We all have little things tucked away in the back of our minds, than need only a slight nudge to make them come flooding out. This has been the case with the participants in one of the Australian Genealogy and History mailing lists. So many people, with so many memories, that it seemed a shame to lose them.

If you wish to include your memories here, then please do so. Genealogy is more than just a list of who begat who - your ancestors did things, went places, met people - if they hadn't, you would not be who you are today.

Including your Old Days memories

In keeping with the changes to the AustraliaGenWeb site, I have implemented some changes here as well. Please read the instructions for submission of you memories.

If your memories are lengthy, please type them in text file format or a word processor such as Word or Word Perfect and attach them to an email and send it to me - please make sure your documents are virus free first though. Contact me

There have been some suggestions made regarding the viewing of archived memories. I have therefore made it quite simple for anyone to view these files. To read them, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on  your computer. Once you have installed the program on your computer, you can download the PDF (Portable Document Format) file you want and read it at your leisure using your Acrobat Reader.

Downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader

There are versions of this software available for all computer types

 

Some Snippets of what to expect

Here are some snippets of the memories which have come to me by email.

Reckits Blue Bags
Jennifer Lambert Tracey from Canberra, ACT remembers this product being used to soothe the bite of a wasp. She says it worked too!

Mixed items
Mari Walker of Adelaide remembers things like VIROL (not Hypol), Milk Emulsion, Friar's Balsam, the bread man's horse and cart.

Leonie Mutimer from Victoria remembers the "dunny man", the milkman coming around in the early hours of the morning, the weekly collection of bottles by the "bottleo", the men coming around to check whether you had paid you radio/tv licence, old remedies to cure Toothache, drinking cabbage water to rid yourself of pimples/Acne and Bottle Corks in your bed to stop cramps in your legs.

aus-old1.pdf	Spit & Polish, Hypol, the Black Maria, the Bottle-o & more
aus-old2.pdf	The war years, Sydney trams, Camphor, Kerosine & Coolgardie Safes
aus-old3.pdf	The Rawleighs man, the Watkins man, Dunny-men, Swaggies & Reckits
aus-old4.pdf	personal memories, more dunny-men, and other items
aus-old5.pdf	skipping games, licorice, soda syphons and kids
aus-old6.pdf	washing & ironing, wigwams for the gooses bridle
aus-old7.pdf	chants, songs, schoolyard games and billy carts
aus-old8.pdf	memories of Toowoomba, QLD from Beverley Markham in USA