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The McCarthy Family’s 1915 Christmas Card Transcribed
A Christmas card from 1915 is a small object with an unusually large reach. Its printed greeting, handwriting, names and postmarks can connect the McCarthy…
Tracing Brighton service in the War of 1812 through pension files
The War of 1812 remains one of the most poorly documented American conflicts, largely because the British burning of Washington in August 1814 destroyed most…
Building a family photo timeline for your next history presentation
Most family photograph collections live in a surprising range of containers: an old biscuit tin from a Brisbane boarding house, a leather album bought in…
Remembering Sarah Tidwell McCarthy, 1860–1943
Sarah Tidwell McCarthy’s life is held in the family archive through a simple but significant record: her obituary and the dates 1860–1943. An obituary rarely…
Home Exchange in Scotland: Days on an Edinburgh Terrace
For Australian families who dream of misty streetscapes, castle silhouettes, and pubs that pour real ale, swapping homes with someone in Scotland has long been…
The Rocking Chair and the South Family Memory
“The Creak of the South Family’s Rocking Chair” turns an ordinary household sound into a doorway to family history. A rocking chair does not need to move…
Telford Family History and the Grange Movement
The Telford family chronology records more than names, marriages, relocations, and dates. It also shows how family members participated in the social…
The South Family Photograph That Put a District on Wheels
A single photograph can preserve a turning point that official records describe only in passing. The South family’s photograph of the first school bus in their…
The Embroidered Handkerchief from the Brighton Wedding
Loni's prose piece centres on a small square of fine white cotton that has rested, for the better part of a century, between the leaves of a family Bible. The…
Allen's reflections on the tin whistle of Loni's grandfather McCarthy
The personal website of Allen and Loni Hackworth is a quiet corner of the internet where original poetry, prose, family chronologies, and archival records sit…