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DNA – More than just matches
Next time you log in to your FamilyTreeDNA test check your Family Finder matches. There are now four tabs under the Family Finder – Matches screen. Just as I haven’t stopped purchasing birth, marriage and death certificates I am sure that I am far from finished purchasing DNA kits. Particularly when I am excited about…
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Gunner Holmes Part 1
On 15 August 1914 the 1st Division was initially formed as the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). In the August offensive a year later the 1st Division’s role was to hold the front line and conduct a diversion at Lone Pine. A further year on in August 1916 Gunner Holmes, recovered from injuries incurred at Lone…
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Wool staplers and wool classers
The 1891 shearers’ strike is just one consequence of the many pressures applied to the wool industry which has been in decline since Hargreave’s invention of the spinning jenny. some of these pressures include: the mechanisation of weaving through the use of power looms, the mechanisation of shearing through the introduction of powered hand pieces…
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Census records – one of my gateway sources
I call some of the sources I use my gateway sources. I find them critical to breaking down brick walls. Do I stand at the gateway afraid to go any further? Do I stand in the open gateway thinking about how to approach a completely new set of sources that may contain family stories? Passenger…