Harden Family History

One of the nice things about having a personal website is that when the search engines have done their indexing, you get contacts from people who have similar interests, disagreements and prejudices :-) There are also the emails that say, 'Are we related?' . Researching family history seems to be a 'big' use of the Web, and I'm moved to start putting this collection of my family history together. (Slowly moved. As you'll see from the current sparse state of information.) It's an excuse to get a few pictures scanned that I've been meaning to 'save', before they fade. It's planned to be chronological. My parents 'figures' and history were entries in Centenary of Federation Peoplescape project by my sister Jill and I. Jill collected all the images of my mother Betty Louise Harden , and Herbert Frederick Harden, my father's figure, was more a fanciful entry by me. Have a look at them while I'm adding some more here. Both my Grandfather and my father were keen photographers and that's passed to me in line. I've lots of negatives of images of people who I have no way of recognising now, taken by my Grandfather, but my father took lots of black and white pictures as we grew up, then moved to colour slides so I'm going to have to scan them all someday. There are a few on the Walwa page. Fred Harden (that's Frederick John Harden b.1947)
My father, Fred Snr, his sister Elsie and Herbert Harden, my grandfather. On the steps of their house in Nelson Road, Camberwell.	22 Jan 1924. Herbert Harden, Elsie Harden (10yrs) Clara Harden, Herbert Frederick Harden (8yrs old)	Betty Louise Harden (my mother) holding Jillian Clare Harden, a family friend Cath Syphers (?), Fred Jnr and Phillip.
	The Walwa Butter Factory. During the war years it made powdered milk, and my father was employed to change it from steam power to electricity. We moved to the country from Melbourne when I was 4 years old. It produced mostly butter for export and was a big employer in the area. There's more family (and area) pictures from the Walwa years here
Other links with family details. Brother Phillip and sister Jill don't have personal websites yet, but they will, both are highly computer literate.
My CV has a bit of my early history, and I've left my 2001 combined family Christmas Card online I did for the 'rellies' . I have a daughter Aurore who is studying photography  now lives in Melbourne with her mum, and my wife Jan O'Connell has two daughters Jackie and Kate who have left home for uni and work. There's always personal stuff in my regular 'blog' Another Country Diary  but not much family history (lots of eating, drinking, gardening and country town stuff though!)