Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 16th December – Christmas at School

15 December, 2011

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

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 15th December – Holiday Happenings and neglected birthdays

15 December, 2011

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 of Christmas Memories: 14th December 2011: Fruitcake – Welcome Friend.

14 December, 2011

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.

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 13th December – Holiday Travel

13 December, 2011

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 or your ancestors travel anywhere for Christmas? How did you travel and who travelled with you? Do you remember any special trips? My family never … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 13th December – Holiday Travel

Advent calendar of Christmas Memories: 11 December 2011: Christmas traditions from Bavaria in Queensland

12 December, 2011

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

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 8th December – Christmas Cookies or Biscuits

8 December, 2011

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

Advent Calendar of Memories 2011: 7th December – Holiday parties

7 December, 2011

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

Advent calendar of Christmas Memories: 6th December –Santa Claus

7 December, 2011

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

Advent calendar of memories 2011: 5th December – Outdoor decorations

5 December, 2011

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

52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History: Week 49: Historic national event

5 December, 2011

The topic for Week 49 in Amy Coffin’s and Geneablogger’s 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History series is: Historical Events. Describe a memorable national historical event from your childhood. How old were you and how did you process this event? How did it affect your family? My first thoughts turned to large-scale events then … More 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History: Week 49: Historic national event