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    12 last night and I had a slap in the head from...

    12 last night and I had a slap in the head from inspiration! Wrote and re wrote a new introduction to the book until 3.30am, edited it and re wrote it another 4 times this morning and I think I have...
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    Lol. "My lot".... I like that! My family has...

    Lol. "My lot".... I like that! My family has almost always been simple tradesmen making things with there hands.

    Good that your lot were the taunter's and not the taunted!
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    Here are few more notes I have written to help...

    Here are few more notes I have written to help guide my thoughts about my family book.,...

    Give the experience to the reader of what it might have been like to have been there.

    What problems...
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    I was lessoning to a writer taking on the radio...

    I was lessoning to a writer taking on the radio tonight and she said something that I thought was quite relevant to writing a family history so I quickly wrote it down....

    "Your task as a writer...
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    Thanks for the encouragement Mrs P! It must take...

    Thanks for the encouragement Mrs P!
    It must take a lot of time researching the world around your ancestors. But I think its important to put there life decisions in perspective.
    I always thought...
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    When you are so emersed in a family history,...

    When you are so emersed in a family history, sometimes it's hard to see the wood from the trees. I have lived my history all my life as my father was the family historian before me so from a child I...
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    "Binning" book and starting again!

    I am writing the history of the Bedggood family in New Zealand... My father put some stories down in the 1980's and 5 years ago I took them over and expanded them substantially. But I have realized...
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    That should have read Gloucestershire!

    That should have read Gloucestershire!
  9. That should have read Gloucestershire!...

    That should have read Gloucestershire!...
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    Bedggood family, Gloucester

    I am the ggg grandson of John and Eliza Bedggood who left London in 1836 for New Zealand to work for the Church Mission Society at Waimate North. John was born in Tytherington on 10 February 1802. I...
  11. Bedggood family, Gloucester to New Zealand

    Hello, my name is Gavin Bedggood and I live in New Zealand. I am the 6th generation of my family to live here and I am the third Bedggood family historian after my father and his uncle. I am lucky to...
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