Lilian's Tree

 This month I looked at my father's World War 1 Army Records. I'm trying  to locate where he was stationed, with the view of finding War Diaries etc. I'm not having much luck deciphering the handwriting on some of the documents, so I have sent of a request to the Australian War Memorial, for some help. I'm still waiting to hear back from their request centre. Watch this space!

 This year Paul and I did a trip through the north-west of New South Wales.  We had 11 stops, Maitland, Scone, Tamworth, Armidale, Glen Innes, Inverell, Moree, Coonabarabran, Gilgrandra, Mudgee and Katoomba. A BIG loop! There were plenty of side trips, visiting friends, looking at Silo Art, Water Tower Art and Big Things and cemeteries. We discovered new and wonderful places, meet friendly people, visited delicious bakeries, country pubs and quaint coffee shops. Some of the highlights were,  the Burning Mountain hike at Scone. A Grade 3 hike, it was challenging but we had a wonderful time doing it. Treated ourselves to Chinese for lunch afterwards. The Australian Standing Stones at Glen Innes. Visiting a working cotton farm and pecan farm at Moree were interesting. The Warrumbungle National Park and  the Siding Spring Observatory at Coonabarabran were amazing, especially walking around the outside edge of the telescope! We also discovered the Capertee Valley, the sec...

 Yes, I know it's June but time has flown by. The end of April saw us leave for Roadtrip 2024, 28 days through country New South Wales. 11 main stops, many side trips and 3,057kms, saw us back home 22 May. Now how could I research while away, you ask? I didn't! May was my month to travel to cemeteries and take photos of family graves, and when home add them to my family tree program, Brother's Keeper. I had used FindAGrave and the Australian Cemeteries Index to check the location of the graves I needed and I had notes on what I wanted to photograph all packed to go. Tamworth and it's two cemeteries was the first place to stop. A lovely lady in the first cemetery printed maps of, showing the location of the graves. So much easier as it was raining and I could just jump out, take the photo and jump back in. The second cemetery as more challenging and I didn't find the grave I wanted. Moonbie cemetery was next and here were the family graves, I needed. It is a beautifu...