About Me

Hi I'm Roseann, I started researching back in the early 1980's.  

My interest was initially inspired when I was little when almost every weekend my beautiful Mother would make us walk for almost one hour to visit her parents in the local cemetery.  We would read the headstones and Mum would explain who was who and the connection to our family.  Little did I know as a little girl in the 60's that there were so many graves of my ancestors that were buried in that cemetery of which I did not uncover until over 20 years later.  My brothers and I would skip through the cemetery not really understanding the impact of how my Mother was feeling.

Why? My motivation was my Grandmother who was an orphan and I wanted to find her brother whom she had not seen in over 60 years.  I often wondered about her life and what we as a family did not know, as she never disclosed much to us.   

At first I started with names and dates and filling in the pedigree chart, then I started to wonder. 

• Where did we come from?  
• How did we get here? 
• What were the circumstances that brought my ancestors to this country? 

This lead me on a journey of exploring our past, documenting family stories, honing my interviewing skills, collecting photographs.  My intention is to bring their lives to life again by documenting their journeys.  

Predominately, I am 83% Irish descendent, so that make for a challenging research battle but one that is becoming easier with more Internet access than when I began in the 80's! 

I have one very well documented Scottish line who came to Australia in 1837.  

I love History, Cemeteries, blogging (Just started this process), and in my other spare time to like to do Patchwork, Scrapbooking, Card Making. 

I trust you will enjoy this journey with me.