tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55533774793444931872024-02-20T23:34:43.445-08:00Underneath The Flight Pathtweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-62207834106940339282023-10-23T19:09:00.000-07:002023-10-23T19:09:46.176-07:00Two centuries in time<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b> TWEED CENTENARY.</b></span></p><div class="zone"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>ROMANTIC DISCOVERY</b></span></p></div><div class="zone"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span> </span>Exactly 100 years ago today, Lieutenant John Oxley discovered the Tweed River. On October 23 1823, Lieutenant Oxley, commissioned to find a new penal settlement, left with a party in his Majesty's colonial cutter Mermaid. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Thus explained The Daily Mail, 100 years ago. <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">TWEED CENTENARY. (1923, November 1). </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px;">The Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1903; 1916 - 1926)</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">, p. 6. <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218216148">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218216148</a>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">It probably was not the most romantic journey, but the Tweed River did inspire poetry subsequently: </span></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Flow gently, sweet Tweed</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>Fair river - broad and deep</i></p></blockquote><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Variable", serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192143688">A LONELY CEMETERY</a> (1932, October 25). </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Serif Variable", serif; font-size: 16px;">Daily Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1915 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Serif Variable", serif; font-size: 16px;">, p.7.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></p></div>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-51463251107350239712023-03-31T23:57:00.002-07:002023-04-22T20:51:32.449-07:0019th century crowdfunding <p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">** more to come **</div><p><span style="font-family: Garamond;">On 19 August 1894, James Adams was thrown off his horse when returning to his home near Frederickton. He was taken home, but died there the next day. The horse had tripped over a peg in the road, left for roadworks.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkpJnfH6zlbS09MqgeXD59o2mcL3-GPDZsn-djSfALg-vdQDg3OfFGMjo-dME-yDjZXuAuC9k7OoXrjepyYy9SMmKdyRTUByH5D4fEnrsgV9QvCf8F2Q3iRJwV14Ia2H8sBvd-HtYscji-jdgitySCuQ90VZIqlVbAD7V8GNjRopUILeC-XVMwJqa/s718/Adams-22August1894.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="321" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkpJnfH6zlbS09MqgeXD59o2mcL3-GPDZsn-djSfALg-vdQDg3OfFGMjo-dME-yDjZXuAuC9k7OoXrjepyYy9SMmKdyRTUByH5D4fEnrsgV9QvCf8F2Q3iRJwV14Ia2H8sBvd-HtYscji-jdgitySCuQ90VZIqlVbAD7V8GNjRopUILeC-XVMwJqa/w286-h640/Adams-22August1894.jpg" title="Fatal Accident on the Gladstone Road. (1894, August 22). Macleay Argus (Kempsey, NSW : 1885 - 1907; 1909 - 1910; 1912 - 1913; 1915 - 1916; 1918 - 1954), p. 5 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233882283" width="286" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond;">Fatal Accident on the
</span><st1:street style="font-family: Garamond;" w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Gladstone Road</st1:address></st1:street></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Garamond;">.
(1894, August 22). </span><i><span style="background: white; font-family: Garamond;">Macleay Argus
(Kempsey, NSW : 1885 - 1907; 1909 - 1910; 1912 - 1913; 1915 - 1916; 1918 -
1954)</span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: Garamond;">,
p. 5 </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233882283" style="font-family: Garamond;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233882283</a></p><p><span style="font-family: Garamond;">His widow, Jane Mary Teresa Adams, took on a court case against the local council, even as she became the matriarch of three families: her first marriage to Walter George Mason which gave her four sons followed by three children; James' first marriage to Ann Thompson with six surviving children; and their own family of four daughters. Their eldest daughter together, Ida May Adams, married Joseph Judd just two years before her father's death. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6P0CuAgXFyGhq-Y79OKuahnEnsCKQk12C81ooNSiIWZTNDxs2I5-NA2mYzqKC-9r_ApjyzFfmPrvxGkBYhIKTj1DG-14E-KFhe9P57SGF9-c3CNAZ6HPKQUJAk-KJdDH68-q03b4uxc70NeIaUnWQvlACzBbTgwAT4lT-tawqzVDy-u6UPr_aElt/s366/Adams-23August1894.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="366" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq6P0CuAgXFyGhq-Y79OKuahnEnsCKQk12C81ooNSiIWZTNDxs2I5-NA2mYzqKC-9r_ApjyzFfmPrvxGkBYhIKTj1DG-14E-KFhe9P57SGF9-c3CNAZ6HPKQUJAk-KJdDH68-q03b4uxc70NeIaUnWQvlACzBbTgwAT4lT-tawqzVDy-u6UPr_aElt/s320/Adams-23August1894.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Kempsey Road</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-family: Garamond;"> Accident. (1894, August 23). </span><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Evening News </span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">(Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), p.5 </span><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113326809" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12pt;">http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113326809</a></p></div><span style="font-family: Garamond;">This was not the first time that Jane had been left destitute. Her first husband Walter Mason died when she was pregnant. The Mason family was well known in Sydney, especially for the wood engraving work, and consequently a fundraiser was planned. </span><div><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><br /></span></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh318lfZiBpq013_NHAbuwIxXpHYIiJ7j7AUKLzIIo0o5UdnoQCWepc99Cx0WM0UtFaSe_t08QUHjPtAB8wDGecvUTrlHD3k9_ItKjQlxH0jDQZRA-1Y_cKNDG_vACdWQohvxs0UHo16NEy7O4mrRG9VxlJxa6bqs8c-5i-oPPPuIdLZIf3WMtS9hlM/s206/JMTB-fromwebsite.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="168" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh318lfZiBpq013_NHAbuwIxXpHYIiJ7j7AUKLzIIo0o5UdnoQCWepc99Cx0WM0UtFaSe_t08QUHjPtAB8wDGecvUTrlHD3k9_ItKjQlxH0jDQZRA-1Y_cKNDG_vACdWQohvxs0UHo16NEy7O4mrRG9VxlJxa6bqs8c-5i-oPPPuIdLZIf3WMtS9hlM/w261-h320/JMTB-fromwebsite.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Jane Mason with her daughter Robinniana</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Source: https://mychildrensancestors.weebly.com/jane-mary-teresa-brady.html</span></div><p><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Jane's parents, William Brady and Margaret Smith, were married in Cavan, County Cavan on 2 November 1838. Jane was baptised on 19 January 1840 in the same Roman Catholic Church where her parents wed. Working back from her immigration record dated 25 December 1841, arriving in Australia aged one year and nine months old, Jane was born in early April 1839. </span></p><p> </p></div></div>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-50635378284384335982022-12-17T20:50:00.005-08:002022-12-22T23:54:34.712-08:00Too soon to say goodbye<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoqXN7aBwSYMNFp4U9JTeUEH3ZH5pfszBzWXHjqiTLurGh758ZWUCFTnMrse1xfPVyFI5-5mmNXnOfElEyL4VgWwWbCXalVmMO6V_JW4nXk2_XNd0AwvK3JvrRbzfk2GmKZlYkOc77i6L1_MvdTzPP7ud9-Oa1bG3QXksrNvH9DSScmFCyfmCVCIzY/s335/OldTrovelogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="108" data-original-width="335" height="67" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoqXN7aBwSYMNFp4U9JTeUEH3ZH5pfszBzWXHjqiTLurGh758ZWUCFTnMrse1xfPVyFI5-5mmNXnOfElEyL4VgWwWbCXalVmMO6V_JW4nXk2_XNd0AwvK3JvrRbzfk2GmKZlYkOc77i6L1_MvdTzPP7ud9-Oa1bG3QXksrNvH9DSScmFCyfmCVCIzY/w208-h67/OldTrovelogo.jpg" width="208" /></a> <span style="font-family: trebuchet;">It is hard to explain the impact of a life when the tilt of the universe is knocked off-balance by the circumstances of loss, and finding equilibrium again is still proving to be a challenge, but here is an attempt.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In November, two people we needed passed away. The first was someone who worked beside a privileged few but was unknown by many, least of all the public who receive benefit from her work every day. Her name was Joanna Meakins and she scoped the functionalities available to everyone who uses Trove, Australia's most significant social and cultural discovery platform. One of her more recent colleagues wrote this:</span></p><blockquote><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">In his poem, "The Second Coming", WB Yeats categorises people as the best, who "lack all conviction" while the worst are "full of passionate intensity". I'm not sure what he'd have made of Jo. Jo, who both determinedly lacked conviction in her own abilities, yet epitomised passionate intensity. </span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">For Jo was one of the very best. She was a great friend, always ready to reassure, encourage and inspire, despite being completely resistant herself to absorbing the regard and praise sent her way. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div><br /></div><div>If someone could "care too much" about the people around her, Jo did. If someone could "worry too much" about work, she did that too. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTBuQGpmbjCeNOm_a6G6xyTBhuvLiqE-xQxtArVwOrqfxloF4bKl244AXeGhYwDSZevsJH_rLISwapd4dSJts2A9Dmvd6dbsKvbGOEXlP9HfgrtpTmICSyuz_Tw9d-XUICFCI4F4zT0SUgW-9a0rjofnzF0dBQkCEznzC9yXh7jEbD9BPpiA7yFp1/s268/JoMeakins-2013.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="111" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTBuQGpmbjCeNOm_a6G6xyTBhuvLiqE-xQxtArVwOrqfxloF4bKl244AXeGhYwDSZevsJH_rLISwapd4dSJts2A9Dmvd6dbsKvbGOEXlP9HfgrtpTmICSyuz_Tw9d-XUICFCI4F4zT0SUgW-9a0rjofnzF0dBQkCEznzC9yXh7jEbD9BPpiA7yFp1/w133-h320/JoMeakins-2013.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>In her years at the National Library, Jo's emphatic and relentless representation of the public, those silent and invisible users of the library's resources, made everything she touched better. Her intellect, courage and hard work made the lives of thousands of people more productive and enjoyable - people she never met, people who will never know her name. </div><div><br /></div><div>There were many times it would have been much easier for her to acquiesce to the inward-focussed group-think that congenially sabotages every organisation, but her advocacy never wavered, she was never afraid to "speak truth to power". She took the right path, despite the personal cost.</div><div><div><br /></div><div>That she is now gone is unfathomable, unfair, impossible. </div><div><br /></div><div>It seems to make no sense - it is unreasonable - a flash of desperation, a spike of sadness that can't be undone. </div><div><br /></div><div>Many of us have been there, to that point where it seems that, to quote Yeats, "the centre cannot hold", but so far, for us, with some combination of luck, a thick-enough skin and blinking away from reality at that crucial moment, we've made it through.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just as our happy memories of Jo will live on in us, the lucky ones who knew her.</div></div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Joanna was 42 years old; </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">she left three pre-teenage children. [1]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The second person was barrister Sandy Dawson SC. Someone I did not know, but such was the outpouring of public personal distress when he died that his achievements could not be ignored. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">His work was incredibly important to Australian society, and included establishing a 21st century precedent for defamation law when he was successful in 2014 in obtaining damages for misrepresentation on social media platforms. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW2HkmgOKKUUTYVjx9fzAuEKLDL--43iO916w5DSNNveNl0EvRTjJn62aY-xbIzcIxffEO4FL1ASyFhVLAfGrqNzgBdS2ynZJq3Tw5wcoQkbHNjryoY-bBnLNpvhFiHiFh8bX6kgn9siDNmQgyv5vZBPH9XAPBEOmbkYViW5NgfoM_AOCS1YYpGSZc/s232/Dawson-2016.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="164" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW2HkmgOKKUUTYVjx9fzAuEKLDL--43iO916w5DSNNveNl0EvRTjJn62aY-xbIzcIxffEO4FL1ASyFhVLAfGrqNzgBdS2ynZJq3Tw5wcoQkbHNjryoY-bBnLNpvhFiHiFh8bX6kgn9siDNmQgyv5vZBPH9XAPBEOmbkYViW5NgfoM_AOCS1YYpGSZc/s1600/Dawson-2016.jpg" width="164" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Mr Dawson was 50 years old; he left four teenaged children. [2]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Part of the versatile functionality of Trove is a feature for making simple lists of items discovered while searching the content. It was scoped by Joanna. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Not all of Mr Dawson's work is in the public domain, being <i>sub judice</i> or only available within the legal sector, but it is possible to draw some threads together into <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/list/167733">a Trove list</a>. It is by no means exhaustive, but indicates the breadth of intellectual endeavour achieved by one person in a short time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A modest memorial to these two extraordinary people. </span></p><p><u style="font-family: trebuchet;">References:</u></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The first Trove logo, created when its list feature was developed, is shown above. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">[1] Jo in the original Trove T-Shirt, 2013, from facebook</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">[2] Sandy Dawson in 2016, https://bit.ly/3HINBgo. </span></p>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-73452316153549988232022-12-05T14:28:00.008-08:002022-12-05T17:41:23.057-08:00My life as a souvenir<p>In my current role, I have the privilege of seeking out souvenirs of the city in which I work. An added bonus is the discovery of items for my own home town. The quirky and the quaint are equally valued; but items with images have a double layer of meaning. I recently discovered one of these gems; here are the highlights.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhkbkCnCeBpKUgQQvOj714CylVlM3q5WkizjvwK9xQsmTCTbIgWMG9qIUbVp64DDCccyloNposdvMxdL0YNlQ242IumJuAt5l8aquFI9kzLC32o62Apz5eS0rOtZ3KXBEXt6JaXpkYDnDkHxx8dPBm1uYIXMTcm695w0IrsjfKhmptqHAaAGZnFLF/s3193/Coolangatta7.tif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1919" data-original-width="3193" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhkbkCnCeBpKUgQQvOj714CylVlM3q5WkizjvwK9xQsmTCTbIgWMG9qIUbVp64DDCccyloNposdvMxdL0YNlQ242IumJuAt5l8aquFI9kzLC32o62Apz5eS0rOtZ3KXBEXt6JaXpkYDnDkHxx8dPBm1uYIXMTcm695w0IrsjfKhmptqHAaAGZnFLF/w400-h240/Coolangatta7.tif" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oak Avenue was part way along the Pacific Highway from Tweed Heads to Murwillumbah. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My parents drove this way south to the District Hospital - the concrete slabs made a comforting railway track noise. After too many road accidents, the trees were eventually cut down. The now unmarked avenue has been bypassed, but is still a thoroughfare to the hinterland. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfhXwBar6NQAhkuREHIxlVA4LqxVfndORNcFfGQAaa6_ctDjSUeccV8epHtkiQPRBjfO4HARHt0aGvdMgDOFozDvseAiaFoqyYpKsltuWLRf4aa0WBdke6leQnArrnnrGfEwpMB-0ZA-Y3SFIAFZ4OIdJq56RutGuqy6XZfeJLv8VIp7jKdz53Eln/s3264/Coolangatta2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="3264" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPfhXwBar6NQAhkuREHIxlVA4LqxVfndORNcFfGQAaa6_ctDjSUeccV8epHtkiQPRBjfO4HARHt0aGvdMgDOFozDvseAiaFoqyYpKsltuWLRf4aa0WBdke6leQnArrnnrGfEwpMB-0ZA-Y3SFIAFZ4OIdJq56RutGuqy6XZfeJLv8VIp7jKdz53Eln/w400-h251/Coolangatta2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My younger brothers and I were born under the pointed outlook of Wollumbin. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02aVnS2_Sxb47dMZSt7MuRx4JgH2-UItPkQzfLpDD_ntYdZfCYXyd3LCJEpj8ZtF2sh_ttLo33c8FQPpiYkEBShpIMggc11MpNI3sGs25gC2Dm56Q-bDXOp17gNVwWeytP0-QuhlhRa4ZwgwrFJcLj5TgS_hPQk3snBSOp5RiCG1DMrJ0QL7kWYUP/s3219/Coolangatta10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1910" data-original-width="3219" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02aVnS2_Sxb47dMZSt7MuRx4JgH2-UItPkQzfLpDD_ntYdZfCYXyd3LCJEpj8ZtF2sh_ttLo33c8FQPpiYkEBShpIMggc11MpNI3sGs25gC2Dm56Q-bDXOp17gNVwWeytP0-QuhlhRa4ZwgwrFJcLj5TgS_hPQk3snBSOp5RiCG1DMrJ0QL7kWYUP/w400-h238/Coolangatta10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The border fence separating Tweed Heads from Coolangatta had a dual role as the boundary delineating the playground for the children attending <a href="https://utfp.blogspot.com/2019/08/musical-memory.html">Tweed Heads Public School</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNU-K6wpLveRQ-_soKuZl6ZSx_l-DjWig5n60i9zC9JioHY4DsvJlrebpWK0z2sDuq_qttSIazkp1OcYDHt0HfNX95hlTj4Ly5Y9tKt8OMRTcNQWdzWI9qCKPGyOWQ8etx1ibHF34FK-X3ab_clC5WPoJKf-GfrWBFrXYXZ8rrYq_ZprIxGd62sVan/s3226/Coolangatta4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1912" data-original-width="3226" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNU-K6wpLveRQ-_soKuZl6ZSx_l-DjWig5n60i9zC9JioHY4DsvJlrebpWK0z2sDuq_qttSIazkp1OcYDHt0HfNX95hlTj4Ly5Y9tKt8OMRTcNQWdzWI9qCKPGyOWQ8etx1ibHF34FK-X3ab_clC5WPoJKf-GfrWBFrXYXZ8rrYq_ZprIxGd62sVan/w400-h238/Coolangatta4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The main street of Tweed Heads, Wharf Street, had buildings on one side only until the early 1970s when the "back channel" was reclaimed to develop the main shopping centre Tweed Mall. It was also the scene of many street parades, including Red Cross girls. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv-vgK27LNdpT_zLUaSdprhy8Ow6fVNx2zuVvdeKGRbzDJGBUhJUmI8uOmHznKhR2JqrgN9EM_KWgi_wsEiz6y5kXX5z45_XBSrVd7Qv6np1xgk_WJuF_DUDtHYus-uLbDivZQibSRuzhsuGbN61iNvipoTK264iUhNNheVJ8I6LXJ0iTZpk2mcAAV/s3256/Coolangatta5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1892" data-original-width="3256" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv-vgK27LNdpT_zLUaSdprhy8Ow6fVNx2zuVvdeKGRbzDJGBUhJUmI8uOmHznKhR2JqrgN9EM_KWgi_wsEiz6y5kXX5z45_XBSrVd7Qv6np1xgk_WJuF_DUDtHYus-uLbDivZQibSRuzhsuGbN61iNvipoTK264iUhNNheVJ8I6LXJ0iTZpk2mcAAV/w400-h233/Coolangatta5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The recreation ground in the centre of the image (pre-reclamation) was essential for primary school school athletics carnivals and the "march past".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTEqlT8AHyF29igtZbMtdkcGikh3YaMapA22-XlZaNiJy9sgSRqB-D8cRBZQ_5S4V7tqjJC1KtoWtyEfFW93m9eeIjgMu7MwSqTsMQ5X28tnJwzLyo4XpV-iV_1gUvkuuomoydNkdIOsbn8IaBr_Mlgze4c4h8w1SyI0Sm55TApVRhM0c5YcNA-zF/s3233/Coolangatta9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="3233" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTEqlT8AHyF29igtZbMtdkcGikh3YaMapA22-XlZaNiJy9sgSRqB-D8cRBZQ_5S4V7tqjJC1KtoWtyEfFW93m9eeIjgMu7MwSqTsMQ5X28tnJwzLyo4XpV-iV_1gUvkuuomoydNkdIOsbn8IaBr_Mlgze4c4h8w1SyI0Sm55TApVRhM0c5YcNA-zF/s320/Coolangatta9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">The chalet was on top of the Razorback lookout, which took advantage of the view. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1hu6wy0xgnXOqmJxYnXMvQeCaFy4-L9qhcJgV6bVjPKAH2ZktVc2TanSPbhQWsEYYIWR-PRAZauC6rXDgWlHOmZH8j_64909nvYCpTu6G0IL8UCtH2i_-Pm6DbVJAJfZs6hUJKo0CEg1OWmdjydnGHcGH962sxT3fq30a4kpoNgiAGUhAgloVV6e/s3164/Coolangatta8.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1861" data-original-width="3164" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS1hu6wy0xgnXOqmJxYnXMvQeCaFy4-L9qhcJgV6bVjPKAH2ZktVc2TanSPbhQWsEYYIWR-PRAZauC6rXDgWlHOmZH8j_64909nvYCpTu6G0IL8UCtH2i_-Pm6DbVJAJfZs6hUJKo0CEg1OWmdjydnGHcGH962sxT3fq30a4kpoNgiAGUhAgloVV6e/w400-h235/Coolangatta8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Snapper Rocks Baths at Point Danger were a summer destination for all Tweed Heads children learning to swim. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsscHGBg4U8kJwGc5FWw2C2AqNbomN4myB4Oxnr9e7QD-DBKuQrwHwN-7TyG3vhSYFtjZqJsUOFNLfOtItA7Xl3aakfhCrtR44H803YETLxhYcPfWa7NG7se_EYSz0b6pildt8W2VzyWWOM57WHo1kXql_hald_EblLDoTimitI1iA3M0EvIyDcSB/s353/SnapperRocksBaths%20-%20from%20CoffsCollections%20-%20CC2020.2.1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="353" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVsscHGBg4U8kJwGc5FWw2C2AqNbomN4myB4Oxnr9e7QD-DBKuQrwHwN-7TyG3vhSYFtjZqJsUOFNLfOtItA7Xl3aakfhCrtR44H803YETLxhYcPfWa7NG7se_EYSz0b6pildt8W2VzyWWOM57WHo1kXql_hald_EblLDoTimitI1iA3M0EvIyDcSB/s320/SnapperRocksBaths%20-%20from%20CoffsCollections%20-%20CC2020.2.1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://coffs.recollect.net.au/nodes/view/55201">Jack Evans' Pet Porpoise Pool Tweed Heads</a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><p style="text-align: right;"></p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwYrJZRQN6vX7F78f387_Y6iUmmxMwPnl1gXS0y1vcDH574zkgmPtNAnvv_r-tdOJX0XLd55mKdpU9f8uqBEXf0N17vQFLNHugTcn2IriCwXgXc7AGhLUAJv9GCFemQx7GnNMpDWlf6Wpg1FURLYThFZubmIaw0otJ50nOB4Eg7u_CaQuu3djU2BF/s3206/Coolangatta11.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="1945" data-original-width="3206" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSwYrJZRQN6vX7F78f387_Y6iUmmxMwPnl1gXS0y1vcDH574zkgmPtNAnvv_r-tdOJX0XLd55mKdpU9f8uqBEXf0N17vQFLNHugTcn2IriCwXgXc7AGhLUAJv9GCFemQx7GnNMpDWlf6Wpg1FURLYThFZubmIaw0otJ50nOB4Eg7u_CaQuu3djU2BF/w400-h243/Coolangatta11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Travelling to Tweed River High School on the bus meant crossing the Boyds Bay bridge (out of view on the right of the image) past Ukerebagh Island in the Tweed River. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXIW4rjOm0ToaeMHUU3RyUMZ5K69UbhqrEWAGypVu7pjyjRt9HSHiU47YlNxB5_fh6K2LBevjvpJEL0rRoDnEeDy71CA3s6AvxiIWc3lA2yHWiyrjx7F_gvljwfyl4_jqsT4u4IqFEWdhYChrDT9GmMSLOpXL5sGZlm4zd1u8LjFmZ52oEk2agzUt/s3198/Coolangatta12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1892" data-original-width="3198" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXIW4rjOm0ToaeMHUU3RyUMZ5K69UbhqrEWAGypVu7pjyjRt9HSHiU47YlNxB5_fh6K2LBevjvpJEL0rRoDnEeDy71CA3s6AvxiIWc3lA2yHWiyrjx7F_gvljwfyl4_jqsT4u4IqFEWdhYChrDT9GmMSLOpXL5sGZlm4zd1u8LjFmZ52oEk2agzUt/w400-h236/Coolangatta12.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There was much excitement in Geography class when we had to travel to Stotts Island for an in-the-field excursion. Until we experienced the leeches. It's one of the few locations on the Tweed which has retained <a href="STOTT'S ISLAND. (1919, November 15). Tweed Daily (Murwillumbah, NSW : 1914 - 1949), p. 4. Retrieved December 6, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article191070490">its natural environment</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yTiO-5vTXDU2ka1iIdEP32vve-qQEZariIG7ry87n_qW2nHAsi1_qMq0BW5rw9t6DLVZw7EqFKXpKwaFMsnaSzdhWbTvo5RaNsbW0fOVMtfdMRFCATAuasok4iTOz1OZj3C15jpw9cw05HQriFWAocYUzUp7t-7gWNW5f6UOsDD4SP0c86Xvbsks/s3236/Coolangatta13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1975" data-original-width="3236" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yTiO-5vTXDU2ka1iIdEP32vve-qQEZariIG7ry87n_qW2nHAsi1_qMq0BW5rw9t6DLVZw7EqFKXpKwaFMsnaSzdhWbTvo5RaNsbW0fOVMtfdMRFCATAuasok4iTOz1OZj3C15jpw9cw05HQriFWAocYUzUp7t-7gWNW5f6UOsDD4SP0c86Xvbsks/w400-h244/Coolangatta13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My first fully paid job, at the rate of $6.00 per day, was in the Kirra Beach cafe serving milkshakes and ice creams. Sweeping the floor once earned me an extra $10.00 which had fluttered out of someone's pocket. One year I spent a whole week's wages going to the Ekka.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbL3bXbiYyoSjtva9Ae6yVq4TTsjxN-2OY9jXa8GFTgBrn-YNqbkFDLKdnFn9BGBCVlvjl2A4KSSGOFF20aXBRE6h3aS4RfP0TdQ8KcHi3TuEDfSxeVcQhzShLyuMEOTzeR-KH0NW3lmtlNuY1jwCuY6IBpVhi-GvHKyDYU1vAjxqJfvOgEg9Ub91x/s3173/Coolangatta6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1899" data-original-width="3173" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbL3bXbiYyoSjtva9Ae6yVq4TTsjxN-2OY9jXa8GFTgBrn-YNqbkFDLKdnFn9BGBCVlvjl2A4KSSGOFF20aXBRE6h3aS4RfP0TdQ8KcHi3TuEDfSxeVcQhzShLyuMEOTzeR-KH0NW3lmtlNuY1jwCuY6IBpVhi-GvHKyDYU1vAjxqJfvOgEg9Ub91x/w400-h240/Coolangatta6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like my places of casual work, my favourite beaches were in Queensland. I spent my last day at Greenmount before going off to university.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmpGViBQYeVEH6pH3Gfi4UTxwh1lMmbuaI6rLeRg9FFaylLpd4riK4CxEtDUKVG3NZHYkneE0vncLkZU9rW1OtoWH0m3j6Eof92Sa3VmFn6aurlrZ7PKgc4jWu_PnDkyvj122tqfdj__aHpq01vryStTBlSrLWYLuPd_YcpUSy4byDj_-LQ4UvpvH/s3190/Coolangatta3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1934" data-original-width="3190" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmpGViBQYeVEH6pH3Gfi4UTxwh1lMmbuaI6rLeRg9FFaylLpd4riK4CxEtDUKVG3NZHYkneE0vncLkZU9rW1OtoWH0m3j6Eof92Sa3VmFn6aurlrZ7PKgc4jWu_PnDkyvj122tqfdj__aHpq01vryStTBlSrLWYLuPd_YcpUSy4byDj_-LQ4UvpvH/w400-h243/Coolangatta3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not a place I knew very well, living at the opposite end of the Shire, Cudgen became significant after I left home. Helping others to access local materials about Cudgen in faraway repostories led me to becoming a history researcher.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhAVHJl5D_73uQuzu4jGothe8nw7mKPkDCR476r_qm05fwmuus8WBrDA8BmFcuv31e8zUujO0yyes3NbFj_3mpW6hwS7wWR9OhJ-IXVpmpbKORMFT06A2j8lh6OlaOsLe-xdMzmqyysjC6r7K3uB3s-FZEfH0cAiE27jmUoqlACYPG1UIkTLC4dHB/s4624/Coolangatta1-cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="3440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhAVHJl5D_73uQuzu4jGothe8nw7mKPkDCR476r_qm05fwmuus8WBrDA8BmFcuv31e8zUujO0yyes3NbFj_3mpW6hwS7wWR9OhJ-IXVpmpbKORMFT06A2j8lh6OlaOsLe-xdMzmqyysjC6r7K3uB3s-FZEfH0cAiE27jmUoqlACYPG1UIkTLC4dHB/w298-h400/Coolangatta1-cropped.jpg" width="298" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The <i>Coolangatta, Q.</i> label for the booklet is at odds with the subject matter - 10 of the 12 images were taken over the border in New South Wales. <a href="https://utfp.blogspot.com/2020/04/separated.html">Sometimes</a>, twins are inseparable.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMojTduM0S6xm_8Pch7wizJsLklZj_7a_Dbuei4npMDCMbALgLCfCLiDG0l6mcdxXb-vF8Gm-kP9RnHg45gOpGj9-F32BtD2UFl6Bz7sCYEiJD7L5eMJCtAAp1kMDU3cYhZAhB_NeeLFlldYYkqqwwc7mIQldlL_xaIMLwWDZ82NAIPZz3BSqSJTc3/s1342/Coolangatta1-tip.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1342" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMojTduM0S6xm_8Pch7wizJsLklZj_7a_Dbuei4npMDCMbALgLCfCLiDG0l6mcdxXb-vF8Gm-kP9RnHg45gOpGj9-F32BtD2UFl6Bz7sCYEiJD7L5eMJCtAAp1kMDU3cYhZAhB_NeeLFlldYYkqqwwc7mIQldlL_xaIMLwWDZ82NAIPZz3BSqSJTc3/s320/Coolangatta1-tip.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></div>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-75535451128431908012021-07-31T22:28:00.005-07:002021-07-31T23:01:43.121-07:00Coming to our census<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">One of the few enjoyable pastimes insisted on by government is completing the personal response to the quinquennial national census. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In 2016, I was able to fill out two forms: one while visiting the Isle of Man and later in that year, the Australian one. I was keen to let the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_Government">Reiltys Ellan Vannin</a> know that I was there on an important date. In fact I had to remind the hotel we were staying in to give me the form, but it encouraged them to hand it to other visitors. In this pandemic year, they don't have to bother. Nevertheless the Isle of Man does have a good track record in <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Isle_of_Man_Census">sharing the results</a> of its census every 10 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Our national census is always of interest to genealogists. The import of some of the questions in this year's census, especially those where every possible answer is not given with the question, are scrutinised. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The uptake of DNA testing in the last five years by those with a genealogical interest creates a quandary. Where the country of origin of our earliest migrating ancestors may not have been previously known, many of us are now more informed. Just a spit or a swab and some dollars reveal all.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">While those of us who have been researching their family history for a long time won't be caught short for an answer, there may a noticeable change in the statistics. Although not granular in the Census questions, level of Aboriginality for example, may be better understood if a DNA test has been undertaken. But perhaps the change won't be statistically significant? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The census instructions don't define 'ancestry' but it could be inferred from two prior questions about the birthplaces of self and parents. If you and your parents were all born in Australia, doesn't that automatically make you Australian? Which leaves scope for acknowledging those ancestors who weren't born here no matter when they migrated to Australia. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The wealth of knowledge, understanding of identity, and record of environmental influences stored in other countries' census results are hugely rewarding when shared. Thankfully, the same commitment to future genealogical research has been made in recent Australian censuses. It is an extraordinary opportunity to show our place in society. M</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">ake sure to choose 'Yes' when answering Question 65.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></p>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-34981170243609959592021-01-25T21:00:00.290-08:002022-08-09T15:14:52.407-07:00To Australia, with love<div>Although I started reading Mills & Boon romances during the 1970s and 1980s as a teenager, I left them behind for decades until recently. Indulging in them now makes me chuckle, recognising some of the wishfulness which does not turn into reality. </div><div><br /></div><div>It didn't take long to realise how different they were from current "granny lit" - plot development for a start had to be much more detailed, given that all the body-to-body action doesn't have to occur until the last page or two. An exception may be made if marriage happened earlier in the book. </div><div><br /></div><div>There is also social history commentary of the time, as the primary occupations of women slowly changed into more diverse roles; single parentage through circumstances other than widowhood; taking on responsibility for large corporations and so on. </div><div><br /></div><div>But what I didn't expect in these little capsules of escapism was a tribute to my country. Although the intensity of one writer's work stayed with me - Lucy Walker's - it was thrilling to find that other authors found my home region to be a worthy backdrop to romantic drama.</div><div><br /></div><div><u>Lindsay Armstrong</u></div><blockquote><p>"I have friends who have a holiday home at Cabarita, but they've gone to America for three months and let me with a key and an open invitation to use it whenever I like. [p.128]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"Tallitha looked at the house, at the marvellous aspect - the beach below was white and clean and went for miles in both directions. Then they went up to the village - it was little more than that, a few shops and a pub - and laid in supplies. [p.129]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"Many months later she could still remember every detail of that holiday in Cabarita, and knew that it would probably be impossible to forget, even when she was very old. How could one forget? How could you ever forget the way the sun shone the day after they arrived and how the sea glittered and danced beneath a blue, blue sky. [p.130] </p></blockquote><blockquote><p><i>Standing on the outside, 1986 </i></p></blockquote><div><u>Ann Charlton</u></div><div><br /></div><div>Although not named, this is reminiscent of Kingscliff or even Fingal Head. </div><div><blockquote><span>" </span>Sorry to frighten you darling - but I couldn't have you screaming, now could I? With your projections, you'd be heard in Tweed Heads. [p.3]</blockquote><blockquote><p>"The beach was empty but the row of tracks across it remained evidence of the visits of holidaymakers from the next cove. People rarely drove on to the beach because of the unsealed road and the swampy creek beside it." [pp.25-26]</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>"What about this place? I don't think I could bear to see a club and carpark over there changing everything. Let's wait and see. It could take years." [p.185]</p></blockquote><blockquote><i>The Driftwood Dragon, 1985</i></blockquote></div><div><u>Lucy Walker</u></div><div><br /></div><div>Lucy Walker's stories focused on "The Outback" in regional Western Australia. <a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sanders-dorothy-lucy-15758">Her books</a> were renowned in England for their expositions of "the Australian way of life", and serialised in their ubiquitous <i>Woman's Weekly. </i></div><div><br /></div><div>All of the women who married the strong, almost prenaturally silent, station owners must have been widowed at an early age, given the frequency of smoking, but it's not difficult to understand where strength in times of hardship was forged. </div><blockquote><div>"Have you got a mouth of cast iron, Mick? Kate asked. "Nope," he said, wiping the back of his hand across it. "I guess I learned that from the old-timers on the inland cattle routes. A man wasn't fit to drove cattle if he couldn't drink tea boiling ... along the Canning route anyways." [p.96]</div></blockquote><blockquote><p><i>The one who kisses, 1954</i></p></blockquote><div>This was an area I didn't visit until almost sixty years after the book was written, so learning about its magic was an unexpected pleasure. It's <a href="https://utfp.blogspot.com/2015/09/everyones-talking-about-canning.html">not an easy route</a> to traverse, but it's easy to see how such details captivated an audience so far away. And the illustrations in these serialisations may have helped, even when they were a plot misdirection. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9PJCgtVp79ebPNfsCVxU7JrEAzYATk9EXJpd929hQgY7TmcpnSWFT8VZYCHTJCTB0HuUCr_icjvV7nBCPOvrxXZs9wkFKBfLAF3tqISvzn688KWvBKV6DH4pfvID5r5kXPwAVRJX01VI/s2048/LucyWalker-HomeAtSundown-1967.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1723" data-original-width="2048" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9PJCgtVp79ebPNfsCVxU7JrEAzYATk9EXJpd929hQgY7TmcpnSWFT8VZYCHTJCTB0HuUCr_icjvV7nBCPOvrxXZs9wkFKBfLAF3tqISvzn688KWvBKV6DH4pfvID5r5kXPwAVRJX01VI/w640-h538/LucyWalker-HomeAtSundown-1967.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Home at sundown</i>, first published in <i>Woman's Weekly, December 1967 - January 1968. <br />Illustration from the 30 December 1967 issue by Peter Gibson</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-13185885546200472592020-04-09T00:04:00.002-07:002022-12-05T14:29:18.497-08:00Separated<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">One hundred and one years ago, in the summer of 1919, a global <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192256152">pandemic</a> made its mark on the border towns of Tweed Heads and Coolangatta. The border fence, which had long been in place, took prominence again. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">[This particular photo seems unusual for the series, because of the hand-on-hip pose of the woman in black. Perhaps she was just lifting her skirts out of the mud?] </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif">As soon as the influenza outbreak was <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192250905">confirmed</a>, the border gates were closed, and the existing No Man's Land demarcation between two fences made sure that the illness could not be spread while in close proximity to the fence. </span><br />
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif" style="text-align: center;">"... <i>but after all personal inconvenience is not to be considered in a case like this when so many lives and so much else depends on the strict maintenance in quarantine.</i>"</span><br />
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tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-10363020003039852042019-08-04T01:38:00.000-07:002019-08-04T02:46:13.042-07:00musical memoryLearning about the historical events of a community is expected at a local history seminar, but finding out more about personal history was a bonus recently. I was thrilled to hear about my hometown, and further questions revealed a shared memory of primary school.<br />
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I always remembered this photograph of myself in a "gypsy" costume, because it was one of the first I have in colour. Looking closely, I recall my mother's pink shawl, the apron made in sewing class, the curtain ring 'earrings', and a love of beads. It is probably the only photo with all my adult teeth, some painfully extracted at a later age. I remember the make-up being applied with my mother in attendance, on the landing at the top of the stairs leading to the main Primary School Hall. </div>
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Until this year, I didn't remember the name of the musical or how it came to be. That's where the seminar provided an amazing connection - the teacher who had been tasked with organising the musical also attended. Yvonne, a Tweed Shire local, returned for a two-year teaching stint at <a href="https://tweedheads-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/">Tweed Heads Primary School</a>. She was asked to arrange a musical in both 1969 and 1970.</div>
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Her first choice was "The Gypsy Gay", the lead character "Romany Rof". <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/">Trove</a> reveals that this musical was <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=8psxDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT159&ots=4l5-vsfX12&dq=%22romany%20roff%22&pg=PT159#v=onepage&q=%22romany%20roff%22&f=false">a stalwart</a> of school productions for many years in many Australian states. </div>
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Did participation also bestow a love of musicals and being part of them? Certainly I tried in high school, but never made it past the chorus line. </div>
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tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-60052106041641212952019-04-15T01:39:00.000-07:002019-08-23T21:07:47.833-07:00communing cousins<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I remember the delight of Christmas Day when many of the Judd family cousins visited their grandparents at Piggabeen, at about the time the exhaustion of the day set in for their parents. We sat on both sides of the hallway, eating home-grown watermelon in large chunks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a long gap of several decades while busy establishing their own family branches and professions, the cousins have started a tradition of meeting at Easter every three years or so. And now there are two or three new generations of cousins, some meeting each other for the first time. But it's also an opportunity to go back in time and look for resemblances amongst the twigs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here are the antecedents for those twigs.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marriage of Amy Esma Parkins and Oswald Joseph Judd 13 June 1928</span></td></tr>
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tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-1636878633404586842019-01-27T21:16:00.001-08:002023-01-17T22:34:50.914-08:00looking for May<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Harold Dion Slocombe was known as Dion, from the time of his birth on 28 March 1914. </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">With such a distinctive name, learning about his exploits should be easy, but he stepped lightly until Sunday 19 May 1963. His ashes reside at 131 Brooklyn Road, Brooklyn, close to where he was killed by a car on the low level railway crossing while walking to the station.</span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Dion was born in Auburn and went to school in Manly. He worked for his father after leaving school, and spent time as a military volunteer during the 1930s [1] before the family moved to Wollongong. World War II was the impetus for another move, to Cowra, but Dion decided to take advantage of the free flow of people and went to Darwin. </span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">On his return, he was once more absorbed into family life, using family members as subjects for his </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">amateur photography and filming. But on his return to Sydney-side where he lived in Hewlett Street, Bronte, someone else caught his interest. Previously married and with two daughters, May - or Mavis - became a close friend. </span><br />
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">That they were close is evidenced by the photographs Dion kept and which still reside in the Slocombe family archive.</span><i style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> But what happened to May? </i><span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">We'd still like to know. </span></div>
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<br />tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-8365695082842572012018-08-12T18:13:00.000-07:002020-05-21T03:27:29.047-07:00down to earth<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The building which houses the National Library of Australia commemorates 50 years today, although the mission was established as part of the 1901 Constitution. It's an inverted iceberg, with more storeys above ground than below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I worked in the building for more than half of its life, a milestone which will cease in five years' time. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n't and isn't uncommon for staff to exhibit this loyalty, not just because the place represented a career pinnacle, but because it underpinned commitment to the belief that the National Library, like all other libraries, was an essential service to the public. I remember making the decision 10 years in, when asked by a more senior colleague, "are you a stayer?" after a large project failed. By that time the Library and I had invested significantly in each other, so I stayed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The original concept drawings showed the possibility of <a href="https://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/dream-library-takes-shape">three separate buildings</a>, later reduced to one to save money. That was enough in the early years, but with a relentlessly growing collection, the Library is now utilising a third warehouse. Another construction cost-saving measure ensured that staff and researchers focus inwards - each long side was reduced by one column, effectively blocking the view from every window except for a narrow sliver.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My first visit there was as a university student in the late 1970s when the Main Reading Room on the ground floor was a very quiet place for contemplation, unlike the keyboard-punctuated silences now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When the building caught fire in 1985, bibliophiles and historians around the country looked towards Canberra in horror. They included a prospective Director-General, the late Warren Horton, who felt compelled to move interstate to assist in the Library's recovery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The fire started on the fourth floor in the computer room. More damage was caused by water from fire hoses than actual burning, and when I started work at the Library the year following, thousands of books were still laid out on metal shelves along the long third floor lakeside corridor drying. This continued for several years. The computer mainframe which supported the national catalogue and bibliographic network was moved to a specially sealed room in the middle of the second floor, with collections further away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of the windows in the Library were able to be opened with an allen key, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and this proved useful when a large piece of mainframe had to be removed from the second floor through the Amazon Room. It was more efficient than trying to squeeze it around corridors. The scratch on the beautifully-veined marble lintel did cause some consternation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some 10 years later, the windows in the fourth floor conference room had to be opened </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">when a water pipe was broken in the ceiling and flooded the carpets at the front of the building. The hosepipes were thrown out to ground level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ironically, contrary to expectation, almost all water damage seems to have come from within the building, fortunately infrequently. After three successive droughts in the early 2000s, the floor to ceiling windows next to the front door cracked - the result of a complete lack of moisture in the air. By that time, the glass airlock </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">which surrounded the front doors had been removed - its</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> double-sliding, painstakingly slow opening no longer necessary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Before earning a job at the Library, in the early days of my genealogical passion I had to visit the first floor Petherick Reading Room, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">named for one of the Library's significant collection donors. It</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> was sited in the middle of the building and closed off in its beautifully-panelled, glass-fronted and book-lined shelves to serious researchers using rare materials. The Room was moved to the ground floor, and a few years ago moved back to the first floor again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eventually reference volumes made their way to LG (Lower Ground) 1, where they shared a space with newspapers from around the country. Despite being below ground, the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">light-filled </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lower Reading Room gave a generous view of the inside of the moat.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Library sits on its own island. Now appreciated by amateur rockwall climbers, the moat was built to protect the collections from the one-in-100 year Molonglo River flood. Although that flood has not happened yet, the River has combined with occasional downpours to fill Lake Burley Griffin with dead trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A lot of paper rests behind the very effective moat, especially Australian monographs and journals. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While most project records were stored electronically, some were kept on paper just in case. In 1997 I stood looking at the cold bare earth, beneath the LG2 floor, while filing the records. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As projects finished I moved to other spaces, working on the first, second, third, and fourth floors. During downtimes, I enjoyed the rare privilege of browsing the bookshelves and cabinets below ground. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The office I retired from was moved from the long side facing Parliament House to the lakeside. The floorspace has been given over to the collection. Much architectural change occurs on the inside, often hidden from the public, but the responsibility at the heart of this public-facing collecting institution is immutable.</span><br />
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Computing Studies, I received a job offer from the Commonwealth Public Service to be a programmer. The
Canberra College of Advanced Education (CCAE) had its own Burroughs B6700
mainframe, the same type of computer rented by the Department of Immigration
& Ethnic Affairs (DIEA). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Department’s A.D.P. (Automated Data
Processing) Section sent representatives to the College to persuade graduands
to become new recruits, an experience quite different from the university
graduate examination imposed by the Public Service Board. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The CCAE had a good relationship with the Public
Service, and performed its employment feeder role well. Although my first
experience with a mainframe was using the Univac at the Australian National
University in 1978 to count results from a psychology survey, the requirement
to fill mark-sense cards with precise black felt strokes and leave them for an
overnight processing run seemed like magic rather than a deterrent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a good balance of male and female IT <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>experts, we were soon immersed in dot matrix
printouts, restricted mainframe time (the most expensive resource) and a wide
range of subjects from coding in standard languages like COBOL, Assembler,
Pascal and Fortran to systems and business analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours, rather than during the day, soon led to midnight sessions. Coding a trip instruction for an endless
processing loop was always a consideration - a few hapless students didn’t and lost
their entire processing allocation for 24 hours which jeopardised their
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Index, a huge database which was backed up on 26 magnetic tapes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">My midnight
learning sessions turned into weekend sessions as I oversaw the data updates
each weekend on a Burroughs B6700 rented from the Department of Administrative
Services at Fyshwick (in Canberra). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Despite its significant responsibility, the
A.D.P. section</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">had almost a skeleton staff.
There was very little emphasis on teamwork - each programmer had a primary
responsibility that absorbed all the time available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">By the mid 1980s, DIEA was given the budget to
purchase its own mainframe, which meant the ADP group had to grow. Wanting to
stay in a small IT shop, I transferred to the National Library of Australia’s
A.D.P. Branch in early 1986. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">The Library was five years into hosting a union
catalogue system called the Australian Bibliographic Network. The underlying
database was coded in PL/I, a coding language similar to COBOL, and the reliance on it by all of
the nation's libraries imbued the service with an indispensability on a scale not
matched at that time by the number of immigration offices needing access to
passenger cards.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two other programmers already maintaining this service
were CCAE School of Information Science graduates in the same year as me. The
National Library's working environment had another characteristic which had
been well taught - the value of teamwork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Even as I moved from the roles of programmer to
project manager to inaugural business manager for the award-winning </span><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Trove</a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">, the
National Library's innovative 21st century platform for information discovery
and engagement, the approach never changed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Trove's first four years were my last four in the
Australian Public Service. (Coincidentally, 1968 celebrates 50 years of the building of
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Although we now operate in a web interface- and
mobile device-enabled environment for accessing information, the basic
principles of programming practice then were still the same as now: </span><i style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">garbage
in, garbage out</i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">; the importance of rigorous documentation; and the value of
teamwork in scoping and designing solutions to improve human-computer
interaction. The CCAE deserves recognition for the professional grounding it
provided to public servants and in particular for its Information Scientists
including Kate O’Driscoll, Igor Hawryszkiewycz and Bill Ginn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">This story was originally compiled for the University of Canberra's <a href="http://ucpersonalhistoriesproject.omeka.net/">Personal Histories Project</a>. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">Rankin said aficionados loved Spark and during her life she was lauded by some of the greatest literary figures around. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">So why is she not better known and celebrated? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">...<i>Scotland has been bad in the past at recognising writers and artists who leave </i>[emphasis the blogger's]. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">Many writers have had to leave to find themselves, to get a sense of themselves and to find their true vocation as a writer.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">How extraordinary then, to find a personal example of this Scotland trait in the same timeframe as the Rankin interview was recorded. It shrank the world to a state of companionship, and was a reminder of the ability of libraries to link their threads of knowledge to satisfy even the most unlikely queries.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Researching an Italian family in New York led to an unexpected discovery. In the early 1930s, the Gaetano Belmonte / Carolina Nangano household, with eldest daughter Gesualda, took in a boarder named Roderick Robb Black. </span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">John Black died in 1910, nine years after arrival in New York from Scotland. He had left his young family of seven children twice - spending five years on his own in a different country - and at the end of a difficult life. He was 57 years old. </span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">By the time Roderick and Jessie (Gesualda) met, her parents were known as Thomas and Carlotta Belmont, and those of her siblings who were also Italian-born had <a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/americanisation-or-anglicisation.html">anglicised</a> their names.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">After his brief first-time marriage, Jessie became Roderick's second wife. Jessie's sister Mary and Roderick's brother John junior were witnesses.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Both John Black senior and John Black junior were poets. The younger </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">John was also the literary editor of <a href="https://bklyn.newspapers.com/">The Brooklyn Daily Eagle</a> and after several years of effort, he was eventually able to publish his father's <i>Collected Poems</i>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The National Library of Scotland did not know of his work, but almost 100 years after its publication, it was possible to find this poetry using a link provided by the National Library of Australia in <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/">Trove</a>. The Library of Congress had made it <a href="https://ia800500.us.archive.org/1/items/collectedpoems00blac/collectedpoems00blac.pdf">available</a> to the Open Library initiative for digitisation. </span></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">John Black senior did not see his poetry published - other occupations were necessary during his lifetime to keep his family safe. He may be remembered more for his ownership of <a href="https://www.google.com.au/maps/@57.4760576,-4.2278983,3a,90y,266.63h,100.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1_DEIu8paRsLuvQK31dEag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656">the Palace Hotel</a> in his home town of Inverness during the 1890s, but the literary legacy of this disconnected Scottish son lives on in virtual imprint. </span><br />
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tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-753630726695286622018-01-25T23:05:00.001-08:002018-01-26T15:14:20.284-08:00From Marian to Michelle<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When Michelle Simmons became Australian of the Year on Australia Day eve, I was reminded of an early ground-breaking Web project instigated by the University Librarian at the time of Michelle's appointment to the University of New South Wales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marian Bate, UNSW University Librarian from 1995 until 2001, led the Australasian Digital Theses (<a href="http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/australasian-digital-theses/finding-theses">ADT</a>) project. She earned global recognition for its development and implementation. Marian</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> was a wonderful mentor to many young library staff and passionate about the work of libraries to empower research. She also strongly believed in the value of collaboration and exemplified this by serving on the National Library's </span><a href="https://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/about/governance-0#" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Advisory Committee</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to national union catalogue services for several years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These "Australian" qualities were echoed in Michelle's acceptance speech. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marian would have been absolutely thrilled to see her colleague receive this accolade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Marian's successor, Andrew Wells, asked me to commemorate Marian's life </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">in March 2011 </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">with </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a special issue</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> of the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Libraries Australia newsletter</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. Here is some of that text:</span></div>
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ADT was launched in 2000, the brainchild of Marian Bate. Always a staunch advocate for the
raising the international profile of Australian academic research, in 1999 Marian identified the
enhanced visibility of theses as an important strategy for improving scholarly communication,
and to that end, sought funding from the Australian Research Council to develop a new service for capturing a global audience for Australian research. </blockquote>
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Marian’s strategy also
emphasised the need for digital versions to be provided.
Seven universities including her own grasped the opportunity to work with Marian. Using the
open source Electronic Theses & Dissertations software developed at Virginia Tech in the
US, many university libraries in Australia launched thesis repositories and using simple
technologies, access to the content was brought together under the strong ADT brand. In
later years, separate thesis services have been merged with institutional repositories.</blockquote>
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In 2005, Marian was recognised for her initiative in establishing the ADT program with an
Electronic Theses & Dissertations Leadership award. As stated by Andrew Wells, who succeeded Marian as University
Librarian in 2001, “This project brought together Marian’s abiding interests in maximising
access to information resources, exploiting the potential of new information technologies,
innovation in scholarly communication, and the power of collaboration.” </blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Michelle <a href="https://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/newsletter/march-2011">receives a mention</a> in the newsletter too. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>The ARROW Project after two years</i>, <br />Slide 26<br />www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/CNI_Two_Groenewegen2.pdf</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ADT was the precursor to another initiative known as the ARROW Project. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">She may not have known it, but for me Michelle was a global use case scenario in the collaborative ARROW Project. The use case involved trying to co-locate the research outputs of academics who moved across institutions. The outputs could take the form of theses, conference papers, book chapters, and monographs and two decades later, more unconventional forms. H</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">ow could the Project acknowledge the complete intellectual record of an individual researcher?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The optimum pathway may still not be implemented but a combination of research <a href="https://trove.nla.gov.au/article/result?q=%22simmons++y+michelle%22+~3">visibility in Trove</a> and its recognition of ORCIDs, have gone a long way to resolving <a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6422-5888">that use case</a>. Michelle's citizenship also helps, for which she deserves our thanks. </span></div>
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tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-74424006927291042512017-11-06T22:35:00.000-08:002018-02-15T22:19:31.078-08:00Peace outlasts Withdrawal<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In October 1943, an Italian Prisoner of War travelled from Bhopal to Australia courtesy of the British Army. He spent most of the next three years at the Cowra Prisoner of War camp. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Cowra, NSW. 6 February 1944. Group of Italian prisoners of war (POWs) interned at No. 12 POW Group. Shown here are: 55622 Pietro Gargano (tallest); 56000 Umberto Marangoni; 56376 Goffredi Faielli; 56412 Arturo Tempesti; 56359 Alessandro Rospi; 56504 Mario Ferrugini?; 56256 Luigi Margrini; 55608 Renato Guidotti; 56038 Antonio Panico; 56145 Giovanni De Rosa; 56507 Francesco Telese; 56397 Gabriele Sparago.<br />https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C345963</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In October 1946, Pietro Gargano escaped from the camp and eloped to Sydney with his fiancee. They married on 4 November and several days later he gave himself up, wanting to be seen to observe the laws of his host country.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Italian Escapee Married Here (1947, January 14).<br /><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;">Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill, NSW : 1908; 1941 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">, p. 1. <br />http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141169004</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was the opening gambit in a campaign to remain in Australia, and while it did not initially succeed, eventually the outcome was secured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To make sure that the Italian Prisoners of War were repatriated, the Australian Army assigned the 22nd Garrison Battalion to escort them out of the country. On <i>the Otranto</i>, which sailed from Sydney on 8 January 1947, Corporal Pietro Gargano returned to Italy under the guard of Sargeant John Schuberth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Seventy years later, while investigating his grandfather's war service, James Wall researched the ship and discovered some of the "passengers" were repatriated to Europe. Further sleuthing revealed a possible connection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not long after, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pietro's son Peter met John's grandson James for the first time:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">descendants </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">James and Peter<br />3 November 2017<br />Dickson, ACT</span></td></tr>
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<br />tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-8775237237517104092017-10-09T22:21:00.000-07:002017-10-09T22:21:17.039-07:00the garden of life<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the most valuable sections of any digitised newspaper are the Births, Deaths and Marriages columns, which also contain Memoriams and Anniversaries. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Obituaries tend to be separate, and warrant their own search using that term. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However, when exploring </span><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Trove</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">, it will help to know how the prosaic was once expressed in more poetic terms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>The Cradle</b>, <b>the Altar</b> and <b>the Grave</b> or <b>The Sepulchre</b> were used in the early 1890s by <a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/the-agency-that-will-never-forget-you.html">one Victorian newspaper</a>, not only using the common thread of human life but also expressing status in flowers chosen to surround the event in question. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Churchyard Gardens. (1930, December 25). <i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;">Freeman's Journal <br />(Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932)</i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">, p. 10. <br />http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128793493<br /><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126321173">the Cradle, the Dungeon and the Tomb</a> is likely to be tongue-in-cheek. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Buds, Orange Blossoms, and Cypress. (1895, April 3).<br /><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;">The Daily Northern Argus (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1875 - 1896)</i><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">, p. 2 <br />(SECOND EDITION). <br />http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article213409754</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A PLEASURE PARTY STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. (1881, December 30).<br /><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924)</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">, p. 3. <br />http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202598172</span></span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">.</span> </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the 20th century, many of these terms were standarised as we still read them today. Trove summarises them as <i>Family Notices</i> in one of its facets to expedite finding - but this variety is worth noting if you use these 20th century keywords for your 19th century family life and uncover nothing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-72226086474090192412017-05-15T01:35:00.000-07:002017-08-07T00:36:13.609-07:00Americanization or Anglicisation<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Recently I made the trek to New York to research Italian antecedents. Despite huge swathes of content now traversable via genealogical conglomerates in minutes, some information is still only accessible on the ground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example Red Hook in Brooklyn, which, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hook,_Brooklyn">amongst other influences</a>, became a small Italian enclave when settled in the late 1890s - early 1900s. The name is still used in various locations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Included in its special collection, the </span><a href="https://www.bklynlibrary.org/brooklyncollection" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Brooklyn Public Library</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> has a series of atlases and maps which will eventually be digitised. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To capitalise on the time available, I attended a lecture at the New York Public Library on how to search the 1940 Federal Census. This is a rich online resource, but interchangeable names make discovery a challenge. It is not uncommon to find an Italian name for the first Census in which the family appeared after migration from Palermo, only to appear as 'someone else' by 1940. For example, Gaetana became Anna or Anita, Gesualda became Jessie, Gaetano became Tomaso then Thomas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Vicenzo/Vincenzo became, inexplicably, James not Vincent.* Surnames are also afflicted by this - Bellomonte becoming Belmont, Nangano was heard and written as Mangano. Eventually vowels were dropped too. This process was explained as americanisation**, although the presentation did label it otherwise. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The origin of these names is surely not American, and despite the efforts of the Census enumerators to hide migrants in as many ways as possible, a shared appreciation of the English language allows us all to tap into </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the breadth of information from 1890 Ellis Island arrivals to the decennial censuses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The key to searching the census successfully is to be aware that while names may be carried down the generations, little variations were and are also common. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Thinking laterally, including for extended family, does help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The genealogical discovery process however, is a candidate for dramatisation and there is no better inspiration than American cinema. This is </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEIO4mWgS2E">ably demonstrated</a> by</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> the NYPL's Irma & Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy which entices us all to delve into family secrets and mysterious name changes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Trove team recently <a href="https://twitter.com/TroveAustralia/status/803861875691757568">posed</a> a tweet: what is Trove? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Like the librarians' curse of knowledge*, where it may be difficult to compress <a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/whatabouttrove.html">a complex service</a> into a brief explanation for the uninitiated, concepts are sometimes defined in the negative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, Trove was never an acronym although there have been several published attempts to make it so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But to answer the team's question, each letter of <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/">Trove</a> can be used to convey its scope, power and indispensability. Its reach almost demands uppercase. TROVE is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-> a <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>T</b></span>ime capsule</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-> a </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>R</b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">oam around a continent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-> an </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>O</b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rganic summation of a nation's status</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-> a </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>V</b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">iew of identity from multiple soapboxes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-> an </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>E</b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">mbodiment of inheritance</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As a time capsule, Trove is unparalleled. Provided <a href="http://discontents.com.au/fundtrove/">government funding</a> allows it to be expanded, it will continue to uncover Australia's history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a simple roaming search, anyone can delve into small town life or trace the growth of a metropolis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The threats to our natural environment, whether silently accumulating for millenia or newly incubated, have been documented in Trove since 1803 and can be found by following the clues invested in a range of forms: article, book, image and website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trove's rich content illustrates the inspirational soapboxes for political, religious, legal or scientific research, and views of identity in notices from "<a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/the-agency-that-will-never-forget-you.html">the Cradle, the Altar and the Grave</a>". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By encapsulating a nation's intellectual capital, Trove is a powerful embodiment of Australia's inheritance, accessible to everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-69379996581198669532016-11-07T23:43:00.000-08:002018-06-17T22:46:57.927-07:00On weary waters gone to sleep<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Is there a pre-ordained fate to tragedy within a family, or merely circumstance which congregates to leave survivors mindful of their responsibility to convey stories across generations? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This story is a tragedy of water, perhaps inevitable around the big rivers of northern New South Wales. William and James Baker </span><a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/tm-bul-gm.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">migrated separately to Australia</span></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> in the 1850s, establishing a farm in the Grafton area. James met Mary Ann Webb and they married on 7 August 1860. Her parents were also migrants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">One week short of nine months from his parents' marriage date, their first son Thomas, named for his paternal grandfather, arrived on 30 April 1861 at Carrs Creek. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As a farmer, the lush landscape of the Clarence Valley may have initially appealed to James, but less than two years later Grafton experienced a devastating flood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">"The back water increased till Tuesday morning, though the river had been at its highest at an early hour on Monday morning, being about 24 feet above high water mark, <b>and 2 feet higher than the great flood of 1857, reputed then as the greatest that had been known</b>." </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Only three days earlier, on 11 February, Mary Ann gave birth to her second son. She did not know him for long. Mary Ann was one of nine people to die in the aftermath of the flood, the inquest considered several factors:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1974, the Murwillumbah General Cemetery and historical headstones were washed away in a flood, including that of James Baker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">A park remains to comme</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">morate the </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">existence of more than 2,000 locals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Baker family was decimated by the force of water. But t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">he circumstances of James' disappearance would not have carried across the decades without </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">being wrenched back to the time of their occurrence by </span><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">a digital process</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> which was not imagined when this family struggled to survive. It is a reassuring closure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">* The phrase 'On weary waters gone to sleep' was inspired by poet Eva Gore-Booth in her poem <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46526">Weariness</a></span><br />
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"My weary soul cries out for peace,<br />
Peace and the quietness of death;<br />
The wash of waters deep and cool,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Country News. (1883, July 7).<br /><i>Logan Witness (Beenleigh, Qld. : 1878-1893)), p.2</i></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 1984 work </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/21557140">Place Names of the Tweed, Brunswick and Upper Richmond Regions</a></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> recorded the meaning of the village name Tumbulgum as "small-leafed fig". Twenty years prior, </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33511426">Some Aboriginal Place-Names in the Richmond Tweed Area</a></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> interpreted it as "large fig". Perhaps both were true, but it is a distinctive name unlikely to be confused with anywhere else. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1886, January 16,).<br /><i>Australian Town and Country Journal</i><br />(Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1907), p.17.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ironic then that its earlier nineteenth century European name, The Junction, was preferred by <i><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164422136">The Logan Witness</a></i>, a Queensland newspaper which concerned itself with NSW border settlements very closely as postal and transport services developed north of Grafton. Such interest was described as being "queenslandised" by the <i><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71071909">Australian Town and Country Journal</a></i> in 1886.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Still a village, the longtime locals call it "Tumble-gum" and <a href="https://tumbulgum.wordpress.com/join-us-at-the-junction/">in November 2016</a>, they gathered together to acknowledge its <a href="http://www.tweeddailynews.com.au/news/tumbulgum-to-mark-150th-anniversary/3078678/">150 years of settlement</a>. Two of the village pioneers have remained there fore more than 100 of those years, resting in the North Tumbulgum Cemetery. There is no headstone to mark their lives, but Eliza Baker (nee Alexander) and her husband William are remembered through the documentary fragments of officialdom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">William Baker died on 6 June 1901, aged 68. He had married in Grafton 42 years earlier, in 1859, and there were no children from the marriage. His birthplace was given as Bristol, England.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">William's will left all of his property to his nephew Thomas Baker, with the exception of a place for his wife Eliza to live. Thomas, <a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2015/06/the-gabion-monument-for-harriet-baker.html">wife Harriett</a> and their five daughters already enjoyed the generosity of his Uncle William - the family lived at Duranbah on a farm block owned by William. This generous nature extended to </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the care throughout childhood of his other nephew James Baker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eliza Baker died only nine months after her husband, on 22 March 1902, aged 66. Her birthplace was given as London. Eliza's will also granted her full estate to her husband's nephew Thomas. How did this come about?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Marriage certificate of Eliza Alexander and William Baker furnishes an additional interesting clue: the service was conducted according to the rites of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">GRAFTON. (1858, December 17).<br /><i>The Sydney Morning Herald</i> (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p.5</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nineteenth century marriages were usually conducted in the religion of the bride, and in Grafton in 1859, there was already <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13012676">a functioning Presbyterian Church</a> under the stewardship of the Reverend James Collins. So this was not just a convenient location. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The lack of detail in the three certificates made a search for more information less clear cut. However, there was an approximate year of arrival in Australia, for both Eliza and William. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course the fact that William had a nephew living not far away from Tumbulgum also made it easier to find his family. The presence of Thomas' father James in Grafton and later on the Tweed River made it easy to find a connection to William's background. After a <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-aticle70970161">sale at auction</a>, it was James' land which became The Junction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As young men, James in 1852 and then William in 1857 made the journey to New South Wales from another small village, Almondsbury, in Gloucestershire. The closest port to Almondsbury is Bristol, William's birth registration place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For his emigration form, William stated that he was 22 years old, had a brother James "in the colony", and like his brother was a (farm) labourer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eliza's origins, on the other hand, are less certain. Her death certificate implies that she was born in 1836. Her marriage suggests she was Scottish, and indeed, searching the gargantuan family history websites indicates that her name was more likely to be from a Scottish source.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So was it possible, as per many Australian certificates, that London was her point of departure from the UK, rather than her hometown? Emigration records with a reasonably close match to Eliza's age suggest she arrived in December 1854 on the <i>Marchioness of Londonderry</i>, one of 32 single servant women and 101 immigrants on board. [1] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eliza paid </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">£</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12 for the journey. As their first stop, the passengers were required to spend several days at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Head_Quarantine_Station">Q station</a> because of a <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article695828">smallpox outbreak.</a> The Loan Society must have been alarmed by this outcome. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were no other passengers on board with the surname Alexander, suggesting that Eliza had travelled to Australia without family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The purpose of the Family Colonization Loan Society was to: "...lend to the emigrant one-half of the cost of the passage, after he has paid to the Society a sum equivalent to the other half, we take from him a note of hand payable on demand for the amount lent, at the same time undertaking to give him two years in which to repay the amount, provided he conforms to certain simple regulations laid down by the Society." [2]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1852, the virtues of settling in such faraway places were extolled by Caroline Chisholm during a trip throughout the UK. One of her stops was the city of Glasgow. She had spent more than a decade encouraging emigration and reinforced it by overseeing the funding of several ships. Less than two years later, one Eliza Alexander made the journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This sesquicentenary reflects the tenacity of a village to survive, an echo of the hopes of two pioneers who became Tumbulgum locals. That it thrives is a testament to their determination to forge lives in a reimagined Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[1] Kiddle, Margaret <i>Caroline Chisholm</i>, Melbourne at the University Press, 1950 http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/211683720.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[2] EMIGRATION. (1854, November 28). <i>The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842-1954), p.2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12962820.</i></span><br />
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tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-8562276108236066862016-09-11T00:46:00.000-07:002016-09-13T00:51:49.359-07:00Irish inheritance<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The newly released Strategic Plan for the future of the National Library of Ireland is a signal of hope to those with a few Irish genes, especially because of the promise of connection [NLI Strategy 2016-2021 <a href="http://www.nli.ie/GetAttachment.aspx?Id=ceb18c07-f24d-4fc3-a0c6-82aa1ad5a133">connect</a>, p.9]. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's breathtaking to realise that the NLI has been in existence only since 1877, long after so many of its population left the country with their life stories, going as far as possible around the planet to Australia and other challenges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Those of us descended from the green and wet still feel a genetic attachment, through a particular way of looking at the world, laconic conversation, a dry sense of humour, and a laid-back approach to the stress arising from hardship. But it has also given us a determination to find out more about those origins, and see the small patch of earth where our families once lived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So it was on one such adventure earlier this year that I was in Dublin, traversing historical pathways. Alas the National Library was closed to all-comers over a whole long weekend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And Kilmainham Gaol, which had once locked my great-great-grandfather <u>in</u> prior to his journey to New South Wales, now locked his great-great-granddaughter <u>out</u>. I am sure he would have at least noted the irony, although he might have been puzzled by the interest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Perhaps both lock-outs, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">due to the one-hundredth anniversary commemorations of the 1916 Uprising, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">could be justified, but until the digitisation promoted by the NLI is a complete substitute, it remains a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/lorcanD/status/773885265718964224" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">compromise</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Indeed the only heritage agency to create a different experience was the <a href="http://www.corkarchives.ie/">Cork City and County Archives</a>. Archivist Brian McGee, despite having a heavily scheduled day, went out of his way to share his knowledge not only to satisfy the curiosity of a very small number of the Irish diaspora but also, as he explained, to make up for the transgression of past data destruction, including over four censuses and in the Uprising's final devastating outcomes in 1922.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Access to original holdings such as workhouse registers helped to fill in the as-yet-undigitised gaps, but Brian noted they too would be put online as soon as resources became available. A different kind of hardship <a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/no-rush.html">not envisaged</a> in the nineteenth century, but nevertheless one which has led to stress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Would it lead to less travel? Probably not. Such a professional approach to what in the past has been perceived as superficial requests by many such agencies, including Australian ones, is likely to encourage more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">His colleagues were also only too happy to facilitate further discovery - when asked about a particular surname, the assistant said "just go outside, throw a stick and you'll hit one". Luckily we didn't have to resort to that technique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But the Corcaigh </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">approach was infectious, as having sent us on successfully to <a href="https://www.townlands.ie/cork/east-carbery-west-division/fanlobbus/cloontiquirk/">Dunmanway</a>, the local public library, historical society, and the administrator at the oldest Church there - St Patrick's, which echoed with the surnames of nineteenth century Victoria - provided useful leads for two more of our Irish families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-25739730419766055112016-08-16T00:04:00.000-07:002016-08-17T02:48:20.462-07:00How to be beguiled by a librarySometimes a story lies hidden, just waiting for discovery. How fortunate we are to be able to solve a mystery in real time, when we start chasing such a story of a life lived publicly, albeit more than a century ago. A Terranora pioneer, Frederic John Davey, moved from Cornwall via Auckland to the Tweed River in the 1870s in an attempt to improve his health.<br />
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He was well-known on the Tweed as an architect, a photographer, a farmer, a Justice of the Peace, woodcarver hobbyist and a family man. Trove shares many digitised newspaper articles detailing his life, providing a rich context for research. It should have been no surprise then that one of his obituaries mentioned a previously unknown skill - writer, of both short stories and poetry.</div>
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Davey's architectural, photographic, and woodcarving activities were documented by the Tweed Heads Historical Society. Finding his writing proved more difficult, because his <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127695930">obituary</a>* suggested that he wrote for English journals. The intriguing title of the series "<i>Tales from the Wimbriatta</i>" should have made the stories conspicuous in a full-text search, but Trove only revealed a duplicated <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72409695">obituary</a>** (replicated from two other newspapers, now missing***). </div>
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There was no mention of this place name elsewhere in Trove, which leaves an enticing mystery still to be solved. However, the journal title,<i>Good Words, </i>is mentioned. Was it necessary then to search with these two very common words? Trove arranges access to a large number of online journals in its <i>Journals, articles, and datasets</i> zone, and <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/18679518">this journal</a> is listed in both microform and digitised form. However, there is no way to search across the journal articles all at once. But an alternate pathway is at hand - a service established before Trove, also online, which can be activated with a little device available to all Australians - an individual National Library card.<br />
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Each Australian can arrange to have three - their local library card, their state or territory library card (SL), and their National Library (NL) card. They are needed to access fully digitised resources, known as eresources to encompass different databases hosted by separate publishers. Australian libraries arrange subscriptions to a subset of these databases for their communities, so while there may be some overlap in content, often there isn't. Through its access arrangements, the National Library links to many English journal offerings.<br />
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Once you have your NL or SL card, you can sign in and <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/">search</a> using the word British to retrieve the <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/item/3301/">British periodicals collection I and II</a>. (Note that the first search will also list the nineteenth century digitised British newspapers collections.) Accept the licence conditions, and then follow the trail to a semi-autobiographical life as described in a home country journal, complete with posed photographs, by searching on the author's name: F J Davey. The photographs themselves are beguiling too - do they show Terranora Lakes where Davey was known to have built his home?<br />
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The actions which led to the availability of this journal online in real time reflect a true partnership of minds oriented towards community service, where the owner of the copy, the digitiser, and the reader sit on different continents. It's gratifying to know that decisions made many years ago by forward-thinking librarians in Australia and elsewhere allow us to assuage our curiosity now. </div>
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* This obituary appeared in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title501">The Richmond River Herald & Northern Districts Advertiser</a>.<br />
** This obituary appeared in <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/81">The Northern Star</a>.<br />
*** The Tweed Herald; The Tweed Times. Having complementary copies of such informative obituaries is a small miracle in its own right. F J Davey was such a high achiever that the obituaries appear in newspapers outside the area of his home town and surrounds. Trove illustrated its value yet again. </div>
tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-41883346800325933012016-07-07T01:40:00.000-07:002016-07-07T01:40:49.731-07:00tozza tozza<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">'tozza tozza' is an apt Neapolitan phrase to describe the experience of driving in the cities of Napoli and Palermo. It reflects the spurting flow of traffic in the city centres, moving</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> bumper to bumper, or side by side like dodgem cars. Palermo adds an level of difficulty: cars moving four across, switching from one imaginary lane to another by swerving without indicators. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Driving in a Fiat Bambino is a compounding frisson of excitement - while it's a piccolo car which can fit into any space, it can also be overwhelmed by trucks and buses and even electric scooters. You will recognise your own form of demise before it hits you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is often followed by the frantic search for a car park, where a concierge will wait in the street and run ahead of your car to show you an available parking space which they then want to be paid for, even if they don't own the real estate. They are ready to throttle you if you don't pay them for something which is not theirs to sell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the city and the suburbs with narrow streets, cars are parked nose to nose or nose to the kerb, and sometimes with half the car on the footpath or three deep on a pedestrian crossing. (OK, the latter only happens in Roma.) It is a creative and effective use of limited space, unless you want to drive away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's important to take a deep breath, because sometimes 'tozza tozza' reflects the research experience too. In the chronically under-funded archives, museums and galleries everyone is very willing to provide advice, is usually interested in speaking to someone whose first language is not English and is occasionally willing to listen to the story you have to tell. But often there is only a referral, and as you move on to the next less-likely repository in increasing circles of frustration, no result.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The research conundrum being pursued, by car and on foot, was the exact location of a street in Palermo, Via Cavallacci. It was the home of many families which lived in SetteCannoli / Brancaccio for generations. It no longer exists but neither is there a map from the 1940s which shows where it might have been. Where is the concierge when you need him?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-27189929268396491922016-03-22T23:42:00.000-07:002016-03-23T03:41:28.711-07:00Whatever happened to Highfields?<span style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: justify;">Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah, Cudgen, and many other
country towns had one - a Progress Association. But it wasn’t until last year’s
discovery of a “recipe book” that the existence of the Highfields District
Progress Association was rediscovered.</span><br />
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recipes cut from newspapers and magazines, but thankfully, not all of them were
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<span style="font-size: 15pt;">Excerpts from the Minutes book are included in this article. They extend frm the years November 1937 to July 1940, although it is not known whether this was when the Association wound up. However, the national web service Trove provides some of the earliest information about this Association, as shown in the newspaper articles included here. </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleWithIMages.doc#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="font-size: 20px;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">[i]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 20px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15pt;">The Highfield Progress Association was initially
established in 1918.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleWithIMages.doc#_edn2" title="">[ii]</a> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 15pt;">There were immediate issues to contend with which,
in fact, had inspired the group to form. The first problem, the road to the
Bilambil-Cobaki ferry, was described in the </span><i style="font-size: 15pt;">Tweed
Daily</i><span style="font-size: 15pt;"> on 8 January 1918.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleWithIMages.doc#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="font-size: 15pt;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">[iii]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 15pt;"> This
article also explains the intended operation of the group: residents were to
meet at a private home, a membership fee of two shillings per year is to be
imposed, and issues affecting all residents were to be discussed, but always
with the big picture in mind: </span><i style="font-size: 15pt;">“The
opening up of closer settlement is certain on these coastal slopes. There is a
big piece of country – scrub and lantana jungle – within easy reach of Tweed </i><i><span style="font-size: 15pt;">Heads that would make good homes with an assured
income, and the Highfield Progress Association is out in the interest of all to
assist in the development of their own and kindred areas.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20px;">Before the Second World War, a new advertisement <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article193715170">appeared</a> in the <i>Daily News </i>on Tuesday 12 October 1937. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20px;">The name Highfields was well established before the second Progress Association was convened. I</span><span style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;">t was the recipient of spasmodic postal services in the 1920s </span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleNoImages.doc#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;" title="">[iv]</a>.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;"> It appeared in NSW Electoral Rolls from 1930 onwards. It was provided as the address for representatives on the Banana Marketing Board </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleNoImages.doc#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">[v]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;">; Highfield women formed a sewing and knitting circle during the Second World War </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleNoImages.doc#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">[vi]</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;">, and even the local Council used the name well beyond the 1940s </span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 15pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleNoImages.doc#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="font-size: 20px; text-align: justify;" title="">[vii]</a>...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20px;">The full article is included in Issue 114 of </span><i style="font-size: 20px;">The Log Book</i><span style="font-size: 20px;">, the journal of the </span><a href="http://tweedhistory.org.au/" style="font-size: 20px;">Tweed Heads Historical Society</a><span style="font-size: 20px;">, and is available for </span><a href="http://tweedhistory.org.au/product/back-issues/" style="font-size: 20px;">purchase</a><span style="font-size: 20px;">. The Society provided unstinting support in the publishing of this article.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/deb/Documents/THHS/HighfieldsProgressAssociation/HDPAarticleWithIMages.doc#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[i]</span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Trove is at <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/">http://trove.nla.gov.au</a>.
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tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5553377479344493187.post-56580421405971539462016-02-03T22:54:00.000-08:002016-02-03T23:01:52.962-08:00Joined-up spending<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In a <a href="http://utfp.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/the-agency-that-will-never-forget-you.html">previous post</a>, <i>The agency that will never forget you</i>, I discussed the dilemma of closed or partially closed identity services. A year later in October 2015 </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">one of those services</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, the Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, launched <a href="http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/home/family+history/search+your+family+history/">an open interface</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The new interface is seductive for two reasons. Firstly, unlike the old clunky website, the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">de</span>sign is fresh, simple to use, expansive in its search options, and free. The latter then leads to the second point of seduction - it is easy to buy a B, D or M certificate and see it within minutes, sometimes seconds. That's joined-up spending - the ability to part with personal funds in a more streamlined and efficient end-to-end inquiry. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, this interface doesn't stick purchasing obstacles in the way either. Paying for small numbers of credits, requesting credentials <b>before</b> a decision to buy is made, paying for a restricted number of pageviews - all of these are evidence of mean interfaces which discourage joined-up spending. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Although this new development has been delivered in the context of</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">government initiatives to make doing business with government easier, it is an exemplar for genealogical services which think that throwing an overflowing content bucket over the hapless searcher is enough**. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Joined-up" is a term that emerged early in the </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">21st century </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">and spread across academic and library service delivery circles. It </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">was and is the goal of government initiatives to make doing business with government easier. The words 'efficient and effective' have been bandied about for so long that they no longer mean much. It's exceedingly satisfying, even at the detriment of my wallet, to see a government department deliver on them regardless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">** with the possible exception of the Free___ services </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.freebmd.org.uk/">FreeBMD</a>, <a href="http://www.freecen.org.uk/">FreeCEN</a>, and <a href="http://freereg2.freereg.org.uk/">FreeReg </a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">currently being compiled and deployed with <a href="http://mtchl.net/towards-generous-interfaces-for-archival-collections/">generous interfaces</a>.</span>tweedheadsgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06137016333998381420noreply@blogger.com0