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#AtoZChallenge - C is for Cemetery Transcriptions, CDs, Congresses and Cataloguing

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There was a time when I used to look after the QFHS Bookshop and I always like to tell the story about how the Toowong Monumental Inscriptions boxes used to be stored at the foot of our matrimonial bed.  I think any marriage that can survive that can survive anything. Needless to say I have a VERY understanding partner.   I still have the Toowong Monumental Inscriptions - but only one set now.  I have been surprised how many times I have had occasion to refer to them and look them up.  Of course you don't even have to have books now.  You can just purchase the CD from QFHS - a CD takes up much less space shelf.  Libraries aren't just books.  They are CDs, DVDs, eResources- the whole shebang.    Family History Congresses - I have been to a few.  My first one was back in 1991 in Launceston.  That was just before I had children. The papers are called Our Heritage in History and were produced in a book. My parents and ...