Blogs I Follow
- Ancestor Chasing Kerryn’s blog about her Upper Edi and Essendon family members
- East Clare Emigrants
- Empire Called and I Answered – blog A blog about participants in WWI who had a connection to Essendon or Flemington
- Empire Called and I Answered – database Database of Essendon or Flemington participants in WWI
- Genealogists for Families KIVA microfinance
- George Griffith's NZ Goldrush Adventure
- InfoLass A blog by Liz Pidgeon, librarian with the Yarra Plenty Regional Library
- RHSV News News from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Sepia Saturday
Category Archives: Trove Tuesday
Trove Tuesday – Wangaratta 1863 – Part 5
Following on from the last Trove Tuesday we continue reading an account of Wangaratta published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863. The progress of the town, although gradual, is very marked, and those buildings in course of … Continue reading
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1856 politics Wangaratta style
The political and social alignments of the early residents of Wangaratta have long fascinated me. Who socialised or was in business with whom, was an indicator of town and sometimes family dynamics. While there were clearly divisions in Wangaratta, they … Continue reading
Wareena and the Ned Kelly connection
I don’t usually go in for gratuitous mentions of Ned Kelly but he has left a legacy all around the north east of Victoria and south east of New South Wales so can’t be ignored. Mentions of him pop up … Continue reading
The Donegal Relief Fund 1858
Research of our Irish forebears is difficult most of the time. Late civil registration in Ireland, an English, Anglican leaning aristocracy in Australia that thought recording someone as being born in “Ireland” was adequate, excruciatingly common surnames and unimaginative christian … Continue reading
Trove Tuesday – Wangaratta 1863 – Part 4
Following on from the last Trove Tuesday we continue reading an account of Wangaratta published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863. Having reviewed the temples of Bacchus, we naturally turn to the temple of Themis. This is … Continue reading
Trove Tuesday – Wangaratta 1863 – Part 3
Following on from the last Trove Tuesday we continue reading an account of Wangaratta published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863. As in all Australian cities, the public-houses of Wangaratta are a prominent institution, six in number; … Continue reading
Trove Tuesday – Wangaratta 1863 – Part 2
Following on from the last Trove Tuesday we continue reading an account of Wangaratta published in the Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) in January 1863. A tannery has been lately established in Templeton-street, and but for the doubts entertained by the … Continue reading
Trove Tuesday – Wangaratta 1863 – Part 1
In January 1863 the Beechworth based Ovens & Murray Advertiser (O&MA) published a fascinating and at times hilarious account of Wangaratta. The report is important as the office of the Wangaratta Dispatch (later Despatch) was destroyed by fire sometime in … Continue reading
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