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04/09/2025

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03/09/2025

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03/09/2025

It's Will's Week!

It’s Wills Week (1–7 September). We’re here to tell you: write a will.

At QSA, we love wills because they are more than paperwork. They set out people’s wishes and preserve their voice long after they are gone. We hold thousands of wills and intestacy files created by the Supreme Court and Public Trustee. Together, they trace how Queenslanders lived, what they owned and how they passed it on.

Take Catherine Treacy, who died in 1871. Her will clearly instructed that her Brisbane property in Margaret Street be divided between her children Bridget, Patrick and Anne.

She left no doubt. Neither should you. This Wills Week, write, or update, your will.

Find out more about Wills Week 2025 at the Public Trustee:
http://bit.ly/45WJurp

02/09/2025

Have you seen this? https://map.chronicle.rip/ interactive cemetery maps...quite a few in Queensland.

02/09/2025

We have trained some new volunteers for our Almost Forgotten research team and already a mystery has been solved. Well done ladies! Kerrie was given Thomas Cribb and Lynne was given John Hargrieve to research. This is the outcome...

When the name John HARGRIEVE, buried 29 December 1896, appeared in the cemetery database, there seemed to be no obvious Colac connection. A search of Births, Deaths and Marriages revealed a surprising match — a two-day-old baby, John HARGREAVES, who had died in Essendon nearly 100 miles away.
Thanks to the purchase of his death certificate and the excellent research of Kerrie and Lynne, a family story spanning four generations has come to light.
👶 John Hargreaves was born on Christmas Day 1896, the first child of John Simon William Hargreaves and Ellen Ann (née Gillard). Proudly named after his father, little John lived for just two days.
He was part of the wider Cribb family, who have featured in a recent post. John was the great-grandson of Thomas Cribb and the grandson of Bertha Hill Cribb. On 29 December 1896 he was laid to rest in the Church of England section of Colac Cemetery, in a grave beside his great-grandfather Thomas, who had died eleven years earlier.
Six years later, John’s grandmother Bertha Gillard passed away in Collingwood, and she too was brought home to Colac to rest with her family.
Another moving reminder of the many connections woven into our community’s history.

02/09/2025

"Close enough isn't good enough": Why you must avoid this mistake while researching your :

24/08/2025

Check out Judy Webster - Genealogy

For more tips re family history, & over 70,000 names, see my website, http://www.judywebster.com.au/

20/04/2025

Happy Easter & Happy researching!

Happy Easter Twigs!!!

18/03/2025

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26/02/2025

https://theancestordigger.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-ireland-horsman-families-migrate-to.html

We will probably never know what prompted Esther PAYNE to decide to come to Australia in February of 1840. She was the eldest child of John ...

22/02/2025

I'm going! Are you?

Hosting a family history conference the size of Connections 2025 doesn’t happen without the help of many supporters. We’d like to acknowledge the valuable support from these organisations:
✨Who do you think you Are
✨Archival Digital Books
✨Gould Genealogy
✨Find My Past
✨The Genealogist
✨Progeny Genealogy
✨Pastkeys
✨University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
✨Techwell
✨Ancestry.com
✨Irish Newspaper Archive
✨MyHeritage
✨Legacy Family Tree


Register today> https://www.connections2025.org.au/

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