Nomination : Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

Thanks to Jill Ball at Geniaus for nominating me for this award for commenting regularly on her blog.

I have to admit not replying as regularly to blog posts as I should. I know we are all excited when someone does reply to a blog post. This has spurred me into hopefully being more diligent in my responses to other blog posts. Usually I go through some of my feeds on Feeddler on my iPad before I get out of bed. This doesn't allow me time to respond. Perhaps I need to alter my blog reading time to after tea!

Now for my nominations to those who comment often on my posts or in the case of one nomination alert me to what I have to admit was sloppy research.

1. Fi from Dance Skeletons whose last comment was one I wholeheartedly agree with. I'm starting to believe the first result of good research is...more questions! I hope you can find some answers but I think there's always something else out there.

2. Cass from Family History Across the Seas whose comments are always encouraging.

3. Boobook from Backtracking who has a few different blogs, for alerting me to an error I had in a blog post (caused by quick research and not even realising that there were 2 Lismores in Australia - the fact that the article was from Victoria should have twigged with me.)

Thank you to everyone who reads this blog. I'm certainly pleased I am a member of the genealogy blogging community.

RULES OF THIS AWARD(i) Don’t forget to thank the nominator and link back to their site as well;(ii) Display the award logo on your blog;(iii) Nominate no more than fourteen readers of your blog you appreciate andleave a comment on their blogs to let them know about the award;

Caroline Chisholm

I am currently in England visiting my daughter who is working in London. Naturally I decided I would have to spend some time on genealogical pursuits. The problem was where would I choose for a few day's retreat from London? In the end I decided to go to Northampton to visit the grave of Caroline Chisholm. Caroline is known as the immigrant's friend. She was a well known social reformer of her day. Why is Caroline significant to me and my family? You may recall that Caroline Chisholm was on the original $5 note in Australia. As well as her image there was a picture of a ship. That ship was the Waverley . Caroline agitated at the Home Office to reunite the wives and families of convicts with their husbands and fathers. On 22 June 1847 she wrote that she ‘had just left the Home Office and had obtained a passage per Waverley for forty-nine souls.’ SMH 9 August 1847, extract from letter 30 March 1847. My great great grandmother Matilda Agnew, her older siblings James, Joh...

Family Homes - No 3 - Moolan Downs, Queensland

My previous Family Home post showed the childhood home of Catherine Ellen Dawson . After leaving Tasmania Catherine moved to Melbourne with her mother and siblings after the death of her father Dr William Lee Dawson. Catherine married Gustav Baumgarten in Melbourne on 30th November 1876. They lived at Pleasant Bank Vineyard at Barnawatha. According to the Cyclopedia of Victoria they had 180 acres of vines, 465 acres of agricultural and grazing land and a further 300 acres under cultivation. During 1908 the Baumgarten family moved from Barnawatha to Moolan Downs, near Meandarra west of Dalby. They left a thriving business with an established homestead and moved to western Queensland. One of their first tasks when they arrived was to build the dwelling shown below. Original dwelling at Moolan Downs - c1908 The second house at Moolan Downs The final homestead at Moolan Downs One can only admire our early pioneering families. Gustav died at Moolan Downs...

The Tree of Me

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