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From: "William E. Gard" <>
Subject: [ENG-LIV] Re: ENG-LIVERPOOL-D Digest V02 #808
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:28:53 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200210131048.g9DAmDhx020216@lists5.rootsweb.com>


>May I make a suggestion? I have a bunch of old family photos, including
>my parents' wedding. No names, no dates, no pack drill. I can recognise
>a few family members but very few. No diaries, no papers, no letters
>though I do have a few of Dad's driving licences going back to the late
>1920s. So, I have been writing down (typing really, though a few things
>by hand for posterity) bits and pieces of my life. Not in any
>chronological order but bits about school, the war, National Service,
>emigration to Canada. The kind of life experiences we've all had. Photos
>are identified and dated. Someone on my Liobians site has suggested tape
>recording things and I should do that. Recall meeting Frank Shaw (co
>author of "Lern Yerself Scouse" with Stan [Kelly] Bootle {whom some of you
>know} and Fritz Spiegel) when he was a customs officer and he told me he
>planned to record old folk around Liverpool for posterity and to get the
>dialects. I'm sure there are no more shawlies or sage-a-mint ladies any
>more so you'll get the idea. Think how difficult it is for us all to
>trace our ancestors, let's not leave our progeny etc. with the same problems.

Bill in Nanaimo


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>I am trying to compile my own life history (don't we all wish our
>grandparents had done that?!).


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