CELEBRATING YOUR DISCOVERIES
Chinese whispers can lead family historians on a merry journey through time. Some of the anecdotes passed down to us may prove fanciful, while others contain an important grain of truth. Tracie Jackson was keen to explore her nan's family legend, and in the process found a remarkable forebear born in 1687.
MY BRICK WALL
My maiden name was Grimes, and my paternal grandmother, Dora, claimed that there was a whole village of us in Ireland and that one of them was a chief commissioner. My dad, Derek, was a police
