Robyn was keen to follow up records from India this month, but we discovered ancestry.com.au is no longer offering the relatively inexpensive ’10 world records for $10.99’ subscription. Fortunately, we’ve since discovered a work around – go into the ancestry.com.uk subscription page; scroll down, then click on Access ‘Pay Per View’ Records.
Bev’s ‘Too Hard Basket’ story described difficulties in finding information about the early life and parents of a great aunt-in-law who was born in India in 1888, married Bev’s great uncle in South Africa in 1906, migrated to Australia in 1910, and as a 25-year-old mother of three children under 5 was admitted to the Victorian psychiatric institutional system in 1914.
Malcolm dropped in with encouragement to go beyond on-line resources, bringing along a local history publication and aerial photographs and maps of the Greta Lurg area. The maps were of great interest to Robyn, who farmed at Hansonville for 28 years before retiring to Benalla.
We are looking forward to seeing the framed family tree Robyn recently won in a Benalla Family Research Group fundraiser and a family tree chart Malcolm finds visually appealing. David Hall will be dropping in at 2pm at our next session to show us the features of the Family Historian program he recommended at last month’s group session. Well, that’s the plan!
Bev Lee