My fellow Ustrailyuns. This post is addressed to youse blokes, who, unlike the social climbing Seppos, will understand my delight. I had a truly serendipitous experience yesterday. After a couple of years of fruitless searching, I finally tracked down one set of my paternal great great grandparents. And to my joy they were thoroughly indecent, family values flouting convicts, both sentenced to 10 years hard labour in Tasmania! :2thumbsup: How blessed am I?!! I can finally count myself among the despised dregs, the scummy scion of the Protestant Pommie Empire, but a real SOMEBODY in Ustrailya. Admittedly only a minor blueblood, but a blueblood nonetheless, in Ustrailya's implicit peerage!! I wonder if the forum's owner will allow me to change my pseudonym to "Sir Danny Of Dipsomania"....:crowngrin:
Most people who dig around in family closets tend to find some interesting things about their ancestors. I am pleased that you have.
Well if I'm correct about needing a 1,000 posts to be a senior member... I'll most likely be changing it soon..