I regard myself first and foremost as a storyteller. There are stories all around us. On every street you walk; in every building you pass, and within everyone you meet. My passion is to uncover those stories and share them with others.

Having spent many years involved in researching and writing in local and family history projects, I have been thinking about the digitisation and legacy of all this research. I don’t want my descendants looking at piles of papers and folders and having no idea what to do with it all. As long as they keep this website hosted, then our family history will always be accessible. It is definitely a work in progress but one I know I will enjoy creating and I hope you will too.

I am also sharing a couple of publications and major projects I have worked on which may be of interest to some.

Fourteen Ancestors contains the stories of my fourteen immigrant ancestors whose choices brought them to Australia, alone or with family. Patrick and Owen Barrett, Hugh Bourke, Catherine Campbell, Andreas Dries, James Hendren, Thomas Hughes, Charles Mallett, Thomas Neal, Ellen Riedy, Elizabeth Sharkey, Sarah Want, John and James Martin Watts. 

This linked TNG website contains the genealogies of my ancestors: convicts and free immigrants, from England, Ireland, Scotland and Germany who journeyed to Australia in search of a better life. I have a public tree of Ancestry (chrissy2712), My Heritage and Family Tree DNA and I try to keep them updated. I have also uploaded my raw dna to Gedmatch.

Please click link below to see my family tree.
chrissyfletcher.com/tng