If you would like more information on the Gregory Family you can view all of the Gregorys known to me at Stuart and Annette's Family History.
Jan Gregory has recently visited Newcastle and met with William and Ann's great grandson, Ross Bartle. Up until early 2007, Ross had been living in a house on the block originally owned by William and Ann. The original Gregory home had been damaged in the 1989 earthquake and had to be rebuilt.
The great news is that Ross had kept the old family bible along with other historical papers. Jan has supplied me four images of some pages in the bible and they can be viewed here.
As I get the time, I have been scanning various photographs for inclusion in our family history. As is normal, almost all of the photographs have no identification as to who are featured in the photographs or where they were taken. I am therefore seeking help from family members to identify the people and locations featured.
So, on this page, I have included some of these photos. I have also included some photos that I would like confirmation of the information I have. If you can help, please let me know via email at <stuart at scss dot com dot au>.
I will place more photos on here as time permits. Naturally I will remove photos once they have been identified.
Another task I get around to occasionally is entering historical data into a small database. This database includes world events, but they are weighted towards their relevance to Australia. I have linked the database to a page in which you can type in a name and birth and death dates and it will place this persons life into the context of the events I have included. There are many events I haven't included but you can give it a try by clicking here.
When the first page opens, there are some notes if you want to save the timeline for use in another application. If you would just like to print it out, it should be printer friendly and print straight from the web page created.
During early January, 2007, there was the opportunity to see Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1), so Andrew and I walked to the end of our street and into Triginometric park and we were pleased to see this interesting object.
I have put together a couple of photos and they can be viewed here. These photos were taken using my Minolta Dimage 7i. The camera was hand-held as I had forgotten to take a tripod.
I have also plagiarised some info on this which you may find interesting.
Comets are some of the most elusive, but also eagerly anticipated, astronomical events. And Comet McNaught is the brightest comet visible from Earth in 40 years, according to the International Comet Quarterly at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Comet McNaught was discovered in August 2006 by Australian astronomer Robert McNaught, and is the brightest comet since 1965, when Ikeya-Seki made its appearance. (Ikeya-Seki is the brightest comet to be visible from Earth since 1935.) Comet McNaught is even brighter than the much-publicized appearance of Hale-Bopp in 1995, and is bright enough to be seen during the daytime. However, daytime viewing can be tricky, as Comet McNaught is rounding the Sun, and skywatchers must be careful not to look directly at the Sun when in search of the comet.
As it veered into Mercury's orbit,the comet ejected fiery debris, putting on a spectacular show visible in the daytime, with the naked eye. Astronomers assign a numerical value to celestial objects to denote their brightness; the lower the number, the brighter the object. Comet McNaught has reached minus 5, compared to minus 4 for the planet Venus, which shines brighter than any star, and minus 12.7 for the full moon.
Comet McNaught has been described as looking like an elongated cloud, and pointing up and to the left. It has been visible for approximately 30 minutes after sunset each night, in addition to several daytime appearances. In the United States, the comet has been easily visible everywhere from Hawaii to California to Utah. While residents of the Northern Hemisphere have had a clear view of the comet earlier, it is steadily heading south. Each day, the comet will move away from the Sun and further south, giving residents of the Southern Hemisphere a viewing advantage. Comet enthusiasts can also watch the comet online, with several sites streaming live or near-live images, and others posting still images.
In April/May 2002 Andrew and I toured the Great Victoria Desert. This link will take you to a full diary of our trip. This diary is very detailed and contains a large number of photos. Andrew did a substantial amount of work preparing this diary for the internet.
I have yet to finish our diary of this trip to Lake Mason station for a cleanup weekend and on to Mt. Beadell to erect a memorial to Len Beadell. This was another great trip touring the eastern parts of Western Australia.
In September 2003 Annette and I had a couple of days around Mingenew and the Coal Seam Nature Reserve looking at the wild flowers. This link will take you to a compilation of some of the photos taken on this trip.
Andrew's pages, as you would imagine, are very extensive. Not only has he spent a lot of time in properly coding his pages, he has a very extensive range of interests.
If you want to see properly encoded pages with interactive menus and you want to know more about, say, playing Sudoku on a Palm PDA, or digital cameras, or GPS receivers or .... go here.
This is nothing like Andrew's professional job. Why? Because I did it!! Her pages have been written to her targeted audience of agents, producers, directors, casting agents etc. You can watch a video of her in an episode of "Blue Heeler" or you can see a video of one of several ads she has now made. All you need to do is click here.
Those people with whom I have arranged for the downloading of files will need to download from here.
If you want any further information or help on family history or regarding my other pages let me know via email at <stuart at scss dot com dot au>.