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Here in Australia, we have a digitised newspaper system called Trove. Up until last year, it was mainly the capital city and national papers up to the mid 1950s. Last week, I just went look something up unrelated to genealogy and noticed that they have vastly increased their digitised newspaper selections, including a newspaper very close to the very small town where ancestors have resided for over 150 years. By filtering just this newspaper and also the surname of ancestors and the name of the very small town, I've managed to find a lot of obituaries and articles about grandparents/great grandparents etc. This newspaper also had a correspondent from the town so I could read about what events are on and when. Some of the gems found are an article about my greatgrandparents wedding and an article about my greatgrandmother's early death.
Not a discovery that I can incorporate into my own lines, but one that came from a request from my sister. She asked me to research the family tree for her youngest daughter's father. Turns out that the family is part of the Clopton line, which seems to have historical merit
I passed it to my sister as a "hey, this is kinda neat" notation, only to receive a big thank you card and very sweet letter from my niece. Sister later explained that her daughter, who is on the autistic spectrum, is having a hard time entering puberty with that condition. I never knew that my niece is a history nerd, kinda like me, and providing her with an interest to which she has applied many hours of research is helping her, emotionally. I guess as a way of taking her mind off the realization that she has issues relating to people at a stage where it will become more important.
I got kind of blubbery about that .
Having so many nieces and nephews, from both mine and Spouse's sides, I have never taken an interest in any one particular kid, but my Sister said that Niece was looking forward to my visit later this fall. I was informed that she has lots of pictures and text to show me. That sent both my sister and I into even more blubbering
Not a discovery that I can incorporate into my own lines, but one that came from a request from my sister. She asked me to research the family tree for her youngest daughter's father. Turns out that the family is part of the Clopton line, which seems to have historical merit
I passed it to my sister as a "hey, this is kinda neat" notation, only to receive a big thank you card and very sweet letter from my niece. Sister later explained that her daughter, who is on the autistic spectrum, is having a hard time entering puberty with that condition. I never knew that my niece is a history nerd, kinda like me, and providing her with an interest to which she has applied many hours of research is helping her, emotionally. I guess as a way of taking her mind off the realization that she has issues relating to people at a stage where it will become more important.
I got kind of blubbery about that .
Having so many nieces and nephews, from both mine and Spouse's sides, I have never taken an interest in any one particular kid, but my Sister said that Niece was looking forward to my visit later this fall. I was informed that she has lots of pictures and text to show me. That sent both my sister and I into even more blubbering
Wow! We never know how we may affect someone, and often never know it. Thanks for sharing.
Out of curiosity, I verified my oldest American roots: Massachusetts Bay, 1633 (English) and Darien, GA 1736 (Scottish). It took about two hours to line up the dots, all on the internet, for free. I'm done.
Out of curiosity, I verified my oldest American roots: Massachusetts Bay, 1633 (English) and Darien, GA 1736 (Scottish). It took about two hours to line up the dots, all on the internet, for free. I'm done.
How did you verify them? Hopefully not with other people's trees.
My genealogy fanatic cousin as informed me that we are eligible for membership in the "Royal Order of Bastards'' as it seems we are kin to a king who fooled around with his subjects.
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