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My Genealogy site

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My other sites, Hamilton Family History and Mums Finance, are well up and running now. Trying to maintain three blogs can be time consuming but I particularly am enjoying working on the genealogy blog. It was an ambition of mine to publish my family history at some stage so being able to document it all on the blog is very satisfying. Talk about a lot of work though!.

I started doing family research some years back; the trick is to talk to as many older relatives as soon as you can and write everything down as you go along. It is amazing the kinds of things that our older family members hang onto over the years and often, sadly, the valuable things they tend to chuck out.

For instance, my Mums auntie had a stash of photo’s that were taken during the first world war and yet when my grandmother died they got thrown out in the ‘clear out’. Lost forever those particular pictures but fortunately Mums sister managed to save even more items.

My advice is to ask your grandparents for any old photo’s and make copies of them. Even get them restored as the process these days can restore them to almost an almost new condition. Just remember; don’t throw anything out!.

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