My Family History

According to the Times Online genealogy has become a national obsession with more than 3 million people using the National Archives to research their family history. 

The article that focuses on the TV program Who Do You Think You Are? discusses the happiness and the heartbreaks of tracing your family roots.  It’s not uncommon for some people to discover illegitimacy, bigamy, adoption, previously unknown relatives and even criminals in their family.  But it seems there are others who are disappointed if they fail to find some dark secret…

The article reminded me of my own search for my 3rd great grandmother Eliza Page.  Eliza arrived in Australia with her husband Thomas Sayer in December of 1852.  Sadly less than four years later she was dead; murdered in Horsham, Victoria by John Ross a neighbour.

You can read more about the article by John Naish here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8123-2434913,00.html