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Whippy – Carole's Canvas

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Where it all hangs out. Life among the warring tribes of the Fiji Islands during the early days of European settlement was precarious. White settlers in the first few decades tended to do so involuntarily, and most of these ‘beachcombers’ did not survive. A few, however, made themselves useful to the Fijian chiefs and prospered. David Whippy is the most well-known and influential of these early settlers. He was a younger son of a whaling family of Nantucket, Massachusetts. [1]. May 1862. [8]. Whippy boug...

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Connor/Connel – Carole's Canvas

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Where it all hangs out. Paddy Connel and his three sons. Paddy Connel, by his own admission, was “so much in the habit of lying that he hardly now knew when he told the truth…”. He claimed to Commodore Wilkes in 1843 that he had fathered 48 children and was trying for an even 50, thus assuring his fame. My family tree, contact me if you recognise anyone. My blog about family history resources for Fiji. My genealogy research blog and business website. I can help you with your family history research.

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GeniMates: March 2011

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Genealogists' profiles from all over the place. Thursday, March 31, 2011. More profiles are coming. I have promises from genealogists in England, Scotland, the US and Australia to prepare profiles for GeniMates. I will publish these as they come through. If you are interested. Links to this post. Wednesday, March 30, 2011. A committed online genealogist Seonaid organised the Waitangi Day Blog Challenge. And following on the success of that activity she has now set The Anzac Day Blog Challenge. What, if a...

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Resources

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What do you really know about your family? Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence. Probate and Death Duties. You are here: Home. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). Get updates by email. Not the Same Sky.

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archives

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What do you really know about your family? Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence. Probate and Death Duties. You are here: Home. Genealogy research in Fiji. This post was originally published on 22 December 2008 on my. Genealogy in NSW Blog. Site I had since created a new blog –. Fiji Genealogy –. With much more information about Fiji research, but that site is broken and I haven’t worked out how to fix it. Is a good place to start. National Archives of Fiji. From the 1870s and 1880s. When Fiji was cede...

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books

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What do you really know about your family? Colonial Secretary’s Correspondence. Probate and Death Duties. You are here: Home. Not the Same Sky. Fiction can tell the stories of our ancestors in a way that a bare recitation of facts cannot. There is no way that we can know how our ancestors felt when they left their homes forever for a new land, but we can look to our master storytellers to give us an idea. I’ve just finished the most marvellous book,. Not the Same Sky. This story is told in. By Richard Re...