FAQ

 

1. How do I know that someone is really my relative?  The answer is that while I am posting the stories in reverse chronological order, with the oldest records being written up first, like all genealogists, I followed their path from the other end.I knew my grandparents, so I found their birth certificates and marriage certificates. They recorded the name of their parents and in some cases where they were born and their occupations. Then I used census data from 1840 until they came to Australia to follow them backwards, or migration records, or sometimes wills.