52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 8 Heirloom - Beautiful Bowl

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 8: Heirloom

Finding something to write about for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks in Week 8 – Heirloom has been incredibly hard.  My maternal grandmother died on 23 May 2016 and we were left with all her belongings.  Some of them had names on the back to be given to a specific person.  There were so many…

Orphan Picture, St. Catherine's Convalescent Home, Penn, Wolverhampton, Bennett Clark

Who is in the Photo?

A couple of months ago my mum found a box of old photos.  As the keeper of all things ancestral, she handed them over to me.  What a find!  There were many photos I had never seen before and mostly of my dad.  I had never seen photos of him as a child and the…

Object Biography, Family History Quilt, Patchwork Quilt

Object Biography – Patchwork Quilt

I have talked a number of times about the Diploma of Family History I am doing through the University of Tasmania.  One of the units I did was Place, Image, Object which discussed the idea of the meanings behind each of these for a genealogist.  The major assignment for this unit was to create an object biography…