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  Week 4 - Celebrate - tell us what you've achieved this month. What talk did you attend during #NationalFamilyHistoryMonth that you thought was brilliant or tell us about the discoveries you made? This has been a crazy busy month for me.  We've had a lot to do at QFHS and I have been rather distracted.   But I am pleased that, despite many distractions, I still managed to publish some blog posts - ten if I get this and another one completed today. I also managed to progress the framing of my father's grandfather's medals.  We're not there yet by any stretch of the imagination.  As someone once said, COVID has a habit of warping time.  It has taken over a year to find someone to scan and touch up and enlarge a very old bad photo of my father's grandfather, get the right ribbons for the medals and find a framer.  Who woulda thought it could take so long???? See this ABS report on Business Conditions and Sentiments  which talks about the shortage...

August is not so very far away and that means.... NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH!!!! HOORAH!! Who's up for a blogging challenge??  Some of us thought a literary theme might be the go given that a few of our more well known authors were born 100  years ago e.g. Ruth Park (okay she was born in NZ but we adopted her as our own), Sumner Locke Elliott, Nancy Cato and Frank Hardy.   So this is the plan: Week 1 - Poor Man's Orange - take what you will from this title of Ruth Park's novel published in 1949.  Poor Man's Orange was set in Surry Hills Sydney about a Catholic Irish Family.  Perhaps there were Irish Catholics in your family.  Perhaps your ancestors lived in Surry Hills or Sydney.  Have you got a tale of making do?  Take the theme as laterally as you like or ignore it altogether.  We just want to see you blogging. Week 3 - All the Rivers Run - Nancy Cato's saga spanned eight decades and four generations. ...