Posts Tagged “blogs”

MyHeritage has announced it’s Top 100 Genealogy Sites for 2010 from around the world, and I’m very pleased and proud to say that this blog has been included.

There are some great sites on the list (besides this one!), many of which you may not have seen before, so have a look around and see what others are doing.

I guarantee you will learn something!

Here is a blog post I read this morning that had a happy ending.

Lynn Walsh is a facilitator and coach with an interest in her family history. She found an account of the robbery of her great-great-grandfather in the NSW Police Gazette of 19 May 1897:

Thomas Gibbons was further charged in company with George Williams with breaking and entering the dwelling of William J Laws, Dock Road, Balmain, and stealing a watch, a scarf pin, two Alberts, four brooches,  a Gladstone bag, two coats, two vests and two pairs of trousers, value 20 pounds (part recovered).

She had no idea what an “Albert” was (and neither did I) but some kind soul who read her post has enlightened her, and she has posted a photo and description as a postscript.

To find out what an Albert is read the original post here.

I hope he got his Alberts back!