Kaeli Haines

18/08/2025

✨️ Every family holds a story—spoken, unspoken, remembered, forgotten. Which ones do you carry?

18/07/2025

I looks like it was better in the 70s! I would brave the city more if it was still like that.

What are your thought?

09/06/2025

Take a quiet moment—just you, a cup of tea, and the hush of history. 🖤

The State Library’s digital exhibit of Ned Kelly’s armour, boots, and legacy is hauntingly beautiful—so carefully curated it feels like stepping into a ghost story told in rust and leather.
Poetic, powerful, and profoundly still.

19/04/2025

DID YOU KNOW?

Aussie birth records often include parents' marriage place & date.

Two-for-one record alert!

Love it when a document overachieves. 😜

13/04/2025

Hi, I’m Kaeli – welcome back!

If you’ve followed me for a while, you know I help people discover their ancestors and dig up incredible family stories. Right now, I’m buried in a mix of uni readings, 19th-century records, and a never-ending to-do list.

I study History and English part-time (and research full-time—let’s be honest), all while working around two beautiful kids and co-running our construction business with my husband. Life is full, but so is my heart—and my passion for family history isn’t going anywhere.

I’m just popping back up to say hi, stay visible, and keep sharing the stories, tips, and behind-the-scenes of genealogy life. Stick around—there’s so much more to come.

11/01/2025

In case you didn’t know, the 1921 Census of England and Wales is now on Ancestry.com.au! It’s packed with details about nearly 38 million people from that time.

You can uncover cool insights about your ancestors, like their handwritten entries, who they lived with, where they were born, their ages, jobs, employers, and even their marital status. Fun fact: this was the first census to include the name and address of someone’s employer!

Interestingly, this census was taken in July during the summer holidays, so you might even find records of your ancestors on holiday or staying somewhere unusual.

Taken just after World War I, the 1921 Census shows how society was shifting. There were more widowed women, a big gender imbalance (1.7 million more women than men!), and it highlights how women were stepping into jobs traditionally done by men.

It’s also a goldmine for tracing family members who might have emigrated after 1921, especially with the Empire Settlement Act of 1922, which sparked migration to places like Australia and Canada.

15/12/2024

If you have been following the mass exhumation of nearly 2000 bodies from under The Hutchins School in Tasmania, they have just gone live with a list of names!

With many thanks to some very amazing acheologists and genealogists working throughout the year to peice together this amazing puzzle of information.

Also tonight on the ABC at 730pm they will be talking to my friend Brad Williams a Historical Archelologist and manager of this project, so tune in!

https://www.hutchins.tas.edu.au/former-queenborough-cemetery-exhumations/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHMOLtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHecuYZaqiUCDCEZ0UtFyVRyWqNcL_ARjJ8osHjeSkLJTB6jVDgrl5o1MMg_aem_5QHKCywBvCAMCEH45dySVg

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10/10/2024

In case you weren't aware‼️

Ancestry.com released the biggest update ever on their DNA origins today‼️

My Scottish is now broken down, and because I'm a paying member, I can also see who I inherited my dna from; maternal or paternal.

If you've done your dna with ancestry before, log in and check it out. Even the way it's all set up is different and easier to navigate. 😄❤️

01/09/2024

Did you know!?

Happy Fathers' Day to all the Dads out there!!

26/06/2024

Record release alert from

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/article/news-article-more-church-court-records-released-scotlandspeople?utm_campaign=The%20ScotlandsPeople%20Newsletter%20June%202024&utm_content=Sketch%20of%20Dalkeith%20parish%20church.%20NRS%2C%20RHP7041&utm_term=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletters

22/02/2024

Just a days shopping at some op shops 🙈

What's next on your reading list?

13/01/2024

Want to learn a little history in a light hearted comedial way... This book is for you!

Laughed on so many occasions!

Not only history but so many stories of lucky people and lucky circumstances that make Australia.

The Lucky Country by Eamon Evans