On deck again in 2024!
An inveterate gap-filler, I track down missing details and familial linkages, persistently populate profiles (mainly for graves located in New South Wales, Australia), and also do a little headstone photography here and there. My photos aren't plastered with copyright notices, but they are cropped (so I can prove authorship with the unpublished borders) and generally of a lower-resolution (which also helps them load faster). Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) applies: genealogists please feel free to download, and if you publish online it would be a friendly and appreciated act to add an attribution similar to "by Plothopper, user at Findagrave.com"). However, please don't put my images behind a paywall..What you got for free, please share for free! Lk 6:31, Mt 10:8b).

If family relationships or other details are not explicitly stated on a headstone, confirmation is sought from various sources. These include, but aren't limited to: NSW BDM and also the Births, Deaths & Marriage registries of other states; death/funeral/probate notices and obituaries from newspapers (courtesy of the Ryerson Index and Trove); and various genealogical websites.

Occasionally, I might make updates to memorials that're located elsewhere in the world. If you notice me doing this, you can consider it a fairly good bet that the person in question had some sort of windingly curious connection to Australia. G'day! :-)

At first I thought this site was fine
to help me trace my fam'ly line;
but now I've branched to other trees
both here in Oz and overseas:
preserving fragile lore of yore
before it's lost and is no more.
And mayhap, at some future time
when others hope their trees to climb
I will have helped in their ascent.
If that be so, 'tis time well spent.

- A lytel pome, gentil readeres, by Plothopper
(28.05.2019)

On deck again in 2024!
An inveterate gap-filler, I track down missing details and familial linkages, persistently populate profiles (mainly for graves located in New South Wales, Australia), and also do a little headstone photography here and there. My photos aren't plastered with copyright notices, but they are cropped (so I can prove authorship with the unpublished borders) and generally of a lower-resolution (which also helps them load faster). Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0) applies: genealogists please feel free to download, and if you publish online it would be a friendly and appreciated act to add an attribution similar to "by Plothopper, user at Findagrave.com"). However, please don't put my images behind a paywall..What you got for free, please share for free! Lk 6:31, Mt 10:8b).

If family relationships or other details are not explicitly stated on a headstone, confirmation is sought from various sources. These include, but aren't limited to: NSW BDM and also the Births, Deaths & Marriage registries of other states; death/funeral/probate notices and obituaries from newspapers (courtesy of the Ryerson Index and Trove); and various genealogical websites.

Occasionally, I might make updates to memorials that're located elsewhere in the world. If you notice me doing this, you can consider it a fairly good bet that the person in question had some sort of windingly curious connection to Australia. G'day! :-)

At first I thought this site was fine
to help me trace my fam'ly line;
but now I've branched to other trees
both here in Oz and overseas:
preserving fragile lore of yore
before it's lost and is no more.
And mayhap, at some future time
when others hope their trees to climb
I will have helped in their ascent.
If that be so, 'tis time well spent.

- A lytel pome, gentil readeres, by Plothopper
(28.05.2019)