ROEBUCK and Families Ancestry: October 2019

I love photographic memories, and not just my own. Some of you will know I’ve dabbled from time to time in family history and one of my hobbies is trying to keep ancestral memories alive on my Roebuck And Families Ancestry Website. I’ve collected a lot of family media from way back, starting in the 19th century, and I’m a great believer in publishing these photos and other media to a wider audience. I did pause briefly to ask myself if posts such as this are appropriate to my Family Ancestry blog…and convinced myself they were. Our photos today are tomorrow’s history and I feel a need to make sure my family and friends will have access to them long into the future.

I’ve strived to keep things simple by confining myself to Facebook and Google platforms, but the devil is in the detail which I won’t go into here. Suffice to say that I recently started a Facebook Group for this trip, only to discover that one or two interested Facebook friends, including my wife, couldn’t access the linked Google photo albums with their iPhones and iPads.

This post will hopefully solve that problem, providing easier, indexed access to the many photo albums covering our 2,500 mile road trip from Cairns down to Sydney. It is a significant undertaking and, with our eternal thanks, was skilfully planned and executed by our leaders from the International Caravanning Association (ICA), accompanied by some lucky members comprising 15 other motor homing couples, all from different countries and for a duration of 5 weeks.

Following the road trip, we took a further week travelling independently to sightsee Sydney and then the stunning 2,700 mile, 4 day rail trip on the Indian Pacific railway via Adelaide and the Nullarbor Plain to Perth from where we eventually returned home.
Links and brief descriptions to the photo albums for our itinerary follow. It is mainly going to be photographic with comments from our side, but we would invite comments and questions, below the post, about anything related to this vast and wonderful country with all it's varying landscapes.