Finding Family

One woman's obsession with family history.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. Lois Wyse In our quest to find our ancestors as well as their siblings and extended family such as aunts, uncles or cousins, we can tend to …

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I have of course been meaning to write this post for some time, but when I finally got around to digging in all my photo tins I simply could not find the photo I was looking for. Surrendering to the hopelessness of trying to find one photo in a sea of photos I put it …

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Similar to a previous post (Unknown Soldiers – No. 1) I have since come across a few other photos of soldiers amongst my collection which I thought I’d share. The following two photos were both taken in Bunbury (both are stamped with the name ‘Bunbury’) and are probably relatives of mine. Unfortunately the photos are …

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There’s nothing better than being able to put faces to names and often the only time this can be done is if someone has (very kindly) written the name of the individual on the back of a photo. Sometimes however the back is blank and I’m left with a photo of a person who doesn’t look familiar …

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