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Family history documented

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 I just realised I had not posted my 1st week of February Friday Favourites at Paper Issues (Friends and Fans) and I wanted to keep on top of documenting my life.  Well, better late than never. Here is what I have created as #5/52 (not a scrapbook layout this time). Recently several of my family members have become interested in family history and are completing family trees.  They are from both sides of my family - my cousin taking on my mother's side (she was one of 8 children) and my niece researching my father's side.  I have been assisting both of them with photos and information that I have.  It is easy to get caught up in the research. The photo above (I took a photo of the original and then copied myself) is of my maternal great-grandparents John and Agnes Orr.  The Orr's lived in Launceston, Tasmania and this is where my grandmother grew up.  A lot of the photographs I have are from an old suitcase that came to my father and I when his broth...