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Happy Easter!


I hope that everyone has had a wonderful Easter!  Unfortunately it has been a while between posts due to a myriad of things going on here at the moment! A household of nine people is a busy place normally but when you throw in another round of household Covid (which decided to infect a new person every week for over a month), a new Labrador puppy and major house renovations into the mix, it is even busier!  The house now has a new traffic flow upstairs and a new bedroom, but the really big changes do not start in earnest until next month, just in time for winter!  

I have not been totally idle when it comes to my genealogy research though!  My private and public family trees have been getting some serious attention and the mountain of research that has needed filing properly is almost done.  I also recently helped one of my cousins locate her biological grandmothers grave in Melbourne; which had been impacted by an unfortunate transcription error, that thankfully has now been rectified. In this regard, I would like to give a huge shout out to the staff at the Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV) who assisted my cousin in her search for information about her grandmother! They really do provide a wonderful service and often do not receive the public praise and appreciation that they deserve! Thank you!

I did have a much longer post ready to go just now but after five hours work it has disappeared into the ether on me!  So I will leave this one here and start again on it and hopefully post it later tonight. Once again Happy Easter to all!



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