Monday, November 28, 2022

What's been happening?

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The answer is a lot and nothing. How is this so? Well, I have continued transcribing Robert Sholl's correspondence and have done well ov...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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 My latest piece for the UTAS Diploma. Supposed to be 250 words but I find that's impossible.  Writing the Family Saga Module 5 The Lo...
Saturday, November 13, 2021

Writing the Family Saga- my last unit for the Diploma of Family History @UTAS

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 I have been slowly working my way through this Diploma and now I am over half way through the last unit. I am not greatly interested in wri...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Debates in the Swan River Mechanics Institute 1854 regarding racial equality and the death penalty

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  Mechanics Institute Monday May 22 1854 Discussion Class Present-The Chairman, Librarian, Messrs Johnston, Gaswell?, B Smith, Bond, I...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Aboriginal Tribal names around Roebourne 1866

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From the journal of Trevarton Sholl I have collated the following Aboriginal names. The Colonial Government had decided to donate 100 condem...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

George Lazenby and the 150th Anniversary of the Perth Town Hall

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Below is a very short biographical sketch I did for an online exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Perth Town ...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Wedding photo of Lionel James Minchin and Sarah Eva May West 1916- but not he's my Grandfather

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In 1916 Lionel James Minchin married Eva May West. Unknown to their children and descendants Lionel was not the father of Eva's firs...