Researching Family History

In the next few posts I will share my son’s research of our family history.  He did this for a year 6 project.

It is precious when grandparents share their stories.

I have been interviewing my grandparents.  Here I am with Nana Perkins when she visited me.

I learnt that my family has many cultures in it from the past and in the present.

We have:

Aboriginal                    

Australian                                    

English

Irish                              

South African                         

French        

German                                           

Scottish                                 

Papua New Guinea

 Iran

Here are what all these flags look like.

 

I found out our Papua New Guinean Tribe has a Totem. It is a Bird of Paradise.  This is what it looks like.

The name of the tribe is Maipa Fakai.  This is a photo of Bubu (Gerards) village.

I researched the stories of three of my grandparents.

I did these interviews by email and…