Australian Family Tree Connections

Australian Family Tree Connections Feb 2013 is out.  Look for it at Ivanhoe and Diamond Valley Libraries.  This month feature articles include:

The magic of Westbrook by Adrian N Roberts

John Day born 1842-1850 Maitland NSW by Diane Gamble

Contributing to Pioneer Registers by June Parbery

Death certificates by William McGuirk

Are these photographs of the Edgar family?

Richard Hubert Davis convict by Bill McGuirk

John and Thomas Finney by Heather Lemaire

Mary Brady by Val Brennan

Walter Edgar and Bridget Eilen (Maguire) Hoare by Peter Hoare

Digging up my past – Thomas George Davies – Wendy Baker

The Solomons family of Scone by Betty Pinkerton

Coincidences by Ellen (Tierney) Smith

Honorah (Moriarty) Glasgow by Aileen Young

Australian Family Tree Connections Oct 2011

Australian Family Tree Connections for October 2011 is now available.
Special features include

Korumburra remembers
Mining ancestors Ford and Marshall
Patrick Duffy – gold digger
Charles R Frederick
Dulbydilla cemetery
Alfred Denier from Mauritius
Evie (Richardson) King
The Guest family
John and Harriet (shebert) Langford
Edith Martha Rowe
The Pines, Wollongbar NSW
Annabella Rosa (Cavell) Wilson
Maria MacDonald (nee Connolly)
The Holdens of Hellingly
Unlock the Past Victorian Expo – Geelong
Getting Started – Looking for Mining Ancestors Part 11

Australian Family Tree Connections can be found at Diamond Valley and Ivanhoe Libraries

Australian Family Tree Connections

AFTC May has arrived. Articles of interest

Beatrice Ada Court by Yvonne Graham
Amy Gay (nee Smith/Dutton or Bunt) by Sharon Lowry
Mother’s Bank girls by Janet Peters
Identifying my Cohen family in a photo by Kaye Moss
Who did Edward Imlay Aiken marry? By John Maddison
Catherine (Beaton) Buchanan by John Beaton
Mary Ann Cunningham by Helen Cleak
Bitten by the bug by Kaye Bowden
Mary Burns or Byrnes by Rowena Summers
Ancestors down under(ground) by Jenny Little
The East Perth Cemeteries Project by Lorraine Clarke and Cherie Strickland
Looking for Mining Ancestors Part 6 by Shauna Hicks (Copper mining and influx of Cornish miners to South Australia)
Remembrance Cards by Leonie Pinch
Surname Register

AFTC - March

Australian Family Tree Connections for March has been received.
Feature articles include:
The Edwards family in Australia by Cheryl Frost
A Family with a bushranging past by Shane Wright
Lovett or not by Adrian Roberts
Will I ever retire by Pat Larsen
Wilton Public School NSW by Joan Scott
The perils of relying on certificate data by Marie Donaldson
Placing my Irish convict back on the family tree by Susanne Nolan
Death in a well sparks genealogy passion by Christine Monie
The Dorahy family – Co Tyrone to Greendale NSW by Helen Patterson
Cork, Richardson and Cahill by Alan Donougher
Austin O’Loughlin: Blacksmith or miner by Sandra Parker
Looking for Mining Ancestors Part 4 by Shauna Hicks
Manning Wallamba Family History Society Inc.
Looking for Mary Byrne by Frances Berg

AFTC is on shelves at Ivanhoe and Diamond Valley Libraries, or you can place a hold for issues via the catalogue

Australian Family History Connections - October

Australian Family Tree Connections - October edition has been received. Copies are held at Diamond Valley and Ivanhoe Libraries

Articles include:

Mackay Family History Society – recipient of National Trust Award
Dutton Pioneers by Mia Carlsson
Mary (McCallum) Pinkerton’s shroud by Betty Pinkerton
Upper Yarraman revisited Frohloffs recall their family history by Jim Bond
My Reed-Cooke ancestors by Betty J Havercroft
Rosina Fouracre by Barbara Johnson
Dicker convicts and free settlers by Peter Dicker
Martin Condon – Ireland, Queensland and New Zealand by Hanley and Doreen Hoffman
John and Caroline (Chesterfield) Torrance by Gayle Jeavons
The Sigrist Family Bible by Lilian Magill
Harry George Bates and Eliza Streeton: a new life in a foreign land by Eileen Cameron
The Short Sisters by Beverly A Payne
Doris Marian Smith by Deboarah Walker
Narre Warren & District Family History Group Inc.
Finding your ancestors in Church publications Part 11 by Shauna Hicks
Computers and Genealogy
Surname Register
Family Album

Australian Family Tree Connections - September

The September edition of Australian Family Tree Connections is now available at Diamond Valley, Ivanhoe and Mill Park Libraries.

Features:

Butler family of Woodlands, Berrima NSW
Auckland Research Centre
Family Matters – Ellen Fitzgibbins origins by Nancy Higgins
Alec William Douglas Hill by Clyde Ashton
John Andrew Peers born as John William Mahoney by Tom Proudlock
Grace Elworthy’s whalebone stool by Patricia Coleman
The Schmutter family of Armidale NSW an unusual family heirloom
By Elizabeth Pardy
Frederick Martin {‘papa”) king by Coral Haeuseir
The diary of Henry Francis of Sheffield (1840) by Margaret Guter
A number of people are mentioned – passengers from the “Champion” arrived Sydney October 1840.
Charlotte Boulton and the Carver Legacy by Judith Faux
Find your ancestors in Church publications Part 10 by Shauna Hicks
A real Treasure TROVE by Philip Marston
Surname Register

AFTC - August

Australian Family Tree Connections is available for loan at a number of our libraries.

The August issue features the following articles:

* Call from Dunedin Family History group for goldmining stories on the Otago, Southland and West Coast of the Sth Island from 1861 to the present day.

*The Bush Brotheres of Jerrawa Creek (NSW)
by Diana MacQuillan
Jeremiah, a convict and his brother Arthur. Names: Blackling, Flood, McLeay, Pumfrey, Howard, Wyndham, Faithful
Ships: Aurora, Canton
A Bush family reunion is set for October 2010

*Edoardo Verri and Clara Pasquareli - Italian ancestors of author Julie Watt. Edoardo arrived in Sydney 1913. Clara came with her family in 1909. They married in Ingham, Qld.
Ship: Orsona

*Bridget McCue & Bridget Mena Crawford
by Rose Smith
Ship: Alhambra, Albert
Names: Kofoed/Crawford, Morrison, Waterson, Martin, Rushworth, Homan

*Mr Smith's recipe book by Garry Preston
A new book of cookeries by John Murrell probably belonged to Phoebe (Diggins) Smith of Ballarat who married Samuel Smith in 1859.

*Four generations of motheres by Cecilia Dyball
Names: Byrne, Jocob, Jago

*Muller Family of Baden, Germany by Celene Muller
Names: Muller, Morano, Strange, Williams, Schnedider
Ships: Somertsetshire, Great Britain

*Carl Meyer by Patricia Woodcock

*Michael & Bridget (Lahiff) Neyland by Martin Byrne

*M Lewer's recipe book by Faye Kenwick

*Joseph Charles and Isabella (Townsend) Hall by Mike Duggan

*George Geoffrey Frith by Margaret Wright

* Donald Cameroan c1777-1867

*Find your ancestors in Church Publications Part 9 by Shauna Hicks

*Computers and genealogy - put Picassa to the test by Philip Marston