carol goto the "offers of help "page above

Wayne

Michael, Welcome.

How generous of you to offer assistance. I hope you make some meaningful connections through the group.

For those researching in the late 1800s etc don't forget the Destitute Assylm in Adelaide. I just got a set if fische ffrom Gould on them and found a young lady I have been having trouble making timefromes fit.

It gave me name/age/born/where living on admission/ confirmed that this was not her first admission with a reference to the previous and the aledged father of the child born at that time Source and date of entry.

The year in the reference to the previous admision is the same as that of the first daughter who's father is acknowledged as the man she was married to but it could change the date of the fostering out of a male child with no birth record who we have resonable evidence to sugest that she was his mother. Because she was living much further south than where she got married and the husband had vanished of the radar suggests that she may no have returned to that area but only went to where she was when the second daughter began her appearance.

On the entry was thes two words - ENCEINTE PUTATIVE (refering to the father)

my Thasourus check comes up with.

ENCEINTE = pregnant        PUTATIVE = alleged assumed acknowledge

It is not a lot of information but it does confirm part of the family story about her. Another little piece of the puzzle fits.

Welcome to our latest, member, Pamela.

There are lots of helpful people in this group so, please ask some questions.

This is from the Christchurch City Library blog (just before the quake):"If you are interested in your own past, Find My Past AU offers access to a collection of historical records covering Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.

This fantastic resource is  available at all our libraries. Come in and have a play and explore our many family history resources!" 

This gives some idea of the great support Christchurch family historians have received from our libraries. Of course, they are now closed but fortunately staff and users are all safe as the buildings were able to be evacuated immediately. 

Hi Pen, 'tis good to hear that the spirit is still with-in the ranks my thoughts are with you all as you make this massive recovery from such devitation.

So come on every one give them some support from this site.

Wayne

Lovely to hear the supportive comments for our fellow New Zealanders after such tragedy in their hometown.  As with the QLD/NSW/VIC floods, most of the people on my radar in SA have willingly supported and will continue to do so - after all disaster can happen anywhere and anytime to any of us - lets hope that we seen the very last of it for a long time though to give everyone hope for the future.  All the best to all of those people affected by this years happenings.

I have registered my interest for the   http://www.congress2012.org.au thanks to the SA Expo last year:)

cheers Carol

Great to see some activity on the list even though it has to be in the wake of such a tragic event.

I have started a new blog, Genimates, http://genimates.blogspot.com, in which I post profilesw of people in genealogy.

I am thrilled that one of this lists most active and helpfule members, The Co-Ordinator, responded to my request to submit his profile.

Meet him at http://genimates.blogspot.com/2011/02/wayne-cheeseman-co-ordinator....

If you have any suggestions for people to be profiled please let me know - I'd like to have a good representation of those people who don't have a big presence on the web as well as some of the big name bloggers, speakers.

Great idea for a blog, Geniaus.

I really enjoyed reading about The Co-Ordinator and look forward to many more profiles.

Great exposure for Australian Genealists Geniaus.

Aus genealogists presence on the web will surely bring more numbers to this fascinating, educative and absorbing hobby (which for many of us becomes, or maybe as in my case, always was a lifelong passion to know about the family and the culture of the times - even before I was old enough to know it existed and had a title:))

I feel fine now I have my avatar back

and thank you for the comments about the blog I've made the move so lets see how many others will follow.

friends are what it's all about and this is one way of creating many via this blog.

So come on lets make it happen

Wayne

My apologies if someone has already drawn attention to this. It's very moving as well as being of interest to family historians

http://www.facebook.com/lostdiggers.

Hey Pen you beat me by 8mins I was busy reading about these fabulous finds i France. This is sure to make closure for quite a few families who lost their loved ones who gallantly fort for their country.

And I may add these as well

http://www.smh.com.au/world/diggers-at-play-frozen-in-time-20110226...

and the follow up on Ch 7

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night

Wayne

Group member Liz Pidgeon has been profiled on GeniMates. Meet her here:

http://genimates.blogspot.com/2011/03/liz-pidgeon.html

Well done Liz

Great profile

lets keep it rolling

Am enjoying reading the profiles on the blog Geniaus -  keep up the great work:)

I've been having an issue with my palemoon browser so I have reverted to Chrome and hear I am.

Whith ref: to Carmel & Shauna's post.

I went on a wide scale search and came up with all this:

Apparently he enlisted in Malaya, which made it hard to find him via aust sources.

As per here: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/1104406?searchTerm=Alexande...=

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Escapes/html/escape_database_0.htm

then scroll to the bottom and click the Aust Awards Tribunal if you want to read all about it.

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Cemeteries/Thanbyuzayat_War_Cemetery/

then click “roll of honor” -  then click “b” – then “be” – then scroll down to the Australian section.

And he is here:

http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/roll_of_honour/person.asp?p=5...

if you feel you want to watch this very moving video then click the address, be rest assured you will have a very large lump in your throat after watching it,this is from the book written by Richard Kandler in march 2010. that link is here:

http://www.fepow-community.org.uk/

Wayne

 My Palemoon issues have been resolved so Im happy

We seem to be a bit quiet of late

I thought I'd get some reaction to my posting.

But But

thought I'd better make a break in the long time no responding but have been busy of late doing Lancashire transcribing along with Norfolk at LDS  and West-States "Utah since state Hood".

All very challenging and interesting to say the least.

But I have learnt to find sites that help in cyfering the writing (scribble) that they used in those days gone buy, by doing that has made it that much easier and you don't sit and try and work it out for ages.

My browser problem has been fixed so they are cruising along fine.

Well that's my queue to bow out and as I always say H.A.N.D.

Wayne

Thanks, Wayne for your ongoing interest and participation.. It's great when others post comments - I could post every day but don't want to appear as if I am using this group as a self-promotion tool.

But ....if you have a few spare moments you might want to check out the latest GeniMates profiles http://www.genimates.blogspot.com

Boy we are on a slow mo better keep it up n running

Geniaus good to see that Genimates is building up in numbers.

Wayne

Welcome to our page Dan

Wayne

Just quickly has anyone been here to check out the new release of ww 2:

http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/australia-in-france-part-one...

Wayne

A warm welcome to Anne to our page

Wayne

Thank you for the welcome

anne

And to you as well John, welcome to this page.

We seem to be in a go slow mode but I'm sure there will be some requests for information from here.

Wayne

Does anyone have any search tips or special links for the situation where a birth probably wasn't registered in the 1860's?  I've searched long before the date and afterwards as well with no results.

That will be a tough one to answer

Anyone have any clues to go on with?

You just never know

Wayne

where and who? How are you looking? put the least amount of details in the search, such as if there are two forenames only use one, this is common, as sometimes the child was born at home and parents would need to get to someone to register. then did the registrar send them in as he/she should have? also the indexes are not perfect so could have been missed in the indexing. also I have one where children were not registered as parents were trying to avoid immunisation. There are many reasons. 

if in Australia send the details through, often extra eyes will find it. 

great that got us moving

Wayne

Carol

have you search under the mothers maiden name?

Wow, just home from Mother's Day brekky and checked my emails to see all of these genealogywise ones in my inbox - thanks everyone for the responses:)

My missing relie is Margaret Meynell born 1862/63 Sunderland UK according to the 1871 census onwards.  There is only one Margaret Meynell 1863 Durham UK which I saw very early on and very wrongly assumed it was her and I'd deal with it later! 

I recently purchased the certificate and was somewhat stunned to found out it wasn't my Margaret after all. 

Also somewhere around this era, her father John Died (bap 1824 Durham) and his death has yet to be found. 

Gosh I've collected so much information on the family but none of it is helping at all....

I sent away for Margaret's marriage certificate to see who she named as her father and it's John Meynell deceased. 

I sent away for her brother James, bith certificate  (born Birkenhead Cheshire)  - and again Dad is named as John Meynell.

1871 census Mum is suddenly a widow but with a new child in the family ..Margaret.  One interesting thing I noticed was that in one census she is Margaret Ann....her marriage certificate has Margaret Ann but the Ann is crossed through by the Clergy of the time.

John 1824 married Sarah Dowey in Newcastle on Tyne 1850.  They travelled down to  Hartlepool where baby Thomas Vaux Meynell was born 1850 (all middle name Vaux are accounted for - I mention this because you may come across John Vaux Meynell and he is a nephew of my John).

In the 1851 Census, my John, his wife Sarah and baby Thomas are in Northfleet Kent (spelt Maham or Malam depending on which site is used). 

Second son John is born Northfleet Kent 1852. 

Third son James is born Birkenhead Cheshire 1855 and sadly they lose Thomas Vaux Meynell prior to James death. 

1861 Census mum is home in Sunderland with John and James (Dad is a seaman and not home). 

Have tried as many name variations as I can think of.  I know that mum Sarah nee Dowey had a sister Margaret but she is in the census with her sibblings in Newcastle. 

Have been searching for John's (1824) death for a long long time and recently felt I was possibly too close to the situation now and missing something vital in my searching so raised this with others which has resulted in me now searching for Margarets birth as well hahahaha 

Sarah was supposedly born Northumberland or London although I haven't purchased her birth certificate yet as I haven't pinpointed where she was actually born (and too busy with John and Margaret:)). 

My mind has gone through the meanderings of was Sarah so grief stricken at the loss of her husband that she overlooked the registration of her daughters birth and her husbands death: were the children really Johns (1824) and as Sarah remarried to William Henderson in 1874, was my John a fly by nighter because Sarah was always at home with the children alone at Census time (this last bit changed my thinking when he was found in the 1851 Census that didn't show up in a variable name search:)).

From memory I found one Margaret Dowey birth but not being familiar with the areas, it seemed too far away from Newcastle for Sarah to maybe have stayed at the home of her parents.

Do we have a Master Genealogist amongst us or certainly one with more experience than I have? 

Would love some more tips if you can think of any, but really appreciate the great response so far - thank you all:)

Welcome Shelly to our page as you can see we have had visitors helping Carol in her quest.

Plus I would like to say to all the Mum's here, " I trust that you all had a wonderful day with your family and that you were pampered on hand and foot"

Wayne

Another welcome heck this getting busy now

This is what we want

Welcome Garry to out page

Wayne

Welcome Maree

Im sure you will be called upon especially the India hunting.

Wayne