Elizabeth Reid (my great grandmother) was born in Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1851. She was one of ten children born to John Reid and Catherine Burnett. Elizabeth worked as both a seamstress and a dairy maid before marrying William Willison in 1873. Six children were born to Elizabeth and William before they immigrated to South … [Read more…]
Eleanor was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1857. Her father James Welsh was a Master Mariner and her mother was Ellen Mary Chamberlain. They had five children together. The family moved back to Adelaide, South Australia, from whence they came, in about 1860. Her father, James died in November of that year. When Eleanor’s … [Read more…]
I have difficulty retaining information when I swap from one open web browser tab to another one. I find it much easier to have two web browser windows open and make them approximately half the screen size each. The example above shows two web browser windows both open to different pages on Ancestry.com.au. I find … [Read more…]
Lots of my friends have been playing with this colourisation tool. If you haven’t tried it yet go to the link and click Upload Photo. As your photo is uploading you’ll be prompted to login or sign up. The login link is right at the very bottom of the popup window. It is free to … [Read more…]
Don’t worry this blog isn’t going to be all event notifications. I love webinars because you can participate from the comfort of your own home and you can be involved as much or as little as you would like and the Legacy Family Tree ones are free. I did several of the Legacy Family Tree … [Read more…]
Over the last few years I’ve only written a few blog posts. I don’t want to give up blogging altogether but I need to work out a way to make it fit into my current life and work habits. I’ve noticed that since I’ve been mostly working on other people’s family trees my blogging has … [Read more…]