Week 1 – Sunday 7 August August is National Family History Month in Australia and Australian Family and Local History bloggers thought it would be a great idea to have a - Blogging Challenge! Everyone is welcome to join in, even if you don't live in Australia, we'd love to hear from you and hear your stories. Census Night in Australia is 9 August this year and so we decided that Census stories should be our first week's theme. The State Library of Queensland Census and Muster Records Info guide tells us that: " prior to 2001 it was Australian federal government policy to destroy all name-identified census returns for privacy reasons, and all returns between 1901 and 2001 have been destroyed." You will notice if you look at the Card Catalog of Ancestry that there are a few census returns outside this time frame, but that between say 1902 and 1980, you will be relying on electoral records. Of course not everyone's ancestors were
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Yes, it certainly looks like Albury. I remember dodging the flag pole too so you cannot see it in my photo. It looks nicer in 1956. Very dry in 2009 with the drought!