Amelia Christina 1875 Amelia Christina was born in 1875 just two years afterAmy . I do not know much about this two times great aunt, Millie. Therefore, I am hoping that others who are direct relatives will give me more information to add to this story. Amelia married Neil Watt in 3 April 1899. Neil was born in 1872, and they went on to have six children -Keith 1899, Neil 1901, Robert Cunningham 1902 Kitty Gwyn, Edna May and a sixth…
In 2017 I sent away for a DNA kit, I had seen Ancestry kits advertised on TV so decided I would buy one of those. My knowledge of DNA testing was zero. I had attended a presentation at Lake Macquarie Family History Group (LMFHG), which aroused my curiosity and showed me what was possible. I had already just started trying to unravel the mystery of my Robert Smith, so DNA seemed a daunting but logical step. I went online and…
My grandmother Gwendoline was very proud of her Danish grandfather, Carl Christian Andreas Tronier and her Danish family history. Often the word “royal’ was dropped into conversations. A few years ago, my Uncle Robert, her son, gave me a copy of a large record of the family tree. This was created by lawyers tracing descendants of this Danish family right back many centuries and down to my Grandmother’s generation. I look forward to sharing about our Tronier and Haaber families…
After doing many months of our own researching between 2017 and 2018, I found I was getting nowhere. I contacted My Danish Roots who I am sure provided many more hours of research than I paid for but, without a birth name and a more precise area of Denmark to search records in, again we were disappointed. Working with professionals helped me to look at my problem with fresh eyes. We looked at Robert and Maria Smith’s children’s names to…
As part of our search to find out who were Robert Smith’s parents in 2019 in we visited Denmark, with a focus on Aarhus and Knebel areas . This was not our first visit to Denmark and Aarhus as we had been there in 1997, however we were much more aware of Robert’s story so had a plan to try and make the visit worthwhile. In our planning, we contacted local newspapers and media sources using information from abyznewslinks.com. We hoped…
We are writing this blog to share our genealogy research and information on our family connections. Our connections are on both sides of the world. Charlotte from Denmark has a known family member who came to Australia in the 1800s, and it will be great sharing her connections to Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia. If Covid 19 hadn’t occurred in 2020, we had thought we would have taken Charlotte for a visit to that small historic village in the northeast of the…