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My father in law was adopted, so I have been trying to discover who his father was.

I have his birth details from the Ballarat Town and City Rescue and Childrens Home. Born 1923. It does not mention the father but the mother was Violet Agnes (Aggie) Goodridge from Eaglehawk, Vic.

(She had a son in 1910 and named him Stanley, unknown father and adopted him out.)

She married George Henry Dowsey in 1913.  He died in 1919.

In 1923, she had my father in law, Richard James Dowsey and adopted him out in 1924 to Frederick Lancelot Williams.   

In 1931 she married again, Richard Dennett, had a son Alan Richard Dennett who died in 1933. Richard died in 1934.

That's the back story.
My hubby did a DNA test with Ancestry and I have had two search angels trying to put the pieces together.
They both could not do so.
There does not seem to be ANY matches which are suitable.
The largest Paternal match is 4th-6th Cousin    64cm<1% shared.

Leeds method I did some time ago, but it was the same...

Do you think that
1. The father was an immigrant at the goldfields? This was in the Eaglehawk, Bendigo, Ballarat area.
2. The father was in the family?

    OR
??
 Just don't know and probably never will.

Chris

Hello to you all,               

 I really only wanted to tell you of my research and hurdles re my father in law, Richard Williams.   
 He was born 13 October 1923 at the Ballarat Children's Home to Violet Agnes Goodridge. She had been married to 1. George Henry Dowsey (who died in 1919), married  2. Richard Dennett 1931 and he died in 1934.     

There was no father listed at the birth.         
 Hubby did a DNA test  for me to try to trace him.          On the 23 June 1924 Richard was unofficially adopted by Frederick Lancelot Williams and his wife, Victoria Lilly Eliza May Rowett, From Boyeo, Vic.           

The DNA proved unsuccessful in tracing his father, even with the help of 2 search angels.                               It has been a headache trying to follow it all.   

How did Violet (Aggie) know Frederick Lancelot Williams???   Cannot find a connection. I wondered if it was through the war but they were not in the same Battalion.
Violet was from Bendigo and Eaglehawk, so fairly close.
Is Frederick the father?
More questions.

Thanks for your ears!
Merry Christmas
Chris

Hello all.
My dad, Eric Carl Albert Berg passed away in Dec 1980.
He had an eventful life, a conductor on the trams in Adelaide, chief propogator at Lasscocks, married thrice ( 1st and 3rd the same woman), but that's another story.
He went to war with the 2nd/48th, was shot and had schrapnel in his leg, found by the germans and interned for 41/2 years at different POW camps.
Now, just recently a fellow contacted me from Qld. He tracked me down thru Wikitree, Ancestry and dad's name....he had found a little notebook, all in my father's hand, full of tiny poetry, daily happenings in pow camp, names of other men there and where they were from.
A treasure trove.
I spoke to the War Museum and they want me to photo each page for them.
Very daunting to do it properly, many pages, and the writing is faint.
So, needless to say, it hasn't been done.    I'm feeling totally inadequate!
It sits with other precious things I have stashed!
Just needed to tell someone.

Chris

Hello to all you knowledgeable people.

My 4xGGrandfather, John Darby has this form saying his son, John is born in wedlock and as such has Freedom of the City Admission Papers.

Can anyone explain this to me please?

As an Aussie I have not seen this before.

Thank you so much
Chris

Hi all,
I recall some of you had been having problems syncing your FTM program to Ancestry, so I went on line to try it out. I hadn't done it for a while.

When prompted I tried to log in and it FROZE!  This happened several times over 4 days.

I pay a Tech Company to keep my desk computer at a high level of operation, since I purchased a new setup from them 12 months ago.   My man backed up everything, and installed updates etc, then tried to sync.   No Go!!   As it was getting late, he had to go and will contact me tomorrow (Mon).

In the meantime I investigated further through FTM.
Apparently they are aware of the problem on FTM 2017 for Windows and their Techs are "Working" on it.
I made a strong protest to the company as they could not give me an ETA on repairing the problem.
Call me cynical, but I reckon they are trying to annoy us so we upgrade from the Free Edition.

Happy Sunday guys!