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Les R displayed the amazing collection of fund-raising ribbons that had been preserved in his family's history repository (which sounds so much better than "a box under the bed"). After a century, the simplicity and beauty of the objects was matched by their fragility. It was great to learn that Les is arranging for their future secure storage and preservation. In the meantime he revealed some fascinating insights into the background behind some of the objects and the unanswered questions that still surround others.
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When you enter a URL for a page that no longer exists, your browser receives a 404 error message. For many people that is a source of frustration. It should be a signal to begin to look for an old copy preserved in the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/]. This enormous (free to use) website preserves millions of historical web pages as well as books, music, images and anything else that used to be online but is no longer. Technically the Wayback Machine is just one of nine projects maintained on this site. If you like the idea of having your browser automatically check the Wayback Machine whenever it gets a 404 error then install the Chrome Extension or the Firefox Add-on.
As part of their service to (UK) clients currently unable to visit, the London Metropolitan Archives conducted a Zoom meeting to demonstrate that many of their records can be accessed in digitised form through Ancestry. Naturally, that is of great interest to those of us unable to pop into 40 Northampton Road for other reasons. Unfortunately, the demonstration used the UK Institution Version of Ancestry and (as we know) the same record set will be located in different places in the Australian Library Version to which we have access.
The following table provides links that will take you directly to the relevant search page for each of the LMA Record Sets PROVIDED you have an open browser tab in which you have already signed into Ancestry through the Library website. Thanks to JP for his search method that allowed this information to be captured for use by the group. |
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