Jay O'Val's Page

I've finally got and finished reading my copy of Julia's book, Eliza Dyel and the Dyel Family: a chapter in the Kable Saga. It is a wonderful and well researched small volume and helps to clear up several mysteries surrounding her, her connection with the Kables, and her ultimate fate. This book is required reading for anyone descended from John and Eliza. Eliza has been so hard to track and it sounds as is Julia has put in a lot of hours and footwork getting all the info to put it together. I h… Continue

I have a few days off work so I went to Windsor Library yesterday - they have such lovely resources including an index to the early newspapers of the area. In the Hawkesbury Courier, on the 19th March 1846 is Henry's death notice. It's on page 2 if anyone is interested. The library holds the microfilm, and probably the State Library does too. No doubt those of you who have been researching for ages have already found this, but I suspect most of the people on here haven't.

"Died
On Monday las… Continue

I actually want this on the front page so I'm redoing it here.

This amazing photo I've used for the background is from Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gertrudk/329823498/ and was photographed by Gertrud K. The pic is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial- Share Alike 2.0 Generic license, the details of which appear here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en . Personally, after looking through 12 pages on Flickr for that type of license and pics… Continue

We now have visitors from 15 different countries, listed below. I'm not listing out all the cities for Oz, US or UK because there's too many. Some of the others are interesting, there was one where the country couldn't be picked up and one where the city couldn't be picked up. The city in Japan came up as a number! I'd be very interested to know who was checking us out in some of the more distant countries. That's the problem with these stats, they are just a big tease, and the people who visit… Continue

Notes and Events have become available as features so I've added them. They are tabs at the top of the page. Play, see what they can do. If you can see 'Gadgets' it will add novelty items to your own page...