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52 Weeks of Genealogical Records in 2014 – Week 4 Memorial Cards

Week 4 of   Shauna Hicks  challenge for 2014.  This blog challenge is to stimulate my own genealogy blogging efforts in 2014 by focusing on a different kind of genealogical record each week. I wanted a challenge that reflected my own archival background as well as my own genealogy interests and there are probably lots of other records that I could have included. The challenge has an Australian focus but most of these records will be found just about anywhere in the genealogy world. This weeks challenge is Memorial Cards. I am fortunate to have three memorial cards and the original photographs which were used in these cards in my possession, each coming from my husband's family.  Jacob Frederick Scheef 1835-1904 Christina Jacobina Scheef nee Glock 1842-1912 Margaret Waters 1879-1905 Shauna's post  set her off in the direction of finding out how the little boy died. However, as I know the life stories of these three people I have decided...