How much of your family history can you find online?

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Have you tried to google your name? I’m sure most of us would have done so some time or another. How about taking it one step further and googling the names of your family and see how much of your family history you can trace online? Katong Gal put her web search skills to the test, and managed to find some interesting information about her Great Grandfather.

What did Katong Girl find out about her great-grandfather online?

Afternote: I googled my great grandfather’s name and found that:
He is recorded in the 1881 Census of Britain as living in Liverpool. Aged 15 years at the time, he was the oldest son in a family of 3 boys and 2 girls. Hence if he came to Singapore in 1893, he would have been around 27 years. By the time of my grandfather’s birth, he would have been 40 years old.

I found him also on the list of registered jurors in Singapore, in 1904. He was listed as working for the Shrager Brothers. Further checks turned up a 1902 newspaper advertisement in the Straits Times indicating that the Shrager brothers operated a fire-clay and pottery works business.

Amazing, all you can learn about your family without leaving the room!

Check out Katong Gal’s post here. How much about your ancestors can you discover without leaving the room? Try mining the information superhighway to see what you can find out about your grandparents and great-grandparents!