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Brown paper parcels

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Tee hee!  I can almost smell the Congress now!  Networking cards have arrived from Vistaprint.   And whilst they didn't arrive in brown paper parcels, the links to my requested files arrived from the National Archives this week. They proved very interesting reading but I need the weekend to digest them and work out how best to present the information.   There was no mention of my grandfather but it is definitely around the time he was retrenched from C.A.C.  Stay tuned.

The Bucket List - Geneameme

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Happy domesticity (1936) Real photo postcard. Postally unused. Found at the Camberwell Markets, Melbourne , Australia . From Pellethepoet on Flickr Jill from Geniaus suggested this meme.  Here are the guidelines:   The list should be annotated in the following manner: Things you would like to do or find: Bold Type Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type You are encouraged to add extra comments after each item The genealogy conference I would most like to attend is... This may seem a little ethnocentric but I would like to attend the 13th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry so I can catch up with old friends in Adelaide . The genealogy speaker I would most like to hear and see is... It’s a toss up between Jenny Higgins and Paul Nixon.  Jenny works at the National Library of Australia and I am really interested in the family history reference training courses she has developed for Nati...