Monthly Archives: March, 2007
Tracing your family history
Genealogy is one of the worlds most popular pastimes now with millions of people taking up the challenge of finding out just where they come from. Each person has a family tree and that tree has hundreds of thousands of branches.
I began my own ancestry research about 18 years ago and for a large part [...]
Belfast…Go there!
After I left Australia, and before I moved here to France, I lived for two years in Belfast in Northern Ireland.
Now, this is one place I never thought I would ever be.
Anyone, like me, who grew up in Australia in the 1970’s or anywhere during that time in fact, will have one image of Belfast [...]
August 31st 1997…Who is to blame?.
Most people recall where they were and what they were doing when the news filtered in from Paris that Diana, Princess of Wales, had been involved in a high speed car crash.
I know where I was at the precise moment that her car crashed…in bed on that Sunday morning reading the Sun Herald. The accident [...]
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