Ancestry

Funny thing, that ancestry was all over the media this weekend and for the first time ever I saw ancestry being advertised on the TV.

We visited Aunty Phyllis and she gave us our family tree on the Gum side. Very interesting as it goes back, in an unbroken line to 1324BC. However dates are rather sketchy as it was on a Chinese lunar calendar.

Still, its rather an awesome thing to be able to trace that far and to find out we had a relative who was a prime minister in China.

We are now most curious to find out more about the Kee side and also hear more of the stories from the the war days that Aunty Phyllis can recall.

Apparently in the more recent history we were the first Chinese family to live in Hurstville and our family baked bread for the troops in Darwin pre and post the bombing of Darwin.

Joanne Kee
www.ceressolutions.com.au