Elections: Voting memories
Although voting for the 2012 election is still ongoing - and we won't know the results until tomorrow - we're wondering about your voting memories.
I remember going with my mother to vote at our local elementary school in the Bronx (New York) when I was a very young child. Many of my classmates also went with their parents.
What are your election day memories? Did you accompany your parents? Or was your first voting experience as an adult?
Let us know in the comments below.
No matter the results, some people will be happy while others will be angry or depressed. It is natural. How does one get over these emotional reactions?
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News from MyHeritage Australia – 11 August 2011
It's been a huge week in Australian genealogy as the once-every-5-years census was distributed and completed on Tuesday night.
The key thing for the genealogy community was spreading the word about the importance of saying "yes" to Question 60 on the census, which asked Australians if they'd like their physical census records to be retained in the national archives for 99 years.
For the uninitiated, Australia has a default position of destroying census records once the statistical data is removed, which is something the genealogy community as a whole has been trying to change.
To read more about the background to this you should read the recent blog post we ran on the topic.
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