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The Wall Family: weaving the threads of memories
February 22 @ 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM AEST
The writing process for her family history book.
I didn’t know much about my father’s Wall family, having been born in Papua New Guinea and growing up on remote plantations. Once I was sent to boarding school in Australia, I grew to know my father’s immediate family, his father, and siblings but apart from them they were a mystery. In 2018, I started researching my father’s Wall family. One cousin led to another before I met Graham Wall, a distant cousin, who had researched the Walls for nearly 20 years—prior to the internet. Graham’s sources were mostly direct from family descendants as well as BDM etc.
Presenter:
Christine Leonard
Christine is an Australian indie author who was born in Papua New Guinea 
and grew up on the island of Bougainville.
A large part of her working life was in community development and international aid projects in the Asia Pacific Region. Christine is drawn to social history and non-fiction. She is a regular blogger with the Genealogy Society of Queensland (GSQ) and other family history sites. Her first serious writing project was a family history of her paternal Wall family, featuring William Wall who was transported in 1835 to the colony of Van Diemen’s Land. This book titled “The Wall Family weaving the threads of memories” is in its second print run with E-books available through Kobo and the Leonard Stories website. A recent project saw Christine editing, and contributing with additional stories, to the memoir written by the late Fr Franz Miltrup sm, a German priest who spent 50 years in Bougainville from 1938. Fr Miltrup died in 1996 after writing his memoir in Tok Pisin. Christine helped translate the manuscript into English, after which she edited it, to publish “When the Garamuts Beat—A Memoir Of Fifty Years In Bougainville”. This title is available through the Leonard Stories website. In between short stories, and blogs, she edits a 64-page quarterly journal for the PNG Association of Australia called PNG Kundu .You can read more about Christine by visiting her website www.leonardstories
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