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Jill Ball
Wayback machine to the rescue: Preserving a place in our family history
August 17, 2026
The Case of the Mysterious Paintings
June 8, 2026
Family history is not a finite study
May 11, 2026
What do headstones tell us?
April 13, 2026
Tell me a story of the olden days
March 2, 2026
Bridget Connor: My Irish Orphan 2nd Great-Grandmother
February 1, 2026
The Ground Beneath Their Feet: Discovering Family Stories through Land Records
November 2, 2025
My childhood homes
July 20, 2025
Carey Bay – My one place
June 30, 2025
Mary Geary: The Market gardeners’ daughter
June 9, 2025
The Fever Ship Minerva
June 2, 2025
Researching women in early colonial NSW
April 28, 2025
The Butlers of Benenden, Kent, England
March 31, 2025
Arrivals in Moreton Bay 1849-1850: a population boost with a difference
February 24, 2025
Finding Frederick
December 2, 2024
From Convict to Landowner: The Journey of an Irishman in Australia
November 11, 2024
Convict tattoos
July 29, 2024
Elizabeth Readford, lost to history
April 15, 2024
Arriving under protection
November 20, 2023
A Granddaughter’s reminiscences
August 14, 2023
Daily Life of a Railway Blacksmith. Reserves, Chooks, Work & Family
July 3, 2023
An Irish Lass: Catherine Hawe/Howe (1802- 1862)
April 24, 2023
“The Singing Flame”: Destruction of public records
June 27, 2022
My Great Grandfather Alfred
May 16, 2022
Not Just Any Railway Guard
February 21, 2022
The postmaster, the bolter and the draper
November 1, 2021
At School in Newcastle in 1816
September 13, 2021
Treasured Great Aunts
April 19, 2021
Adding to my family stories: Jane Ezzy
March 15, 2021
Alexander Fairweather : Pioneer builder
June 15, 2020
Life and times of John Beale
June 8, 2020
The wrong place at the wrong time
March 9, 2020