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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 417659" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Grab what you can from it and be aware of the teasers. We stayed with my sister on our way home on Friday night, she said she joined Ancestry.com and found the free period good but frustrating because it had limits that only go if you spend money. So get what you can while you can. You can also get a lot of this info for free or cheap, if you go direct. Increasingly, records are available online anyway. Find a family group (we are connected to an ancestral family group in the UK) and pool your information. It's what we did before Ancestry.com existed, so now we don't need Ancestry.com.</p><p></p><p>But wherever you find the info - always be aware that information is often incorrect because people lie.</p><p></p><p>Something I strongly recommend - go to old family members and friends, record an interview with them about what they remember. Transcribe it. Pass the transcript around (with permission) and get more stuff added. We did this with elderly relatives in my family but started almost too late. Got a little more info than we would have. Some wonderful stories which should never see the light of day in an official publication - like the time my great aunt, at 15, was getting ready for bed with her sisters, all in nightgowns, and this particular one of the sisters (the pretty one) was "putting on airs and graces" and dressed up as the Queen with the eiderdown as a long train and the cast iron chamber pot on her head as a crown. Her jealous youngest sister rapped her over the top of the chamber pot which slipped down over her face and got stuck over her nose. They couldn't get it off, so had to harness the horse to the sulky, load the girl (in nightdress, wrapped in eiderdown) with chamber pot stuck on her head into the buggy, and ride the three miles to the nearest neighbour's so he could try to hacksaw the pot off her head. The story was told to me by my mother as a moral tale against pride. She also said, "Never tell your great aunt that I told you. She was mortified."</p><p></p><p>Such stories are gold but are often lost. That incident would have happened in about 1900 in a tiny pioneer hamlet in the mountains along the east coast of Australia. Stories of goannas stealing eggs, tramps, bushrangers, droughts, floods and fire, as well as the daily slog to survive, did come down to us more publicly. The time the youngest and tiniest girl grabbed a shotgun bigger than she was to kill a five foot long goanna (large carnivorous lizard) that was stealing chickens and nearly got knocked over with the recoil. But she did it, was proud of it, until when her big brother came home form the field and examined the corpse, said, "Well, look at the big brute, You could hardly miss, could you?" and totally deflated her.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 417659, member: 1991"] Grab what you can from it and be aware of the teasers. We stayed with my sister on our way home on Friday night, she said she joined Ancestry.com and found the free period good but frustrating because it had limits that only go if you spend money. So get what you can while you can. You can also get a lot of this info for free or cheap, if you go direct. Increasingly, records are available online anyway. Find a family group (we are connected to an ancestral family group in the UK) and pool your information. It's what we did before Ancestry.com existed, so now we don't need Ancestry.com. But wherever you find the info - always be aware that information is often incorrect because people lie. Something I strongly recommend - go to old family members and friends, record an interview with them about what they remember. Transcribe it. Pass the transcript around (with permission) and get more stuff added. We did this with elderly relatives in my family but started almost too late. Got a little more info than we would have. Some wonderful stories which should never see the light of day in an official publication - like the time my great aunt, at 15, was getting ready for bed with her sisters, all in nightgowns, and this particular one of the sisters (the pretty one) was "putting on airs and graces" and dressed up as the Queen with the eiderdown as a long train and the cast iron chamber pot on her head as a crown. Her jealous youngest sister rapped her over the top of the chamber pot which slipped down over her face and got stuck over her nose. They couldn't get it off, so had to harness the horse to the sulky, load the girl (in nightdress, wrapped in eiderdown) with chamber pot stuck on her head into the buggy, and ride the three miles to the nearest neighbour's so he could try to hacksaw the pot off her head. The story was told to me by my mother as a moral tale against pride. She also said, "Never tell your great aunt that I told you. She was mortified." Such stories are gold but are often lost. That incident would have happened in about 1900 in a tiny pioneer hamlet in the mountains along the east coast of Australia. Stories of goannas stealing eggs, tramps, bushrangers, droughts, floods and fire, as well as the daily slog to survive, did come down to us more publicly. The time the youngest and tiniest girl grabbed a shotgun bigger than she was to kill a five foot long goanna (large carnivorous lizard) that was stealing chickens and nearly got knocked over with the recoil. But she did it, was proud of it, until when her big brother came home form the field and examined the corpse, said, "Well, look at the big brute, You could hardly miss, could you?" and totally deflated her. Marg [/QUOTE]
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