This issue, I am sure is a true Irish one. My cousin and I have been searching for answers to numerous questions relating to our parents and the treatment meted out to them by their mother (our Irish grandmother). To this end we went to the State Archives in Brisbane, searched and searched and finally came across a couple of possibilities which could relate to the family. On attending at the desk and handing in our numbers for the files, we were told that "yes" the papers had been noted but they had been held in the Supreme Court's files and that's where they were when the building was burnt down in 1968. HaHa. Luck of the Irish......they took their secrets to the grave with them. I am finding that I was related to most of the people who lived around me as a child, although, obviously known to my mother, she never told me. Any information we glean is like "pure gold" to our information pool. Regards, Kay in Northern NSW where today is Anzac Day - Lest We Forget ----- Original Message ----- From: <acpittard@optusnet.com.au> To: <irl-clare-projects@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE-PROJECTS] Questions unanswered >I don't think it was too hard to keep in touch. They just wrote letters to >each other. My Aunty always tells me what she remembers which isn't much >now & she's only 20yrs older than me. Her Aunty used to talk too before >she died but I wasn't doing this then was I. My brother has all her >papers in his garage but never 'gets around' to sending them to me, eh. >She was the last of my mum's family & should have all the documents. >Just wait till we get down there in Dec!!.... > And my dad's family ....well that's another story. > Cheers. Anne from Cairns, Aus. > >