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  Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Brueghel II The Younger     This blog post is submitted as part of the National Family History Month blogging challenge called Genealife in Lockdown as mentioned in this blog post here.    Janet Few wrote this blog post which was the inspiration for this second blog post and a previous blog post here . Her blog post was entitled My Life in Seven Censuses.  Janet lives in the UK and they take a census every ten years.  In fact, it is likely that this might be the last census in the UK; the government considering that it can obtain the information it needs through other means.  Let's see what happens. Australia is a bit unique in family history terms in that it has destroyed most of the censuses it has taken over the years.  You can read more about the history of the Australian census here.  I found Janet's blog post fascinating on a number of levels.  It was really interesting to see what kind of dat...

  Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog post for National Family History month in the land downunder. It is so lovely that so many fellow geneabloggers want to take part in this challenge.   I can't wait to see what we all come up with. Well, as some predicted, we in Brisvegas are now in a snap lockdown or slap knockdown as one very tired journalist reported the other day, much to our amusement.  Of course it's frustrating.  I was hoping to have a celebratory champers with my sister-in-law tomorrow to celebrate the end of Dry July.  But I am well aware that we have been pretty lucky in the Sunshine State so far.  I have been able to spend lots of time with my new grandson which I know is way more than many other grandparents have been able to do over the past 18 months or so, so I mustn't grumble.  We have plenty of food and I have plenty of family history to do and online bridge to play so I am quite chuffed to be able to get on with it. I know ...