What songs did your family listen to during Christmas? Did you ever go carolling? Did you have a favourite song? The Christmas carols I remember most from my childhood were Adeste Fidelis and Silent Night. Then when I got a small record player in my high school years we bought a new Christmas LP and … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories – 21st December 2011 –Christmas Music
Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. How did your family handle Christmas Shopping? Did anyone finish early or did anyone start on Christmas Eve? Christmas cooking might have been left to the last … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 19th December 2011 – Christmas Shopping
What did you or your ancestors do to celebrate Christmas at school? Were you ever in a Christmas pageant? While I can remember (some of) my children’s Christmas pageants, I don’t have any recollection of my own. In Australia school finishes a couple of weeks before Christmas so it’s a frenzy of school concerts, carols, … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 16th December – Christmas at School
Write a tribute to those family members who birthdays/anniversaries occur around this time of the year. Alas, alack, it is not such a joyful thing to have a birthday in the six weeks across Christmas to the end of January though ’twas never a neglected birthday. It may not be such a bad thing in … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 15th December – Holiday Happenings and neglected birthdays
Advent Calendar: 14th December – Fruitcake –Welcome Friend. Did you like fruitcake? Did your family receive fruitcakes? Have you ever re-gifted fruitcake? Have you ever devised creative uses for fruitcake (what other than eating?) My hand is already declared – fruitcake is my friend not my foe. Our family has a long tradition of homemade … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 14th December 2011: Fruitcake – Welcome Friend.
Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your immigrant ancestors have holiday traditions from their native country which they retained or perhaps abandoned? I’ve already spoken about my Melvin and McCorkindale ancestors and … More Advent calendar of Christmas Memories: 11 December 2011: Christmas traditions from Bavaria in Queensland
Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your family or ancestors make Christmas biscuits (cookies)? How did you help? Did you have a favourite biscuit? I think that the Christmas biscuit treat that … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 8th December – Christmas Cookies or Biscuits
Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your family throw a holiday party each year? Do you remember attending any holiday parties? My family have never been party people so no, we didn’t … More Advent Calendar of Memories 2011: 7th December – Holiday parties
Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did you ever send a letter to Santa? Did you ever visit Santa and “make a list”? Do you still believe in Santa Claus? I guess at … More Advent calendar of Christmas Memories: 6th December –Santa Claus
Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did people in your neighbourhood decorate with lights? Did some people really go “all out” when decorating? Any stories involving your ancestors and decorations? I don’t recall … More Advent calendar of memories 2011: 5th December – Outdoor decorations
Family history across the seas 