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Reading probate inventories to understand Tidwell family life
For many Australian family historians tracing American lines, probate records often feel like a final resort, the dry paperwork consulted only when the census…
The South Family Account Book from a 1870s General Store
A brittle, hand-stitched ledger sits among the archival papers on the Hackworth family website, its pages dense with faded ink and penciled figures. The book…
Tracing The Brighton Family’s Sailing Ships To America
The Brighton family’s movement across the Atlantic belongs to a wider story of migration, shipping, settlement, and changing records. A useful chronology must…
Loni's prose and the button from a Union great-uncle's uniform
The personal website of Allen and Loni Hackworth has long gathered more than poetry and photographs. It carries the small, tangible things that families pass…
Trading a Sydney Flat for a Thatched Cotswolds Cottage
For six summers in a row my partner and I had watched the cost of a fortnight in England climb well past what our budget could stretch to. A flat in…
Henry Telford McCarthy 1912 to 1999 A Life Remembered
Henry Telford McCarthy was born in the winter of 1912 in a small English town, the second child of Irish immigrant parents who had settled near the industrial…
When a Family Name Echoes Across the Generations
In every genealogist's bundle of papers there comes a moment when a familiar surname appears where it ought not to be — sitting twice in the same line, like a…
Hearthside Verses: A Winter Poem from the Brighton House
The Hackworth family website has long been a quiet corner of the internet, a place where original verse, family chronologies and the slow craft of genealogy…
A Tidwell Family Wedding Dress from the 1800s in the Family Archive
Tucked among the papers, photographs, and folded linens that Allen Hackworth keeps on the family website, one textile stands apart. A cream-coloured wedding…
Recording your own stories for family history
There's a particular kind of quiet that settles in when you sit down to record your own memories. You're not chatting with a grandchild over a cup of tea in…