https://lynfox.au A personal blog about Genealogy and other random thoughts PersonalBlog © copyright 2025 Lyn Fox https://lynfox.au/images/blogicon.jpg https://lynfox.au en-au Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:35:00 GMT https://lynfox.au/Genealogy/connecting-dot.php My mother Dorothy Gertude Butler was born 100 years ago this year on the 21st January 1926. Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/thoughts/from-a-mouse.php 'Twas the night before Christmas... Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://lynfox.au/indieweb/creating-an-indieweb-site.php The story of my journey into the revival of the artisinal websites of last century and how I learnt to use the new hosting options made available by the Fediverse Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:00:00 GMT #indieweb https://lynfox.au/thoughts/introversion-in-the-time-of-plague.php A Journal of the First Covid 19 Lockdown Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://lynfox.au/thoughts/escaping-the-propaganda-media.php This article developed out of an email exchange with a friend who writes as a hobby; actually more of a compulsion. He wants to escape from fb but we can't seem to find a good alternative for the kind of thing he wants to publish on the internet. Mastodon is too focused on smaller items. In spite of the generous word limits on the fediverse most of his articles would be long threads rather than one or two posts Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://lynfox.au/genealogy/brief-lives.php A remark made between two of my dad's cousins had caused me to assume that my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Henderson may have died from dementia... Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/thoughts/weird-good-or-bad.php Growing up I always felt different to the people around me; a bit weird Sat, 21 Sep 2024 09:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://lynfox.au/genealogy/changing-names.php Both of my Mum’s grandmothers were called Sarah Jane. Wed, 28 Feb 2024 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/genealogy/growing-up-non-indigenous-in-australia.php My Mum once made a passing remark about my son’s girlfriend (now wife) being ‘foreign’... Mon, 8 Jan 2024 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/thoughts/and-the-world-improves.php As we approach another arbitrary temporal boundary, or New Year as some would have it, I am prompted to consider my place in the world and my responsibilities to society. So because social media reflects so much of society these days, I reflect on social media Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://lynfox.au/thoughts/aiming-for-something-better.php I decided celebrate my fedi-versary by finishing a half written blog post from a while ago, about xitter v mastodon. I originally got bored before finishing it, but the purpose of the blog is supposed to be to leave information about the past for my grandchildren and other descendants, even if I sound like a boring-old-fart. After all there's enough classic history about famous and/or interesting people, and isn't genealogy supposed to be about the history of the everyday Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:00:00 GMT Thoughts https://lynfox.au/genealogy/names-in-genealogy.php A genealogy question on Mastodon, about households containing people with identical names, started me thinking about the number of different version of names we find in old documents and I wondered if it might be explained by the tendency in times past to name children after parents or grandparents, or other significant family members. Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/genealogy/a-story-of-love-and-loss.php I have a letter found in my Grandfather's desk, which illustrates the lengths to which we need to go to work out what our ancestors were doing... Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/genealogy/history-in-three-centuries.php The year 2023 marks the 121st anniversary of the birth of my Nana. Gertrude Ellen Wilson was born on the 25th of September, 1902 in South Melbourne Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/genealogy/the-life-and-times-of-martha-wiggins.php Originally I was confused about who “my Martha Wiggins” was because there were two girls of that name in Tasmania in the right time frame Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/genealogy/the-place-of-pride-and-shame-in-genealogy.php Comments in social media recently have prompted me to think about the place of Pride and Shame in genealogy Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy https://lynfox.au/genealogy/pieces-of-history.php On December 10th 1852, David Wilson married Euphemia Hay in Dundee Scotland. They were my great-great grandparents Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:00:00 GMT Genealogy