Hi everyone.
Once I get my gardening in order, I plan to hit the files with Gusto.
Finally might actually get around to putting all my research into some form of
digital program.
30yrs of it.
22 very full Lever & Arch files!
DAUNTING isn’t it. 🤪
Recommendations of preferred programs appreciated.
Gail, Mandurah
On 28 Mar 2020, at 6:27 am, gaildodd@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello DPSers
I saw a WAGS newsletter that said we can be making lemons out of lemonade
with all the time now available for family history. And I'm in to it!
I decided to write essays for my granddaughter on each of the First Families
that emigrated to Australia. I had done that before 20 years ago but in
doing the new essays and searching online, so much more is now available. I
also did a free online refresher course, called 'Branching Out' with the
State Library of Victoria. All going well, that should be running again in
July.
Here are a couple of Mount Barker online sources I've found extra good -
though you probably know all about them!
Local Government Association of South Australia
Cemetery Search: http://mountbarker.dcw.lga.sa.gov.au/cemetery-search
I found William Dodd on this list! He arrived in South Australia in 1839 and
we knew from other family members that he was buried at the Mount Barker
Cemetery. In past years we had visited twice and contacted a lot of people
(including the Local History Librarians) but his location was not to be
found. All the online cemetery lists didn't list him either, but the above
had a remark that he appears on a cemetery plan: Bingo! [I've since let some
online site managers know about this resource and I have a plan of Mount
Barker Cemetery I can send anyone, if interested].
Another great website that is new to me is LocalWiki - this one showing Mount
Barker landholders -
https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Mount_Barker_-_North_Allotments
Allotment 13 - (20405; 474/29)
Facing Druids Ave
Application 20405
11/9/1854 - To Edward Tear Primitive Methodist Minister Mt Barker; Thomas
Neate plasterer; John Renfrey farmer; Richard Champion yeoman; William
Hannaford farmer all of Mt Barker; Henry Appleton farmer of Do the Boys Hall
near Mt Barker; John Hill farmer the Meadows, as trustees for the Primitive
Methodist Church in Mt Barker £15.
I'm not sure how dodgy Henry Appleton of Do the Boys Hall was! But Richard
Champion, trustee for the Primitive Methodist Church church was an ancestor
and using the website above give his other land-dealings, and that he went
bankrupt.
Of course all the convict sites for Tasmania are fantastic and searching is
so much easier these days. And in old age, you can zoom to look at the
screen for better reading.
I'm driving my husband up the wall again talking constantly about his
ancestors, but it's fun for me! I hope that you're having finds with your
research too!
Gail Dodd
