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Finding Obituaries in Small-Town Newspapers
Small-town newspapers can preserve the details that formal records leave out. A death certificate may give a date, place and cause of death, while a local…
Rain on the tin roof of the South Place: Allen's poem of memory
On the Hackworth family website, where Allen keeps his poetry and prose alongside the chronologies and obituaries that trace the Tidwell, South, Brighton,…
Home Exchange in the Netherlands: A Windmill Cottage in Kinderdijk
Three hours after boarding a KLM flight from Sydney, our family of four watched the North Sea coastline slide beneath us, still rubbing sleep from our eyes…
Mary Ann McCarthy Brighton, 1867–1954: a life remembered
Mary Ann McCarthy Brighton lived through one of the most transformative stretches of modern history, from the reconstruction era following the American Civil…
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…