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Why Has Australia’s History Been Left to Rot?

The following is an extract from an article by Elias Visontay and published in The Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/23/inconceivable-why-has-australias-history-been-left-to-rot: Historians are aghast that the National Archives have had to resort to crowdfunding to protect irreplaceable historical records. A damaged photograph from the collection of the National Archive of Australia Historians are calling it an international embarrassment …

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Why Has Australia’s History Been Left to Rot?

The following is an extract from an article by Elias Visontay and published in The Guardian at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/23/inconceivable-why-has-australias-history-been-left-to-rot: Historians are aghast that the National Archives have had to resort to crowdfunding to protect irreplaceable historical records. A damaged photograph from the collection of the National Archive of Australia Historians are calling it an international embarrassment …

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(+) Consider the Source: Original, Derivative, or Copy

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.  Experienced genealogists are always aware that they must verify information by looking at original documents or a microfilm or digital image of an original document. We should know better than to believe a statement on a web site, in a genealogy …

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