Researching Family History

In the next few posts I will share my son’s research of our family history.  He did this for a year 6 project.

It is precious when grandparents share their stories.

 

I have been interviewing my grandparents.  Here I am with Nana Perkins when she visited me.

I learnt that my family has many cultures in it from the past and in the present.

 

We have:

Aboriginal                    

Australian                                    

English

Irish                              

South African                         

French        

German                                           

Scottish                                 

Papua New Guinea

 Iran

Here are what all these flags look like.

 

I found out our Papua New Guinean Tribe has a Totem. It is a Bird of Paradise.  This is what it looks like.

The name of the tribe is Maipa Fakai.  This is a photo of Bubu (Gerards) village.

I researched the stories of three of my grandparents.

I did these interviews by email and facebook as my grandparents live in Melbourne, Victoria, and Launceston, Tasmania.

Poppy is in hospital for an operation so I couldn’t get his story yet, but I have interviewed three of my grandparents. Poppy sent me some photographs.

I heard from two of my Aunties. They helped me by telling me their cultures too.

Mum helped me to find lots of photographs and we asked our relatives for them. We had some of my Bubu (PNG grandmother) given to my family by an anthropologist called Mark Mosco.

 

By my youngest son