I know it sounds incredibly cliche to say that “you can find genealogy evidence in the most unlikely places”, and more to the point when you’re not even looking for it, but it can (and has) just happened to me.

Mr Lonetester and I were invited out to a friend’s birthday party recently which was held at the Tea Tree Gully Golf Club. And although I am a genealogy tragic, I must say that genealogy wasn’t exactly on my mind while I was there (except for the twice I was asked about how to search for people’s lost relatives, once they found out I work in the genealogy biz). Anyway aside from that, I was there enjoying the nibbles and chatter etc. of the party.

Let’s face it, time and organisation and two things that everyone seems to need more of, but they are also two of the hardest things to obtain. Now while I would love to give you “a whole big jar full of time”, sadly trying to put a clock (so that it still works) in a jar, just doesn’t work well, so we’ll all have to keep working on that one. But on to organisation, and that is something I may be able to help you with.

Well, actually not me personally, but rather a program called “Trello”.

Well I did it, I have finally made it to 500 lines of text corrected on Trove (well, acutally a little more as you can’t just correct half of an article). I know in the whole big scheme of things it’s just a drop in the ocean, but hey, it’s still 500 lines that otherwise may not yet be corrected.

Now anyone who is a regular “Trover” (do you like my new word?), will be familiar enough with the picture below as it is a screenshot of the Trove newspapers homepage. For those who may not be so familiar … let me tell you that Trove is FREE, and you can search by keyword/s, or browse by area, or by paper.  As at 25 June 2013 there are 10,006,450 digitised newspaper pages online consisting of 101,614,442 articles available to search.

“Hung himself due to religious excitement”, now that’s not something you read everyday so when I saw that in a newspaper article on Trove I simply had to read on. And while it is a bizarre story in itself, it does end up having a connection to my own family.

Now the article is long, and a little fuzzy to read (as shown in the picture below), so to save your eyesight I’ve chosen to extract the text  …