Genealogy Genie in Mount Isa, Queensland | Professional service
Genealogy Genie
Locality: Mount Isa, Queensland
Phone: +61 421 490 508
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25.01.2022 Welcome to my new website called Genealogy Genie
18.01.2022 FAMILY TREE RESEARCH Have you always wondered about your own family tree but haven't known where to start ? Have you started on your family tree and gotten stuck ??... Come and have a talk to me - by email, facebook or in person - and let me help you. Despite what the Ancestry ads on tv say - it isn't always as easy as they say. Some of the best records available - especially overseas are not available on line at all and never will be. I have access to a vast number of agencies and archives - some exclusive just to researchers. I have contacts in other countries when this is necessary. I have been tracing family trees for other people for a long time. Covering many countries around the world - England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada, United States, Germany, Italy, France, Poland, New Zealand, Australia. I have completed projects for clients throughout the world, including Australia, New Zealand, United States, Sweden, England. I have a set hourly rate, but I probably work differently to other researchers in that I let the client tell me what their budget is - some clients pay for large blocks of hours (10-15 or 15-20 hours upfront) - other clients with smaller budgets pay fortnightly. The reason I do it like that is so that the focus remains on the research - at the end of the day, I want to help you find the information. Each research project is different - some take a long time, some are difficult because of the lack of loss of records. I have completed projects for workplaces who wanted to surprise their boss at work. I have completed projects for family reunions and birthdays. Certificate, transcription and document ordering is also available - for Australia and other countries were possible. This is a link to some comments from previous clients. http://www.foreverythinggenealogy.net.au//Recommendations- This is a link to some (not all) of the records I have on hand - or access to. There has been much more added since this list was put together. http://www.foreverythinggenealogy.net.au//Genealogy-Resear Together - lets discover your past.
13.01.2022 taken in September 2015 at the Lynd Highway Cemetery Charters Towers Queensland
12.01.2022 Coat of Arm Products - lots on offer on hand - if you would like to see your Coat of Arms - available in a couple of sizes - laminating at no extra cost. Framed or Unframed. Armorial Surname Histories - framed and unframed - will have on display - but if you are after a specific name - please let me know. There are some new exciting styles of Scrolls and Histories in the works....Continue reading
09.01.2022 Services Certificate Service for all states of Australia, England and Wales, Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. I have a number of different sorts of services available, but if there is one you don’t fit into, please feel free to contact me about any areas you need help with or any brickwalls. Willing to help out as much as possible where I can.... I have records for a lot of foreign countries outside of Australia, including: United States, England, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Switerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Scotland. The spans and dates and number of records varies for each country. If I can’t find it in my records, I will source it from overseas. SPECIAL GIFT IDEA Have a relative that you just can’t decide what to buy as a gift for Christmas, Anniversary or a Birthday? Why not create a unique gift that is personalised just for them their family tree. You can do one or two small branches, or you can commission an entire family tree with all of the branches. Costs will depend on the countries involved and the level of research to be carried out. Very individual to each client, but please contact me to discuss your needs. You cannot know your full potential unless you have had a chance to discover your ancestors and their triumphs, trials, achievements and hard times. You cannot go forth into the future without knowing from whence you have come.
06.01.2022 More than 25 years ago I issued Birth, Death and Marriage certificates in Queensland Australia for my area and my passion from genealogy grew from there. I have been helping out people find their ancestors and descendants since that time both on a volunteer and professional basis. My personal database has over 40.1 million records and increases every day. Due to my remote location for a number of years, I found it necessary to collect my own records and learn how to read them as I had no immediate access to family history societies, libraries, archives or the internet. This is why my record collection is so large.
05.01.2022 DOCUMENTATION FROM OVERSEAS I have recently acquired a number of agents in other countries that search local libraries, churches, and archives in other countries. Some of these include countries such as England, Australia, and the United States but also includes other countries that people may not have ready access to records for including: Poland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg.... This list will also increase as I access other agents. INDEPTH RESEARCH I am willing to take a look at any brick wall you may have and help provide solutions for this. If I have a contact overseas, I will write away on your behalf to gain information, documentation, photographs and whatever other information you may require. This can be limited to just a day or a year of research and can cover a single person to any all all branches of one family tree. BEGINNING YOUR FAMILY TREE I will help advise you where I can about the best starting points and what avenues can be taken. I can provide you with the information so that you can do the research yourself and be a part of your own history or do all of the leg work for you and send you the completed reports or documents. DON’T KNOW WHAT I CAN DO OR NEED SERVICE From time to time, I don’t think there is anybody who is doing research that doesn’t fall into this category. I am willing to take a look at any problem and advise what we can do together to solve the situation. You tell me what you would like me to try and do for you. If you only want a look up, a complete family tree, or just to tell me that you are confused by all before you and need help.
04.01.2022 Today - let me know if you need help finding a particular Irish Ancestor - these can be tricky especially if you don't know the county or parish. If you are just starting out and would like tips or guidance, please let me know.
02.01.2022 During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children aged 10 to 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In th...is decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Still 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers. Many people today avoid calling the Irish slaves called what they really were: Slaves. They use words such as "indentured servants" to describe what happened to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle. The Irish Slave Trade The Forgotten White Slaves The Slaves That Time Forgot. They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children. Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives. We don’t really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade. But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain’s famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one’s next door neighbor. The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves. Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white. From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well. During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers. Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like Indentured Servants to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle. As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts. African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude. In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new mulatto slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale. In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company. England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat. There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry. In 1839, Britain finally decided on it’s own to end it’s participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded THIS chapter of nightmarish Irish misery. But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong. Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories. But, where has this ever been taught in our public (and PRIVATE) schools???? Where are stories of Irish Slavery in the history books? Why is it so seldom discussed? Do the memories of hundreds of thousands of Irish victims merit more than a mention from an unknown writer? Or is their story to be one that their English pirates intended: have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened. None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books-conveniently forgot-By John Martin
