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Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

The findmypast.ie blog has a post called “Irish Burial Records and Gravestones” where they look at the rituals for burials in Ireland.

Marian’s Roots and Rambles had two interesting posts this week. The first was “Heritage Gift: The Deck of Cards has Arrived.” She described in an earlier post how she designed a deck of cards using family photographs. Well the cards have arrived and now she tells us what she thinks of the whole process.

The other post is called “You’re Researching but Are You Reading?” which looks at the importance of reading about the research methods and the importance of the methodology books to genealogy.

Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter had a post called “Elizabeth Shown Mills’ New Website” where he talks about Elizabeth’s new website that has links to many articles she has written.

Chris Paton has decided to discontinue writing his Scottish GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS) blog. He will keep the blog online as an archive. You can read about the news and events of Scotland and Britain on his blog “British GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS)”

Are there any postings in the last week that you think need to be on this list? Let me know in the comments below.

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Advent Calendar – Christmas Shopping

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Geneabloggers Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories.

In our family Christmas shopping was always done early to avoid the rush. My Dad usually ended up going to the mall on Christmas Eve but that was to pick up a box of Laura Secord’s French Frosted Mint chocolates for my Mum.

Shopping was different forty years ago. Shops were not open seven days a week and were not open really late at night either. You could not shop 24/7 online but you could order from catalogues. I remember the Sear’s Wish Book arriving on the door step and things being ordered from it.

This was originally published in December 2010

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Advent Calendar – Christmas Stockings

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Geneabloggers Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories.

My Christmas stocking was always put at the foot of my bed. I could only open my stocking when I woke up in the wee hours of Christmas morning and had to stay in my own room, although my brother and I sometimes would go into each other’s room. There was always a mandarin orange, a chocolate Santa, a roll of film and in the very bottom of the stocking a quarter.

At one point it developed a hole in the sole and I rather expertly (?) mended it. I still have my original Christmas stocking.

This was originally published in December 2010

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