Unwrapping the Charm: Exploring the Time-Honoured Traditions of Boxing Day
Boxing Day is a traditional holiday that is celebrated in several countries, primarily in the Commonwealth nations. The exact origins of...
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Chris Elliott
- Dec 2, 2023
- 1 min
How did you celebrate 2023 Thanksgiving?
Here is how we, in Australia, celebrated our 2023 Thanksgiving... Our Secretary's family (Connie and Lester Riley) share celebrations...
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Chris Elliott
- Aug 26, 2023
- 1 min
Our latest Mayflower descendants have arrived!
Violet Hayden & Lily Kathleen Granger arrived safely 29 June 2023. Their father, Hayden (wife Maddi), grandfather, Scott and grandparents...
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Andrew Cooper Wells
- Jun 28, 2023
- 5 min
Unanticipated Genealogical Discoveries
As one gets further involved with their genealogy, those moments that take the breath away tend to become less frequent. This narrative...
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lesterandconnie
- Mar 20, 2023
- 2 min
Getting Under the Skin of My Ancestors
by Steve Isham If John Isham had not shown up in Plymouth Colony around 1670 I would not have a Mayflower ancestor, or at least not...
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Keith Quimbach
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min
One in a million
by K C. Quimbach What are the odds? Would you ever believe that someday your paths would cross and you might end up meeting a famous...
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Genevieve Quimbach
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
William Stinson Soule - Photographer (1836 - 1908)
While reading a book about the history of the United States, I happened upon one of those beautiful black and white photos of a Plains...
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lesterandconnie
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
Captain James Cook Chronicle
The latest newsletter from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution—Units Overseas—Sydney, Australia, September 2022....
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Ann Wilkerson
- Apr 13, 2022
- 4 min
Pilgrim Year Leiden 400 celebrated online
Pieterskerk, Leiden
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Terrance Patterson
- Apr 13, 2022
- 19 min
Hiram Sharp - American Patriot in the Australian Colonies
Hiram Sharp, an American Patriot in the Australian Colonies Terrance Patterson M.A. (Macq. Uni.), B. Ed. (Kuring-gai College of Advanced...
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Richard Shaw
- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
On a road to discovery
My journey to discovering my roots to George Soule, began some 7 years ago when I visited Plymouth Mass. My partner Colin and I did all...
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Andrew Wells
- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
Why I Volunteered as Historian for the Australian Society
I met Sir Marshall Howard, former Wyoming Mayflower Society Historian, in a comment on a gravestone image attached to my 10th great...
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Keith Quimbach
- Jan 18, 2022
- 1 min
What do we say to our friends and family 50 years in the future?
In a joint effort between the AUSMD Inc and The Fellowship of First Fleeters in Sydney, a time capsule project has been proposed. We...
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Dr David Baker
- Jan 18, 2022
- 1 min
The Shortest History of the World
"The Shortest History of the World" by AUSMD member and author, Dr. David Baker. Available July 2022 David Baker came to Australia in...
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Genny Quimbach, Andrew Wells, Meg Averett
- Jan 18, 2022
- 2 min
A cemetery in North Carolina without a Soule in it!
In Hyde County, North Carolina stands a methodist church and cemetery named after Bishop Joshua Soule. "He was great-great-great grandson...
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Reverand Luke Isham
- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Thanksgiving prayer - AGM 13th November 2021
Hi I’m Luke living in St Kilda Melbourne - Edward Fuller line. It’s been 400 years since the our ancestors, literally 53 of our ancestors...
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lesterandconnie
- Sep 18, 2021
- 1 min
Family history reveals a Soule descendant in NSW
Nellie (Page) Pillars at her home "Nugal Hall"
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lesterandconnie
- Sep 18, 2021
- 2 min
An ode to Father's Day
Father’s Day We’ve had some bleak times money related, depression prompted just overwhelmed by the daily grind I suppose times like most...
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Philip Koether
- Sep 18, 2021
- 4 min
The Mayflower Plate: Today and Yesterday
We only have Edward Winslow’s reference to what was served that first Thanksgiving in 1621, and nothing about what it was served on. The...
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lesterandconnie
- Jun 16, 2021
- 4 min
1620 echoes in the 1950s
How did descendants of Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller end up in Tasmania in the 1950s?
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