Finding Family

One woman's obsession with family history.

It is inevitable that bound with the stories of our lives is also the story of food. Most of us eat three times a day. When we visit people, we eat. When we celebrate, we eat. Family recipes are treasured and passed down through generations. Even ordinary, mundane moments involving food in our lives, for whatever reason, …

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The Australian Women’s Weekly on Trove has always been a favourite resource of mine for accessing wonderful, full colour images of historical advertisements. While I once ‘print screened’ different sections of the images and then painstakingly pasted them back together on Paint, a recent discovery of the magazine being a ‘Trove Spotlight’ has resulted in …

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