Anne’s Family History

Anne’s Family History Family historian I have researched in each of the Australian states and New Zealand as well as the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

I use the resources in the National Library of Australia, the National Archives and the Australian War Memorial located in Canberra. I hold a Graduate Diploma in Graduate Diploma in Local, Family & Applied History from the University of New England which I followed up with a Master of Letters. In addition to direct clients, I provided professional services through
ancestry.com’s ExpertConnect service from August 2009.

Continuing progress on my German ancestors: trying to reconcile the records
30/07/2026

Continuing progress on my German ancestors: trying to reconcile the records

For several years I have been trying to find out more about my third great-grandfather, Wilhelm Bamberg, born at Gollwitz, who married Caroline Wilhelmine Friederike Wolter at Götz on 13 February 1…

A methodology update:
16/07/2026

A methodology update:

A year ago I wrote a post with the title “Progress using Artificial Intelligence”. Clearly tools such as ChatGPT, Google Translate and Transkribus were making historical records more ac…

Making some progress on my German ancestors
11/07/2026

Making some progress on my German ancestors

For several years now I have measured the completeness of our family tree by calculating how many of our children’s ancestors I can identify. Looking back ten generations my children Peter an…

A month of writing about schools and their teachers and pupils in the Avoca district. The education reforms of 1872 were...
29/06/2026

A month of writing about schools and their teachers and pupils in the Avoca district. The education reforms of 1872 were remarkable.

In June I posted twenty-nine articles about schools and schooling in theAvoca district. Schooling in Victoria was transformed by the Education Act 1872, whichmade it free, secular, and compulsory f…

A short history of schools on the goldfields explaining National Schools, Denominational schools, Common Schools, and th...
13/06/2026

A short history of schools on the goldfields explaining National Schools, Denominational schools, Common Schools, and the important reforms in 1872

From 1851 to 1862 education in Victoria was provided by two separate bodies. The Denominational School Board oversaw state-funded religious schools, while the National School Board (later the Board…

ChatGPT's caricature of me
06/06/2026

ChatGPT's caricature of me

My latest post prompted by contact from a cousin
23/05/2026

My latest post prompted by contact from a cousin

Champion Lodge, formerly known as Woodlands, in Great Totham near Maldon, Essex, was built about 1877 for the local businessman Edward Hammond Bentall (1814-1898) as a residence for one of his sons…

I had been confused about the marbles transported in 1815 by my 4th great grandfather Rowland Mainwaring. The marbles h...
15/05/2026

I had been confused about the marbles transported in 1815 by my 4th great grandfather Rowland Mainwaring. The marbles he was connected with were not the Elgin marbles from Athens but a completely separate, and later, load from a temple in Bassae in the Peleponese.

Rowland Mainwaring (1782 – 1862), one of my 4th great grandfathers, was a British naval officer. He kept a diary and published several books based on it. One of these was ‘The First Five Years of M…

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