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Visiting cousins and old haunts 6 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
This morning I left home before 5:00 am to go to Johannesburg for the Divine Liturgy for the feast of the Transfiguration, It starts at 6:00 to give people enough time to get to work afterwards. And, ...
Axel Wilhelm Eriksson of Hereroland (1846-1901) 3 Aug 2013 | 01:38 pm
Axel Wilhelm Eriksson of Hereroland by Ione Rudner My rating: 4 of 5 stars Axel Wilhelm Eriksson (1846-1901) was a nineteenth-century Swedish hunter and trader in south-west Africa, and this “life a...
Anglo-Boer War photos 20 Jul 2013 | 03:28 pm
For as long as I can remember we have had a couple of photo albums that belonged to my grandfather, Percy Wynn Hayes (1874-1948). As they are now more than 100 years old, the photos are beginning to f...
Fred & Mary Greene 6 Jul 2013 | 07:20 pm
One of the things that was missing from our family history was a picture of Val’s great grandparents, Fred and Mary Greene. A few weeks ago, however, Jean Mary Gray sent us one. Jean’s grandmother, Co...
Adventure in South West Africa 1894-98 4 Jul 2013 | 09:59 pm
Adventure in South West Africa 1894-1898 by Eberhard Rosenblad My rating: 3 of 5 stars A few weeks ago I read and reviewed Memories of several years in south-western Africa by Thure Gustav Een. Capt...
Tombstone Tuesday: design your own gravestone 2 Jul 2013 | 10:56 am
If you’re feeling in a macabre mood, you can while away a minute or two by designing your own grave stone with the Custom Tombstone Maker. Hat-tip to Randy Seaver, who offered this suggestion on his ...
Memories of several years in south western Africa 15 Jun 2013 | 10:13 pm
I’ve just finished reading a very interesting book that paints a picture of life in what is now Namibia in the 1860s and 1870s. It covers several interests of mine, like family history, because the au...
Adding Growdon and Sandercock to Find A Grave 6 Jun 2013 | 01:23 pm
I’ve been adding pictures some of our Sandercock and Growdon gravestones to the Find A Grave web site. You can see them here. All our branch of the Growdon/Growden family are descended from William Gr...
The Boteti (or Botletle) River, Botswana 31 May 2013 | 05:05 pm
On Saturday 25 May 2013 we left the Island Safari Lodge at Maun, where we had stayed the previous two nights, and continued to follow some of the routes taken by Val’s great-great grandfather Fred Gre...
From Shakawe to Maun via Lake Ngami 29 May 2013 | 07:07 pm
This is the continuation of the story of our holiday journey down the Okavango river, tracing some of the places followed by Val’s ancestor Fred Green some 160 years ago. It continues from Drowning in...
