Robert's Genealogy Page

MY RESEARCH

Eight migrations over a 66 year period (1843-1909) brought my ancestors to Australia, with arrivals in Adelaide and Melbourne. Eventually all except one family (Phillips) arrived in Adelaide, South Australia. Later, sometimes only in the next generation, some started moving out again and now descendants of the following are scattered throughout Australia, New Zealand, the USA, UK and South Africa.

The following table lists these migrations. 

A maternal great grandmothers (mother's mother's mother) was my first Australian born ancestor, being born at Myponga, South Australia in 1862 and my maternal grandfather was the most recent ancestor born overseas. 

My research outside of Australia extends to England, Scotland, South Africa, United States of America, Canada and New Zealand.

FAMILY TREES

My genealogical database totals more than 15,500 persons. One family, SHEPHERD, accounts for about 4,700 persons. The database includes my own family tree as well as those of numerous cousins. Listed below and linked to this page are numerous small trees for individual families which include over 1,000 persons. There is also a page with my direct line back as far as I know.

The trees are cross linked where applicable, so some people will appear on more than one page. I have not included persons known to be still living in my internet trees, so the last generation shown will generally be born around 1900-1910.

Where a time period is not stated in the following tables I am researching it into the 1900's, which in most cases is well after the time when an ancestor of that surname lived.

As well as the family trees I have written a number of pages on the history of some of the families which may also be accessed through the tables below.

I would be pleased to hear from anybody who finds a connection to one of their families on these pages. Please send an email to rdblair.

PATERNAL ANCESTOR LINES

To connect to the family trees click on the surname. Click on the 'YES' in the History column to access the family history.

MATERNAL ANCESTOR LINES

To connect to the family trees click on the surname. Click on the 'YES' in the History column to access the family history.

LINKS TO OTHER GENEALOGICAL PAGES

SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Pioneers Association of South Australia Inc.

South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society Inc.

Family History South Australia contain links to many Australian and overseas sites.

ENGLAND
Cornwall Family History Society

Society of Genealogists (London)

The 1901 Census for England & Wales - on-line 

Family History Online - website managed by the Federation of Family History Societies with databases submitted by many English and Welsh genealogical societies - now with a toal in excess of 58 million entries including baptism, marriage, burial, census indexes

SCOTLAND
General Register Office for Scotland (New Register House, Edinburgh)

Scotlandspeople - Scottish OPR Index (births/bapt and banns/marriages pre 1854), Scottish Civil Registrations  (Births 1855-1905, Marriages 1855-1930, Deaths 1855-1955 - Indexes and on-line certificates), Census for 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 (all except 1881 with on-line images)  and Scottish Probate Indexes 1513-1901 (free access to Index) and copies of wills .
Minimum charges is £6.00 (30 credits) Credits unused within 168 hours become dormant and need the purchase of more credits to reactivate them. To view indexes costs 1 credit (£0.20) per page (up to 25 entries per page) and 5 credits (£1.00) for a copy of a certificate viewed online.  

Scottish Genealogy Society

SOUTH AFRICA
Genealogical Society of South Africa

OTHER COUNTRIES
Blair Society for Genealogical Research

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Canada- British Columbia BDM Indexes and digital copies of certificates can be ordered on-line

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - this website has a very comprehensive index and links to over 242,000 genealogical sites worldwide including this page.

Rootsweb with links to RSL [Rootsweb Surname List] (with over 1,149,000 entries of surnames being researched by tens of thousands of genealogists worldwide) and the FreeBMD Index (England & Wales BDM 1837-1919 though not complete for all years).

CastleGarden.org - a database with details of more than 10 million persons who migrated to America in the
period 1830-1892.

Ellis Island - passenger arrivals at Ellis Island, New York 1892-1954. More than 12 million persons arrived in the USA through Ellis Island in this time.  The passenger lists have been indexed and can be viewed on line.

Family Tree DNA - this company does DNA testing, with many surname groups taking the test.   

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This page was created on 09 June 1997 and last updated on 25 January 2006. © 2006 Robert D Blair.