Hi, I'm yet another 60-something-Sue researching her family history. I started seriously in 2006 when I was having major problems at work and needed something mind-stretching to occupy me in my spare time. My mother and ex-sister-in-law had done some work on the first few generations, back in the bad old days of microfilm indexes in archives and snail-mail requests for documents. 2006 was a perfect time for a technically trained woman to start genealogy. Genealogical data companies were competing with each other to get the contracts to expand their online collections, IGI was online, Family History Societies were producing their indexes and transcriptions on CDs, rather than microfiche and the internet archive was getting support from more and more libraries, making old books of transcriptions available online.
There's been a few family myths and stories which I've wanted to check, but on the whole I've concentrated on building a solid family tree along all branches and I'm lucky that we seem to be (on the whole) a boringly respectable family with adequate documentation and my first brick walls are back around 1800. With this blog I want to tell the stories about my ancestors that I've discovered.
I'm now retired (but still doing a bit on an honorary basis) so I will have more time to write up the stories that put flesh on my tree and the case studies that lie behind the strong skeleton of the tree.
Sue, Sydney, 2022
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