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From: "Marged" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Re: ENG-LIVERPOOL-D Digest V02 #808
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:44:23 +0100
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Marvellous idea, Bill - I am doing this for my grandchildren who one day may
be surprised to know that my grandad said he met Buffalo Bill Cody and I
didn't believe him while he was alive.

After he was dead and I started the family history thing, I found his life
story fitted in with this. Too late! Grandad had gone!

That's the guy who started out in Nanaimo, Bill

Marged

> >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.



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