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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...

  From Edward Lear's limerick There was an old man of St Bees    You'd better get a cup of coffee.  This is going to be a long one! This past week has certainly tested South East Queensland residents. (Pun unintended) In one week we went from 37 to 169 cases of Delta in the community.  This probably seems a laughable figure to the rest of the world and indeed parts of Australia like Sydney but it does demonstrate how quickly the virus can spread.  And the fact that contact tracing included at least half a dozen schools, a university, at least three major shopping centres and a couple of hospitals did tend to put the wind up us.  I was very sorry to see my first library listed.  Til now I've been rather foolishly reassured by the fact that no bookshops or libraries have been listed to date . Here's a map of the close and casual contacts close to where I live.    I've included Ipswich as well as that is where my daughter and I were on Thur...