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Where’s John? …
Tracking down dad’s Ogilvie family has taken me down many highways and byways, wrong paths and dead ends but finally there they were in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. What a delight! The 1861 Scottish Census...
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Tiny Red Roses …
Feelings of sadness wash over me whenever another tiny baby shows up, in the family history, as stillborn or dying at any early age. So many little children who didn’t make it to adulthood … So many...
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Finding Christiana…
Ahhh… Christiana Ogilvie. We found you!!! ~~~~~~~~~ It’s such a joy to find a missing relative but the feelings that wash over me when finding a little child whose memory has become faded, or maybe...
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Happy Birthday Mum…
Dedicating this to my beautiful mum, Kathleen Mary (Allan) Crout, on this … the 87th Anniversary of her birth. Love ya mum xxx Thankyou Dick Eastman for featuring this song your blog and Kelly Leary...
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Happy Birthday Jarren…
Remembering Jarren Vaughan Habel A Birthday Memorium for my beautiful baby boy Jarren Vaughan Habel. Born 13 Apr 1970 at Midland Hospital, Midland, Western Australia. Much loved second child of...
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Tribute to our ANZAC Diggers
The First ANZAC Day – 15 Apr 1915 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall to weary them, nor the years condemn: At the going down of the sun and in the morning, … Continue...
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The Silent Battlefield
THE Australian soldier returned, he made it home to me: Beyond the joy, the twinkling in his eyes I could not see; His eyes were full of darkness, twinkling there was no more; The man I loved had not...
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Bb – is for Baby Crout
FAMILY HISTORY THROUGH THE ALPHABET CHALLENGE It’s a crisp Autumn morning in Adelaide, South Australia and I wake with the memory of “Baby Crout” nudging through my sleep be-fuddled brain. No more...
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Cc – is for Cousin Lizzie
FAMILY HISTORY THROUGH THE ALPHABET CHALLENGE Cc was always going to be about cousins. I have a rather interesting bunch. Some I never knew existed, like the “Crout half-cousins” in Canada and the...
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LEAVE OUR ANCESTORS ALONE!!! …
Is anyone out there maybe suggesting that I’m “obsessive”? I confess, I give up… I am Regular readers would no doubt remember my outrage at the “re-cycling” of cemetery plots here in South Australia...
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Today is the 6th of July, 2016. Two years ago my Mum, Catherine, the owner and creator of this blog was taken from us. Almost a year has passed since my last blog when we were in the UK. An … Continue...
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