My Mother

My Mother
Continuing her story of her parents, Ruth recalls her mother.
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My Siblings

My Siblings
Graham recalls elder sister Joy who baked great rock buns and looked after her younger brother.
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My Siblings

My Siblings
Alice recalls her childhood growing up in an extended family. Her father had been married before so Alice inherited other siblings.
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My Siblings

My Siblings
Margaret recalls her brothers and sister and her happy childhood.
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An Orphan Discovers Her Family

An Orphan Discovers Her Family
Pat recalls the trauma and joy of discovering her extended family after so many years of knowing only that she  was an orphan.
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My siblings

My siblings
Helen tells us about her relationship with her four siblings - Geraldine, David, Susan and Jo-anne.  Geraldine was tragically killed in a horse riding accident when she was a teenager.      
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My Extended Family

My Extended Family
With her real extended family in the United Kingdom Helen's family adopted friends and neighbours in Whyalla as their extended family - like so many migrants from abroad.
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My Maternal Grandparents

My Maternal Grandparents
Grandparents. In this audio Jill Sayner recalls her maternal grandparents.  
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My Parents

My Parents
Growing up in Adelaide in the 1940's and 50's was an interesting time for Graham. Here he talks about his parents.
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My Grandparents

My Grandparents
Annette talks about her grandparents - who she never knew. This excerpt is taken from a history of all South Australians who fought in the First World War.  
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My Parents

My Parents
Helen shares the stories of her parents with the Campbelltown Life Story Circle... Both came from the United Kingdom - her father from Devon and her mother from Staveley, Derbyshire.  
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My Parents

My Parents
Continuing the story of her family Judith talks about her parents ...............
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My Parents

My Parents
Parents mould our lives; in this story of her life Joyce talks about her parents and the stories of their lives.  
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My Parents

My Parents
Margaret talks about her parents and says she could not have wished for better or more caring parents.
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My Father - John Payne

My Father - John Payne
Ruth shares her memories of her father - John Payne.
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My Parents

My Parents
Pat has no personal memories of her parents because of the circumstances surrounding her birth.
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My mother and father

My mother and father
Helen traces the llives of her parents, George Michael Walker and Joan Mary Gibbs.  They were married in 1950 in UK and emigrated to Australia, George in 1952 and Joan in 1951.  George worked for BHP Whyalla until his retirement and Joan raised their children and immersed herself in the local...
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My Grandparents

My Grandparents
Joyce recalls her grand parents from both sides of her family. She has done some excellent research about all her ancestors and their many talents.
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My Grandparents

My Grandparents
Graham talks about his grandparents in Adelaide, South Australia.
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A Famous Ancestor

A Famous Ancestor
Annette tells the story of one of her ancestors linked to the famous Coutts banking family and who was, at her time, the richest woman in Britain - Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts.    
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