so much info and sites to seek out plus giving me all the info that I needed for my particular line that he is connected with.
I have also received another 3 contacts to say that we are distant cousins and supplying me with info.

This has got out of hand, I have no idea what is on the TV these days and was amazed to be told that there more added to the viewing audience.

I hale from down south of australia and live on the mighty river murray that is flowing the best it's ever been.When I find the time I jump aboard a paddle wheeler and cruise up n down the river.
I also volunteer my time in a visitor information center on day a week telling people where to go (and get away with it) and promote tourism to what it should be.
I also am on the board of a tourism body and lastly I am married of 20yrs to beautify lovely magic lady who is 17yrs younger than me and very tolerance in my involvements of life.
I reckon that is enough said about me.

Wayne

Comment by BOB MAY on May 17, 2011 at 1:13am

I'm Bob and have been doing family history for about 12 to 15 years, but onlt really seariously over the last fove years when I decided that I would make my grandchildren the centre of the tree and leave them as much about their heritage as I can.

I am lucky in one way as that only involves one family set of grandkids, but the bloodline mixtures do prsent some problems.

Have managed 1 line into germany, 5 lines into England but there must have been some pretty good swimmers amongst a couple of them. 1 line into Ireland.

There are 3 lines that are proving to be a problem two of them I am still in Australia - 1 only 3 generations back and can't prove the next step back, but just about willing to bet next years Melbourne cup punt on it.  The other Australian one goes back further but I haven't found the generation to jump the pond. The normal Irish problem of not being on the ground as in a couple of other cases in England.

Shauna I'm not sure semi retired would describe what you do, but the ulterior motive I can understand.

Comment by John Patten on May 17, 2011 at 12:41am

Also, in seriousness, I would be interested in helping with any video production. I work in I.T, have a degree in graphic design and have done some video editing and storyboarding for TV commercials.

Comment by John Patten on May 17, 2011 at 12:38am

I'm John, I'm a Libra with hazel eyes. I like long walks in the archives and monitor lit ancestry.com searches. My hobbies include weeding out duplicate branches in trees and a thirst for visiting graveyards. Obsessions include my wife and kids ancestry and rescuing my genealogy blog from hacking. I'm open to group research, but nothing too kinky (Irish records)!

Comment by Deborah Neyle on May 16, 2011 at 11:45pm

Introducing self - Deb N 

Hi all, my name is Deb. I live in Auburn, Western Sydney. I have only been working on FH since 2008 when I inherited a great, disorganised pile of stuff from my father. I am lucky to have a reasonable surname (NEYLE) but am still at the stage of trying to confirm all the info. I have obtained from Dad. His method of storage was various shoe-boxes so I am hoping to do better than that. I have a goal of following all relevant lines back to our arrival in Australia but sometimes I feel this is a bit ambitious. All research so far suggests that the Neyle family swam here from Devon,, England. I also have strong German influences on fathers side and Irish on Mums.

No trees, websites or blogs yet

Deb N  

Comment by Andrew D. Kemp on May 16, 2011 at 11:32pm

Let's keep the ball rolling.

I live in Melbourne and have been doing the family history for over 18 years, and to help break down my brickwall (one of them) I am conducting a one-name study of KEMP and related families.

My tree is at www.kempfamilyhistory.com

 

I am @nastrond34 on twitter

I am passionate about genealogy and update my database daily, manage webboards and mailing lists and try to assist others.

Comment by garryr on May 16, 2011 at 10:22pm

Hey, my last job before retiring last year producer at iPRIME!!!!!!!!!

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