WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ

[deeiluka]

The South Australian Maritime Museum which featured with the Anderson family has an excellent website that might be of interest......

http://www.history.sa.gov.au/maritime/edu/program13.htm

......dee

[trish251]

The South Australian Maritime Museum which featured with the Anderson family has an excellent website that might be of interest......

http://www.history.sa.gov.au/maritime/edu/program13.htm

......dee

Some of the articles look to be the antiseptic version of the development of the port and Adelaide - rather similar to the version of the development of Sydney I was taught in primary school. It seems some historians think we cannot handle the realities of the harshness of our beginnings in Australia.

How some of our families survived the trips, let alone what greeted them when  they arrived, I will never understand. Truely pioneers (in every meaning of the word) as was mentioned to Kate by one of the archivists. I owe them much more than I will ever understand.

Trish

[dennford]

I didn't know she had Filipino ancestry. No idea what sort of records exist there ...
 

Up until the last hundred years or so it is pretty much hit and miss; where records exist (a substancial percentage of the population) they are thorough due to the Spanish colonisation. However many natives resisted Spanish rule and law, so there are huge parts of the population that have no more than verbal records.

Denn

[Ruskie]

Thanks Denn.

[drodgers34]

Didnt see jack thompson but in relation to travel it seems they don't have the Budget the UK series has.

Noted Nigella Lawson avoided her fathers side totally too - perhaps her dad has been done to death already.

Looking forward to the Cometti one most of all. I's sure Robertson will annoy me intensely.

[deeiluka]

Some of the articles look to be the antiseptic version of the development of the port and Adelaide - rather similar to the version of the development of Sydney I was taught in primary school. It seems some historians think we cannot handle the realities of the harshness of our beginnings in Australia.


Trish

Trish, all my searching doesn't find very much about the early days of Port Adelaide online. Next time I manage to get to the State Library, I shall see if I can get copies of a few of the pages listed on the following website.....they look as though they may have more of the realities of life in them.....

http://slsa.sa.gov.au/manning/pa/civic/comment.htm

There's a few glimpses of what the articles may be about in some of the tiny exerpts.

......dee

[trish251]

Hi Dee

Thank you for looking - what I read was interesting for someone who knew NOTHING - I just felt it was History as one would like it to be, rather than how it truly was. I think we all sometimes look at the world this way & no doubt want to refrain from showing our children the worst of how we were. I'm sure there may be some pioneer stories online with some insight into how it was 

Trish

[MarieC]

Well!  With Geoffrey Robertson, we got a balance of both maternal and paternal lines, and very interesting it was!  Scots who became Man from Snowy River types; Prussians with maybe a blood link to Kaiser Wilhelm!  I was greatly comforted to know that even with all the resources at his disposal, Geoffrey Robertson has, like many of us, a family mystery which may not be solved this side of death!

MarieC

[deeiluka]

    

So was I, Marie!

I also found it interesting how he started off saying he believed you are who you are because of yourself and your nurturing.....not because of your family history.....but as the show went on he was finding similarities between his attitude and that of ancestors!

.....dee