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I again discovered something tonight on the National Library of Australia’s digital newspaper archives. Here is a story from The Argus (Melbourne) dated October 5, 1893: An accident happened on the Colac railway this afternoon, between the Pettavel Road and Germantown stations Violet Gorey, aged 3 and a half years,…
February 27 2010, 4:23am | Comments »
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My father Peter undertook compulsory National Service for three years from 1954, aged 18 to 21. There is a pleasing new focus on National Servicemen in Australia, and rightly so. Most had their lives disrupted while they completed their duty. I recently discovered the website of the National Servicemen’s Association…
February 19 2010, 2:09am | Comments »
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I’ve written before about the National Library of Australia’s wonderful digitisation program. Hundreds of historic newspapers are having their pages converted to searchable electronic copies. I’ve already used the resource for family history research. The text appears garbled in most cases. Hence the NLA has asked volunteers to correct digital…
January 27 2010, 2:45am | Comments »
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I haven’t done much offline genealogical research since 1999, but I occasionally browse online sources on public holidays, like today. These sources are much more plentiful than they were 10 years ago and most didn’t exist in 1999. Today I checked old digital copies of The Argus on the National…
December 26 2009, 3:01am | Comments »
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This is a pictorial page from the defunct Argus newspaper in Melbourne, dated Tuesday, January 17, 1939 after the black Friday bushfire. The child in the bottom left corner is my father, aged 3, receiving a new pair of boots from the Warragul relief depot after his family’s house at…
November 29 2009, 3:46am | Comments »
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I’ve just finished reading “Billy Hughes” by Aneurin Hughes (not related). The sub-title is “Prime Minister and controversial founding father of the Australian Labor Party”. It’s not a full biography and tries to paint a portrait of the man, rather than the politician. But Hughes lived for politics, becoming the…
November 21 2009, 8:42pm | Comments »
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This is a picture of my great uncle Peter Wassenberg. He served in the Dutch Army in the 1930s. The Dutch were neutral in the First World War, but Hitler wouldn’t let them claim that privilege in the second. The Netherlands were easily overrun in the early days of the…
October 17 2009, 2:39am | Comments »
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It’s unusual to commemorate the anniversary of a shipwreck, but as someone with an interest in history I’m strongly in favor of anything like that. One hundred and fifty years ago today the SS Admella ran aground on Carpenters Reef near Mount Gambier. Over the next eight days, 89 people…
August 6 2009, 2:16am | Comments »
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The Border Watch runs a weekly “looking back” column with news extracts from 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. This week I noticed the town’s basketball stadium was officially opened 40... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
June 26 2009, 2:04am | Comments »
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