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Blogging Your One Place Study

© Pauleen Cass

AFFHO Congress 2015, Canberra

ARE THERE….

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There are no boundaries with blogging.

Blog = web log= diary/journal/stories/”rellie bait”

Blogs are different from other web sites:

1. they update constantly2. they’re interactive3. they’re often personal (but sometimes may be used by organisations eg Family History Societies)

A GRASSROOTS RESEARCH REVOLUTION

Messrs Peto & Brassey, contractors of the railway line to Toowoomba.

Archbishop Robert Dunne.Images from Wikipedia.

Patrick O’Sullivan, MLA, publican and former convict.

THE GREAT and THE GOOD

THE ORDINARY

MY ONE PLACE STUDIES or INTERESTS

1.Emigrants from East County Clare, Ireland to Australia (mainly)

2.Emigrants from Dorfprozelten, Bavaria to Australia (mainly)

3.Murphy’s Creek, Queensland

WHY BLOG? 1.To find current relatives of the emigrants and

residents of “your” place - a variation on “cousin bait”.

2.To share the micro-scale stories of the places you research.

3.To disassemble the statistical data that hides the “ordinary” lives and “ordinary” stories.

4.To time travel backward and find what links exist between emigrants and where they lived.

BUT…While Time Travelling to past generations is something we hanker for….

We might find a little cloning necessary to keep across all our interests.

HOW DID MY BLOG PROJECTS START?

STEP 1: Specific pages on my blog for Dorfprozelten and East Clare

STEP 2:

Lots of responses and family connections among the comments….especially for Dorfprozelten.

I’ve just discovered your web site when I looked up Dorfprozelten to get a map. My ancestors (HENNIG) but name changed to Henny arrived on the “Peru” in 1855. They settled in Dungog, N.S.W.

Hi. I just notice in the first part of this blog that a relative married a Caroline UMSCHEID.My great grandfather came from Dorfprozelten in the 1880s.His name was Johannes Ludwig Umscheid, born in Dorfprozelten in 1822. …. I also was fortunate enough to visit this little village last March. I found this little town truly a gem…

I just saw your great article on Dorfprozelten immigrant descendants in WW1. John ZELLER (ZÖLLER) was my great grandfather…Your article nicely puts together various family anecdotes I had heard previously.

Hi Denise, I too am a decendant of George GÜNZER and Hildergardis HOCK my grandfather was Christopher Ganzer….get in touch.

Thank you for all the research you’ve done on the Dorfprozeltenmigrants, its been marvellous to get so much information and so many leads…. ..Our great-great grandparents were not siblings, but they were cousins. Joseph and Caroline ZOLLER were raised by their Aunt and Uncle, Franz and Catharine Zoller. Their parents had died ,but it seems that their relations on their mother’s side (the GUNZERS) also came to Australia at a later date and they bought a 3rd sibling with them. I wonder if you could give my email address to Denice Nicholls and Kevin Ganzer…

I am a descendant of Joseph NEBAU(E)R, the father of Eugene Nebau(e)r. I am related to Eugene’s sister Anna Rosina who travelled to Australia sometime after Eugene along with their mother Elizabeth (nee PLATZ). Their father, Joseph, had already died at the time of Eugene’s migration. The family went initially to Lochinvar (near Maitland) and then on to Jerry’s Plains… You have inspired me to visit Dorfprozelten next year.

STEP 3: A NEW BLOG

http://dorfprozeltenaus.wordpress.com/

WHO WERE THEY?The Dorfprozelten Emigrants to Australia, by ship and by year:

REIHERSTEIG (arr Sydney 5 August 1852)Eugen NEBAUER 30Caroline Nebauer nee UMSCHEID (wife) 26Maria Rosina Nebauer (daughter) 1

COMMODORE PERRY (ex Liverpool, arrived Sydney via Launceston 26 April 1855)

Andrew DIFLO (from Fechenbach) 45Julianna Diflo nee LÖHR 28 (cousin to Eleanore LÖHR)Maria Diflo 1 (DOV)

John HOCK (from Breitenbrunn) 35Rosina (Clara) Hock nee GÜNZER (wife) 33 AND OTHERS

VALUE-ADD:

• Offer a Translate page for non-English research.

• Offer the option of having other descendants write about their ancestors in a post.

• Be willing to help those who comment…and be a “match maker”.

CONSIDER:

• Consider your commitments – this will take time.

• Will you start a new blog or use a current one?

• Are you interested in emigrants anywhere/only in Australia?

• Would a facebook group be helpful?

PART 2: THE EAST CLARE IRISH

WHERE?

Focus: Any Irish who arrived in Australia from the eastern half of County Clare: approximately the area to the east of the town of Ennis.

Definition: Towns, villages and townlands in the Baronies of Tulla Upper and Lower; Bunratty Upper and Lower.

Map of the baronies of County Clare, courtesy of the Clare County Library, reproduced with permission. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/baronies.htm

WHAT I HAD:

• Lots of data extracted from Immigration Deposit Journals, immigration records etc.

• Parish data transcriptions.

WHAT I WANTED:

• To trace these immigrants’ lives.

• To trace their location and migration within Australia.

• To learn of their life experiences and compare similarities and differences between the families.

MY STARTING POINT

THE PROBLEM:

• How do I find out where these immigrants dispersed to among the myriad Murphys, McNamaras and Moloneys?

THE SOLUTION:

• Trove Newspapers for obituaries, stories, death notices etc.

• Blogging to draw in descendants and relatives.

UNEXPECTED BONUS:

• Finding references to relatives overseas.

ANOTHER BLOG IS BORN

http://eastclareoz.wordpress.com/

INITIAL BLOG PLAN

• Search Trove by place names + County Clare.

• Identify whether the person met the criteria.

• Post only the news article – my initial plan.

• Check if I have any photos of gravestones.

• Hope for connections with relatives.

DID THE PLAN WORK?

• AMENDED PLAN: to track the person in immigration, BDM notices and other relevant sources.

• Fewer responses than I’d hoped – so far.

• A goldmine of references from Trove.

• So yes, it’s working – bearing in mind that cloning issue.

OTHER ONE PLACE STUDY BLOGSWestern District, Victoria - Kerryn Taylorhttps://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/

Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp, West Gippsland, Victoria – Heather Arnoldhttp://kooweerupswamphistory.blogspot.com.au/

Thames New Zealand - Altheahttp://thamesnz-genealogy.blogspot.com.au/

Carnamah, Western Australia – Carnamah Historical Society and Museumhttp://www.blog.carnamah.com.au/

Hawkesbury, New South Wales http://hawkesburyheritage.blogspot.com.au/

UNITED KINGDOM

Wing, Buckinghamshire, UK - Alex Coleshttp://wing-ops.blogspot.com.au/

Great Dunmow and Bishop’s Stortford, Essex, England – Katehttp://www.essexvoicespast.com/

ROUND THE WORLDCheck out the links on the studies page of the Society for One Place Studies.http://one-place-studies.org/studies/

OTHER ONE PLACE STUDY BLOGS

ONE PLACE STUDIES

If you’re inspired to commence a One Place Study you can fly solo or you can join either or both of these organisations.

Society of One Place Studieshttp://one-place-studies.org/

Register of One Place Studieshttp://www.register-of-one-place-studies.org.uk/

Blogging a One Place Study:Time Travelling Between the

Past and Present.

THANK YOU!

CONTACT ME:Pauleen CassEmail: cassmob@yahoo.com.auTwitter: @cassmobBlogs: Family History Across The Seas: www.cassmob.wordpress.comEast Clare Emigrants: www.eastclareoz.wordpress.comFrom Dorfprozelten to Australia: www.dorfprozeltenaus.wordpress.com