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Tracing the Telford family journey from Ohio to Illinois
The archives on Allen and Loni Hackworth's personal website hold more than photographs and genealogical charts; they preserve the texture of ordinary lives…
Allen's Prose: The Day the Roof Fell In on the Old South Barn
Among the quieter treasures tucked into Allen Hackworth's collection of writings, few pieces land with the same sudden force as his short prose account of a…
A wartime Christmas: the Brighton family's 1940 holiday table through Loni's lens
In a small, leather-bound album kept on a shelf in the Hackworth home, a single black-and-white photograph captures the Brighton family gathered around their…
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…