Check out our latest posts on The Hidden Branch!

If you’re interested in our teen/young adult genealogy group The Hidden Branch, why not check out a few of our recent posts, including some of my own! Tyler’s “Genealogists of the Past” series. Tyler has now completed two episodes of this series, where he interviews genealogists of all ages about their experience of genealogy in

A Train Robbery

Perthshire, Scotland 1850s. My first encounter with genealogy led me to the life of George Brand, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Growing up in Australia, it had always been a likely possibility that I was to come across some convict ancestry, one way or another. And I have, a couple of times. However, George’s

Remembering: Donald McLean and John Ashby

It’s Remembrance Day here in Australia, where we pause to remember all those who have died in conflict. I have a great number of relatives who have fought in the wars, but only a couple (as far as I know) that died in battle. Today I would like to share their stories. Trooper Donald Shapley

New Beginnings

Hello there! This is my third attempt at blogging, and hopefully as they say, third time lucky. I’m not very good at this sort of thing, so I hope you’ll bear with me as I move some of my previously posted content over onto this one. I’ve been “doing” genealogy since I was about 12