Monthly Archives: August 2016

“Squatter” Jones – Farmer

Posted on 20 August 2016 by

  Week two of the National Family History Month weekly blog challenge set by Alex Daw takes your ancestor’s occupations as the theme. For me, that has to be farming or shearing – my cousin Billy and I were the … Continue reading →

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1971 National Census, Territory Style

Posted on 6 August 2016 by

Some time ago, I read an amusing fictional account “The Census Taker Cometh”[1] describing the travails of census enumerators calling at a German immigrant household in Illinois over a 60-year period and concluding with the question “Ever wondered why some … Continue reading →

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