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Friday - An accumulation of my weekly research - 8
This week I have been busy researching how my ancestors were employed and the different resources that assist in finding how and where they were employed for my post "Friday's Family History Through...
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Wordless Wednesday- Sharing Memories
Shearing timeIn on of my recent posts, Sharing Memories - Early days in the Bush - Day out with Dad, I wrote about my memories of spending a day out with my father when we lived on, Nuntherungie, a...
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Friday's Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge - F for Freemasonry
Did you have a grand father, great uncle or male relative who was a member of a Freemason fraternity??As a small girl, I remember my father dressing up in his dinner suit once a month with his small...
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Wordless Wednesday - Charles Henry Palin 1871-1957
Charles Henry PalinRunning with the theme of Wordless Wednesday I have posted a picture to complement my post on Family History through the Alphabet Challenge - F is for Freemasonry. This is a photo...
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Family Recipe Friday, and Sharing Memories - Lamingtons
It has been quite a while since I have shared one of our family recipes and as with the last recipe, Anzac Biscuits, this one is also linked with my posts on Sharing Family Memories. An old family...
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Wordless Wednesday - Sharing Memories - School of the Air
Recently, I was looking through some more of my father's old slides and found two photos that bring to life the story I wrote early this year,Sharing Memories - Early School Days in the Bush - School...
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Friday's Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge - G is for Gravestone
Picture this!! Warm summer day, husband armed with camera, wife wending her way through the overgrown graves of the country cemetery of Braidwood in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. “Oh we...
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Follow Friday - An accumulation of my weekly research - 9
This week I managed to post my next Alphabet challenge. G is for Gravestone. I have to admit that it is taking me a longer to wend my way through the Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge...
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Military Monday - 2013 Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge
Some members of my family tree who have been to warTaking advantage of the Easter Break and a little R and R time, I have been catching up with some blog reading and came across the blog by Auckland...
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Sharing Memories - Aunty Tilly (Matilda Holman, nee Taylor 1900-2001)
Aunty TillyPlease join me for another post in my Sharing Memories series. Thank you to Olive Tree Genealogy’s Blog’s for providing me with the idea and motivation to write a little about my family...
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Tombstone Tuesday - 2013 Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge - Alexander...
Memorial Cross for members of 1st Field Company Australian Engineers - GallipoliThis month I am planning to post a number of blogs about the members of our family who have participated in military...
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Family Recipe Friday - Mum's Golden Syrup Dumplings
Steaming, light fluffy golden balls, covered with a thick golden caramely sauce!!!! With a dollop of cream or ice cream!! YUM Golden Syrup Dumplings have been a family favourite through many...
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Military Monday - 2013 Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge - Alexander...
"I turned around to get the second tow ready, when a man just in front of me dropped, hit in the head. This was the first casulty and very soon there were several other's hit. There was some...
View ArticleAmanuensis Monday - Letter from Major McCall to Donald McDonald re death of...
I have just completed my first blog in the 2013 Trans Tasman ANZAC Day Blog Challenge on my Great Uncle Alexander Joseph McDonaldand thought I should also share with you the letter that was sent to...
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Thankful Thursday - Blogging Reflection
I was reading Geneabloggers over the weekend and clicked on to some of the blogs Anniversaries. Oh! I must have started my blog Family Stories: Photographs and Memories about a year ago, I thought....
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Wordless Wednesday - Thelma Linda Vida Palin
Thelma Palin (in solders uniform) and friend In keeping with the ANZAC celebrations of this week, here is a picture of my great Aunt Thelma Palin and a friend. Thelma was born in Solomon Town, South...
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Sharing Memories - Aunty Tilly Holman Part 2
Matilda (Tilly) Taylor In my last Sharing Memories post I wrote about one of my fondest memories of my husband’s Aunty Tilly( Holman nee Taylor) and promised to share a few more of her stories. Don't...
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Friday's Family History Through the Alphabet Challenge" - H is for "Homes"
Oh, it is soooo long since I have posted an Alphabet Challenge Story!!!The Letter "H" is the next in line and today's post is "H is for Homes". How do we find out about our families "Homes". I think...
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Sharing Memories - Childhood Memories of Picnic Races at White Cliffs
Horses preparing to race As I remember, the vast distances between settlements in outback NSW definitely didn’t seem to place restrictions on the social life of the people living in these areas. One...
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Sympathy Saturday - Obituary - Mrs Annie Shepherd (nee McDonald)
Annie Shepherd and grandson NevilleMy Grandmother,Annie Shepherd, nee McDonald was the daughter of Donald McDonald and Margaret Hanlon and she was born in Reidsdale, NSW Australia in 1869. Annie's...
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