My research has only just restarted after being offline for a while with internet problems. My area is England, Wales and Scotland also with Swiss/Italian and Dominican research as well. Haven't listed all names as yet, as there is quite a few based on the ancestors. Hoping to have some info up on a website when i can make sure everything is right. Are you up near Redcliffe area at all, some cousins up that way.
Re: Family mystery - my Gfather changed his name from 'Freak' to 'Templer'. Family legend had it that the 'Freaks' were from Germany and it was the stigma attached to being German that made him change the name (and plus growing up as a Freak would have had it's moments I'm sure!). However he would never talk about his family at all - when I looked in to it, it turns out his father was jailed for bigamy (was somewhat of a rogue) and the Freaks came from Dorset England! Been hooked on genealogy ever since.
So far I have mainly been on online researcher. I got some help from Graham Jaunay in SA with the 'Freak' family mystery and made a Freak family contact through Ancestry.com. I've made a couple of visits to PROV in Melbourne, and visited many cemetary's - much to my kids disgust ;-), as most of my ancestors were Victorians. Planning a visit to Echuca early in Feb to do some research there on the Kelly family that started in Kyneton, Victoria, moved to Echuca and then to Cobar, NSW. Where are your research interests?
Frederick James Archer
Sep 16, 2010
Sheree Laursen
Jan 9, 2011
Sheree Laursen
So far I have mainly been on online researcher. I got some help from Graham Jaunay in SA with the 'Freak' family mystery and made a Freak family contact through Ancestry.com. I've made a couple of visits to PROV in Melbourne, and visited many cemetary's - much to my kids disgust ;-), as most of my ancestors were Victorians. Planning a visit to Echuca early in Feb to do some research there on the Kelly family that started in Kyneton, Victoria, moved to Echuca and then to Cobar, NSW. Where are your research interests?
Jan 9, 2011