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Between 1788 and the present day, millions of people made the journey from the United Kingdom and Ireland to Australia. Some were sent. Some were subsidised. Some saved every penny they had for the privilege of going. And some, in the decades after the Second World War, went for just ten pounds.
Read OnLike most people, I had four grandparents. Unlike most people, only one of them was alive during my lifetime. He lived in England, visiting every Australian summer, and died in 1992 when I was fourteen, just a year after I had begun what I can only describe as a family history obsession. I wish I had asked him more. In reality, I probably asked him nothing.
Read OnYou may have heard people say "I've done my family tree" or "I'm doing my family tree." It is a phrase so common it has become shorthand for the whole subject. But a family tree, at its most basic, is just a collection of names and dates - a chart. And a chart, however far back it goes, cannot tell you who those people really were.
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