These trees have looked at several areas of research.

Geoff’s research quickly spread from doing research on his immediate family. Since about 2000 he has been researching Australian Pioneers. Initially pioneers in the Canberra/Queanbeyan area, then Wagga and then Tumut Valley.
Helen has worked on pushing back and sideways to include more widely connected relatives as well research suggested by enquiries.

Geoff’s genealogy index page.            Helen’s genealogy index page

The trees show only people the program thinks are no longer living.

Getting started. Use the index page to find and click on a person of interest. The format of each page is the same. At the top is a ‘context’ diagram with the person being focused on (the focal person) in pink on the leftish side. That person’s ancestors (parents, grand-parents) are to the right and descendants (children) to the right. Any spouses are below. Crosses in a person’s box show the number of marriages. Lines link people. Lines going off the sides indicate more people - descendants to the left; ancestors to the right. You can click on any person with blue text to go to their page.

Under the ‘context diagram’ there are photos (if we have any). Under that is a table showing all relatives of the focal person. (This can be quite lengthy.) Recall, only non-living people are shown. Under that is a table showing events in the focal person’s life and notes.

We have used iFamily on our Macs to gather and build the trees. They are also published on ancestry.com

People with their family names in brackets, eg (WILLIS). These are people for whom we know only first names and not their family names. They are usually women who we have found in the census records or DBM where no original family name is given. In the diagram above, both Dorothy (GREY) and Mary (WILLIS) are examples. We don’t yet know their names, but only the names of their spouses. Ignore these bracketed family names in the index.

If you have comments, corrections or additions, contact Geoff on g.bell at bigpond dot net dot au

or Helen on h.bell at bigpond dot net dot au