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Tracing Tidwell immigrant ancestors through naturalization records
Naturalization records sit among the richest paper trails a family historian can follow. Each certificate, declaration of intention, and petition quietly…
The Irish blessing Loni's grandmother carried through the McCarthy line
For generations, the McCarthy family has passed along a small bundle of words that has travelled further than any of its members. It is not a deed, a…
Organising a home archive of family papers
Every Australian family has somewhere in the house a stack of documents, photographs and letters that nobody quite knows what to do with. They live in…
The whisper of the Telford piano: a verse etched in family memory
Tucked within the digital pages of Allen and Loni Hackworth's family archive sits a quiet lyric composition about an upright instrument that travelled through…
A Suburban Swap: Home Exchange in a Belgian Brewery Townhouse
Australia sits on the far side of the world from Western Europe, which is precisely why swapping a fibro-clad Queenslander in Brisbane or a weatherboard…
James McCarthy South 1855 to 1930 A Family Obituary Record
The personal archive kept by Allen and Loni Hackworth holds more than a single generation of family memory. Across chronologies, genealogical notes, and the…
Wool Scarf Knitted by Great-Grandmother Brighton
In one of her quieter prose pieces, Loni Hackworth describes a wool scarf that has lived in a drawer for as long as anyone can remember. The garment, knit by…
A Walk Through the Brighton Family's 1880s Photograph Album
Three small albums survive in our family archive, and the most worn of them holds the portraits we will tour in the pages ahead. Its velvet cover has faded…
When a Family Clock Falls Silent
Allen’s essay, The Clock That Stopped on the Day a Relative Died, begins with a familiar family story: a household clock apparently ceased at the moment a…
Tracing the Tidwell Family’s Religious Conversions
The religious history of the Tidwell family is best understood as a sequence of choices made across changing places, generations, and social circumstances. A…