Annette talks about her childhood home.
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Annette Lorenz shares her experiences living at in the outback at Watson, South Australia as a 16 year old bide in 1967. Click on blue link and then look at the sattelite view to see how bleak this is!!
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Alice talks about her early schooldays in Laura, South Australia.
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My favourite room as told by Alice Domagalski to the Campbelltown Library Story Circle.
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In the early 1960’s I was in my mid-30's and working as a junior high school band director in Carpentersville IL, a suburb 40 miles northwest of Chicago. Like many music teachers I, for fun and extra income, played in a small combo for dances, parties, weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and what...
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Bill tells us how he walked to School in the 1920's in Laura South Australia, and how he wasn't allowed to walk past the hotel on his way home.
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With seven of us kids in the family we all thought that we had the best Dad in the world. Our Father’s name was Herman. While we lived in a place called Steptoe we had to get all our water from a pipe line that had several spigots along the line...
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JOHN CLARENCE BLACKHAM (Uncle to Ernest LaMont Blackham – Siblings of Grandpa Ern) John Clarence (Clair) Blackham (my Great Uncle) was born to Samuel and Annie Blackham, September 22, 1895 in Moroni, Utah. He married Eulala Anne Justensen late in life at the age of 63 in Ruth,...
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Click here if you want to see & hear the Talking Picture Story -- or read the story below. Karen - 5 years old This was a picture taken when I was a little girl in my home town in Moroni, Utah. I started Kindergarten in 1954 - we...
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Hermannus Thiessens aka Herman Thiessens was born December 12, 1876, the third son of Antoon Thiessens and Willemke de Jong in Groningen city, Groningen province, The Netherlands. He was, by profession, a furniture maker. He married (1) Hendrikje (Reka) Mulder on November 1, 1900 in Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands who was the...
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In the days before television (and when the radio was a luxury) children played games indoors and out. Margaret recalls the games she played at home in the evenings during the 1930s and 1940s in Linclon, UK. The picture shows Paper Dolls - of Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth) and her...
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My distant relative came from Cartmel Parish Northumberland England in or about 1685. He was a Quaker. He lived in the area of Woodbridge NJ near the Delaware River. According to other published stories he was a frequent visitor and guest of the Lenape Indians who lived in the area. He...
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In the Spring of 1953 it seemed the Korean Police Action was going to go on forever with “Peace Talks” bogging down on who should sit on which side of the table, what shape the table should be, and where the talks should take place. It had degenerated into a “Which...
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Barry J. Ewell's Blog on Genealogy - My GenShare.com enables individuals to learn many things regarding genealogy. This series is his 86 part series on Cemeteries.
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The Month of May was full of Genealogy fun with my Mother and looking for her Great Grandfather Creed Wilson. This month theme really ties in well with this trip we mande. The whole trip was based around genealogy. It seems like the womans side of a family really gets the...
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Well they say we American's are the true mutts of the genealogical world and after today I know I am. I knew of my French and English and Irish and Scottish and American Indian lineage... well today, digging around on my paternal grandfather's line - I get to add Dutch and...
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Bill Corey grew up in Tarlee, South Australia. In this short reminiscence Bill talks about family meals.
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This is my mother's writing about her hero - her father. On this Memorial Day, I can't get him out of my head. Love you, Grandaddy. You are a hero to all of us. "George Charles Shields, Jr. is the father of Catherine M. (Shields) Keller. I am she! I want...
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