40. Post Delay - Back To It - Stories Stored Up

Delay is over *phew* A pretty difficult and very complex 8 odd months I had. Our care of my Nephew is over for now. I had to take timeout, to refresh the mind and I suppose, "one's soul". I am now in a better place, with a lot more stories at hand. So I'm hoping to format the stories, in the best way I can. In my time off, I had encountered both Maternal and Paternal lineaged stories. In these few weeks,  I traveled to many places in Victoria and a tiny bit into New South Wales, looking for ancestral connections back to Ireland. I have encountered the following stories, some of which...

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39. Delay

Slight Delay to writing. For the past 7-8 months, I have reduced my blog posts, because I am looking after my Nephew.Long and very complicated story, but morally being family, we had to take him in to our care. But 3 weeks later, there was a complete misunderstanding with the time of care and somehow we were forced to take care for an "indefinite" time. Unbeknownst to us.In this time of 7-8 months, we think he may have discovered that my Nephew has ASD. This was not explained to us, when he arrived to our care. If anyone knows how demanding a child with ASD gets, you can understand, why I...

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38. Paternal Tree Pictograph

Pictograph of my Paternal Lineage by using "Birth of Origin". Using DNA is very confusing, particularly when you have deep ancestral Irish roots both sides of your Parents. The most difficult part to understand what has happened to my DNA, is the fact that I believe that even though my Parents aren't...

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37. Culture II - Australian Blacksmith with a great family folklore story to Bushranger - Ned Kelly.

Culture (Part II) - Flow on effect of a 1st Gen Australian and a plausible paternal family folklore story to Bushranger - Edward "Ned" Kelly. Part of this blog story, came about an afterthought, from the last blog that I did about Culture. It stirred a few thoughts with a family folklore story to Ned...

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36. Learning of Culture - Get some!

Culture - Learn it. I haven't posted a blog for a little while, I had been trying to understand something about myself. Learning a culture, of a distant land that we were once a part of. The only thing that gives me any insight to culture, apart from talking to the Irish, is letters and family paperwork, that directly replicates, what history has told. But with culture, comes heartache of somesort to the Irish. Part of below, can be viewed as a "controversial" post, on learning what culture is.But the whole idea of this post, is to explain, my opinions and outcomes after learning both sides of...

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35. Edward Worth Newenham (basic details and a heartfelt letter)

Edward Worth Newenham 1762-1832  (Eldest Son of Sir Edward and Lady Grace) A lot of my Irish Family research comes from my Maternal side and it references the Newenham's. They have so much information about them that co-incides with what family papers I have, you sort of have to document them....

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34. Images Tell Stories - Part 4

Mr Thomas Edwin MacNevin - Police Magistrate, Coroner & Author   Thomas Edwin MacNevin P.M 1844-1907 Last night, I finally found him!!! I found an image of a family member that I have been searching for over 5 years. A "eureka" moment. Born in Dublin - Ireland under a Catholic following,...

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33. Direct Paternal Lineage - Native Irish With A Twist

This is where DNA technology, has placed my direct Paternal line. I have drawn up this image, to show how DNA technology has placed my direct paternal line, in connection with an ancient Irish Dynasty called "Ui' Fidgenti". This data was based from 2 sources - South Irish DNA project and Ytree.net. The...

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32. Genetical warfare

My Genetical information should be having an internal struggle with itself. Coming up to 2 years since I have done some DNA research. As much as I understand part of it, the ties to historical events is becoming quite clear. Except I just can't grasp the intensity of what it's trying to say. I am a little overwhelmed by what it could prove, in a historical sense. I am certain my DNA is messed up and is having a war between itself. Basically my Mother's DNA served Ireland in a politically and "justice by the courts" way, whereas my Father's DNA is showing Irish "justice by the sword" way. In...

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31. The Hasler's - Dublin, Galway and Melbourne Part 4 (Final)

1897 - The era that changed the Hasler's and the fall of Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co. Since the last post, a little story has evolved that has helped understand what happened to the Hasler's and what the Photographic empire they had created, went through. Late 1897, was a pivotal year for both...

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