My maiden name is Curry, I am descended from an Irish convict, Patrick Curry, who was transported to the colony of New South Wales in 1825. In addition to collecting information on Paddy's descendants downunder I have gathered quite a few references to unrelated Currys.
Since joining The Surname Society recently I have registered a surname study for the Curry Surname in Australia. As I have never seriously undertaken a surname study before I am on my L plates, I have taken on board advice that has been shared in the Society's forums and information on the Guild of One-Name Studies site (I'm a member there too).
How will I go about this?
If you have any Australian Currys in your tree or among your friends and neighbours I'd love to hear about them.
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| Some Australian Currys 1970 |
How will I go about this?
- I have opened a new project in my Family Historian software into which I have imported my Australian Currys. Several Society members already use Family Historian for their Surname studies so there is much help available.
- I will add any new Curry references I fins to this project.
- I have set up a Wordpress blog through which I will share Curry stories, trivia and news as wll as reports on my research. This blog which is currently private will be launched early in 2015.
- I already have 8,000+ Curry references in an Excel spreadsheet. I am currently massaging this data so that I can use Colin's free XL to Ged utility to convert the data in the spreadsheet to a gedcom file that I can import into my Family Historian project.
- I will set up a few Google alerts that will hopefully retrieve some Curry news from the web. I will have to put some thoughts into crafting these so that I don't get lots of news about Indian cuisine.
- I will search the various databases at my disposal to find Currys.
- I will see what Mr Google can find for me on the web.
- I will promote my study on social media so that others will be aware of the study. The hashtag will be #CurryAus and the URL of my blog will contain CurryAus.
- I will use Evernote as a tool to keep track of the blog and its posts.
- Apart from that I will just learn as I go.
If you have any Australian Currys in your tree or among your friends and neighbours I'd love to hear about them.
My Dad was a good friend of a George Curry and his wife Flo when they lived in Geraldton, WA. However all are now deceased. George was a car salesman back in the 1960s. I can't quite remember the name of the car yard but could find out and if he had children. I was only little at the time, but I remember he was a good fishing mate of dads.
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You sound very organised with your Curry study and I'm sure it will be a success. I was so glad you mentioned Indian cuisine as that was my first thought when I read your last post.
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