The Women Who Came Before Me; Creating Ancestor Heirlooms
8 minute read Isn’t it funny these days that we know more about the lives of celebrities than we do about the people who made us? We spend time chatting...
Read More8 minute read Isn’t it funny these days that we know more about the lives of celebrities than we do about the people who made us? We spend time chatting...
Read More17 minute read In the late 1980s, my great Uncle Bertie led me up the road from his childhood home in Clovelly, to the magnificent Waverley cemetery. Perched high on...
Read More10 minute read Almost 75 years ago, five friends gathered at their local dance hall to have their photograph taken. The year was 1949 and the young girls were having...
Read More18 minute read On Christmas Eve 2022, my father’s cousin, a man I had called ‘Uncle Willie’ all my life, passed away peacefully aged 79. I was asked to help...
Read More6 minute read There is an age old saying, ‘A picture tells a thousand words.’ What does this mean and how can we use it to record the precious memories...
Read More12 minute read Anzac Day, 2023. It is 106 years since a man in an Anzac uniform sat down in a muddy field to pen a letter to his wife’s...
Read More12 minute read Back in my teens I would sit with my grandmother Irene and ask her to tell me all she knew about her family history. She knew more...
Read MoreCoonamble cemetery, 1988. The headstone reads, In loving memory of our dear father and mother, Charles Robert Andriske, died 17 March 1903 aged 37 years; Emma Maria Andriske, died 18...
Read More10 minute read My maternal grandmother Connie’s older brother Syd lived an extraordinary life. I’ve spent the past two years compiling all the information I could find about Syd and...
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