Exploring the Causes of Death

Now, this weeks prompt should be enough to make some of our family sit up and take notice and take better care of themselves. There are many and varied reasons as to why someone dies and often it can be from tragic circumstances like an accident or in the case of my great-great-grandfather, John Snook,...

Ten Ancestors Who Shaped Us

Ten is a significant number in my family history. My father was one of ten siblings, and my grandfather also came from a family of ten, which included two step-sisters. Unfortunately, my grandmother passed away when I was only ten years old, but her memory lives on through the stories and traditions passed down by...

Family Legend – John Snook [1818-1887]

I thought I was done for this week's newsletters to get ahead until I realised I'd skipped this one, Family Legend, a story that needs to be told to fit in with the context of our family history. In the early days of researching my families history, I heard a story, family legend, about my...

Non-Population – James Herbert [1820-1875]

The counting of people, a Population Schedule or the Census, is used to locate families in a given 10 year period. There are additional schedules used to identify and quantify resources and needs. These schedules are called Non-Population schedules, statistics on agriculture, mortality, manufacturing and social statistics. A little-known resource available to anyone researching US...

Dulcie Patricia Herbert (1928-1988)

Although I have written about my mother before, I wanted to write about her again as on the 3rd August 2018 it will be the 30th anniversary of her passing. The prompt for this week is Youngest, so although mum wasn't the youngest in her family, she was the first of her siblings and in-laws...

Generations of Colourful Weddings

Color or Colour? Well, being an Aussie, I say Colour! Sometimes prompts jumps out and I know who I'm going to write about, other times, I sit and ponder for a while, sometimes days, then the thoughts start accumulating in my head and before I know it, I just have to sit at the computer...

Cripps Family Tree Chart

To help family members understand the names you see in my newsletters, here is a chart that shows a direct family tree from my father Charles Cripps. The family of Charles Thomas Cripps #4 on this report The Herbert Family Tree Chart.

Herbert Family Tree Chart

To help family members understand the names you see in my newsletters, here is a chart that shows a direct family tree from my mother Dulcie (Pat) Herbert. The Cripps Family Tree Chart

Mother’s Day – Dulcie Patricia Herbert

Mother's Day has long been a part of the Australian calendar (and other countries too) to celebrate the mother of the family on the 2nd Sunday of May. As it turns out, my birthday often falls on Mother's Day as it will this year.  Mother's Day has become very commercialised and the shops stock up...